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University of Michigan Law School University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository Res Gestae Law School History and Publications 1980 April 7, 1980 University of Michigan Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.law.umich.edu/res_gestae Part of the Legal Education Commons Recommended Citation University of Michigan Law School, "April 7, 1980" (1980). Res Gestae. Paper 485. http://repository.law.umich.edu/res_gestae/485 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School History and Publications at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Res Gestae by an authorized administrator of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. April 7, 1980 BES~ GESTAEy THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL STUDENT WEEKL ''Doc'' Jaeger Campbell Mr. Contracts Comp draws Here Friday Walter H. E . (Doc) Jaeger, best OVerflc!tlfiBRARY. known for his work in completely revising Williston on Contracts, APR 0 81980 will be at the law school on April crowd .· . · 11. ANN ARBOR-- It was mbiDJfVbaDf.~.CH. Dr. Jaeger spent nearly 25 years at last week's final round of the working on the Williston text which Campbell Competition - the crowd of burgeoned into 18 volumes. When law students anxious to catch a asked to recount particularly mem glimpse of a real live Supreme Court orable moments during his work, he Justice overflowed into the hall out mentioned the three days of sheer side of Room 100 H.H. drudgery he once spent on a single Justice Byron R. tvl-cite (despite the footnote, and the overwhelming feeling of relief when the final report to the contrary in the M~chigan words had been written. Daily, no relation to the Assoclate Dean of the same name) was surely the He confessed that he he realized cause of some of the commotion. The the herculean proportions of the real draw, however, was some of the task he might never have undertaken best oral advocacy that Ann Arbor has Continued on p . 7 seen in quite a while. The winners of the competition were Peter Shinevar & David Foltyn, Michael Lowenstein & Gary Simon. The runners up were Suellyn Scarnecchia & Maria Perez Peter Silverman & Gregory Spaly The,panel also included Judge Joseph T. Sneed of the 9th Circuit Ct. of Appeals, Judge Patrici~ M.. Wal~ of the District of Columbla Clrcult Ct. of Appeals, Dean J.J. White, and Professor Peter Westen who wrote the hypothetical cases for this year's competition. Awards were presented to the winners at a banquet following the arguments. Also honored at the banquet were the winners of the "best brief" awards: Peter Shinevar & David Foltyn, Richard Bouma & Thomas Richardson, David W. This is a sight that you won't be able to DeBruin & Randy Mehrberg. find anymore- they've just about completed the roof on the new library addition. !o the Editor: \ Dear Editor: largely to be a wholesale attack on Terry Cal I would like to comment on the April Fools' houn (who I don't even know personally). I edition of the "Res l_estae". It is very upset Mainly I am embarrassed that some of my fel ting to me to know that there are people who low students would produce such low-level i hate women so much. I was truly shcoked by the writing as Res Jestae. Such writing demeans! authors' aggressive, abusive, and hateful atti the entire student body. I tued toward both women and homosexuals. I don't --Danett Wineberg '80 understand, and it frightens me to think that there must be more people like that and that I * * * ON THE LAW REVUE: may be confronted with some of them in the fu The last issue of the Res Gestae contained ~ ture. a "review" of the Law Revue by Rich Levine. Even apart from the unbelievable viciousness This "review" impugned (sic) both my moral of their attacks on people with whom they dis character and artistic integrity, and I am c agree, it just can't be healthy to have such pelled to respond to these attacks--much as sub-human attitueds toward sex and toward two hate to perpetuate an already distasteful groups that compose over half the human race. affair. I was really surprised that the authors were First, the quote "Fuck you, Frank"-, wa > ta so open about revealing their sexual-psycho logical maladjustments. I wish they had been. as ' completely out of context. In context, :he open about their names so that I could be s·ure meaning is exactly the opposite. Come o1, Rich. When are you going to realize you los to avoid them. I wish I could avoid people like that my whole life. the election for RG editor? --Peggy Brown Mr. Levine also conveyed the misleading im pression that I am a fruit. One is compelle * * * to ask what is it that Mr. Levine fears abou near Editor: fruits, and why is the "ultimate" means of Law School journalistic "humor" reached a new insulting a man comparing him to a fruit? A low with the publication of "Res Jestae" on a final comment on this matter, I would like April 1. There was nothing clever, creative or to quote from Lionel Tiger N. Bear's Men In subtle about this adolescent publication, and I, Fruits: "In view of the Biblical command to at least, was not amused by what appeared 'Be fruitful and multiply,' fruitless, journ listie males are, in a real sense, vegetable P. 191. Despite insinuations to the contrar as a former teacher of fruit appreciation at Orchard University, and Orange County Commun' Editor-in-Chief . Polly Latovick College, I can judge the pertinence of the Layout Valentina Sgro quotation. Staff: Marc Abrams Sanford Lewis Rich, you implication that those performer Terry Calhoun Stuart Logan who invoked Professor Kamisar's name sought Richard Cauley Kathi Machle only cheap laughs is a vicious attempt to George Cole Stan Shapiro cheapen their achievements in the eyes of th Mark Erzen Stephanie Smith law school community. Wake up, Rich. These Brian Frumkin Tammy Stewart performers sized up the audience and gave it Richard Levine what it wanted. Perhaps as a "reviewer" you Business Manager. .Debi Kirsch see your role as educator, but entertainer's Office: 306 Lawyers Club ought to entertain, and if the fans want Yal Telephone: 763-4332 well, that's what they should get. Deadline: 5:00p.m. Friday I regret taking up space for this matter, Submissions may be dropped off in so much of importance was at stake that I was the envelope on the R.G. door or in forced to respond. This will be the last I the envelope outside-or-Room 102A will have to say about this affair. Next L.R. Please mark all Docket items week I shall return to not writing my regular column. and submit them separately. --Michael Ostroff Distribution: Monday afternoons Letters to the Editor must be limited * * to a maximum of 150 words. All submissions must be signed, even More "Letters" page 3. those to be printed anonymously. 2 LETTERS Continued from p.2 Dear Editor: I've always been turned off by student goverr ment. The theory behind it has always been hood, but in reality these elected bodies inev MACBLE'S MUSINGS itably sink to the depths of pettiness and irrelevance. I've always preferred the real This week's "literary" exchanges world to the game of "Let's pretend we're between certain anonymous law students grown-ups". indicates one failing in the law I've observed the LSSS for three years with school curriculum. There simply aren't a mixture of amusement and nausea. The "elec enough positive outlets for the com tions" remind me most of junior high school, petitive natures of certain members while the budget's priorities and emphasis are of the student body . I, therefore, not unlike high school government budgets suggest that, in addition to the out where the most important issue all year is lets now offered (moot court, law deciding on a theme for the spring prom. review/journal, in-class gunning, etc.), Grow up, people. The real world isn't that the law school sponsor competitions bad if you give it a try. And besides, the for the following coveted titles: J.C.'s won't let you stay a member past age 35. 1. The longest outstanding "incom --Carol Jones Dwyer plete" in a law school course. The title is now held by Joe Kaplotnik, * * * Call of '44, who still has not comple Dear Editor: ted his paper for Prof. Wright's tax Now that the Campbell Competition is over, seminar. The competition was abandoned I would like to write to the RG to congratu in 1976 when John Coogan enrolled - late my worthier opponents and to make a few, the administration feared that John perhaps idiosymcratic,comments. I find it would give Joe a serious run for the curious that the only instance when the word title . "moot" has been used properly since I have beer 2. The person who remains polite in the law school is in the title of that and kind to all for the longest peri competition. More curious yet is the fact that od in his law school career. So far, in the text of the Campbell problem, "moot" the record is three days -- but Prof. is used to mean "no longer in debate". To Kamisar CAN be beaten. give Professor Westen credit, his authority 3.