University of Michigan Law School University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository Res Gestae Law School History and Publications 1976 October 1, 1976 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, "October 1, 1976" (1976). Res Gestae. Paper 541. http://repository.law.umich.edu/res_gestae/541 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]. ~· '' A c. C. ORb t N 6 T 0 W I 6- M 0 R E_, AND IT IS D-EMONSTRABLY .SO, C..OURTS IN GENERAL HA.V£ REDUL.E D THE TERM TO A USELESS AND MEANINGLESS . II S H I 8 8 0 LET H ... [fRE.STON v. COMMONWEALTH, 4ob S.W.~d 3'18] QC.T. II 1'176 ELECTION~ -~ .. ......,._. __ ,_ ---· - - · ~ · ---~. ~ ... •. · ·RESULTS Section 1a *Charles R. Lowery, Jr 25 Fred Ariel Rodriguez 18 David R. Kern 14 Wednesday Laurie Dickerman 1 David Brenner 1 FILM COMMITTEE MEETING Sect1on 2a , *Geoffrey Silverman 37 For Anyone Interested Paul Stephen Jensen 20 Wednesday, Oct. 6 Daffy Duck 1 )t15 PM Hertha Sibbach 1 Boom 120 Hutchins Hall Or call Rick Durden 995-4484 Section 3• *Gary Peters 29 Mark Sterling 13 Pat Paulsen 1 Everyone is invited to bring their lunches on Wednesday, October. 6, and hear Professor Section 4• Whitmore Gray speak on his recent visit to *John Joseph Kralik 28 China. The luncheon, sponsored by the Susan Swantek 15 International Law Society, will be held at J.uan Marquez 13 the Lawyers Club in the faculty dining room beginning at noon. Board of Governorss *Martha Haines -- 42 Jim Simon, 995-3748 Argie Ant 5 Steve Brock 1 Marvin Mandel 1 Jim Schnare 1 Bob Kohorst 1 Thursday Charles Lowery 1 Abby O'Dess 1 FEMINIST LEGAL SERVICES ~ - Designates winner Meeting R.G. -- THE BEST TO YOU EACH MORNING 'l'hursday, Sept. JO 4a15 PM Women's Lounge Cap'n Crunch ........ Ned Othman Frantzenberry ....... Ken Frantz ----.------------------i Kix ................. Carol Sulkt>s ·day (763-4332) Fr1 Count Chocula ....... Don Parman Wheaties ..... ~ ...... John Mezzenotte Trix ................ Crusader Rabbit S P E A K E R Sugar Smacks ........ Sandy Gross Dr. Andy Watson, Prof. of Cheerios ... .......... Stuart Olson Law & Psychiatry Corn Flakes ......... Earl Cantwell "Coping with the.Pressures Team Flakes ......... Michael Marrero of Law School" Lucky Charms ........ Bob Brandenburg Friday, Oct. 1, 1976 Cocoa Krispies ...... Dot Blair 2a30 PM 100 Hutchins Hall Life ................ Dan Schulman Puffa Puffa Rice .... Kevin McCabe J 100% Natural ........ Ricky Lempert ----JUAN LUIS TIENDA The La Raza Law Students Association urges your financial support in esta ~. RAZA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP blishing the Memorial Fund and insur­ ing its continued success. In order On August 19, 1976, Juan Luis to establish the Memorial Fund a mini­ Tienda, third year student at the mum of $2,000 is needed. The La Raza University of Michigan School of Law Students will be holding a special Law, died in a t ragic automobile collection on Friday, October 8, from accident in Texas. He was 24 10 A.M. to 2 P.Mo at the main floor years old. desk in Hutchins Hall. In the near future the movie, Chulas Fronteras The La Raza Law Students Associa­ (Beautiful Borders)will be shown on tion, of which Juan Luis was campus--details to be announced later­ President, has decided to esta­ -to raise more monies. Other fund­ blish a special scholarship fund raising activities are in the plan­ in his memory. The fund is the ning stage. Juan Luis Tienda Raza Memorial SCliOiai?S'hip, to be administered We respectfully ask that you help us by the law school 's f inancial aid with whatever you may wish to contri­ office. Proceeds from the fund bute ~ither by donating at the above are to be used to provide finan­ mentioned events or by leaving your cial assistance to needy Spanish­ contributions a the La Raza office speaking students. at Hutchins Hall, room 114. Juan Luis was driven by a tremen­ dous desire to practice law in or~ der to serve those in greatest Notices · need of legal assistance, particu­ larly Spanish-speaking and other The University of Michigan Law School will minority groups t hat traditionally establish the Hessel E. Yntema Professor­ have not had full access to the ship of Law, honoring one of the School's services of the legal profession. distinguished former faculty members. He approached this goal with the zest and determination which char­ Prof. Ynterna (1891-1966), a research professor· of comparative law, was a member acterized his many, many endeavors. of the U-M law faculty from 1933 until his During the two summers previous to retirement in 1961. his death he worked for Michigan Migrant Legal Ass istance Project. At the t:j_me of his death he was "probably He expressed his strong interest the world's most distinguished comparative in helping inmates by regularly legal scholar;" according to U-M law Dean visiting the Milan Federal Prison Theodore J. St. Antoine. in Michigan and offering his help At U-M, Ynterna was founder and first editor to anyone who needed it. of the American Journal of Comparative Law. He lectured throughout the world, and was Juan Luis Tienda's life ended a active in many international academic year before graduating from law organizations. school, ~ever achieving his goal of an active and socially conscious practice of the law. His dreams for SINGLE ROOM AVAILABLE in Legal Fraternity 1 Block from Law School. Any serious a full life were not to be. The student considered. $95/month. Very Memorial Scholarship, established in cheap parking, Call Ken at 663-3469 or his name, seeks to keep his memory Paul at 662-5157. and his legacy alive. ~ . COMMENTS all my assumptions carefully. Dan Schulman Only "facts" were to be taken at face value. Observations Today I want to start talking were to be verified, and con­ about the things this column is clusions were to be drawn only · about, but I don't know where to reluctantly. Ideally it would begin. I want to be careful, be­ work like thisa A train schedule cause like yourselves I am a law would list a train. At this student in a prestigious univer­ point I would possess only gen­ sity. Like yourselves, I have eral facts about ~rains (they grown accustomed to talking with run on tracks, etc.)r the speci­ authority and having what I say fic observation that the 9a27 to taken as truth because it is said Barcelona was to arrive on Track with authority. The worst thing Jr and no conclusions. Next I that could happen in this column would cross-check with one or two would be for me to start talking other sources (railway informa­ with authority, and have people tion, master-schedule boards). automatically reject or accept If they were the same, I would be what I say on the basis of their able to conclude that a 9a .27 to greater or lesser expertise. Barcelona was intended, that it Then I would learn nothing and would arrive on Track 3 unless you would learn nothing. What I switched. I still would not most want to do is to share things assume that my ticket for Barce­ I sometimes think about with others lona meant I would be getting to willing to think about them. Barcelona. Ftnally I would observe One of the things I often a train pull in at 9a15 on Track J. think about is the way implicit The number would be the same, I assumptions pervade our lives, would ask the conductor if it was I began thinking hard about them going to Barcelona, I l'Tould take this summer, while traveling in a seat, put my head back, relax, Europe for seven weeks with my and at last assume that barring a brother. (My first trip outside train wreck I was going to Baroe- the United Statesl) To my naive .lona, mind, if a train was listed on a Sound good? Thorough? In schedule it existed. Apparently real life I did every one of the the Italian government felt other­ above things and I still did not wise. I learned this summer that get Jis2 Barcelo~ 2.!! ~ tra'in:­ a reservation for a seat was not What I never thought to aslr was a seat~ that posted hours did not Whether everz ~ on the t r ain always mean a building would be was going to Barcelona /) It turned open, that a posted price was not ~ut 'SOme cars were only going as necessarily what I'd end up pay­ tar as Marseilles, where they were ing. I stopped expecting drinking uncoupled. Waiting in the station fountains or air-conditioning. for the next train to Barcelona I And I began to understand that thought about my system, and the z.mp many things I thought of as elusiveness of assumptions, and "natural" were really "American." the lmm ensi ty of the taslr you face (Motherhood and apple pie are far when trylng to handle them. .less American than cold orange When you start looking for juice in the morning, pitchers assumptions you find them every­ of beer, ice cubes and unlimited where. Somehow very large assump­ coffee).