Looking for Mr. Goodguy's Replacement
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Boston College Law School Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School The Alledger Law School Archive 9-18-1987 The Alledger, volume 08, number 01 The Alledger Follow this and additional works at: https://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/alledger Part of the Legal Education Commons, and the Legal History Commons Recommended Citation The Alledger, "The Alledger, volume 08, number 01" (1987). The Alledger. 177. https://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/alledger/177 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Archive at Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Alledger by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Biting Satire Student BCLS Fall -page 2.. Organizations Recreation Guide -page 5- -page, 8- Vol. VIII, No. 1 Boston Co_llege Law ~chool_~~-------·· September 18, 1987 Looking for Mr. Goodguy's Replacement By Deirdre Cunnane This committee consists of the It's been a long and weary search following: Deans Coquillette, N.Y.U., to our very own BCLS. for Ken Ernstoff's replacement as Smith, and Lutch, and Louise Some of the candidates also have Dean of Students. No stone was Clark, representing the Admmis graduate degrees in education and left unturned, literally. However, tration; Professors Howe, Bloom, social work. after a lot of hard work on behalf Plater, Rev. Nicholson, Jean The town meeting, held last of faculty, administration, and stu French and Sharon Hamby, Monday by the student represen dents alike, the candidates for the representing faculty; and Virginia tatives of the dean's committee, in recently vacated position have Chung, Diane Hartmus, and formed students of the status of been narrowed down from over a Cheryl Maier, selected by the LSA the search, and requested student hundred to only seven. to represent the student body. Af input on the appropriate criteria As most of you already know, ter several meetings, the commit upon which to base the interview Ken Ernstoff left BCLS this sum tee narrowed the pool down to ee's evaluation. The student mer for a position on the legal coun eleven candidates. Of these eleven representatives al~o requested that sel of Digital Equipment Corpora candidates, seven have been select 20-28 students actually sign up to tion. Thus, leaving a big pair of ed to be interviewed within the participate in the interviewing and shoes with no feet in t hem in his next two to three weeks. evaluation of the candidates. office. The initial difficulty in seek According t o the student The seven candidates will initial ing a replacement was trying to representatives, the selection Former Dean of Students, ly be interviewed by t he adminis discern exactly what Ernstoff's job process thus far has been focused tration, next by the dean's com was in the first place. The ensuing primarily on the applicant 's qualifi Ken Ernstoff mittee, and then individually by in job description was appropriately cations in both counseling and ad terested faculty and students. vague. ministration. One of the student une wno wu1 oe able to help plan for Evaluations from all of the inter Nevertheless, BCLS received representatives was especially con the future developments of the law viewers will be compiled by the over one hundred applications for cerned that the new dean have school. dean's committee. They will then the position. These applications good interaction with students Fortunately, the remaining can submit their top choices, unranked, were first reviewed by Deans while obtaining the respect of didates are ''very impressive.'' All to Dean Coquillette, who will make Smith and Lutch, who categorized faculty. Also, the new dean should of the candidates have had some the final decision. The committee them according to qualifications. provide a listening ear for the stu prior experience working with stu hopes to have the interviewing (Query-What else do these Deans dents, as well as be able to medi dents, have some type of social completed by the first or second do?) Next, twenty-eight of the ap /ite between the two populatim1s work, community, or counseling week of October, and to have the plications were presented to a spe (student/faculty). While the com background, and, last but not least, new Dean in office by the begin cial "Dean's Committee" , created mittee appers to be stressing the all have law degrees. The law· ning of November. specifically to select the new Dean counseling aspect of the position, schools the candidates graduated Let the interviewing begin. May of Students. they are also looking for the some- from range from H arvard to t he best Dean win. Professor Berry Tackles the NFL, NCAA By Bernie Pellegrino Professor Robert Berry, one of taken to preserve his client's ath suddenly disrupted by a criminal Bloom that had implicated Carter. the country's leading sports and letic eligibility. investigation by the U.S. Attor " When the U.S. Attorney's Office entertainment attorneys, made na " At this point we were n6t yet ney's Office against Walters and came into the picture I had to drop tional headlines this summer while willing to disclose Cris's identity, Continued on page 5 representing former Ohio State and while the NCAA seemed sym University All-American wide pathetic to our circumstances, they , receiver Cris Carter in proceedings insisted that any official action The Class of the Next Decade involving both the NFL and the would have to be brought by the By Maribeth Petrizzi, lL to get some ideas about the perso NCAA. The tumultuous summer, player's college or university," ex Once again the first year class at nalities of the first year class, so I described by Berry as, "An emo plained Berry . Boston College Law School dis asked them a few questions. Kevin tional rollercoaster packed with . Berry's efforts, however, were plays that marked improvement in McLaughey, a first year student many sharp and unexpected scholastic achievements charac from Rhode Island expressed a turns," came to a gratifying, and teristic of each new entering class. common feeling. He said that the in many ways, a historic ending on I am sure that you have heard students at Boston College were Friday, September 4, when Carter these statistics before, but they are not really competing against each was chosen by the Philadelhia Ea worth repeating. other, but rather they were compet gles in the fourth round of the 1) The average undergraduate ing against the school. This .is a NFL's special supplemental draft. G.P.A. is 3.45. sentiment that a lot of schools are Berry was first contacted by 2) The average LSA T score is 39. trying to convf'v to you, but one Carter's older brother Butch, a 3) There are 29 states represent that you will find to be true at former NBA player who had met ed and 7 foreign countries. BCLS. Berry while playing for the Indiana 4) The average age is 25 . A common feeling that was ex Pacers, in early April about possi 5) The percentage of females in pressed by many students was the ble improprieties related to the the class is 50 %. need for them to get involved. They younger Carter's involvement with A fact that is worth noting, is the felt that this was going to be their t he World Sports and Entertain increase in the enrollment of stu way of letting off steam, as well as ment Corporation (WSE), an agen dents from the South and South being a good way to meet their cy firm headed by the notorious west. This sought after group is classmates. This idea was found at agents Lloyd Bloom and Norby now becoming a larger part of the the orientation wine and cheese Walters. When it was discovered BCLS student body. More stu party, as well as at the LSA"s wel t hat Carter had, in fact, signed dents are coming from states such come back barbeque. So don "t sit with WSE, Berry immediately con Professor Bob Berry calls as Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana back, get involved and meet this tacted the NCAA in an effort to the signals in the classroom and Colorado. year·s l L"s, the class of the next discover the avenues that could be decade. photo by Peter Carney I thought it would be interesting t ~ ,;-, · ! , . _-_ : l -, '11 C' Page 2 / ALLEDGER / September 18, 1987 .ASK THE ALLEDGER by J.D. Jughead By J. D. Jughead should do likewise in order to keep The easiest course you can take A: Geoff who? Well Geoff, after Q: Exactly what is "Ask The Al- up with the competition.- Name and, arguably, the easiest course at consulting with the admissions ledger?"- J. D. Jughead and address withheld the law school is Trusts and Es- office I have discovered that you A: Well J. D., that is an extreme- A: I am sure that this question tates with Professor Slizewski. The were accepted to the law school cor- ly insightful question considering is racing through the mind of each course deals with forms such as respondence program. Under this that this is the first time this bi- and every first-year and therefore wills, and therefore you will only program you only have to come to weekly column has appeared in the warrants a serious response. The have to fill in the blanks on the fi- the law school twice a year: on the critically acclaimed and widely question is not whether you should nal exam, which I'm sure you can first day of classes and on the day read Alledger.