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University of California, Hastings College of the Law UC Hastings Scholarship Repository Hastings Law News UC Hastings Archives and History 4-14-1988 Hastings Law News Vol.21 No.6 UC Hastings College of the Law Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.uchastings.edu/hln Recommended Citation UC Hastings College of the Law, "Hastings Law News Vol.21 No.6" (1988). Hastings Law News. Book 158. http://repository.uchastings.edu/hln/158 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the UC Hastings Archives and History at UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hastings Law News by an authorized administrator of UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Gym fee approved FORUM FEATURES NEWS D.C. Regents should Goren WordPerfect 5.0 Prof. Joseph Sweeney supervise Board of to rave review joins 65 Club elected ASH Directors president .see page 8. .. see .see page 4. 1 "1 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111 II by Chandra K Slack Staff Writer Students went to the polls last week to elect a new set of ASH executive officers for next year. ASH Treasurer Leora Hastings Law News Goren won the hotly contested San FrancLSco, Caltforma April 1-1 , 1988 Volume 21 , :Yo. 6 race for ASH President. Goren ran on a slate with Irma Cor- dova, who ran for Vice Presi- dent, and Phyllis Bursh, a candidate for Treasurer. The slate won a decisive victory in the April 7 election on a plat- KGO Building, West Block form calling for increased stu- dent involvement in decisions at Hastings. Renee Fenton was ll10rtgaged to repay scholarship funds elected as a write-in candidate for Secretary. by P. rock and a hard place," Director Several Board members ex- The Board anticipates closing The trio appealed to "all in- James Ballantine News Editor James Mahoney emphasized pressed concern about the fi- a $3.5 million loan by April 18, terested Hastings students" to that the Board must meet an nancing arrangements, and to meet the Attorney General's call for a student member on Attempting to end a problem April 18 deadline for repayment critics have voiced concern over deadline for cash repayment of the Board of Directors of Has- which has plagued Hastings for imposed by the Attorney Gen- encumbering the KGO building, the scholarship funds. Board tings. The candidates also ad- over a decade, the Board of Di- eral, even though the Board and the fact that Hastings de- Chairman Harold S. Dohbs em- vocated expanding the rectors has moved toward re- continued to have lingering faulted on loans from United phasized the Importance of curriculum to include more solving the Califorma Attorney questions over many of the de- Savings Bank and the U.S. gov- meeting this deadline "We've electives, preserving clinical General's investigation of Has- tails of the financing plan. ernment. gone as far as we can go with and externship programs which tings's use of restricted schol- the AG," he noted, alluding to are increasingly restricted each arship funds to purchase West the numerous extensions grant- year, and extending library and Block property in the 1970's. ed to Hastings by the Attorney study hall hours. During the At its meeting last Friday, Wallach status decision General, which originally be- campaign, the candidates stat- the Board passed a resolution gan demanding the cash pay- ed their plans to work to en- which provides for Hastings to back ャ。セエ@ August. large career services to serve engage in a complicated series postponed by Board The financing arrangement more of the student body and to of financing arrangements in- approved by the Board involves induce the Board to pay for volving West Block properties, by Chris Palermo But AdviSOry Board member three separate loans: a $3.5 more student services, instead the KGO building, and Mc- Editor-in-chief Joseph Rogers, speaking for million loan from WestAmenca of taking all such expenditures Allister Tower. Of the funds Wallach, disagreed, saying the Bank, secured by the West out of the ASH budget. raised, 2.8 million will be used In a heated sessIOn last Fri- College Board must take action Block properties; a $2 million Goren's main concern and to repay, with interest, scholar- day, the Board of Directors reo to dismiss Wallach, who attend- loan from United Bank, secured strongest pledge was for the ship funds improperly used to viewed a report by Dean Daniel ed the meeting but remained SI- by the KGO building; and a student member on the Board. purchase property. The Attor- Lathrope on the status of the lent, $2.5 million loan secured by She plans to accomplish that ney General's office will super- Center for Trial and Appellate "The College of Advocacy IS McAllister Tower. objective using three steps. vise the establishment of a Advocacy's embattled leader, E, separate from Hastmgs," Ro- West Block encumbered (or First, she will work to amend trust which will administer the Robert Wallach. After charged gers asserted, "and [Hastings'] $3.5 million the state code governing Has- repaid funds. debate, the Board continued the Board may not have authority The $35 million West- tings to provide for student ''Between a rock and a matter until its May 6 meeting. to appoint the advocacy center America Bank loan, secured by membership. Second, she will hard place" The postponement defused an dean." According to Rogers, the Hastings's West Block proper- (continued on page 15) Noting that "we're between a explOSive situation which has Hastings Board mtentionally ties, is expected to close by been simmering since March 4, left the center Dean's role indef- April 18. The West Block is th" at ac .c w .. w when Wallach's status arose in inite. Roger · nou'd that Wal- block bounded by McAllister, a closed-session Board meeting. lach "is the de facto per:-on in Hyde, Golden Gate, and Larkin Miller to speak Lathrope told the Board then charge," who セ ィ 。ウ@ heen our Streets, in which the 200 build- that Wallach had never been leader" for years. ing is located, Hastings cur- approved as an official "dean" of But Lathrope reported that rently owns every property in at graduation the center. An unidentified General Counsel Max Jamison the block, except for the Board member leaked the story had advised him that "the Col- Abigail Hotel on McAllister Professor Arthur R. Miller of toughest to give," Miller said, to the Chronicle on March 9, lege must exercise control of the Street, and the city-owned Harvard Law School will ad- "it's a very tough environment saying that "there was concern College of Advocacy program, steam plant on the corner of dress the class of 1988 at com- and you can't be too serious." that [Wallach's] name not be as- as well as all other programs, McAllister and Larkin Streets. mencement exercises, Dean Miller said he accepted the sociated with the school, which through the Dean of Hastings The 200 building is not includ- Lathrope announced on April 8. College's invitation at the be- draws on lawyers and judges and Registrar, who are the au- ed in the loan. Miller, a nationally-known hest of Academic Dean Mary nationWlde for participants and thorized and constitutionally The interest rate of the loan authority on civil procedure, Kay Kane, whom Miller said "is faculty." designated officers of [Ha - will be the prime rate plus 2%. was twelfth on a list of speaker one of my dearest friends in Although no official vote was tings)." a tandard rate for commercial candidates developed by stu- life." Kane was Miller's student taken at the closed meeting, the Director Kneeland Lobner borrowers. Kerley stated that dents, faculty, and administra- at the University of Michigan, Board accepted Lathrope's re- suggested that, in the interim. the College could not get a low- tion. where Miller taught from 1965 port, effectively severing Wal- the College should stop printing er interest rate (generally avail- In a lively telephone inter- to 1972 before joining the Har- lach from the center. material bearing Wallach's able to government and non view with the Law News, Miller vard faculty. Lathrope reiterated his find- name. Wallach has been listed profit organizations) because said that while he has not cho- ings to the Board on April 8, as center Dean in the College the property is to be used for sen a specific topic for his The author with Cound, but made no further recommen- bulletin and other publications. commercial and not educational speech, he doesn't favor Friendenthal, and Sexton of dation for resolving the matter. Lathrope said that as Dean, he purposes, precluding the inter- "weighty topics such as the law- Cases and Materials on Civil Chairman Harold Dobbs sug- holds full responsibility for the est paid by Hastings to a lender yer's duty to the poor or what Procedure, Miller also serves on gested that nothing need be Center's actions and would ap- from being tax-exempt. we should do about Central the Advisory Committee on the done, since "[the Center doesn't prove all its publications. According to the Board's res- America." Federal Rules of Civil have al Dean and we don't need Trouble began for Wallach olution. $2.8 million of the "Graduation speeches are the Procedure. • one. The College can run the when he was indicted last year funds generated by the $3.5 ,. College of Advocacy," (continUC'.d on page 15) (continued on page 2) M M M M M Hastings Law News April 14, 1988 Press packs Board room Briefly noted To\Ver rent hiked The Platonics will close out the year Friday, April 29th, by James P.