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VOLUME IV, ISSUE ONE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 1993 TWENTY PAGES No inside favorites in search for M-W dean By MICHAEL HOMANS active role wouldn't be Nosinglec.and idate,noteven appropriate.'' fom1er Acting Dean Richard A. SuJiivan said he canceled the Williamson, is the early favorite first search because the tllree in Marshall-Wythe's second finalists, though excellent search for a new dean, according candidates, were not the "right to search committee leaders and fit" for the law school. Sullivan College President Tim Sullivan. would not elaborate, but said he Sullivan bristled last week at is confident "we will be the mention of student successful this year.·' speculation that he canceled the Asked if a Virginia first search last spring, in order connection or ties to William to give Williamson the and Mary are important. opportunity to vie for the position. Sullivan. who has been ''That would be associated witll the school for unprincipled,., Sullivan said. He nearly 50 years. said comment added later, "I remain a deeply -Tom Estes interested observer in t11is dean See HELP WANTED, tlagc 17 W&M celebrates its first Convocation in more than 25 years. See sear h, but for me to take an story page 3. Interviewing and employment trends from the OCPP By STEPHEN THOMAS KING as well as information volunteered by One of the reasons for the decline in One creative solution to thls problem Although figures for the class of 1993 graduates since graduation. emplo •ment rates at the time of and is for law school career offices to jointly are incomplete, Dean Robert Kaplan of One disquieting trend over recent years immediately following graduation is the conduct job fairs. The centralization of the Office of Career Planning and is the lower emplo rment rates among M­ 'dramatic change in the way employers several schools candidates is likely to Placement said that about 70 to 7 5 percent W graduates within the first three months recruit," says Kaplan. Since 1990 Jaw lure firms seeking greater cost efficiency. of last year's graduates are currently after graduation. Within six to nine schools across the board have reported a Although there has been a national employed. months after graduation, employment decline in employer activity. specifically decline in on-campus job interviews, the This constitutes a drop of about five rates are approximately at the same level a decline in on-campus interviewing. numberofinterviewsappears lobe holding percentage points oYer the class of '92 . as among graduates from past years. Firms are less eager to send individual Class of '93 statistics are based upon "Ultimately the percentage ... employed recruiters to different law schools across See JOB WA rTED, page 20 information collected prior to graduation, has remained constant.'' said Kaplan. the region or the country. Mule pub nixed; grex wants tv By SARAH R. NEWMAN desirable usc for the 1ule Barn. Coffee Students li,·ing in the graduate housing shop, convenience store and pub were the complex strongly \'Oiced their desire for top choices. Residence Life staff members better tele\·ision reception at the first Hall now re\·eal tllat \\ithout the knowledge of Council meeting held Aug. 30. the surveyed students. the College had Also re\·ealed at the meeting ,,·ere already determined the use for this plans fonhe Mule Bam. a structure located building as the Bookstore Annex. just behind the complex parking lot. This Attempts by last year's Hall Council space is the proposed site of a College to bring cable television to the complex Bookstore Annex and \\ill sell only law met \\ith disappointing results. At that books. time, theresidents\vere informed by Dc.an As some students may recall from last of Student Affairs Sam Sadler that tlle year. members of the undergraduate local cable companies were unwilling to Business Planning and Strategy class surveyed the law school population and See GREX, page 20 complex residents to determine the most - Inside this issue SBA plans an active school year. Health Center enlarges staff and Left to Ri ght: Serena Carmean (3L), Mike Hirn -Fred Ochsenhirt for M-W. Page 3. changes system. Page 5. (3L), Glenn Faunce (NoL) and Mari a Gallehr (3L) Crossfire debates censorship of An alum s view of tlle joys of enjoy the SBA's Lake Matoaka party. hate speech. Page 9. taking the bar exam. Page 11. 2 Tuesday, September 7,1993 THE AMiaJs CURIAE

From the Editor's Desk • 0 • To those of you who are not strongly about, especially if it is familiar with this newspaper, of timely significance, please welcome to its pages. We hope consider writing an article, or at you will find it accurate, least suggest the topic to us. informative, amusing and TheAmicus also needs people provocative. In fact, we hope to cover local music, theatrical you like it so much that you will and other artistic events. Reviews be moved to lend a hand to its ofon-going productions are most preparation. welcome. Everyone knows there To those of you who are is not a lot to do in the 'Burg. so familiar with the Amicus, we what little there is should be hope you will fi nd that it publicized fully. continues to improve. Last year Ofcourse. the production staff kept us all busier than we cared always needs help during the to be. Important issues like the m:x:kendsbefore the paper comes dean search, the movement to out. If vou know how to use reform the Honor Code and the PageMaker or wish to learn, states' s continuing financial please Jet us know. problems and their effect on the Finally, as much as we try, College and the law school have we simply cannot always please not gone away. everyone. The Letters to the Any solutions will affect Editor column is the most many future generations of law effective way to voice Letters students. More than ever, we dissatisfaction. If you see To the Editor: Williamsburg verified that he of moot court arguments, and need your help to do a complete something in our pages that you As a graduate of the class of had been there throughout the while my teammates Joe and and accurate job of reporting believe is inaccurate or find '89, and one "in the know' month of July. Slowly, it dawned Mike studiously prepared for these and other equally important infuriating. do not hesitate to put about the Elvis lamp which on us that, gasp, THE further arguments, I took my stories. it in writing and/or speak with resides in the student lounge, I ADMINISTRATION had leave and \ entured to the lower In addition to "hard news. " the editor. have been urged to set the record secretly disposed of Elvis east side to "Little Ricky's, " the we are also always in need of The Amicus is YOUR straight for the legions of between the time the bar review store that had Elvis. To make a volunteers to write opinion pieces newspaper. It can only be as Marshall-Wythe students who do students left and students long story short, I got one of the for " Crossfire" and "Featured good as YOU make it. The staff not know the true legend ofEI vis. returned for fall classes. THE two remaining lamps, which was Commentary." These pages are will strive to provide the best (My thanks to Professor Jayne ADMINISTRATION did not identical to the lost Elvis. an open forum for student debate forum possible for information Barnard and John Faber, '89, think that Eh is projected the Elvis returned to Marshall­ and should be utilized to their and opinion, but we need your who both alerted me to the proper image for their school. Wythe amid much fanfare (I'm fullest. Submissions are not input to effectively serve the falsehoods currently circulating Throughout the fall, Elvis' not sure whether the students edited, only spell-checked. If interests of the law school about the lamp.) Josswasmoumedbyall. Tributes were happier that we had won you !\ave something you feel community. Therewereapparentlyat least ran in The Advocate (the the National Moot Court two articles in local Virginia predecessor to the Amicus competition or that we had newspapers last year regarding Curiae), and a collection was returned Elvis). Elvis resided in THE AMICUS CURIAE the origins of the Elvis lamp. taken up to purchase a the main lobby trophy case for Marshall-W~1he School of Law Both of these articles recounted replacement. However, to our some time and was eventually a false and potentially disastrous horror, no Eh is lamp could be returned to his rightful place in "Dedicated to the complete and objective reporting of student news and opinion" account of the Elvis lamp. located. It appeared that the the lounge, complete with a newly According to this tale, an school would remain Elvis-less. donated strand of pearls. And Editor: Leeanne Morris unidentified group of students In the meantime, life did go most importantly, the Managing Editor: Paula H:wnaford bought the lamp. and the first of on. and our National Moot Court Administration learned its Pmduction Editor: Dcbbi Holmes this group to make partner is team (Mike McAuliffe, Joe lesson. Dean Sulli\an (now Assistant Editors: Shelly E,·ans. Alisa Pittman, Monica entitled to come back to the Gerbasi and myself) won the President Sullivan) personally Thurmond hallowed halls of Marshall­ regional competition, entitling assured me that Elvis would not Business Manager: Janet Breckenridge W~1hetoclaimthelamp . Thisis us to go on to New York Cit) for be tampered with again. the finals. It was shortly before I tell this tale so that no one News Rep011crs: Fcatut·cs Rcponct·s: simply not true! The Elvis lamp was our departure that a friend, a.nd will allow Eh is to be reclaimed John Crouch Marc Bernstein purchased and placed in the alum of the Jaw school (Sara by some former student claiming Tom Estes Mark A. Donald Sullivan Shimmels, '88), spotted entitlement to him under the Shelley Evans Alan Duckworth student lounge by a now­ unknown group of students, a short article about the current terms of some pact. As the Michael Homans Suzanne Fitzgerald fad for ''kitsch'' in a magazine. Stephen Thomas King Kerri Gilmore probabl) in the class of 1986. purchaser of the current Elvis, I Yes, that magazine article Jim Love Rich Hricik Perhaps they did ha\'e a pact know that no one may take Elvis mentioned a store in Manhattan Doug Miller Fred B. Jacob regarding the eventual from the hallowed halls of the that sold Eh is lamps. I was Lulit Million Bill Madigan reclaiming of Elvis but fate Marshall-Wythe School ofLaw. intervened to render that pact ecstatic. Sarah Newman Tom Martinchek After our arrival in Fred Ochsenhirt Doug Millier unenforceable. -Elizabeth A. Deininger, When I began my studies at Manhattan, in between rounds Eric Olsen John Osborne Class of '89 Marshall-Wythe, Elvis, adorned Marcia Stuart Da\ e Pfefferkorn Editorial Policy with a long strand of pearls was Sherman Toppin The letters and opinion pages of the Amicus Curiae are Steven Youngkin a happy and apparently dedicated to all student opinion regardless of form or content permanent fixture in the lounge. Sports Gurus: Alan Duckworth. Bill Madigan Opinion articles are not edited for content, only spell checked. But, it was not the same Elvis Letters to the Editor are not intended to reflect the opinion of Photographers: Fred Ochsenhirt, Peter Owen who currently resides there. To Production Assistant: Brett Loney the newspaper or its staff. All letters to the Editor should be the horror ofall Marshall-Wythe submitted by 5 p.m.on the Wednesday prior to publication. Business Assistant: Doug Miller students, when we returned for We cannot print a letter without confirmation of the author's Cartoonists: John Davidsen. Dan Jordan, Jeff Regner classes after the summer of 1988, name. We may, however, withhold the name on request Midwestern Correspondents: Rich Hricik, David Ziemer Elvis had disappeared without a Letters over 500 words may be returned to the writer with a Renaissance Man: Daryl Taylor trace. Those who had studied for request that they be edited for the sake of space. and Kyle Short as Julie McCoy the bar that summer in Tuesday, September7,1993 THE AMicus CURIAE 3 Angelou Inspires• • crowd at Convocation ceremony By TOM ESTES presence at W&M had already been paid The inspirational ~eynote address of for in "fundamental and important renowned poet and author Maya Angelou ways.'' After giving examples of Irish was the major attraction of the first families fleeing the potato famine, Asians convocation held at William and Mary in who built this country and its railroads, more than 25 years. Angelou spoke to an and enslaved men and womenfromAfrica, enthusiastic crowd at the newly resurrected Angelou said, "[Our ancestors] paid for ceremony held Aug. 24. us, and all there is to do is prepare ourselves After stirring the hearts ofher audience to pay for someone yet to come.' ' Angelou with snippets of "love songs" in four then challenged the assembled crowd to different languages, Angelou invited the "spend [their lives] dedicated to liberating convocation participants to reflect on human kind from ignorance. '' words written by an ancient Roman The Opening Convocation also playwright: I am a human being. Nothing featured addresses by newly appointed human can be alien to me. Provost Gillian Cell and Religion "What this means," explained Professor Dayid Holmes. Cell, the first Angelou, ''is that if a human being woman to hold this post at W&M, spoke commits the most heinous crime, I cannot of the school as " a place of respectful say I could never do that. Because I am a com·ersation and listening, a place for humarrbeing and nothing human is alien diversity and ideas·'. to me. And any thought thought by a Holmes, the recipient of the 1993 human being--Sartre, Rousseau--is a Thomas A. Graves Jr. Award for thought that I may have, I may own. In Teaching, first spoke of James Madison' s this way, all vistas are open to me." description ofW&Mas "one of the hopes MayaAngelou addressed students at William & Mary's -Tom Estes Tapping into the community and of America. ' ' Holmes believes that in the Convocation ceremony. tradition themeofthe ceremony, Angelou 1990s W &M remains one of the hopes of told the assembled crowd that their America. SBA seelcs to get students 'fired up' for busy school year By DOUG MILLER out the refrigerator every week. to try to balance them as best as planned for law-school-only those." Participation is the key to the There was a brief discussion possible.'' participation. SBA Intramural " School is a lot of pressure, ambitious agenda proposed by on the merits of a local versus Several committee heads Chair Scott Greco (JL) plans and these events are a great way Student Bar Association nationally known speaker for the reported on first week activities. ~ompetitions in baseball, to release some of that stress and President Kyle Short(3L) during law-school graduation. Short Socia\ committee ~hairs. Brooks basketbalL .nutt;tmtt_ 00'-'1\\~ _\e:n<;.\nl) '' 5.hmU;.aid the organization's first meeting suggested that a local or regional Patten (2L) and Beverly Rebar floor hockey, sand volleyball, The first monthly "Lunch Aug. 25. speaker might be able to deliver (2L) described a busy social waJJybaJJ, racquetbaJJ, tennis, withtheDean"washeldSept.l, "My job is to get you fired a more focused message toM-W calendar that began with the indoor soccer, and golf. "We're with Acting Dean Paul Marcus up!" Shorttoldhisnewexecutive graduates. But Laura Livacarri official welcome back party at going to have to play it by ear," board. "And your job is to get (3L) questioned the wisdom of Lake Matoaka. he said, ''but if we have the See PEP SQUAD, page 13 everyone else in the school fired inviting a local speaker. " !think They are also in charge of the participation we'll do all of up! " the concern '"'ould be that Bar Revie", which they hope to Among the plans introduced William and Mary keeps trying take to a series of different bars at the meeting were a series of to forge a national reputation during the year. The Bar Review Campaign Update '\ SBA Bar Re' iew Happy Hours and we just can't break out ofthis happy hours will feature reduced As a public service for our readers, the Amicus Curiae will at local bars, the "Lunch With local mode." price drinks and free appetizers report on significant developments in the Virginia gubernatorial the Dean" program, an extensive Mark Capron (3L) added, "I with only a small cover-charge race throughout the semester. · series of law-school intramural think there are two concerns-­ at the door. sports, and a new requirement · we want a good speaker and In addition to a beefed-up Republican gubernatorial challenges facing the families that the yet-to-be-elected first someone with some name social calendar, an e>.:tensive candidate George Allen is ofVirginians'' and thus better year SBA representatives clean recognition--and you just have series of intramural athletics are closing in on the lead held by qualified to be governor. Terry, Democrat Mary Sue Terry, who is single and childless, acc.ording to a poll released promptly denounced Allen's Sept. I by Mason-Dixon statement as a campaign ploy Political/Media Research, Inc. designed to distract voters from The poll, which shows an 11 the issues. "It's real sad percent increase in his rating commentar) if his campaign since June, places Allen at 40 has stooped that low,'' she percent compared to Terry's said. 46percent. Terry's46percent Public commentary rating represents a three-point following Allen's statement decline over the same period. generally bas ridiculed the The six-point difference falls suggestion that marital or within the poll's margin of family status is a relevant error, indicating that at this qualification for office. The time the race may be a dead issue ofTeny's marital status I eat. (Daily Press) · had come up only once before in her 1985 campaign for The Allen campaign attorney general when a former continues to back away from Republican state delegate made its recent statements that being a reference to her' 'five ringless married with two children fingers." (Daily Press) makes him "more -Paula Hannaford SBA sponsors Welcome Back party at Lake Matoaka. -Fred Ochsenhirt ,~nderstanding of the /. 4 Tuesday, September7,1993 THEAMIOJSCURJAE Journals get competitive; Law Review loses some funding BY FRED OCHSENHIRT statement of interest as well as a for the JEL must wait until spring according to Review Editor-in­ The Bill of Rights Journal, The first competition for staff writing sample. Editor-in-Chief semester. Selph said she worked Chief Tom Martinchek (3L). however, received a 100 percent positions on the William and Susan Selph (3L) said that the on the JEL during her first year At a meeting last February, increase in funding from the Mary Bill of Rights Journal JEL went to a competitive system and found it an enjoyable and then-Acting Dean Richard Publications Council of the officially opened at a meeting because "the work product and helpful experience. Williamson and faculty advisor College. This funding is in with more than 130 students in cOmmitment wasn't as strong" Law Review loses funding I. Trotter Hardy told the Review addition to $15,000 in new attendance Sept. 2. Thejournal 's from volunteers. The William and Mary Law that additional funding would be equipment provided by the 36 staffmembers will be selected Unlike the other M-W law Review, which expected to available for this year. At the Institute of Bill of Rights Law, based on their performance on a reviews, the Bi II ofRightsJournal e.>.:pand its publication to five end of the summer, however, and new furniture for the bluebook exam. and the JEL are open to lLs. issues per year using additional Williamson informed Journal's office arranged for by The competition is part of a Journal Editor-in-Chief Katie funding, was forced to abandon Martinchek that the money Dean Connie Galloway. With major restructuring of the Horton (3L) and Articles Editor its plans when the anticipated would not be available as the budget increase, the Journal publication. Previously, the Bill Jonathan Rotter (2L) view the funds became una' ailable. planned, but $3,500 oflast year's plans to publish at least two issues ofRights Journal was open to all opportunity for lLs to get The Review had hoped to budget would be rolled over to this year, as opposed to the single students who wished to be a additional education as a selling increase the number of issues to this year. issues published in 1992 and member. Third-years who had point of the Journal. Before the permit publication of more Despite the availability ofthe 199 3. If additional money worked for the journal in the past competition began, editors professional articles. Publishing rollover funds, the Review becomes available, a third issue must also take the bluebook exam provided a bluebook training an e:-.1ra issue each year would abandoned its ex-pansion plans may be published. if they wish to remain on staff. session and tours of the library to have allowed the Review to until funding becomes stable and Selph said the JEL gets its The Journal of interested students. Horton said continue its symposium issue as the permanent budget allows for funding from the SBA, but this Environmental Law also adopted that the Journal "will provide well as publish professional a fifth issue. Nevertheless, year it will ask the Publications a competitiYe selection process early bluebooking experience to articles at a level similar to that Martinchek said that the Review Council for funding. She said for its staff members last year. first years which they would not of other prestigious law schools. plans an 1,800-page volume for Students must take a bluebook otherwise have had.' ' Many ofthese publish more often 1993-94, an increase over See JOURNALS, page 5 exam and submit a one-page First-years who wish to work than four times per year, previous volumes. Professor Levy takes Marshall-Wythe students down under By ERIC OLSEN European-style welfare system. anddiversecitythat was especially notable Levy indicated that Marshall-Wythe's Marshall-Wythe e:-.-panded its summer Courtroom procedure is also more for its Asian influence and accompanying summer abroad program will expand yet abroad program this summer to include reminiscent of England. Attorneys .are restaurants. Travel beyond the immediate again next summer as students will have the first such U.S. program in Australia. called barristers and the judges still wear area took participants to such places as the opportunity to get an in-depth look at Seventeen students from law schools Wii!.S. Kangaroo Island, the Great Barrier Reef international tax law in Amsterdam. This across the U.S., including two from Participants also had the opportunity and other wildlife preserves and national program will be run in conjunction with Marshall-Wythe, participated ina month­ .to travel ex1ensivelyand sample the many parks. Students also ventured to an a tax institute there. lone program beld at the University of unique culturo.l aspects of Australia, New underground opcl. mine, ...vine gt"Q"\ving Marshall-Wythe:; =tablishc.d lhc fin>l Adelaide in South Australia. Facu\t)' Zea\and, Indonesia and Fiji. Ade\aide, a regions and the outback. Levy himself summer abroad program at Exeter advisor John Levy said the program arose city of one million people and the capital spent some time in Darwin, in Northern University in 1967. Programs now exist out ofa longstanding relationship between of South Australia, was "just delightful," Australia, with Aborigines participating in practically any part of the world that the College of William and Mary and the saidLevy. Hefoundittobeasophisticated in all of their activities. may hold interest for a student. University of Adelaide. Levy coordinated the program in which Professor Ronald Rosenberg and five Adelaide professors presented various aspects of the Australian legal system. According to Levy, students enjoyed the program and the perspective provided by the Australian faculty. Nicole Fradette (2L), who participated in the program, added that the Australia trip was surprisingly inexpensive. Exch:111ge rates of $1.47 Australian to e\·cry $1 American made air fare and other travel e:---pensesvery affordable. She said she travelled to New Zealand glaciers. volcanoes and the Southern Alps as well as extensively touring Australia. A course on the comparative legal history of the U.S. and Australia covered such topics as the evolution of judicial review in both systems and the differences between U.S. Indian law and Australia's legal treatment of its Aboriginal peoples. Other courses offered included Land Use and Planning, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Corporate Governance and Business Abroad. The Australian legal system was especially interesting to the American students because although it is based on English common law like the U.S. system, it has developed some peculiarities of its own. Australia has a much more Nicole Fradette (2L) hand feeds one of the numerous kangaroos she -Courtesy Nicole Fradette developed system ofadministrative law, a encountered while on the Australian summer abroad program. necessary feature in a state with a ------

Tuesday, September 7,1993 THE AMicus CURIAE 5 Health Center enlarges staff, begins appointment system By MARCIA L. STUART Appointments, however, will only be student could walk-in to make an chlamydia tests) has been increased from The King Student Health Center has available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday appointment the same day, and be seen $20 to $25 due to cost increases by the changed to a new, appointment-based through Friday. when there is an open slot. Herrmann local laboratory responsible for processing system for student health care. It has also These 9-5 ''office hours'' are the only stated that two-thirds of any day's slots the tests. expanded its staff with a new doctor and times a student will be able to see a are reserved for appointments made the The famous "cold pack" system has a nurse practitioner. physician, nurse practitioner or use the same day, either by call-in or walk-in. also been changed. In the past the "cold Previously, students were seen on a pharmacy other than in an emergency. The remaining appointments are for those pack'' system consisted of students who walk-in basis. Dr. Linda Herrmann, During the other hours of operation, the made in advance. Herrmann noted that could walk in and obtain over the counter Director of the Center, stressed that the Health Center will have a registered nurse the system is geared to be flexible so that flu and cold medicines. The packs were Center is attempting to "improve the on site, with a physician on call. After 9 in busier times, such as during the usual readily available in a display in the waiting predictability of access'' for students, not p.m., there will be no one on duty. Williamsburg flu season, the slots reserved room. reduce the availability ofW&M medical The Health Center is not equipped to for advance appointments may change. Now, the Center has set up two carrels, services. handle serious medical emergencies and Herrmann said the change is not the each with a mirror, a flashlight, and a Dr. Tawni Hawthorne has joined the advises students to use the emergency result ofbudget cuts. Rather, she said the throat chart, where the student is to medicalstaffoftheCenterandisavailable facilities ofthe Williamsburg Community health fee portionofstudentfees increased examine his or her own throat and then for appointments. Nurse Practitioner Hospital, located behind the Williamsburg by $10 per student this year. complete the "cold pack sheet." The Nancy Maul will work part-time handling Shopping Center off Monticello Road. For gynecological exams, Maul will student is to then submit the form to the routine gynecological care. Appointments can be made in person accept appointments for Tuesdays through desk, where a nurse will dispense the The new system allows students to call attheHealthCenterorbycallinga number Thursdays and possibly Fridays if the medicines. in for an appointment, thus reducing dedicated for the new appointment system, need develops. She is authorized to This new process is supposed to enable waiting time and enabling students to 221-2998. The Center has a scheduling prescribe a limited range of drugs the Center and the student to determine if manage their time more efficiently. nurse for the new system, although including birth control pills. a more serious problem exists which may Herrmann also noted that the system will appointments can only be made during The Health Center will verify any require a physician's attention so an help prepare students for life outside of office hours. Students can leave a message pregnancy, but does not provide prenatal appointment may be scheduled. the College, as most students will utilize on the appointment number answering care. Herrmann noted that the physicians The Center also has a suicide-attempt an appointment system for medical care machine, but will not be able to make an are also available for gynecological exams, protocol in place and will keep an in the future. appointment through the other staffat the at student request, to handle more complex emotionally-distressed student overnight The Health Center's hours are 8 a.m. Center. cases. for observation, although any life­ to 9 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 9 While the walk-in process has been The fee for the standard gynecological threatening situation will be directed to a a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. officially eliminated, it is possible that a workup (pap smear, gonorrhea and hospital. W &M Bookstore misprices law books; students get refund BY LEEANNE MORRIS Bookstore's new computer Bookstore had stocked 1992 Some M-W students paid too system, a new employee used the constitutional law supplements muohfor lawbooks at the Colleoe retail oost instead of the when 1993 :rupplcrncnt.3 were Bookstore because ofan error in wholesale cost to calculate the available. data entry on the Bookstore's price. Blanks said that when the new computer system. "I was really alarmed about bookswereorderedinJune,only Students who purchased it," said Blanks. She said she the 1992 supplement was Evidence, Administrative Law first changed the prices in the available. The Bookstore did not and Employment Law books computer and then informed the learn until toolatethatanupdated prior to Aug. 20 were law school administration current supplement would be overcharged and should go to immediately. published at the end of August. the Bookstore for a refund. (See First- year students also were The Bookstore is stiJl waiting for sidebar). disappointed to find that the deliveryofthenewsupplements. Mona Blanks, assistant Book: VVrong Right Credit director of the Bookstore, said Price Price she is very grateful to the Winker & Ried $33.33 $26.70 $6.63 anonymous female law student Evidentiary Foundations who questioned the competitiveness of the price of Koch $14.70 $11.75 $2.95 the Willbom book. Admin. Practice & Proc. "That was the first inkling we had that there was a problem Will born $60.00 $48.00 $12.00 with pricing,'' Blanks said. Employ. Law C & M Blanks said the Bookstore mark up on books is 25 percent Willborn $13.40 $10.70 $2.70 over their wholesale cost. When Students were overcharged for books -Peter Owen Employ. Law Fed/State Statutes the prices were entered on the at the College Bookstore

huge in getting the Journal plans to publish an additional of the Journal,'' said Rotter. research for the JEL' s JOURNALS, from page 4 accepted so quickly," Rotter said article in each of its two issues. Horton said she fears that the professional authors. Horton and Rotter also attribute Other changes in theJournal faculty will defer approval of the Horton said she hopes to the problem with s·BA funding the high quality of articles are also anticipated. A proposal credit proposal until after a increase cooperation between the is that the amount is variable, submitted to the Journal to the was recently made to the College waiting period to observe the editorsofallM-W journals. The and she hopes the JEL will be influence of the Institute. Curriculum Committee to quality of the issues published Law Review recently shared its able to get more money if it is The JEL also has contracted provide class credit for by the newly restructured subscriber list with the Journal, funded by the College. with Westlawforselectedarticles membership on the Journal. lf Journal. with which the Journal hopes to Journals gaining recognition to be listed though they are not approved, members would be Selph said there are no plans supplement its circulation. " The The Journal has recently on-line yet. The staff is also e>.:pected to research and write a to try to get academic credit for Law Review has been drawn attention outside M-W negotiating with LEXIS. Selph student note. No such working on the JEL. However, wonderful,'' said Horton. She and is now referenced on both said the JEL will try to get more requirement exists now. she has asked Professor John would also like all ofthe journals LEXIS and Westlaw. "The professional articles as opposed ''The credit proposal has Levy to offer Legal Clerking to work together to improve their influence ofthe Institute has been to student articles this year and been behind all the restructuring credit to students for doing overall quality. 6 Tuesday, September7,1993 THE AMicus CURIAE Law Watch By JOHN CROUCH The state will appeal. (Law Week). last Monday during the trial of two Waste-site owners need not pay the EPA CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LIABLE, W.VA. CAN'T FUND ABORTION: Lakeland, Fla., men who set black tourist for "monitoring" their private cleanup, NOT CRIMINAL: A Minneapolis jury Charleston judge John Hey told West Christopher Wilson on fire. State Attorney the Third Circuit ruled (National Law imposed $5,200,000 actual and Virginia to stop using federal Medicaid Harry Coe then took the case, his first in Journal). North Miami cannot bill cleanup $9,000,000 punitive damages on the funds for abortions, saying the Hyde 22 years. Coe had objected in court to one costs to a landfill owner's counsel, even Christian Science Church for the death of Amendment barring such funding was ofRegister' s questions, loudly whispered though he owned 15 percent of the untreated diabetic Ian Lundman, 11. constitutional. Deputy Attorney General suggestions to him, and offered his job to company and was corporate secretary, Lundman's father sued the mother, her Deborah McHenry claimed the state a witness's lawyer as part ofa plea bargain. said Alexandria federal judge Thomas new husband and their church, which constitution's guarantee of "substantive Register, 39, has prosecuted Ted Bundy Ellis. Since the man was busy with legal only believes in healing through prayer. rights to safety" required the funding. and other serial killers. (Washington Post). work and advice, Ellis presumed he had A juror said the boy had no choice of (Washington Post). FREE-FORM DISCOVERY: ABA no authority over operating the landfill. treatment, so his religious freedom was VIRTUAL INTEGRATION: Thirty­ members' oted to ask Congress to rescind (Virginia Lawyers Weekly). not an issue. (Washington Post). In a nine years after Brown v. Board of a rule requiring spontaneous revelation of LAW STRETCHED, ANIMALS similar case Massachusetts's highest court Education, Kansas City schools will all discoverable information, in place of SAVED: Changing or degrading a reversed another couple's manslaughter racially "integrate" via video and old-fashioned interrogatories and creature's nesting, feeding or breeding convictions. (National Law Journal). computer networks. Federal judge Russell requests. Critics predict burgeoning grounds is an illegal "taking" under the BASEBALL MONOPOLY Clarke appro\ ed a plan for students from "satellite litigation" and sanctions Endangered Species Act, the D. C. Circuit CRACKED: Baseball's antitrust various schools to meet "a few times a demands. The rule takes effect Dec. l. held. The Act defines "taking" as "to exemption does not protect a conspiracy month'' to plan joint class projects, and (Law Week). harass harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, to keep the San Francisco Giants out of collaborate by modem. All parties in the URBANITY DEFENSE: An "urban trap, capture or collect.'' Ignoring the Tampa, said Philadelphia federal judge current desegregation suit oppose the plan. psychosis'' defense has had some success construction rule of ejusdem generis, the Jolm Padova. Discarding Justice Holmes's (National Law Journal). in two Milwaukee murder cases. court upheld a regulation defining ''harm'' ruling that baseball was not interstate CROSS-BURNING LAW Proponents claim that constant violence as killing or injuring a threatened or commerce, Padova confined the STRICKEN: Maryland'~ Court of in the home and on the street makes endangered species, which can include exemption to the near-obsolete reserve Appeals overturned a 27-year-old law people develop violent reflexes and' 'slip "significantly im pairing essential system, which bound players to their which made cross-burning a felony when into a psychotic state" when stressed. A behavior patterns.'' The court also said teams. (Lmv Week). fire departments are not informed or judge admitted urban psychosis testimony the rule is not vague, as it applies only FALSE ABUSE REPORTS: Texas will property owners do not consent. Chief in the guilt phase of Turhan Taylor's when death or injury occurs. (Law Week). begin prosecuting parents and relatives Judge Robert Murphy said the law was murder trial, resulting in a manslaughter PREVENTIVE DETENTION: who make false child abuse reports. A not a content-neutral safety measure, plea-bargain. Taylor claimed he had a Washington's Supreme Court justified study found that 60 percent of this year's because the state did not regulate other flashback to being gang-raped in prison, the indefinite jailing of' 'sexually violent accusations were groundless, occurring fires at all. (Washington Post).· and imagined his victim was threatening predators ' as a civil commitment mostly in custody battles. (USA Today). HARSH: Computer whiz Shawn Quinn, him. The defense did not work for Felicia procedure, e>.:plaining that the state does ANTI-GAY LAW CANNED: A 17, pled no contest to asking a hit man to Morgan, 17, who killed a girl for her not punish them, but simply protects the constitutional amendment banning local kill a classmate for $5.30 and ~ven Atari leather coat, but ajud1;c made her eligible public from them until a cure can be gay rights laws violates federal equal cartridges. Houston judge Denise Collins for parole in l3 years, the legal minimum. found. They are kept in prison mentat protection guarantees, Colorado's imposed ten years' probation, requiring Fairfax lawyer Bruce Fein dismissed the wards onty because they are too dangerous Supreme Court held. ''Amendment 2,'' Quinn to cut his daily computer sessions defense as "arguing that individuals are for mental hospitals. (Westlaw). approved by voters last fall, barred human from eight hours to 90 minutes. Quinn just helpless overtheircircumstances and FLA. TEEN UN-DIVORCED: rights ordinances from making gays a objected, but Collins ruled it was ''tough don't have a choice over their destiny. "Gregory K.," 13, had no standing to protected class. The court said legislative noogies. " (National Law Journal) . That's nonsense." "Suburban psychosis" divorce his mother, said an intermediate procedures must be neutral between D.A. QUITS AT LYNCHING TRIAL: is ne:\.1 UVA professor John Monahan appeals court, upholding termination of groups, without extra barriers against Veteran prosecutor Len Register resigned predicts . (Trial) . her parental rights on abandonment measures helping one particular group. and stormed from the courtroom in tears WASTE LIABILITY LIMITED: grounds. (National Law Journal). Spalding leaves OCPP to become substance abuse counselor By SHELLEY EVANS Spalding said, "There was only Upon reading this headline, one computer in the Admissions the most likely response from Office and OCPP had none. The theM-W students whoha,·c come scheduling of students \\·as done into contact with Linda Spalding by hand. There were about 50 will be ' What am I going to firms for on-campus intervie\\·s do")" all year round as compared with Spalding's last day of about 175-250 presently.·' employment was Sept. 3. She She also stated that students worked at Marshall-W)the for are more serious as a result oft he 11 years helping students behind job market being tight. " It 's not the scenes in admissions and job like the '80s where people were placement. To many students a lot less focused than they are she has been a caring. now," Spalding said. indispensable link between the Working with anxious study and practice of law as students in OCPP led to an Placement Coordinator in OCPP. interest in counseling. After obtaining an " Counseling is the aspect of undergraduate degree at the OCPP I enjoy the most--working UniversityofMichigan in drama. with the students one-on-one,' ' Spalding began her career at M­ Spalding explained. W as the Admissions Assistant For the past six and one-half After 11 years Linda Spalding left Marshall-W)1he to join the staff --Peter Owen to Dean Faye Shealy. She years she has been working at of the Colonial Services Board in Graffton. remained in that position for five night towards a masters degree years before moving to her job in at William and Mary. She Services Board-Mental Health News). years she has made good OCPP. achieved that goal last spring, as a Substance Abuse Counselor Spalding said she \vill miss Comparing her work in 1993 and is now leaving M-W for a in the Grafton office (located the students, faculty, See ByeBye, page 7 to the conditions in 1982, full-time position with Colonial between Yorktown and Newport administration and staff. In 11 Tuesday, September7,1993 THE AMicus CURIAE 7 International law scholar Rakesh Bhalajoins M-W faculty By LULIT MILLION Economics from the London Marshall-Wythe School of School of Economics and a Law welcomes its ne\\'est faculty Masters in Management from member Assistant Professor O xford Unive rsity, Bhala Rakesh Bhala. Bhala, a former completed a J. D. at Harvard Federal Reserve Bank attorney, University. During his third year will teach International Business at Harvard Bhala published a Transactions and an Institutional book on banking entitled Financial Law Seminar this fall. Perspectives on Risk-Based Bhala received several offers, but Capital. chose M-W over other schools. Bhala is excited by the ' 'What attracted me to Marshall­ potential to develop the Wythe was the general excellence international law program at M­ oftheschool. l waswrysurprised W. He would like to see M-W and honored to get an offer to offer more courses, create better come here.' ' Bhala said he was links with companies and firms also attracted to the ''friendly overseas and improve various and supportive scholarly exchange programs for law community" among the faculty. students. Bhala knew that he wanted to ''Law students will teach ever since undergraduate increasingly fmd that they cannot school. "The thing that attracted avoid international work. It is --Peter Owen me to teaching was the ability to critical for us to think Rakesh Bhala brings his many degrees to M-W. be an intellectual entrepreneur. internationally in orde r to Teaching is not a function of compete in the world,'' Bhala offices overseas. Bhala views author of articles appearing in Oxford while both were pursuing client demands, it's a function of said. international law as a non­ the Malayan Law Journal, Masters in Management. He runs mutual interests," he said. Lav

San Francisco offers gay lawyers supportive environment with the San Francisco district different forms of gay rights Committee on Gay and Lesbian far removed from Virginia in attorney'sofficethatsummerand legislation, San Francisco legal Issues, the San Francisco Bar more than a geographic sense. By Tom Ma rtinchek live on the West Coast for the employers, both public and Association sponsors annual People in thispartofthecountry, first time in my life. private, often acti,ely seek gay events, including receptions for undoubtedly the majority, Priortodcpartingformy 1992 Ask an) law career counselor andlesbiancandidatesandoffer gay and lesbian summer continue to invoke personal summer internship in San or San Francisco lawyer, and innovative benefits packages as associates. Attendees have religious beliefs in condemning Francisco. a n article in the they will tell you that the San incentives. included hiring partners and any progress toward basic civil Washington Times caught my Francisco Bay Area is one of the The influence of the gay other law firm representatives rights for gays and lesbians. eye. In support of congressional tightest legal m<1rkets in the community in San Francisco is interestedinprojectingapositive Others simply would dismiss action to oYcrturn the District of country. Several factors evident in City Hall and in other image to gay and lesbian law these developments as an Columbia's domestic contribute to this condition: the parts of the public sector. Gay students. For the interested law aberration limited to San partnership law, a local clergy lingering recession that has men or lesbians occupy two of student, the resources and Francisco, and perhaps a few membcn\·a rncd that the measure struck California particularly the eleven seats on the Board of contacts offered by the other large cities. As usual, would turn D.C. into "another hard, the top-rated area law Supervisors, two seats on the Committee can provide the though, California sets the trends San Francisco." schools like Stanford, Boa It, and school board, and numerous crucial edge needed to find a that America eventually \viii Throughout that summer I Hastings that saturate the market judgeships. Other local agencies position in a highly competitive follow. would hear similar fears with their own students, and similarly reflect the significant job market. In the past five years alone, expressed by supporters of the finally, the high quality oflife in proportion of gays and lesbians By soliciting advice from gay the numberofstatesand localities anti-gay Initiati\es that the Bay Area that attracts top law inthecity. Thedistrictattomey's contacts, the law student can thathavebroadenedthescopeof proliferated on the November students from around the office and the police department, determine from the start whether their civil rights legislation to ballots in states like Oregon and country. The M-W law student for instance, have implemented a firm provides a suitable work include their gay and lesbian Colorado, and in localities like interested in working in San a sort of informal "affirmative environment and benefits for its c1t1zens has jumped Tampa and Gainesville, Florida. F ranciscoalso must contend with action" program in an effort to gay and lesbian employees. dramatically. While cities like While I have never visited the 3,000 miles that separate increase the number of gay and Typical of many of the law firms Richmond or Norfolk may never Gainesville or many of these Williamsburg from the Bay Area, lesbian employees. The district in the city, the firm that employed achieve that level of tolerance, other places, the prospect of and the fact that no Bay Area attorney that I worked with me this summer has a lesbian SanFrancisco'sadvancesingay becoming another San Francisco, firms actively recruit here. explained that the office not only partner who is working to e:-.-pand rights indicate the direction in as far as I could tell, did not For the gay or lesbian law seekstomakeitsworkforcemore thefirm'sbenefitpackagetofully which other medium to large sound all that horrible. After all, student, however, San accurately reflect the city' s coverallofitsemployees. Other metropolitan areas may be the city has attracted multitudes Francisco ' s powerful and population, but also seeks to firms have already implemented headed. In the long term, San oftouristsand new residents with extensive gay political and legal ~trengthen its relatio=hip with comprehensivehenefit programs Francisco orovides a model for its breathtaking beauty, communities provide valuable various population groups. for their gay and lesbian the rest of the country to follow comfortable climate, and a well­ networking opportunities to help The level of the gay employees that approximate the in order to take full advantage of educated and tolerant population. fmd the scarce positions that may community's organization in the benefits available to heterose>.:ual the wealthoftalentand creativity These same qualities influenced elude otherjob-seekers. As more private sector is similarly emplo)ees. within the gay and lesbian my decision to accept a position and more states and cities enact impressive. With its own Of course, San Francisco is community. It's a A1AD T11orld Reality ofpublic servic~ funding: only wealthy need apply By MARK A. DONALD gener<1lly knom1 that students earn $250 It is my honest opinion that the only an entire summer of work for relocation Welcome b;1ck old friends and new. per week. $2 .5 00 for a fulllO-week stint. people who should plan to apply for PSF back and forth, and for all my expenses, This nine month meeting oft he Fmternal This is :111 \l·ell and good. Such <1 deal funds arc those of us fortunate enough to I got eight hundred bucks

The Amicus Curiae offers an innovative solution to M-W Ask Miss Demeanor parking problems. Just clip and copy this "idiot ticket" [Due to a sudden and severe same capacity as subsequent Perhaps you should try my and place on appropriate vehicles. case of religious fever, Anita years in order to secure a constant famous "M-W Tips for Being Libido will no longer serve on head buoyancy in case of a crash HipandGettingAlltheHoneys," r••••••••••••••••··~ the Amicus staff She has over water. The heads are used available in paperback and audio­ 1 reportedly become a nun and is as. flotation devices when seat cassette. PARKING VIOLATION: now li1·ing in rural England. But cushions cannot be reached. Or To start, dress appropriately. not to fear--back by popular should I have just said, "uh Men should wear khaki shorts, a demand is Afiss Demeanor. Huh"? striped, button-down shirt, no ! D I I: I State License Plate Number I --ed.] 3. These students are hand­ socks, and any brown shoe will I I picked by Fred Lederer. do. Do this and immediately go Dear Miss Demeanor, to Paul's and talk randomly about I have been hearing many Dear Miss Demeanor, soccer. This should be a great upperclassmen saying, "The I have been here fo•· some beginning down the road to !DI i Time .Make of Automobile heads keep getting bigger." time now, and can't seem to get Babcland. 1 1 What docs this mean? Is it a date. All the couples walking Women should start with a I I something I need to know? around seem to make it so easy. tight miniskirt, tank top, and a 1 This is not a ticket, but if it were within my 1 --1 Lin the Dark Am I just doing something dark tan accented with gold I power, you would receive two. Because of I wrong? jewelry. Shoes are optional. I your idiotic, inconsiderate, feeble attempt at I Dear Cranious Blotus (Get used --Missing Out Then, host a party at your home parking, you have taken enough room for a to Latin). in honor of a major sporting I I Don't worry, this statement DearWish-You-Had-Some-Too. event. The type of man you want I 20-mule team, two elephants, one goat and I about the heads is not some dark Can'tgetadate? Hum. that's to attract should dictate what : a safari of pygmies from the African Interior. : secret that you need to unlock the very odd. especially here at M­ sport you should have a party for. 1 You have received this as a reminder of the 1 mysteries oflaw school. Instead, W. Totellthetruth.l'mataloss. For example, if) ou are ti)ing to consequences to others of your laziness. it simply refers to the composites Normally it's not a problem for find a big, meaty jock, have a 1 1 hanging on the SBA wall. The our students here. I mean, look football party. If you seek the 1 Besides I don't like dominereeing, egotistical 1 real puzzle is why the heads keep around you. This school is a cuddly, sensitive type, baseball 1 or simple-minded drivers and you probably 1 getting bigger. veritable meat market. Couples is the way to go. If you want 1 fit into one of these categories. 1 Several theories have are pairing off right and left. I someone who \\ill be glued to I I emerged to explain the mystery have never heard a complaint your couch from November to I I wish you an early transmission failure I of the growing heads. I have about the lack of companionship March and whose most I (hopefully in heavy rush hour traffic). Also I listed the top 3 that are subscribed until now. This school is a hotbed stimulating conversation to for your benefit. (every pun intended) of illicit consists ofstatistics and strategy, : may the fleas of a thousand camels infect : 1. A mid-Atlantic o11thrt>.:~k s:exandunbridledpassion. (O.K. hold an NCAA basketball party. your armpits. of hydro-encephalitis. perhaps that last one went a little With practice, you will be able to 1 1 2. As the brain mass density overboard.) Don't let the adage pinpoint the exact event in a CoiHpliiHeltfs decreases. increase in brain that Williamsburg is the home of given sport likely to attract the : With My ~ volume is needed to maintain the chastity and pancakes fool you. man you are looking for. ''Are you my Mother?'' The Dean~------~ Search revisited

B~· JOHN OSBORN sticky situation. How can a duckling After reviewing their ethics grades, Marshy was quite impressed with the and MARC B£RNSTEIN expect to crack the top 25 if she's got no Marshy became painfully aware that the credentials of these three candidates. Once upon a time there was a little mother? search would drag on for quite some time. Candidate One had extraordinary duck named Marshy Widgeon who lived And so. Marshy Widgeon embarked She thus employed an interim staff mother fundraising skills. Legend had it that he the typical, if unremarkable, life of a on a journey to find a replacement Mother. on a one-year retainer. once raised enough money to buy a new duckling--playing in the shoals of the Alas. having no knowledge of the new The search continued while Marshy's sports car by selling eggs to chickens. Chesapeake and well cared for by her LEX IS ''Mother' ' database, Marshy was future remained in limbo. On the advice Candidate two had vision. He had mother, Titmouse Swallow. forced to resort to research techniques of of the Office of Mother Planning and once predicted the exact time that a Unfortunately for Marshy and her old. She proceeded to ask all who crossed Placement, Marshy mailed several bowling ball would fall on the foot of a hopes for a normal, if unnaturally her path, '' Are you my Mother?'' and was bazillion random solicitations and tried woman in Wisconsin. Coincidence?? extended. childhood. Titmouse, quickly subsequently arrested two times for her best to network \\ith informational Candidate Three had connections. She tired of caring for our wallflower heroine, vagrancy. interviews. Soon thereafter, Marshy could throw a party that even the Kennedys hitched up her skirts and stepped across While out on parole. and with the job received a torrent ofresponses concerning would be proud of. (Not thatthe Kennedys the street to attend to Marshy'sbigger and market the way it is. Marshy eYentually the replacement Mother position ever had much pride when they party). more ac omplishcd sister. Witless A. corralled a horde of unemployed law (ob\·iously a fairy tale) and eventually This array of fine talent raised some Moron. This left our heroine in a rather school graduates to vic for the position. narrowed the field to three finalists. vel)· big and difficult questions for our vel)' small and simple bird. What exactly was she looking for in a Mother? All three Si111plex Dictum by Jeff Regner candidates had attributes that Marshy felt she needed but none was perfect. She . NAtJI I pondered her two options. She could . 'SP£CT rrs either choose an imperfect candidate now CAU.f£ WOvYlE.J../ or wait another year or two to see who would surface. Recalling the high school multiple guess maxim ''When in doubt, choose C .'' she formulated a new option. Marshy's wisd01;n told her to keep cycling through interim mothers until evei)·body that wanted to have ''Mother for a Day''

See MOMMY?, page 11 Tuesday, September7,1993 THE AMicus CURIAE 11 Life After Law School Exam hell in Cowtown, USA Ode to a Marshall-YJ)lthe Worm . · As the winds blow cold, and the skies turn gray, By RICH HRICIK We then boarded the bus to go to the You 'II fumble -with your law books, and brief your lives away. Greetings from the real world! Arena. What a great idea someone else Like worms in a corpse, you'll gnaw at the law. Thought you got rid of me? Well I'm drives and parks. No hassles! Well, the But it doesn't sustaineth. It's dry and it's blah. back, like a bad lunch. Due to your bus was a reno\ated M*A*S*H vehicle Torts of sorts, Contracts and Civ Pro hell. amazing editrix' s keen eye for talent and from World War I and had only 2/50 air. Empty stomachs grumble, hearing a silent dinner belL desperate need for more ·writers (This Meaning with two \\·i ndows down at 50 An afternoon awaits, snug in a warm wooden carrel, means you- get invoiYed!), she has asked miles per hour you had air conditioning. Like falling offNiagara in the belly of a barrel. moi to write about life after law school. We finally got there and finished the In three years, 36 months, one-thousand days I couldn't think of a better way to start first day of essays. In a word: *&o/o@$#! You'll emerge from this womb, your wings all ablaze. then to tell you the story of my bar exam. It really wasn't that bad, I took numerous Let me first thank the Supreme Whores of cigarette breaks and tried to annoy the But butterflies are not made of such stuff as this. Ohio for putting us through three days of hell out ofeveryone by remaining calm. It Ex-pect a life as a moth, in worsted wool--what a bliss. their crap. Anyv.'ay, I drove to Columbus, worked. The day finally ended and that' s Circling the world, seeking pale, yellow porch lights, that thriving metropolis (CO\\town) in the when the real fun began. Descending on the victims, turning wrongs into rights. middle of nowhere, with Chris Klym The bus driver, who was also from One hundred, two hundred, three hundred thou'. ('93) and Jessie Erwin ('92). No, Jessie World War I, had managed to get us Making money is so sacred, it's a professional vow. didn't fail, he is a music agent and didn't parked in. We were sitting there in a The years will wiggle by and your heads will tum white think he needed the bar license. packed bus, at least 120 degrees, not And you'll gaze to the heavens, stars shining bright. So as we were passing the manure moving an inch. Five minutes, ten minutes "Tell us, Marshall. Tell us, Holmes. Tell us, Cardozo & Hand. spreaders and cornfields along the go by. Then the worst. Two women got If you judged us now, would you affirm or remand?'' highway, the simplicity and charm of on the bus and started to go over every being a farmer seemed enchanting. Johnny excruciating detail oftheirexam answers. No answer will come, as you view the black robes of space. Rube on his tractor never needed much I calmly said in a very loud voice, ' 'Jessie, Just the silence of your souls, bereft of all grace. book learn in' and he seemed to be doing don't you hate it when inconsiderate In your libraries you'll retire, near the end of your terms, fine. I rejected the idea because farmers assholes won't shut up about their And you'll then realize, you were better off as worms. get up at the crack of dawn and that's exams?!" Message received. Now it's -An Anonymous 2L when I go to bed. It just wouldn't work. twenty minutes and we still haven't moved We checked into the Worst Western, and I'm losing it. Then the two tools no healer and neither is your repairman. I mean the Best Worse-ten, and were started up about (I swear to God) how I want a new room NOW!" MOMMY? from page 10 greeted by the clerk, who other than his much time the proctors wasted collecting We got a new room and I gently inability to deal with people and facial tic the exams. I snapped. I jumped up, informedtheguyatthedesk, "We' renot on their resume had had a chance to be was perfect in all other regards. He sent waved my hands in the air, and yelled, paying full price for last night." He said, Mother. This practice continued for us to our room and lucky us the air "That is it! This is it! Jessie, I'm taking "I need to check with the manager." To several years and brings to our present conditioner wasn't working and the a cab. Are you with me?" He nodded out which I responded, " I wasn't asking you, day picture of Marshy. wallpaper was beginning to me\t Gust like of fear, and we left. We caught an air Barney. I was telling you." Marshy has been arrested several more in Barton Fink). The service guy, after a conditioned cab and left the bus in the We survived, got our discount, took times for vagrancy, and federal drug and thorough inspection, pronounced, "It ain't parking lot. It was still there the next day. the exam for the next two days and nearly weapons charges, and is spending ten to workin', there must be sumthin' wrong We got back to the hotel room and passed out from exhaustion on the ride fifteen at Lorton Federal Penitentiary. with it. I dunno.'' I think the guy used to SURPRISE! theairwasstill broken. Jessie home. Maybe nex't week I'll tell you about Needless to say, Marshy' s option "C" work on the Library's heating and cooling tried to restrain me all the way to the the exam itself. was not the success that she had hoped. system, but I'm not sure. Or maybe he lobby. I got to the desk and announced, Afterwards, I decided I'm not so sure Marshy is now a very disturbed duck with taught first year property. "It's still broken!!!" The clerk' s I wannabe a lawyer. Brian Titus ('93) little direction or principles to speak of. (I We got up the next morning and had response, 'Til call service.'' The whole and I havecomeupwith a great franchise never claimed this was going to have a the Hotel ' s breakfast. Delicious! day erupted right there. "Look, you've we are going to start promoting. cheery ending). Yesterday's coffee and mystery meat tried that three times. Each time that guy ·' Ever} thing for99 cents." Weare going Of course, our tale has a moral: surprise. This would cause problems does his best Earnest Angley impression to drive those ' 'Everything for a Dollar" A duck with no luck need not turn a fool, later in the day when time was precious and tries to fix the sonofabitch with the people out of business. How do " ·e do it, but she soon needs to find the right dean but that's another story. laying on of his hands. Ernest Angley is you ask? One word: volume!!!!! for her school. Collect then1 all! This week: Demi-Gods of Legal Skills! More clip 'n' save Marshall-Wythe trading cards ~------~

Jonathan Rotter Bill Connolly Nancy Delogu Marshall Dukes -- 12 ======~~~~==~~~==~~======~======~!Tu~~~a~~~~~t~em~~~r~7,~1:99~3~T~~~Aw~~~Cmwffi~:; ======Outer Limits ======r This Episode: "Trying to get your $7 worth". By SUZANNE FITZGERALD and of Rockford, ill., lost custody of her 12- A By Dan Jordan DAVE PFEFFERKORN year-old son and was sentenced to45 days EXPRESSIVE CONDUCT? ••• A grand in jail for having an exotic dancer at his AND NoW TO f'll VN6ER V. NAIJ jury in Austin, Tex., indicted the producer 12th birthday party March 6. She pleaded L ~HE f'lfxr and host ofa live cable-television program, guilty Wednesdaytoallowingsexual abuse '{OLIJIVTE£~ Texas Wieners, that featured two men of a child, a misdemeanor. The dancer €. engaging in oral sex and other explicit stripped to a halter and a G-string. Miles conduct The content of the "Infosex" admitted she allowed her son to lick 5 episode "created a public outcry and whipped cream off the dancer's breasts. heated debate about the boundaries ofthe (USA Today). First Amendment freedoms." (The "WRITE-ON" CANDIDATE FOR Washington Post). WM. & MARY L REV.? ... On the first F NEW YORK DEFENDS OUTDOOR day ofschool , one new teacher distributed PLUMBING ... In a four-month trial a memo outlining his discipline policy. R last year, six public toilets installed on "The two-page document contain[ed) at Manhattan sidewalks in self-contained least I 0 errors in grammar, spelling and 0 kiosks won ra\'es from the public, syntax. Some assignments 'will take prompting promises from city officials to approximetemly 30 mintes' to complete, M install more of the units in all five the memo said. Offenses that could get a boroughs. child bounced from class include fighting, More recently, public concern over insubordination and 'possession of band the size of the proposed structures has substances.' " (Richmond Times­ M developed. Officials of the city's Parks Dispatch). and Transportation Departments defend PERMANENT "BAD HAIR" DAYS. 0 the toilets and stress the advantages ofthe .. ''For some folks, snarls and tangles are commodes, describing them as " self­ a disease," says a report from this month's 0 cleaning.'' (The Washington Post). Archives of Dermatology. Cleveland HE'SAREALPISSER ... ActressJune Clinic researchers have found a woman r Allyson is suing comedian Marty Ingels, with uncombable hair syndrome, a saying he is harassing her over a disorder in which head hair grows so commission for arranging her appearance unruly it can't ~ managed by normal in adult diaper commercials. (Richmond means. It seems not even conditioners or -H Times-Dispatch). industrial strength mousse can tame this THEREISASUCKERBORNEVERY wild~t. I Mlli'UTE ••• lon Wci:s:s, former human A cros:s:-s:ection , s.tr.:~nd of this hair is cannonball for the ''Greatest Show on triangular or bean-shaped instead ofround L Earth, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & and stands straight out like it hasn't been Bailey Circus,'' was persuaded to reclaim brushed in years. Doctors say this is the L his dangerous perch when circus officials first case where an adult has developed it could not find a replacement. (New York later in life. (USA Today). the summit of their ~ing. (USA Today). about 1.5 million gallons of water every Times). W&MCONVOCATIONVIEWEDAS PLEASE, REVEREND, KEEP THE month. BUT HE'LL RUN FASTER WITH 'NOVEL, CONTEMPORARY FROCK ON! .. . The Rev. Byron Bruce "You should see what all that water HIS SLEEKER, MORE TRAD ITI 0 N' ... More than 200 college Newell, Jr., an Episcopal priest who was flushes into the rest area's wastewater AERODYNAMIC DESIGN .•. freslunendonnedredandblackfeltbeanies accused by six Northern Virginia women treatment plant. A lot of clothes,'' said Enemies of fugitive drug boss Pablo Aug. 31 at Benedictine College in of taking sexual liberties, has been found treatment plant manager Steve Schaul. Escobar abducted his brother Ro~rto's Atchison, Kan. The Catholic li~ral arts guilty of several counts of sexual " Underwear, T-shirts, pants." million-dollar horse and returned it school says it's the only U.S. college still misconduct in an ecclesiastical trial. A Ruther Glen rest area custodian castrated. "Terremoto" (Earthquake) observing the tradition, including the splitjury also recommended that the priest Richard Hart also reported that "people was once priced at about $1 million, but hallowed beanie blessing: 'May these be defrocked. (Richmond Times­ do things in the bathrooms of highway cas~tion vastly reduced his value. (New beanies ~ a symbol of belonging and Dispatch). rest areas they would probably never York Times). ~ming . .. May these newly welcome A SLOW DAY FOR NEWS Virginia's attempt at home. They have their clothes JUDGE OBJECTS TO YOUTH'S Ravens feel fittingly crowned as these red most popular rest area, at mile-marker off trying to take a bath out of the sink. '' HIGH FAT DIET ..• Felicia Miles, 30, and black beanies rest on their heads, on 106 on northbound Interstate 95, uses (Richmond Times-Dispatch). r---M:~:;~----~ r---;;a~c~----~ r----8:~-----~ r---J:n~:----~

1 Three children were just not like Marshall, Nancy's de- Bill hopes to instill in his first- I I As a second-year TA, I 1 enough for Marshall. The siretobeaLegaiSkillsTAalso years the kind of intense 1 I Jonathan is the low-man on I 1 thought of being able to play stemmed from her mothering competitiveness he displays on I I the Lederer, Posey, eta f. totem I surrogate mother to a bunch of instincts. Having no children the basketball court. 1 I pole. Thus, he's not sure how I 1Lsand get PAIDforitwasjust of her own, Nancy sees this as In addition to being graded, I I to explain to the Big Cheese I too irresistible for her. She the perfect opportunity to try first-years in Bill's firm will I I that he really isn't John F. I liked the idea so much she her hand at parenting. compete with each other in I I Kennedy, Jr. I even had to do it two years in . H~we~er, Na~cy's motiva- numerical rank, _which they I I "I guess he just got our I a row. t1on 1s slightly different from must put on the1r resumes. 1 I resumes mixed up," said I Marshall's first-years will Marshall's. "Wit~ Joe not "Somebodyha~tocomeou~at 1 I Jonathan. "Butlwishhewould I enjoy the special perks that aroundmostofthetime,lneed the bottom, he sa1d. 1 1quitcallingme'Jon-Jon."' I come with being a member of SOMEONE to take my frustra- "Employers should be aware I I I her firm. The bedtime stories tions out on!" she said excit- of who is slacking off. And as I I andcookiesintheirlunchboxes edly, trying unsuccessfully to we all know, Legal Skills is a I I : will endear her to them for life. control her facial tic. mirror image of the real world." I I I ~------.. ~------.. ~------.. ~------· - · ---- .. THE AMicus CuRIAE News Briefs Tuesday, September 7,1993 13

LSIC/Legal Skills sponsor pro bono competition Supreme Court Preview Law Students Involved in the Community (LSI C) has joined the Legal Skills The Institute of Bill of Rights Law prepares to host the Sixth Annual Supreme Program in sponsoring the "Volunteer Service Award Competition." An inscribed Court Preview Sept. 17 and 18. Supreme Court reporters, commentators and educators plaque and catered party (pizza and beer) will be awarded to the Legal Skills fmn with from around the country will discuss the issues that the Court will likely address in the the highest number of community service hours per student at the end of the semester. upcoming year. Anticipated issues include freedom of speech, race, sex and age According to LSIC Co-Chair Amy Allison (2L), the competition is designed to discrimination, religion and environmental issues. The kick-offevent for the Preview, inform M-W students about public service opportunities in Williamsburg and provide beginning at 6 p.m. Sept. 17, will feature two moot court demonstrations, one focusing incentives for students to become involved. LSIC designed the contest on the basis of on se:'\-ual harassment and the other on the rights of copyright owners whose work is the average number of pro bono hours per student to give smaller Legal Skills firms used in a parody. a fair chance at winning. Responding to questions raised by Judy Ledbetter, senior partner ofLedbetter and Delogu, Allison said that LSI C was not planning to handicap M-W faculty defend programs against possible budget cuts the firm ofLederer, Posey, Rothstein, Hale, Kane, Peritz & Rotter. Other Legal Skills M-W faculty met with W&M Provost Gillian Cell Sept. 2 to defend their academic firms will just have to donate more pro bono time than Lederer, eta/. to win first place. programs from possible future budget cuts. In preparation of a report to Virginia Questions about the competition should be addressed to LSIC Officers Allison, Will Governor Douglas Wilder, Cell asked the faculty members for a description of their McNulty (3L) or Christy McLelland (3L). various programs. Wilder has asked state colleges for an itemized plan for reduction in the event of budget cuts of either 10 or 15 percent. The plan is due Sept. 20. New and improved moot courtroom The McGlothlin Moot Courtroom, featuring the latest in courtroom technology, Task forces on student government; pub council announced will be unveiled during a mock mini-trial at 10 a.m. Sept. 13 . " Courtroom 21 ," the Responding to a request last spring by graduate and undergraduate student most technologically advanced teaching courtroom in the country, was developed by government leaders, President Timothy Sullivan used theW&M Convocation Exercises Marshall-Wythe in conjunction with the National Center for State Courts to demonstrate Aug. 24 to announce the creation of a new college task force on student government. new courtroom technologies. The task force will examine the organization and structure of student government for " This is an incredible learning site for law students," said Acting Dean Paul the college. Marcus. ''By working in this courtroom, our students and others who visit here will SBA President Kyle Short (3L) was one of five student government leaders who understand and become prepared for the courtroom environments in which they will petitioned Sullivan last spring to explore ways of making student government more be practicing J 0 to 20 years from now.'' responsive and accountable to the student body. ''We were concerned that the number Some of the improvements include two-way television arraignment and witness of different government organizations-Student Activities, Board of Student Affairs. examination, real-time court reporter transcription, jury computers, and LEXIS/ Student Bar Association, Graduate and Professional Schools, Graduate Student NEXIS terminals on the judge's bench. Association--was making student government too confusing and cumbersome,'' explained Short. "We want to take a look at how all these different groups work together, and don't work together, and see how we can improve the system." Sullivan has not made any appointments to the task force yet, but declared his intention to respond quickly to students concerns. Sullivan i:s abo cx~tcd to announce: additional appoinunems lhls week to a commission created to review the by-laws ofthe Publications Council. The commission The Music was created in response to widespread public indignation over the publication of "Mighty Whitie," a cartoon which purported to satirize racial stereotypes, in an issue of W&M's satirical journal The Pillory. (See Crossfire, this issue). Chaired by Professor Jack Edwards (Government Department), the committee is expected to review the policies and procedures governing college funding of student publications, including whether funding should be contingent upon content-based restrictions. Professor Rodney Smolla has been appointed counsel to the committee. Place --Paula Hannaford Honor Code evaluation meetings open to student input The Judicial Council has organized a committee to examine the Honor Code. This Compact Discs Tapes committee's mandate is to make the Honor Code more efficient, clear and responsive. Mostofall, thecommitteeislookingforcommunityinputinthiseffort. Thecommittee will hold public meetings beginning Thursday, Sept. 9, time and place to be Movie Rentals announced. Members of the committee are 3Ls Fred Jacob, Tim Bird and Joe Jones and 2Ls Jon McGrady, Gretchen Knoblauch, Matt Bissonette and Kerri Gilmore. The committee invites suggestions and participation from the Marshall-Wythe community. Contact the members of the committee for more information. We Buy & Sell --Fred Jacob Used CD's students or the opportunity to sit in on a PEP SQUAD, from page 3 first-year class," she said. A widely supported new proposal was and law-school organization leaders. the announcement that first year reps THE Attendance at future lunch meetings will would be charged with cleaning out the be by lottery, with guests selected from a student lounge refrigerator. "Seriously, sign-up sheet on the SBA bulletin board. this is something that has to be taken care Lunches will be held the first Wednesday of,'' Short said. ''It's going to be one of of each month with Deans Marcus and their jobs to do it or arrange to get someone BAND BOX Jayne Barnard alternately picking up the else to do it." tab. Short also updated the executive board Llezelle Dugger (2L), admissions on the dean search process and recent committee chair, suggested some changes on the main campus, including alternatives to the current program of the new appointment system for the Health tours for prospective students. ''We think Center, and plans for a review of the 517 Prince George St. 229-8974 there ought to be more interaction with effectiveness ofstudent government. (See students, maybe lunch with a group of related stories, this issue). THE AMicus CURIAE Arts & Entertainment Tuesday, September 7,1993 14

Cinema Cynicism Stephen King does it again (sort of); forget Fatherhood By STEVEN YOUNGKIN Ohio, like he claims, but is actually the remember it. Because we see people who dealer. Veedfu/ Things: Ifthere is one thing de'vil come to destroy the entire to,m. look to be important just appear on the Because he kidnapped the kids, he is that is certain in life, it is that there will The only person to sense that Leland screen and then disappear, the mo'vie pursued across the country by the police. always be a Stephen King mo'vie out, is not who he claims to be is the sheriff, becomes disjointed at many points His only assistance is a reporter played by either on TV or at the theaters. ince Alan Pangborn (Ed Harris of The Firm). (especially at the end during the final Halle Berrie who is out to ex-pose Bigelow I 976, there have been 2~ adaptations of He desperately tries to figure out how to onfrontation between Gaunt and Hall. She is also the only sympathetic Stephen King stories released, making stop Leland before the entire town kills Pangborn). Also, because the audience is character in the entire movie. The kids him one of the most filmed authors in itself. not given the chance to really get to know are self-centered and typical annoying history. As with any great number of The film is a stylish, if flawed, some of the people, it's hard to be scared movie brats and Swayze is so mean­ works, the quality of King movies have production. The cast, including Sydow, when they are attacked. spirited that when he says that he always ranged from awful (Maximum Overdri\·e Harris, Bonnie Bedelia Presumed As a result, the audience is left with a tries to think positive, it seems to be more and Creepshow If) to superb (Misery and Innocent and Die Hard I and!!), Amanda nice looking Cliff Notes version of a of a sarcastic comment then a character The Dead Zone). Because of the varying Plummer (L.A . Law) and J.T. Walsh (A Stephen King novel. While it adequately trait. results, it is always interesting to see Few Good 1\fen), manage to elevate the explains the main story for the most part, The movie is pulled together from whether or not the latest version \viii scri pt above the camp level that it could there are enough gaps that the audience other, much better stories. It is the standard succeed. have been. Ma\: Von Sydow, in particular, gets the feeling that they' re not being the cross-country quest where the characters Needful Th ings manages to fall makes his devil a channing, classy, told the whole story. It's that feeling that initially dislike each other but they become somewhere in the middle. The plot is the humorous gentleman who conveys the separates a good Stephen King adaptation best of friends over the course of the standard version of evil supernatural impression that he's been through this from a great one. adventure. The ultimate goal (to reach events happening to ordinary people many times before. It's easy to believe Grade: B- New Orleans) has little suspense because (usually around Stephen King's home that everyone could be taken in by him Unfortunately, not as much praise can Swayze only wants to rob a person. town of Castle Rock, Maine). In this one, and not realize what he is until it's too be given to Patrick Swayze's newest Hardly a noble or exciting reason to drive a distinguished man, Leland Gaunt (Max late. Ed Harris likewise gives a strong attempt at a movie, Fatherhood. In the across the country. Von Sydow), opens up an antique store in performance. Although he is burdened film, Swayze plays a crook who is a In addition, the scenes at Bigelow are the small town of Castle Rock. The store with the reality that movie bad guys get all couple of days away from being sent to so melodramatic that they lack any sense is called Needful Things because he the great lines, he does manage to make prison for stealing from drug dealers. of believability and the few attempts at manages to stock whatever the customer his hero strong, yet human. He creates a Because of his criminal record, the state humor are forced and seem out of place most desires, froma 1956Mickey Mantle character that's easy for the audience to has taken his two children and placed with the downbeat mood established by baseball card to a pendant that cures root for. them in a foster care facility, Bigelow the rest of the film. arthritis. D espite thevalueofsome of thf" Unfortuna tf"ly, thf' mov it:> sttfTE".rs from Ha ll Riet:>low is rnort:>pri!:nn than hnrne. Finally, the plot is thrown together in items, all he asks of the customer is a the fact that the original novel was the with children routinely being handcuffed such a slap-dash style that it is never easy modest fee. Unfortunately, he also requires normal King behemoth of 700+ pages. and raped. When his daughter escapes to follow. Because the movie is told in the customer to perform a " trick" on Because it is impossible to cram a book of from Bigelow, she convinces Swayze to flashback, the ending is apparent in someone else in town. that length into just two hours, some get his son and for all three of them to advance, thus killing any chance at At first the tricks seem harmless, albeit major portions had to be edited out. One leave together. He refuses to do so at first creating suspense or surprise. mean (i.e., smearing turkey slime on clean, of the major casualties of editing is the because he resents the fact that he has In the end, the movie is so predictable white sheets). But they gradually become movie's focuson onlya limited number of children. He had not visited either of that the audience could have foretold harsher (the murder ofa beloved dog). In characters, reducing others to just stick them after they were taken from him. He every plot twist while standing. in the addition, the tricks start to tum the entire figures. While some of them are given reluctantly agrees when he discovers what lobby before the movie began. Actually, town against each other and murders names, many are on the screen for so short is happening at Bigelow. The three head standing out in the lobby would probably result. Pretty soon it is obvious that a period of time that even if they were towards New Orleans where Swayze hopes be a lot more enj oyable. Leland is not an antique seller from Akron, given a name, the audience would never to steal $250,000 from a major drug GRADE: D- • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ~------~ • • • ~BUY-ONE, GET-ONE~ • • • • • • • • : F'REE : • • I Buy Any Foot Long I • • • • 1Sandwich Or Salad And Two 1 :· .. ·. ·.· . 1 22 Oz. Drinks & Get A Foot I • :...... - . • • --.- • I Long Sandwich or Salad (Of I • .r ·· ·· • Equal or Lesser Value) • • I • Rest Your Brain • FREE I • • W ith this Cupon · Expires Dec. 31. 1993 • • I I • • I One Cupon Per Visit · Cupons Good Only A! I • Work Your Body • ~ ~~=~~~ 0~-- • • .. -- .. • We Have: • • 3 Workout Rooms· Circuit Training Classes-A • • 30 Minute Workout on Hydraulic Resistance • • • • Equipment · Jacuzzi and sauna on site · • • Treadmill, Lifecycles, Stairclimber, Rower · Free • • Weights, Weight Equipment · One-on-One • • Training · Complete Aerobic Program (Step, Lite, • • • Open Late Every Night • Contours, Hi\Lo Impact, Interval, Aqua Fitness) : 1 mile from campus Ewell Station • Student Semester Special: $129 • Wi ll iamsburg Crossing Shopping Center • Expires September 30, 1993 • : Shopping Center 5601-9 Richmond Rd . : 220-0556 • Rte 5 and Rte 199 (565-1782) • Williamsburg Shopping C.nter • (Convenient to W&M Bus Stop) • 1.5l -7614 565- IJU'B : • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Tuesday, September 7,1993 THE AMicus CURIAE ======15 20-mile bicycle tour ends in fine dining at Surry House ByJANET BRECKENRIDGE and we arrived at !2:30p.m. (the for $5.50. Everyone thought the prize winning meal of the sandwich high marks, saying the This week, our rather large hardest time to walk into a that this meal was good overall, day: the soup and sandwich crabmeat had little breading. panel of e::-..-perts took a trip across restaurantwithagroupofl5 and but I thought the Chicken Creole combo. The soup \vasa delicious, Tyler Goodwin (3L) ordered the the James River to try out the get seating, even if you've just was a little light on the chicken, homemade peanut soup that has barbecue sandwich (pork) which unique fare available at the showered and you're dressed in and Fred said that he thought it a very subtle peanut flavor, but is was huge, and was quite tasty for Surrey House. your Sunday best). needed more tomato sauce. This not sweet like I expected. The $3 .50. The remainder of the Now I realize that many of you Which leads me to my highest did not stop either of us from sandwich consisted of Virginia group had salad from the salad have already been to the Surrey point of praise for the Surry cleaning our plates. ham slices on yeast rolls. The bar or the vegetable plate. Says House, because it is a well known House. They showed us true Kathy Philpott (3L) ordered ham was moist and not salty Jennie Johnson (3L) of the tourist spot to the inhabitants of Southern hospitality, seating us the most interesting dish of the which pleased Will, but vegetable plate, "The corn the 'Burg. However, I doubt that promptly and bringing us day. She chose the make-it­ personally I prefer salty ham. pudding was weird but otherwise you have given it as demanding bottomless pitchers of good ice your se If-peanut-butter­ On the side was a homemade it was good." of a test as our group did. tea. This may not sound so sandwich-board, which consists apple fritter, which was the best Mark Donald (3L) and Lee Our group of 15 rode the exemplary to you, but we were of three pieces of bread, peanut thing I tasted that day. And last, Rimier (3 L) both ordered the all­ ferry to Surrey, and then did a pretty happy campers after that. butter, bacon, apple, cheese, but not least, the meal came with you-can-eat salad bar for $5.15. bicycling tour of the area for Oh yeah, I guess I'm supposed raisins, honey,jellyanda banana, unlimited tea and a slice of Mark was later disappointed to close to 20 miles before lunch. to talk about the food . Well, the for approximately $2.75. The homemade pie, which turned out find that he could have gotten Bear in mind that it was a typical majority of our group (Fred portions were a little small, and to be coconut custard and was just one trip to the salad bar for unbearably hot, humid, "I need Ochsenhirt (3L}, Evie Spuirn the cheese disappointingly was wonderful, warm out ofthe oven. $2.50,andMark'sonetripwould air conditioning now!" kind of (no-L), Nina Hval (2L), Margaret just a slice of American. But it All this for $8.50. be several to most other diners. day in Virginia. We looked Hardy (2L) and me) ordered the made for a nice conversation Brian Alperstein (3L) and Both Don Bunnell (3L) and Kim perhaps a little unsavory when Chicken Creole in a Bread Bowl, piece, and Kathy sure makes a Rob Clayton (3L) both ordered we arri\ ed at the restaurant. Of which comes with a small fruit meanPBRHB. thecrabcake sandwich for $2.50. See SURRY, page 17 course we had no reservations, salad, and unlimited tea or coffee Will McNulty (3L) selected Both Brian and Rob gave the It's Only Rock & Roll Reviewer spits blood over KISS; Bosstones not so mighty By BILL MADIGAN John. And in 1991, drummer Eric Carr coming of the Beatles, and then forgets that the songs aren't all that great. OK, This year, the music review column was lost to cancer. Oh, and in case you arc about a week later. Despite this initially but not great. that you have come to know and love (or wondering, the make-up's long gone too. less than optimistic mind set, I listened ********** loathe, depending on your musical tastes) With a live album, you have to be with an open mind. Beside.c;, a friend gave My goal with this feature is to try to wm undergo a change of focus. To put it wary, because sometimes the quality of it to me, and how could anything free be cover all types of music, not just the head­ another way, gone is Phil Nugent, in is the recording is lacking and sometimes bad. banging, ear-bleeding stuff that I regularly 'Ted Nugent. theperfonnances are such that you wonder The Bosstones have a sound that is a listen to. So, ifyou have any suggestions I cannot even attempt to match the if this is the same band that originally blend of rock guitar riffs, a swinging horn for albums that you think deserve to be poetic prose of my predecessor, so instead recorded those songs. But with this 60+ section, with a pinch of reggae tossed in. given my seal ofapproval, drop me a note, I'll be appealing to the Beavis and minutes of aural ecstacy, the sound is The musicians are tight, but the vocalist or even better, buy the CD for me. Butthead in all of you. New writer, new crisp ~d the performances sharp. For doesn't seem to fit. He has one of those While on the subject of music, M-W' s format, new musical focus. What more musicians that are closer in age to my rough, raspy, straining voices that doesn't own DJs start a new semester of could you ask for? parents than they are to me, these live blend particularly well with the music. broadcasting on the college radio station, This time, I will focus on two albums renditions are energetic, and the classics Overall the album has good variety. WCWM90.7. ChetNunoo-Quarcoo(3L) that came out this summer. Even though still sound as fresh as the new stuff. All ofthe songs have a different mix ofthe is on Fridays, 4-6 p.m., with his reggae there were many kickin' new CDs, space Aside from excellent sound quality, hom/guitar sound: some songs are more stylings. And if you really enjoyed the and my income limit me to what follows. Alive III includes some treats for long­ riffy, some have more of a pop sound, and KISS review, I'll be on Thursdays, 6-8 And ' hat better way to start off the time fans. Included is a song that KISS some are dominated by the brass. Though a.m., playing your favorite FCC-violating semester than with: has not performed in at least 15 years, all the cuts were interesting to listen to, heavy metal to soothe you on your morning Artist: KISS " Watchin' You." The CD booklet after the novelty wears ofT, you realize commute. Title: Alive III includes a family tree oft he band, tracing Producer: Eddie Kramer & KISS every member's tour of duty, and what Label: Mercury they did before and after KISS. Finally, THE Best Cut: · 'Detroit Rock City" you get to hear all the cool explosions and TRADITION The Good: This album is a must-havefor pyrotechnic effects that the band uses on any Kiss fan. stage punctuating the performances. This CONTINUES The Bad: You really have to like a band CD is certainly not for everyone, but ifyou to enjoy and appreciate a live long for those early, more innocent days album. of the mid- to late-1970s, you can't pass The Ugly: They do a cover of the " Star this one up. Listening to this almost Spangled Banner. " Why do makes me want to go breathe fire and spit bands think we want hear their blood. -·· versions of songs we sang in Artist: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones elementary school? Title: Don't Know How To Party This album is the third in a series for Producer: Tony Platt KISS: the first A live made them famous Label: Mercury and the second made them millions. Best Cut: " Only Our Weapon" Despite sharing the name of their first two The Good: Unique mix of different styles live offerings, A live 111 is unique. The The Bad: The songs on the album are songs on this album span their entire different, but not that great. career, from the 20-year-old " Deuce" to The Ugly: Men dressed in plaid. this year's hard rock hit, "Domino." As a nod to the man who carne before Also, this is the first ofthe live albums not me, I decided to review this one. I had 1 IU.,.,rnrnite to feature all four original members of the heard a lot about this band, and how they TLJ€SciCJ.,., Sevt. 14:: 17rCJilciiiD group. Long gone are Ace and Peter, were the new trendy, college-y sort of 20% Discount On Food For Grad Students gone are Vinnie Vincent, and Mark St. band that everyone swears is the second THE AMicus CuRrAE Events Calendar Tuesday, September 7,1993 16

- ' .. ' Tuesday, Sept. 7 Monday, Sept. 13 ·Welcome back!!! from the Labor Day Holiday. ·Courtroom demonstration: Demonstration of''Courtroom 21,'' • OCPP: Using Lexis in Job Search. Room 119, 3-4 p.m. McGlothlin Moot Courtroom, 10 a.m. • PAD general meeting: Room G-5, 5 p.m. • W &M Concert Series: "Music and Light" - Richard Stoltzman, • Birthday: Grandma Moses (1860) PBK Hall, 8 p.m. Buddy Holly (1936) Tuesday, Sept. 14 Wednesday, Sept. 8 • W &M Concert Series: "Music and Light" - Jazz quartet featuring · OCPP: Careers with U.S. Justice Dept. 3 p.m., Room 120. Richard Stoltzman and Gary Burton, PBK Hall, 8 p.m. ·Amicus Curaie: Staff Meeting, 7:30p.m., Room 127 • Honor Council: Public Meeting on Honor Code Revisions, time and ·Birthday: Peter Sellers, the Pink Panther (1925) location TBA ·PAD: Phi Alpha Delta meeting, 5p.m., G-5. New members and • American History: Francis Scott Key inspired to write "The Star interested students welcome. Spangled Banner" (1814). "Not to be confused with that awful · LSC: Law Students for Choice meeting, 6:30p.m., Room 127. roller derby star, Francis Skate Key ' '- Tom Robbins ·Health Law: Society Meeting, 6p.m., Room 124. ·Vast New Opportunities for Tort Lawyers: Henry Bliss becomes ·Environmental Law Journal: StaffMeeting, 5:30p.m., Room.119 first automobile fatality (New York, 1899) Interested 1Ls and 2Ls welcome. • Half a mind is better than none: First prefrontal lobotomy · Music: Santana & Bob Dylan, Wolftrap. performed in Washington, DC (I 956). Obviously a practice which caught on in Capitol Hill circles! Thursday, Sept. 9 • OCPP: 3 duplicate resumes due. Wednesday, Sept. 15 · OCPP: Notification of schedule commitments due. • OCPP: Using Westlaw in Job Search, Rm. 124, ·Bill of Rights Student Symposium: Town Hall Meeting to decide 11:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. Symposium topic, 4:30p.m., Room 120 ·Birthday: Agatha Christie (1890) · Honor Council: Public Meeting on Honor Code Revisions, time and location TBA Thursday, Sept. 16 • SBA Bar Review: Bar TBA • Holiday: Rosh Ha-Shanah ·Not Much Fun At A Party: William Bligh, Captain of The Bounty • Honor Council: Public Meeting on Honor Code Revisions, time and born 1754. location TBA ·Music: Santana & Bob Dylan, Wolftrap. · SBA Bar Review: Bar TBA · Thought for the Day: Most campaign literature is an insult to the Friday, Sept. 10 intelligence. Sad that many people never realize it. ·Music: Aerosmith and 4 Non-Blondes, U.S . .Ajr Arena, (MD). ·Music: Big Head Todd & The Monsters, The Boathouse. ·Local History: John Smith elected president of the Jamestown colony council, Virginia (1608) Friday, Sept. 17 ·Dawn of the Microwave Age: Swanson sells the first TV dinner(1953) ·Antique Show: W&M Hall · Institute of Bill of Rights Law: Supreme Court Preview, Saturday, Sept. 11 6:30-9 p.m., Moot Court Room · Gay and Lesbian Law Students: Annual Potluck Dinner, 6 p.m. ·Men's Soccer: Papa John's Tribe Soccer Classic, Busch Field Call Tom at 253-1590 or Clay at 253-2436 for more info. (W&M, ODU, Alabama A&M, Drexel), 7:30p.m. · Birthdays: D.H. Lawrence, author of Lady Chatterly 's Lover (1885) Brian De Palma, director Saturday, Sept. 18 ·You've come a long way, baby! First Miss America Show broadcast ·Antique Show: W&M Hall on television (1954) · Institute of Bill of Rights Law: Supreme Court Preview, · Baseball History: Pete Rose, Cincinnati Reds, hits 4, 192; beats 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., Rooms TBA Ty Cobb' s record (1985) ·PAD Crabfest '93: $7 advance tickets, $9 at-the-door, ·Music: Jackal, The Boathouse. $5 for PAD members. Time and Place TBA. ·Shrimp Feast XIV: Lake Matoaka Picnic Area 4-7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 12 See Dean Overy or Prof Fischer for tickets. ·Music: Gospel Show- W&M Hall ·Men's Soccer: Papa John's Tribe Soccer Classic, Busch Field · "I'll get you, my pretty--and your little dog too!" Birthday: (W&M, ODU, Alabama A&M, Drexel), 7:30p.m. " Wicked Witch ofthe West" Margaret Hamilton (1902) ·Music: Neville Brothers, Brown's Island, Richmond. Sunday, Sept. 19 ·Thought for the Day: No woman should imitate men; men are not ·Antique Show: W&M Hall worth it! · Film: " The Prado" (60 min.), Muscarelle Museum, 3 p.m

. . ~ Please submit your entries for the Amicus Events Calendar to Daryl S. Taylor (lL) or the Amicus Curiae hanging file. Entries may include activities sponsored by law school organizations, community events of interest to M-W students, or just about anything else that you can think of ~ ' Tuesday, September 7,1993 THE AMicus CURIAE======17 on the search committee, said he believes this year. locating funding to expand the faculty, HELP WANTED, from page 1 everyone on the committee is dedicated to A(lded Sullivan, "The momentum the which last year's search candidates conducting a successful, impartial search. law school has developed has continued criticized as too small. on such factors might unduly influence '.'The dean search committee is unabated . . .. Obviously, everyone wants To help allay any student concerns the search committee. committed to finding several good a dean who will be able to continue the about the search and to gain their input, The search committee is scheduled to candidates to fill the spot. There is not a law school's improvements." members of the search committee said begin reviewing applications Oct. 1, and favored candidate at this point--I stress Tending the helm of Marshall-Wythe they welcome input from all students. interview selected candidates shortly NOT a favored candidate,'' Short said. is considered a leading national position ''The committee very much welcomes thereafter, according to Professor James Added search committee member in the legal/academic community, student views on the process and the E. Moliterno, chair ofthe committee. The Professor Neal E. Devins, ''No one has Moliterno said. " The law school' s direction of the school,'' Moliterno said. committee plans to submit a list of three suggested to me, 'You know, this is the reputation has continued to rise and has Short said he is hoping to set up a to five finalists to Sullivan sometime next person we want.''' Devins said the risen over the last l 0 to 15 years to the student panel to interview top candidates, semester, Moliterno said. committee is conducting a ''vigorous, point that this is one of the premier and possibly to organize public forums in Sullivan, former dean ofthe law school fair national search'' and he believes deanships," he said. Various national which students can question the finalists. who was named college president last most members would resign if they polls put Marshall-Wythe anywhere from ' 'The students need to make their year, said he has not tried to influence the suspected any undue influence was being the top 20 to the top 7 5 in rankings ofU. S. views known, not only to me, but to search for his replacement. The goal is exercised. law schools. everybody involved," he said. the best-qualified candidate, and so far no Still, members of the committee Criteria for the post include The nine search committee members one has the inside track, not even conceded that Williamson has introduced scholarship, administrative skills, and are Moliterno, Devins, Short, Virginia Williamson, Sullivan said. a new wrinkle into the process. Not only national reputation. The position also Institute ofMarine Sciences Dean Dennis Moliterno and other members of the is Williamson a known entity, he now has involves a lot of fundraising and Taylor, alumni leader Stanley G. " Butch" search committee shared Sullivan' s oneyearofell:perienceasdeanofMarshall­ " schmoozing." Among the challenges Barr, Deputy Director of the Institute of sentiments. Moliterno said he received Wythe under his belt. the new dean will face are continuing the Bill of Rights Law Kay P. Kindred, and no instructions or attached strings when For his part, Williamson, 49, was school's upward climb in reputation, Professors Lynda L. Butler, John E. he accepted thechairofthe second search mum about his candidacy. "It's consideration of a library expansion, and Donaldson and I. Trotter Hardy. . committee this year. inappropriate for me to comment ''I'm running the search. On my end publicly," he said. He said he informed After paying up at the counter, we of that, the committee is proceeding to Sullivan of his decision to apply for the SURRY, from page 15 hobbled back to our bikes, with full run a search looking for the best candidate post after Sullivan canceled the first stomachs and sleepy grins and rode the that can be attracted to the process,' ' search. Van Horn (3L) ordered the one trip and remaining 5 miles to the ferry. Lunch at Moliterno said. Williamson told the faculty of his were completely satisfied with the amount the Surrey House was a pleasant way to Acting Dean Paul Marcus described decision to apply for the position last of food. Said Don, "I only had one trip break up our ride. However, I would his sense of faculty attitudes toward the spring, but never publicly announced it to and I feel like I could throw up.'' This is recommend eating Iunch there even ifyou -...... _ search to a group of students at the first the student body. no reflection on the food, but was rather drive to the restaurant in your car with the . monthly SEA-sponsored Lunch with the Though the search is now in its second a reflection of our long ride in the hot sun. air conditioning on. Dean held Sept. 1. Marcus said the year, Moliterno, Sullivan and others said faculty fall into two camps--those who they do not believe it has hurt the law believe a nationally recognized figure school's quality or reputation. will bring added credibility to M-W, and "It's not terribly unusual to have a !hose who think an insider would be more second-year search. There are schools PAUL'S DELI attuned to ·the internal practices and that have had three-year searches, .. problems of the school. Moliterno said. He said about ten of the "A PIZZA RESTAURANT" Kyle Short (3L), Student Bar 170 American Bar Association-accredited New England Style Pan Pizza Association President and the only student law schools are conducting dean searches

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A Duck Out of Water Braves to outlast Giants and other treacherous picks By ALAN DUCKWORTH This is the closest race. The year? Well, actually age and free learning a new system and just AFC CentraJ Welcome back to another Toronto Blue Jays have played agency, but I will get to that. doesn't have the horses. Tampa Eveniftherestofthisdivision wacky year at Marshall-Wythe. down to the competition, and the Here are my division winners. Bay has no one on their roster wasn't as weak as a Georgetown This year I get the privilege of New York Yankees are playing NFC East capable of playing QB in the non-conference basketball writing about pro and college over their collective heads. As This prediction \"ill probably NFL. schedule, I would pick the Oilers. sports, since my last column has much as I would love to see Don get me thrown out ofthe Redskins NFC West They are a very good AFC team. been unceremoniously canceled. Mattingly get a chance to lead fan club, but the Cowboys are too San Francisco. They've But the rest of their division is Not that I am bitter. the Yankees into the post-season, strong. Despite some wishful owned this division for a decade that weak. The Steelers are This is a great time to write I don't think that it will happen thinking I have heard from anti­ and the domination should discovering that Neil O'Donnell about sports, with the pennant this year. Mattingly's back is too CO\vboy factions, Emmitt Smith continue until the end of century. is not the answer at quarterback, race and the start of the fragile and Toronto's lineup, will play this year, and I think he Too many All-Pros on offense the Bengals are going through professional football. So, with from Ricky Henderson to Robby will suit up by the fourth game of and enough defense could bring David Klinger's growing pains, no further ado, I bring you the Alomar and Joe Carter is too the year at the latest. Steve Young his first Super Bowl and the Browns just aren't that pennant race and my selections strong. And I did not even The contract size will depend ring as a starter. Atlanta has too good. Houston should cruise to (guesses?) for the winners of the mention John Olerud, one of two on how' the Cowboys do in the many questions, like who is the the division crown and the other various divisions. major leaguers this year who are Redskins and Bills games starting QB, can they run the ball teams should be resting during National League East going to be close, but no cigar, without Emmitt. The better the this year, and when is Deon post-season. This selection is the easy one when it comes to reaching that team does the smaller the Sanders going to show up? The AFCWest to make. The Philadelphia mythological .400 mark. He will, contract. Assuming injuries New Orleans starting QB is a This race should be the best Phillies won this division by May howe ·er, help his team win the don'toccur(notasafeassumption Vikings castoff and the Rams in football this year. The and have held on tight since that AL East. with Aikman's back), this team still need another year for Broncos, the Chargers, and the time. I can't figure out how they American League West can be a title contender until free rebuilding. Out of this pack, I Chiefs are all capable ofwinning have done it but no one can This division nominally has agency tears the team apart. like Atlanta for second place and the division this year. My pick is doubt their success. They have a race, but forget it. The Chicago As for the other teams, the maybe a wild card spot. the Broncos. John Elway, fmally won this division handily. White Sox have the best pitching Redskins have the look of a wild AFC East free of Dan Reeves' system, is NationaJ League West staff in the American League, card team, the Giants are too old This pick is easy, I take the ready for a big year and with an The two best teams in baseball led by my choice for the AL Cy and the Eagles lost too many Dolphins. Just when everyone improved line in front of him, he are batumg il ouc here. TIIis ·roung, Jal:k Ml:Duwcll. Their people to free agency. The thinks Shula is too old, he does it should stay healthy. The Chiefs. division is the best argument I offense is good enough to win led Cardinals are intriguing, with a again. This team has potential with Joe Montana, have real know for allowing wild card by "The Big Hurt" Frank lot of new talent on the team, but for greatness. In the AFC, that potential, but the team is trying teams into the baseball playoffs. Thomas, the AL's best chance if the Cardinals can find a way to means only losing by 14 in the to switch from years of smash That one of these teams will not for a Triple Crown winner in the choke, they will. Super Bowl. Dan Marino is in mouth football to a 49ers style be in the post-season is a near future. More importantly, NFC Central his prime and they have so many passing game and that is going regrettable fact but it makes for the other contenders in this I pick the Detroit Lions. Barry offensive weapons, particularly to be tough. Also, questions of an exciting race. And the winner division are really pretenders. Sanders and a revamped offense the two players that they stole how Montana will perform and will be the Atlanta Braves. The Kansas City Royals have too line would have been enough for from the Eagles in free-agency. can he stay healthy must be asked. Maybe here I am voting with my many holes and the Texas meintheweak " Black and Blue" As for the rest, the Patriots are San Diego also looks very strong; heart, not my head, or still with Rangers used to be the division, but add Pat Swilling two years and a halfdozen players Bobby Beatherd has done it again. the excitement of the 8-2 victory Washington Senators. (Enough and an improving defense and away, the Bills are still good, but My preference of Denver over in Game I ofthe series in Atlanta, said). you get a real good team which no longer great, the Colts with San Diego is based solely on a but it is in print now and I will Before I switch to football, could go a long way. Green Bay Jeff George look m"ful good on belief that John Elway is better stand by it. can anyone explain to me what can contend, but too much is paper, but George's tantrum has than Stan Humphries. At least San Francisco, without Will Dennis Martinez was thinking? relying on Brett Favre equaling really hurt the team and the Jets two and possibly all three of Clark, doesn' t have enough Maybe that pitching in a pennant his spectacular debut last year. I have too many retread players at these teams will make the play­ offense to cover up for a pitching race for the Atlanta Bra ·es would don't see it happening, but a wild key positions to make a real run offs. staff which is only three quality be dull. At 38, he is not going to card berth seems likely. attheDolphins. TheBillsshould *********** pitchers deep. get to many more chances, and Minnesota is relying on a fragile make the play-offs, as could the Next issue, I will discuss the The BraYes with the best he threw this one away. quarterback (Jim McMahon) Colts (Yes, I said the Colts) if college football season as well as starting rotation in baseball and ************ \vithout their top running back their quarterback situation update pro sports. So until then, a suddenly dangerous offense PRO FOOTBALL (Terry Allen). Chicago is stabilizes. live long and prosper. since tl1eadclition ofFred McGriff Where has the summer gone? are the best team in baseball and Football seasonal ready. It seems should edge the Giants in the like the champagne on Troy Rack ·Em West. Aikman should still be wet. So, American League East who is going to beat the Bills this For a Fun Nh:!ht Out

flo11"t forget the 11ext meetf11g of the Eat & drink while you shoot pool, or just drop by the cafe for a AMIGUS GI«IAE casual meal & a cocktail Wed11esday, Sept I Williamsburg Crossing l.-50 p.IH., 220-0808 Dress Code loom!L/ (Shirts with collars · no cut-offs) Tuesday, September 7,1993 THE AMicus CuluAE 19 Amicus computer-like rankings IM sports gear up; football captain traded for a six pack By BILL MADIGAN pre-season favorite, Cruel and Unusual National Team will try to use their $2 per person fee. Golf and bowling Another scintillating season ofM-W Punishment, featuring perennial all-stars impressive Olympic ex-perience to propel require additional fees for costs. You sports is upon us. Another season of Brian "Damage" Platnick, "Slim" Jim them to the top of the poll. The team's didn't think you were going to be able to triumph and defeat, of coming to grips 0 'Brien, and Trevor' 'Duke of' Earl. Or spiritual leader, Chris Koomey "By Ya, play a round of golf for $2, did you? '"iih the physical toll that law school has perhaps a team of talented IL's will steal My Lord,'' has vowed to bring the gold Also of interest, the SBA will be taken on our aging forms, and of course, the title out from under these graying, backtoM-W. conducting tournaments throughout the of intramural polls to amuse and anger brittle old-timers. Next time, we'll have Other sports on the fall docket are a semesterforsomeofthe above-mentioned the M-W sports faithful. a full wrap of the first M-W tournament miniature golftournament (held Sept. 3), sports. Watch for announcements here or As of this writing, no sports seasons and the first of the much-respected mid­ singles and doubles teruiis (entries now on the windows of the SBA office. A have begun, so the first poll of the year season polls. open), billiards (gone is M-W billiards separate registration and fee is required \viii have to wail But by the time you read Aside from softball, there are several champ, "Stairway To" Kevin Kroner), for these tournaments, but you do have a this, the softball season will be underway, other team sports to occupy the otherwise placekicking (entries open Sept. 24), chance ofwinning a cool T -shirt that you and the inaugural M-W softball vacant times in our pathetic little law bowling (getting to wear other people's can parade around the law school, and tournament will be complete. school li\ es. Entries are now open for shoes and putting your fingers in other hope that people don't find out you were In the tradition of the sports sections men's, women's, and co-ree volleyball. people's balls is halfthe fun), weightlifting just a pine rider on the team. of such important papers as the The season begins Thursday. Men's, (returningthisyearis Rob "Car" Walsh), Finally, a plea goes out to all those Washington Post and the New York Times, women's, and co-ree indoor soccer starts table tennis, and rounding out this pulse­ involved in any of the sports. Ify ou want I won't necessarily be able to provide you in mid-October, with entries accepted pounding semester of bone-crushing to get your team the coverage it deserves, with information on the late games from Sept. 29 and 30. action, badminton. drop me a note with any highlights or the night before, or for that matter, from Men's and women's (sorry, no co-ree In order to register for any or all of insights. I usually can get hold of the games several days before, but that's just here) flag football kicks off Oct. 17. Last these, you must go to the Rec Sports scores, but unfortunately, as pathetic as in the nature of the newspaper's year's M-W champion, Intent To Harm, building on main campus, nex1 to W&M my life is, I have neither the time nor demanding schedule. captured the title as ILs, and may be Hall. You know, the place where that desire to go to every game of every team As previously noted, softball season returning this season, despite some losses Colonial Athletic Association pO\verhouse of every sport. Besides, that would only began last week. Gone is last year's to free agency and trades. Former team plays its home games. Entry fees are $20 cloud my blissfully ignorant impartiality softball champion, Abuse of Discretion, captain, Bryan Fratkin "Stein", was per team. Tournament fees are $5 per and journalistic integrity. And please, which was led by a group of former 3L's, traded to another team for a six-pack and team. Individual or dual sports require a leave the nicknames to me. who are currently filling the ranks of the a bag of chips to be named later-the bag unemplo)ed. of chips, that is. This leaves open the door for some of Another hotly contested title will be the veteran 3L teams, including this year's for 3X3 basketball where the Angolan BIKESMITH --- OF WILLIAMSBURG BICYCLE SALES AND SERVICE colont~ One-Hour 0~ 515 YORK STREET ~hotO & WILLIAMSBURG, VA 23185 Trek · Specialized · Giant Portrait Studio FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 229-9858 Tuesdays and Saturdays are W & M discount days !! Lafayette 60 By-pass -- FREE doubles or FREE film -- 0 0 R, rf Q Hen St. + Full-service Portrait Studio + Special Events Photography Marshall­ + Instant Photos for Passports and Applications Wythe

431 Prince George Street (across from Baskin Robbins) 229-3001 York St. 20 Tuesday, September 7,1993 THE AMicus CURIAE have to search the " hidden job to be applied to the work study JOB WANTED from page 1 market. '' Graduates found, and GR-EX from page 1 POVERTY from page 8 funds, but also to the funds from still find jobs throug h PSF itself. constant between this year and net\ orking, alumni contacts, service the complex. sending the three pathetic time Next slap in the face: fifteen last year at M-W. Kaplan professor contacts, p rior E xpla nations for the slips to my employer, resulting hundred bucks less that I can cautions that it is still too early to employers and family fri ends. companies ' reluctance vary. in a last-minute panic to get the borrow this year. Because law give any definitive assessment of The on-campus in ten iewi ng Some report that the college's forms in before the deadline, and, school financing is somewhat of numbers of interviews, hmvever, process for the most part serves transient population makes bill but for my own diligence, an a closed system, my net benefit the trend appears to be consistent the individual looki ng for a job collection too risky of a venture absolutely moneyless summer. from my summer of work stands with last year's. Some law in a large urban firm. for cable companies. Other The story gets better. tobeonly$1,000. The converse schools, however, have reported Kaplan insists upon the reasons may be that the I suppose I should have been of my situation is the student significant declines in on­ aggressiveness ofhis office in its Telecommu nications Office more wary of the requirement who is too wealthy to qualify for campus intervie\\ing between outreach efforts. Al though the requires that any cable services that in order to apply for funding, workstudy. Suchapersonwould this year and last year. Law job market appears less promisi ng be installed through their pre­ one is required to complete a receive only PSF funds and would students at M-W are fortunate than in the past, " we aren'tjust existingphone lines, a technology fi nancial aid application for the have no reduction at all of relative to other schools in that wringing our hands over what is that is not yet in practice by local next school year. After getting borrowing ability the nex1 year. the national decline appears to going on in the market." The companies. over the shock of the processing Naturally I was free to decline have stabilized here. OCPP is aggressively seeking to In either case, this year 's fee, and the payment schedule, I the money totally, but somehow The precipitous decline in on­ keep the William and Mary name complex population seems noticed that a percentage of the late spring seemed a particularly campus interviews should not be and reputation in front of um\illing to forego thei r quest funds from work study would inappropriate time to begin a so alarming, however. "Even employers. for better tele ision viewing. reduce my loan eligibility for search for paying summer legal when the economy was gang Kaplan cla imed no Several suggestions for possible this year. In other words, because work. busters, on-campus interviews responsibility for the several strategies to employ in the coming I was taking a low-paying, public My biggest bitch in all of this only served a specific kind of pagesofthe listof"Fall l 993 On year were offered. interest job for the summer, I is that none of this was made student,'' said Kaplan. Generally Campus Employers "distributed Among the proposals were to would be able to borrow less clear in the fa ll when the mid- to large-si zed urban to students' ha nging files that draft a petition to go directly to money this year. I sure would employment decisions needed to firms have the resources to were obscured by the image of the cable company, to offer to have appreciated being able to be made and acted on. conduct on-campus interviews. distorted, angst-ridden faces. pay the cable bill in advance, and consider that fact, and the Students contemplating PSF Graduates looking for Clean copies are available at to try to bring cable to just the payment schedule, when summers would be well advised employment in other geographic OCPP. complex lounge. Alternatives to deciding whether to interview to look deep into their souls and locations or in smaller firms still cable such as a satellite dish-­ for those thousand-plus-a-week bankbooks before deciding not appropriately camouflaged so as jobs back in SEPTEMBER To to drop for that big corporate law not to detract from the colonial add insult to injury, I found out firm. atmosphere-or a central antenna that not only was this percentage Next time: The Good Part. were also discussed. The Hall Council would escaped without punishment. attempt to pav for such RACISM, from page 9 This can not happen again. irnpro\·ements through proceeds The perfect solution would made by fundraising, and Council nor the Administration be that The Pillory is able to through 1hc con-.p\c~, due~ ·~ ~ ~~~v :\llinst~ ~ttbe dem.aruk ~uti.ul.!P.. tbei.c ~ti.rit::al t~m~ collected from residents during of the BLSA protest, the Admin­ with the humor it is trying to the ch ck-in process. This fund istration has agreed to amend portray, yet more importantly amounts to approximately $700 the Publications Council's con­ with the sensitivity that this and consists of$5 donations made stitution through a committee society so desperately needs. It is by the students and collected by led by Professor Rodney Smolla. BLSA' s hope that the Law the complex residence support BLSA is not satisfied with just School and undergraduate staff. "changes." What is necessary, communities can understand that The support staff was of course, is an attempt to secure the time for racist tolerance has instructed to collect the dues by constitutional rights ofboth sides long since passed. And yes, this Wanda Wea\·cr. the area director of this sensitive issue. What the is a racist cartoon. TRY ONE AT REGUlAR PRICEAN DGET of Residence Life. While some William and Mary community The BLSA members at TWISTY BREAD; FREE! must realize is that this society - -·-·- students may have received the William & Mary, although we .;: Cnspy, crac. , crunchrageous P•ZZa-- ·· impression that these dues were doesnotliveinavacuum. One's can hardly claim exclusive credit tTi- and an order of deliCIOUS Twi Bread - WOW1 mandatory, there currently exists rights are not isolated from for the outcome of the " Mightie II. no obligation to pay the $5 fee. another's rights. They are inter­ Wh itie'' protest, would like to This status may change, dependent. When one's rights suggest that all BLSA members 229-8885 220-3770 however, should the newly have been violated then the in the nation stand at the forefront Serving Serving formed Hall Council vote to make other's rights cease to exist. of any racial demonstration William & Mary Colonial Williamsburg the dues a required cost for The Committee was formed, taking place at colleges and residents. per last year's discussion with universities. This past April, a In addition to the questions the President, in an attempt to unified and organized presence • of cable and the Mule Bam, grant the Publications Council of William & Mary BLSA I ...I ------I students discussed the options of more inherent power. The Pub­ ------.. members at the frontline of the ( SUB MEAL ) ~ TWISTY BREAD'W:J-1 purchasing either a television lications Council currently has protest enhanced the credibility I I I for the complex lounge and a the power to fund a new publica­ ofourclaimsagainst The Pillory vacuum cleaner for residents to tion. It lacks the power to discon­ and the administration. With I $599 borrow. The possibility of tinue a publication that has vio­ the dignified power of legal I : FREE : hosting social events also arose. lated the Council 's constitution. knowledge at our back (as well I YOUR FAVORITE 12" I I Another project for the Coun il Moreover, the Committee is con­ as the media in our face) the IOOMINO'S SUPER SUB, A BAG BUY ANY THIN CRUST PIZZA is to draft a onstitution, as sidering more effective sanctions administration could not ignore I OF ~ BRAND POTATO I AT REGULAR PRICE AND GET. required for College-affiliated once a publication has been found CHIPS AND A 12oz. SERVING AN ORDER OF DOMINO'S us. Although future newspaper l OF COKP OR DIET COKE· I TWISTY BREAD'" FREE I student groups. to be in violation. Presently, the and magazine publications at Council co-directors were current editor is subject to pun­ William & Mary will reveal the I also elected at this meeting. The ishment by the Publications true measure of our success, for I Hall Council is \\-illing to hear Council. In the "Mighty now we reclaim victory over any input students may have on Whitie'' issue, neither the editor "Mightie Whitie," his creator, how to improve life in the nor The Pillory were subject to and the racist mentality from complexduring thecomingyear. sanctions. Hence The Pillory which he came.