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Dean Lehman Reflects on Time At Michigan, Looks Forward to New Role
By John Fedynsky and Andy Daly
As he announced last semester, Law Court will have affirmed the Sixth Cir an important continuing effort for the School Dean Jeffrey Lehman will be leav cuit decision before I actually leave. I ex School. ing his post at UMLS at the end of the pect that that will not be an issue at all school year to take the helm as President for my successor. Do you have any pet projects that you of Cornell University. This past week The building plan is another story. But are remiss to be leaving now - the sorts Dean Lehman sat down with the RG's it is the case that a building project like of things that you think you'll follow John Fedynsky and Andy Daly to dis cuss his prestigious new position and to provide some final thoughts on the one < ;� he is leaving. t r1 So what's it like now, wrapping things up in these last few months before you'll be gone?
It's overwhelming, it's bittersweet. It's been nine years as dean, sixteen years on the faculty. My entire academic career has been here. I'm very excited obviously to be going to Cornell to serve as president. But it's hard to disengage from an insti tution that I love.
Would you say it's been good or bad timing with the litigation and the con struction plans going right into phase now? It seems like your leaving at about this is invariably an 8, 9, 10-year project. throughout your career just to see how the most interesting point. It usually involves the work of many they're going even ifyour not any longer people and more than one dean. I'd like personally involved? I know there is never a good time to do to be a year farther along on the something like this. I don't feel like this fundraising than I am. But at the same There are a lot of things that thisschool is a particularly good time. But I don't feel time I do feel as though we made a lot of does that are wonderful, special and it's a particularly bad time. The litigation progressin the last few years on the build will have been completed. The Supreme ing. It's a very exciting project. It will be Continued on Page 10 I! 2 � 3Res �estae lSiMardJ2003 11 �------�==���==�======�� March Musings 3Res Res Gestae welcomes submissions. Please place all articles, columns, or opinion pieces in the Res Gestae pendaflex located on the third floor of Hutchins Hall across from the faculty mailroom. Submissions may be made on 3.5" disk or via email (preferably as a MS Word at tachment). Res Gestae reserves the right to edit all submissions in the interest of space. Mailino address· Res Gestae University of Michigan Law School 625 South State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Phone: (734) 936-2574 Web Site Address: http://www.law.umich.edu/ JoumalsandOrgs/rg/ Office: 116 Legal Research (near the Law School Student Senate office) [email protected] WLSA MEMBERS SARA fA ULMAN AND DIANA SwiSHER STAFFBAKE SALE FUNDRAISER OUTSIDE RM 100 ------�11 l\.es <@e.stae lS;ifl!lardJ2003 �.._ 3 II A 3L's Advice: Hello Hawaii! By Joel Andersen adherent to this philosophy I can assure call Nicholas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas: you that the adjustment can be made. "Is that Kapaia, or Kapaiafa?!?") No doubt many Michigan law students Along this clothes line (pun intended), relish their big law prospects of seventy you must also be able to trust that on Once these onerous requirements are hour weeks. Putting aside the money, "aloha Fridays," even though your ad met, you will discover that life as an Ha certain students seem to define them ministrative assistant might be dressed in waii attorney holds many benefits, some selves by how many hours they can bill a loud tloral print mui mui, one can still less obvious than others. Of course, the in a given month. No doubt other stu trust her to efficiently proof a document. quality of life in terms of weather and dents relish their public interest prospects activities is amazing. It is difficult to find of $3 0, 000 before taxes. Putting aside another city in which to practice where it their good works, certain students seem is 80 degrees year round and you can take to gain some sense of meaning out of in an ocean swim after work (in daylight, claiming they "aren't in it for the money." no less). Then, on your days off you can Though obviously different, each group hike up Diamond Head or check out the seems to be motivated by some weird big wave surfers on the North Shore. sense of masochism. Plus, with no wasted weekends at the office (remember that 34 billables per Alas, I write not to attempt to decipher week expectation), you have plenty of these two unique groups; rather, I write time to enjoy the islands. The local in the spirit of Tony Blair to offer a "third puddle-jumper airlines offer many way." Far from masochism, this way leans kamaiaina (local) specials which make it as far to hedonism as law firm life allows. even easier and cheaper to get away from This way is the firmjob in Hawaii. the city for the weekend. To pursue this career possibility, the In addition to the already mentioned law student must embrace several con work-related benefits, therelatively small cepts often foreign to the typical Michi legal market in Honolulu often makes gan student. dealing with opposing counsel more a pleasurable than an adversarial experi First, you must feel comfortable with a ence. There are so few attorneys in the yearly billable hour expectation (read: not state (fewer lawyers have taken state bar requirement) of 1,750. For the English in Hawaii ever than take the New York majors, that is less than 34 billable hours bar in any single sitting) that you tend to per week (expected, remember, not re face the same rivals repeatedly. Even if quired). I realize this might not sit well the aloha spirit did not already pervade with our "big law" friends, but it is some attorney relationships, it would still be thing the Hawaii associate must get used The most challenging requirement for hoove you to be as friendly as possible to. Of course many attorneys in Hawaii success in a Hawaii firm job is mastering if your opponent needs a filing extension work far more than this out of enjoyment the names of cases you will be citing in thismonth, its probably best to consent, both of their work and those with whom your memoranda to partners. The Ha because you will probably need thatsame they work, but the system appears set up waiian alphabet contains only twelve let consent from her next month on another to accommodate someone committed to ters (A, E, H, I, K, L, M, N, 0, P, U, W), case. This same attitude is even more the "hang loose" lifestyle. yet it is amazing the variety of names alive in meetings. Before any work can these few letters can accommodate, espe get done, attendees always "talk story," Second, to enjoy the Hawaii firmjob, cially when half of them begin with K. A or just share pleasantries about work and you must welcome the idea of walking few recent examples from Hawaii courts family. If the conversation is between two into the partner's office wearing a short include Kamaunu v. Kaaea, Kealamakia true locals (those born and raised in Ha sleeve reverse-print aloha shirt embla v. Heirs of Kamoehalau, Kaina v. Kapalua waii), talk typically turns to how friends zoned with flowers, palm trees, and I or Land Co.,and Keliipuleole v. Wilson (Wil from high school are doing, which usu surf boards. And of course you will see son, I love you, man!). Suits involving ally means one of the two Honolulu pri said partner sporting the same. This may governmental entitiesas partiesoffer little vate schools, Iolani or Punahou. be difficult for someone who needs a solace, since most Hawaii place names are power suit to feel effective, but as a past equally as difficult to the uninitiated (re- Continued on Page 8 II 4 c:%q l\es ®estae lS JflllardJ 2003 llr------Family First: An Interview with a First- Generation Lawyer By Sara Klettke there were LSAT courses then, but I do students whose parents are not lawyers? Law has long been a field where many remember that my preparation consisted Are there any discernable general dif y·oung people follow parents and grand of going to the library and checking out a ferences between the groups? parents into the profession, leaving those book on geometry so I could remember students whose parents equate lawyering how to figure out the volume of a cone. I At other law schools I have periodically with "1-800-Cali-Sam" commercials feel can't tell you how often that has come up taught first-year law classes and I have ing lost in the crowd. Professor of Legal in my practice. had the sense that I could tell the differ Ethics, Len Niehoff, remembers how in ence in some cases. The difference did not timidating and overwhelming this can Would you like your children to be at seem one of confidence but one of vo feel. Professor Niehoff announced on the torneys? cabulary." first day of class that he is available if any first-generation lawyers would like to talk I don't have any children, but if I did I Tell me about your first business suit: to him for guidance and support. I de would want them to lead full and happy When and where did you get it? Who cided to take him up on the offer, and also lives. I think there are a lot of unhappy helped you pick it out? How did you feel to share his answers with all Res Gestae and unfulfilled lawyers, and I would about wearing it? readers. Here is an excerpt of our inter want to talk to them about that. I also view: think that it is a wonderful and reward I bought my first suit at a now-defunct ing career for many people, and I'd want men's clothing store in Ann Arbor. It was You're a first-generation lawyer. What to talk to them about that, too. a gray pinstripe - painfully conserva did you parents do? How did they feel tive. I picked it out myself. I liked the suit about your career choice? Why do you think first-generation but hated wearing ties. I still do. lawyers may need additional guidance My mother was a psychiatric nurse and or support? What advice do you wish someone came from a family of self-sacrificing had given you before you started prac health care professionals. In fact, my great They generally have less information ticing? grandfather died after contracting pneu (for example, about different kinds of ca monia because he left his carriage blan reer tracks) and fewer connections with I wish that someone had encouraged ket with a patient and rode home in the people who can help them thinkthrough me to do some very practical reading snow uncovered. My father was a first their choices. I love the firm where I prac right away. I had studied literature and generation German American business tice and the kind of work I do, but dumb philosophy as an undergraduate (and man, complete with a sister named luck has played an enormous role in my briefly as a graduate student), and had Gertrude who ran a beer house. Neither career. leaned toward the more abstract and my mother nor my father knew anything theoretical classes in law school. The first about lawyers and I think they were a bit How are you, as an attorney, differ time I had to try to read balance sheets, mystified by the choice. ent from someone whose parents or financial statements, and so on I felt aw grandparents were also in the field? fully lost. What made you decide to go to law school? I'm not sure there is a difference now. Who were your role models as you My sense is that I came into law pro started your career? Who are they now? I planned to go to graduate school in foundly uninformed about the profes I am an avid film buff, so in the begin philosophy. I had heard that the LSAT sion. That was a disadvantage, but it ning all my role models came out of films: was an easier test than the GRE in phi passed over time. Of course, there was James Stewart in "Anatomy of a Murder," losophy, and that most graduate pro also little or no family pressure to stay in Gregory Peck in "To Kill a Mockingbird," grams in philosophy would accept it. I law if I didn't like it. That was an advan Charles Laughton in "Witness for the took the LSAT and then, more or less on tage, but perhaps it has passed over time Prosecution," and so on. a whim, applied to the Michigan Law as well! When I started trying cases my role School. They accepted me - also on a models became great litigators like Ed- whim, I fear. By the way, I don't know if In your opinion, are non-first genera tion law students more confident than Continued on Page 5 ------� �======�� = e%® = e%t= a== e =l=S=� rd�o2=00=3 � =�= d����= 5d= ll FAMILY FIRST, from Page 4 Being confused may not be a bad ful thing because it forces you to exam- ward Bennett Williams and Louis Nizer, thing. .. ine closely all of your decisions. Those and some of the wonderful trial lawyers students will make some mistakes, but I with whom I have worked like Bill Saxton Over the years I have told my classes think it was from Lewis Thomas that I and Dick Rassel. And Lee Bollinger has that I am a first-generation lawyer and first learned that the root of the word 'er had a profound effect on my view of the have invited students to come see me if ror' means 'to wander around, looking law and my sense of what it means to they felt a bit confused or lost- either for something.' In the end, I don't worry approach legal issues thoughtfully. I'm because they too are first-generation law- about those students; I worry about the afraid I have a lot of role models, few of yers or for any other reason. Dozens of ones who don't start wandering around whom would want to claim me. students have come to talk with me over until they've been practicing law for time, and I have come to this conclusion: twenty years. A feeling a bit confused or lost is a wonder- V Announcements Q&A on Affirmative Federalist Society Action with Prof. Wel comes MI Su Richard Primus Send Your Student preme Court Justice Organization Stephen Markman Tuesday, March 18 Announcements 12: 20 - 1: 20 p.m. in 220 HH to [email protected] "The Contemporary Judicial Debate" Sponsors: ACLU, Federalist Society & Friday, March 21 Law Students For Affirmative Action 12:15 p.m. in 138 HH Pizza will be provided. Free lunch Skate for Justice Event to Benefit ATJ Civil Legal Aid Programs Michigan law students and lawyers will don their skates on Sunday, April 6, 2003 in downtown Detroit for a very good cause -to help poor people with pressing unmet civil legal needs. A Skate for Justice tournament will be held at the Joe Louis Arena beginning at 10 a.m. Law student hockey clubs at the University of Michigan, Detroit- Mercy, Wayne State, Ave Maria Law Schools and the Michigan State University- DCL College of Law, are sponsoring the event. The organizers will donate the net proceeds from the tournament to the State Bar of Michigan's Access to Justice Fund to benefit the general operations of civil legal aid programs throughout the state. "Iam so pleased to see that law students are aware of our profession's need to support legal services for the poor. I congratulate the organizers for their commitment," said Charlotte Johnson, Chair of the State Bar's Access to Justice Task Force and Assistant Dean of Students at the University of Michigan Law School. Tournament games are scheduled at the following times : 10 a.m. Wayne State University v. University of Detroit - Mercy 11 a.m. Michigan State- DCL v. University of Michigan/ Ave Maria 1:00 p.m. Consolation Game 2:00 p.m. Championship Game for the Justice Cup Zamboni rides will be offered between games and a skate with the players will be offered from noon until 12:45p.m. Tickets are $5. 00 each. To purchase tickets, please contact the Law Hockey Tournament Managers at Law_Hockey [email protected] or call (313) 20 5 0569 for more information. After the Championship Game for the Justice Cup , a reception celebrating the efforts and involvement of all participants, organizers and fans is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. at Maverick's Food and Spirits at 630 Woodward Avenue. For more information on the Access to Justice Fund or to make an individual or sponsorship donation that may be eligible for federal or state tax benefits, please contact the ATJ Campaign staff at 1-800 -9 68- 14 42. II 6 � �es ®estae lS;lflllardJ2003 11�------SFF Faces Budget Crunch by Jessie Grodstein past, this work study money was mini situation might be just as low next year, mal, but three years ago the allotment was which is upsetting for Gottshalk, who In stark comparison with the funding raised to$ 50,000. The $50,000 baseline holds the SFF program "near and dear to available in 200 2, this year's allotment for figure was augmented each spring due [her] heart." Student Funded Fellowships has largely to the resourcefulness of the Law dropped nearly seventy percent. While School's Assistant Dean for Financial Aid, The SFF board maintains that advising students to "keep the spirit, will Katherine Gottshalk. Once OFA realized Michigan's grant program is still one of ingness, and desire to work in the public how much of the work study money was the strongest in the country. According to interest," 3L Student Funded Fellowship actually being used by the undergradu Co-chair Sharlyn Walling, "What is go (SFF) Co-Chair Roxanne Wilson broke the ate students, Gottshalk would approach ing on here is part of a larger picture." news that, as a result of these shortages, SFF will only be able to support one in four applicants for summer grants. While the SFF board announced its goal of improving upon this ratio, it also warned students to consider other op tions for thesummer, such as taking on a second paying part-time job or working near home. At the same time, SFF fund raising events, including gathering com munity donations for the auction on March 27, are on target with last year's numbers. The tally from last year's auc tion was over $50,000, and the board ex pects similar success this year. A hurdle for this year's auction, however, is that, with fewer second year students in paid firmjobs, there will be less money to spare come auction night. The lack of available grant money OFA to see if they would donate a certain However, Walling would like to make the comes as a shock to most students. What amount of the remainder to the Law program less sensitive to the economy. most students, certainly most 1Ls, don't School. In fulfillment of the federal man One of the board's solutions is to seek out realize is that the last two years of com date that requires that a certain amount an endowment fund for the program. plete funding have been an anomaly. The of the work study funds go to helping the While that will not be of much consola opportunity to fund all applicants began community, OFA would donate the un tion to this year's students, many of in 2001, when this year's 3L class was in used work study funds to the law school, whom have already agreed to take un its first year. When SFF started over and ultimately to SFF. paid legal internships in such expensive twenty fiveyears ago, however, the fund cities as New York and San Francisco, an ing allocation was closer to $1 2, 000. While But this year, no work study money is endowment would give the program a the figure has fluctuated over the years, going unused. With the economy suffer cushion to prevent similar disparities in last year's high was at $350,000. ing, undergraduate students are not find funding resources in the future. Until ing jobs off-campus and are instead re then, the best advice is for law school The connection to the economy is un sorting to fairly low-paying work study community to show up in force on auc deniable. At the moment, the program jobs on campus. As a result, when tion night. relies substantiallyon federally allocated Gottshalk went to OFA this spring, she work study funds. The University's Of was told that there was absolutely noth fice of Financial Aid (OFA) receives its ing that they could spare for the law •••••••••••••••••••• annual work study allocation at the be school. To her credit, Gottshalk was able • • ginning of each academic year then dis to round up another $50,000 from the • 2003 SFF Auction • tributes these funds to each separate medical school's work study allotment, • • • Thursday, March 27th • school, including the Law School. In the raising the total figure to $100,000. The • • •••••••••••••••••••• ------111 1\.es �estae 18 :iMardJ2003 �.._ 7 II Carnivale Internacionale: Annual Law School Prom By Nick Janiga cials' early closing of the cash bar. hosts to go drinking elsewhere. Around 10 p.m. Union representatives Last Saturday night more than 240 law approached the LSSS organizers and said "I don't understand how closing the students and friends partied to the they were closing the bar because of sev bar helped with safety," remarked 3L at Carnivale Internacionale spirit with mu eral violations of their alcohol policy. tendee Geoff White, "it just encouraged sic from more than five continents at the They had observed attendees bringing those of us who didn't bring in alcohol to annual law school prom. in their own alcohol, doing shots, spik go get some." ing glasses of Coke from the bar, and at The Union's actions may cause the tendees without LSSS to rethink venues in future years, wristbands drink but Norton was hopeful that most attend ing alcohol. ees enjoyed themselves and the bar inci When notified of dent won't negatively affect attendance the violations by the at future LSSS events. Union, Norton tried to negotiate with the building super visor. Norton wanted the oppor tunity to inform party-goers of the situation and use her alcohol hosts to remove any alcohol brought in from the According to LSSS president Maren outside. The Union would not agree and Norton, LLM students approached the the bar was closed, leaving attendees with organization with the intention of add nothing to drink but water. ing some international flavor to the tra ditionally Mardi Gras themed dance. Norton says she understands the They provided drink recipes, posters, Union's safety concerns with not being flags, pictures, music and a slide show to able to control alcohol consumption when help show off an internationalelement of students bring their own alcohol; how STUDENTS BRING TilEIR OWN AFTER TilE the law school that many students may ever, she was disappointed the LSSS was PREMATURE BAR CLOSURE not be aware exists. not given an opportunity to rectify their mistake. "When we used tape to hang Unfortunately; the carnivale mood posters on the walls, apparently violat was dampened by Michigan Union offi- ing another Union policy, we were asked "The closing of the bar put a little to remove the tape and damper on the evening," said lL Rich given the opportunity Naski, "but overall, everyone still had a to fix the mistake," said great time." Norton. She expressed her The LSSS may yet pursue refunds. own safety concerns Norton added, "this is not done. We were worried that the clos there all night with the building manag ing of the bar encour ers and this is ongoing." aged some students to leave the controlled, safe party with alcohol II 8 � l\.es �estae 1S:Jil!larc)J2003 1�--1------BOll Jovi: The Tie that Binds By John Fedynsky stepped into the twilight zone. Suddenly, ment jumped in, "does it get any better Once upon a time, not so long ago, a it was a hot night and the natives were than this?" 2L from U of M spent part of his spring restless. They felt it in the air, for the break in Chicago to see Jon Bon Jovi live. crowd was a wire set to explode in the As far as rock concerts go, probably not, The tour-Bounce 200 3- was making one heat. They sensed that they and the rest they figured. Better seats, a buzz and of its last North American stops and the of the crowd were in for a good time. more company would have made the venue was the United Center, home of the evening ideal, but as it stood there was Blackhawks and the Bulls. The Goo Goo Dolls, a fine band in their no cause for complaint. Though they did own right, opened. They got things rock know going in that no doctor can cure Call it karma, call it luck, but he man ing, but the long break between when their disease because they get a little and aged to score some tickets back in Octo they finished and when Bon Jovi started it's never enough. During select songs, ber. Many of the better seats were sold was a downer. More experienced they had to break out a phone and call early to fan club members, so he had to concertgoers seemed to take the break as friends. If only for a moment, they were settle for seats up in the third level at just a cue to refill on beer and, er, unload in living in another world, trying to get a about dead center. A few clicks on the bathroom. Desperate and brave message through. All night, their hearts Ticketmaster's web site and the deal was women eyed the ridiculous line to the beat like drums and it was all right. For sealed. There was nowhere to run. No one women's room and invaded the men's they experienced the beauty of a few could save him. The damage was done. room-or so one would gather while star thousands souls collectively enjoying the ing at the wall above the urinal and hear same thing. So he hopped in acar with a friend and ing voices that men typically do not hear on that steel horse they rode like wanted in that context. It's all right if you wanna A crowd of people from all walks of life men down I- 94. Under the gun, out on cross that line and break on through to could magically clap to the same beat and the run and ready to set the night on fire. the other side. Like a fire burning out of sing with one voice. Where they once They knew that they would live through control, you can't stop a bladder burst were divided, now they stood united. the rain, or snow, whatever the season ing out of control. You think that by now One for love. One for truth. One for me. may be. "Goodbye to all those law school stadium planners would design more One for you. And instead of asking if any yesterdays, goodbye, so long, we're on adequate facilities. one was out there, they could see and feel our way," they thought as Ann Arbor that everywhere around the world, faded in the rearview mirror. They reclaimed their seats and before everybody's waiting for someday. When they knew it, Bon Jovi, the poet and the everyone around the world is feeling just They did their best to enjoy the city and preacher, freed their bodies and their the same way that they are. And that contain their giddiness. Try as they might, minds. Like all good performers and rock maybe someday might be tonight. they knew that the concert was the cen stars in particular, he bled charisma and terpiece of the weekend and that every made people feel good about themselves. P. S. The author pledges to buy lunch thing else-walkingthe MagnificentMile, No one was just a face inthe crowd, but a for the person who first guesses all the partying in Lincoln Park, sidecars at the voice to be heard when they shouted out Bon Jovi songs to which the author al Signature Room atop the Hancock Btrild loud. Bon Jovi invited it, leading the luded. Hint: there are 17 by his count. ing, etc. -was, relatively speaking, filler. crowd in a collective, rousing rendition of their favorite hits. He started out So when they entered from out in the "Livin' on a Prayer" a cappella with the cold into the arena, it was as though they crowd, remarking before the accompani- HAWAII, from Page 3 to land a job (most firms require a strong law students, salaries at Hawaifi firms For those to whom diversity is impor family connection- apparently they have max out at about $72,500. After taxes and tant, it does not get much better. At the been burned too many times by law stu accounting for the high cost of living (on firm I will join next year, I will be one of dents seeking a summer vacation), the par with New York City), paying off those five Haoles (white-skinned persons) out move is costly and stressful. Shipping a loans may be difficult at first. But if mas of 18. Attorneys include those of Chinese, car costs upward of $800, and firms vary ochism does not define your career ex Japanese, and Korean descent, those of in how much they will reimburse. Also, pectations, and if living where you work Native Hawaiian ancestry, as well as being separated by thousands of miles of is more important than working where varying mixes of those listed. ocean from your family can be difficult, you live, Hawaii may be theplace for you. Working in Hawaii of course re especially as you embark upon a new and qtrires some sacrifices. If you do manage challenging career. Most importantly to ------======----illl = � es= �==est= =ae l=S=� r��2=00=3 =���==�==== 9�= 11 Out of Gavels: The Year's Worst Music Moments By Steven Boender Least Anticipated Albums structive during rehearsal before the Limp Bizkit-"Less Is More": Hey Fred, show. The two people under 45 who I know, I know. It's too late for a year if less is more, then wouldn't not releas watch Leno were bummed. in-review deal. However, I've had numer ing the record be "the most"? ous people tell me that all my reviews are Worst Gratuitous Use of Band-Aids positive. See, the philistines at the record Blur - "Think Tank": c'mon guys, with Nelly: Maybe he should consider companies refuse to send free swag to a out Graham, you're nothing. changing the blade on his Mach3. newspaper with a total readership of about 500, so I have to buy everything I Any solo album by a former boy-band Most Overhyped review, and I don't have money to spend member: Sure to be polluting "used bins" electroclash: Beyond the clever LCD on records that I won't like. Anyways, in two years. Soundsystem, and perhaps Detroit's people have been clamoring for me to Adult, this whole movement just sounds write something negative, and I decided like drum n' bass played through a tran to let it all out in one cathartic diatribe. I sistor radio. hope you like it. Please don't be offended. As Royal Tenenbaum said, "it's just one Worst Trend man's opinion." Pedophilia/ child pornography (al leged, at least): R Kelly, Jacko, Pete Worst Songs Townshend, 3D from Massive Attack. Chad Kroeger- "Hero": Oh man, the Who says rock and roll isn't dangerous hatred I have for thissong. I saw the video anymore? Zing! where they're on the roof of a building and I was praying that a low-flying Piper Worst band name Cub would clip their heads off. Another Good Charlotte: Killer brah. reason why NAFTA was the worst idea ever (that Jesus-looking singer is from Biggest Disappointment Canada.) Worst Career Move Weezer - "Maladroit": Note to all Moby Calls Eminem as he sees him, Harvard alums: what the hell did you That song in the Mitsubishi commer rather then figuratively fellate him like guys do to Rivers. He was fine before he cial where that girl dances all crazy and the rest of the music world. Gets cold enrolled, and then he lets Matt Sharp go, that tool of a driver amazingly doesn't cocked in return.Remember that fake ad puts out the mediocre "Green Album", push her out the door: That's all I have to on Saturday Night Live for Coldcock Malt and then this disaffected turd. Hey, did say about that. Liquor? That one was hi-larious. you know that "turd" isn't in the Microsoft Word dictionary? That Paul McCartney freedom song: Worst Music-centric Film Some people will do anything to get to "8-Mile": While I didn't see it, the only Worst Genre the Super Bowl. Players juice, fans scalp, other music related films I saw were "I Singer-Songwriters: John Mayer, Pete and advertisers pony up thedough. In Sir Am Trying to Break Your Heart" and "24- Yom, David Gray, etc. My dad used to Paul's case, it was writingthis trite piece Hour Party People", and there's no way always tell thisjoke about country music of crap. John Lennon's rolling in his that a movie with Detroit's finest ho that all the singers were actually one guy: grave, laughing hisass off, and still pissed mophobic Oedipus and Brittany Murphy he would just change his hat and take a that Michael Jackson owns half the rights could be better. new name. Same deal here, except instead to his songs. of a cowboy hat, it's cargo pants. Fortu Worst Post-millenia! Incarnation of nately, I'm married, so I don't have to R Kelly - "Heaven, I need a hug": the Monkees pretend to like these guys to get girls to Heaven, I need Johnnie Cochran. The Vines: I bet Silverchair is really like me. bummed that they aren't the new "Aus Any Mall Punk Song: Secretly, all of tralian Nirvana" anymore. The coolest these bands are sponsored by Hot Topic. thing about the Vines is that they were kicked off the set of Leno for being de------����1�0����·�9=q�===�= e=s=® = e= s=ta= e======lS���rd=�=200== 3 ====dl�l ------LEHMAN, from Page 1 tue of their having done the best they've unique. Some of them were here long Anything else? ever done, not by tearing down the per- before I was dean and some of them son next to them. That's an amazing as- started in the last decade. I'm sure that at Perhaps the most important item is the pect of Michigan. Cornell I'll be pointing to them when I addition of members to the faculty. We talk to the folks on the faculty of the law have been able to recruit some just spec What have been some of the fun parts school. tacular teachers and scholars. If you talk of the job that you think you'll miss - with fellow students or reflect on your like being invited to be in the Law Re Looking back on closure, have you own experience and think about who has vue every year, being invited to be an picked something out as your proudest been most meaningful for you during auctioneer for the Student Funded Fel achievement as dean? your time here, I suspect some of the lowship Auction. What sorts of experi people who have had the biggest impact ences like that do you treasure the most I haven't. There's a way in which were not here ten years ago. That's the and do you think might not be present people measure the history of institutions sign of a healthy school. for you at Cornell? like this. They sort of say well there was the period of the X person deanship. They The Class of 2005 is the last class you There are opportunities as a dean to be then make a logical mistake when they had the opportunity to give the welcom humiliated that are very special. I don't say that whatever happened during that ing speech. This interview will be avail think that they're available to university period of time at the institution is a func able to prospective students. What mes presidents in the same way. I will miss tion of who happened to be dean then. It sage do you have for somebody who's the chance to pretend to be a member of is mostly a function of the intuitions of considering coming to Michigan, maybe Aerosmith. I just don't thinkthat's going the governing faculty as a whole. When I even in light of this impending change to be an opportunity that's going to come think about things that happened at the at the top? my way again. The kind of ridiculousness Law School during the deanship and the that goes with being an auctioneer is just things I am proudest of, I guess, I think The choice of where to go to school is a a trip. of receiving the Weightman Award from very personal choice. At least when the ABA as public interest school of the you're looking among the handful of What is the learning curve like for a year. I think that the recognition that the truly extraordinary law schools, the dean? transnational law course requirement re choice is really about fit. What distin ceived is terrific. The fact that the legal guishes Michigan within that group, It's not that steep. Anyone who is cho practice program was started and then what makes it such a great choice for so sen as a dean has been a law professor. other schools wanted to emulate it was many students, what made it a great They know what it means to be a law stu very gratifying for me. I think that the choice for me, what still makes it a great dent and a faculty member. There are as growth and diversification of our clinical choice today, are a couple of things. One pects of the job -managing budgets and programs has just been very satisfying to is the incredible faculty. The quality of the fundraising - that are unfamiliar. But the be a part of. Those are four things that faculty here as scholars and teachers is overall core mission of the school is com are exciting. really remarkable, even among top law pletely understood. The environment is schools. A second is the quality of the stu pretty familiar. There are aspects of daily What about the litigation? dent culture here. That's something that life that take getting used to. Having a varies more among the top schools than calendar that is filled from morning till Nobody tries to get sued. Nobody other aspects. The student culture here is night is something that takes getting used wants to get sued. I am very proud of the exceptionally healthy. Students here take to. Having to travel so much takes get way the School as a community has con the study of law very seriously without ting used to. But the intellectual aspects ducted itself in the defense of the litiga taking themselves too seriously. I think of the job, the challenges, they don't take tion. There's a lot of stress that comes with that is a wonderful quality. The students that much time. The biggest change is being a defendant, and that stress can be here are competitive. I think that people feeling personally and individually re divisive or silencing. I think we have de do not end up being admitted to this law sponsible for long-term agenda setting. fended ourselves aggressively, effectively, school unless they are in some ways com I'm supposed to draw up the list of ques and in a way that people can be proud of petitive people. They push themselves to tions that we as a faculty and we as a com for its quality and its integrity. We've excel and they are used to excelling. But munity should be asking ourselves. The done it in a way that has been very open that does not manifest itself in a kind of first year is always hard in any new job. and honest and welcoming of criticism. mutually destructive, cutthroat environ After a year any dean is going to be com In many ways that has helped us to be ment. This is a place where students are pletely comfortable. more effective. I think we have presented good to each other. They want each other a very powerful case, in court and in pub to succeed. They at some level want to lic, that our admissions policy is both law do better than each other, but only by vir- ful and right. Continued on Page 12 ACROSS 1. Bring water to this 6. South Orange, NJ college 9. Cupid's projectile 14. Earth 15. Total commandments 16. W hinny 1 7. Made of oats 18. Pacific NW state 19. 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These are things I don't know gan always has before it is to be looking I'm not emotionally ready to use terms very much about. So there's a lot of new far down the road and to ask what we like "last thoughts." I feel like there's substantive ground. I think the learning will need to be doing in fifteen years and still a few months of important work left curve will be a little steeper, but I'm still what we need to do now to be prepared to do and I really want to keep pushing going to try to climb it within the first for that. That question becomes harder to forward on that. I will say it's been an year. answer each year. The pace of change in amazing joy and privilege to be the dean the legal profession is widely understood of this law school. I've gotten to know a If President of Cornell is one of the to be accelerating. To remain alert to the lot of other law school deans, and a lot of few positions that would've tempted changes that are going on around us and schools are very cruel to their deans. This you away from Ann Arbor, can you to be able to evolve in the ways we need school is incredibly kind to the dean. I'm think of any sort of dream job that to stay cutting edge is very hard work. very grateful for that. I hope that it will would tempt you away from Cornell? It's important to do that because institu always be that way. tions like this are best when they evolve. It's really hard to imagine. I hope to be I don't think we're very good at lurching president of Cornell for a very long time. from one direction to another direction. I I think if someone were to offer me a seat think that the nature of the legal profes- Law School Bowling League Thursday Nights