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VOLUME V, ISSUE SEVEN MONDAY, JANUARY 23 , 1995 SIXTEEN PAGE Justice Lacy Death threat 2L ousted The Marshall-Wythe Disciplinary with the disciplined student said he had visits M-W Board announced-that on Thl,lrsday. Jan . made harassing phone calls from on-cam­ By Mike Grable 19, it compelled a· law student to with­ pus phones, which enable one to easily These are interesting times in the dra\ from the school for making harass­ trace calls. Apparently, the male student Americanjudiciary, and M- W played host ing threats to two other students in had been making life-threatening phone last week to a person occupying one ofthe alcohol-related incidents. The student calls to a female classmate upon being better vantage points from which to watch will not be allowed to return unless he spurned by her romanticall . He also the changes: The Hon. Elizabeth Lacy, completes certain conditions, and in an y threatened the life of another student who Associate Justice ofthe Supreme Court of case cannot return until January of 1996. tried to intervene on behalf of the victim Virginia and 1995 Carter O. Lowance Adm inistrators and Board mem bers would of the harassment. It is further alleged Fellow. Justice Lacy took a few minutes not comment on the case. out of her busy schedule to share some of See HARASS on 16 Various sources who had encounters her views on American jurisprudence. The media seem incapable of men­ tioning Lacy's career without reminding - Pe lt!r O'tteJJ Cuts threaten rights institute the public that she is the first woman \¥ho appointed me to the Court, could not By Shelley Evans to $47.4 million for higher education in appointed to the Virginia court, but Lacy afford the possibility of putting someone President Timothy Sulli an called this Virginia in addition to the $14.7 million said she does not mind that label 's perma­ incompetent in that position." "a critical point" for the College as Gov­ cut which would take effect in July. From nence in her public image. Lacy said she does feel there may be ernor George Allen's budget proposal this budget, W&M would lose $1.2 mil­ "I don't feel it's any kind of yoke in more scrutiny of her performance as a marks the fifth year of budget reductions lion. This reduction presents a significant for higher education in the last six ears. that my achievements have been under­ See LACY on 14 See BUDGET on 3 valued. IFormerGovernorGerald Baliles), The reductions for th is ear would amount God, school and Pat Robertson: Rights Symposium '95 By Sarah Newman of four parts. First, a keynote Audience members will then Goldberg of Georgetown Uni­ The S mposium will be held "I can't imagine a more ex- address will be given by Pat have the opportunity to partici­ versity Law Center. Finally in the University Center Audito­ citing thing that's going to hap- Robertson, President of the pate in a "town meeting ' after Strossen will deliver a closing rium. ltwill run from 6 until9:30 pen at the law school this year. ' American Center for Law and listening to a panel discussion by address. p.m. (with breaks). Some ad­ So states Peter Owen (2L), Chair- Justice. A moot court debate by a group ofexperienced individu­ The topics of the event's dis­ vance seating may be available a man of the Institute of Bill of 1Ls Laura Feldman Mike als in the areas of religion and cussions will embrace a variety week prior to the event for law Rights Law Student Division and Grable, Emily Jenkins, and Matt law. This panel will include Elliot of issues involving education and students professors and staff. Director of the 1995 Student Johnson will follow. It will deal Mincberg, the legal director for religion, including school prayer, Syinposium when discussing the with a hypothetical written by People for the American Way; moments of silence, the Lemon -Inside-- upcomingBillofRightsSympo- Michael Homans (3L) in which a ACLU President Nadine test, teaching evolutionism or CW Black History Series 5 sium. This year's symposiuin is Hindu family challenges a 'Re- Strossen; Jay Sekulow of the creationism in schools, tuition Columnist Broder to speak 5 entitled "How Much God in the ligions in America" course in - American Center for Law and issues for private schools, home , Mysterious salt mines of Schools?: A Discussion of Rei i- troduced into a public school Justice; Ruti Teitel, professor at schooling, non-sectarian prayers, Wieliczka await you 5 gion in the Classroom." It is curriculum by a pro-religion N.Y. Law School; Lynn Buz­ graduation ceremony prayers, Strange brew from tugboat scheduled for Thursday, Feb.23. school board. One of two texts in zard, professor at Campbell Uni- and school boards with religious captain, ex-cop & Bitsy 6 The symposium is composed the fictitious class is the Bible. versity Law School; and Steven orientations. Lunch at DeWitt Wallace 11 Open-mike tribute to King By Jason Ald rich peace and justice. She also reminded us Twenty-seven years after his death, of Dr. King's belief that justice could only Dr. Martin Luther King remains one of be attained and retained through non~ America's most revered figures. He is violent means. remembered not just for his eloquent de­ Dean Thomas G. Krattenmaker re­ mands for color-blind justice, but fot his flected on Dr. King's role in bringing unswerving optimism ,thC).t justice would about the dramatic advances in civil rights prevail and America would live up to its he has seen in his lifetime. He told the ideal of guaranteeing equal rights to all of crowd that, while we have a long way to its citizens. Dr. King was honored for go before Americans are judged solely by these beliefs, and more, at an open mike "the content of their character rather than discussion on the anniversary ofhis birth, the color of their skin ' our nation is still January 16 in the Law School Lobby. light years ahead of countries like South Black Law Students Association Africa. (BLSA) President Carla Archie (3L) Assistant Dean Jayne Barnard struck opened the ceremony by reciting Robert an even more personal note in describing ...(' aria Arch;~ Frost' s poem, "Two Roads." She praised Dr. King's impact on her life. Thanks in 2L Daryl Taylor recited the 'Dream' speech during candlelight vigil with Professor Douglas (far left), 2L Dr. King for seeking to travel down two See KING on · 2 rarely used paths in our history those of Lori Sinclair and (on right) Grad Robin Ransome. 2 Monday, January 23, 1995 THE AMICUS CURIAE .

From the Editor's Desk • • • America's latest fascination In criminal law, students Some would argue that there film of the past year. one's response to it. One may is with death. The New York routinely study heinous acts of has also been a general numbing Two competing tendencies look upon death as the very . Times BookReviewbestseller list cruelty and murder. Last year, , effect with regard to death. This are at play in the popular psyche. essence oflife. With that in one's contains Embraced by the Light, Professor Paul Marcus explained may be traced back to the Viet­ One is to shunt death into a for­ everyday vision, the individual which describes the author's to the class thathe wasn't assign­ nam war entering American liv­ gotten comer of the brain. The is motivated each day to live near-death experience; On Life ing gory cases of misdeeds for ingroomsduringthe 1960s. Over other is to ingest a daily dose of more fully. A friend suggested After Death, about America fac­ shock value, but simply because the years, movies and television death as a spectator event. The this article come out against ing death; and Where Angels a depraved heart produces re­ shows have become more more one turns to the cable box, death. While this may sound lu­ Walk, a story-filled book of an­ sults that are less than pretty. graphic. Some people were ac­ the more one confronts death. dicrous, it actually is the most gelic intervention in human af­ The 1990s is certainly not tually bored by the violence in But it is still a death that is distant popular alternative. In a sani­ fairs. Television, never far behind the firstti-;ne aculture has shown Oliver Stone's Natural Born Kill­ and removed. tized, spectator world we deny the latest trends, recently aired a fixation with death. At various ers, arguably the most violent Death is partly defined by any knowledge of mortality. at least two prime-time specials times in the past, cultures have on the power of angels and has focused on the mysteries (or even found enough fodder to fill meaninglessness) behind death (two MjW A ffJEf N./.£(£)~ AfjJJ( &/1:£5. J a daily talk show ominously en­ and dying. In the Middle Ages, 1) titled The Other Side. for instance, rife with plagues, , The study of law contains an popular culture embraced the wf/rXJf1t! / MtJ[ undercurrent of death. Law concept of dancing with death. schools perpetually offer classes Existing in such close proximity me fop 101.! 111£ in Trusts and Estates and·Family to death on a daily basis, forced WDW 15/tJIN[/ Wealth Transactions. After tak­ ind ividuals to focus attention ing such classes, students inno­ upon it.. Even today cultures are HA! ~A! H/r!;JA! cently return home on break faced with mass death and star­ asking parents if their affairs are vation as in the Balkans. in order. Butwhythe fascination now? At M-W, students of Pro­ On the whole, people in industri­ fessor John Donaldson hear his alized nations such as ours are booming voice chant, "A dies, B living longer, healthier lives. For gets noth ing" months after grades the young and robust, death has have been posted. My colleagues become a more remote concept, fear that on our deathbeds we something that we hear rumors will recite Donaldson's magical of in letters from relatives or in incantation, " I leave all my movies or on the evening news. worldly goods to the College of For many it is not an on-going, . J0I30fftR5! 8/C {j(J(/l.51 No William & Mary." ever present concern. (f(J?£.lJJJfft-YING A/3()U( otHfR.

Ct.A$5ft\4fEY()f>fNI0IJS 1 SINCE I THE AMICUS CURIAE Af;11Hf CN£ NltD /5 fJ6Hf! -- Marshall-Wythe School of Law P. O. Box 8795 Williamsburg, Virginia 23187 (804) 221-3279 "Dedicated to the complete and objective reporting of student news and opinion" Editor: Shelley Evans Managing Editor: Stephen T. King Production Editor: John Crouch Assistant Managing Editors: Mike Grable, Paula Hannaford Business Manager: Nicole Dumangane

News Reporters: Features Reporters: Jason Aldrich Ted Atkinson Carla Archie Eleanor Bordeaux John Crouch Michael Homans Mike Grable Scott Layman Stephen T. King Lori Petruzzelli when fighting for goals as noble Michelle LaRose Monica Thurmond aftermath of the assassination, KING from 1 as Dr. King' s. "When hate and Ruthie Litvin Kimberly Tolhurst one can only wonder how much injustice are being fought with Sarah Newman Steven Youngkin large pal1 to Dr. King' s efforts, worse the situation would have love, there is always good reason Jonathan Sheldon the Uni versity of Illinois (her been were it not for leaders like to believe that life will get better Doug Steinberg alma mater) first agreed to admit Kennedy who were obviously a significant number of blacks in for everyone," said Horn. influenced by Dr. King' s phi­ Sports Gurus: Alan Duckworth, Neil Lewis the fall of 1965. The college sent "Hero," on the other hand, repre­ losophy of non-violent change. Opinion: Greg James. Doug Miller. Jonathan Koenig questionnaires to both black and sented what Dr. King proved Looking back on the event, Photographers: Peter Owen, Stephanie Lewis. Carla Archie, white students asking if they throughout his life, that a single Hom felt the event was a great John Crouch would, be willing to live with person who has faith in himself success, especially in tern1S of Production Assistants: Joni McCray. Monica Thurn10nd, Steven someone of another race. can make a tremendous differ­ the number people who spoke Youngkin, Angel Lyon Barnard indicated that she would, ence in this world. and those who simply stopped to Cartoonist: Jack Mackerel and she and the black roommate Raymond Raya ( I L) recited watch and listen. A candlelight Editorial Policy she was paired with have been a speech given by Robert vigil in the courtyard completed The letter's and opinion pages of the Amiclls Curiae are dedicated to friends ever since. Kennedy on the night of Dr. the day' s events with more hopes all student opinion regardless of form or content. We reserve the right to Dazzling the group with her King's assassination. In it, for the future expressed and a edit for spelling and grammar, but not content. musical tribute to Dr. King, Ivy Kennedy expressed sympathy for chorus of"We Shall Overcome." Letters to the Editor are not intended to reflect the opinion of the tiorn (I L) sang "His Eyes are on the grief millions of Americans In a time when racial tensions newspaper or its staff. All letters to the Editor should be submitted by 5 the Sparrow" and "Hero." Horn were feeling, but urged his coun­ seem to be rising again, MLK p.m.on the Wednesday prior to publication. We cannot print a letter said she chose those particular trymen to respond to the tragedy without confirmation of the author's name. We may. however. withhold Day is even more essential to pay songs because "Sparrow" repre­ in the same dignified manner the name on request. Letters over 500 words may be returned to the writer tribute to a man who showed sented her belief that people epitomized by Dr. King. While with a request that they be edited for the sake of space. America the best way to defeat should never get discouraged there was much violence in the the scourge of racism. Monday, January 23, 1995 THE AMICUS CURIAE 3 Nina Hval named Drapers' Scholar By Michelle LaRose spends one academic year in England law student from the Uni\'ersity of Lon­ Each year the Drapers' Company, a studying to earn the world- renowned Lon­ don is chosen to receive a similar schol­ six hundred year-old firn1 whose princi­ don LL.M. degree. The scholarship pro- arship, also funded by the Drapers' pal business is the administration of trusts, ides funds for the recipient" s airfare to Company, to study at M-\V and earn an awards one graduating law student a schol­ and from England. and tuition and board LL.M. degree. arship to attend Queen Mary and Westfield for the year as well as a generous stipend to As next year:s Drapers' Scholar. H val College at the University of London in defray living expenses. Although the will commence her studies in September conjunction with the College of W&M. Drapers' Scholar is admitted to Queen 1995 and remain in England for a fu ll This year the Drapers' Scholar is ina Mary and Westfield College. this is only year. Her main area of interest is interna­ Hval (3L). one offive law schools at the University of tional law. HvaJ" s interest in interna­ The selection process requires a panel London. All of the LL.M. students are tional law was initially fueled by her of three M-W professors to evaluate inter­ afforded the opportunity to take classes in multicultural background. She spent ested applicants on the basis of their re­ an of the five schools, which also include many summer vacations in Norway with sumes and the content of their written King's College, The London School of her Norwegian-born father and was also description of how each believes that he Economics and Political Science, The influenced by her Italian-born orshe may profit from a earas a Drapers' School of Oriental and African Studies stepfather's heritage. Scholar. The chosen student traditionally and University College. Additionally, a Hval recalls her 2L year as her first real exposure to the realm of interna­ tional law; she was able to immerse her­ self in the subject by taking two State College Funding Per Student international law classes from Professor States in rank order Bhala. She expanded her involvement in international law through her activities 1. Alaska ______$9,265 in the International Law Society serving as vice president last year and president 2. Hawaii $8,638 this year. Although Hval said she be­ 9. North Carolina ______$5,052 lieves that her past experiences as well as 15. Florida $4,496 her future plans to work with the Federal - Slttphanit! U'Kis Reserve Bank ofNew York qualified her prestigious environment without incur­ 20. Georgia $4,283 as a possible recipient of the Drapers' ring any debt is only slightly diminished NATIONAL AVERAGE $4,161 Scholarship, she was still quite surprised by the fear of taking a single set of exams 32. Maryland $3,891 and delighted to learn that she had actu­ at the end of an entire year of studying! 41. Kentucky $3,366 ally won such a unique learning opportu­ The opportunity to meet attorneys 43. Virginia $3,306 nity. Her excitement over the prospect of continuing her legal studies in such a See HVAL on 7

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Lin1ited funding of$393,000 in match­ BUDGET from 1 ing funds for the Eminent Scholars Pro­ challenge to higher education for W &M. gram would also be lost. Last year's fiscal The Music For the law school, the passage of budget provided 73 cents for every private . Governor Allen's budget will mark the dollar; if the budget is passed, that amount end of all state funding for the Institute of will be reduced to 50 cents for every pri­ the Bill of Rights Law. The loss would vate dollar. amountto $70,000which the school would Money for maintenance reserve, which be forced to fund from private sources if involves repair ofleaking proofs and heat­ Place the Institute is to survive. ing and air-conditioning, has also been cut Peter Owen (2L), President of the Stu­ by 13 percent. dent Division of the Institute. stated, "I If the General Assembly approves this think it's ridiculous that Governor Allen budget, Virginia will drop in rank to 45th • Compact Discs wants to keep cutting higher education in in the county in support of hi gher educa­ general and the Institute in particular. tion, replacing Indiana. Virginia currently Students get tremendous benefits form ranks at 43. (See the graph above.) The the In stitu te. My own education has been starkness of numbers has caused the Coun­ • Tapes greatly enhanced. Virginia should wel­ cil of Presidents to unite, something that come the 0ppol1unity to keep George has never occurred before in its histor . for - Mason' s ideas ali ve. A commitment to a common proposal to be presented by its • Video education is what makes states rise or fall head. Vi rginia Military In stitute President in the long run. I hope the legislature is MajorGeneral John Knapp. TheCouncil"s e Buy & Sell not as shOl1sighted as the Governor." proposal asks for re toration of these re­ v.. T / CK Ef~v.lSTEA ® The heart of the College' s Strategic ductions and an additional sum of $40 Used CO's Plan will be deeply affected by these million to deal with the deficits of the past reductions. If the College is obliged to five years. THE return $1.2 million in' the next year. the The business community ha also implementation of the plan would be de­ united in support of higher educati on in layed considerably. Virgin ia as it bolsters the state' s economy. The Strategic Plan included a 2.25 Virginia businessman. John T. Hazel heads percent increase in fac ul ty salary. A llen's the Higher Education Council which will budget retains salary raises in language work to avoid some of these reductions. BAND BOX only as all general funding has been re­ " We wi ll work as hard as we can to moved. With Allen' s budget in place, the persuade the General Assembly to change Coll ege's 2.25 percent increase would this persistent pattern to reduce the budget amount to $1.2million with approxin1ately for higher education," stated President 51 7 Prince George St. 229-8882 half absorbed by the College. Sullivan. 4 Monday, January 23 , 1995 THE AMICUS CURlAE -Law Watch- Meet Jonni Lyman By Jonathan Sheldon By Shelley Evans Asked about the stress associated with Md. Sentencing Guidelines All M-W students can attest that Jonni such a career, Jonni said, "Looking back, Despite public sentiment for harsher treat­ Lyman of the Legal Skills Department is I realize r don't know any of the 300 ment ofcriminals , Marylandjudges eased the driving force behind it. people in my class due to the intense their sentencing guidelines. Prosecutions' After living in Vermont all of her life, program and studying, which included reactions have ranged from "outraged to Jonni and the rest of the Lyman family medical as well as legal ternlinology." skeptical to disgust." Some dramatic re ~ moved to Williamsburg three years ago in She also worked at a law firm for h¥o ductions include: A frrst-degree rapist with search of "warmer weather, less snow, years. no prior convictions, no aggravating fac­ and a longer growing season for her gar­ The decision to work at a law school tors and without a weapon faced 10 to 18 den." Jonni and her husband were also was prompted by Jonni's exposure to years ; the new guideline is I to 10 years. both at points in their careers and life many attorneys over the years. " I saw a D.C 's sentence for the same crime is "any together when they were looking for some­ lot of attorneys I thought were really bad. term of years to life," while in Virginia it thing new. As the seventh administrator By that I mean just not suited for the job. is 7 to IS years. An unarmed robber with in the Legal Skills Department in the I think a lot of people were just born to do no prior convictions and no injury to the seven years of the program, Jonni feels one thing and these attorneys were not." victim faced from probation to a maxi­ lucky to have found her niche at M- W. Jonni refers to such attorneys as "cereal mum of two years in Maryland the maxi­ Upon graduation from Champlain box attorneys." She explained that they mum is now four months. The sentence in College in Burlington Vennont, with an are so named "because I was sure they D.C for the same crime is 2 to IS years; in Associate Degree in court reporting, Jonni See LYMAN· on 14 Virgin ia, the sentence is probation (no jail worked for 18 years as a court reporter. time). (Washington Post, Jan. IS). Sex Offender Notices On Hold court noted that an engagement may be their father died while the family held a 1993 . (Orlando Sentinel, Dec. 31). "Megan' s Law ~ " which compels authori­ broken ifone of the parties has a disease, Thanksgi ving get-together. (National Law Suicide Law Blocked ties to notify communities upon the re­ but not if the disease is temporary or Journal, Jan. 16). The world's first doctor-assisted suicide lease of a sex offender and is named for a merely makes a party less capable of Crimeon Internet Not Covered By Fed­ law was put on hold by a federal court's 7-year-old rape/murder victim, is on hold fulfilling the marital relation. (Wildey v. eral Laws preliminary injunction. The Oregon law in New Jersey. Carlos Diaz, a convicted Springs, 840 F.Supp. 1259 (N.D. IlL MIT student David LaMacchia was lets a patient with less than six months to rapist, won an injunction against the law 1994». charged with conspiracy to commit wire live request a lethal dose of drugs. (Na­ from a federal court, arguing that it was an Same-Sex Harassment Legal fraud. He ran a computer bulletin board tional Law Journal, Jan. 9). unconstitutional added punishment. Federal laws covering sexual harassment where subscribers downloaded propri­ English-Only Violates Speech Rights Courts in Alaska, New Hampshire, Cali­ do not ban harassing someone ofthe same etary software worth more than $1 mil­ An Arizona constitutional provision bar­ fornia, Arizona, and Illinois have found sex, a Baltimore federal judge ruled. The lion. He never profited from the ring government employees from using similar laws unconstitutional, but have judge ruled that the Civil Rights Act of downloading. Federal Judge Richard any language other than English is consti­ upheld requiring offenders to register with 1964 doesn 't cover George Hopkins' s Steams dismissed the indictment, saying tutionally overbroad, the Ninth Circuit the police. (USA Today, Jan. 12). complaint against his boss, Ira Swadow, the existing wire conspiracy laws didn 't held. It said the state has some leeway to Damages for Breaking Engagement at Baltimore Gas & Electric. (National ( cover the offense. (National Law Jour­ restrict employee speech for efficiency, A Chicago federal judge said a man who Law Journal, Jan. 16). nal, Jan. 16). but forcing, public emp1o)'ees to "remain broke off a six-week engagement must Duty to Rescue Narrowed Woman Charged with Sexual Assault mute before members of the non-English compensate his ex-fiancee for her pain California's 1983 elder abuse statute, A 19-year-old woman will be tried in speaking public who seek their assistance" and suffering, as well as psychiatric care which makes it a felony for anyone know­ Colorado Springs on charges that she is hardly conducive to effective govern­ expenses. The court disallowed, how­ ingly to permit a dependent adult to suffer sexually assaulted three teenage girls while ment. (US Law Week, Dec. 20). ever, an award for lost business profits pain, was narrowed recently by the Cali­ posing as a man. (National Law Journal, Exclusionary Rule Widened, Narrowed because the plaintiffhad proven no causal fornia Supreme Court based on vague­ Jan. 9). The Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule link. The jury awarded the "bereaved" ness. The court ruled that a middle-aged Better to Steal than Receive applies to a civil forfeiture action of cur­ $178,000. The defendant argued that he daughter who had ceded care of her para­ Kentucky's legislature increased the rency that was not declared when it was was justified in breaking the engagement lyzed father to her two brothers had no felony threshold for stealing from $100 to brought into the country. Otherwise, the because plaintiff suffers from obsessive­ legal duty to intervene. The two brothers $300 in 1992. In 1994 it did the same for federal court held, there often would be compulsive personality disorder. The were imprisoned for manslaughter when receiving stolen property. In the mean­ no sanction to deter customs agents. (US time, Santrice Bybee was convicted of a Law Week, Jan. 3). The rule does not Law World felony for receiving stolen property - apply, however to a civil involuntary By John Crouch zlers. It also abolished juries. (London value: just over $100. A state judge commitment where a case worker took China launches copyrights Times). upheld the "absurd result," because "courts pictures of the squalor in which the pa­ China granted copyrights for the first No firing for "recovered memory" are required to presume the Legislature tient lived. California' s Supreme Court time since the revolution, responding to A Newcastle, Eng\. employment tribu­ knows what it is doing when it writes held that any benefit in deterring the col­ U.S. complaints of pirating. (Washing­ nal awarded $21 ,000 for the wrongful laws.' (National Law Journal, Jan. 9). lection of such evidence in the future is ton Post). firing of a social worker whose daughter Pets Over People outweighed by the social cost of denying Stress death had "recovered memories" of sexual Oklahoma City police Sgt. Aaron G. the mentally ill needed treatment. (Id). Japan's labor ministry decided to let abuse by her. (London Times). Watson, accused of slamming his Antitrust: Oscars, Wal-Mart OK families sue for workers' compensation Singapore judge gets the message girlfriend's head into a wall, was charged The Arkansas Supreme court cleared Wal­ and pensions for karoshi, or sudden death Singapore's High Court found an At­ with misdemeanor assault and battery, Mart of "predatory pricing" aimed at kill­ from overwork. This national tradition lanta man in contempt of court for writ­ punishable by up to 90 days injaiL Mean­ ing competition. (USA Today). Barring a slays 10,000 a year, plaintiff s lawyers ing a commentary in the International while his colleague, Sgt. Wayne M. TV movie (The Last Seduction) from claim . (London Times). Herald Tribune saying some Asian coun­ Hlinicky, accused of kicking a cat at the Oscar ballots is not a restraint of trade, an Abuse dogma disproved tries use "Orwellian proceedings" and Oklahoma City airport, was charged with L.A. judge said. (Id). 77 percent of child molesters were not "a compliant judiciary" to harass oppo­ animal cruelty, a felony punishable with Redefining religion in Utah abused themselves; 75 percent were nents. (USA Today). five years in prison and a $5,000 fine . The Ten Commandments are mainly secu­ raised in nuclear families; 75 percent Whips and bondage needed (National Law Journal, Jan. 9). lar, a Salt Lake City federal judge held. had happy childhoods, a British govern­ Juries should be able to recommend such Police Suicides More Than Twice Job­ (USA Today). ment-sponsored study found. (London public and corporal punishments as flog­ Related Deaths "Hoary" common law to the rescue Times). ging and the pillory, said former Solici­ More than h¥ice as many police officers Where a Guardian Ad Litem lied to a Chador veils banned tor General Lord McCluskey, a Scottish committed suicide in 1994 as died from court about child abuse in order to take a Two Montreal school boards banned High Court judge, because prison all other forms of death combined, the child from his father, the child can sue the head coverings that Islam requires for "doesn't deter, it doesn't rehabilitate, it National Association of Chiefs of Police guardian as a negligent fiduciary under modesty and chastity. (London Times). doesn't [make] wrong-doers suffer, it is reported. Nationwide 300 officers com­ "hoary" common law, the Fourth Circuit White-collar caning desperately expensive" and it leaves pris­ 'mitted suicide. Of the 137 total deaths in said, (Virginia Lawyers Weekly, Jan. 9). Malaysia's parliament voted to cane all oners' families destitute. (London the line of duty, 75 police officers were See LAW on 7 white-collar criminals and whip embez- Times). killed in shootings - down from 78 in THE AMICUS CURIAE News Briefs Monday, January 23, 1995 5

Pulitzer-Winning Columnist Broder to Speak on Feb. 4 Study at Jagiellonian U., Copernicus' s alma mater Washington Post columnist David Broder is the principal speaker on Charter Day, The Columbus School of Law at Catholic U. is offering a summer program in Saturday, Feb. 4 at the College. Broder was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distin­ International Business and Trade Law at Jagiellonian University in Cracow. It is guished Commentary in 1973 and has been an associate editor ofThe Washington Post A. B.A. -approved and taught in Engl ish . For in formation call 1-800-787-0300. earby since 1975. He has also written a number of books on the national political scene. attractions include the mysterious Wieliczka Salt Mines and the Black Madonna. Broder will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree at the ceremony. University of San Diego Offers Clerkships Abroad Children's Carnival Planned fo r W or k-A-Day The University of San Diego (USD) Law School will offer clinics in London and On Saturday, Jan. 28, M- W will participate in the American Bar Association Law Paris this summer. as well as study b the English tutorial method in Oxford. In Paris Student Division 's Annual Work-A-Day a national law student public interest event. and London. 2Ls may work for credit in law firms and corporate counsel s offices It provides law students across the country with an opportunity to supplement their specializing in EEC law and international business law. There are also Paris education with community involvement. internships available with international organizations. The focus this year is on children. LSIC and SBA are coordinating a free carnival Open to both I Ls and 2Ls are London credit internships \ ith barristers that co er for area children to be held at the Student Rec Center. a full range of English trial work, and non-credit internships may be a ai lable in Volunteers are needed. Please contact 3Ls Amy Waskowiak, Terri Keeley or Julie Mexico with international law firms. Patterson via hanging file for further information. For further information. write to Cindy King. USD Law School, 5998 Alcala Park. San Diego, CA, 92110-2492, or fax 619-260-2230. Town Meeting on Reforming Legal Ethics in Virginia In October 1993, the Virginia State Bar (VSB) convened a Special Committee to Contest to Clothe Jordan review the Virginia Code of Professional Responsibility. The Committee recently The library is having a contest to gather some clever T-shirts for the reference submitted its report to the VSB Executive Council proposing changes to Virginia's mannequin, Jordan, as a means of calling attention to the availability of reference legal ethics rules. service on evenings and Sunday: A "Town Meeting" will be hosted by M-Won Monday, Jan. 30 at 6:30p.m. to give Category Dates Worn Deadline for Entries the community an opportunity to comment on the Committee's recommendations. School Spirit Jan. 16 - Feb. 5 Noon, Jan. 13 Committee Chair Donald Lemons and other Committee members will be available to Humor (Law) Feb. 5 - Feb. 26 Noon, Feb. 3 answer questions about the Committee's policy recommendations. The event is open Sports Jerseys Feb. 26 - Mar. 19 Noon, Feb. 24 to everyone. Vacation Destinations Mar. 19 - April 9 Noon, March 17 Other April 9 - May 14 Noon, April 7 PSF Dinner Date Auction 1995 Announced To enter, please make sure the shirts are clean and attach a 3X5 card with your name, PSF's eighth annual Dinner Date Auction will be held on Friday, Feb. 10 at the phone number, the "text" of the shirt, and when you would like to have the shirt Un iversity Center beginning at 8p.m. Last year's auction was the most successful ever. returned. The winner will be chosen by drawing and will receive one of a number of PSF raised over $1 O,OOO! It remains the most exciting and popular ofthe PSF functions extraordinary treats provided by neighborhood businesses and friends of M-W. as those auctioned receive dates ranging from dinners at many of the ' Burg' s best eateries to free Bar Review courses. Virginia Trial Lawyers Essay Competition Everyone's he lp is needed to make this year even more outrageous. If you are The Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (VTLA) is holding its second annual interested in participating in the fun , contact Beth Bruns (3L) or Danny Reed (2L) via advocacy essay competition for Virginia lilW school students. hanging file. Through this competition, VTLA hopes to pro ide students with an opportunity to take a close look at an issue concerning Virginia law as opposed to a national issue and Plans For University-Wide Honor Code Task Force to hone their advocacy ski lis. The essay question is, " Should the law of Virginia include President Sullivan announced late last semester that he is going fonvard with plans provisions for cl ass action lawsuits? ' to institute a university-wide honor system and judicial council. For more information, contact Valerie O' Brien at VTLA. 700 East Main Street, To begin the process Sullivan has created a Task Force composed ofadministra­ Suite 1510, Richmond, VA 23219 Telephone 343-1 143 . tors, facu lty, and students to consider the issue. propose a draft code, and recommend how to compose a single council. The Task Force is hoping to complete work by April. Douglass & T ubman Series at Hampton Museum The Task Force will be chaired b Professor Richard Williamson. Comments or The University Museum is e 'hibiting Jacob Lawrence: The Frederi k Douglass questions regarding Sullivan's plan can be directed to Matt Bissonette (3 L). M-W's and Harriet Tubman Series of an'atire Paintings through Jul 3 I. student representative on the Task Force. Sixty-three paintings comprise the exh ibition. which chronicles the biographies of two of the most famous merican abolitionists of the Civil War era. The Hampton M-W Joins Summer Rural Legal Corps Uni versit. Museum houses the single largest collection of works b Lawrence and Marshall-Wythe has been selected to participate in the at ional Summer Rural marks th e series' return to Hampton for its final showing after a three and one half year Legal Corps which w.ill place 50 law students from across the country in selected rural national tour. With these two series, Lawrence gives visu al form to their memories and legal services offices during the su mmer of 1995 . captures th eir symbolic. as well as literal, journ e 's to freedom. Fellows will earn $300 per week for up to 10 weeks, after completing a training session in Washington, D.C. for all participants in June and one week of unpaid work "S\\em Savories" Offers Treats from the Region for the legal services office to which the) are assigned. The program was organized Swem Library is hosting an evening of food books and music called "Swem by the National Association for Public Interest Law under a grant from the Legal Sa ories" on February 2. Services Corporation. Tastings from 10 area restaurants and catering firms will be featured during the Interested students should contact Assistant Dean Jayne Barnard for further evening along with an e 'hibition of cookbooks and music b thejazz ensemble Inside infonnation (X 13849). Out. The tasting will be followed by a performance by oices for the Future. an a capella student group. Week-Long Black History Program in Williamsburg The event will be held in the Botetourt Galleryofthe library from 6 to 8 p.m. Tickets From Tuesday, jan. 31 to Sunda , Feb. 4, Colonial Williamsburg's African­ cost $25 each; proceeds will benefit the library. Space is limited and reser ations will American program wi ll present a series of presentations about African Americans in be taken on a first-come first-served basis. Call 22 I -3050 for more information. 18th-Century Virginia. For information call 220-7212 or see next week's Visitor 's Companion, available free to students at the kiosk at DOG and Henry Streets. Warhol at the M uscarelle And WarhoL one of the most recognizable and influential Pop artists of his time, Volunteers Needed at Avalon is featured in a current exhibition at the Muscarelle Museum of Art. Avalon, a Center for Women and Children. is conducting its spring volunteer The exhibition includes Warhol's large photographic silkscreens which focus on training in February. Its objective is to assist survivors of domestic violence and/or such celebrated figures and e ents in our society as Mick Jagger Teddy Roosevelt and sexual assault by providing shelter, a 24-hour helpline. advocacy information, man's landing on the moon. Also featured is the complete series of prints titled referrals and support groups. Volunteers are needed to answer the helpline pro ide 'Cowboys and Indians:' a documentation of ild West icons. child care and transportation, act as court advocates, assist with office duties, and to The film Portrait of an Artist: Andy Warhol (79 minutes) will be shown in the facilitate outreach efforts. For further information, contact Kate McCord at258-5022. Museum at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday. Feb. 19. the last day of the exhibit. 6 Monday January 23, 1995 THE AMJCus CURIAE Law school got you down? Relax, have a hotne brew By Michael Homans obtained from specialty stores. including ness. maltiness or hop-piness. Beer, the blue-collar tonic of law a gun shop/h ome brew boutique in Nev..· ­ "Our last batch is definitely the best school, takes on a special, almost port News which still maintains an Ollie one, ' Estes said, referring to "Wise-Ass metaphysical significance to some M­ orth shrine. Bitter,'" his and Carlson's latest creation. W students who fancy themselves Once you have the equipment, the Joy " It takes two or three batches to figure out '·Beermeisters. '" book describes 10 basic steps to making \ hat the hell _ ou're doing." To these devotees, the elixir of the your own beer: Experimentation with ingredients can gods is "home brew." Their home­ I. Combine wet and dry malt extracts also produce surprising results: made beer is more than j ust a cheap in I 1/2 gallons ofwater and bring to a boil "My best beer was pumpkin beer - I buzz: to them, it is the culmi nati on of for 15 minutes. got raves," McInerney said. The brew science, chemistry, creativity, cook­ 2. Sanitize a fermenting bucket or included two pureed pumpkins, which ing, bacteria, yeast, gas, the mystery bottle with bleach and water. produced several inches of sediment in of fe rmentation. and the miracle of 3. Add three gallons of clean, cold the fennenter he said. McInerney is alcohol. water to your fermenter. considering entering his remaining bottles Perhaps Tom Estes, 2L home 4. Add hot malts and water to the of Pumpkinbrau in a regional or national brewer, put it best. "After you put all fermenter. home brew contest, but that would mean this love and time into it, it's not just 5. Let the mixture cool to room surrendering three precious bottles to the something you get drunk on ," Estes temperature, measure mix with a "beer j udges. said. " It's like baking bread. It' s pains ~ hydrometer," and add yeast. Vicious stereotypes of home brew­ taking .. . and you enjoy it because you 6. Attach fermentation hose, and after ers as Neanderthal, testosterone­ made it yourself." initial fermentation has subsided attach charged alcoholics are not true, for the Estes and roommate Jared Carlson fermentation lock. most part, home brewers say. Estes said (2 L) have been concocting their own 7. Ferment for eight to 14 days. home brewing requires too much patience, ales, lagers, stouts and bitters since 8. Bottle and cap. You should get work and care to be practiced by people last summer. Carlson reportedly about 50 12-oz. bottles from one batch. who just drink beer for the alcohol. learned the beermeister's secrets from 9. Age for 10 days-plus. " You'd have to brew a shitload of beer M-W 3Ls and 2Ls last year. 10. DRINK THE BEER! to support an alcohol problem .. . . I think Other M-W home-brewing aficio­ (DISCLAIMER: do not try this at for people with alcohol problems, they nados include 3L Jon Sheldon, who home without Beermeister guidance. just go to the store and buy beer. It's much boiled up a bucket of "India Pale Ale" 3L Jon Sheldon's inte- - JohllCrolfch Estes told terrifying tales of his yeasty easier," he said. last week; 3L Doug Steinberg; 2L Dan grated brewing system beer-bucket bubbling with gas "like a In fact, one would have to be a McInerney, famous for his "pumpkin The purity of home brew also reduces the live animal" until it exploded in his worthless drunk without taste buds to beer;" 2Ls Tom Berkely and Greg severity of hangovers, she said. closet, spewing foam all over the settle for a can of the local Busch Rougeau, who are mixing up their virgin' Hawes is so devoted to home brew that place.) " commercial beer," after sampling a batch this week; and Bitsy Hawes, the she became anxious. last week when she Seasoned home brewers say the first distinctive draught of home brew, M­ ever-popular and mild-mannered library parted with the home-brewer's bible, The. brewing is the most exciting, and usually W beermeisters say. aide. New Complete Joy of Home Bre~ing by produces a hellacious, unpredictable five FinaHy, it should be noted that home Hawes, who refrains from imbibing Charlie Papazian, to edify this reporter. gallons of beer. Regardless of whether brewing is legal, under a 1978 act of on the job, confessed to this reporter "When are you going to give it back?" it's too bitter, too sweet, flat, or just plain Congress, signed into law by none that she has been brewing her own she asked after two days, visibly trem­ nasty, it is your own creation, and because other than Jimmy Carter, brother of beer for years. She and several friends bling. "I wanted to check something last of that you enjoy it, even if it makes you the creator of "Billy Beer." The Joy of are currently awaiting the fermenta­ night." sick, they say. Home Brewing provides this fact and a tion of three special brews: As for the mechanics of home brew­ Like fine wine, home brew takes time wealth of other information and insights " Estrogynger Lager," "The Jamaican ing, it requires about $30 worth of equip­ to create the perfect head, the ideal color­ for budding home brewers, and comes Nightmare," and an as-yet unnamed hard ment and ingredients, which can be ing, and just 'the right amount of bitter- highly recommended by Hawes. apple cider. " It 's great," Hawes said. "I think it tastes better when you make it yourself, or Students litnbo for charity at PSF Sea & Ski someone you know makes it." By Doug Steinberg ate students, were greeted with a defini­ ger to find out who was going to win a free Home brew can taste "a little bit rawer, Friday night's Sea and Ski party had tive beach theme. Multi-colored leis were trip for Spring Break, they were going to but definitely has more flavor," she said. it all: music, dancing, contests, and prizes. handed out at the door. Beer and soda was have to wait until the end ofthe evening to Sea and Ski, an annual event thrown by ser.ved with those wonderful but some­ find out who had successfully threatened, the Public Service Fund (PSF), trans­ what inconvenient umbrellas floating in bribed, or blackmai led Ted Atkinson (3 L), formed an otherwise boring night in the middle of the cup. the master of ceremonies for the evening. SUMMER W,illjamsburg into a crazy evening of Each party guest was provided with Typical of most law school affairs, beach wear, limbo contests, and twister. five lottery tickets which were placed in students initially shied away from the LAW STUDY Volunteers had worked for hours on either the Ski box, for a chance to win a ski dance floor and sat playing drinking games the decor of the Chesapeake Room at the trip to Wintergreen, or in the Sea box, for at the paper pineapple adorned tables. In W&M University Center. Law students, a chance to win a vacation to the Baha­ Luckily the crucial element of alcohol Dublin plus a surprisingly large number ofgradu- mas. Although the participants were ea- consumption combined with those " can't Are These rOllr XL'll' Year\ Rt!.m/za;olls ? sit still tunes from the early eighties soon had the dance floor filled with dancing, London 1. Lose Weight & Tone Up swa ing, and even lurching partiers. Oxford As the evening progressed, it became 2. Make More Time for Myself time for the infamous Sea and Ski con­ Paris tests. First the crowd was invited to cheer 3. Feel Less Stressed loudest for the student dressed in either We Hm'e 11lL' Sollitionto fOllr Resollitions! San Diego the best alpine or the best Caribbean cos­ FOR EIGN LAW PROGRAMS tume. The always cagey Danny Reed SCHOOL OF LAW Student Semester Special $139 (2L) easil won the contest by combining UN IVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO Aerobics • Weights • Treadmill motifs. Danny wore long-johns and ear­ 5998 Alcala Park muffs with a grass skirt, flowery shirt, and San Diego, CA 92110-2492 Lifecycles • Sauna • Jacuzzi T sunglasses and played to the crowd with a t 11 Williamsburg Shopping Center sassy presentation. Runner up to Dann @ univc rSiL' of San Dic§l YEARS r 147 Monticello Ave. • _20-055 6 See SEA on 14 T HE AMICUS C URIAE . Featured Commentary Monda), January 23, 1995 7 Star Wars and law school: the struggle of good and evil tected the Republic, until the. been living on Tantooine, a bar­ h is para legal. Chewbacca. liance). Of ct>u rse. this i all a Greg James were turned upon by ev il. re n. desolate planet with very (Which would make R2D2 and distraction so that Luke can es­ weasell y lawyers who ru ined lhe few good bars. Reali zing he 's C3PO legal secretaries for Obi­ cape \-"ith the plans. De pite nu­ reputation of the profession (and facing a tough fight. he recru its Wan and Luke). merous objections (TIE Fighters. ow you· ve been to Id by pro­ made really annoying T com­ young Luke Skywalker. a nai\'e Luke and Company then fly screan1ing "attorne; work prod- • fessors that law school doesn' t mercials too). la\\' student, to be his summer off to find their clIent. onl . to be ucf' as they zoom past the Fal­ really te3ch you the law (and A small band of rebels (pub­ associate ("I want to go to Law trapped by the Empire' s tractor con). Luke es ape with the looking at our test -cores. there' s lic interest attorneys) are bat­ School and Learn about the Law. beam . Th )' re dragged into the plans. obviously some truth to that). tling the overwhelming forces of and be ome a Lawyer like m) Death tar. where they must fight Back t their office. the Rebels Rather. it teaches you how to the Empire (the firm of ader. father before me." Did any ne ff waves of black and \\ hite anal) ze the documents \\ hich think ' like a lawyer. so that )OU Tarken. & Palpatine, Limited else notice that Luke never got Stormtrooj ers (the W3\'eS of Lei had obt3ineJ fr m the Em­ may approach any subject and Empire). A huge. churn-'um paid for all hi s good deeds'n But motions. illterrogatori ~ . and the pire through her sk illful inter­ see it from a legal per pective and burn-'um (literally) law firm, Luke wOld be enough for th is other paperwork thnt large finns rogatorie and r'quests for ("So \\ hocan I sue here,) "). Mu h the Imperial forces roam the g:1l­ fight. Obi-\\'an needs a really s\\' mp you \\ ith ). admi sion. The:) find the ke:­ to my horror, I' ve found if s true. ax)' in the ir huge corporate of­ great litigator. a real h ired gun. For them to escape. Obi-Wan weaklie s in lh Em pire's casco After two and a half years of law fice, the D~ath tar. Han Solo is that hired gun. A must confront his former a soci­ \\'hich allow Luk.e to de troy school. one can look at almost When Leia gets captured (one sole practitionel:, Han' s alw3ys ate Darth Vader. \\'h had been them with a well-timed motion an)thing and see some reflection of their clients gets sued). she on the yerge of bankruptcy and a Obi-v,'an ' s brightest young as­ for summary jtldgement. of law and the legal profes ion. pleads for the help of Obi-Wan l11fl.lpractice suit ("Hey, tell Jabba 'ociate before he turned to the There are tons of oth r analo­ Even Sial' Wars. Ben Kenobi, an old Atticus Finch that everyone gets a case dis­ dark side. gies that you an find. but y u No. really. It's not the Prozac lav... yer who' s retired from his missed sometimes."). Obi-Wan So Obi- an engage him in gel the idea. ext time, "On­ ta lking. I promise. Just think · practice \\'ith the All iance for the finds Han in "a wretched den of a brilliant oral argument. but Campus I ntervie\\' with the allJ­ about it. Slar Wars is, of course last few years. Leia has the one villain y" known as Mos Eisley Vader wins (and Obi-Wan be­ pire. And ~nay the Force a grand stru ggle between good document that can de.stroy Em­ (District Court). Han is on ly in comes "Of Counsel" for the AI- Majeure be with you. and evil both of which in volve pire. this case fo r the money, but the the powers of" The Force:'which After a killer cross examina­ need him, because, as he reminds is of course the Law. It is the tion of the ship s captain , Darth Luke "real life ain't like Legal Law which gives lawyers (Jedi Vader, the Empire's most feared Skills, kid; you could miss a dead­ Knights) their strength. The Law litigator (he 's not afraid to use line and find yourself dismissed is a mythical fo rce which sur­ , bare knuckles") discovers that real quick." Han is ably aided by rounds us, binds us together, and Leia has hidden the plans.. So he connects all li ving things (not to takes her back to the Death Star LAW from 4 mention employ ing thousands of for an intense series of deposi­ Faith forbids child support liberal arts graduates). tions. Where a father' s religion sin­ Once the good lawyers pro- Meanwhile, Obi-Wan has cerely · forbids pay ing support, the state has a compelling inter­ est in making him pay, but it SBA NEWS must use the least restrictive Welcome back! As the semes­ killed." So if you have any means -it cannot jail him for ter gets started, SBA has hit the talent whatsoe er at drawing, contempt when it could simply ground running. enter now! The winning entry garnish, Vermont' s Supreme SBA Basketball Tourney: recei ves one free ticket to Court said. (648 A.2d 843). This semester' s B-Ball Tour­ Banister's -- spend the money ney runs from Monday, Jan. 23 you' save on dinner. For more HVAL from 3 to Thursday, Jan. 26. Good infomlation. contact an SBA from allover the world seeking luck to all the teams, and please officer or one of your reps. to further their legal education keep the injuries to a minimum. Barrister's Ball: Speaking \vill be both interesting and ben­ ABA National Work-A­ of the Ball. this year's Ball will eficial to Hval. Though she had Day: This year's Work-A-Day be held Saturda, . Feb. 18. at already secured permanent em­ ~II is schedul ed for Saturday. Jan. the Will iamsburg Lodge. A l­ ployment with the Federal Re­ Take a study break! 28. Law Students in the Com­ th ough most people treat this serve Bank prior to winn ing the munity (LSIC) and SBA have event as a date th ing. YOU DO Drapers' Scholarship , Hval in­ Call DOlnino' s, relax and enjoy. been busy planning a special NOT NEED TO H A VE A fo rm ed her emp loyer of th is Acti vities Fair . - games. face DATE TO HAV E A GREAT wonderful learn ing opportuni ty 229-8885 220-3770 painting, petting zoo. etc. - for TIM E! Tickets will go on sale and has revised her plans so that . erving \\'illiam & f\1ary Serving C lonial Williamsburg underpriv il eged children in the soon. so keep a lookout in the she may take ad antage of it. area. lobby. Advance pur hase is She will sit forthe ew York bar 1r------~------~~ Sub 1 Lunch 1 The event w il l be held at the 520. and it will be S2 - at the after graduation and work for the College Rec Center from I I door. See you guys there! Bank during the summer months 1 Meal 1 Special 1 a.m. to ~p.m. If you are in ter­ Ba r Reviews: We've al­ before leaving for England. Her ready had one. but look out for 99 99 ested in helping out. please on­ contingent plans include return­ : $5 : $6 : tact3LsAmyWaskowiak. Teni others. Reviews will be held ing to the Federal Reserve Bank Keeley or Julie Pattersqn. every other Thursday this e­ after completing her LL.M. in 1------1 1 GET A 12" SUB OF YOUR A MEDIUM 1 TOPPING PIZZA SBA T-Shirt Design Con­ mester so we don't bu m you 1 1 1 London. 1 CHOICE. A BAG OF CHIPS ND 1 AND 2 COKES OR DIET COKES. 1 test: SBA is hold ing a contest out. If you have any idea for H al is confident that the time 1 A COKE OR DIET COKE 1 Offer valid 11 a.m.-4 p.m. 1 for the "ultimate" design for locations. contact Carey Lee she spends in London will en­ this year' s SBA t-shirt, along (_L). hance her knowledge of intern a­ I with a catchy s10gan like" oth­ G raduation: 110 days to tional law and further prepare 1 ing was broken. No one was go!!! her for excellen e in her field. 8 Monday, January 23,1995 THE AMICUS CURIAE Crossfire Can · Big Bird fly without taxpayers' help? Sesame Street is brought to you by Just between you & me, the real the number ten ... and other myths reason Newt wants to kill public TV , class program, can they ever hope to tame parks. Rather, it illustrates the impor­ Jonathan H. Koenig entitlements such as Social Security? If Douglas E. Miller tance of maintaining a commercial-free Gingrich thinks Big Bird is a fierce "spe­ outpost in the media reality which has Every day, the federally~funded Cor­ cial interest," wait until he runs head-on It was 1972. A young Nixon speech come to dominate the livt:;s ofmost Ameri­ poration for Public Broadcasting (CPB) into the AARP (American Associ?tion of writer named Patrick Buchanan was on a cans. No doubt Michael Eisner or Steven lies to thousands - perhaps millions - of Retired Persons) several years fr~m now television talk show gloating about his Spielberg could make a gold mine out of schoolchildren across the nation. It tells (when, we are told, Social Security may at boss' recent veto of the first multi-year the Grand Canyon, but as a nation we them that their favorite program, Sesame last be "on the table.") funding authorization for public broad­ have concluded that there are some re­ Street, is brought to them by the letter A, Myth #2: Public Broadcasting is/or All casting. " Ifyo u lookatpublictelevision", sources which we will not totally com­ or sponsored by the number 10, or made Americans he said, "you've got Sander Vanocur and mercialize. possible by a certain primary color. What­ I yield to no one in my love of public Robert McNeil, the first of whom, Sander Public television and radio are just ever else they may be learning from Big television programming C"Myste/y" and Vanocur is a notorious Kennedy syco­ such resources . . Since the birth of public Bird and Barney (doubtless some of it "Are YOIl Being Served?" are my favor­ phant, and Robert McNeil is anti-admin­ broadcasting in 1967, the "vast waste­ wOI1hwhile), kids are also learning that ites). I am also a devoted fan of National istration." The veto, he bragged, meant "a land" that is commercial television has money grows on trees. Public Radio. Let's face it, though: much new ballgame at CPB," the private non­ only become vaster. Despite the explo­ At tim es, public broadcasting's adult of the adu lt programming on public tele­ profit corporation established to distrib­ sion of media choices, federal support to programming reflects roughly the same vision and rad io is for the edification and ute federal funds and insulate the industry ensure development of the public air­ level of economic sophistication. In a enjoyment of middle and upper-income from political interference. Indeed, the waves devoted to non-commercial use recent news report devoted to the issue of Americans who can afford to satisfy their Nixon veto resulted in the near elimina­ has not been increased in over a decade. raising the minimum wage, for example, tastes elsewhere. Why should someone tion of funding for public affairs pro­ Still, the modest sum provided is criti­ NPR's Carol Van Dam labeled Rep. Dick whose interests run to stock car racing or gramming for most of the 1970s and dealt cal to preserving a delicate balance of Arnley's proposal to eliminate the mini­ bass fishing shows on cable TV be re­ a serious blow to the development of the funding sources. Formulas in-place since mum wage "bizarre." Ms. Van Dam is quired to fund "Masterpiece Theatre," a fledgling system (not to mention the First the 1970's ensure that each federal dollar perhaps unaware that this country man­ program devoted almost entirely to the Amendment). is matched by at least five dollars in non­ aged without a minimum wage for most ways of rich English people (admittedly Twenty years later, in 1992, Senators federal support. As a result, preserving of its history and that reputable econo­ an endangered species)? The standard Jesse Helms and Trent Lott held up the the quality, non-commercial option on a mists have questioned the desirability ofa reply of the public broadcasting intelli­ system' s three-year authorization de­ nationwide basis has been a bargain rela­ government-imposed wage floor. gentsia is that their programs exist to manding a politically appointed panel to tive to other federal programs. Speaker Gingrich and others in the ennoble the proletariat. Julia Child stated review funded programs for "objectivity" Fact #2. Public Broadcasting Is For Ev­ GOP vanguard, stung in the past by the recently that it was "elitist" to argue that and "decency." When sponsors of the eryone. persistent political bias of reporters such only the well off are interested in public funding bin ultimately agreed to a com­ Conservative critics charge the net­ as Van Dam and Nina Totenberg, have television programming. To which I re­ promise position providing more public work fare on public television and radio is proposed eliminating fed eral funding for ply: Julia, you' ve been drinking too much disclosure ofprogram funding procedures, unabashedly liberal. Nina Totenberg, who public broadcasting. Whatever his mo­ cooking sherry. The average Joe does not the bill sailed out of the Senate by a vote first publicized Anita Hill's allegations of tive, Gingrich is right: the time has come want to be lifted to a higher plane of of84 to II. sexual harassment, and Bill Moyers, who to re-think the justifications offered for existence by his television set or his radio. Now Speaker Newt and the new re­ accused Ronald Reagan of "high crimes federal funding of radio and television. He' d rather pocket the tax money hepays publican majority in Congress want to and misdemeanors in the Iran Contra Public broadcasting apologists are now each year to fund public broadcasting and "zero out" the CPB, which provides about scandal, are frequent targets. Of course, running scared. Using taxpayer-supported use it to pay his cable TV dues. In other . 14 percent of public television funding Fairness and Accuracy in Media (FAIR) a media to lobby for their continued exist­ words, you can lead a horse to water (i.e., (I7 percent for public radio). This time liberal media watchdog, complained in a ence, they have propagated three myths to opera and cooking programs and" Wall the mantra is a financial one. In an effort recent senate hearing that programs like every bit as rich .as "Sesame Street is Street Week"), but you can't make him to show some backbone about cutting "Wall Street Week,' ' Mc eil-Lehrer brought to you by the letter X." These drink (watchll isten). federal spending, the conservatives are ewshour," " The ightly Business Re­ myth s are as follows : It is typical of we ll-meaning liberals gearing up for a public battle to eliminate port" and" Washington Week in Review," Myth '# I : We Can Afford PlIblic Broad­ not to understand this basic truth . The the paltry $300 million line item from the are mouthpieces for big business conser­ casting desire to re-make socie ty through "qual­ federal government's $ 1.5 trillion spend­ atives. They decried the exclusion of Oblivious to rampant spending th at ity" television and radio programming is ingplan. The sa wecan'taffordpublic . environmentalists, feminists labor activ­ threatens to cripple our economy, public no different from the desire to engineer broadcasting: that the programm ing is ists and other liberal voices. broadcasting advocates argue th at gov­ other aspects of American social and eco­ elitist and ought to be paid for by the egg­ Both sides are wrong (or right, de­ ernment outlays in this area are com para­ nomic life. And no more likel . t9 suc­ head liberals who we all know are its only pending on your point of view). The truth ti ely small . "Zeroing out" the CPB wou Id ceed. true constituency. Don't believe em. is public television stations provide about on ly make a teeny tiny dent in the budget. t.~rth ,;]: Withollt Federal FlInding, Big Here are the facts. 6,500 hours of programming each year. Or, put another way, it only costs taxpay­ Bird Will Lose His Nest Fact #/: We Can Afford PlIbli Broad­ Critics try to pick out eight or 12 of those ers pennies a day. So, wh y not? Wh ile we The Big Lie, with regard to public casting hours to illustrate a "perva;;ive bias" in the are going to fiscal hell in a handbasket, we broadcasting, is that your favorite pro­ Americans spend about t\ 0 percent of organization as a whole. Anyone who might as well be ab le to watch "Master­ grams will disappear if federal funds are their time enjo ing the outdoors. and in watches or listens regularly knows they piece Theatre" for " free ." The same "pen­ \ ·ithdrawn. Does this dire prediction sound 1992 Congress spent about $1.3 billion are just as likely to hear from former nies a day" argument is made concerning familiar? It should. because it is exactly maintaining the national parks. B con­ Reagan disciples, Bill Bennett Da id countless federal programs. One has to what we heard from the public broadcast­ trast, nearl a third of our lives are spent Gergen. or Linda Chavez, as they are wonder: if you added all those p'ennies ing- community during the 1980s, when with television and radio; and the federal from Democratic commentators. together. couldn't you achieve consider­ federal funding shrank dramatically as a budget for preserving the tin non-com­ A similar argument refutes the allega­ able savings? result of Reagan budget cuts. The truth is mercial oasis in the broadcast spectrum is tion that public broadcasting is only for We cannot afford the lUXUry of public that a product craved by the public (i.e., barely one third of that for national parks. the well-off who can, and should, pay for funding for television and radio. Never­ the good stuff on public tv and radio) will In 1992 Americans spent just under eight it themselves. These critics ignore huge theless, it is true that the significance of survive in a market environment. Does billion hours visiting all the national parks service commitments to under-served eliminating federal funding for CPB is anyone who knows a small child doubt combined. They had spent a comparable audiences: children and minorities. not really substantive, but symbolic. Cut­ that the Barney show could stay on the air numb'er of hours watching television by With respect to children, the govern­ ting Big Bird loose will not balance the until 2050 through the sale of Barney January 5th of that year. ment whines to the industry about cutting budget. But if Gingrich et al. lose their See KOENIG on 10 The comparison is not meant to deni­ resolve on cutting this popular middle grate the important function of national See MILLER on 16 Monday, January 23, 1995 THE AMIcus CURIAE 9 Life After Law School Metnories of Law School: The 'accreditation crisis of '75 By Sharon Pandak, Prince jeans are dated? date one placed Elvis in the creditation due to inadequate fa­ glish department; somewhat William County Attorney Like a stuffed closet, when lounge. Corrsidering the cilities. The extraordinary ef­ ironic. The question "How the law opened, memories ofyears at M­ staleness of reminiscing about forts of then-Dean Spong Having attended W&M as an school was back then" compels W pop out. Some are rosy col­ studying, as you are likely taking dispelled our concerns. But, we undergraduate, it was at first one to again face alum status. ored, others painfuL All are seen a break to read this, I will reflect had the "classic" experience of awkward to hang out on the Casino Night reinforced this through a misty lens of my cur­ on less bookish matters. Tucker Hall, its tomblike library "porch" looking down to the when the roulette wheel operator rent vantage as Prince William About 120 ofus arrived in the and various satellite classrooms. Sunken Gardens or the Wren said, "Your number' s up next if County Attorney. The M-W humidity of 1975. I was one of You met other students and pro­ Building as a law student. Law you can offer me a summer job." grads in my office 'of 12 attor­ perhaps 20 women; there were a - fessors as you brushed against was debated there, and a fair Surely 1975-78 is not branded neys, including current assistant few minorities. Our first-year them in the halls and between the amount of politics and philoso­ on my forehead. Could it be my Megan Kelly ' 94, recall law shock was the announcement that bookshelves. My "law school" phyand friendships were formed. air of experience, or just that m, school differently, down to the the school risked losing its ac- is occupied currently by the En- To fund my studies, I was a graduate resident assistant for Outer Limits two years in a freshman women's - By John Crouch in order "to replace a half-hearted from the stadium, until he some­ people who don't want it, and dormitory. My schizophrenic Hi-tech population control and failed ascetic-altruistic mo­ ' how got his head stuck in a rail­ then seize and sell their homes to experience was ofacademics and After it was closed by fog several rality. " (London Times). ing. (London Times). pay for it. (London Times). going "home" to the craziness of times, Peking's airport began Massive monks of meat Bus of destruction Don't get sick 250 teenagers living near a fra­ spraying runways with liquid 16th-Century Benedictine monks A Lagos bus driver said he tried Terminal cancer is "bloody bor­ temitycomplex. Fireextinguish­ nitrogen to condense the fog into at Westminster Abbey each ate to run over a road-safety official ing," the Duchess of Beaufort ers going off, ice cream parties ice. (London Times). three Ibs. of meat a day, washed because he mistook him for an admitted. (London Times). and couches floating off the sec­ The future comes down with a gallon of ale, a his­ antelope. (London Times) . Don't die ond floor balcony made the law to those who wait torian calcu lated from their In short, bad times for animals If a tenant dies without giving 30 school a zone of sanity at times. A helicopter crash kills Prince records. (London Times). The Kansas ex-govemor's cat days' notic~ , the landlord can Extracurricular activities Charles in one of the most popu­ Duck trek voyagers refused to leave the mansion; the keep his security deposit, a Cali­ were more limited than today. 'lar dream-visions of the future 29,000 plastic ducks and similar new governor won't move his for:niajudge held. (USA Today). Significantly, the Mary and Wil­ dreamed by New Agers and other creatures, l-ost in the Pacific in dogs in. (USA Today) . Alaska New York moment liam Society was founded dur­ curious persons who climb Carn 1992, frozen into the Arctic near fired its mechanical gorilla flag­ When Dr. Bernard Kruger's ing my time atthe school. Under Igli, a Welsh mountain, and sleep the Bering Straits last month. men. The federal government Lexus was stolen in Manhattan, Professor Schaefer, my moot on the summit. Other visions in­ They will be carried to Iceland wants their coveted jobs reserved police wouldn 't let him report it court colleagues and I enjoyed volve World War III air raids and on the transpolar cii-ift at a rate of for humans. (Id.) until he called his car phone and the competition of appellate ad­ a Welsh goddess. (Spectator). about five miles a day for five The Christmas spirit got the thief to give him the car's vocacy and began to excel in The Chinese way years. (London Times). A d~ck Durham, Eng!. 's government ID number. "What are you doing annual regional competitions. ' 5,000 manhole covers in Peking in Fobbing, Engl. received a false sprayed its Christmas greens with with my car?" he asked. " What We had two fraternities but have been stolen for scrap. Small be*. A fox stole his real one. sewage so that "anyone silly . do you think I' m doing? I'm the student parties seemed open wonder in a country where the (/d.) enough to put one in his warm stealing it." "Why?" "For the to all. One professor (Professor government pilfers people's kid­ Drunk trek home will end up with a smelly money, of course." (New York) . Powell) had an annual pig roast. neys. A space bureaucrat recently Joanne Brady drove the length Christmas." (London Times) . Womanizing the opposition The social events released stress fell in a manhole and broke a rib. of England while drunk. She Pushing your luck Australian ex-Prime Minister and built camaraderie that might (London Times) . stoked herself with rum in When Timothy Boczkowski' s Bob Hawke is dating his unau- have otherwise been lost in the .The Kennedy school Glasgow, Scotland and still con­ heavily insured first wife was thorized biographer, who ex­ scholastic competitiveness. They of social responsibility tained five times the legal limit found dead in her tub, Pittsburgh posed him as 'a drunken also filled the gap in the almost The aptly-named Rev. John when shehita billboard 500 miles authorities were baffled. When womanizer. (London Times). nonexistent Williamsburg Kennedy, head of the Briti~h later in Plymouth, on the Chan­ his second wife met the same Third-wave legislation nightlife. (In 1975 , the strip malls Methodist Church' s Division on nel. (London Times). end, he was charged with mur- Slavery would be abolished and did not go all the way to Toano Social Responsibility, said the England's Gump der. (USA Today). pilots would get the meat from and Busch Gardens!) church should "develop a thor- Magpie the greyhound came in Don't get old deer their planes kill, under bills There was one Law Review. oughgoing hedonism" ba?ed on -last in a Derbyshire race and kept Two English counties plan to introduced in Mi~sissippi and "serious fun with sex and money" on running. He ran three miles give "community care" to old Wisconsin. (USA Today). See AFTERLIFE on 10 More Clip 'n' Save Marshall-Wythe Trading Cards! Collect them all!! ·This week: Oldest living original Gradplex settlers r~------I "I I

-, • JON & BRYAN • • ANGIE • • GREG • • . LORI • ...... 1 ...... • 10 Monday, January 23 1995 THE AMlcus CURlAE In addition to the usual stud- in law school made for interest- case for Professor Walck and Barbara Walters at the "re­ AFTERLIFE from 9 ies, many of u kept our third ing balancing with partial then relaxing until my name came hearsal." Dean Krattenmaker joins the line year intense b, taking the Febru­ success ... M deliberations on up in the alphabet again.. . The The call of a major federal of deans who cannot find m ary Bar examination so that a1l Honor Council were difficult as rapid-fire Socratic questions case defers further time-tripping. name on"the staff roster. Gainful could be done by graduation. We classmates' academic careers from then Assistant Dean In closing, I reflect that M-W employment was obtained an - did not have a co-counsel pro­ were at stake .. .I recall musing in Sullivan, pro ided a training pro ided a springboard to ac­ way. We had the precur or of gram ba k then. but as its current Professor Donaldson's Federal ground for future argument be- complish my goal of ensuring Law Camp in our Friday touch chairman, I encourage yOU to Ta: class whether gift ta;\( and fore the Fourth Circuit. that justice was broadly avail­ football games followed by a stop participate. It affords insight into charitable deduction would ever Two "political" e ents stand able and that law was a ehicle to at Busch Garden for free beer legal practice and more tips for be personal!) meaningful... We out. As an undergrad, I and a improve the general good of so­ afterwards or a visit to the Ca e. future jobs than we had in the \veredeliciou I." deviant in drink- future law professor spoke at a ciety, or at least one person. It ith apologies to my Student . Os. ing daiquiris in one of the more demonstration against the post- introduced me to people who Bar As ociation fr iend . I don' t Some v ivid memories oflmv Iedious adm i n istrati v e law Watergate "Saturd, yNight Mas- encouraged that effort and some r member major is ue . but do school are more personal and I cia ses on a spring da) ... 1 recall sac·re." , econdly. 1976 saw the who inspired me. The porch was recall that We produ ed la i lit them in a stream of bolting up from my seat at the Ford Carter presidential debate small but the vision was large. Libel Nights. call of my name to re ite a torts on campu and I stood in f r Carpe diem' the \\ iidl;. poplliar Di _cover) channel). ing or tV\ . Lord help us if Baby Bop KOENIG from 8 politi al tall-.. 'ho\\ s. ool-..ing programs, testifies. If) ou area taxpayer fed up \\ iIh products alone; Barn ) slipp'r . Barney e\ en "J/mlu piece' Th

Ask Mr. Smart G:uy • • • When this column began back in the Fall of 196 ~, we here at Mr. Smart Guy vowed fa make ours a little belter, a little }riser, and, yes, a littlejunnier than other columns. To that end, we d dicafed ourselves to coming up with bold offerings andfresh, original ideas. But then we realized that might take some work. So instead we relied all crutches common among those lacking creativity and slipped them into the advice we gave: a lot ofj okes about the French, top ten lists, and prolific use ofth e phrase " OT.' ,. In that same vein, lvfr. Smart Guy now offers his readership a break from the usual answers to letters to present the Annual New Year ",hat's In, What's Out Survey IN OUT IN OUT . Elmer Schaefer, vastly underrated pro­ Fred Lederer, distributor of D's and F's, That cool tuxedo Dean Krattenmaker That ridiculous purse Dick Williamson fessor, eminent brainy baseball guru, and and servant of all that is Evil sports like a champ sports around like some kind of panty­ genuinely nice guy waist

Fun and cuddly former-Marine-turned­ Not so fun, not so cuddly unbalanced Paul Eckert's inspirational conversion Doug Onley, for whom we still pray law-students who are unlucky at love , et former-Marine-turned-Iaw-students who from all-work, no play student to out-on­ not prone to violence, such as Neil Lewis are unlucky at love and just a little bit the-town, relaxed and fun-loving hell-of­ bitter about it, such as Jim Penne ll a-guy

Williamsburg's hottest new night spot, Paul's with those same-old, same-old Spending a quality nighfquietly sipping Spending a quality night trashed, quaff­ Paul's, with new and improved stained lamp shades warm tea at a nice restaurant and asking ing four-dollar pitchers at Paul's and ask­ glass lamp shades over the booths! your date, " Do you believe in the infalli­ ing some random undergrad, "Do you bility of man?" believe in love at first sight, baby, or do I ' Auditing a class in your third year be­ Auditing an upper level class in your first have to walk by again?" cause you want to know it for the bar, but year because, su bconciously, you want to you don't want to take an exam be laughed at behind your back Study Abroad programs to Spain Study Abroad programs to Chechnya TRADING CARDS: GRADPLEX THREEPEATERS r------, r------, r------.... ---, r- ..... ------, I Lori Petruzzelli I I Greg James I I Angela Harrison I I Byran Fratkin and I I I I I I I I Jonathan Rotter I I I I· I I Lori, the "Gradplex En- I I don't see nothing wrong: : Angie may be the only per- I Known as the "Over Lords of I forcer," makes sure that the with a little bump and grind! I I son to have spent her entire the Gradplex," Bryan and his I quiet serenity of the com­ I don't see nothing wrong I I law school career living in trusty sidekick, Jonathan I plex is constantly main­ with a little bump and grind! I I the same room of the same have been roommates for I tained. She chose the plex Ooooooohll don't see noth- I I apartment. Is there a pat­ three years. I because of her insane dis­ ing wrong ...oh III don't see I I tern here? Anyway, the rea'­ Due to Jonathan's suspi­ I like of parallel parking the nothi~g wrongll don't seell I I .son is that she has painted cious relationship with vari­ I family station wagon. Upon don't see!Nothing wrong,: I her room pink and green, ous members of the faculty, : graduation, Lori would like nothing wrong. I : her sorority colors. Not that they presently live in the I to purchase one ofthe lovely I '1 there's anything wrong with penthouse suite of the plex. I units at the plex for the fam­ I -I that. Skeewee. However, Bryan and I ily summer home. I I Jonathan remain social I I I r misfits ... not that we're jeal­ I - I I I ous or nothin'. .----~------~ .------~ .------~ .------~ THE Al\uCUS C URL-U: Arts & Entertainment Monday, January 23, 1995 11

Music for the Masses • Pearl JalTI, Vanessa Williams abandon formula mUSIC By Eleanor Bordeaux want to take what you can't gi e/ I would Instead of taking the easy route, the band cellent hamlony and background blend and Scott Layman rather starve than eat your brea All the has chosen to be innovative, and the end together smooth I , making The Sweetest Pearl Jam: Vitalogy things that others want for mel Can't buy result is a great album. Pearl Jam fans Days a relaxing listen. However, for all Just 0 er a, ear since their last release. what I want because it's free." Vedder's more accustomed to the listener-friendly its technical perfection, this CD lacks the Pearl Jam has come out with their th ird ocal style remains one of the most dis­ Ten may be intimidated b, the harsher o erall passion and emotion generally and best. Ever since irvana and Pearl tinctive and powerful in rock today. sound and tone of Vitalogy but should not associated with this style of music. Jam burst onto the music scene in 199! , ·'Spin the Black Circle" is a salute to pass judgment until after a few listens. For those fond of the big sultry sound their success has spawned a horde of in I. Vedder conjures up images of the Vanessa Williams: The Sweetest Days of the romantic musicals of the 50s, this imitators. Fortunately, Pearl Jam has cho­ old turntable when he screams, " See this With the release of The Sweetest Days, CD is a real treat. However for those not sen not to rehash the tired grunge riffs of needlel See my hand! Drop drop dropping Vanessa Williams has moved from the interested in softer music, Williams has Ten. Like Vs. , the group experiments it down/ Oh so gently." The guys in the dance/pop formu la-ridden first CD The little to offer except the exceptional trib­ with different styles and sounds, but on band must really miss those days, because Right Stuff to a more sophisticated and ute to the legendary Ella Fitzgerald en­ Vitalogy, the end result is much better. Vitalogy was released on vinyl about a . refined sound. Here Williams comes titled " Ellamental." This track Every song on the album is good to week before the CD and tape versions. closer to her potential, and seems more acknowledges the influence that Ella has excellent. "Better Man," the first single, The vinyl images are somewhat appropri­ natural singing the romantic, soulful tracks had on various types of music by incorpo­ is this CD' s ' Jeremy" or "Daughter." It is ate, as a few of the tracks do have a retro wh ich fi II th is latest effort. rating several of these styles into. this the tale of a person · facing difficult cir­ feel. "Spin the Black Circle" and "Satan' s Romantic imagery runs throughout this tribute. Here Williams captures the pas­ cumstances and attempting to break free Bed" possess a chaos that is punkish. The CD evidenced by such titles as "Sister sion and feeling that she fails to convey in from his confining surroundings. Lead latter even contains a chorus that reminds Moon" and "The Way That You Love every track. vocalist Eddie Vedder, who writes the the listener of an old Kiss anthem. Me." Tracks such as "Moonlight Over This CD is solid and consistent the lyrics, has honed his talent at describing Given the commercial success that Paris" and " Betcha Never" carry this im­ w hole way through, making this personal rage and despair. In "Cordu­ Pearl Jam has attained, it is admirable that agery further by adding a slightly Euro­ Williams's best effort to date. It seems roy," the best track, Vedder rails for his they have managed to resist the tempta­ pean flavor which conjures up visions of she has found her niche and for her these independence; he laments that "I don't tion to just put out another grunge album. lovers sitting at sidewalk cafes. The ex- are the sweetest days. Need for decorative arts and decorative food is satisfied By Kim Tolhurst pendale chest. It is the perfect Ginger Ale, a Virginia tradition She also graciously suggested ture of nuts and dried frUits in a and Lori Petruzzelli place to sit back and enjoy a meal since 1926, (that's what the bottle heating the ham. Perhaps this sweet jelly. One of the fruits Envision a white atrium with some good conversation, said), this little meal set her back special treatment served to dis­ looked like chicken, but proved brushed with sunlight, latticed especially if you like being sur­ $7.60. Pricey for Williamsburg, tract one from the high museum to be apple. Do not be alarmed walls, bold columns, a sweeping rounded by delfware platters da!­ but consider the Metropolitan food prices. by this last statement. This dish staircase, and a table for two. ing to the 18th century. Museum of Art, where a medio­ Upon sitting down and sam­ was rather good. The ham sand­ The DeWitt Wallace Museum of Nonetheless, this is a museum cre sandwich, soda, and chips pling her meal, Kim discovered wiches were tasty, but the bis­ Decorative Arts offers cafeteria cafeteria, which means it offers goes for $10.00. (Note: Lori is many things. First ofall , the man cuits were too soft and the ham style eating in a setting that mer­ average food that is a bit pricey. currently editing a Fodor's book at the next table said that Phillip was not the sort of salty Virginia its an "A" for ambiance. Best Lori had the Land and Sea plate on museum cafeterias as a com­ Morris gave matching funds to ham one would expect. Yet they yet, it is practically next door: which consisted of three scoops panion to her first volume, W&M for his donations. Sec­ did have some tasty cheese on just a hop, skip, and ajump over of food laden with mayonnaise: " Restrooms Across the Big ondly, her biscuit had them. All in all, a good but over­ the jail wall (ok, a running jump shrimp, tuna (sea), and chicken Apple.") uhrequested mustard on it which priced lunch. and some tied bed sheets). The (land). This was accompanied Lovely decor and erudite con­ she resented deeply. Finally, she RECOMMENDATION: Go menu is very simple; the fare is by two croissants, two olives, an versation aside, Kim rated her learned the meaning of chutney. there if you're in the mood for light. Soups, sandwiches and egg, and two beefy tomatoes. food as just o.K She chose the Well, sort of - there were two decorative arts, have wads of salads are offered, with desserts The olives were dandy, but Lori ham biscuits with chutney. The small bowls on the plate. One cash, a good friend, and a small rounding off the menu. The eat­ has yet to figure out a socially cafeteria lady (reminiscent of contained a sort of spicy relish, appetite. ing area is small, yet intimate. acceptable way to eat them in elementary school, isn't it?) fer­ which was quite good if you like DeWitt Wallace Decorative Despite the tourist location, public so she made little sand­ vently pointed out the homemade your relish straight. Unfortu­ Arts Gallery Cafeteria we found the area uncrowded, a wiches out of her mixtures. She bread and that there were, count nately, Kim prefers her relish on 325 Francis Street, 220-7554 hiddenjewel orto the decorative enjoyed the creative freedom! ' em ladies and gentlemen, two the rocks, with a dash of lime. Cafeteria Hours: 1Oa .m. to 4p.m. arts aficionado, a hidden Chip- Coupled witti a bottle of Carver' s types of ham on the sandwich. The other bowl contained a mix- everyday Cinema Cynicism Y oungkin' s top ten movies of 1994: Only classic is Pulp By Steven Youngkin three short stories about dark and violent 2) Quiz Show. A quietly intelligent look 3) Ed Wood. For years, director Tim Well, it's my first column of 1995 and subjects, it stars John Travolta (who hasn' t back at America in the 1950s. Directed by Burton has been a visionary in search ofa like all movie critics, [ now present the done a successful movie in more years Robert Redford, it is also easily 1994's movie. Burton has always possessed a proverbial "Best of 1994" list. Before than I care to remember) and Bruce Willis most subtle work. Redford is assisted by great sense of what a movie should look beginning, [just wish to make one obser­ (who seems incapable of hiding his ever superb performances from Ralph Fiennes, like but, unfortunately, he has never been vation about the past year. Unlike 1993, increasing ego.) Although told in a way John Turturro and Rob Morrow (making able to tell an actual story. As a result, his where a number of really good movies that could be seen as gimmicky, the story a successful jump from TV's Northern movies were usually easier to look at then were released all at once (Schindler's works in a big way. A caffeine rush of a Exposure to the big screen). Paul sit through. Ed Wood changes that. Bur­ List, In the Name of the Father, The Pi­ movie with easily the best-written screen­ Attansio's screenplay never talks down to ton creates an affectionate tribute to argu­ ano, Remains of the Day), this past year play of the past year, the film broke all of the audience and fills the story with intel­ ably the worst director in movie history. was somewhat disappointing. While good the rules of storytelling and filmmaking, ligent, interesting characters. Unfortu­ While Wood' s movies are agreeably aw­ movies were released, only one I saw including that a movie this artistic and this nately, not enough people saw it and so ful, Burton's film portrays him as such an could truly be classified as "great." Hope­ intelligent can also be this much fun. My the film left the big screen very quickly. enthusiastic, sincere director that we' re fully 1995 wiII be better. Now for the list: only fear is that director/writer/actor \\'hen Quiz Show hits video sometime willing to forgive his utter lack of talent I) Pulp Fiction. This is a movie that Quentin Tarantino will be unable to fol­ this year, hopefully it' ll achieve deserv­ See MOVIES on 16 should never have worked. Composed of low this up. Let's hope that I'm wrong. ing success. 12 Monday, January 23, 1995 THE AMIcus CURIAE Fiction Beth's Case a story by Michael Maschio Carol's ftrm was going through mid­ discovery that Beth learned of the desk reference as well as a video on the rather, looking down into her lap, she life crisis: the oldest partners were work­ plaintiffs allegations: brain damage, Communist revolution in Czechoslova­ wanted to know how her mother could ing less yet drawing full salary, and the chronic depression, and physical pain kia. possibly live alone and retain her sanity. mid-range partners like Carol, all ofwhose combined with chemical poisoning, re­ But no source told her why Ms. Kaew Simply, Beth thought she couldn't. client base was considerably less than quiring constant medical care and four was the way she was, or why what had "I don't understand you," she told her. they had hoped, were worried that the hospitalizations. The ramifications were happened to her, what she alleged, had "I don't understand why you' re doing partnership might disband. So Carol pre­ loss of employment, loss of skill and the happened. Therefore, Beth' s conclusion this." tended to have other business in Milwau­ inability to complete her college educa­ was that Menil's glue was to blame, at Doing this meant not only defending kee in the hope of drumming up some real tion. Therefore, she demanded monetary least in part. Meni! but prosecuting Ms. Kaew, which, business from Menil & Co. In times past compensation for suffering, emotional and Sensing something along that line, in fact, Carol wasn't doing. Menil had provided her with more busi­ mental anguish, past and future economic Carol became worried. "If she wants to "You're hurting her," Beth said. ness than she could handle. Presently loss resulting from unemployment ad- know about the case, then why doesn' t Carol didn't believe that. ''I'm not they were handling most matters in-house; an cement of life expenses and medical she come to me?" she wondered. Then, hurting anyone," she replied. yet while at lunch Carol and the general expenses, and the cost of litigation. Fur­ late one night, while Carol was reviewing 'You shouldn't be," Beth said. counsel of Me nil discussed a matter which thermore, Ms. Kaew maintained that she the interrogatories of expert witnesses, Carol had no response. could not be handled in-house. And so still experienced neurological disorder, Beth did come to her, her face was drawn ." don't like it," Beth kept on. upon her return to New York Carol had a had undergone a complete personality her brown curls pu lied back from her eyes "Neither do I." case. change, would never recover from the with a silver clip; she sat on her father's "You act like nothing happened," Beth Apparently a woman had used one of emotional trauma, had arthritis and had side of the bed and asked, quietly and told her. Menil & Co. 's glues to mount designs for lost her desire for sex. evenly, " Mom, what if I was in the car Carol said, 'Nothing did happen to the graphics division of an advertising Alone she had left Czechoslovakia in with Dad?" her." ftrm seven years before. This woman 1962 and, for thl! past thirty years had Her words made Carol's heart pause. " I don 't mean her, Mom." claimed that I, 2, 2 bichlorozine, com­ lived in upstate New York. When she had At first, Carol misunderstood Beth's ques­ " Who do you mean?" prising sixty per cent of the glue inter­ worked as an artist, her annual salary had tion; she thought Beth wanted to know "I mean me," Beth answered. acted detrimentally with the medication been $22,000; in contrast at the time of how she would feel if Beth had been " What happened to you?" Carol she was taking - namely, Thorazine, the case, she received $600 per month in driving the car that her husband, a doctor wanted to know. Navane, Moban; Elavil and Desyrel; and disability. Beth was making $12.50 per out on a house call, had driven into a fatal Beth said nothing; rather, she looked Valium and Xanax, major tranquilizers, hour for her twelve hours per week. Mak­ accident, seven years before. As Carol at her mother for a moment, and then anti-depressants, and minor tranquilizers ing a quick calculation, Beth came to the swallowed her breath, she remembered placed her head on her father's pillow and respectively. It was the woman's claim figure of $600 per month. It was a coin­ that, at the time of the accident, Beth had closed her eyes. that she had been fired because her per­ cidence. she was sure, but she felt bad, been only fifteen. But that was as far as * formance had gone from excellentto poor. then mad, and then vuLnerable as she she was able to consider Beth's question Later that night, with two pillows Subsequently she found no other job, and concluded that her salary was equal merely before her heart burst out of arrest, mak­ propped behind her head, Carol tried sleep­ then an industry-wide move to laser soft­ to that of someone on disability. 'Some­ ing him say, sharply, " Are you asking me ing but couldn't help contemplating Beth's ware made her position obsolete. one on disability' was a put-down. Pri­ . if you should be where your father is ? -­ statement, her motive for having men- She blamed the glue, and having con­ vately it made her feel better; then she because if you are, then I want to know verted the days of seven years to minutes wondered wh if Ms. Kaew had so many~ what's wrong with you." . See BETH on 13 and then having multiplied that aggregate expert witnesses was her mother so sure That wasn't what Beth was asking; by dollars, she sued for two million. that she was wrong? Carol's bill to Menil would be a tenth It was an illogical question, yet it made of that sum. sense to Beth. FILM DEVELOPING * Finally, the court set a trial date for Carol's only child Beth. had recently August 10, 1993 . Eleven days before Second set of prints lost her position as a paralegal at Sm ith & then. Ms. Kaew, who was conducting her Penny. She had saved a few thousand own defense, made a motion for counsel. dollars but needed that for other things She stated that she had obtained referrals and so was happy to help out her mom; to lawyers from the Bar Association, but she indexed and distributed discovery that none of them would accept her case. materials maintained correspondence Furthermore, she stated that she needed a FREE with the court, researched precedents on lawyer for the trial because she was hard Lexis, searched Nexis for related news of hearing. stories, and proofread Menil's brief, which Through Beth (who expressed objec­ EVERY WEDNESDAY categorically denied the allegations, pre­ tions), Carol notified the court that Menil sented the plaintiffs medical history for would not oppose Ms. Kaew's motion, Ask for ((Local Lab" and get Second Set consideration, and promised to call expert but she pointed out that Menil had already witnesses in an effort to counter the subpoenaed witnesses and had arranged Free along with Low Prices -- when plaintiffs experts. for various Menil employees to travel What wasn't in the brief. however, from Milwaukee to testify. In lightofthis, bro?lght in on Wednesday. was wnat Carol described as the worst Menil would object to Ms. Kaew's mo­ possible case scenario: that the jury wou Id tion only if it would delay the trial. view Menil as a 1930's-style corporation ' In agreement, the court denied Ms. 24 expo Kodacolor $4.95 and find for the alleged victim regardless Kaew's motion, stating that. " In view of of the facts. Besides winning the case, the backlog of requests lodged by various WITH STUDENT J.D. Carol belie ed that the most important judges, it is an impossibility to arrange to service she cou Id provide to her cl ient was have counsel come into this case and the prevention of such a precedent. In prepare for trial in any reasonable time." addition, to Beth, she pointed out the So Ms. Kaew \ ould appear pro se: Massey's lottery aspect of the case, which held that without counsel. because all jury members want to be rich, * the power to make someone else rich is a Feverishly, Beth studied the case. She Camera Shop difficult thing to let slip through one's researched the law on causation; s~e re­ 447 PRlNCE GEORGE STREET hands, resulting in an award for the al­ viewed the philosopher David Hume's WILLIAMSBURG, VA . • PHONE 229-3181 leged victim. account of cause and effect; and, from the It was during the seven months of public library, she took out the physician's Monday, January 23, 1995 THE AMICUS CURIAE 13 -B-E- T--.:H:....:-.f-r-o-m--=-1-2---=----- 'We wili go ahead," Judge She wanted to hear what she had father had been. She would give addition, she has no medical tests, Mann said, and then asked the to say; she didn't wal)t to fight. anything to have him rise from no air samples of her work envi­ tioned it, and then Beth herself, jury, "Is anyone here acquainted She offered Beth a weak smile. the table, go to the comer, and ronment, no witnesses, and no whom she pictured as first with Ms. Kaew?" Beth didn't return it. ' I'm coax Beth back. Indeed, imagin­ experts," Then Carol lowered younger and then as older than There was no one acquainted going to say something in court," ing that scene made her smile. her voice in tone to that of a Beth" as at that time. with Ms. Kaew except Beth, who, she wanted her mother to know. Then she raised her eyes and saw dutiful professional: " Please Quietly, she said, "I'm wor- \ ith her gra, eyes set on the ''I'm gonna let them know what that Beth was gone. don 't hold it against me or my ried." Judge, was sitting next to Carol you're doing, and I'm gonna tell * client for bringing these facts to From within herself, she at the defense table. They were them\ hY, andIdon'tgi eashit, In her opening statement, Ms. your attention, but it is a neces­ heard her husband' s voice tell dressed down, because, as Carol because you don ' t." Kaew explained that she had dis­ sary aspect of jurisprudence." her, "There' s nothing to worry had e, plained to Beth at break­ ·'Beth." co ered her illness long after the Then she made a motion for dis­ about. ' fast, Menil is not a typical corpo­ "You don 't gi e a shit about damage had been done. "I read missal. Carol shared her concern: that ration. anyone," Beth said, slammed her an art icle in the New York Times Judge Mann asked the jury to Beth was obsessed \' ith her case. Beth hadn 't bought that line; fork on the table -- Tdattht! and th at called my attention to the retire and then proceeded to dis­ He told her, "Beth doesn't yet her response had been, then \i alked out of the restau­ fact that certain glues contained miss the case. want to be ala" er." "Mom, I know Ms. Kaew is rant. known toxic solvents, h ich have Clenching her hands into fists, Carol kept on, claiming th at gu ilty." Carol was upset and further been associated with nerve dam­ Ms. Kaew asked, '" But I can, I Beth \i as attached to Ms. Kaew. Carol had understood that to confused. She suspected that age like I ha e in my fingers, I can have a chance to have a final Her husband reminded her. mean that Ms. Kaew had no case; Beth would soon do or say some­ can t fee l the tips, you know. closing statement?" "She's your daughter." et it had seemed to her then, as thing to let her know that she Anyway, this caused me to re­ "No," Judge Mann told her, Carol knew that but insisted it did later that Beth favored Ms. wouldn't sit beside her at the search my illness." She contin­ "the case is over." that Beth' s interest worried her; Kae. precise ly because she was defense table and quietly sup­ ued to claim that the label had no It was at that moment that then she corrected hersel fby say­ 'guilty.' Thinking about that, port her. She stood to go after warning: that after she had Beth stood. The air in her lungs ing that it bothered her and rushed Carol wondered why she had Beth, but then saw Beth 's slight brought the case Men il had was captured, or forced, into her to explain that she couldn't try in olved her daughter in her case. frame stop at the street corner, changed the label ; and that the throat by her complete incredu­ the case the wa she'd Iike to, the Beth, on the other hand, and noticed that the sun, high se en years had been 'hellish lity. She felt she would scream. way Menil was paying her to, if thought about her father. He was and impeded by nothing, sharp­ torture." To substantiate her last "This is wrong. You people don't Beth continued to project a pity much nicerthan was her mother, ened in contrast and brightened claim, she expanded her symp­ understand this woman. She's in which Carol felt was unjustified she reminded herself. He took in intensity Beth 's hair, shoul­ toms to include liver and kidney pain. Herwhole life's been taken given the facts. In addition, she care of her better, she believed; der-crests, fingers, and knees. It damage irregu lar heartbeat, gas­ away from her. You can 't hurt admitted that Beth's love forMs. and she missed that care, or she made Beth look two-dimen­ tric ulcer, breathing and swal­ people like this. It's not right. Kaew, which she first assumed needed that care at the moment; sional, and it made Carol believe lowing difficulties, slurred It' s not jurisprudence!" she and then described as misplaced, but the more she thought about that Beth was farther away than speech, headaches, dizziness, wanted to say; but her lips barely was making her hate the woman; her father, the more she neither ever before. nausea, eye irritation, insomnia, parted and her mouth was too and Carol was afraid of what she knew what to think, nor why his Instantly Carol's heart split low blood pressure, dehydration . dry to say a word. Simply, she might do to Ms. Kaew in court if death played such a strong role as if Beth had taken half of it with of the skin, gingivitis, arthritis, didn 't know what she believed to she hated her and was in the right in her life at that moment. herself. Then again, Carol loss of hope, general intellectual be the truth, and she felt in her legally. Strangely, she believed that thought, perhaps her husband's decline, memory impairment, heartthatshewasconcernedwith She was mad at her husband Ms. Kaew would know or: at death had split her heart perma­ confusion, and suicidal thoughts. her own loss more than with ·Ms. for not being there and quickly least, would offer her an answer. nently and Beth had been the one It was clear to Beth that the Kaew's. She wanted her feeling became confused. Then, It was an irrational assump­ to hold it together until that mo­ jury believed her. Furthermore, of loss to end or, irrationally, to strangely, she felt shame. Si­ tion, yet Beth didn 't fail to make ment. something along the line of the be ended by the court. lently, she admitted that she sense of it. In fact, slumped in Losing her case was unim­ ' lottery aspect of the case' might Meanwhile, sitting beside her, shouldn'l have taken the case her chair, her curls hiding her portant when compared to what happen, she hoped. Butthen she Carol was thinking about the and that had he been alive, she eyes, she dwelled upon it all she felt she was losing at that noticed that her mother and that phone call she would soon make wouldn't have taken it. morning, during which her moment; that became clear to the Judge seemed objectively to Milwaukee. Having concen­ She expected his forgiveness mother and Ms. Kaew managed Carol; and the loss of her hus­ concerned at best. trated Menil's expenditures on then, but heard nothing. to select a jury. band, her loss as well as Beth's That didn't deter Ms . Kaew. her services, she had saved them * * loss, was affecting them both in Loudly, she stated that people money and had made herself In court, Judge Mann said, "I At lunch, Beth wouldn't look a way which she couldn't under­ who are ill from I , 2, 2 some. She was sure they would think the microphones will help at her mother. Her heart was stand but which she bel ieved Beth bichlorozine don 't know it be­ soon gi ve her another case. Then you as far as your hearing prob­ racing, running away, taking her could. Oddly, Carol felt that she cause it affects the thinking part she looked at Beth, her hands on lem , Ms. Kaew." away. She wanted to get up and was hurting herself by continu­ of the brain. Finally and obvi­ the table, her head bowed, and "They don't," Ms. Kaew re­ to leave for real, return to the in'g with the case, or that she was ously, she claimed that she would told herself, "She's being a plied. "I got to wear my own court house and make a sworn transferring her pain to Ms. never have used the product if baby," certain that she had done hearing aid. I hope I can func­ statement - she thought it would Kaew, and so the case was a there had been a warning label. nothing wrong. In fact, she be­ tion." be more a confession, an accusa­ vehicle. Then she lowered her voice lieved, she knew, that she had She was small overall and, in tion; she was enraged, careless­ Carol could drop it; yet ifshe in tone to that o(a victim. She prevented wrong from being particular her eyes were blue, or she didn 't care about herself did, then Menil could sue her for spoke about all the experts who done. pale, and lined uniformly. Her or about ramifications. She was malpractice, wipe her out. didn't appear on her behalf. It , Butthatwasn'thowBethsaw lips were lines as well, long lines sure that she had to do some- In truth, Carol knew that was was at that moment that Carol it. Quickly, she went over to Ms. that joined sharply to set off her . thing. Finally, she told her ridiculous; and she knew as well knew Menil had won the case. In Kaew and quietly said, "Excuse broken posture; her nose was mother, ''I'm going to say some­ that in her heart she wanted to truth, she had hardly been listen­ me, Ms. Kaew?" straight, her face sullen. thing." help Mimil, wanted her law firm , ing to Ms. Kaew's statement: Ms. Kaew didn't hear her. Judge Mann's face, on the At that moment, Carol was her life, to be stable. first, because it was a mere sum­ Beth cleared her throat and other hand, was drawn. He said, thinking about her opening ar­ She sighed. Simultaneously, mary of her brief; and, secondly, repeated, "Ms. Kaew . . . ?" but " We' ll bepatientandgoslowly," gument; she didn't know what she felt her heart drop to the because it was plain to see that caught her breath. She noticed and then explained to the jury, Beth was talking about. Her fore­ bottom of her stomach. Her ap­ she had neither corroborating that Ms. Kaew was talking to "We' re starting a civil action, head was furled and her eye­ petite was gone. Her eyes bleary, witnesses nor experts. herself in whispers or m;tybe and ... ." brows peaked as she looked at she focused on Beth's fork and Carol reminded thejury, "Ms. sobs. Beth's heart skipped, mak­ "May I say something, your Beth, unsure of what Beth had plate; Beth hadn't touched her Kaew was taking major prescrip­ ing her face go flush. She in- . Honor?" Ms, Kaew interrupted. just said. pasta. She then focused on Beth tion drugs at the time," and added, haled deeply and held her breath "Yes," Judge Mann said. So Beth raised her fork and herself, standing cross-armed on "under the guidance ofa Turkish until she was calm. Then she Ms. Kaew, leaning on her el­ repeated, ''I'm going to say some­ the street comer. Above Beth, doctor who believes in asked, "Are you all right?" bows, explained, " My number thing." the traffic light changed; people polypharmacy, which means In.·all her life, Ms. Kaew had one witness, who will testifY for "What do you want to say?" walked across the intersection, keeping your patient drugged. never been all right. Raising her me and eliminate other issues, is Carol asked. She was confused. but Beth remained where she was. Ms. Kaew was hospitalized for gray eyes, she nearly bit her lip to not here yet. I tried to reach him. She thought Beth was going to Bowing her head, Carol realized paranoia long before she came in say~ "Whoever you are, this is Anyhow, the only ... . " say something about her father. that Beth was as stubborn as her contact with Menil' s product. In not over." THE AMICUS C URLA.E Calendar of Events Monda Janu ary 23 , 199 - 14

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Moyie: "Pule Fi tion."· 1994 Cann s Movie: "Clerk ; . a fo ul-mouthed dead­ I I a.m .. 1,_, and 3p.m. Call J 13058 to lips on the big screen before the movie Festi val Wi n n~ with witty dialogue and pan low-budget comedy aboutajob-hunt­ sign up. hits ideo. Willi amsburg Theatre, DOG dan ing John Tra olta. Williamsburg ing la w tudent ' greatest fear. Colonial Williamsburg Black History St.. 6:.+5 & 9p.m. Theatre DOG t.. 6:3 0 & 9: 15p.m. Williamsburg Theatre. DOG St.. 7 & 9p.m. eries: Begin today. runs through Sat­ urday. Feb. -l Saturday, February 4,1995 Tuesday, January 24, 1995 Saturday, January 28, 1995 Charter Day: Da id Broder speaks. Lectur~: " And arhol; ' Thomas Ewell Concert Series: "The Performers' Wednesday, February 1, ]995 Sports: Men' s basketball vs . Richmond, Armstrong. director, And Warhol Mu ­ Workshop Ensemble." ' Tickets are $_ at Brown Bag Lecture: Leisa Meyer. As­ W&M Hall, 3p.m. seum, Andrews Hall. ewman Audito­ the door; free admission for W&M stu­ sistant Professor of History speaks on Inter iew with the Vampire: See above rium, L:-l5p.m. dents with ID. Ev ell Recital Hall. 8p.m. "A frican -American WACs in World War History Lecture: "American Ci il Rights Movie: "Dazed and Confused."' Another [I." Uni ersity Center, Colony Room , Sunday, February 5, ]995 and Ci il Liberties Since 1954; ' David Generation X mo ie. Williamsburg The­ 12:30p.m. Call X 180 14 for more infor­ Moyie: "Sunday's Children." Childhood '- . J.Garrov , Pulitzer Prize- inning auth or, atre, DOG St., II p.m. mation . memori es ofIngmar Bergman in his first S" e m Librar , Botetourt Theatre, Sports: Women's basketball vs. East film. Swedish w ith su btitles. 7:30p.m . Sunday January 29 1995 Carolina, W&M Hall, 5p.m. Williamsburg Theatre, DOG St. , 3p.m. Movie: ' Clerks," Will iamsburg Theatre, Movie: "The Wings ofHonneam ise." an Sports: Women's basketball vs. Old Do­ Wednesday, January 25, 1995 DOG St., 3p.m. animated film rendered in gorgeous de­ minion, W&M Hall, 2p.m . Public Policy: Meeting regarding the Lectures: By Jerem Cohen, Bronfman taiL Dubbed in English. Williamsburg Observatory Open House: Come see joint J.DJ Masters in Public Policy pro­ Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies, on Theatre, DOG St. 7 & 9p.m. the stars and planets. Visible planet to­ gram, 12:30-1 :30p.m. and 3-4p.m., M­ "The Crusading Theolog of Bernard of night: the Moon and Saturn. Small Physi­ W, Room 120. Clairvaux," Morton 34 1, I Oa.m. Open to Thursday, February 2, 1995 cal Laboratory, located between Jones the public. For information, call X 12172. Swem Savories: A tasting from area res­ Hall and Swem Library. Third floor. Thursday, January 26, 1995 Music: Atthe Muscarelle Museum, 4p.m. taurants to benefit Swem Library, Free. 7p.m. Call X1399 on the night of Town and Gown Luncheon: "Germany Botetourt Gallery of the library, 6 to 8p.m. observing to make sure the event has not After the Elections," Clayton Clemens, Tuesday, January 31,1995 For information, call X13050. been canceled due to clouds. Associate Professor of Government, Uni­ Training Session: One-hour sessions on versity Center, Chesapeake Room, connecting to the Internet, logging on to Friday, February 3, ]995 Monday, February 6, 1995 12:15p.m. W AMI and gopher service. Swem Movie: "Interview with the Vampire." Le Amicus Nouveau est arrive Please submit your entries for the Amicus Events Calendar to Monica Thurmond (2L) or the Amicus hanging file. Entries may include activities sponsored by law school organizations, main campus or community events.

contestants were winnowed ing of several contestants. Said won the ski trip to Wintergreen. the free trip to the Caribbean. SEA from 6 down to a small number of in­ one student, "If the Virginia Bar Due to the weather, Ramsey The real winner of the night was I L Jeff (Bob Marley) creasingly petite women and sawall this limbo cheating, sev­ was given the option to trade his was Public Service Fund. PSF Almeida, whose flying dread­ Bryan. The crowd was amazed eral students' careers would be ski trip for free golf at Winter- uses all the profits from the party locks dazzled the crowd. as Bryan maintained his balance over before they started." Sev­ green. Although some suggested to finance stipends for law stu­ The other contest was the and contorted his sizeable frame eral others expressed fears for that Ramsey create a new type of dents who w;mt to work in public highly competitive limbo com­ under the limbo bar, but he lost the future dignity of the s·port. biathlon, underno conditions will interest jobs over the summer. petition. Bryan Fratkin (3L) de­ out to this year's most limber At the end of the night, the Wintergreen permit Ramsey to Although no totals have been serves special mention. As the latent lawyer, Rebecca Shinnick. winners of the Sea and Ski con­ combine the two sports. An as- tabulated, tum out for the Sea limbo bar continued to drop Some members ofthe crowd test were announced by Ted tonished Amy Vreeland, a gradu- and Ski Party was significantly closer to the floor the numerous were stunned by the blatant cheat- Atkinson. Ramsey Taylor (2L) ate student in Sociology, won higher than last year's event. judiciary are in a position to educate the sions." Lacy said she has enjoyed the time she LACY from 1 public as to the role of the legal system in Understandably, Lacy was not at lib­ has spent at M-W, and wants to remind judge simply because she is the first their everyday lives." erty to discuss Bottoms v. Bottoms, the students not to neglect their personal lives woman on the court, but only under cer­ In reflecting on the tendency in some custody battle between a small child's in the pursuit oflaw school goals. "Main­ tain circumstances. 'If you do fine, the courts to allow the public more and more grandmother and lesbian mother and the taining support relati onships with family answer is no' if you mess up, the answer insights into their private deliberations. most publicized case currently on the and friends shou ld not be lost in the may be yes," Lacy said. Lacy expressed mixed fee lings and dis­ court' s docket. She did say that Jhe court struggle for grades and jobs," Lacy said. Lac has received ad ice and support cussed the need for judges to balance the expected to issue a decision in Bottoms b ''Friends and fami ly are the ones that help from Justice Sandra O' Connor someone principle of confidentiality against the June, however. you keep it all in perspective." \ ho should be ery familiar with the need for public isibilit to maintain the pressures on Lacy. She said O' Connor court s credibil ity. think there's a little bit of an actor in all of was a . er gracious" \ oman with whom "There is a difference between appro­ LYMAN from 4 us. especially him,' Jonni reflected. she has spoken about "what it's like to be priate confidentiality and clande tine op­ saved up their box tops and sent them in Jonni is currentl turning her back­ the first woman on the court." eration ... . Part of the currency of the with a quarter and got a law degree." So yard into an arboretum so there will be Based on her schedule of publ ic en­ judiciary is publ ic upport. and there is a Jonni thought she would go to the source "no lawn to cut." She also enjoys oil gagements such as the Fello'vvship at M­ need for justices to be visible to further and "see exactly how it is they got their painting and has taken classes in the Art W, it seems likely that Justice Lacy will be justice as a concept."' Lacy said. "I don't degrees." Department as we ll as in Petersburg. Her as much remembered for her views on think, howe er. that open discllssions As the Legal Sk.ills Program Adminis­ \ ork is currently on exhibit on the wall civic involvement as for the historic qual i­ wou ld necessarily further any public goal.·' trator. Jonni find the job confusing at behind her desk in a painting of an idyllic ties of her appointment. She is a regular [n a similar ein. Lacy said she re­ times. but not as intense as her past jobs. country landscape. lecturer at high school and college cer­ spected fo rm er U.S. Supreme Court Jus­ "Jim [Moliterno] is very gracious. very Jonn i is the stepmother of th ree sons. emonies around the state. and feels that tice Thurgood Marshall's right to open considerate and the new dean has made Her household also consists of .. two dogs the judiciary has a responsibility to ad­ his personal papers soon after his death. me feel like I. make an important contribu­ and two cats who are probably more dress the widening gap between the mi­ but was concerned about their possible tion here." spo il ed than my stepsons," Jonni would nority ofcitizens who are active in political effect upon cases mentioned in them. par­ Last year, 2Ls met Jonni's husband; like all women in the law school to know and civic affairs, and the growing major­ ticularl since many of the cases repre­ Ted. when he role-played as Client E. that the 21 year- old (described as 6" I' and ity who are not. sent the leading law in arious fields. Ted's usual day job is in the Telecommu­ gorgeous) is looking for a girlfriend. She 'A lot of schools don't teach govern­ "Detailed accounts [of them] may under­ nications Department of the College, but is currently conducting interviews be­ ment anymore," Lacy said .. We in the cut the percei ed impact of those deci- he enjoyed his two performances. "1 tween scheduling the 2L trials. THE AMIcus CURIAE SportS " Monday, January 23, 1995 15

A Duck Out of Water Writer tnakes value judgements based on pers9nal attributes By Alan Duckworth one is predicting a blowout. the Orange Bowl. #1 beat #3 in ball? Just a thought. tact him so he will know where Well, winter break is over Why? The Ste e Youna Stan #3's home town. End of story. However, there is finally to buy tickets forthe later games. and I am back for my final run at Humphreys dual is one big rea­ Hockey someth ing positive in baseball to You know, the games after Duke goodoldM-W. Andguesswhat? son. Another is the inabilit, of I can't believe it. A strike write about. Mike Schimdt was is eliminated by FSU in the 8/9 There's plenty of sports news to the San Diego defense to stop a was settled ." The two sides actu- elected to the Hall of Fame. The game on Thursday. right about, finall, . That remains passing game. Neil O'Donnell al ly sat down and compromised. Hall continues to demonstrate its But seriously, this is the first true even with a self-imposed had a great game against them, Gee. what a novel concept. I high standards by only electing time in nine years that Duke has ban on mentioning the Trial of passing for over 300 yards. If wonder what would happen if Schimdt, the greatest third base- fallen out of the top 25. The Orange Julius. which is just be- Bubb Brister's former backup baseball tried this technique. in­ ball of all time. No other player good news for Duke fans is that ginning. So let's get started. can do that, what will the winner stead of going weeks without came close. including 300 game theNITwill prol?ably give you a Pro Football offour consecutive passing titles talking to anyone but ESPN . We winners Phil Neikro and Don home game. And ESPNhas rated Well, we are down to two do to them? The only logical might actually have a season this Sutton. Duke's football recruiting class teams. The 4gers and the Charg- conclusion is that Steve Young year. But, let's not dwell on the As much as I would like to tops in the ACe. ers. I was half right in my pre- is going to Disneyland. negatives. Hockey is back. Now see Nuckse in the Hall, he has Pro Basketball season predictions; I did "pick College Football the sport needs to try and reclaim never really struck me as a player Perhaps Duke basketball fans San Francisco for the Super For the last few months, we the momentum it had from last 6fHall of Fame caliber. Schimdt, should tum their eyes tothe NBA. Bowl. And I did pick the AFC have heard an endless outcry for year' s Stanley Cup playoffs. on the other hand, could almost Grant Hill is the early favorite West winner as their opponents. a playoff system or at least a With a relatively boring basket­ do it all. He hit for power and for Rookie-of-the-Year. He is I just thought Denver would win championship game. Those of ball season this year, hockey has drove in a lot of runs. Further- being compared to Michael Jor­ the AFC West. you who expect me to add my a chance to try to grab some new more, although his offense gets .. danandmightstarttheNBAAll­ Who would have thought San voice to this cause are going to . fans. Let's hope that the short­ all the attention, he was a great Star game. For Duke fans, Detroit Diego would do 'so well? Hell, be disappointed. Why, you ask? ened season will allow height­ defensive player, winning ten even has Johnny Dawkins: even after they won their divi- Not for any silly reason like actu­ ened intensity and create an early Gold G loves. The only weak- The NBA has decided to con~ sional, they got no respect. They ally allowing student-athletes to playoff atmosphere. ness in his game was a relatively tinue an excellent idea that they were over a touchdown under- be students. No. my rationale is Baseball low .267 career batting average. started last year. Instead of the dogs to the Steelers. A Steeler much more important. A playoff Try actually talking to each But he always seemed to come Old Timers Game, which was player has already announced his system would definitively crown other instead of the cameras. By up with the big hit. Even now, he slow, painful to watch, andregu­ Super Bowl music video. Well, a champion. Without contro­ the way, am I the only one who is still providing excitement. He larly filled with injuries, the NBA half right isn 't bad. versy, what would all the sports-. wants to slap -eon Fehr every has invited Pete Rose to his inau- . has a rookie All-Star game, con­ The 4gers have already been writers write about? Soccer? I time he opens his mouth? guration into the Hall. Want to sisting of the best rookies who installed as prohibitive favorites. don't think so. With less to write Did anyone ever think the bet whether Rose shows up or do not make the regular All-Star The opening line has ranged from about, some sports reporters day would come when hockey is not? game (all the good rookies ex­ 17.5 points to 19. That is the might lose their jobs and that is a better run than baseball? Not CoJlege Basketball cept Grant Hill). The game is biggest line in Super Bowl his- bad thing. just is hockey's management First, I have to do a. favor for wide open and exciting, provid­ tory, including the Bills' four Now to put my two cents in smarter than baseball's, but so is my roommate. David Pinkowitz ing a chance for everyone to see appearances and the first three on who should be national cham­ hockey's union leadership. How (3L) wants any Duke fan with the stars of tomorrow. See you SuperBowls. Literally, every- pion. Nebraska beat Miami in about letting hockey run base- ACC tournament tickets to con- next issue. Amicus computer-like rankings Sleepin' Dog.s' Long-Awaited Tribute; Nicknames abound By Neil Lewis a" Guy and two short touchdown passes EDITOR ' S NOTE: ForJailingtorankthe from Foster to Bryan Fratkin"ky." Fatter eventual lMJootball champions Sleepin ' QB Pat 'the referees should roll over and" Dogs in even the top five in her preseason Dyson led his team valiantly down the poll, Ali "Don 't You Dare Give Me A field looking for the tie or the win but was Nickname" Silva has been sacked and left shattered and disillusioned as the game replaced by the omnipresent Neil "I Love clock ran out with the ball on the 25. The Nicknames, They 're Back" Lewis. team obviously missed their old center. HA HA HA HA HA! I've forgotten The Dogs' nextgamewasagainstthose " the little people already. Now I have young guys you just love to hate, the 1Ls , power and a column with which to pay led by Jeff Almeida "Kalifornia," Justin back that not-so-smart guy Ted ;'Time" Gilman and Trent "The Fran­ "Theodore" Atkinson. He had better chise" Williams. The" I L's got spanked watch his back. by the veteran Dogs 16-0 although they There was a clean sweep in 1M foot­ did play some fine defense aided by a ball by the law school as the SIeepin' ferocious rush from Mike " French" Dogs captured the men's championship Friedman, and a spectacular interception and the aptly named Two took their sec­ by Williams. A controversial guarding ond consecutive co-rec championship. call brought back alL touchdown and "I've got so many of these damn t-shirts I after a punt the Dogs scored on a II-yard Carter Santos. left in the game and 2) failed to cover the don't know what to do with them any­ Foster to Steve "Standing" Otero. "Floor" Two faced the team led by Joe Tighe spot pass which put the other team on more," said team Captain Lance "A lot" Matt Bissonette iced the victory, stealing "Me Up, Tighe Me Down" full of those Two's two, the Rec Center crew scored . Larsen. a pass at the line and rumbling, bumbling old people from the Rec Center in the easily and unbelievably missed the tying The Sleepin' Dogs, led by QB Russ and stumbling for a 60 yd TO. The Dogs semi-finals and squeezed out a one point extra point as time expired. The key play "Oil Can" Foster, squeezed by perennial consist ofFoster , Fratkin, Bissonette, Guy, victory, 34-33. Following an incredible of the game was Dawn "the dishwashing p~wer Fatter, Drunker & Stupider in Otero, Chris "somebody tum out the" gaffe by Neil "I Like To Play, I Didn't Say detergent" Leoporati' s interception and the semi-finals 17-14 on the strength ofan White, Rich "Ed" Ottinger, King "It 's I Was Any Good" Lewis who 1) Pilnted early 42-yard field goal by Blake "What Too Easy!" Tower and "Call Me Jimmy" the ball inbounds with about 30 seconds See SPORTS on 16 16 Monday, January 23, 1995 THE AMICUS CURIAE entry onto this list, but a most necessity and pragmatism. The is saying by her face and the ner. Disney has always been MOVIES from 11 deserving one. The latest adap­ movie is a little schizophrenic passion she manifests. able to create true family enter- and eccentricities (including his tation of Louisa Ma Alcott's with the first half a naturalistic 8) Speed. The biggest surprise tainment; Lion King is no excep­ affection for wearing women's classic novel manages to tran­ look at this kid's life and the of the year. 1 saw this movie tion. clothes) and wish that more film­ scend the limitations of a second half a ery complicated VERY reluctantly because I am ' The animation is breathtak­ makers would ha e the same love children' s mo ie" or a but engrossing revenge plot or­ no big fan ofKeannu Reeves and ing and the movie is funny and for their work as Wood. ' woman's mo ie" by filling the chestrated by Fresh against his this sounded like an amateurish mo ing. Not a true Disney-clas­ 4) alural Born Killers. Ad­ story with an intelligence, hu­ enemies. What distinguishes the ripoff of Die Hard. But this is a sic but a near enough miss to mittedl Oli er Stone has the mor and grace appreciated b, movie is the oung actor's per­ movie that truly lives up to its satisfy me until the next one subtlety of an .earthquake. But males or females. The entire cast formance which is ne er fake title. By shrewdly incorporating comes along. after sitting through Killers twice, (Susan Sarandon, Samantha and isas complicated as the story. three climaxes into the movie 10)Maverick. The movie was I am now con inced, based on Mathis, Kirstin Dunst Trini 7) ell. Another last 'minute (the elevator, the bus and the too long and the actors invested this mo ie and some of his past Al arado) is first-rate but this is entry onto the list. There is es­ sub\ a ) and neverietting it slov their characters with nothing \ ork (JFK Wall Street The inona R der's mo ie all the sentiall no story to this movie down for a moment, director Jan more than charm and energy. Doors) that he kno\ s hO\i to wa . As Jo, she creates an intel­ but that becomes less of a con- deBont made one of the smartest But for a summer movie like handle the camera better than ligent independent. complicated cern because the viewer is too no-brainer flicks in some time. this, that was all they had to do. an one else working today. character and proves beyond a busy" atching Jodie Foster and 9) The Lion King. This mo ie James Gamer Mel Gibson and True the constant barrage of doubt that she is an actress to be the gorgeous scener . unfortunately proved me right. Jodie Foster apparently had a iolence andjumpcutting can be taken serious I . Hopefully, the What is most amazing about When I first heard that Elton great time while making this deadening after a while. but cadem \ ill agree and a, ard Foster's perfonnance i not that John was writing the music. I movie (Gamer has said he would oody Harrelson 's creep per­ her the troph for Best Actress she portrayed a "wild woman" predicted that 0 erall quality was a sequel today if asked) and it formance and Stone' terrifying come the end of March. who had her own pri ate lan­ going to drop and it did. Unlike showed. This is a movie that is and on target indictment of 6) Fresh. Another intelligent guage but that she manages not Aladdin and BeautyandtheBeast breezy, funny and filled with society' s treatment of criminals mo ie, this one was also little to make it look like a gimmick. (whose music ele ated the story actors that are all genuinely like­ create moments that are difficult seen (it was out for approximatel Foster turns ell into an actual and flowed from it naturally), able. It is also one of the few to get out of your mind after you t\ 0 to three weeks in the fall). person. the songs in this film sound like movies that makes me actually lea e the theater. That can' t be v hich is unfortunate. Director! B the end, we know Nell so top-40 radio. The hindered look forward to a sequel because said for most mo ies or most writer Boaz Yakin tells the story well, wealmostdon tneed Lliam rather than helped the movie. I would like to see these three directors. ofa young kid named Fresh who Neeson to translate for us. One Aside from the soundtrack, actors and director Richard 5) Little Women. last minute becomes a drug dealer out of can figure out what Nel VFoster though, the movie is still a win- Donner work together again. lic Support funding is less than 20 percent nation­ MILLER from 8 In the 30 years since federal funding wide, the figure is much higher for rural SPORTS from 15 down on television violence. But Newt of broadcasting began, its percentage of and minority operated stations which fre­ runback. That interception was the only . invites the karate-chopping Power Rang­ total systeJT1 revenue has steadily declined. quently provide the only access to public time either team stopped the other from ers up to Capitol Hill to entertain the In fact, it is probably true that some public broadcasting programs. In Alaska, for scoring. congressional offspring, and threatens to stations and programs could survive a example, 33 public radio stations provide Two's 33-2 championship romp over eliminate the only service not driven to total elimination offederal support. Un­ a network ·of information and entertain- some other team whose name 1 forget was the bottom by the commercial imperative like the federal government, public broad­ ment to remote areas, many of which have quite anticlimactic. Lisa O'Donald "had of ratings. casting met declining government support no other means of contact with the outside a farm, E-1-E-1-0" led the charge and her Even the critics acknowledge the value with increased fund-raising and staff cut­ world. relentless pursuit of the QB even after the of programs like "Sesame Street" and backs to ensure fmancial stability. Cable is no panacea either. Despite rest ofher team was taking a breather was Barney as alternatives to the typical com­ Important parts ofthe system, includ­ near universal availability (89 of91 mil­ uplifting. The undergrad team wouldn't mercial fare, but public broadcasting also ing nationwide access, would certainly be lion homes have access) cable subscrip­ have even scored if Jeff "Karl" Marks leads the nation in developing educa­ lost. Ironically the losers under a zero­ tions have been stuck at 60 percent for hadn't thrown a backwards incomplete tional programming for the classroom funding plan will be those least likely to almost a decade. Also, cable costs over pass in the end zone while messing around. (serving 29 million school children last be the targets <;>f Republican budget cut­ $200 per year for the average household.' Two consisted of Larsen, Lewis, Marks, year), as well as telec~)Urses for high­ ters. Although so-called "liberal" public By comparison, the investment in public O' Donald, Leoporaii, Chris "Evert" Shea, school equivalency and college credit. affairs programs like "McNeil/Lehrer," broadcasting is miniscule. Toni "Deep" Friess, Anne "A Belle" Ire­ Minority audiences have been largely "All Things Considered' and "Morning The new anti-spending mood in Con­ land (the token 1L) and Julie "1 Showed ignored, or stereotyped by commercial Edition" are sufficiently established to gress is refreshing. But programs should Up Once" Patterson. media. Public tele is ion and radio have fend for themselves innovative children's be trimmed or eliminated based on their Basketball season is underway right helped fill this void with programs like programming ~nd educational experi­ merit, not on their symbolic value. If the now, and the law school tournament ends "I'll Fly Away," "Eyes on the Prize," ments like the interactive "Math line" in­ new leadership really wants to make a Wednesday. My pick is Ivan "Mister" 'TonY Brown's Journal," "Crossroads," troduced in 1994, will be eliminated. statement, why not state that investment Bates's team, Defense, 'if he plays; if he and "Latino USA . ' More import'ant is the loss of nation­ in the youth of our country is at least as doesn't, the third year team Rug Rats led Fact #3: Public Broadcasting Needs Pub- wide access. While reliance on federal important as investing in the elderly. As by Foster and Bissonette will squeak to the federal budget groans underthe weight victory. The two other teams entered, of Social Security, Medi-Care and gener­ Scott "The Love" Boak's I Lentry,Gimps, ous pensions for government and military led by a bunch ofhurt guys, and Almeida's retirees, t-he budget cutters shouldn 't be I L team, will be fighting for the scraps, . turning to one of the few successful pro­ althougl) Almeida's team is clearly better grams serving all Americans as an ex­ than the other two. ample of their resolve. The su'rprise so far of the young sea­ son is that Joe Tighe invoked an obscure amendment to the Robinson-Patman Act = 110 DAYS to break up the third year basketball dy­ Law School Hour nasty, who will not be allowed to play 1M . Fridays, 5-7 p.m. HARASS from 1 together. When asked to comment on the that the harassment involved stalking the break up, most team members simply 200/0 Discount On Food For Students student while she was jogging at night. took the Fifth. These incidents escalated just prior to The SBA has plans for to be held later winter exams, forcing the victim to speak co-ed volleyball and outdoor co-ed bas­ Vir= i~llt to the Administration. ketball tournaments. Anyone with ideas Weclne~cby.!l t=eb. l~t The Disciplinary Board, which is sepa­ for other sports, drop me a note or give me 7-c) ()Ill rate from the Judicial Council, deals with a call. For that matter, 1 can't write this non-academic misbehavior. It is com­ column in a vacuum. If you want to see Green Leafe Cafe • 220-3405 posed of an administrator, professors and your sport or team covered drop me a note students. or talk to me.