College of William & Mary Law School William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...) Archives and Law School History 1993 Amicus Curiae (Vol. 3, Issue 9) Repository Citation "Amicus Curiae (Vol. 3, Issue 9)" (1993). Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...). 327. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/newspapers/327 Copyright c 1993 by the authors. This article is brought to you by the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/newspapers Top 10 reasons M-W profs deserve raises, page 10 AMFJUCA'S FIRST LAW SCHOOL VOLUME III, ISSUE NINE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22,1993 TWENTY PAGES Charles speaks at W &M's Charter Day By ANDREW SMITH the Hall on Saturday morrring, La t Saturday, Feb. 13, they found it decked out with Charles Philip Arthur George, two huge television screens, Prince of Wale Duke of enormou replicas of King Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, William, Queen Mary and the Earl of Carrick and Baron coats of arms of the College, Renfrew Lord of the Isles, and and an elaborate stage large Prince and Great Steward of enough to hold the William and Scotland wowed a standing­ Mary Concert Band and Choir room-onJy crowd of more than and about odeans, visitors, and 10,000 in William and Mary other dignitary-types. The Hall. After all of the media's morning-long Charter Day Prince Charles addresses the tanding-room-only crowd at William recent di paraging remarks ceremony began more or lesson and Mary Hall on W&M's 300th Anniversary. about the Royal Family-And schedule at 10:30 a.m., with the Prince Charles in partirular-the presenting of the colors by "The audience in the Hall seemed Queen's Guard, ' a group of facultyand graduating students, the audienceoflO,OOOwasasked Following the processional disarmed, and pleasantly W&M ROTC undergraduates which lasted for an entire half­ to stand. This Chinese-water­ were an invocation by Bruton urprised, by hi quick, witty disguised in red uniforms and h urwhile the choir and concert torture portion of the ceremony Parish Rector Rev. Richard L. and somewhat Jf-deprecating enormou beaver-skin bats. band performed what seemed ended wirh the singing of 'God manner. Next e a ritab ocean Ilk 300 roun of the William Save the Que n·' and ··the :>tar See UP CIlUCK~ pa~e 20 As the audience filtered into of regalia, the processional of and Mary Hymn, throughwhich Spangled Banner." Residence Life to evict law school squatters By JOI-lN CROUCH with deans at Marshall-Wythe and other commitments to live at the complex, while cause, she suggests, is the strict allocation Law students in the Graduate graduate programs before they could many first-years backed out or applied at of rooms between various graduate Complex had better pack their bags and begin to set deadlines. the last minute. Current residents would schools. Briggs told the meeting that the start looking for landlords. Only 47 Several residents thought they should be more certain to fill rooms, rather than $200 deposit should help deter no-shows current residents can live there next year, get some kind of preference for next leaving matters in flux. and reduce the applicant pool to people said Residence Life's Assistant Director year. Tim Singhel (lL) pointed out that Dean Connie Galloway cautions that who are seriously interested. JerryJ Briggs. They will get rooms in a , the reason we're here is that we made lL no-shows may not be a major cause of lottery in late.March, April or perhaps our deposits on time' and stuck with the empty room problem. A more direct See CRUNCH, page 12 even later. Briggs spoke to a meeting ofresidents in the complex's lounge Monday night. Consumer education burdens students He said that anyone who requests housing and pays a deposit of about $200 will be By PAULA HANNAFORD The conference focused entered in a lottery. The lud..-y 47 students A day-long conference held primarily on the changing may ' squat' in their apartments or at William and Mary Hall Feb. definition of liberal education, request new ones. Residence Life wants 11 and sponsored by W &M's and its implications for the student advice on whether people should Thomas Jefferson Program in future. apply individua11yorin apartmentgroups, Public Policy focused on the Like many of the but it dreads the complexity of offering changing nature of liberal arts presentations made during the both options. Many of those who lose education in America. A debate conference, the panel discussion out in the lottery will be offered rooms in moderated by Roger Mudd, was marked by a lack of late spring or summer. television journalist and Carter co nsensus. The panelists Students present were concerned Lowance Fellow at M-W, ended disagreed on the purpose, the about the fact that while it is hard to get the conference and was taped into the complex, 36 rooms are empty, by PBS for possible future See STUDENTS, page 4 especially those reserved for business broadcast this spring. and education students. By the time they are offered to law students, theywiIJ ---Inside this issue already have signed leases elsewhere. • Absurd research tips • Crossfire Gays in the Everyone hoped deadlines for housing Page 10. military. Page 8. Robert H. Atwell, President -Paula HfUIlUlford new students would be set as early as • Trading Cards: Flamboy­ of the American Council on possible. Briggs emphasized that • SMH fires back ant personalities of M-W. Education. Residence Ufe officials had to confer Page 2. Page 11. 2 ===================================== Monday, February 22,1993 THE Awcus Cu!uAE Out of Our Heads FroIn the Editor's Desk... Does OCPP really need to be renamed? 2L rep Gina Love In a memo to Faculty student opinion on this issue is most of the time, the concern is and Dean Robert Kaplan seem to think that M -W students are Academic Status Committee overwhelming. Members of appreciated. However, in this under a mistaken impression about the role of OCPP. ''It's Chair Trotter Hardy, the SBA SBA report that most students case, the benevolence has turned really more of a guidance office than a placement office." says recently requested the faculty favor making exam schedules to paternalism. Love (see story on page 3). These labels are a distinction to reconsider its policy on exam available prior to registration. Furthermore, as Cartee without substance. scheduling. Although many Perhaps more importantly, even states in the memo, " ... nostudent Few M -W students operate under any gross misperceptions students have requested a studentsindifferentto the policy whom I questioned stated that of what OCPP is capable of doing. Regardless of the label we school-wide referendum as a do no accept the justifications the exam schedule [alone] would put on the door, Dean Kaplan supposed to assist students in means of forcing the issue, the for the current system. be a determinative factor in obtaining employment. Constantly reminding us of the SBA offered a proposal and a The first justification is making course choices." It limitations inherent in a "placement" or "guidance" office polite request that the faculty potential conflicts. However, seems that any paternalistic obscures the real issue: The office is under-staffed and students consider acting on its own in Dean Galloway has said the attitude the faculty may have in are resentful that no one is making efforts to change the response to overwhelming added conflicts would not be mind, has no ba is in fact. situation. student opinion. unmanageable, she does not On more than one occasion, No reasonable student expects Dean Kaplan to go out, find In other words, Cartee and oppose the idea. the M-W faculty has been her the perfect job and drop a notice in her hanging file. M -W the SBA have given the faculty a The only other justification accused of being unre ponsive students aren't averse to hard work when it comes to job search. chance to be responsive to is that students shouldn't choose to student opinion until the What frustrates most of us is the futility of many job searches in student concerns without feeling classes based on exam timing. school is on the verge of a bloody such a tight market. like they have been forced to At the risk of sounding rude, coup. Now, Cartee and the SBA OCPP does not need a name change or an image change. It act. M-W faculty get paid to teach, have presented the faculty with needs to double its staff -ize. Dean Kaplan and Linda Spalding The first proposal in the not to make sched uling choices. a perfect opportunity to do the work hard and do their jobs well. However, a law school this size memo would make exam If a student picks his classes right thing. No one seems to cannot make do with a career staff of two people. At a bare schedules available at based on the color of the have a realistic objection and minimum, M-W needs another full time administrator who will registration so students can take professor's hair, he has paid support for the change is clear. go out and sell this school to potential employers. We need an exam-timing into account when tuition for the right to do so. We urge the faculty to seize assistant Dean with a televangelist'S mentality who will spread signing up for classes. The SBA Quite frankly, it is none of the the initiative on this issue, and the gospel about M-W, whether firms want to hear it or not.