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Vol. 30, No. 18 The University of Michigan Law School March 24, 1982 Changes Unlikely in Faculty Mix by John Bulgozdy female, one black male, and one black year's chairman, said the composition a white male with similar "In practice, we try to take a hard look at female. The student body is ap­ of the pool is changing rapidly as a qualifications. minorities and women when seeking to fill proximately 30 percent female and 10 result of changes in admissions at the Where the Personnel Committee may faculty positions. " per cent minorities. top Jaw schools, and more women and not investigate a white male further, a Prof. Philip Soper A major problem in hiring more minorities are entering the pool. Blasi woman or minority will be given fur­ women and minorities, Soper says, is and Soper estimate that approximately ther consideration: the committee may Despite the Faculty Personnel Com­ that there are few women and even 25 percent of the people in the pool contact the candidate's references or mittee's " practice" of taking a "hard fewer minorities in the pool from which today are women, but minorities are read the candidate's publications, and look" at minorities and women when faculty members are chosen. The pool still not well represented. faculty members may meet personally filling faculty positions. it is doubtful of candidates is composed of applicants Because of the dearth of women and with the candidate to determine that the faculty complexion will change who have gone to the most prestigious minority candidates, the Personnel whether he or she is qualified for a significantly anytime soon. law schools in the country, were on Ja w Committee pursues an informal affir­ faculty appointment allhe law school. Professor Philip Soper, chairman ot review or graduated in the top 10 per mative action program involving But once prospective faculty mem­ the Faculty Personnel Committee, said cent of their class, are between the ages procedural advantages for those can­ bers are identified they must be lured to it is a real concern of the faculty that of 25 and 35, and have a demonstrated didates. Soper explained that when a Michigan. Because there are few more women and minorities be hired. ability for legal scholarship. woman or minority candidate is qualified women and minority can­ The faculty presently consists of ap­ Professor Vince Blasi, a member of discovered. he or she receives extra didates, there is intense competition proximately 46 white males, one white the Personnel Committee and last procedural- considerations not given to ee FACULTY, page two Lisa Ward ERA: Laying Senate Votes LSSS Fee Hike by Jeff Eisenberg Senate coffers, an increase of thirty-six from 1975-1976 levels. In addition in­ On Monday night, the Law School percent over last year's operating flation and the proliferation of a Foundation Student Senate voted to send a proposal budget of $28,000. organizations seeking Senate Funding to the Dean recommending that the According to Tam Lotterman, LSSS have further strained the pursestrings. If the ERA doesn't pas~ ... ··We 'II start LSSS fee be raised from five to ten Treasurer, the fee increase is Lotterman noted that the Senate lost all over al(ain ... The f1rst!:.qual Ril(hts dollars per semester. If approved by necessitated by a fiscal crunch which roughly $5,000 yearly in revenues once Amendment came out in 1920. Ha vinR to the Dean, the fee increase will generate the Senate has faced for the last several generated from Hutchins Hall vending do thinxs over isn't anvthmp new for LIS. an additional $10,000 dollars for the years. Real income is down nearly 25% machines when the University signed a We've been having to do 11 for a lonl( new contract for vending services tim~." several years ago. That contract made Th1rd-year law student I 11a Ward, an no provisions for sharing the take with energetic 24-year-old from .\1ufkegon, LSSS . .\1ichll(an, hopes it doe.1n 't take much Senate President Doug EHmann cited lon11er. Ward spent her C'hriwmas break the plight of several Senate funded campaif.1ning for passa/!,e of the ERA in organizations to illustrate the need for Norman, Oklahoma, and mmt of this the fee hike. "A lot of organizations had semester Orf.lanizinR next wee/.. 's ERA to drop projects in midstream this year fundraismg dinner ut tht• law school. simply because they ran out of money," Funds from the dmner "''11/ be funneled he noted. "The Environmental Law into the ERA campail(ns m targett>d un­ Society, for one, has been virtually ratified states. broke since January, and right now, Ward spoke last week w1th R.G. editor there are six or seven organizations Jeff Blake about thl' cumpai}ln and the that have totally used up their responre it has and 1ome11mer hasn't allocation already," he add~. Renerated. Committees also faced the budget Q: H o~ are people rl'sponding to axe this year, particularly the Speakers your efforts? A: I think that a lot of JX'Ople here, in See FEE HIKE. page three a ratified state, feel the ERA is a lost cause and not worth working on. Q : Might it be? Stewart to A: No. I'm not certain we'll gain the three states we need, but we still have to go forward, because even if Hold Court we can get just one more state to by John Fagan ratify, it will let the people m power Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice know there's a unified group out Potter Stewart arrived in Ann Arbor on there. It will be a message that we Former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart at Tuesday's Campbell Monday night and will be the featured are alive and that we better be con­ Court Competition. For results, see page 3. speaker in many classes at the Law sidered when the parties adopt plat­ School during the coming week. forms for the elections. Getting Stewart judged the 58th annual Henry three states is a long shot, but it's M. Campbell Moot Court Competition possible. SFF Coming up Short held here Tuesday and will stay on at Q: How sympathetic are people by Mike Vale the Law School through March 31 as here? Are any men helping? With less than two weeks remaining in this year's campaign, pledges for the school 's Helen DeRoy Fellow. A: More women are helping than Student Funded Fellowships now total $4,000, more than $3500 Jess than was Established with funds from an en­ men, but that's in the nature of the pledged by this time last year. Much more money is needed, according to SFF dowment of the Helen DeRoy organization. Some men are Board Chairperson Elise Bean, to give any meaningful support to the 21 applicants Testamentary Foundation of , inhibited from joining a group with for the grants. The last day to pledge money is Friday. April2. the fellowship brings leading govern­ our title (NOW >. But there are men Past SFF recipients have worked for organizations such as Michigan Legal ment officials to the Law School to helping out. Services, the Connecticut Fund for the Environment, and the American Civil share experiences with students and I've certainly had more women Liberties union of Northern California. With the help of SFF grants, these students faculty. He will also appear at an open make contributions to this thing than are provided with subsistence-level income while working for such organizations. forum on Monday, March 29 from 2:30 See ERA, page eight Pledge forms are available on the table outside Room 100. to 3:30 in the Lawyers' Cl ub Lounge. Res Gestae-March 24, 1982- page 2 Faculty Hiring: Standards Kept too High? from page one among the top law schools for these the problems of hiring more women and people. Michigan has a unique problem One woman felt that class would not be as sexist, minorities is that all the role models for in competing with schools on the East and legal principles would not be explained in them are in government and private and West coasts. practice, and few role models exist in Few people are satisfied with the law terms of male activities, such as comparing the academics. Women and minorities may school's affirmative action program for burden ofproof to afootballfield. not want to return to Jaw schools and faculty hiring. " We recognize that teach if being a student was not a com­ there are problems, but they can be fortable experience. overcome, it just takes more effort," mance. Mulligan thinks an effort should Duquette suggested a woman on the An informal survey of male and said Donna Duquette, a coordinator for be made to identify such people and faculty holds an important position as a female law students revealed that onJy the Women Law Students Association. give them an opportunity to teach at role model: " Women need to see other about half of the students felt that a " Until they get results, they must keep Michigan. women in higher positions. Men need to woman professor would make a dif­ putting in more effort. " The Personnel Committee has under­ see women above them, to get used to ference in their law school experience. Duquette thinks one area in which taken a reading program to broaden the seeing women in positions of power. It One woman felt that class would not be more effort can be made is in the com­ pool from which faculty candidates is good training and good experience as sexist, and legal principles would not position of the availablilty pool. She may be drawn. Committee members for everyone." be explained in terms of male ac­ says the Personnel Committee should recognize it is possible for a person to Soper and Blasi agree on the impor­ tivities, such as comparing the burden expand its horizons and not look only at develop into a legal scholar after ~nce of role models. Blasi said one of of proof to a football field. the top schools and top journals, but graduating from law school, and this is also into areas where women have been an attempt to find such people. Mem­ accepted for years. bers of the committee read all the ar­ Family Law Project Sarah Mulligan, a student represen­ ticles of professors born after 1940 that tative on the Personnel Committee are published in any of eighteen selec­ agrees with Duquette. Mulligan ted law reviews. They also read all the Aids Indigent Women believes that a disproportionate num­ articles published by professors born after 1940 who teach at approximately by Dave Rubenstein SAFE/ House cited limited resources ber of able women and minorities do not Due to federal cutbacks in and the fact that the state of Michigan go to the top schools or write for the 19 different schools. Ar ticles are identified and circulated Washtenaw County Legal Aid resour­ will only help support the victims for review for social and economic ces, indigent women seeking divorce one month as the reason for the reasons. A woman wi th a husband a nd to members of the Michigan faculty who have expertise in the subject mat­ and protection from domestic violence 30 day limit. The FLP has tried to fill children may be unable to move or currently have few viable legal options. the gap left by legal aid which arises commute to a top law school. A ter of the article to see if any of the writers warrant further investigation. when the women are forced to leave the minority or woman candidate also may In the past, even when Legal Aid took safeway house. have limited financial resources and Soper said during the three to four years the program has operated, it has divorce/violence cases, it was a low The shelter contacts the FLP, which have to work while at law school, thus priority concern, often resulting in six then files two complaints, one for the adversely affecting academic perfor- produced seven names- all of white males. month waiting periods. Now, divorce, and another for a criminal in­ If the pool does not produce enough Washtenaw County has only four attor­ junction. Due to Mich igan's no-fault women and minority candidates, some neys in its office, down from 14 five divorce laws, the divorce cases are have suggested that the substantive years ago. usually uncontested, involving no hiring criteria be lowered to allow the The Family Law Project was formed, alimony. When contested, as in proper­ hiring of more women and minorities. in part, to help women facing this long ty disputes, the cases are usually set­ ANN ARBOR'S Thus far, Michigan has not taken that wait. Currently, the FLP is virtually tled out of court. Decisions as to step, although many other schools the only legal alternative the victims custody of children are made by the have. have. (The Legal Aid office is attem­ court, based on the recommendations According to Blasi, "Michigan can pting to create a pro bono referral ser­ of an appointed Friend of the Court. LONGEST vice with the Michigan Bar, but so far more honestly claim they have not bent The criminal injunction aids the vic­ their standards than any other school in this is only a plan.) tims in several ways. Filed under the country." Due to the FLP's limited resources, Michigan Law 552 M.C.L.A. 14, the in­ JWl~ Soper said there is disagreement the organization can only handle cases junction prohibits the defendant from HOUR among the faculty whether the value of involving violence. Often the victims "imposing any restraint on t@ plain­ having more women and minorities on have fled their homes due to repeated tiff's liberty. " More specifically, the - - - ·--- . the faculty warrants lowering the beatings, to the safety of a safeway defendant is prohibited .from "entering OLDEST PIZZERIA hiring standards, although he indicated house, where protection and counseling the plaintiff's premises," and from ---·--- that currently the faculty does not en­ are avaihible. Fleeing is often not a removing any children from the Finest Pasta Dishes dorse such a position. realistic <1ption. custody of their legal guardian. Also, in the past, police officers have Open for Lund! Blasi and Soper share the view that "The woman cannot just take off Dinners until tOO A.M. lowering the substa ntive hiring stan­ been wary of getting caught in the mid­ because she often has legal obligation dle of volatile and emotional ·"family" dards would create an unpleasant to provide visitation rights," according situation where the person so hired disputes. With criminal charges filed to Chris Br zezinski of the FLP . however, the police do get involved. Cottage would feel like a second-class citizen. " Husbands may use 'visitation' as a Mulligan takes issue with this time to harass their wives." When the women· are forced to position. Mulligan said the purpose of Even without children however, the leave thesecurity of the safeway house INN affirmative action is not to benefit the woman often cannot get out of the they need to get jobs and new homes. The FLP is attempting to remove one 0 law school's reputation, but to change situation by themselves. "It is not as society radically. Mulligan believes simple as just walking away," says Br­ more barrier in their way. Until the Bar comes up with some type of pro bono W.dFORS~ that one large component of that is zezinski. "We have had cases of abuse ~\.e• Cf/~~ related to sheer numbers, and this ad­ which have gone on for 12 years or program. the FLP is the only chance ditional component should be con­ more.'' these women have. ~ ·$2.65 t sidered in a hiring decision. ,::, ...... SANDWICHES·--- PIZZA R€G€NCYTRAV€L INC. STUDENTS FACULTY STAFF Individuals or Greups / Domestic or International MAJOR C.REDI T CARDS HONORED "we can arrange ;ob interview f light for yo u" HO TELS • CAR RENTALS • CRUISES "Satisfying Your Full Travel Needs with Friendly Persona lized Service" CALL Convenient Locotion: 601 E. William 665-6122 (CORNER E. WILLIAM & MAYNARD) · ANN ARBOR Res Gestae-March 24, 1982-page 3 Senate Fee May Double from page one More News Committee, the Social Committee, and of a referendum was the concern that the Res Gestae. The social committee's s.uch a referendum might fail. He noted budget was pared more than fifteen "asking students to vote themselves a Journal Selects New Staff percent from last year's allocation, for­ fee increase is a risky proposition-it's I cing the Senate to charge admission at like asking people to raise their own Gare Smith was named last week as Editors- Joel Goldberg and Stephen some parties for the first time. taxes." He added that Senate was con­ Editor-in-Chief of the new editorial Woodbury; Articles Editors- Anne Lotterman noted that the proposed cerned that a referendum would only staff of the Journal of Law Reform. Dayton, John Reiman and J. Greg fee increase would be the first in ten draw a twenty to thirty percent turnout, Michelle Hacker Gluck was named Whitehair; Associate Editors- Ken­ years. "If the fee had been increased at a nd that many of the students voting Managing Editor, and Barbara Yound neth Crawford, Victor Fillippini, a steady rate since 1972, this would would not realize how badly the the Administrative Editor in the staff Christopher Graham, James Green­ represent an annual increase of seven organizations and committees are hur­ change. Other editors include: Note berger, James Hall, Frank Judge Ill, percent ting. Editors-Kathy Erwin, Paul Ham­ Sarah Mulligan, John Mussman, Bar­ Nonetheless, he conceded that one burger, Alan Hoff, Michael Miller, ton Peterson, Dwight Rabuse, Jody Last fall's budgeting process was a reason that the Senate declined to sub­ painful experience. and you really had Daniel Slone and Barbara Strack; Toyer, AI Van' Kampen, Linda Wakeen mit the issue to the students in the form Research and Development and Craig Willis. to sit through the meetings to ap­ preciate the predicament that we're in." A NEW LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI PROFESSOR WADE McCREE will Although he cautioned that the DIRECTORY has been published which speak to Project Community students specifics of how tbe,new income would Notices includes the names, addresses, and and other interested persons on his be spent will rest with the new Senate educational history of more than 13,500 years as Solicitor General and his per­ body to be elected in April, Lotterman living law alumni. It is divided into ceptions of the current Supreme Court ATTENTION: U.J.A. HATIKVAH predicted that much of the money will three sections: alphabetic by name, on Monday March 29 from 6:30 to 7:30 CAMPAIGN SOLICITORs-All cam be set aside for investment. One geo-alphabetic order by city and state p.m. in 2235 Angell Hall. paigning should be completed by March possibility would be to purchase showing the name and class year of 26, Friday, and pledge cards should be several video games to be installed in each alumnus, and a complete list of delivered to either Nancy Welber, DISCOVER THE HISTORY of the lounge in the basement of Hutchins each graduating class since 1860 Barry Rudofsky or Mark Kowalsky by Detroit's labor struggles on Saturday, Hall. " We want to build up our revenue maraked to indicate which members the same date. Thank you for donating April 17, through a tour conducted by producing activities so that we will are deceased, and, in a few cases, your time and effort to make this year's Labor Routes in conjunction with the have a solid, independent base of finan­ graduates not thought to be dead but campaign a successful one. National Lawyers Guild. This labor cing to insulate us from future cost of temporarily "lost." history tour includes a · slide show living increases," he said. he also ad­ Any senior may purchase a copy of presentation, a bus tour to the sites of ded that the current Senate members A NOl\flNATIONS MEETING for next this directory for SS.OO. The directories labor struggles in westside Detroit, as envisioned that one third or more of the year 's officers of the International Law are available in the Law School Fund well as a viewing and presentation of additional funds would be passed along Society wiJI be held Thursday, Marach offices located in the basement of the the Diego Rivera murals at the Detroit to committees and organizations for the 25 at 2:30p.m. in Room 220. If you can­ Legal Research Building ( Room Institute of Arts. 1982-83 budget. not attend the meeting and would like to 160-162). They will be sold on a first­ The cost of the tour is $7 for students make a nomination, please give your come first-served basis. and unemployed persons, and $8 for all nomination to one of the ILS officers or others slip it.under the ILS office door, Room THE PAD LUNCHEON guest this week Reservations for the tour must be 313 in the Reading Room, by Thursday. will be Athletic Director Don Canham. made by Monday, April S. Call 763-2300 A cocktail party to meet the ILS can­ The luncheon will be held in the Faculty or 761-8178 or come by the National dldates will be held on Monday, March Dining Room, Thursday March 25, at Lawyers Guild Office to make reser­ Action SportsWear 29, from 4:30-6:00 p.m., place to be an­ noon. Both members and interested vations or for more information. nounced. ILS Elections will be held students are invited. March 29, from 2:30 to 3:30 in the THE LSS SPEAKERS Committee is FACT.ORY sponsoring an open forum with the Lawyers' Club Lounge. NEED MORE INFORMATION on the Honorable Potter Stewart on Monday, Women and the Law Conference? Come CLOSEOUTS marach 29, from 2:30 to 3:30 in the to a brown bag lunch on Wednesday, THE ALPHA DELTA LAW FRATER­ Lawyers' Club Lounge. Swimweor, NITY invites all law students to its Fir­ March 24 at noon in the faculty dining st Annual April Fool's Day/ Member­ room. Carpooling will be arranged. If INTERESTED IN TAKING THE Footwear, ship Drive Kegger. Festivities star t at you are interested in transportation to D.C. BAR REVIEW COURSE in Ann Bodyweor 4:30p.m. in the Lawyer's Club Lounge. the conference but can't make the lunch, Arbor? Contact Uene Fisher at 996-4069, Anyone interested in becoming a mem­ drop you.r name off in the WLSA of­ or Elise Bean at 761-9025, or sign list on 663·677' ber of PAD is especially encouraged to fice by noon Thursday. There will also Placement Office Bulletin Board as 406 E. Liberty attend. Initiation will be held sometime be information for those who have not soon as possible. We need about 15 2 blocks off State St later in April. registered but would like to do so. people to offer the course in Ann Arbor. Campbell Winners statute requiring· balanced secondary Call in your order Bar Special Marina Park and Keith Hesse school instruction of creation science 663-4636 Frosted came out on top in yesterday's Cam­ and evolution science. Pick up 10oz. pbell Moot Court competition before a The cases were argued before former in 15 Mug packed Room 100 in Hutchins Hall. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter minutes Finalists in the competition in­ Stewart, and current Second Federal cluded Ma rina Park, Keith Hesse, the Ci rcuit Court Judge and Michigan Law team of David Tachau and Tim Hoy, School graduate Amalya Kearse. The and the team of Elizabeth Bottoroff and Campbell bench also included Ninth Ann Arbor's Finest Pizza Esther Widowski. Federal Circuit Court Judge J. Clifford Opposite the Diag at The winning performance marked a Wallace, Law School Dean Terrence Campbell victory for the hypothetical Sandalow and Professor Vincent Blasi. 338 s . S tate Street Bell's Pizza Ann .A..rr.bor Serving Gleek, Italian and .-..+can Cuish,. two 12 oz. Cokes with any pizza For Your O.ini"' Plu..re Our Hause Specialti..r. or Mousaka, Athen ian Chicken, Stufftd Grape Lenes, Athenian Lamb, $2.00 off any large pizza Spinach Pie, Sagmki; ..nd must refer to RG. speci~l when ordering Beer offer expires May I, 1982 Cocltteils end Enjoy 716 Packard at State 995-0232 EX1ensive Our Wine List Sicillen Pizu Free delivery after 11:00 ~.m. NOW DELIVERING RICH MILKSHAKES Res Gestae-March 24, 1982- page 4

The University of Michigan Law School Oninion Jeff Blake J eff E isenberg Editor Mana~ing Editor What's With the R.G.? Colleen Hanlon Joe Hardig To the Editor: Jim Loots We feel it is about time the R.G. make room for F.L.P. had a panel discussion of Spouse Abuse Opinion News the Family Law Project. Many law students do that was well publicized and well attended, but not know what we do. The Family Law Project is not covered by R.G. We recently had a benefit Dave Rubenstein a law student organization which provides legal dance with the support of LSSS. An R.G. Peter Jackson photographer was there and took quite a few pic­ Arts Graphics aid to indigent victims of spouse abuse. Law students have an opportunity for a less struc­ tures, what happened to them? Instead, a picture of the Barristers makes front page! Judah Garber Paul Engstrom tured clinic-type experience. We are doing Features Photography valuable legal work in the community, but we What is the problem? Is it that you identify are having a hard time getting the R.G. to spouse abuse as " just a women's issue?" Your recognize this. coverage of the Women and the Law conference Rick Olshansky Sid Wiener Last term, one of our volunteers submitted an has been equally dismal. Note your condescen· Sports Advertising article which was never printed. Early this term ding title on the one article you printed on the we suggested that you do an interview or article Conference "Motown Makes Room For on F .L.P. We were told to submit another article, Barb Zabs Women!" Barry Rudofsky which we did. This article was radically cut, the Copy Business Manager print size reduced, and placed among the For your education, spouse abuse is not "just a notices. women's issue." Men, as well as women are vic· At about the same time, an R.G. reporter did tims of physical abuse. Abusers' lives are ruined Staff interview two F.L.P. volunteers. He also talked as surely as their victims' lives. Children are the OareTully Todd C hambers to Legal Aid of Washtenaw County and SAFE ultimate victims, often growing up to be abusers Mike Vale Scott Dew HOUSE- the local shelter for battered women. or abused themselves. many male law students Jam le Zimmerman Casey Rucker We had almost despaired of this article ever recognize this-some have become F.L.P . volun­ John Bulgozdy reaching print, but on March 12 I was again ap­ teers. The police, the Courts and, yes. attorneys proached by this reporter. He had, in fact, writ­ must deal with this problem on a daily basis. The R« Cnrat rs publbb4 '14CI~ hasn't appeared. Instead, there is an interview only way for F.L.P. to get coverage in R.G. is to concerning an anti-Nazi march which will never form a softball team. happen (see Nazi Rally Riles Student, R.G. Christine M. Brzezinski Cough it up 3/ 17/82). That's news!? Coordinator of F .L.P. To Support SFF Rucker's Reagan Rap Reamed The Student Funded Fellowship Campaign is To the editor: integrated lending arrangements followed by in· in trouble. Contributions are lagging at slightly Last week our suave President was attacked in ternational bankers such a declaration would more than half of last year's level. We view the the pages of the R.G. in an eccentric piece en­ have severely restricted the flow of capital to the titled "The World is Loser in Reagan's Chess East rather nicely. SFF's chilly thermometer outside Room 100 with Game." The winsome Casey Rucker writes of As for the pipeline, our steadfast President has dismay and urge students to warm it with their 'Reagan's militarism' and 'America's quest for exercised nothing but restraint in the unhappy contributions. military SUP.eriority' over the U.S.S. R. The affair. In fact, the Reagan administration has We know. Times are tough. Students loans author further speaks of increased military yet to turn the key it holds in its hands that would be spending and 'a new tough altitude' designed to shut down the pipeline. Quite simply, General may bard to come by next year. We're not make the world safe for democracy or, the Electric possesses the compressor technology saying that everyone can afford to contribute author adds tellingly, at least for capitalism. around which the pipeline project revolves. The even the one percent of their summer income Casey Rucker then rightly notes that 'platitudes alternate suppliers in Europe bold their licenses that SFF is suggesting. But, for most of us, that about nuclear war are obvious and tiresome to to the technology from G.E. The key point is that excuse doesn't wash. most of us' yet concludes with sputterings about the license contracts provide that licensees be 'the last chapter in the history of life on earth.' bound by U.S. Government export regulations. Of the nearly 1,100 students who attend this Casey, you have done your President wrong. The administration response is currently pointed school, a grand total of 58 have thus far come C.R. notes with moral indignation that the U.S. towards the exemption of foreign subsidiaries through with an SFF pledge. In light of the fact is not content to defend itself against an and licensees of U.S. concerns from the export that a substantial majority of students earn good abominable ideology and social system by controls applied to U.S. companies in the wake of summer incomes, that figure is appalling. military means alone. No, America, hegemonist the crackdown in Poland. nation that it is, intends to utilize economic and C.R. should be able to sleep soundly at night Students seeking jobs with government and political sanctions in its defense as well. Rucker knowing that President Reagan, despite his public interest law organizations have it rough condemns specifically the cut-off of credit of ap­ militarism and satanic quest for world enough this year. There are very few of these proximately $750 million dollars to Poland and domination, is handling the East bloc debtors jobs to go around in the first place and they will the U.S. government's pressure on our allies to with kid gloves. Yet, C.R. should rightfully be pay even less t h~ n in the past. And these students back out of the Soviet pipeline project. After aU, denied the sleep of complete innocence for giving $750 million is just a drop in the bucket of a SIOO our President a bum rap. All the more so as the have to worry about student aid and loan cuts billion dollar deficit. President is weekly excoriated by the editors of just as everyone else. How puzzling. Surely C.R. is not arguing that the Wall St. Journal for not pursuing the course SFF currently has grant applications from 21 such credit be extended to Poland when the Poles C. R. abhors. In view of forecasts of Soviet Bloc students. With present funds , that would allow are still short on the $500 million in back interest total net debt to the West in 1985 exceeding Sl25 them to subsidize these students to the tune of that was due February 15th? In fact, over 500 biiJion dollars they see things differently: banks are holding $2.5 billion of Poland's paper " The Soviet system does not disturb us about $200 apiece. That's a week's living expen­ which had to be rescheduled this year while because it cannot pay its bills. The Soviet system ses for most of us-not much help. Poland's net debt to the U.S. is well over $20 disturbs us because it has devoted its economy SFF provides a direct benefit to the student billion dollars. In light of the fact that between primarily to a military ouildup that threatens grantees. For some, this summer will be a first $500 million to $1.5 billion of a $5 billion budget­ our national security. Because of inherent inef­ busting supplemental appropriation to the ficiency and the demands of its military sector, step to a career in the public sector. For others, Commodity Credit Corp. is marked for a Polish that economy is staggering. Its dependence on SFF makes affordable a social contribution for bailout one would assume the point at which the the West is epitomized in the Polish debt, and the -one summer before heading on to more lucrative U.S. government ceases subsidization of bad effects of default in inhibiting further credits and private practices. banking practices has long since been passed. As trade would be a i>unishing blow at its most for the Reagan junta acting ruthlessly insofar as vulnerable point." But it isn't just 21 students who need our help the credit needs of the East bloc consider the " More broadly, default would make clear the with SFF pledges. It's the agencies who employ CCC offer to pay off as guarantor $71 million message that we will no longer finance a these students, and ultimately, all Americans dollars of Polish loans- $400 million guarantees military machine that threatens our own well· who need legal services but don't have the means due this year- did not precede as is usual the being. It would prove that we are not without to pay for them. declaration of the borrowing country's default. means to exert in this struggle, nor without the You can bet that the decision to shortcircuit will to do so.'' We feel that all students who have the means normal procedures followed in such cases was Brian Dervishi '82· have a responsibility to pitch in. made by the administration. In the contractually ~------~ Res Gestae- March 24, 1982- page 5 Forum INETEEN EIGHTY FOUR isn't vote listened and failed to object. That here quite yet. But with two years was aU there was to it. The Blitzes N never asked anyone to throw a brick or and half an administration to go, it's Kicking the Constitution commit any illegal act. Yet they were beginning to feel damn close. wrong and they were punished for their Last week the United States Senate thought·crimes. passed, by an overwhelming majority, In his dissenting opinion to Dennis v. a Reagan-inspired bill rthrow of the Federal Government. (117089) . renewed by its progenitor's author or others. Notice that one need buy no bombs to Meanwhile, though, the wise student be affected. One need not even march in might do well to watch his words, lest the streets or shout nasty epithets at student loans be the next victim of passing Capitalists. Just believe in In 1979 both the Blitzes lost their jobs, quoted by Nat Hentoff as saying that he righteous government restrictions of another system, and tell your friends. in part due to their union activism and wanted to make sure that people "op­ belief. Voila, no public aid from CETA. political activities. During the summer posed to our system" would never There's a calendar here on the waU, Federally-funded job training, CET A of 1980 they applied for and were accep­ again benefit from CETA funds. but sometimes I'm not sure what year it included, seems doomed anyway, so ted in CETA job-training classes in Then, one late afternoon in October, is: 1951, 1982 or 1984., The date on the this blip on the constitutional rights brick masonry and carpentry. This Rep. Daniel read the amendment into Congressional Record is 1982, but the radar might not engender a lot of public outraged Congressman Daniel, who is the record while a sparse floor voice words within it make me wonder. concern. But the precedence of denying any right or privilege to an American citizen merely because of his or her association with a comoeting value Indian Cultures Have Claim to Values system is profoundly discohcerting. by Casey Rucker A pine tree or an eagle does not make than science, and is subject to any " Have you now, or have you ever Russell Means, the Native American mistakes, it fulfills its purposes without number of attacks. As with any been ... " The words are mere echoes in leader, spoke last Wednesday at Hut­ having to make a choice. Man, on the generalization, it can be riddled with ·the Capitol hallways. Words spoken a chins Hall, as part of a symposium other hand, found himself deprived of exceptions and counter-arguments. But generation ago. Words invoked more sponsored by the Native American Law such instinctual purpose. So dwellers in the thrust of Means's analysis rings often these days in comedy than in the Students Association. Among the many the Western Hemisphere sought to true. It cuts through the distinction spirit of terror they were intended. I've points Means made was the contrast learn from the pine tree and the eagle between civilized and primitive read the transcripts and books, heard between Western-Hemisphere and how they could make the right choices cultures, by suggesting that the tapes. Yet in the America I grew up European cultures in reactil)g to their themselves. They used their self­ "primitive" people made as in-an America where the people won own self-consciousness, from consciousness to regain connections sophisti~ted a choice of culture as an eventual if belated victory over the prehistoric times to the present. with the natural world, and to find their "civilized" people. war in Vietnam- free speech has Thousands of years ago, human own place in its harmony. -always seemed real to me. McCarthy beings found themselves endowed with European pe<>ples responded very Today, when the desire for European­ was just a bad dream. a new kind of consciousness, which differently to the same phenomenon of style development has spread In America now, though, it seems you enabled them to see themselves as self-consciousness. They saw it as an throughout the world, it is easy to ~n think what you wish only so long as distinct from the world around them, advantage, a conferral of superiority on equate the success of such ideas with a you don't care about feeding your and to make independent choices about their species. Europeans used their cultural superiority. We should remem­ family. The amendment quoted above their behavior. By reacting differently self-consciousness as a license and a ber that European culture does not has its genesis in the Martinsville, to this new self-consciousness, the tool to exploit and manipulate their have a monopoly on wisdom, and North Carolina constituency of peoples of the world differentiated world and to establish their own Means's analysis provides a Congressman Dan Daniel. Dori and themselves. Means' evaluation of these domination. Their effectiveness at framework for a more balanced view. Allen Blitz live there with their two reactions provides an illuminating per­ manipulation may be seen in such " Modern" ideas and technology are young children. Dori was raised a spective on the roots of different disparate expressions as the green here to stay; people cannot turn the Quaker. She qualifies for membership cultures. revolution and the practice of slavery. clock back to pre-mdustrial times. But in the Daughters of the American Man was to create harmony in his role by acknowledging and incorporating Revolution. She is a pacifist. She is also In the Western Hemisphere, people as dominator, rather than to submit to the value systems of other cultures, a member of the Communist Workers felt their new consciousness as a void: the harmony of his natural environ­ Westerners can develop a cultural syn­ Party. Her husband is not, but he alone among the creatures of the world, ment. thesis leading to a fairer , pan-eultural openly embraces the Party's goals. only man was without a clear purpose. This characterization is more poetry world view. Res Gestae-March 24, 1982- pag_e 6 Arts A New American Dream ------Jim Loots

Films dealing with the 1960's, already and turbulent time as a backdrop for a far enough in the past to be history for a most human story. It's all there: the generation, tend to fall into one of two trappings of the times. Jack and Jackie groups. First, there are the retrospec­ beachballs bouncing along to the top-40 tive visions (most notably the brilliant tunes of AM radio. Burning flags and Return of lhe Seacaucus Seven. which men walking on the moon. But against delve into the mindset of a generation in this intricate tapestry are played not search of the "truths" which shaped it. grand images, but rich characters who On the other side are the jaunty just happened to be shaped by the 1960s romanticized tales of collegiate exploits gothic. and bohemian lifestyles, remembering Tesich's marvelous characters the era already as the "good old days" emerge from their carefree high-school before corporate lifestyles corrupted days in East Chicago already affected Jerry Rubin and George Carlin began by their immigrant stock and the hosting the Tonight show. emerging rebellion around them. Wh ile Four Friends, a first collaboration temptin~ fate and fearful of co-option between writer Steve Tesich (Breaking by the middle class, each of the charac­ Away> and director Arthur Penn (Bon­ ters strives in differing ways to achieve Meanwhile, the other three friends changing dynamics among them in the nie and Clyde), avoids either of these the hallmark of the sixties: identity from whom the title is drawn somehow context of a deeper love. Reminiscent categorizations, or at least melds them within a changing America. escape from supporting roles and grow of Remarque's " Three Comrades." into a film which does not try to be the As the young Yugoslavian immigrant to their own destinies. David (Michael each of the males is at one point in lust sixties, but instead takes that confusing Danillo, Craig Wasson's eyes are ever Huddleston) is the obese Jew whose or love with Georgia, though none can filled with the elusive image of the vain attempts to break away from his figure her out. American Dream his steelworker prescribed life as an East Chicago mor­ Director Penn lends both power and father bas already buried in cynicism. tician serve as delightful counterpoint precision to the film , driving in the He defies his father and attends Nor­ to Danillo's wanderlust. The congenial visual images he made famous in thwestern, where he finds in his af­ jock Tom (Jim Metzler) departs for "Bonnie and Clyde," while not ignoring fluent roommate a sincere warmth and Vietnam, a stoic soldier whose accep· attention to detail. The ubiquitous discovers the ultimate hypocrisy of tance of fate borders on ennui. strains of Dvorak's "New World Sym­ equating wealth and success. Finally, there is the free-spirit phony" follow Danillo's adventures, Georgia, played lovingly by Jodi while images of flashing lights and fire Theien. Convinced that Isadora Duncan render clearly the immigrant's harsh is living through the sexual revolution confrontation with the latter-day world. gold bond within her, Georgia cavorts through Finally, in a touching reunion with his soul-searching escapades dancing as parents, the aura of Danillo's im­ e!l:>fA ~'li Lrn\S freely as her mentor. migrant life is blended with his new Their periodic meetings in the film image of the American dream, leaving ·down garments ·IMther cleanong. come at typical junctures (weddings, an impression so strong that Studs • waterproofing , free monor rapaus • reunions), but always show the Terkel would be awed.

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Law in the Raw Compiled by Matthew Kiefer No Black and White Issue First Things First The Price of Humility U.S. Rep. John Dingell, whose Detroit area district Law School Dean Terrence Sandalow , speaking includes several auto plants, recently told several of before an ABA group last month, lamented the ill ef­ Japan Air Lines, operator of the DC-8 which his colleagues on the Democratic Environmental fects of the fall job hustle on the quality of legal plunged into Tokyo Bay last February 8, killing 24 Caucus that the chief trouble with the American education. Calling the annual recruiting period "the people, has yet to be sued by the relatives of a single auto industry came from "the little yellow people." single most importan~ impediment to legal victim. And, in spite of strong evidence suggesting Alter several startled members said: "What?", Mr. education," Sandalow admitted that "we do not pilot error, it is unlikely that it ever will be, due to a Dingel repeated: "The little yellow people. You have a satisfactory solution to that problem." Some Jo·ng-standing custom among Japanese cor­ know- Honda." After a pause, Tennessee Rep. law school wags sense the early rumblings of porations of making generous individual cash set­ Albert Gore responded: "There's something you another 'recruitment week' plan being considered tlements with the families. In addition, Japan Air have to understand, John. Those little yellow people by the faculty next fall. Lines' president is following custom in visiting most have built a plant in my district that is giving jobs to ABA Journal, Apri/1982 of the families personally, apologizing profusely a lot of white.and black people." and paying homage on his knees before the Bud­ -New York Times, March 16, 1982 Call of the Wild dhist fun eral altars in the homes. - New York Times. Marach 10, 1982 The Georgia hamlet of Kenesaw (pop. 7,000) has Wolf in Sheep,s Clothing? . recently passed an ordinance requiring every An Oakland County Circuit Court judge has ruled household within the town limits " to maintain a that a 25 year old criminal defendant, described as a firearm, together with ammuni tion therefor." The Quote of the Week "genetic male," who is in the process of undergoing ordinance, which prescribes no penalties for its "The inclination of lay.oyers as a group to turn every a sex change, can be incarcerated at a women's violation and has no enforcement mechanism, was social issue into a· legal question requiring judicial prison if sentenced on a felony conviction. The hailed by Dent "Wi ld Man" Meyers, the owner of a resolution can only exacerbate the public's defendant, who has pled guilty to the charge of local Civil War memorabilia store. "Our country suspicion of the legal profession. " -Attorney possessing stolen women's clothes, feared he would was built on people being able to defend themselves General William French Smith, in a recent speech not be safe if sentenced to Jackson. in the wild,'' Myers remarked. to the American Bar Association. - Detroit Free Press, March 19, 1982 -Detroit Free Press, March 17, 1982