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Boston College Law School Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School Sui Juris Law School Archive 12-1-1960 Sui Juris, volume 05, number 03 Boston College Law School. Student Bar Association Follow this and additional works at: http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/suijuris Part of the Legal Education Commons, and the Legal History, Theory and Process Commons Recommended Citation Boston College Law School. Student Bar Association, "Sui Juris, volume 05, number 03" (1960). Sui Juris. Book 14. http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/suijuris/14 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Archive at Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sui Juris by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol. 5, No.3 BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL December 1960 SBA AUTHORIZES BUDGET, SENIOR ELECTED MEMBER DEBATES FORUM PROBLEMS OF STATE LEGISLATURE When the state Legislature convenes this January one of its newest members will On Monday evening, October 17, financing of the Forum, no money be among the few men in its long history to hold a seat in the House of Repre 1960, the first meeting of the Student would be forthcoming from SBA funds. sentatives while still a full-time law student. This is not the only record set by Bill Bar Association was held in the Rob Further discussion of this subject was Bulger, senior at the Law School and newly elected Representative from the Seventh erts Lounge. President Bob Popeo postponed until the next meeting at Suffolk District. At the age of twenty-six, he is also the first from this district in opened the meeting by welcoming the which Father Drinan was to present the at least thirty years to be elected to the House on his initial attempt. new members and encouraging all administration's views on the Forum. After a campaign reminiscent of the class representatives to keep the student The Dean was present at the N 0- days of Curley, with street-corner ral body advised of all SBA action and vember 7 meeting of the SBA, and as lies, torchlight parades and all the spec activities. planned, the Forum was the major con cern of this, the second meeting of the tacle for which South Boston is noted, The progress of the Law Review was Bulger, from "Southie's" O'Callaghan then discussed by Ken Joyce. Intro year. Rene Pinault began the discussion Way, better than doubled the vote of ductory remarks were also made by his' nearest opponent in the Democratic by stating that in his view the prime Jerry Mahoney on SUI JURIS, Rene Primary. Of the sixteen in the field, purpose of the Forum is to enhance the Pinault on the Law Forum, Bob Gal several were seasoned politicians who prestige of the school and thereby aid vin on the Moot Court Program and had run for this seat a number of times Aaron Bikofsky on the Social Program. its graduates. In keeping with this pur pose, he proposed to invite such na in the past. In this famed bastion of The major business of the evening, Boston Democratic politics winning the tionally known figures as Melvin Belli, the budget for the year 1960-1961, was Primary is tantamount to election and, then presented for discussion. After Harry Truman and Ed Bennett Wil when opposed by a Republican in N 0- liams to speak here at the evening prolonged and sometimes heated de vember, Bill won handily. Forum and to publicize these appear bate, the amounts authorized by the As a top student in the third year, Board of Student Governors appear at ances to a much greater extent than has been done in prior years. A real obsta Bulger is Legislation Editor of the Law the end of this article. Review and the Annual Survey of A motion was made, seconded and cle to such a ' program is presented by the limited budget. Many of the sug k[assachusetts Law and was a quarter carried that the SBA be authorized to finalist in last year's Moot Court Com gested speakers set a figure of $500 per expend the money as indicated by the petition. Prior to entering the Law budget with the understanding, how speech, and while admission might be charged to the general public, it is School, Bill attended Boston College, ever, that the SBA reserves the right to where he received his A.B. degree in doubtful that receipts would adequate increase or decrease appropriations sub 1958, having previously served two ly cover the necessary expenditures. REP. WILLIAM M. BULGER ject to the payment of all outstanding years in the service. He married a For this reason and because the pres amounts existing at the time such right South Boston girl last summer and tion in the affairs of government will tige of the school would be enhanced is exercised. proudly announced recently that he ex by a worthwhile Forum Program, Rene be time-consuming, Bill feels that the Most of the discussion relating to the pects to be a father this spring. law is of paramount importance and urged that the administration participate budget centered on the appropriation Bill has been actively engaged in plans to build up an active practice. At in financing a vigorous and progressive for the Law Forum. It was mentioned this moment such plans do not seem evening Forum. politics for some time, and in the past that there is a general feeling of dis he has taken part in campaigns for other to be out of place since he is the only Father Drinan agreed that added satisfaction regarding this program and successful candidates for the very seat one of four South Boston members of school prestige should be a principal that it would perhaps be better to drop he now holds for himself. Although he the House and Senate with formal legal motive behind the evening Forums and it entirely than to have it continue in realizes that his more active participa- training. a mediocre fashion. The amount of also stressed the importance of the pub money necessary to raise the Forum to lic education to be served. a desirable level far exceeds the sum After discussing some of the prob available from SBA appropriations, and lems encountered in prior years and Professor Collins to l'each for this reason, a majority indicated suggesting practical safeguards to be that unless the school administration in set up, Father Drinan agreed to assist dicated a willingness to assist in the (Continued on Page Five) Semester at Villanova Professor J. Edward Collins has accepted an invitation from Villanova DEADY NAMED CIRCULA TION Law School to be a visiting professor at that institution and will leave Boston College at the end of January. He anticipates returning to Boston DIRECTOR OF LA W REVIEW next fall, however, having accepted the invitation for the Spring Term only. While at Villanova Mr. Collins expects to undertake a full teaching schedule The Boston College Commercial and Deady, will not be so strictly confined of Contracts, Sales and Creditor's Rights for the semester. Industrial Law Review recently an as the title of the Review might in Prof. Collins received his LL.B. from nounced the appointment of John B. dicate, for almost all of the problems B. C. Law School and was awarded his other members of the faculty will be Deady to the position of Circulation dealt with in the articles and student LL.M. by Cornell University. Prior to in Philadelphia at that time for the Director. This is a newly-created post case-notes concern problems which are joining the faculty in 1957, he taught annual meeting of the Association of on the Board of Student Editors and of constant interest to the lawyer with Business Law at Honolulu University American Law Schools. He noted that Mr. Deady's main concern will be an a general practice. and served also as president of the Villanova, which is a relatively new attempt to increase the circulation of Mr. Deady, a top-ranking student in Hawaii Bar Association. Shortly after law school, having first opened its doors the Review. The main effort in this re his third year at the Law School, is also he arrived at the Law School the Law in 1957, has initiated several far-sighted gard is directed towards securing such on the staff of the Annual Survey of Review was established, and Mr. Col programs, one of which is an attempt a national reputation that it will attract 1VI assachusetts Law, published by the lins, because of his background in Con to provide all its law clubs with their contributions from the best writers in Law School, and was active in the Law tracts and Commercial Law, was chosen own offices and library facilities, similar the field. School Forum before his recent ap Faculty Advisor to the Review. Since to the program which has been devel his appointment to this post he has The initial point of departure for this pointment. He is a cum laude graduate oped at Harvard Law School. devoted much time and effort in an program will be a direct appeal to the of Boston College where he also earned Professor Willier, who has recently alumni. But this will be only the first attempt to aid the student editors in joined the faculty and is presently the a Gold Medal in his major field of step. Another approach to this program the preparation of their first few issues.

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