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VOLUME II, ISSUE FIVE MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1991 TWENTY PAGES College to monitor SBA funds By NANCY KILLIEN local bank. The SBA president and treas SBA officers and Marshall-Wythe ad urer have sole access to the account, and ministrators are replacing the SBA petty can withdraw funds at will as they would cash bank account ·with a college agency with a personal account, said Cangin. All account as part of an effort to reform the money deposited in the account comes student government's financial proce from SBA parties and fund-raisers. Par dures. ties such as Barrister's Ball can bring in as In a meeting on Monday, .October 7, much as $6,000 in gross profits, all of Deans Sullivan and Galloway, Richard which is deposited to the petty cash ac Brooks (3L), SBA President, and Stepha count, according to Brooks. nie Cangin (3L), SBA Treasurer, discussed The new agency account will replace setting up an agency account as a reposi the petty cash account almost entirely, tory for money raised at SBA functions. said Cangin. Money raised from parties Brooks said that although "the SBA will and other functions will now be deposited still control this money," the college will in an account held by the school. The also keep track of the account, "serving as college will not control disbursement of an independent check," on the treasurer. Devins deals 'em down and dirty at PSF Casino Canie Leonard According to Cangin, the SBA petty See BUCKS, page 20 Night. See story, page 16. cash account is a checking account in a Mock trial staging sin1ulates typical date rape experience By PAMELA ARLUK had known each other for two Defense counsel Will DeVan had given the defendant mixed guy." and would never do such a A mock trial involving a col years and had been out on sev (3L) tried to argue that the wit signals by inviting him to her thing. lege student charged with date eral dates. They spent over an ness consented to sexual rela room and kissing him on her bed. Professor Lederer played the rape was staged Wednesday by hour at the Greenleaf drinking tions, by stating that many times DeVan also called character judge, and the audience was the the legal skills firm of Lederer, and talking, and Zack walked women say "No" but actually witness Matt Boardman to the Posey, Stone, DeVan & Roth Flise home. She invited Zack up mean "Yes." DeVan tried to stand, played by Mike Him (lL). See MOCK TRIAL, page 20 stein. to her room, they began to kiss imply that perhaps the witness Matt testified that Zack is a "great The purpose of the mock trial, on her bed, and he pinned her held as part of "Soberfest," the down. Although she said "No" College of William and Mary's he did not believe that she really Cotnputer Integrated Courtroo~p. Alcohol Awareness Week, was meant "No" and continued. Bise to alert students to how a date screamed, her suitemate ran into assists M-W students in trial prep rape can easily occur on a col the room, called the campus lege campus, especially when police, and Zack was arrested for By WILL DeVAN eliminate the delay problems the system will be the availabil alcohol is involved, and to ac attempted rape. On October 17, Stenograph we've had getting trial transcripts ity of court reporters to take tran quaint the audience with the valid To try to prove attempted rape Corporation installed the first back from the Legal Skills bench scripts. Marshall-Wythe is de legal procedure. beyond a reasonable doubt, Law School Computer Integrated trials, and second year students pendant on the Court Reporting The mock trial took place prosecutor Stephanie Cangin Courtroom (CIC) in the nation at ought to find themselves with Academy of Virginia for court Wednesday evening in Washing (3L) stressed that the witness had Marshall-Wythe. The CIC per more time to prepare their ap reporters. ton Hall. Although the case definitely said "No," but the forms a real time translation of peals," said Professor Fred Le The system will provide users involved a fictional situation defendant continued to try to have court reporter transcripts and derer. with a number of advantages not created by the legal skills firm, it sexual intercourse with her. · displays a traditional transcript Lederer also said that although otherwise available. Hearing portrayed a realistic account of Cangin also emphasized that the on computer screens in front of other uses for the system remain impaired counsel, jurors, judges, how date rape often occurs on a defendant had held the witness the judge and counsel. Simulta to be seen, the system will pro and witnesses will all be able to college campus. down as be was preparing to have neously, the system creates a vide the school with an opportu more actively participate in the The defendant, Zack Taylor, sexual intercourse. Cangin called hardcopy transcript for later use. nity to prepare imme9Jate tran judicial process. Counsel and played by David Hopkins (lL), Elise's suitemate Carol Noland "We are very excited not only scripts of important lectures and judges will be able to mark text and witness Elise Saunders, to the stand, played by Ellen to be the first law school in the may allow the Trial Advocacy and look for keywords with played by Jennifer Ramey (lL), Ferris (lL), and Campus Police country to haYe the system, but class to depose \vitnesses for trials were out drinking one night at Officer Ken Love, to substanti we have an immediate and criti next year. The largest single See NEW AGE, page 20 the Greenleaf. Zack and Elise ate Flise's allegations. cal need for it. This ought to limitation on possible uses for
CORRECTION --Inside this issue ----- The story about grade parity in the September 30 issue of The Amicus Curiae is substantially in error regarding the lack of a polic_· on grade parity at Marshall-Wythe. The faculty has, in fact, • Racism in Thomas • Cutler lecturer speaks on adopted such a policy. hearings? Page 8. bias in law. Page 6. Faculty members inteniewed for the September 30 story, including members of the current Academic Status Committee, neglected to mention the adoption of this policy when speaking vo.ith • Butler Baby Pool now • Best busts in the law the Amicus reporter. open. Page 12. school! Page 11. For a full update on the grade parity situation, please see Professor Glenn Coven's letter on page 2, and the story on page 3 of this issue. \.. 2 ======Monday, October 28, 1991 THE AMICUS CURIAE o ·ut of our heads From the Editors ... Well, the new College directories are out and this year, the world in America. Thus they go candidate for the coming week folks on the main campus remembered that there are 600 After the debacle of the Oar on, hoping each morning to get end. students over here on South Henry Street As many students ence Thomas hearings, the me through the day without being Contrary to Professor Rig have noted, Paul, Sam & Co. often seem to forget everything dia tried to paint the events of subjected to vulgar, degrading gins' desires, a woman can't about us but the color of our money, so this year they should that week as a sort of national remarks or actions. always be more like a man, nor be commended for actually proyiding us with copies of the di consciousness-raising session on It's hard for many men to should she be. Perhaps instead rectories that our student fees pay to print. sexual harassment. Despite this believe Hill because she waited of expecting women to be more Of course, if you want accuracy or useful information, portrayal in the popular press, I ten years to discuss the matter, confrontational, like one of the you'll have to wait until next week, when liz Jackson pub can't say that I've seen any in rather than raising hell about it guys, men could become more lishes a law school directory with the local addresses and creased sensitivity among those when she was a twenty four year attuned to subleties of human phone numbers of students. Could someone please find out who don't know what it must th~ old. behavior. how much money the College wasted on printing and whether feel like to be harassed because But that's a basic difference This is not to pass judgment we can get a fee rebate? of a biological fact which they between men and women and on which mode of behavior is It seems that in an amazing show of response to student in cannot change. the way they are socialized in better. However, in the put,_someone over on the main <4ffipus decided the book Many of the women I've America. Men are taught from workplace, or at school, people needed to be published "soon." Of oourse, you can get a clue talked to have spoken of a feel childhood to be confrontational, of both. sexes need to be more as to how they defme words over there if you defme "soon" as ing of betrayal after the fmal vote two monthS after the school year starts. Anyway, that's the of was taken. But perhaps worse while a woman's role is to make conscious of how others will ficial reason being given out for sending the directory to the than the Senate's actions are the sure every body is at least"com- perceive their actions, statements jokes about harassment which fortable, if not happy. and attitudes. It's easy enough to printer before school started and students living off~campils had a chance to provide updated information to the registrar proliferated in the days after This may tend to explaiiJ. why tell when a person is uncomfort this year. As we all know, the vast majority of law students live Thomas was confirmed Regard men seem so _confused about able with a joke about their relig off-campus less of whether a person believed !'What Women Want." It's re- ion or background, the same is We've really got to hand it to liz, for taking it upon herself Hill or Thomas, it is an undis ally not that difficult to figure out true with jokes about gender is to fill the gap created by the incompetence of the Office of puted fact that sexual harassment if you think about it, but women sues. Telecommunications. While there's been talk in the Flat Hat occurs everyday, in every set do tend to be ·a bit more subtle A person who has never ex of printing a· supplement, I'm putting my money on her to ting. For those who have to live about things that make others perienced harassment cannot come through for the law school community. · with it, or who have lived with it uncomfortable. know how it feels. But there are in the past, it's nothing to joke For one thing, we've all been a lot of people that you might about. taught that men have incredibly never expect to understand it, I personally found Hill cred fragile egos. That's why when a who do understand for precisely THE AMICUS CURIAE ible because I believe that what man asks a woman out and she that reason. It's not something most victims of haritssment want has absolutely no interest in him, one goes around bragging about, "Dedicated to the complete and objective repo;ting is simply for the behavior to stop. she'll decline in as polite a man- - but it's also not something one ofstudent news and opinion" Most people don't want to be ner as possible. Make no mis- forgets. perceived as "troublemakers" or take about it guys, an apparently We all might want to think Editor: Jennifer Oick someone that's- "not a team · unattached woman that tells you about that before we make the Managing Editor: Heather Sue Ramsey player" because that's not how she's "involved" with someone next CJarence Thomas or Anita Production Editor: Kathryn O'Connor one gets ahead in the business else does not consider you a likely Hill joke. . Assistant Editors: Morgan Smith, Leeanne Morris Political Editor: Nancy Killien Arts & Entertainment Editor: Kevin Walsh Photo Editor: Greg Brum.olett Letters Business Manager: John Edwards To The Editor: Dear Editor: to the faculty at its March and News Reporters: Features Writers: I am writing this short state Your article on first year grad April meetings. In April, the PamArluk PamArluk ment to protest the treatment of ing was substantially inaccurate, faculty adopted a further resolu William DeVan Greg Brummett the 65 students who volunteered both factually and in implying tion requiring that the grades in Bob Dickinson Natalie Gutterman to assist with the outdoor recep that the faculty was generally all sections of the same first year Suzanne FitzGerald Matt Holloran tion for the Bill of Rights Con unconcerned about fairness in classes be "essentially uniform." Brett Johnson Kevin Kroner ference on Sunday Night, Octo grading. The facts are as fol No further action was taken, in Nancy Killien Adrian Nelson ber 20. I am unsure how long the lows. part because, in view of the ac Kevin Kroner Michael Reynolds more patient (or docile, or ambi _For a decade or more, first tion already taken, nothing re Kathryn O'Connor Steve Schofield tious) student volunteers were year grading has been governed mained broken and thus nothing David Pfefferkorn Mychal Schulz actually required to wait, with by two traditions: an informal required fixing. Michael Reynolds Gregg Schwind out any explanation, outside the grade curve and consultation on The options presented to the Andrew Smith Sean Sell event for the promised arrival of grades among the instructors of faculty did not include amanda Kevin Walsh the mythical ID card holders. My different sections of the same tory, preconceived grade curve. patience expired after thirty class. For the Fall, 1990 semes That approach to grading, which minutes, and my tolerance was ter, that tradition was deliber penalizes strong class perform Sports Guru: Mychal Schulz exhausted after the full hour. ately broken by two instructors ance and rewards weak class Photographers: Bobby Carll, Carrie Leonard As a first year with a memo who both awarded grades mate performance, was unanimously Cartoonists: Bob Dickinson, John Lohmann due the following day, the ex rially higher (not lower, as your rejected by the Academic Status Marketing Staff: Vanessa plliott, Carl Neff, Stephanie Rever, pended time in preparation, trans article stated) than permitted by Committee as inherently unfair Stephanie Stakem portation, and uninformed stasis tradition. and educationally unsound. If, Production Staff: Marc Bernstein, Peter Hetzel, Debbi Holmes, outside the gate, was time much The resulting intersectional as your article suggested, the LeeaneMorris needed and, when wasted, grade disparity was immediately current Committee is reconsid Renaissance Woman: Morgan Smith missed. In pondering the plau observed by the Academic Status ering that rejection, that is re sible explanations for the wast Committee, which immediately grettable. ing of at least 65 people-hours, brought the matter to the atten Glenn E. Coven my mind turns, in the absence of tion of the faculty which imme Mills E. Godwin Professor of Letters to the Editor are not intended to reflect the opinions of other explanation to those troub diately (at its February 14, 1990 Law the newspaper or its staff. All letters to the Editor should be ling twins: lack of competence meeting) adopted a stopgap reso (The second letter to the edito"? • submitted by 5:00p.m. on the Friday prior to publication. Writ and lack of consideration. lution intended to· restore the published in the October 18 er~ must submit their letters as computer files. Please include To those whose patience or grading tradition. issue was authored by Debbi a double-spaced hard copy with your disk. other inclinations exCeeded mine, The Committee continued to Rauanheimo. -Her name was We cannot print a letter without confirmation of the author's I hope it was worth it. consider grading practices and dropped from the letter inad- name. We may, however, withhold the name on request Mark Donald (lL) presented several further options Letters over 500 words may be returned to the writer with a ~ertently. . ~ request that they be edited for the sake of space. Monday, October 28, 1991 THE AMicus CURIAE======3 Former FCC head offers advice on building a legal career ByN.nCHAELREYNOLDS ity to inspire confidence as well as being for a fmn to demand too many hours and opment and today's marketplace. Wiley, Most students are justifiably worried a responsible and responsive attorney. deprive an associate of the chance to take Rein & Fielding has two tiers of partners: about simply getting a job offer, but it is Wiley had one very illuminating piece of up outside interests, which can help make one type of partner receives a salary and a never too early to think a little about what advice as to how an attorney might be able a better attorney. He suggests that new bonus based on fmn profit, and the other comes after the job is secured. to attain success at both types of client associates should be wary of burying them type is an equity or share partner who With that in mind, I sought out Richard development: get involved in whatever selves in the lil?rary and should be sure to owns a piece of the fmn. This structure is Wiley, a Washington attorney whom I civic groups, organizations, or associa question prospective employers about the a reflection of the fact that a firm is a heard speak last summer about getting a tions are of interest to you. fmn's policy on hours . . business and must recognize the economic job at a law firm and who also offered Wiley believes that being active in It is interesting to note that the partner some advice on career advancement. His civic or political groups, for example, can ship structure in Wiley's own finn re See. EXPERT ADVI~E, p~e 15 talk was particularly interesting because have many benefits beyond whatever in flects some of the realities.of client devel- it gave several insights on what to do after trinsic value is derived from participation. you get the job. I decided to ask him some He said that" becoming involved can help questions on legal careers and th~ profes an individual develop the capacities to _Loan forgiveness -remain_s sion in general. deal with other people, to lead and organ Wiley is the senior partner at the firm ize, and to have confidence in oneself.· As of Wiley, Rein & Fielding. Eight years already mentioned, such skills can be vital elusive for M-W students ago, he and several other attorneys broke to client·development. In addition, be · By DAVID PFEFFERKORN woulq be.a great additio~, b':lt adds that away from the Washington office of coming active in community groups .can Some law s~hool graduates .are b~ing the additional fundraising burden would Kirkland & Fllis to form their own firm give one visibility in the cominunity which forced to mal\e unpleasant choices ~s • be_ a. tougl;t hurdle. The law school's top which would concentrate on a communi is obviously a good way-to attract clients. heavy debt loa:ds limit thei~; options for tw_o priorities right now are scholarship cations practice. Wiley. himself had If people in the community, ·including employment. Public sector jobs are often . funds and e~dowed chairs for professors, worked at the Federal Communications other lawyers, are able to see.your attrib ruled out on the salary factor alone, creat and it would be a challenge_to track down Commission during the Nixon years and utes first-hand; then they are more likely ing·a situation that ~es. out. f<_>r a solution . . ,donors who are interested in giving spe eventually became Commissioner there. to feel confident iil bringing you their At some·schools the prob!em,is being cifically_ to this type of fund, ~ullivan His firm's practice and size have grown· . legal business.· To be a goo By JENNY CLICK " [t]he distribution of gr~des in of agreement prior to the sub one should know from the meet Hardy, who has. been inter The article on grade parity in all sections of the same first year niission of their grade~ ... · · ing, but in fact a lot of people just ested in a parity policy for some the September 30 issue of the courses should be essentially .Professor Trotter Hardy, a . don't remember. A lot goes on in tin1e, said that his memory lapse Amicus Curiae was "substan uniform [unless variations are member of this year's Academic faculty meetings that people regarding adoption of the policy tially inaccurate, both factually required by pronounced and Status Committee, was the prin don't remember." "[m]ay sound funny to you, but I and in implying that the faculty lmusual characteristi cs of a par ciple source for the Amicus stOry. According to Hardy, "the can assure you· it's not. I hon was generally unconcerned about ticular class.] To that end, all Although on sabbatical during Academic Status Committee estly didn' t remember that we fairness in grading." instructors teaching sections of the spring semester last year, ought to remind people toward took a vote on it that's all." So begins the letter from Pro the same course in the first year Hardy attended the April meet the end of the semester that in "What I remembered was in fessor Glenn Coven, a member curriculum are required to con ing where· the resolution \vas fact there is a poli cy. ~' He specu troducing a motion for amanda of last year's Academic Status sult with each other prior to the adopted. · lated that Associate Dean Con tory curve, because that's what I Committee, to the Editor of the submission of their gr3des with a When questioned as to why . nie Galloway might well "have. wanted. That was not accepted, Amicus Curiae. view towards achieving an es ~ the information he reiated to Ami sent a reminder out anyway. She and I remember the discussion The full text of the letter ap sentially uniform distribution of czis reporter Andrew Smith was· ofte reminds us of things that on that a little better. I simply pears on page 2. grades among students in those inaccurate, Hardy said "I bon- · we have voted on at the· time we didn't remember that we passed ·~1inutes from a faculty meet secti or.s." estly didn't remember that we need to remember them." any motion on it," said Hardy. ing held April 18, 1991 confirm "In the event that the instruc had the vote on it." Galloway , though not a -ow that the matter has been the facts related in Coven 's let tors in a course are unable to Several other faculty mem member of the Committee, said brought to his attention, Hardy ter, and reveal that at the meet agree upon such a uniform distri bers interviewed for the Septem that she will include a statement said that he will "send a memo ing, a resolution on grade parity bution of grades for any reason, ber 30 story were equally unin about the new policy in the memo out reminding people of what we was passed by an 11-3 vote. each instructor must notify the formed about the adoption of the she regularly sends to all faculty voted on- as we get closer to The policy adopted states that Dean of the reasons for that lack policy. Hardy said that "Every- members regarding exams. ~" 4 ======Monday, October 28, 1991 THE AMICUS CURIAE Exeter prqvides break from colonial grindstone By LUCY WILLIAMS bus ride west from London. A that sounds, the British really are and not utilize the Socratic adventures closer to home, such Several Marshall-Wythe stu provincial capital on the river another culture: try eating three method, they made it clear that as Stonehenge or the Devon dents postponed that futile job Exe (key word: provincial), kinds of potatoes for every meal regular attendance was expected. Moors. Also, I found it very search last summer by attending E'teter is one of the oldest cities every day, studying for exams in Despite the relaxed class atmos interesting to hear lectures, espe the Exeter summer school pro in England. It hosts a beautiful a place where the library closes phere, however, I must empha cially those concerning the or gram in England. The program, cathedral and a very interesting at 5:30pm everyday or discover size that grades issued were chestration of the European the first American summer law older part of the city near the ing that English Riviera is really consistent with Mar11hall-Wythe Economic Community, from a school established abroad, offers waterfront. Although scenic, it a wide concrete sidewalk and tell standards and, contrary to nu non-American perspective. Al courses in international, Euro was a MAJOR change of pace me you disagree). Classes were merous rumors we heard before though some creature comforts pean Community and family law from London: pubs closed by pleasantly different from what I hand, were NOT an easy boost to were noticeably absent (you can taught by well qualified profes nine-thirty and only three or four had grown accustomed to at the omnipresent GPA. always stay home for those), the sors from both Britain and Amer clubs were open past midnight. Marshall-Wythe; I did not real The E'teter program offered a experience and chance to become ica. Despite the program's good (Sound familiar?) ize how much energy I expended chance to live in England for the better acquainted with other law reputation here and abroad (it is After the initial adjustment to in post-college classes trying to summer and truly experience students, from M-W and other ABA accredited), there was life in the slow lane, however, be invisible and avoid the effects British culture. No Friday classes schools, was well worth the plenty of time to balance studies the benefits were readily appar of the seating chart. Although facilitated trips to the continent, morning shower lines and search and adventUre. The opportunity ent. We took the opportunity to the professors tended to lecture Scotland, Ireland and Wales or ing for a Sunday meal. to learn (even law school!) in see more of the countryside and another country was a great break began to think about exactly how from the historic colonial grind far behind we were in school. Forget the job market: go to Madrid stone and was a very rewarding Best of all, we finally met the rest expenence. of the people on the program ByBRETTJOHNSON art museum, lie on a Mediterra dmvntown Madrid at 3 a.m. with The first ten days were spent (about half of the students were Let's face it. The legal job nean beach, see exquisite Moor out fear of violent crime, being at the University of London, near from other law schools around market is tight and if you. are a ish archi lecture, and get student pickpocketed or stolen from is the Regent's Park and Soho ar the United States); in Exeter the lL, it could even be described as loans to pay for all of it? not uncommon. Speaking from eas of the city. Classes were held program developed much more abysmal. Instead of waiting Students with the William & experience, I was relieved of my in the morning and were over by of an academically .oriented at tables or pleading with former Mary program have the option of wallet while waiting to board the one o'clock (twelve-thirty in mosphere. employers to rehire you for the living on-campus at the Colegio plane to come back. After a bag Exeter) every day, meaning if This summer marked the 25th summer, you should seriously Mayor or making their own containing his textbooks, new you could get over that initial anniversary of the William & consider going to William & housing arrangements. Classes · camera, passport and airline loathing of an eight o'clock Mary - Exeter program, high Mary's Summer School of Law ar~ held in a separate building ticket was stolen from him in the public appearance, your whole lighted by the Silver Jubilee in Madrid, Spain. right behind the Colegio Mayor. subway, Lawrence I' Anson (2L) day after lunch until, well, when dinner and dance celebration in Besides being one of the least The Colegio's living accommo emphasized that even if you think ever you chose to come home, Exeter. Other school-sponsored expensive summer programs dations include single rooms, you are being careful with your was free and clear. In London, activities included lectures from around, you will be able to take shared bathrooms, a pool, bar, things, "you need to double your this was a truly dangerous propo local barristers, solicitors, and fewer classes next fall by getting tennis court, and yummy institu efforts and never let them out of sition: from plays and night life judicial notables, lunch and a tour some credits out of the way this tional food all at a very reason your sight in public places." of ANY variety (jazz to goth) to of the Inns of Court, and a trip to summer. Marshall-Wythe stu able price. Morgan Smith (2L) If considering going to markets and touristy stuff, it was the houses of Parliament (for dents have the added advantage remarked that "it's not·the Hil Madrid, be prepared. It's hot! a challenge to work in all the which one instructor advised us of receiving graded credit for up ton, but it is clean and decent in Virtually no buildings have air adventure in only ten days. Al to please remain calm, because to 7 credit hours, while students stitutional housing." Another of conditioning, so an electric fan though we hated to leave, we security was, yes, tight and from other law schools will only last year's participants, Jenn for your room is a necessity, were encouraged, in the end, by sometimes it was difficult to tell be able to transfer the credits Rademacher (2L), said that she whether you bring it from home the fact that we were running out an excited young American from received and not the grades. was surprised by how nice eve or buy one there. Morgan Smith of money and were seriously a terrorist). British humor was 1992 is definitely the year to rything was, "especially the recommended buying it there so below the necessary sleep allow really an added treat. go to Spain. Not only will the courtyards, the pool, and the bar." that you can save precious lug ance which makes law students I would highly recommend summer Olympic games be held Knowing Spanish is not a gage space for other things. the bright young contributors to the Exeter summer program to in Barcelona, but Madrid has necessity. Classes are taught in For lL's, the suniiner of 1992 society that we are. anyone interested in studies been named next year's cultural English, but brushing up on your may be the last opportunity you The major part of the program abroad and/or exploring another capital of Europe and Seville is high school Spanish might be a have to travel or take classes was spent in Exeter, a five hour culture (and no matter how funny playing host to the 1992 World's good idea. Beth Kurowski (2L) before having to get a summer Fair. commented that she used her associate position next year and With classes only 4 days a hands and pointed to let people a real job later on. Take the week, long weekends spent sight know what she wanted, but it opportunity to have fun and to HSINGLING seeing are easily justified. Last was "rewarding when the idea make friends with law students year's participants took week got across." Jenn Rademacher from all over the country. Give end trips to Portugal, France, Mo considered it relatively easy to serious thought to going to the rocco, the Balearic islands, and get along without speaking Span \\ illiam & Mary's Madrid pro all over Spain itself. How else ish, particularly in restaurants and gram- or as Lawrence I' Anson 220-2344 can you study law, run with the department stores. calls it-"a GPA-boosting vaca Thursday and Friday Lunch Buffet bulls in Pamplona, visit the Prado Although one can walk in tion." 11 :30- 2:00 $4.95 The Board of the Public Service Fund • FREE DELIVERY would like to thank everyone who \YOrked to make ($10.00 minimum order) • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Casino fl ight •••••••••••••••• • Limited Delivery Area such a success. Mondav-Sundav . - 4:30p.m. to close Thanks a1 so to e't eryone who attended. We very much appreciate your support! 204 Monticello Shopping Center Open daily, Lunch, Dinner Thank You! !! Monday, October28, 1991 THE AMicus CURIAE======5 Last year's recipients tell all PSF funds provide for plethor~ of public interest possibilities Compiled by PATTY ERIKSON all of the witnesses, the Public Defender Public Defender's Office, Portsmouth, researching cases within moments of being (Editor's Note: This is the second .of a decided that I would be needed as a rebut Virginia -Stephanie Brodacz assigned to them. The cases I observed or series of articles in which students who tal witness in case any of the people I Jay Underwood, the Public Defender, worked on involved murders, rapes, kid received Public Service Fund stipends interviewed recanted their testimony on explained when I arrived that he wanted to nappings, armed robberies, assaults, and describe their recent experiences in pub the stand. be sure I didn't get bored - I didn't. The batteries. They also involved DWI's, lic interest law. For each recipient, we We pursued every possible lead to prove PD 's in Portsmouth knmv the meaning of unauthorized use of a vehicle, and shop have attempted to focus on the aspects of the accused innocent Although our client zealous representation; they exhibited lifting. their experiences which were significantly was found guilty, I feel that any legiti equal enthusiasm defending burglars and I spent the first week and a half watch different from those of other students. macy the criminal justice system has rests third-time offenders caught unlawfully ing trials and working in Intake. The latter • These excerpts are not meant to be an upon the fact that eaeh person receives the concealing toothpaste and canned salmon. is the office that interviews would-be exhaustive survey of the duties involved kind of thorough representation that I And I got to write the brief on the shop clients to see if they are indigent enough in each position, but rather to point up the participated in providing this summer. lifted can of fish. to qualify for the P.D.'s services. diversity of experience available in public The highlight of my summer job was This was a marvelous introduction to interest careers. For more information Public Defender's Office, Buffalo, New handling a robbery trial in circuit court, the P.D. ambience. Although none of the about any of the organizations mentioned, York -Tim Davis under the third year practice rule. I am people I interviewed were in jail (inmates or about public interest work in general, My initial job was to assist the investi finally appreciative of the trial skills I were interviewed at the prison, not re please contact any PSF Board Member.) gators and generally learn how the office learned in legal skills, and I guess I learned leased to come talk to us), they were all functioned. One of the primary duties of something in evidence. My favorite ob accused of crimes that could put them LegalDefenseFund -Pamela Hampton the investigators is to interview clients jection was "Your Honor, that's hear there. All were very poor; most were The Legal Defense Fund was set up by from 9:30 a.m. until 12:00 noon. Quite . say!" uneducated, and about 99% were Black or the NAACP, but is a separate, non-profit often we would go through about thirty Hispanic. organization. The aim of the organization five to forty clients within that time, and Public Defender's Office, Prince Before this summer I thought defend is to provide legal services to people who would have to turn away latecomers. George's County, MD -Ellen Chapin ing criminals the least appetizing legal might not otherwise be able to afford During the afternoon a few of the in I clerked for three attorneys in the career possible. Now, if I can afford it, I quality representation, and to lobby Con vestigators proceeded down the street to Felony Trials Division. They had me very much want to return to the P .G. gress and state legislatures for more equi the Erie County Holding Center to inter interviewing clients in the local jail, draft County Public Defenqer' s Office on a table laws in areas as diverse as criminal view clients who had not made bail. 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W., Roanoke, Virginia 24011 The summer culminated in the trial of proceedings and to assist in his own de (703) 982-3711 the accused. Because I had interviewed fense. 6 ======Monday, October 28, 1991 'D-IE AMICUS CURIAE Yale prof delivers Cutler lecture Minow discusses bias in speech to Judicial Conference By ANDREW SMITH musician in various nightclubs. His (1991), a case involving Latino litigants contrasted Hernandez with a 1954 deci In the wake of sexual harassment brother served in the Army and is now a in which the court ruled that the testimony sion of the Warren court in which the charges made against him, is Clarence school teacher and an upstanding member to be heard by the jury would be the justices reversed a lower court verdict Thomas more or less likely to render a of the community with a house and fam official English translation, not the origi against a Mexican defendant who killed a sympathetic verdict for a sex offender? ily. While the brother feels affection and nal Spanish (or any combination of Eng man because he claimed he was given "el Would he judge such a defendant more responsibility for Sonny, he gives him lish and Spanish). This effectively denied ojo" (the eye). The justices reasoned that harshly than another judge would, simply very little credit as being a contributing both plaintiff and defendant the benefit of to avoid the appearance of impartiality or member of society. He then, however, any Spanish-speakers on what was sup See TRICKY #@!*1 page 15 impropriety? goes to see Sonny play the blues, and he is posed to be a jury of their peers. She These are the types of questions yale profoundly affeeted by the music, as are Law School professor Martha L. Minow the other members of the audience. He addressed in her Cutler lecture titled, 'The only then realizes how productive and SBA representatives AWOL Constitution and Pere~ptory Challenges," valuable Sonny is, and only then really which she delivered during last week's understands what motivates his brother. By SUZANNE FITZGERALD From Grace," which will take place on Judicial Conference. Her speech ad She suggested that the assembled justices At their weekly meeting Wednesday, November 2 from 8:30 p.m. till 1 a.m. dressed the issues of bias in jury selection (and others) might take a lesson from the SBA had a full agenda. According to Brooks noted that the SBA must sell 300 and judicial decision making. Sonny's brother in rendering judgment on SBA President, Richard Brooks, top pri tickets to the big event, "or else we'lllose Minow noted that Thomas, in his testi those of whom they have very little under orities were to teach the representatives our shirts." Deja vu. Tammy Moss, the mony regarding Hill's accusations, said standing. "the handshake" and then to distribute SBA Social Director, updated the group that he is now much more keenly attuned Minow also drew from the movie, their decoder rings. on the dance. She said that the open bar to racial stereotypes, sexual harassment, Thelma and Louise, to illustrate her point Apparently, many SBA members were was all set and that there would be liquor, and the rights of the accused. Does this She noted that in the movie, Thelma and uninterested as only seven attended the wine and beer. 'Delk, not realizing the bar experience, Minow asked, make Oar Louise are on the lam because they be meeting. Brooks stated that he was going was not up for a vote, commented that he ence Thomas a more or a less qualified lieve (perhaps correctly) that they will not to "get strict" on the attendance policy. was, "all for it." Moss added that there justice? receive a fair trial for the killing of Vice President and altruist, John Childrey would be chips and pretzels to snack on at She attempted to answer these ques Thelma's assailant They think a court of volunteered to drop reminders in mem the tables. tions and deal with the issue of bias in a men could not truly understand rape. bers' hanging files in order to remedy the . She also said that decorations would number of ways, drawing on analogy from Minow quoted, in this regard, her favorite problem. primarily consist of balloons and "left literature and movies as well as Supreme line from the fi.Jm - when Thelma says to However, some reps had valid excuses. over Halloween pumpkins" due to a lim Court precedent Minow's remarks dealt Louise, 'The law is some tricky shit." (A First-year rep Gina Love was asleep. laura ited budget. For entertainment, the SBA with questions such as how we avoid bias big crowd pleaser in Room 119.) For livaccari, another absent first-year rep, has hired Casper, a Richmond band that and whether, indeed, we want to avoid Minow, the fact that so many men who asked that it be noted she informed an plays a wide variety of music. Tickets to bias. But ultimately the crux was how we saw Thelma and Louise did not under unidentified party of her inability to at the extravaganza will be on sale in the can hope to judge someone whom we do stand or appreciate it, while so many tend. livaccari had Carolina on her mind lobby every day from 10 a.m. till 2 p.m. not know, whether they be Caucasian, women did, underscored her point that as she was rocking in Richmond w{th Tickets are $10 per person, but there will African-American, Latino, Asian, male, people of different races, sexes, and back James Taylor. Dave Delk stated for the be a price increase at the door. or female. grounds cannot be expected to fairly judge record that he was the only frrst-year rep Lastly, Moss mentioned that it was Mmow drew extensively on a James one another. to attend all of the meetings. Delk added, never too soon to start thinking about Baldwin short story, entitled "Sonny's Minow then took the occasion to criti ''I'm trying to make SBA an all-male Barrister's Ball. Moss noted that she Blues," to emphasize the dilemma. Sonny cize the Supreme Court on the question of thing for next year." needs a date in order to reserve a hotel. is a drug-addled ex-con who works as a bias. She cited Hernandez v. New York ------,Next on the SBA agenda was "Fall 'Nuff said SEA's Fall From Grace fast approaching BURRITOS ENCHILADAS Brooks promises "everything TOSTADOS NACHOS TACOS TORTAS but" Manilow and Osrnonds QUESADILLAS TACO SALADS TAMALLES HILE RELLENOS So how long does it take to run out of hanced by the open bar, complete with things to do on the weekend in Billy liquor, beer, wine, and soda. Tap water burg? About this long, you say? may be available on request. The annual SBA semi-formal, Fall Contrary to some peoples' opinions, From Grace, makes its appearance this the age of independence has arrived and Saturday, November 2. The event is dates are not n~ssary. Tickets are on scheduled for the Campus Center ball sale now in the the lobby, $10.00 for room from 8:30p.m. until 1:00 a.m. singles, $20.00 for couples. In fact, what This year, SBA bas managed to book good would it be to have a date anyway if a non-law school band for the occasion. there's no economic incentive for going Casper, a Richmond-based band that to all the trouble? There's still plenty of plays at schools up and down the East incentive to buy your ticket early though, coast, will be providing the musical prices at the door are $13.00 for singles backdrop. and a penny-pinching $25.00 for couples. According to SB A president Richard Fall From Grace has traditionally been Brooks the band's play list includes Mo the last blowout of the semester before town, classic rock; top 40, soul, R&B: everyone hunkers down to cram in a few "everything but Barry Manilow and the "nougats" of knowledge. For frrst years, Osmonds." In contrast to last year, it may be the last chance to get down and Brooks, Tammy Moss, SBA social boogie with friends who might pretend committee chair, and several other SBA they don't know you after class ranks members reviewed demo tapes from come out numerous bands to fmd one that will At any rate, Brooks and Co. are making MEXICAN DEU provide danceable tunes the whole night some mighty big promises on this one, DINE IN OR TAKE OUT through. and liz Jackson~ already said that if the The opportunity to boogie to this bevy SBA goes under, she will not take over as 220-4848 of musical genres Win no doubt be en-. hostess of the Grad Thing. K-MART sHoPPING CfNTtl l OUT£ 60 I YPASS THE AMICUS CURIAE News Briefs Monday, October 28, 1991 7 Directories available next week SBA loses bucks on 70's Grad Thing The Marshall-Wythe Law School Directory is in the process of being assembled, The SBA lost approximately $300 on the Super Grad Thing, the 70's party held at and should be out during the week of November 4, according to liz Jackson, Registrar. Trinkle Hall October 9. Around 150 people attended the party, according to Stephanie The directory will include the names, addresses and phone numbers of all J.D. and Cangin (3L), SBA Treasurer. Tickets cost $3 per person at the door. L.L.M. students, except those persons who indicated that they wished the information Richard Brooks (3L), SBA President, said that the SBA spent over $750 for the to remain confidential. The information was collected from the change of address party, including "$400 for beer and soft drinks, $100 rental [on the facilities], $100 for forms used to update student information on the mainframe computer. Jackson said .[college] security, and $110 on CDs and cassettes." Brooks said the CDs and cassettes, that the information will reflect the most recently corrected forms, and that students had all 70's music played at the party, will be given away as prizes for a variety of best been given three opportunities to make corrections. costume contests. \Vinners will be announced next week, according to Brooks. The administration decided to publish the directory because the student directory for Brooks said he had hoped that as many as 250 graduate students would attend, but the College of William and Mary was sent to the publisher in mid-Au,oust, without up a member of the Graduate Student Association failed to promote the event adequately to-date information on the Marshall-Wythe student body. Many in the Oass of 1994 on campus, especiall-y among MBA students. Brooks said insufficient advertising are listed under their permanent rather than local addresses in that directory. reduced attendance by "60 or 70 students." The law school directory will be similar in format to the one published and sold last -Nancy Killien year by the S.B.A. Jackson said that the fmancial woes of the S.B.A. were another reason the administration decided to take responsibility for printing this year's direc PSF accepts early applications tory. The 1991-92 Marshall-Wythe Student Directory will be available for pick up in the PSF will allow second years who have already obtained an offer for a public interest Administration waiting area, free of charge. Jackson said that students should watch job next summer to apply for funding soon under a new early-decision process. for announcements on the bulletin board and in the Docket. Applicants must have an award letter in hand by November 20, the application deadline Copies of the William and Mary directory, which contains listings for the main date. PSF Board members are not eligible to apply for the early-decision stipends. campus, as well as the permanent addresses of most students, are also available for law Two stipends of $2500.00 each may be awarded this semester, although PSF has students. Those wishing a copy of the directory should see Gloria Todd. reserved the right to make no awards this fall. Fall applications will be subject to stricter -Bob Dickinson scrutiny than those submitted in the spring. To receive a fall award, students must show an exceptional commitment to public interest law as reflected in their personal statements and the job offer they have received. Those who apply for, but do not Faculty Discusses Interviewing, Advising receive, an early-decision stipend this semester will be added to the applicant pool for Faculty members discussed several items of concern to students at the monthly stipends in the spring. faculty meeting on October 17. The meeting began with an announcement from Dean Applications for the early-decision stipends will be available in OCPP on November Kaplan regarding on-campus interviewing this year. Kaplan reported that 155 6. The deadline for submission of the application is November 20. PSF plans to employers have, or will, interview on-campus this year. The figure is down 20% from announce the recipients of the early-decision stipends by December 6 . Second year last year. Kaplan said that this decrease is typical nationwide. Thirty-nine employers students with questions about the new program can contact Eizabeth Dopp(3L) or have canceled interviews so far, a figure similar to last year's cancellations. Patty Erikson(3L). Kaplan also announced a job fair organized by the Virginia law schools to be held this month. The fair is for students who graduated last Spring, passed the bar, but have not yet found employment. So far, 14 employers have promised to participate. Professor Susan Grover reported on a proposal from the Student Services Commit Committee named to find Verkuil replacement tee for circulation of a list of faculty members specifying their areas of interest Grover A Committee has been named to head up the search for a new president to replace said the list would give students.a better idea of who to tum to with questions Paul Verkuil, who will be leaving the College in February to become head of the concerning course selection and career goals. The faculty unanimously approved American Automobile Association. compilation of the list, and it is now' available in the Administration offices. The Committee membership, announced October 18, includes 6 members of the Board The faculty unanimously approved a resolution proposed by Professor Donaldson of Visitors, 7 professors, 2 members of the Society of the Alumni, and 2 students. concerning the late Professor Walt Williams. Donaldson's proposal, made last month, Professor John Donaldson of Marshall-Wythe is the only law school representative on called for the drafting of a resolution reflecting the faculty's admiration for, and the Committee. recognition of, Professor Williams. The resolution was read aloud by Professor Levy According to a story in last Friday's Flat Hat the Committee will place advertise and entered into the minutes. Handwritten copies of the resolution will be presented ments for the position in The Chronicle ofHigher Education soon, as well as notifying to members of Professor Williams' family. other colleges nation~deabout the vacancy created by Verkuil's departure. Although -Kevin Kroner no date for completion of the search has been set, James Brinkley, Committee Chair and Vice-Rector of the College told the Flat Hat that he has been asked to be "expeditious but thorough" in the search. 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Adrian Nelson cratic Party to the proverbial mat as it relates to the Af Anita Hill, as an African-American woman, is a rican-American community, and to give George Bush's member of one the least valued segments of our society. Although I am focusing upon the extent to which race picture a place next to Abraham Lincoln and white Throughout the history of this great Nation the African and racism played a factor in the Thomas nomination and depictions of Jesus which adorn the walls in some Afri American woman has been raped with the intent of confirmation, understand that I refuse to allow the seri can-American homes. Only a racist politician would destroying her queenly dignity and domesticated for the ous issues of sexual harassment and America's disre knowingly nominate a man whose very nomination purposes of cleaning up after Americans and raising their spect for women to become a mere footnote to the would agitate the undigested contents of the American children. And it has happened again. Thomas hearings. The Thomas confirmation must for people's racial intolerance. However, we all know that Anita Hill, a graduate of Yale's law school, a tenured ever stand for the proposition that in 1991 women are still President Bush is certainly not that "Willy Horton" kind professor at the University of Oklahoma School of Law, second class citizens in our nation, and ~y issue associ of guy. who gave credible, consistent, and ratiomil. testimony, ated with them is to be given serious consideration. With Racism has also been deemed to exist when a member was reduced to a scorned women, given to sexual fan this as my backdrop, my more immediate interest is get of one race ,or a group comprised of members of one tasy, who enjoyed being raped of her queenly dignity in ting to the "nitty gritty" (the heart of the matter) of the race, stationed in a position of power, use that power to the national arena. I submit that had Anita Hill been a Thomas affair. effect unfavorable outcomes upon those of another race; white woman of equal professional and moral distinc Unequivocally, race and racism were factors in George in whole or significant part, because of their racial tion, Clarence Thomas may have had more to worry Bush's nomination of Clarence Thomas, in the pervasive differences. That is what occurred within the Senate. about than a "lllgh-tech lynching of an uppity black disbelief of Anita Hill, in the events which transpired The Senate, that virtually all-white (male) pristine body, man". He may have found himself hanging from a during the confirmation proceedings and in the eventual used its Constitutionally authorized power to effect fu Georgia Poplar tree. confirmation of Thomas by the U.S. Senate. ture unfavorable outcomes upon the African-American Finally, Clarence Thomas is guilty of further infusing President George Bush's decision to nominate Clar community, because of their inability to appreciate the race into the proceedings through his repeated theatrics ence Thomas was an act predicated upon race with long-term effect that Clarence Thomas will have as a prior to and during the confirmation proceedings. I call arguably racist motives. Yes, I know that President Bush Supreme Court Justice. it the "pinpoint pause," affectionately for Pinpoint, GA, said, "race was not a factor" in his decision to nominate However, many Americans question whether the and the ''I'm a Black man who's fallen, and can't get up," Clarence Thomas. I say that the nomination of Clarence Senators can be found guilty of racism when they sup syndrome. Clarence Thomas at the very mention of his Thomas was a racist ploy which will result in intellectual ported an individual of African-American descent Easily, grandfather or childhood would invariably, and on cue, black on black crime. Simply stated, George B!lSh delib there is another type of racism, the ''I'm sorry, your well-up and sucker Senator Hatch and the American erately nominated Clarence Thomas with the intent of different" kind of racism. Many African-American's people into pitying this poor black man who did it "his using Thomas's race to camouflage Bus~?-'s desire to who have been educated in a predominately white aca way." Thomas also deserves an academy award per eradicate the legacy of the African-American communi demic setting have had the unnerving experience of formance for his portrayal of a man who just happened to ties first and singular voice on Nation's highest court. _ being with a group of " so-called" white friends, who in be black, but was knocked down because he is black. If Clarence Thomas is the "black snake", to which Justice the heat of the moment describe someone as a "nigger," Ronald Reagan was allowed to be the Executive branch Marshall must have been referring. His mission is to and then have the unmitigated gaul to say, "I am sorry, actor for eight years, why not allow Oarence Thomas to slither onto the Supreme Court and inject his poisonous your different." That is what the Senate did to both be the Supreme Court thespian for life. venom into the legacy of a now aging eagle of America Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill. At this point in the development of race relations in jurisprudence, the legacy that is Thurgood Marshall's The Senate, that so-called friend of Clarence Thomas, our Nation, any decision regarding the fate of an African and his alone. in the heat of apassionate confirmation hearing called American person involves issues of race and racism. Clarence Thomas, the White House-proclaimed Afri- Anita Hill a "nigger" and effectively said, "I am sorry," Sadly, that's just the way it is. Race is the controlling issue only if enough people think it is Justice Clarence Thomas claimed that his confirma motivation. The most common theory among her detrac tion became "a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks." If tors is that she was fantasizing, which would explain her Sean Sell Anita Hill's allegations are true, however, it makes little passing the polygraph test. Again, racism would not difference how we characterize the process of investigat seem a motive in such a case. Were the investigations into Professor Anita Hill's ing them. But perhaps Hill is just a good liar. That would still not sexual harassment claims motivated by racism? It is Lynching was, among other things, a racist's way of make her claims racist. While they may play into certain impossible to say that race does not figure at all into such dealing with blacks who did not "know their place." The stereo-types about black men, they are the sort of claims political processes. The nature of democracy provides victims might have committed "crimes" like running a that could apply to men of any race. And once these assurance that race will be an issue if enough people successful business or socializing with a white woman. claims are made, they cannot be ignored just because think it is; but it will not necessarily be the controlling Legitimate proceedings could not punish these deeds, so some feel they appeal to racism. issue. racists would resort to lynching. If racism did not motivate Hill, did it motivate those When I was in college a friend of mine who is black Legitimate pr~eedings may punish sexual harass who leaked her claims? Hard to say, since we don't know ran for class president. He won. Another friend who is ment, however, because it is legitimately forbidden by who they were. Many people wanted Thomas defeated white felt the result was due to there only being one black law. The confirmation hearings, disorganized, unpro for a variety of reasons. Some of these people may have candidate - he would carry the black vote, while the ""'hite ductive, and embarrassing though they may have been, been racists. More of them were probably willing to use vote would be split. I found that highly unlikely, not only were legitimate proceedings investigating serious claims. the racism of others. Maybe the person or persons who because the black candidate was well-known and well Had the nominee been white, things might have been made Hill's claims public was such. We know there were liked among many different people, but also because different, but public claims of sexual harassment would people who wanted to stop Thomas and would go to great even if people had voted along racial lines there were not hardly have gone unexamined. lengths, beyond what most of us would consider decent, enough black students to control an election. Still, this The Senate Judiciary Panel scrutinized both sides to do so. \Vhile I cannot say for certain if these people white friend was probably not the only one who saw severely, often on points that seemed tediously irrele were appealing to racists, I can say I am certain the same racism there. vant. However we feel about the guilt or innocence of people would go to the same lengths to defeat a white A friend from another college told me the story of an Thomas, the nation seems to have reached a consensus nominee they found objectionable. Race may be an election in a residence hall there. The floor was split into that most all of the Panel were guilty of incompetence. issue, but it is not the controlling one. two sections, with one side about twice the size of the Yet nowhere in the questioning was Thomas's race made Clarence Thomas presented himself admirably as one other. Each side had one candidate. The candidate from an issue. who did not use his race as grounds for special treatment, the larger hall was white, the one from the smaller hall As to the allegations themselves, Thomas claimed or as an excuse for not succeeding; but when facing the black. The white candidate won. It seemed logical to my they "play to the worst stereotypes we have about black first serious challenge to his confirmation, he claimed it friend, and to me when he told the story, that the main men in this country." The allegations come from Hill, was a lynching. True, he had been under great stress and reason for the outcome was that the winning candidate however, and though she may have been accused of was perhaps rightfully ahgry, but like the candidate who knew more of the voters. To the losing candidate, many things, to my knowledge no one has called her a lost for Hall Council, it was Thomas who made raee an however, race was the reason. racist. If she was telling the truth, she needed no more iSSUe. ·, . . THE AMICUS CURIAE Featured -Commentaries_ _ Monday, October ~· 1991 9 Camping out for classes is a ridiculous concept a.m. Although people camp out school to take white collar crime the course of their summer job, through the course bulletin, on to purchase concert tickets, it is or entertainment law. Although and decide that they would really every page there are at least fi ve PamArluk absurd to have a law school pol there are larger tragedies in life, like to take a certain class be or six classes listed that will not icy that encourages students to it is unnecessary to have such cause either their employer thinks be offered in the school year camp out all night to simply hand rarely offered courses conflict it is very important, or their inter 1991-92. This past Wednesday and in a registration form. with anything else. est was sparked by working on a These include many interest Thursday, Marshall-Wythe stu Additionally, the administra While I realize that it is certain project. ing classes that may also be im dents arrived at school before tion should work with Professors impossible to avoid class time The way the system works portant to a student' s desired sunrise and struggled to enroll in to significantly decrease the conflicts, stricter scheduling now, if the class is at all popular, post- graduation practice such classes that were either interest amount of class time conflicts. guidelines for professors could it will be very difficult if not im as: civil rights law, corporate ing or necessary, and that didn't For example, there is a required help to minimize them as much possible to be admitted into that finance, insurance, legal account conflict Unfortunately, this was class that meets next semester on as possible. This should not be class if the only way to get it is to ing, separation of powers, and no easy task for many students, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes too difficult considering the small put your name at the bottom of unfair trade practices. Some of as class pickings for next semes day at 11:00. Students who take number of classes which are the waiting list and hope that it these courses are offered even ter seemed especially slim. I that class a{e unable to take any available. For example, there comes up during Add/Drop week. less than once every two years, have become so annoyed with other class that meets at 11:00 on are no classes that begin at 10:00 Again, because many classes are therefore, there are courses listed the registration process that I just either Monday and Wednesday, a.m. on Mondays or Wednes offered so seldom at Marshall in the bulletin that entire classes hand in my form before my first or on Tuesday and Thursday. days, but there are four classes Wythe, the student may have lost of students will not have the op class, and hope for the best. Such conflicts unnecessarily that begin at 9:30 a.m. on Tues his or her only opportunity to portunity to take. However, the process could be restrict students' ability to have days and Thursdays, as well as take that desired c lass. The registration process improved for future students if significant choices when regis four classes that begin on 1:00 In many schools, the Profes should be reformed for several we effectively voice the frustra tering for classes. p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. sor can oversubscribe his or her important reasons. Marshall tions that I have been hearing for Furthermore, considering the Additionally, the Add/Drop class and admit several extra Wythe will not be able to com the past week. small number of classes offered, system needs to be more flex students. I don't understand why pete with top law schools when To begin with, I don' t under it becomes especially frustrating ible. Currently, we register for this couldn' t be done here. While their class offerings are so lim stand why priority within last when classes that are rarely of classes several months before the I realize that the waiting lists are ited, thus forcing students to name groupings has to be on a fered at Marshall-Wythe conflict new semester begins, and we are the most objectively fair method, emerge with a less well rounded first-come, first-serve basis. with standard classes that most essentially forced to lock our the Professor should be able to education than students at other Since we are in the technical age law students need For example, · selves out of classes that we may admit a student in their class if law schools. Additionally, when of computers, it would be just as federal income tax conflicts with desperately want to take as the they believe that the student has we are paying thousands of dol easy to assign random priority white collar crime, and trusts and new semester arrives. This prob a compelling reason or desire to lars a year to attend Marshall numbers. With a random sys estates conflicts with entertain lem is especially prevalent dur be there. Wythe, it is not unreasonable to tem, students would not feel the ment law. If the student decides ing fall registration, when stu Finally, maybe the problems expect that you should be able to need to arrive at the law school at to take tax or trusts and estates dents sign up for classes in April. that I cited above would not be a<; enroll in the classes you choose, some ridiculous hour, and wait they are most likely giving up It is quite possible that a student troubling if there were simply and you should not have to lose a around in the lobby until 7:30 their only opportunity in law may change their mind during more classes to take. As I look night's sleep to do so. Senate engaged i~ trying the victim conversations I had at parties that week Trying the victim has the same theoretical innocence of the accused, but the charac end mirrored the public opinion seen on basis even in a civil EEOC proceeding. ter of the accuser. Certainly, the accuser's Kevin Kroner the news: "Why did she wait so long?" No one questions how long it takes the character has relevance, but it is not the "How can she remember that clearly?" mugging victim to report the crime. The measure of truth. The consequence of ''Why didn't she tell more people?" "Why only inquiry is whether or not the accused using it as a measure of truth is that the ac Sitting in front of my television, watch did she follow him to the EEOC?" The committed the crime. For example, a car cused' s guilt is determined by the virtue ing the Thomas hearings, I was saddened result is that, since Anita Hill did not strikes a pedestrian in a crosswalk and of the accuser. Perhaps even more fright to see the leaders of our country cling to a conform to what we think a victim should speeds away. Unfortunately for the driver, ening are some of the logical extensions line of attack that courts prohibited years do, she must not be a victim. the victim works for Motor Vehicles and of this standard: There is nothing inher ago. I am talking about trying the victim. The only problem with that logic is that spots his license number. The victim ently wrong with forcing a woman to Instead of focusing on the truth or falsity it is not used in any other area of the chooses not to report the incident because submit to sexual relations; There is noth of Anita Hill's statements, the Senators, criminal law. Of course, this was not a he wants to blackmail the driver. Does ing inherently wrong in subjecting a and much of the public, seemed more criminal case; but, the technique used by this conduct absolve the driver of guilt woman to degrading and insulting com -concerned with Hill's motivations. These Specter, Hatch, and some other Senators under a hit and run charge? ments. These acts only become "wrong" motivations were considered the sole is the same one used in any sexual assault, When the victim is put on trial in such when the victim attains a certain level of gauge of Hill's truthfulness. sexual abuse, or sexual harassment claim. a way, the inquiry is not the guilt or moral and sexual purity. Obviously, the Senators on the judici ary committee put Anita Hill on trial in a very subtle way. No one inquired into her rFun by John Lohniann sexual past. What Orin Hatch and Arlen Specter did was to draw out inferences which play into the very heart of sexual '-'ev. stereotypes still held near and dear to ·--;:-\ many Americans. There was testimony . ..:- l ~ that Hill was attracted to Thomas. Both i.=j""'"' Hatdt and Specter repeatedly emphasized ~ }.: l the many public-interest groups aligned ~ against Thomas. Specter, a former prose ,--. -~- · cutor, repeatedly questioned Hill's mem _,-W -- ory by asking her to quote innocuous con ; I i...... - 1 versations from the past month. Hatch and Specter succeeded in doing what every lawyer defending an accused rapist dreams of - they attacked the ac cusations by attacking the accuser. The 10======Monday, October 28, 1991 'f!IE AMicus CURIAE Fun for law geeks! - Authorities you '11 never cite in the real world Legal research is not fun. It may occa L.J., Oct. 18, 1982, at 13 ('The Court af • A Uniform System of Citation, 65 Goo. • Geiler v. Commission on Judicial Quali sionally be intellectually stimulating, but firmed once again, and yet hid its glee by L. J. 871 (1977). fications, 10 Cal. 3d 270, 515 P.2d 1 it is rarely humorous. As the list below upholding Jim's conviction under Rule • Tales of Unforeseen, 27liAsT. L. J. 776 (1975) (judicial decorum, California demonstrates, however, some attorneys 23."). ( 1976) (a comic look at Palsgra/). style). do, in fact, have a sense of humor. With •1J. CONT. L. 382(1974)0Doonesburyon • Runge v. Meuopolitan life Ins. Co., 537 these selections, it is easy to give the POETIC JUSTICE the law school experience). F.2d 1157 (4th Cir. 1976) (the "coming impression of refined legal scholarship *Mackensworth v. American Transporta •31 CONT. L. 162 (1977) ODoonesbury on and going" case). an Naugahyde· by Bob Dickinson ?A R KIJ./6- I¥ Th'£ T!IAT'5 :JUST Sit'- 'I G-RAV£ YARD G-IVFS sa P£1?, s rrr.zoN. frl£ IH£ CR.£EP5, cOM 'o,.V. I ~t- W.A 1- K £SPEC~ALL'/ llr'/5 YOa oar-- WHAT~ WE£.k .' To 51£ AFI Ask Miss Demeanor By MISS DEMEANOR bustles around the house, making it impossible to level, he's neat to the point of neuroses, and he's up all Hello again Happy Students! The precious Virginia sleep, he's a total slob, and keeps turning the thermo night! I can't move out, because I hold the lease, but autumn weather we have been so fortunate to enjoy this stat up to the point where it seems I'm living in a I just don't know how to teD him I want him to move. past weekend reminds me of the many festive occasions furnace. I've already found a new place to live next I have someone else who wants to move in, but I'm the season brings. With Halloween and Fall From Groce semester, but I don't know how to break the news to afraid that my current rommate will be really hurt just ahead, Thanksgiving may seem quite distant Now him. We both thoughUt would be great living to when I tell him. I'm certain that he still thinks we' re is the time, however, to begin making plans for the gether at first, and I'm sure he still wants me as a best friends. Please give me some advice on how to traditional holiday. Proper planning, like proper man roommate. What would be the best way to approach explain I want him to leave without hurting his feel· ners, always helps an event go smoothly. him? ings. One of the dilemmas that 1banksgiving causes many happy students is whether to travel home for the tradi signed "Graceful exit" signed, ''Stuck with a schmuck" tional family gathering. Unfortunately, many happy students feel that they must stay at school and therefore Dear "G.E.", Dear "S.S.", miss the celebration. There is, however, an alternative. First, let me tell you how delighted I am that you Often times situations such as this are less one-sided Since so many happy students fmd themselves in a realize the importance of maintaining good etiquette than one thinks. I'm certain that if you exercise a little similar plight, all you need is to find one student with even in the face of adversity. living with another happy • patience, that your situation will resolve itself shortly. plenty of seating space and organize an orphan's Thanks student can often times magnify otherwise overlooked giving. Traditionally at M-W, orphan's Thanksgiving differences and cause solid friendships to deteriorate to Confidential to Paul LeBel, has been advertised by posters two to three weeks before the brink of destruction. You must be honest. Room The line between pride and gloating is a fme one. The the holiday and open to anyone who brings a covered mates are much easier to replace than friends. Simply true character of a man is evidenced not in the accom dish. Orphan's Thanksgiving is a fme way to make new explain that you value his friendship, but minor incom plishments of his favorites, but in his ability to be friends, as well as enjoy a sumptuous Thanksgiving patibilities have made you realize that continuing your considerate of his comrades. feast And remember, happy students, communication is relationship as roomies could eventually damage that vital here. Far more tacky than two people making their friendship. Confidential to RodS., entrance in the same outfit is a menu of one turkey and Sincerity is of utmost importance. Certainly someone I appreciate your desire to cling to your "yippee nine green bean and cream of mushroom soup cassa you are otherwise so close to will understand. And youth" background; however, a Democratic tie is impos roles. Use those hanging files! please, by all means, offer to assist anyway you can in sible to negate, even by a haircut so conservative it Well, I see that we have several letters in this week's procuring a new roommate and making the transition as borders on Hare Krishna. mailbag, so let's begin with the happy student's etiquette simple as possible. queries. ************ Dear Miss Demeanor, Dear Miss Demeanor, My roommate is driving me nuts! I thought we Questions for Miss Demeanor should be placed in the I can't stand my roommate. We've only been were such good friends at the beginning of the school Amicus Curiae hanging file. The editors will maae sure living together since the beginning of the semester year, but now I can barely keep myself from stran she gets them. All letters will remain anonymous, unless and he's driving me crazy. He gets up reaDy early and gling him. He keeps the temperature at refrigerator Miss Demeanor figures out who you are. Collect them all! This week: bodacious busts spotted at Marshall-Wythe! More clip 'n' save Marshall-Wythe trading cards· r=:::=:;:~-----=====:-1 -- Johnny Marshall Boy George Wythe Bill Blackstone THE KI NG 12======Monday, October 28, 1991 1HE AMicus CURIAE Just So their sounds claim. See Bivens v. Six Unknown-Named Agents, 403 REAGAN ACCUSED, from page 10 Are appreciated U.S. 388,91 S.Ct. 1999,29 LF.d.2d 619 (1971); .U.S. ex Their sounds are beauty rel. Mayo v. Satan and His Staff, 54 F.R.D. 282 that mailbox." There are also other notations on the The ants are silent (W.D.Penn.1971). form. There is also the following "claim": But always searching At any rate, following the Ninth Circuit's remand the The birds noise a song marshals attempted to serve the President and the other The birds today and the fade of the automobile tires defendants. The plaintiff, however, seems to have lost Are singing loudly, Chirp. A shadow from touch with the court, or lost interest, or both. Since the The day is fresh a passing monarch butterfly receipt of the remand in the district court on March 1, With the sounds Breathless in Colorado. 1982, he has taken no action on the case. Mail addressed Upon the wind Kent © Norman 1981 to him is returned. The discovery deadline and Pre-trial The crickets. Order deadline have passed, without any response to the The blackbirds It is possible, of course, that this is not intended as a court's notifications to the plaintiff. Perhaps the plaintiff The woodpeckers claim at all, but as a literary artifact However it may be has elected to pursue his remedies in some more conven Beauty in every that, liberally construed, the references to the birds, ient forum. I therefore DISMISS this action for want of Spark of life crickets, ants, and butterfly could constitute a Bivens prosecution. ,------,I I : Butler Baby Pool : Top ten alternative careers I I I ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• I of-recent M-W .grads 1 As many of the more astute in the law school have noticed, 1 By GREG BRUMMETT I Professor Linda Butler is expecting a child within the next week I I or so. Students and faculty alike are invited to enter the I 10. Lawn maintenance -your familiarity with fertilizer and filler will I BUTLER BABY POOL to predict when the little dickens is I prove extremely helpful. 9. 7-11 clerk -take the night shift so you won't have to change your I likely to make an appearance. I schedule. I Entries must be submitted to the Amicus hanging file by 5:00 I 8. McDonald's order clerk - cross-examine customers: "You want fries I on Friday, November 1st Entry deadline subject to change in the I with that?" "How about an apple pie?" I event the little tyke just can't wait to get here. Winners will I 7. Lifeguard -try to spot the "ordinary, reasonable person" on the beach and keep all the other idiots from demonstrating that the process of : receive an Amicus tee-shirt, but we can't guarantee that the name : natural selection is alive and well. I Y?U suggest will be chosen by Mom and Dad. I (?. Personal Injury Plaintiff - fmd rotten bananas and broken sidewalks I I and make them work for you- repeat "duty, breach, causation, injury, I DATE:______I duty, breach, causation, injury." 5. Deli clerk at Food Lion - take out three years of frustration on various I I m~ts and cheeses- carve, slice, and shave your way back to sanity. · I I nM&______4. - ABC store derk -a chance to build on one of the basic ciinlcal coti'rses I I of your law school career. : ~JCHTI______: 3. MBA student - put off that nasty real life experience another couple years. 2. Waitron at Bassett's -remember yoirr application paragraph about I NAME: ______I how you wan~ed to help people and guide them through important I I decisions? So how is the meatloaf tonight? I I I SUBMITTED BY:______I 1. ''New Property Recipient"- put that understanding of the administra tion of social programs to use - long liveGoldberg v. Kelly! I I '··-----~------'A Marshall-Wythe Tradition! the law school Hallowe'en parties Phi Delta Phi Party Phi Alpha Delta Party 116 Chandler Court The Funeral Home Thursday, 8:00p.m.- ? Thursday, 9:00p.m. - ?, $1.00 donation [ The King 1 [ Sir William Blackstone 1 I George Wythe I I._ ____Jo_h_n_M_a_rs_h_a_u ___....,l I This Jaw school would not be the I I Although Bill never heard of I I George ch~ to become the 1st ·I I After guarding the law$ of Arner-: I I place it is tOday without the firm I 1.. Marshall-Wythe, and would have. I I prQfessor of Jaw in. the u:s. at I I·.ica as. the Chief Justice. of th& .·· I I guiding presence of ELVIS. 'Miile I I beeli offended bY the suggestion I I W&M for seVeral r~asoos: first, he I I Supreme Court in the early I 1 heretics attempt to stifle his mean- 1 1 that he contributed anything to a 1 1 beli~ved the contemporary archi- 1 1· 1800's, John retired to his pres- •· 1 1 ing by removing his guiding r~ght 1 I· .law school _ ~ V.rginia, ?ur _lounge 1 1 tecture in Billybttrg indicated the ·.· I 1 ent position .9uarding tne _'.i~rary ,I I from our founge, the true believ- I I lizards reman forever 1n ~IS d~. I I progressive nature· of the town. I . from food and beverage carrying ·I ers, the Church of ELVIS. en- I I For ~II was f!te first holder of the Second, he liked the outstanding 1. weasels. With his strong. gaze ·.· I dureS and thrives. Long after Vinenan Chalr at Oxford, the very I I social life offered by the extensive I 1 and frilly blouse, he silently · I I Marshall~ Blackstone and Wythe· I I. chairupon which oUr naugahyde I I.selection of·tavems i1 town. Lastly, I I wat~ atl who entE:tr the libial:y J I h8ve f~ into the Qbscurityfrom I I replicas are model9d. Without I I arid perhaps most tellingly, he had I I and informs the beverc:i'ge police .1 I whiCh they were bam, the True. I I the prestige of the Vmerian Chair, . I I a secret.passiOO for a raven-haired I I of allinfractioos so ~hat tt:tey may I 1 King wiUve toguideusal. Amen. 1 1 brown naugahyde would have 1 1 serving wenc;:h at th_e ·f'olo C.lub 1 1 be brougt,ttojustice. ·. · · · : 1 I . I I quietly died the death of a t~cky I I Inn. · . · · _I I I I I I fashion trend. I I I I I I I I I I I I .. ,_. .I I, I I I I I I <. I L-----~---...;,..1 L-.;..--- · --~-- · ..1 L.-...;,----~---..1 L- c~...;,.;..' .;_ __ ;_.;.;....,..J .. .. . 1: THE AMICUS CURIAE Arts & Entertainment Monday, October 28, 1991 13 .·. _ _-.6!1" Dancing about architecture A user's m(!.nual (Part I); new releases from Morrissey, Mellencamp, U2 By KEVJN WALSH baseball cap or the ultra-classy schmatte energetic effort from a guy who seems to really atmospheric and dark, with a great In this week's column, I've decided to (which·Marky actually wore ~o bed in the bring genuine depth of feeling to his work grungy (very un-Edge-like) guitar line borrow from the style of Noogie-Wait "Good Vibrations" video - SE.XY!) no in a time when that's all too rare. from the Edge. Bono half-whispers the ing-To-Happen, Loose-Cannon Sports one has yet seen Marky without some sort ************ apocalyptic lyrics and when, during the Kook Mychal Schulz and write in handy of lid on. Industry pundits are speculating U2 has a new single out called "The chorus someone sings something high little bite-sized prose morsels. Why? Well, that he may be the flrst celebrity endorse Fly"; the new album, called Achtung Baby and unintelligible in the background, the it's fun, in a Larry King kind of way and ment for the Hair Club For Men. You isn't expected until November. While it's effect is not unlike INXS in hell. this week, lik~ Mychal, I'm too lazy to heard it here flrst...basically because my too early to tell whether I like it, 'The Fly'' It may be too weird and scary to be write a cohesive column. I hope my roommate made it up last week. certainly signals a new direction for the popular, and it doesn't sound to me like regular readers (Hi Mom) will adapt to ************ bombastic boys from Dublin. Sounding U2's finest hour, but it will be something this change without resorting to riots and Critical Term of the Month: (This is like some evil descendant of "God; Part interesting for boring radio stations to anarchy. the first part in a helpful feature I'm call- II" from Rattle and Hum, "The Fly" is play this winter. ************ . ing "Kevin Walsh: A User's Manual" Single(s) of the Month: which attempts to teach the reader some Concert Review "My Love Life" - Morrissey: With of the inside tricks of this wack-y thing most of Morrissey's solo career, it has they call Music Criticism.) Smithereens electrify Boathouse been easy to understand why he's so "BEATLESQUE" By GREGG SCHWIND depressed. The lyrics and the music have This adjective is used to describe two The band known for getting jilted by unattainable women and writing songs of their been as boring as his whining was threat completely different types of song - short, frustrations played the_Boathouse in Norfolk last Wednesday night to an almost-full ening to become. Just before he went over catchy, melodic pop (think of almost any house which suprisingly included a handful of law students. the edge into self-parody, Morrissey has Squeeze song) or overly ornate, neo-psy To all those who discount the Smithereens as a fuzz-guitar band whose songs sound come out with"My Love life". Easily his chedelia (the most recent, semi-popular too identical, the show proved otherwise. Wielding an array of acoustic and electric best song since his first album (and argua example was Tears For Fears' "Sowing guitars and commanding a variety of music styles - from romantic ballads ("Ciga bly the best of his solo career), "My Love the Seeds of Love"). The Knack, for rette") to the heavy duty ("House That We Used to live In") - the four-member band Life" is wrapped in the kind of chiming, instance, were way too Beatlesque; the covered material from their three previous albums as well as a smattering from their circular guitar riff that Morrissey seems to Replacements are not Beatlesque at all. It new LP Globe. From the haunting bass in the Especially For You classic, "Blood and work best with and, with Chrissie Hynde should give you some indication of the Roses" to the hard-hitting singles, "Girl like You" and "Blues Before and After" from singing back-up, is also one of Morris importance of the Beatles' influence on 11, the group was a tight and well-oiled machine. This was a welcome alternative to se-y's best vocals since the Smiths broke modem music that they've had to fashion typical Boathouse acts who believe in getting smashed before and during the show, up. an adjective around their name; critics of then attempt to make music (I have last semester's Replacements show in mind). the future will not describe a song as, say, · The group seemed to enjoy playing before the close, overheated audience that "'.P.P."- Naughty By Nature: Okay, "Michael Boltonian" or "Bon Jovi-ish", numbered only in the hundreds. From the opening riffs of "Behind the Wall of Sleep," okay, according to my little brother, I'm .M least not in a positive way. the band-audience interaction was astounding, given the popularity of the band and the about five months late on this orie, but it's The challenge for you is to integrate obscurity of the venue. Obviously, the Smithereens have not let their fame go to their a great song nonetheless, so better late "Beatlesque" into your everyday vocabu heads. Both lead singer/guitarist Pat DiNizio and fellow guitarist Jim Babjak climbed than never. Using a subtle sample froni lary. You might say to a friend, "My what into the crowd to' play with the faithful. DiNizio even took frequent drags from the Jackson Five's "ABC", Naughty By a Beatlesque day we're having" or "Hey, spectators' Marlboro cigarettes - yes, he specifically requested the brand. To finish Nature has fashioned one of the best rap Beatlesque sideburns." Even better is to the show, the two encores consisted of a singalong to the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" dance songs yet. "O.P.P." (which stands use it as an exclamation, along the lines of and a request from the audience of the Who classic ''The Seeker." The Smithereens for "Other People's Property" ... sort of) outdated old expressions like "Cool!" or clearly prefer performing live, and the enthusiastic crowd was never let down. uses a great call-and-response chorus and "Bitchin"'. Beatlesque! After a nearly two-hour show, our group of six law-types departed in the Kroner head rapper Treach uses a rapid-fire de ************ battle cruiser satisfied but with damaged eardrums. By Legal Skills Thursday morning, livery that soars and dips in unexpected, Whenever We Wanted-John Mellen my ears still had not recovered. even thrilling ways. Let's hope this is the camp For newcomers to the Tidewater area, the Boathouse is located off of Waterside record.that shames Vanilla Ice into quit One of rock's most interesting second Drive in the heart of Norfolk on (you guessed it) the waterfront, about an hour from the ting rap and getting a job at a Dairy Queen. string acts, the now Cougar-less John 'Burg. Upcoming acts of interest to-the writer include The Pixies on November 16 and ************ Mellencamp has released Whenever We The Psychedelic Furs on December 2. Other acts appearing at the Boathouse are An interesting new radio station started Wanted, his frrst album in two-and-a-half George Thoroughgood, The Stray Cats, Bret Michaels (lead "vocalist" of Poison), and broadcasting out of Richmond while all of years. Less textured and more visceral a host of metal bands. The big hair/spandex look can be an asset for the latter shows. us were away this summer. At 106.5 on than much of his recent work, Mellen Tickets for all Boathouse shows are available locally at the Bandbox (cash onl>' though) your FM dial, WVGO, Rock 3!!d Roll camp seems to be trying to exorcise some on Prince George Street. On a final concert note, Morrissey ("Me without clothes and Radio, sends out an often compelling mix demons on this record by sweating them the whole world turns its back and gags .. .") will appear live November 19 at William of classic "i-awk" and progressive hits. out The album 's cover even shows and Mary Hall. Over the last few.months of listening, I've Mellencamp thrashing away at an electric -· often been surprised by their play-list and, guitar amidst the paintings (which bring 1liE ideally, radio should be about surprises to mind sort of a heartland Francis Bacon) TRAI>moN and not predictability. Despite the occa that he's kept himself occupied with for CONTJNUES sional slip (too much Steely Dan, Pink the last few years. Floyd, and little Feat; way too much of The songs on this record have a real the cretinous Jimmy Buffet and the sud punch to them, but unfortunately lack denly omnipresent Grateful Dead), their some ·of the subtlety that has made even programming is fresh and I've heard Elvis his weaker moments interesting to listen Costello, Ocean Blue, The Connells, to. The first single, "Get A Leg Up", a 10,000 Maniacs, and the Stone Roses, as straigh.t-forward rocker about a guy who well as less obvious songs by more obvi lucks into a menage a trois, is a great radio ous bands like U2, the Police, REM. and song, despite its dubious message. A few Peter Gabriel. of these songs are amazing Stones rip ************ offs; sometimes it works ("Again To Marky Mark Wahlberg, sit-up aficio night") and sometimes it doesn't ("Last Uprising: Tuesday, October 29 nado and would-be rapper, is yet to be Chance"). Mellencamp has also tended spotted without something covering his toward the very very repetitious repeti Glue: Friday, November 1 head, leading to speculation that he might tious on too many of these songs. Overall, Rasmel & the RMA Band: Tuesday, November 5 be bald. Whether it's the generic black Whenever We Wanted is a hard-hitting, 14======Monday, October 28, 1991 THE AMICUS CURIAE Double vision video review Cat Chaser leaves McGillis naked and abused; Once Around quirky, painful family drama ByNDCHAELREYNOLDS& of the two). Weller's performance might family and the daughter with her true love The director is. attempting to portray STEVE SCHOFIELD signal something for the future, like the is the source of humor at first and drama some sort of real and quirky family, but he Cat Chaser- (starring Peter Weller end of his career. Statues have more later. does so in contrasts that are too great and and Kelly McGillis; directed by some emotional range. The director and writer of this film don't jibe with reality. There are some schmuck) The dialogue was often nonsensical or seem to be trying to make several movies genuine and funny moments accompa just outright stupid. The quality of the at once and the outcome is rather dis nied by quality acting (Aiello is particu Set in beautiful Pompano Beach and production was rather low and the plot jointed and disappointiqg. At first, the larly excellent, and he can sing), but they the Dominican Republic, the story in was too poorly developed. With a little movie seems to be a light romantic com don't make up for the curves that are volved an ex-marine and his former lover, more effort, money and time this actually edy, but then it changes gears. Some of thrown at you by the story. The Sinatra who happened to be married to the former might have been a good film. We can rec the scenes between family members are tunes, however, are great- especially in leader of the Dominican Death Squads. ommend this movie only to people we cruel to the point of being unfair to the stereo. Mildly recommended for those By mere coincidence the dastardly hus don't like. viewer - there were raw scenes of love who enjoy family drama or who think band was also an old golfmg buddy of the and hate that were painful to watch. love is always painful. ex-marine. One of the husband's sleazy ************ American minions decides to rip-off his boss by using a blackmail scheme involv Once Around- (starring Holly Hunter, Support Hampton Roads ing the ex-marine and the wife, who have Richard Dreyfuss, and Danny Aiello; rekindled the old flame. This attempt at directed by Lasse Hallstrom) modern day film noir was based upon a Public Radio book by Elmore Leonard. This is a story about a daughter in a This movie skipped the theaters and tight-knit Italian family in Boston who went straight to video- for good reason. falls in love with a somewhat frenetic and ..=----=. Putrid is the word that corries to mind. We successful condo salesman. The rapid _. - were embarrassed for Kelly McGillis in entry of the brash new boyfriend into the WHR - ~-- the very degrading role that she was given family causes a great deal of tension and --- (she spent the majority of the film being is the focal point of the film. The both abused or getting naked or a combination subtle and open conflict between the Book review Pledge Week ends Saturday, November 2 Cider House Rules a very $25.00 student membership includes subscription to WHRO Magazine and "human", issue-oriented novel full listings for public radio & TV stations By NATALIE E. 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I know that you are asking 110·3146 Monday, October 28, l991 THE AMICUS CURL-\.E ~==~~==~=~====~~~~~~~~~~~~~~=~:=;~==~==~~ 15 As if the extra debt carried by students Thomas, and a necessary lesson for him in EXPERT ADVICE, from page 3 isn't enough, many public-interest jobs in TRICKY#@!*, from page 6 the dynamics of judging and being judged the area of law are in the double-bind of Minow bas authored numerous articles value of its partners. Of course, equity offering both low salaries and limited job in Mexican society eye contact of a cer- in a variety of publications, and haS just partners tend to be the ones who bring in security, as federal budget cuts have se- tain sort is a threat or challenge, some- published a book, Making All the Differ ... the clients. But the so-called rainmak.- _ verely damaged the vitality of this sector. thing very different than in white Ameri- ence: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Ameri ers don't get all the money; work skills For those who feel a pull towards public can society. It is, therefore, something can Law. After receiving her J.D. from and development of existing clients are service but whose financial situation which they could not possibly understand, Yale, she clerked for Judge David Baz.elon also essential to the success of a firm, simply can't mesh with the salaries being and were incapable of judging. (U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit) and and those who have such strengths are offered in this area, a loan-forgiveness Minow concluded by coming full circle for Justice Thurgood Marshall. also rewarded. Wiley said that having program might be one solution. back to the Clarence Thomas nomination. As in past years, a transcript of the two tiers of partners is really just a com Dalke believes that there is money out For Republicans, said Minow, the nomi- Cutler lecture will be published in a sub pensation factor and that all the partners there to start a loan-forgiveness program nation was a "high-tech lynching," for sequent issue of the William & Mary Law are treated as equals in every other re at Marshall-Wythe, though he admits that Democrats, it was the product of an unfor- Review. spect to base the program on an endowed fund tunate and demeaning process, but Mi- Professor Rod Smolla invited the at "Finders, minders, and grinders" is would take a Herculean fundraising ef- now posited a third alternative, that the tendees to view the new plaque in the the way Wiley characterized the differ fort. Managing the program would be a hearings and Anita Hill's testimony were "Bill of Rights plaza", formerly known as ent types of lawyers in firms. Finders challenge as well, as tough decisions would in fact a "baptism by fire" for Clarence the courtyard. bring in the clients, minders keep watch need to be made about who would be over the business and develop existing eligible for funding and who would take Experience in Williamsburg clients, and grinders do the day-to-day charge of allocating the money. researching, analyzing, and writing that Dalke thinks that another approach The World's Finest TastingYOGURT every fum requires. Obviously, associ might be to offer some type of public ates are left to do most of the grinding, interest scholarship at Marshall-Wythe, • It's Frozen • BetterThan but eventually they, too, will need to perhaps offering in-state tuition to those Ice Cream become minders and fmders and that is who are .willing to give some time to where much of Wiley's advice comes public service activities while in school into play. and then to pursue a career in this area. I also asked Wiley a little about the Other law schools such as the University perceived decline in legal professional of Pennsylvania and New York Univer ism or civility. This decline has been sity have programs like this, he noted. attributed to a greater concentration on A survey done two years ago indicated the bottom line. I mentioned the fact that students here are interested in having • PARTY ROOM • TOUR BUS that some note has been made of this a program established. Though a loan FACILITIES GROUPS trend, and he agreed that he bas seen an forgiveness program is no doubt a long AVAILABLE WELCOME increased fluidity in law ftrms tJiat didn't term undertaking, it is surely an option exist when he was a young attorney. worth looking into. Firm jumping is certainly more com ~UUAMSBURGSHOPPINGCENTER mon these days, even among partners. One mile West of Mercf\ants Square Wiley believes that there bas been a 1238 Richmond Road loss of loyalty within some rums, which Beethoven's is a bad thing. Internal cohesion and a Cafe--deli 220-2777 loyalty are very important to him. He How-s: 8:00am. - 10:30 p.m. DAILY •11 a.m.- 10 p.m. SUNDAY said that loyalty needs to work both featuring ways. Finns must pay an attorney fairly and show open loyalty whenever pos Reubens,Sailors.~dhoven, sible. Nevertheless, he does recognize Mozart, Corned ~f. & that fluidity can be a good thing at the associate level. Sometimes young as Pastrami. FAX sociates will discover that their fmnjust SERVICE Also N.Y. Cheesecake, doesn't fit what they are looking for in 804-220-0366 a legal career. · Lastly, professionalism Homemade Soups and also requires that a client be charged fairly which does not always happen Lasagna. Our Famous PRINTING these days. In any event, Wiley said he French Onion Soup Au WISH LIST II, from page 3 Gratin (nightly) -·---. higher education has been skyrocketing. According to the College Board, loans constituted one-sixth of fmancial aid in farrthourn·s 1975-76. By 1984-85, more than.half of . ~ all such aid came in the form of loans. WHERE YOUR FIRST IMPRESSION Thus, the system today is based largely IDnn on debt, and for some this has created the IS AS GOOD AS YOUR LAST dilemma of decreased options at the end join us and relax with Complete Offset Printing • Copies While-D-Wait of the educational journey. gcxxl.fcxxl. in a pleasant The implications of the shift from classical music atmosphere. Color Copies Available grants, scholarships, and parental con tributions to loans has some educators Expert Course Packet Preparation! 401 Mea I j11 lAC Trail (R1:. 143) questioning the fundamental values qxn 11 am Sumaysrun Reading Files Maintained On Request underlying our financi~g system for education. "A grant conveys themes 229-7069 , , sage, 'We value you and will invest in • typesetting • resumes your future,"' said Mr. Machese of the Now featuring a American Association for Higher Edu • FAX service • invitations cation. 'The message of a loan is, 'Go forward if you want, but only on your daily _special for own nickel."' · Dean Sullivan shares this concern. In William and Mary WE PROVIDE QUALITY, SERVICE & LOW PRICES 1969 when the Dean was attending Har vard Law School, he noticed some grm:n Students with 220-3299 bling about the school's ~on loans for many of the same philosophical rea current I.D. 948 Capitol Landing Road Williamsburg. Va Across from DMV . sons. 16======Monday, October 28, 1991 1HE AMicus CURIAE Fear and loathing at craps table - a Casino Night tale By MATTHEW HOLLORAN sounded good After bets were placed the "You can bet, Casino night will be a pit boss looked at me and said, "You bet success." This quote was reiterated against yourself! That space is gambling numerous times by high pressure arm that the shooter will crap out." "Oh," I twisters trying to sell tickets to Casino said. "I know what the spot is for." I Night. (not unlike the Dale Carnegie laughed last, though, when he handed me seminar graduates hired to sell "Fall from $1,600 worth of chips. Grace" tickets in the lobby during recent A voiee suddenly came over the speak weeks). I decided it was a good cause and ers, "It's time for the raffle." "Great," I worth supporting, not to mention there thought to myself, "I just won $1,600 would be an open bar, dancing and a 'dollars' betting against myself. I know raffle. As it turned out Casino night was I'll win at least a free 11x14 photo with a great deal! Not only did more than 200 sitting. Alas, as the last number was people get to play craps, roulette and called I was again winless. I chomped on blackjack, but they had a chance to dance my cigar, "like sands through an hour and see some of their professors in a glass . . ." I thought Undeterred, I decided ARE YOU EVER different atmosphere. Professor Selassie to try 21 again. 'To the Black Jack Table," looked suave and debonair in a black tux., I yelled. I traveled back to the same seat I thought he might be more comfortable at determined to overcome the previous ex PRESSED FOR TIME? a Baccarat table in Monte Carlo though. perience. Double Down DeYins had Personally, I had a Walter Mitty, (similar moved; undoubtedly, he was robbing some to Calvin and Hobbes) experience that other hapless soul. What a fantastic sign! Friday evening. .. Slowly by splitting aces and doubling It was a warm fall night in Wil down, I managed to garnish $6,000 worth I BE'N PERFECT © liamsburg. As I walked up the steps to the of chips. In front of me was a virtual ballroom I had a feeling. I am not usually rainbow of plastic disks. With one more superstitious, but for some reason I felt victory, I could secure a year of out-of the luck of the Irish coursing through my state tuition, (Fellowships have appar veins - no, not Wild Irish Rose or the ently gone the way of Santa Oaus and the Fighting Irish, I am talking Blarney Stone, Easter Bunny, so I needed to pay for next Leprechauns and potatoes, etc. Usually, year.) I pushed all of my chips into the when I travel to Atlantic City to lose betting circle. The dealer looked dis money, I am forced from the tables before mayed. He called the pit boss over to see • RESUMES my complimentary Coke shows up. But if the house could cover such a gutsy bet. • LEITERS not tonight. I knew I was going to win a I smilt_; inside, the luck (beer) pumping stupendous prize in the raffle. Perhaps it through me. I knew I would win. The • MAIL MERGES would be a free hair cut, or ice cream from whole crowd gathered round and a hush • ENVELOPES Baskin Robbins. Maybe, I would even fell over the room. The dealer sent me two • RESEARCH PAPERS get greens fees at Fords Colony. I heard face cards. I waived the dealer off, indi Dionne Warwick was going to stop by to cating ''I'll stay." Yeah, I thought, in one •FAX sing a few notes. minute I'll collect 12,000 chickens. The • COPYING The cigar smoke encircled the ball dealer had a 5 showing, he turned over his room. I warmed up by playing black jack second card, a 10! Ha ha, he has to hit. • LASER PRINTING with professor Devins. Now, I will not Boom, an Ace. Sixteen - he has to hit • T-SHIRTS SCREEN PRINTING say that he has enormous luck, but he again. Isn't the suspense killing you? I turned 21 every time I had 20. I knew that began to reach for my chickens. Boom, he With our state-of-the-art IBM-compatible after turning a 2 in "Acey Ducey" with an turns a 5. Ha, you busted! 16 + 5 =2 1. So computers, laser printer and large volume Ace (high) on the left and a 3 on the right I wasn't a math major in College. 21! It that this table was a losing one. For the couldn't be. Deja vu as the dealer smirked of laser fonts to choose from, we can pro uninitiated, "Acey Ducey" is a game and took my tuition money ... duce amazing printed jobs for you !!! whereby you bet between $200 and $1,000 The rest of the night was spent with on whether the third card's value will fall empty pockets, save the useless raffle between the first two. If it dQCs, you win stubs. We danced the night away and We can provide all of this and much much more, your bet; if it doesn't, then you lose. I lost enjoyed ourselves. Actually , I was ex So with only $.500 Sully Dollars in my cited, because I had earned $6,000 worth Quickly, Efficiently and at a Reasonable price. pocket, I decided to let the chips fall as of chips. The chips were valueless, but I they may and moved to the craps table. I realized I could hold my own on a black know as much about craps as I do about jack table. WE CAN MEET YOUR Future Interests, which ain't saying a lot. If it was real money I would have But, I digress, back to my craps story. I stopped at $6,000 any way. Maybe after DEADLINE!!!! was the shooter, a virtual kamikaze. After loan disbursement, I'll go to that kingdom about six rolls, I placed a $200 bet on a by the sea, Atlantic City .. . yeah, that's BE'N PERFECT space with odds of 8-to-1. 8-to-1 just the ticket! 1001A Richmond Road Don't.miss the next staff meeting Williamsburg, VirgiD:ia 23185 (804) 229-8045 for . . .· . . . F~(804)229-1004 The Amicus•Curiae . lOo/oOFFWITH ··.w~dnesda&, ; pctQ~T:·. 30 . Roorn 239 -- ·· .. ::~;_ g.~:.,p~ll)~ :: THIS AD Monday,October28, 1991 THEAMICUSCURIAE ======17 Hotnecotning 1991 Current students and alumni alike enjoyed a festive Homecoming weekend. The dice rolled, the cards flew, and the beer flowed freely as gamblers at PSF's Casino Night tried their luck at the various gaming tables. Later in the evening, Lynn McHale and the new law school band, Bad Idea, kept the crowd on its feet with a repertoire of favorite tunes. The following day, Moot Court and the Law Review hosted the annual ictory Barbecue on the front lawn of the law school. This year there was an actual victory to celebrate as the Tribe downed the Citadel 24-17. - Photos by Bobby Carll and Carrie Leonard THE AMICUS CURIAE Events Calendar Monday, October 28, 1991 18 . MONDAY, OCTOBER 28 Tammy Moss (2L). • FRENCH HOUSE FILM: "Au Reyoir Les Enfants," 8:30pm. • COMPREHENSIVE RECYCLING PROGRAM COLLECTION: • CHRISTOPHER WREN ASSOCIATION: Session B begins. (Sched W&M Hall parking lot and Crim Dell ampitheater, 9am-lpm. ule of courses available by calling ext. 11079.) • CHILDREN'S ART CLASSES: Muscarelle Museum, 9am-11:30am. • MOVIE: "Gaslight," Charles Cenyter, Tucker basement, free. • ORCHESIS: See November 1. • COVENANT PLAYERS: See November 1. TUESDAY,OCTOBER29 • LAW STUDENTS FOR CHOICE: Roe v. Wade: An Acdemic and SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Legal Discussion. Led by Prof. Gerhardt, 4:30PM, Room G-5. Refresh • EWELL CONCERT SERIES: John Fonville, flutist, Ewell Recital ments will be served. Hall, 3pm. • WOMEN'S STUDIES FILM: "The Company of Wolves," Charles Center lounge, Tucker Hall, 7:30pm. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4 • STUDENT PUGWASH: Rooms A&B, 8pm. • MOVIE: "Bananas," Charles Center lounge, Tucker basement, free. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5 • SERCH: Meeting at 5:15, Room 124. • ILS INTERNATIONAL CAREER DAY: Representatives from a law • ILS, SUMMER ABROAD INFORMATION SESSION: Informa firm, international corporation, and federal government. Room 199, tion on M-W's Exeter and Madrid, and other study abroad programs, 3:30-4:30, with reception to follow. 4:30pm, Room 119. Reception to follow. • WOMEN'S STUDIES FILM: "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing," Charles Center lounge, Tucker Hall, 7:30pm. THURSDAY,OCTOBER31 • PDP HALLOWEEN PARTY: Watch for signs for time and location. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6 • REGIONAL STUDENT PUGWASH USA CONFERENCE: "The • WOMEN'S STUDIES BROWN BAG LUNCH SERIES: "Women in Population Squeeze," W &M campus. For information call ext. 14117. Medieval Europe," Mary Ann Brink, history, Charles Center lounge, • TOWN & GOWN LUNCHEON: Jim McCord and Dave Kleppinger Tucker Hall, noon-1:15pm. will speak on the Historic Rivers Land Conservancy, CC ballroom, 12:15pm. THURSDAY,NOVEMBER7 • PUBLIC POLICY COLLOQUIUM: "Courts, Elected Government, • PDP HAPPY HOUR: Happy Hour at Tusks. Watch for signs for exact and the Enforcement of Civil Rights," Neal Devins, associate professor details. of law, Morton 342, 3:30pm. • TOWN ~GOWN LUNCHEON: Kuwait Art Exhibit, Caroline Wil liams, CC Ballroom, 12: 15pm. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 • PUBLIC POLICY COLLOQUIUM: "Everbody Wants a Winner," • ORCHESIS: "Dancevent," PBK, 8:15pm. Ronald B. Rapoport, professor of government; Morton 342, 3:30pm. • COVENANT PLAYERS: Broadway Revue, Ewell Recital Hall, 8:15pm. Donation: $3 at the door. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 • REVES HALL COUNCIL COFFEE HOUR: "International Fashion SATURDAY,NOVEMBER2 Show", Reves first floor, 5 p.m. • HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: 9am-3pm. Contact Audra Miller (2L) or Cheryl Bullard (2L) for more information. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 • SBA 'S FALL FROM GRACE: 8:30pm-lam, CC ballroom. Tickets • HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: 9am-3pm. Contact Cheryl Bullard (2L) ori sale in the lobby and at the door. For more information contact or Audra Miller (2L) for more information. Let us arrange your call back travel! Daily deliveries to the law school &JI TRAVEL . ~ ·~ SERVICE We Support the Marshall-Wythe Public Service Fund . Mention this ad and U Travel will donate $5 to the Fund with your purchase of $250 or more* Call 253-1212 or 877-7227 Plan now for Fall break and Holiday travel ! ® IT'S TIME FORDO MINO'S PIZZA~ U Travel Service • The .Village Shops at Kingsmill• Sun.- Thurs. 11:00- 1:00 a.m. 1915 Pocahontas Trail • Williamsburg, VA 23185 Call us! 229-8885 Fri. - Sat. 11:00 - 2:00a.m. 'Certain restrictions may apply. Offer expires December 31 , 1991. •. , THE AMICUS CURIAE Sports ~onday,October28, 1991 19 Mychal 's ft(lyopia It's true, William & Mary does not play defense; Sullivan negotiates for starting center on A-M-W team ByMYCHALSCHULZ baseball teams are built, not bought. They ball season: • A quick note on some law school intra Topping the list of sports news re haven't learned this lesson, which is why mural teams. One third-year and three cently is, of course, the World Series. you'll probably see millions spent this • No, David Klingler is not going to be second-year teams are in the A league for Though often mistakenly called the winter on free agents who most likely the top quarterback taken in this year's flag football. All have promised that they "October Classic", this year's series has won't pan out. Just ask the Dodgers and draft. will represent our school well; i.e., they truly been one for the ages. Mark Lemke's Red Sox. • No, Notre Dame will not win the na won't get kicked out of the league for heroics in games three and four rival Kirk tional championship. The loss of two fighting, like an unnamed team did last Gibson's epic home run a few years ago *******;!'**** defensive starters guarantees an Irish year. And speaking of fighting, the first against the Athletics. For those who stayed defeat to either Tennessee or Penn State. year softball team of Assault and Battery awake for the end of the third game, the Word around Charlottesville is that the • Yes, Washington is for real. A true apparently advanced to the B league semi Braves comeback was one of the most Cavalier football team recorded a song miracle will occur if Florida State beats finals. I guess there is a glimmer of exciting moments in sports since the USA entitled "Fifty Ways to Not Win a Game" ~ami. then loses to Florida. In that way, athletic talent in the first-year class, some hockey win over the Soviet Union in after their heartbreaking loss to Georgia the top-ranked Huskies would meet the where. 1980. Tech and their tie with Clemson. The second-ranked ~chigan Wolverines in a Finally, the third-year co-ed football The games this past weekend elevated Twins should order some copies. Rose Bowl that would actually mean team Church of Elvis is preparing to the series to one of the greatest sports something. baptize the rest of the league. Said high events of all time. Though the pltime "it's ************ • No, Florida State is not invincible. On priest and Elvis clone Eric Branscom, a shame there has to be a loser" is often a good day, the San Francisco 49ers could "No bastard ever won a war by dying for over-used, that statement is the best way Professional basketball is just around beat them. his country." Whatever the hell that means. to describe the 1991 World Series. the comer, and already their are a few • Yes, Virginia will go to a bowl game, ~ust be a George Patton thing. For sheer drama nothing could beat surprises. Ralph Sampson is available to primarily because they will beat a ranked games six and seven. Despite all of major anybody who wants him. The Kings North Carolina State team that finally had ************ league baseball's troubles, this series bought out the remainder of his contract its bubble popped against Clemson. shows why the sport is worthy of the title for a reported $5 million dollars. Dean • No, William & ~doesn't play de Finally, the Professor Charles Koch of "Our National Pastime." Game seven Sullivan is reportedly negotiating with fense, although they do appear to always Award, given to the individual who actu perfectly captured the spirit of the entire Sampson to compete with Professor have eleven players on the field. You just ally possess athletic talent, though you'd series. From I..ormie Smith's gaffe to Jack Davison Douglas for the starting center can't tell by the amount of points they never know it by looking at him, goes to Morris' stellar pitching performance, position on the All-Marshall-Wythe bas give up. Christian "Ball 'n Chain" Connell. While game seven was one to be remembered. ketball team. Both sides refused to com • And finally, yes, this is the year that a Christian's power in softball is legendary, Congrats to the Twins. ment wide receiver will win the Heisman. his most impressive feat was slithering Also, in a stunning announcement, the Desmond Howard or Carl Pickens are the out of the half-nelson applied by his fi Two facts about the Braves and Twins Charlotte Hornets signed second-year two most exciting offensive college foot ance, Linda Fox, who apparently would warrant mention. One, both c:i these teams Lance High as insurance in case Larry ball players in the country, period. How not let him watch the sixth and seventh finished last in their respective divisions Jolmson, the No. 1 pick in the draft, doesn't ard should get the nod, but look for Pick games of the World Series. Displaying last year, and were picked by many sign with the team. Allan Bristow, the ens to getalotofvotes if he has a big game amazing versatility, strength and guile, he "experts" to finish there again. Second, Hornets coach, said that -he took one look against Notre Dame On November 9. nonetheless slipped out of Linda's grasp neither team were heavy spenders in the at High's bulldog tatoo and knew that he in time to attend a male-ooly Series-watch free agent market. Granted, the Twins could play in the NBA. The contract ************ ing party. Until next time, peace. picked up J"ck ~orris, but more because apparently guaranteed that High would ~orris wanted to come to Minnesota than get all his clothes dry-cleaned and that he because the Twins actively pursued him. won't have to get his uniform dirty. The Braves, meanwhile, did pick up Sid Bream and Terry Pendleton as free agents, ************ but that was because the team had a tal ented crop of homegrown players. Own A few definitive answers to some in ers still don't seem to realize that quality triguing questions about this college foot- ll\g"\S d l-Aos\ at\ 229-6830 FREE Curling Iron With Permanent Waves • Located in the heart 10% W&M Student Discount of the historic area. • Ample parking. ~~~~~ES Merchants Square •Williamsburg, VA • 253·1847 20::::::::::::::::::~~~~~~~~~~~~~======~==~~~==~:2~~on~da~y~,:~~rober28,1991 THE~cusCuruAE BUCKS, from page 1 ing over petty· cash money from MOCK TRIAL , fr ompage 1 NEW AGE, from page 1 The eventual deal worked out previous years, the SBA could between the school and account funds, according to Dean legally purchase alcohol for par- jury. Although the audience simple computer commands and Stenograph calls for Stenograph Galloway. ties. voted to convict the defendant, avoid having court reporters read to lease the equipment to the Dean Sullivan said that the Cangin and Brooks said they the vote was about 2/3 to convict text back to witnesses. Addi- school for one year on a renew treasurer will be required to pres accepted the proposed agency and 1/3 to acquit. Following the tionally, the system can be tied able basis at no cost. Stenograph ent invoices and receipts to the account after they learned that vote, Professor Lederer led an by modem ro research databases also agreed to pay for all installa college to access money in the access to the funds would not be audience discussion of both the in order to help in legal argument tion costs. The school's only agency account The college will controlled by the administration, trial, and the issue of date rape. during trial. Finally, the system obligation is to allow Stenograph function as an independent audi and that the funds could be used Of the students that voted to can be integrated with video tape reasonable access to perform tor, issuing monthly statements to purchase alcohol for parties. convict, many cited the fact that so that one can watch the trial demonstrations. on account transactions. In addi Sullivan said a petty cash bank the witness had said "No." "It while reading along the tran- Professor Lederer estimated tion, access to money will be account may still be kept under doesn' t matter that she invited script that the equipment would cost delayed by a week or more, ac the new system, suggesting a cap him to her room," one audience CIC use will probably be the approximately $30- $50,000 on cording to Dean Galloway. of $100-$200 for this fund. In- member said. "In college, there wave of the future, and only the market and stated that the Cangin said that SBA fmanc voices and receipts would have is no place else to go." Chicago-Kent Law School is reasonable access provision of ing comes from three sources: to be presented for replenishment Of the students that voted to scheduled to buy the system. the lease means that the school is the Board of Student Affairs of this account, said Sullivan. acquit, some said that it could They will be obtaining a less getting it for essentially nothing. (BSA) fund, through_which the Procedures for obtaining BSA have been a misunderstanding. sophisticated version at the end He added that he hoped the school College allocates money to un funds and student activities fees One audience member said that of this school year. would be able to benefit from dergraduate and graduate student in the SBA account are not af- there was at least reasonable Severnllaw frrms have already "future, useful cooperation with groups; the SBA account, a col fected by creation of the agency doubt that he could have rea- purchased the system to create the National Center and lege fund containing all money account. ~oney from the BSA sonably believed that she con- what they refer to as "deposition Stenograph Corporation.". from law student activities fees; fund must be obtained through sented. suites." Stenograph claims that Stenograph was attracted to and the petty cash account, a the student activities accountant The program ended with Pro- ,the immediate availability of the school by its location near the local bank account, where the for all college groups getting BSA fessor Lederer stressing to the transcripts through these suites National Center for State Courts SBA treasurer deposits money money; the SBA treasurer main- audience how important it is that should improve efficiency in which draws a number of jurists from fund-raisers. Cangin says tains parallel books for law school men believe a woman when she discovery and lower overallliti- - to the area. The timing of the the three accounts are separate use of the BSA fund. Student says "No,"and that women avoid gation costs. One disadvantage installation was driven by The and distinct, and never com activities fees, held by the col- sending men any type of mixed to the system in the real world is Federal Judiciary's Salute to the mingled. lege, are state money that can signal. Professor Lederer also that if transcripts are fed via Bicentennial of the Bill of Rights According to Brooks and only be used to reimburse out - noted that these issues become modem to law offices, it will be- which drew approximately 400 Cangin, the SBA has historically of-pocket payments for school much more complicated when come more difficult to sequester sitting Federal Judges to the used the petty cash account to organizations. Requests for re- alcohol is involved. witnesses. school. Currently four federal circumvent state regulations for imbursement are made to Dean "Overall, the program was a Marshall-Wythe was intro- courts and a number of state bidding use of student activities Galloway, who sends the requests success," said Cynthia Burwell, duced to Stenograph through the courts are using the system, and fees for the purchase of a variety to th~ state government in Health Educator at the Student National Center for State Courts stenograph held a demonstration items, including alcohol. By Richmond, which has ultimate Health Center. "Discussions like which was looking for a demon- for the judges last ~onday after raising money at fund-raisers say in expenditure of student this needs to happen more of- stration site for the CIC system. noon to enlist their interest sponsored by BSA funds and roll- activities fees. ten." 10% Discount on all food orders with college J.D.! 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