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VOLUME VII, ISSUE ONE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1996 TWENTY PAGES H urricane Fran Hits Virginia; Morning Classes Cancelled ------By Alison Rosenstengal was stiU packing dangerous lightning, ------With wicked arcs of lightning, gale heavy rain and powerful sustained winds force winds, and torrential rains, Hurri between 40 and 65 mph. Williamsburg cane Fran came ashore around 9p.m. washeaviesthit in the early-morning hours Thursday night near Cape Fear, North of Friday. By daylight, dozens of trees Carolina. The considerable storm surge had been felled by lightning and wind and caused heavy damage to bridges, piers, the majority of the residences and busi and buildings along the barrier islands nesses across the peninsula and most of and along the entirety of the storm's path Virginia were suffering from a prolonged across North Carolina and Virginia. Even interruption in utility service. Bell Atlan though Fran was downgraded to a tropical · tic reported that phones in the Richmond storm by the time she impacted the Ra area were running on backup battery power leigh-Durham area, the National Hurri and urged customers to limit calls. Some cane Center still reported winds in excess Continental Cable customers suffered an of65 mph. Atleasttwelvedeaths in North outage lasting over twelve hours. Vir -sta.ffphmo Carolina have been attributed to the hur- ginia Power was the hardest hit, with Virginia power rushes to restore power to Hurricane torn Williamsburg. ricane. 377 000 customers across Virginia with- When Fran arrived in the out electrical service- 138,000 in east- Williamsburg/Hampton Roads area she See HURRICANE on 7 Law Review Committee Issues Report: Students Debate Merits By Sutton Snook Review was sufficient reward for journal the Law Review advocated maintaining Professor Meese argued that by grant After the Faculty Law Review Review work. The proposal to award credit for the status quo, the Committee recom ing credit to members of any law review, Committee issued its fmdings, and both writing a note passed overwhelmingly, mended maintaining 5 credits per year for not only do those students lose in the Professor Alan Meese and the Law Re but the Committee's recommendation to the top two editors, and a reduction from academic experience, but other students view weighed in with their own memos, reduce credit for the Executive Board was 5 to 3 credits yearly for the remaining Jose from not having the input from fel the faculty meeting last Thursday, August tabled by a motion by Professor Glenn members of the Executive Board. The low classmates, with scholarly interchange 29, erupted into fierce debate. While both Coven. Committee, however, did not specify suffering. He argued that "membership the Law Review and the Law Review Although the Law Review and the which positions occupy the place of top on the Law Review is an honor, a privi Review Committee agreed that credit Committee agreed that credit is meritori two editors. The Committee had corre lege, and a valuable learning experience, should be granted, Professor Meese ar ous, they disagreed on the specific num sponding recommendations for the other in return for which a student should be gued that the prestige of a position on Law ber ofcredits that should be granted. While journals. See REVIEW on 11 Nightmare ln Financial Aid: No money for You actually finding a human with whom to the update on that. If you need informa By Dana Loftis Service (who markets this program) de speak. It took me ten minutes and six tion now, you might want to go to Blow If your financial aid situations in any cided to upgrade to Windows. Unfortu phone calls to fmally get anything but Hall in person. It's a lot easier to fmd a thing like dozens of Marshall-Wythe stu nately, the 1996- 1997 school year came voice mail menu options and busy sig person to talk to that way. Just don t tell dents, you've made it through a month or around before CSS could work the glitches anyone that you work for a newspaper. so oflaw school this year and have not yet nals. out of the program, so (of course) they When I eventually got a human on the After I had struggled through my own paid one red cent in tuition. You're keep went ahead and sent it out anyway. There line, I was transferred four times. When loan situation, I decided, as a public ser ing your mouth shut, thinking that no fore, each loan takes much longer to pro I got to the end of the human relay, all I vice, to fmd out what the story is in the cess than ever before. I think an abacus body will find out about this isolated could find out was that my loan hadn't Financial Aid office. Surely, there' s a would be quicker at this stage. glitch. You' ve probably been calling been processed yet, that they didn t know reason for all of us to be running around Because of the bugs in the program, your friends at other law schools every where it is, and that nobody could predict without financial aid. So I asked Mr. Ed the Financial Aid office is running four to day to gloat about going to law school for how long it would be until I fmally get my Irish, Director of Financial Aid and the six weeks behind on processing the finan free. loan money. The woman I talked to did only person in Financial Aid who is will cial aid forms that carne in on time. If you Well, there's good news and there's ing to talk to "the press," a few questions. See FINANCIAL AID on 12 bad news. First, you aren't going to be give me an 800 number to call for infor mation, but it turns out that the number First I wanted to know what's taking so arrested by the law school fmance police. was for a group other than my Joan com damn long. Mr. Irish told me that it was Of course, you are going to have to pay Inside pany, so naturally they had no informa the computer system that they use to cal your tuition eventually. The bad news is, Smolla to Appeal 3 tion on my Joan. culate and keep track of the financial aid it may be a while before you get the Legal F r aternities 5 Since I am smart enough to realize that applications. money to pay your tuition and other living Student Organizations 8 I got my loan from someone else, I called Apparently, the .Financial Aid office expenses. Dole's Tax Cut 10 up my Joan company, who promised that has been using the same program for ten So what's going on in that Financial The Cottage 11 my loan check would be at W&M by the , ears without too many hitches. How Aid office? It can be pretty hard to find Cynical Guy 12 end of the week. Stay tuned next time for ever, this year the College Scholarship out anything because of the difficulty of 2 Monday, September 9, 1996 THE AMicus CURIAE Frotn the Editor's Desk • • • Law Review. The coveted a joint degree in alcohoL Marshall-Wythe would fall . compelling argument which can do not receive credit. True. This publication of the law schooL Membership in the Law Re While the Law Review adds a not be ignored, and in fact, is does not mean, however, that we The shine in the jewel that is the view, as with any organization, great deal to the reputation of the sufficient alone to grant credit must remove credits from Law law school in the Crown that is is voluntary. Dean Krattenmaker school, the reputation of this Academic credit should be Review. Instead, we should ex William and Mary. Dean does not stand over pusillani school rests on more shoulders granted to academic work. There pand credit, as the Committee Krattenmaker totes the Law Re mous I Ls with a whip and a than the editors of the Review. can be no debate over the amount proposed, to the other journals, view as one of the best educa bullhorn commanding them to In fact, many organizations add of work required to publish the provided they meet academic tional experiences this school has write. The acceptance letter does a great deal to the reputation of Law Review. In the course of requirements. to offer. Yet the recent report of not arrive in the form ofa ransom M-W. this work, a member must ab Having just endorsed credit the Faculty Law Review Review letter demanding you write a note Law Students in the Commu sorb at least a working knowl for all journals because of their Committee proposes to abolish on tax law effects of the First nity work endlessly with a great edge of the subject, even ifhis or academic nature, a whole credit for most members of the Amendment, all while two po deal of volunteer organizations her only involvement is sub Pandora' s Box is opened. Does Review. While most arguments lice officers remove your mother to provide badly needed services checking. Even Professor Meese this now mean that Student Le in opposition to the proposal do in chains until the note is com to the Peninsula. Courtroom 21 admits that his only knowledge gal Services, Court Appointed not hold water, one does, and pleted. When one chooses to ensures that M-W stays on the of bankruptcy law is from his Special Advocates, et aL, should raises even more questions in the join Law Review, he or she must cutting edge of technology. Stu work on Law Review. Thus, to receive credit? process. weigh the time commitment with dents in these organizations work argue that Law Review editors The Amicus will not even at The Amicus will not listen to academic and other · commit tirelessly, as the members of the miss the academic experience tempt to answer these questions, - a Law Review member whine ments, just as with any other or Review do, but they do so with would be inaccurate and unfair. but hopes that, if a revision is about the time commitment; ganization. While the Amicus out credit placed upon their tran One might argue that the made on the basis of academic most law school organizations' certainly feels for the editors of scripts. present system is not egalitarian credit for academic work, that leaders dedicate many hours, and the Law Review, it cannot go so However, there remains one as several of the other journals the new policy be equitable. many of their positions involve far as to say that you, especially, an academic pursuit. Why should be rewarded for your con doesn' t Mike Friedman receive tdbution to the law schooL credit for his work in Student The Law Review has argued From The Editorial Board that with less credit awarded, and Legal Services? Why don'tCourt Armed with four hours of though we will not print articles Snook in person who will review hence with less time to dedicate Appointed Special Advocates re Torts credit and the recent media whose source we cannot asceF the relevant factors and make a ceive credit? The point is, to to the Review (only one more hype surrounding the Joe Klein/ tain, at times we will print mate decision on an ad hoc basis. award credit to an organization class would be required while an Primary Colors scandal, the Edi rial under a pseudonym provided Although more restrictive because of the time commitment editor was in law school) the torial Board of the Amicus Cu the author consents to having his than past policies, the current is absurd. If that were true, then quality of the Review would de riae would like to launch a or her identity included among regulations strike a balance most law students would rec~ive cline, and thus the reputation of pre-emptive strike against those the staff members listed in the which encourages the participa within the law school commu board box and that he or she does tion of all while avoiding pitfalls nity who would prefer to be heard not engage in ad hominem at encountered in the past of vitri THE AMICUS CURIAE and not seen. Beginning with tacks against other members of olic, unfettered rhetoric. We Marshall-Wythe School of Law this issue, the Board will no our community. This stance rep consider M-W to be a commu P. 0. Box 8795 Williamsburg, Virginia 23187 \onger accept or publish any resents a compromise which wi\\ nit:y of reasonab\e anu\ts -wb.o, "Dedicated to the complete and objective reporting of material submitted by anony allow authors to distance them although they may disagree on student news and opinion" mous authors. We consider an selves somewhat from contro any number of issues, should be author to be anonymous if we versial positions or pungent capable of engaging in open and Editor: Sutton A. Snook cannot ascertain the identity of commentary without opening the robust debate among themselves Managing Editors: Danielle Berry, Alison Rosentengel the individual writing the mate floodgates to vicious attacks from without hiding behind a protec Production Editors: Crystal Roberts, Francine Friedman rial. Simply stated, no submis unknown sources. tive veil in the newspaper. As Features Manager: VictoriaBlakeway sion will be published unless we The Board does realize, how each of us prepares to enter a Sports Editor: Nathan Green can confirm its source. ever, that extremely sensitive is legal system grounded in the News Reporters: Features Reporters: That being said as clearly as sues may arise which should be adversarial process, we must Melissa Augusti Dave Christian humanly possible, and to avoid treated in a publication dedi learn to fight as valiantly as pos Alexis Bennett Renee Esfandiary the charges ofhypocracy which cated to all student opinion re sible for the causes in which we Victoria Blakeway James Glick may flow from those who dis gardless of form or content. If believe 'Yhile respecting the Robin Dusek Karin Larson cover that M-W does not in fact and when these unusually pre viewpoints and humanity of our Ann Haselbauer Andy Lustig have a student named Mr. Cyni carious situations arise, an indi opponents. The Editorial Board Erik Meyer Dana Loftis cal, the Board would like to use vidual wishing to publish hopes to encourage this process Dave Mincer Alison Rosenstengel all of our collective legal train something anonymously may through our new policy. Elise Milstein Sutton Snook ing to bend our own rule. AI- contact Editor-In-Chief Sutton Lee Ranieri Krista Newkirk-Robinson Danielle Roeber Shaun Rose Frotn The Alutnni Ian Siminoff Dear Marshall-Wythe Students: adjunct faculty (Ed Bell ' 85, Ed and might be able to help you. Dov Szego It just does not seem that long Burnette ' 78, Rene Bowditch ' 82, The Alumni Directory, avail David Young ago that I was buying case books Greg Davis ' 86, Ed Flippen '74, able to dues paying members of Sports Gurus: Kristan Burch , Nathan Green, Mike Melis and spending my nights in the Mike McGinty ' 85, Stephanie the Alumni Association and to Opinion: Christian Mastandrea, Jim Scott library. Of course, most of what Paine '91, John Peterson '72 '73 students, lists alumni by class, I remember about law school has MLT,Judge J.R. Zepkin '65), as geographic region and area of to do with the friends I made and judges for moot court tourn~ practice. In addition the Place Editorial Policy the terrific faculty that taught ments, and as speakers for Ca ment Committee of the Associa The letters and opinion pages of the Amicus Curiae are dedicated to and supported me. It may seem reer Planning and Placement tion has regional coordinators all student opinion regardless of form or content We reserve the right to hard to believe, but we alumni panels and for programs like edit for spelling and grammar, but not content and the Association has 12 chap Letters to the Editor are not intended to reflect the opinion of the envy that experience that helped Tazewell Taylor Jurists in Resi ter liaisons who have volunteered newspaper or its staff All letters to the Editor should be submitted by 5 define our lives. What an excit dence. We serve as firm recruit tohe1p. Thedirectoryandalumni p.m.on the Wednesday prior to publication. We cannot print a letter ing time! ers, as Co-Counsel mentors, and volunteers' names can be ob without confirmation of the author's name. On rare occasions, we may, The alumni are involved with scholarship donors. I tell you tained from Rick Overy, Page withhold the name upon request Letters over 500 words may be returned students, in many ways, such as this so you will not hesitate to Hayhurst, or Shernita Rochell~ to the writer with a request that they be edited for the sake of space. faculty (John Donaldson ' 63), as call alumni who are interested See ALUMNI on 4 Monday, September 9, 1996 THE AMlcus CURL>\£ On The Campaign Trail Wi-th Patrick By Alexis Bennett guest speaker at the Virginia Republican How has Patrick Muldoon become a Convention. He also caught the attention prominent figure in Virginia politics? of Senator John Warner and Governor Hard work! An average of twelve hours George Allen who have both sought Patrick · a day (excluding travel time) has been out in order to plan campaign strategies. required to make his name a household House Speaker Newt Gingrich has even word in Virginia s ninth district. Many of traveled down for a conference or two. the students and faculty at William and To win an election, it is not enough to Mary Law did not think that he had it in simply impress the officers of one's own him, but this Congressional campaign has party. The people of the district must hear been full of surprises. the candidate's message and be moved to The first of which was his rousing act on it. Such a task requires money and speech at the Republican primary that exposure. Enter Muldoon's sister, Megan brought the delegates to their feet and Muldoon (3L), who travels down to the swept the nomination. The Chairman and district every weekend in order to handle other party heavyweights were so im pressed that they invited Muldoon to be a See MULDOON on 11 Smolla To Appeal Ruling By Ann Haselbauer victims families are represented by Rodney In a precedent-setting First Amend A. Smolla professor at the William & Muldoon bears all in Congressional bid. - staffphoio ment lawsuit, a U.S. district court judge Mary School of Law. ruled August 30 that. although morally In 1993, Lawrence T. Hom hired James repugnant. a book cannot be denied First Edward Perry to murder his ex-wife and service run by the books publisher, Pala aiding and abetting murder, Paladin's ad Amendment protection, even if the ideas quadriplegic son in order to inherit $1.7 din Enterprises. Inc. of Boulder, Colo mission makes the company civilly liable it proposes are potentially dangerous to million his son had won in a malpractice rado. for the crimes that resulted from the pub society. suit. Perry followed a number of detailed Following a criminal trial. Perry was lication of Hit Man. After thirty days of deliberation. U.S. instructions described in Hit Man: a Tech sentenced to death and Hom is currently "The publishers of Hit Man clearly District Judge Alexander Williams dis ni al Manual for Independent Contrac serving a life sentence without possibil enjoy no absolute immunity from liability missed the civil suit, which had been tors and in another book titled How to ity of parole. merely because the used language to brought by the families ofthree Greenbelt, Make a Disposable Silencer, Vol. 2 in The victims' families maintain that. train hit men. The Constitution is not a Maryland. murder victims whose killer carrying out the murders of Hom's ex because the killer had used advice de suicide-pact, the First Amendment is not used advice in 1:\vo books published by the wife, son, and the boy's nm:se. Perry had tailed in the anonymously written book a license to direct and engage in c~iminal defendant in committing the murders. The ordered both books through a mail order in order the carry out the murders, Pala activity," Smolla and the other attome s din and the company's founder Peder C. for the plaintiff wrote in their case brief. ; Lund. should be liable for selling what Lund's attorneys. however, argued that amounted to ari instruction manual for the publication of Hit Man is protected murder. under the First Amendment. This protec FILM DEVELOPING Smolla, a well-known freedom of tion. they said, cannot be impeded, regard speech advocate is serving as co-counsel less ofthe fact that the defendant admitted Second set of prints for the plaintiff in the civil suit. Al in the joint statement of facts that he though nationally known for his active engaged in a marketing strategy intended defense of the First Amendment. Smolla to attract and assist criminals. maintains that this case differs signifi Despite some criticism from free cantly from other free speech cases in speech absolutists for his decision to take v,:hich he has been involved. the case, Smolla said he has ne er ub FREE " I believe this book was a blueprint scribed to the idea that the First Amend and that the publisher knew it wou ld be ment protects all forms of comi11unication. EVERY WEDNESDAY used by people planning murders," Smolla "[First Amendment absolutism] has never said. '' It's not important that they knew been the law and it has ne er been my Ask for "Local Lab 7 7 and get this particular hit man and this particular philosophy.'· Smolla said. He also·said murder scheme. but that they knew of a that resol ing his role as a lawyer with his Second Set Free along with murder and a murder scheme ... role as a professor of lav.: is ahYays a In a joint statement of facts submitted necessary precondition for taking the case. Low Prices- when brought to the court. Paladin conceded that in "As an academic lawyer. I don tha e quite in on Wednesday. publishing Hit Man , the company in the freedom to take an_ position that an tended and had knowledge that the pub be argued in good faith. Since I think they 2 4 Exposures lication would be purchased b would-be are right. I feel no qualms about being on criminals who would use it to plan and the plaintiffs' side ... he said. 31/2 x 5 Kodacolor commit murders. Smolla argued at the Smolla said he and the plaintiffs' other 4.95 hearing that, because the First Amend attorneys are currently pursuing a motion ment does not protect communication to reconsider. WITH STUDENT LD. Massey·s The Amicus would like to Camera Shop 447 PRINCE GEORGE STREET thank Angel Lyons for her WILLIAMSBURG, VA. • PHONE 229-3181 latenight emergency tech support! 4 Monday, September 9, 1996 THE AMicus CURIAE Technology Corner: Law Students Online By Alison Rosenstengel dents about LSATs and applica from the server at American Uni sage. (Legalint is also available fore you subscribe, and send a Participating in mailing lists tions to job prospecting tips and versity, including instructions on 01i U senet as message to the administrator of on the Internet can be an excel what books listmembers read how to send messages, bit. Iist serv .lawsch. internships.) the list if you have any doubts. lent resource for academic, em over th e summer. Academic unsubscribe,. and use o ther There are literall y hundreds It's also considered bad form to pl oyment, and social pursuits. poin ts are discussed, but the tone listserv commands. 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Where In The World Is Trotter Hardy? By Victoria Blakeway interconnections), what the Internet can Professor Trotter Hardy, William & do from the users' perspective (i.e. , new Mary Law School's Internet guru, was services like digital music on demand and tapped by the United States Copyright customized news services), and how dif Office to conduct a project about copy ferent organizations, including phone right law and the Internet. The purpose of companies, cable companies, broadcast the project, called "Looking Fon¥ard," is ers, and the motion picture industry, will to predict the direction the Internet is relate to the Internet and each other. Hardy heading for the next several years and will make a final report of his findings in figure out the impact on copyrights. To December or January. do this, Hardy is setting up focus groups In past years, Professor Hardy taught in Washington, D.C., and at Stanford Uni Intellectual Property and Torts, but he versity, plus an all-electronic conference was given a leave of absence to work on to discuss the issue. Participants in the this project which is slated to wrap-up in· focus groups and other sources Hardy is December. Professor Coven, profiled on pursuing include on-line service provid page 6, stepped in to teach Hardy' s Torts ers, trade associations, copyright attor class. Hardy will return next spring and neys, and content providers. They will be will be sharing his experiences with his discussing how the Internet works inter Intellectual Property Law class and On nally (switching, caching, protocols, and line Communications seminar.
ALUMNI from 2 New Jersey (Nov. II and 12). Students in the Office of Alumni Affairs. are encouraged to attend free of charge if For those of you currently in the Co they are in the area. Homecoming is the Counsel Program, we made a few changes Association' s major event, October 24- The Supreme Court Preview in October for the first-year class. They will sign-up 27. Law events include the Barbecue on for the program in early October and meet the patio from 11 :00-1:00 on Saturday, By Robin Dusek cuss key cases from the 1996-97 Supreme their Co-Counsel at Homecoming if pos where proceeds are donated to Law Re- · Although many law students at Court docket. sible. Please share your experiences with view and Moot Court and PSF's Casino Marshall-Wythe try to take a break from The Preview will include a moot court first-years about Co-Counsel and the Night from 8p.m.-midnight in the law the law on Friday night and Saturday, the argument of Clinton v. Jones (95-1853), a Mock Interview Program and encourage school lobby. Student tickets will go on Institute of Bill of Rights Law Supreme discussion of the past and future of the them to make the most of the opportunity sale in th~ lobby in October. Court Preview, to be held on October 25 Court' s decision-making, and programs to talk with and meet practitioners. You I look forward to seeing you then! and 26, will provide a reason to incorpo covering civil rights, business, commerce may want to contact your mentors for Sincerely, rate some law into the weekend. and property, the First Amendment, vot more information this year, as well. See Channing M. Hall '85, M.L.T. '86 The Supreme Court Preview is an an ing rights, criminal law, and federalism. the alumni office for information or to President, Alumni Association nual function of the Institute of Bill of This year's Supreme Court case load is discuss your involvement in the program. Rights Law, headed by Professor Paul much heavier than that of last year and _ And remember, it ' s never too late to be Oh What a Tangled Marcus. Journalists from the Washington includes potentially .ground-breaking matched with a mentor! Post, Associated Press, Knight-Ridder, cases in every area ofthe law. In addition, The Alumni Association has an full Web We Weave Baltimore Sun, USA Today, Los Angeles last year' s Court a few somewhat contra semester of activities planned, including When First We Times, and New York Times, along with dictory rulings. Asaresult, the discussion alumni receptions in Roanoke (Sept. 12), several professors, both from M-W and should be interesting even to those stu Houston (Nov. 7), and New York and Practice to Deceive other institutions, will be on hand to dis- dents who don t follow the Court closely. 5 Fraternity Choice
school and alumni chapter representa members mvolved themselves m leader Phi Alpha Delta tives and furnishing an awesome oppor Phi Delta Phi ship all around the law school. PDP mem tunity to socialize, network, and play an bers include a majority ofSBA leadership, occasional round of golf at an exclusive Amicus editors, many Dean's Associates, By Danielle Roeber resort for a fantastic price! By Dave "Sister" Cristian as well as many journal editors. These Perhaps you have purchased books at P.A.D. membership means access to The Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity's diverse accomplishments attest to the the Phi Alpha Delta International Law literature on briefmg cases and surviving Jefferson Inn accomplishes just what a quality ofPDP membership. Fraternity Bookstore. Or maybe you saw the frrst year of law school, leadership legal fraternity ought to accomplish: mak Most important to PDP s members P.A. D.'s Wythe Chapter banner last week development, awards and recognition, ing law school a more collegial and enjoy are the social functions we organize and at the activities fair. And, if you are a 1L , alumni and business contacts, group mem able experience, something all will agree · sponsor. Some of you have already at you have probably thrown out that annoy bership discounts, and emergency loans. is sorely needed. We do this to provide tended the annual "Beer Blast" we spon ing hanging fi le drop discussing P.A.D. The International Executive Office of members opportunities to socialize, re sored at the beginning of school. This P.A.D. is an organization committed P.A.D. requires a one-time initiation fee lieve the stress of their studies, and grow was the fi rst opportunity many I Ls had to to serving the student, the law school, the of $60.00. Some chapters .asses annual 41 their new profession. meet law students from other classes. My profession, and the community. Founded dues, but the Wythe Chapter of P.A.D. PDP is far and away the best legal roommates and I were glad to see that in 1902, P.A.D. was the frrst legal frater does not. fraternity at W & M. Last year PDP had many ofyou made it to the party we threw nity to admit women, the only legal frater- See · PAD on 7 well over I 00 current members, and those after "Law Camp." Though that was not mty to have merged With a women's legal a formal PDP functiOn , It let us know that fraternity, and the only legal fraternity or a large group of stu_dents exist who be organization ~ith a nationwide pre-law lieve, as we do, that law school can be program. In add ition, P.A.D. maintains a about more than the Bluebook. Soon to Public Service Center, a program funded come is a rush event somewhere in the primarily by federal grants which gives "Tri-Bar Area." And we hope to repeat technical assistance to state and local law such successes as last year's 70's party related education programs and provides which we co-sponsored with BLSA. One training and support for law students and of the benefits of membership is that attorneys .interested in public service. these opportunities will often be free of With over 150,000 members, P.A.D. charge to members. is the largest legal fraternity in the world. The benefits we offer to members are Presently, one out of every six American not limited to purely social functions. . attorneys is a member, including six Presi We also offer some of the best opportuni dents, twelve Supreme .Court Justices, ties to grow in the legal profession. We seven Attorney Generals fifty-two Con are most" proud of our Supreme Court gressmen, and twenty-five Governors. Trip. Members are taken by bus to hear P.A.D. holds international conventions Students relax atoneofthe fraternity parties. oral argument before the United States See PDP 7
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Not enough an outdoorsman who enjoys hiking and Picture this : It's your first year of law sleep? Nope, none of the above. I had the has the photos to prove it. Photography, school at William & Mary and you've just opportunity to visit with Coven. His as well as pottery, are two of his other begun yo ur first week of.classes. To your everyday conversational manner is very interests. He's got several incredible land ·surprise, class fo llows class and your anxi much what a person, and might I add what scape shots and an earthy coffee mug eties are gradually calmed. The rules a reasonable person, might expect from a he' II be happy to show you if you stop by aren't that hard to fo llow after all. Con. law professor. So what is with all the his office. Law -- your last name begins with a 'B" quirky stories ~n d crazy hypothetical situ Aside from arts and crafts , Coven is a so you won't ever be called ·on on Mon ations? family man. Hemethiswife, Joan,during days. And if you don 't have a clue on any Coven's, zest isn't attributable to too his first year in high school and married other day of the week you just pass the much caffe ine or any other substance for her during his final year in college. Quite professor a little note. Not bad. Next that matter, but rather to a goal: "When I a long time to go steady, but as Coven put class, Property -- your name is called, entered the teaching profession, my goal it, "I don't think we were going steady blood drains to your toes, the heart's pump was to train people to do a job a littfe better until after we were married." He's the ing, the pitch is thrown, c'mon you can do than I did it." With his specialty in tax and father of one daughter, Jennifer, and two it, what were those magic words .. ." I business law, Coven adds, "!.wanted to sons, Thayer and Darrell, who to his plea pass." \yhew, broke a bit of a sweat but demonstrate to students that it (tax law) sure are aU "out of the house now." He's really not bad at al l. Next class, Contracts wasn't strange and unpleasant, but was also a grandpa to two little ones. -- are you worried? Yeah, right. He ' ll actually a very understandable and ·so As for anyone out there who might be under "Issue" and "Holding." never even see you in that mob. So far, so cially useful thing." Coven also com interested in the little things -- Coven is As for himself, Coven believes he good . .. but then ... there was Torts with ments on his belief that lawyers are in a fifty-four years old, his favorite color is does have certain aspirations in life. "I Professor Coven. unique position to heal disputes while at orange, he's afraid of unnatural heights, like to try, maybe its not always in the He doesn't a~ c e pt little notes, he the same time able to encourage people to he's not interested in music (but he used most obvious sense, but to try when I see doesn't want to hear your excuses, he ~ ll reach a higher standard of behavior. He to listen to a lot of country). He grew up something wrong or that I don't agree never remember yourname, and he doesn't hopes his students come to realize at least in Stamford, Connecticut before moving with, to do something about it. I think too care why you' re here. So what does this this much. to Somerville, New Jersey during the many people see things they don't like guy want? He wants you to WAKE UP! Coven's personal flair may be a bit out eighth grade; he doesn't smoke (its been and they just let it slide. I may get my Stop staring at the casebook and stop of the ordinary in the classroom, but he's three years since he quit), he doesn't favor fingers caught in the door a lot, but I at looking for the answer in your notes. more real than you might expect. Like any particular sports teams, and he thinks least try." Coven wants you to think for yourself. If many law students and law professionals, of himself as just sort of bouncing around After speaking with a number of my that means some quirky stories, some when asked why he decided to go to law in life. · fellow students,. the overall judgment is outrageous remarks, and a few exaspera school, he responded, "I have no idea." Now the mystery is solved. Coven is that Coven is a professor with a style tions with a bit of hollering, then so be it. He wanted to be an architect but wasn't simply a normal guy with a special knack completely his own, one that gladly breaks Perhaps one anonymous student put it accepted into the program of his choice, for keeping his law students interested the monotony of any given day, and he's best: "Some of the things he says are so so law school was next in line--Columbia and awake: two states necessary for stu a professor whose power to teach is often outrageous that he keeps me on my feet all to be exact. When asked if he made a dents to be in before he can accomplish rooted in a lucid imagination which in through class." Score for Coven. good decision, he quips, "Naw, \ really his most important task. "\ want my vites students to open their e-yes and their So who is the man with the witty think I should have been a forest ranger." students to come away from my class as minds. cynicism and Mack truck subtlety which Yet, considering his preferred recre independent thinkers. I want them to be So I guess there' s really only one thing manages to border on charm? That's ational activities, he might actually be problem solvers." Indeed, the answers left to say . . . what we're all dying to know. Too much serious (it's hard to tell sometimes). He' s aren't always spelled out in bold print Judgment affirmed. --Law Watch-- BMW Pulls 360 In Ad Campaign Virtue or Vice? BMW recently pulled part of a recent ad campaign in response to vehement complaints Donald Trump is suing the owners ofClub Taj Mahal, a strip club in Marietta, Georgia, from lawyers and bar associations. The campaign, which featured the "20 Things You claiming that the club's name "sullies" the image ofhis Atlantic City casino and resort. Shquld Do In This Lifetime," listed "hang up on a lawyer" as a number 16 priority. One 0. Jackson Cook, the attorney representing the owners, quipped, "Our establishment complaint received by the company deemed the suggestion as socially unacceptable, is for the enjoyment of the female form . Trump' s is engaged in gambling." The ignorant of the benefits that lawyers provide to corponite America (including BMW), question remains-- Who slandered who? and offensive to a large segment of the carmaker's consumer baS'e. BMW apologized and added that the campaign was meant to "elicit a smile" and that the company did Legal Skills Class Can Win You Cash not intend to malign or offend the legal profession. Paying attention in your Legal Skills Ethics lectures really can pay off-- in cash! The Committee on Professionalism and Judicial Ethics oftb.e Michigan State Bar is holding Disney: It's A Small'World, After All a contest to demonstrate how popular literature can perpetuate negative stereotypes Jo-Ann Cote is suing Disney for gend ~ r-b ased employment discrimination. After about lawyering ethics. The committee is offering a $1000 prize to Michigan attorneys obtaining a job offer to work as a security hostess in the Magic Kingdom, Cote moved and law students who identify the most ethics violations in John Grisham' s The to Florida and completed a training program. When she went to be fitted for a uniform, Rainmaker. The prize will be awarded at the bar's annual meeting later this month. however, she soon discovered that the closely-tailored women's uniforms weren't made to fit her 5' 6" , 190, pound frame. Disney refused to allow her to tailor her own Cheese Sauce Not Too Hot, Court Says uniform, wear one of the larger men's uniforms, or take a plainclothes security job. Be careful next time you go to Taco Bell. In Tuscaloosa, Alabama a Mexican restaurant was cleared of negligence after being accused of selling "unreasonably When Less Is More dangerous" enchiladas. Taco Casa was being sued for $250,000 by the parents of a six When U.S. District Judge Richard A. Enslen of Kalamazoo, Michigan, sentenced . year-old girl who suffered second-degree burns from cheese sauce that dripped from Thomas Daniels to the minimum 12 month sentence for filing a false tax return he an enchilada bought at a drive thorugh window. might have thought he was being generous. However, Daniels, in tum, filed a petition to modify the sentence by adding a single day to his incarceration term. Federal law Perhaps the Judge Didn't Understand the Language does not allow "time off for good behavior" to be credited to inmates serving a sentence In LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Judge Ramona Gonzalez sentenced Sia Ye V ang, a Southeast - of less than a year. By adding a day to his sentence, Daniels could potentially be Asian immigrant, to 24 years' probation and English lessons after finding him guilty released 54 days earlier. "Short-timers" are also generally not eligible to be transferred of molesting his two young stepdaughters. The judge cited Yang's denial of the to halfway houses. Finding no basis in law for the modification, Enslen denied the charges, his standing in the community, and the victims' request that the defendant not request. go to jail. Family members of the victims expressed shock and outrage over the sentence, claiming that the judge obviously misunderstood their stance on sentencing. THE AMICUS CURIAE News Briefs Monday, October 3, 1994 7
Law Review Welcomes New Members Shansab (2L), Bill Snidow (2L), Anna Stafford (lL), Christopher Thanner (2L), The Law Review has chosen its new 2L members. Congratulations to: David Baker, Luther Tupponce (2L), and Amy Webbink (lL). Ryan Barack, Simon Ulcikas, Eric Marion, Thomas Jefferson, Karin Larson, Paul Davis, Daniel Cody, Peter Gilbert, Ann Marie Miles, Robin Adams, Julie Jones, Amy Amicus Curiae Announces newstaffmember Svatek, Lew Glenn, Co by Beck, Sarah Karlsson, Mark VanDeusen, Darren McCarty, Francine Friedman (l L)joins the Amicus as Co-Production Editor. She has an extensive Danielle Berry, Amanda Koman, Audra Dial, Maqui Parkerson, Stephen Diamond, background in publishing and advertising from her experiences as Editor-in-Chief of the Rob Sappington, Paul Verbessey, Karen Gore, Alex Long, Paul Walker, David Hoya, one of Georgetown University's student newspapers. Welcome aboard, Fran! Coleman, Tom Koonce, Kathryn Lamothe, Matt Cohen, Ann Eirich, Ed Haughey, (Editors Snook and Roberts were heard to say, "Thank God! Now we can go home!·) Derek Yeo, and Erik Meyer. Outbreak! Former Counsel to President Reagan to visit M-W The "Monkey" virus was discovered on a disk containing an article submitted to this On Wednesday, Sept 18, Theodore Olson will discuss persuasive advocacy before the edition of the Amicus. This virus infects the boot sector, encrypts some data and Supreme Court at 4:30p.m. in Room 119. Olsen served under President Reagan as overwrites other information. A good anti-virus software application should detect Assistant Attorney General, where he acted as the principal legal adviser to the and repair damage from this irus, but it can be very dangerous in unprotected Executive Branch. His duties included preparing Attorney General opinions, approving computers. As a service to your e-community, be sure to check your disks! Only you all Executive Orders for legality prior to their presentation to the President, and can prevent the Monkey virus! formulating the Executive Branch's position on constitutional issues. He was most recently noted for representing VMI in its precedent-setting case on single sex Library Gets New Security System education. Prior to the two oral arguments for VMI, Olson had argued before the high Starting Monday, September 16, the Law School Library will activate its new security court eight times, and prevailed five. Olson is scheduled to kick off the annual Bushrod system. It was installed after a rash of thefts left several students missing their laptops Moot Court Tournament, which begins on Thursday, September 19. and other personal items last spring. The perpetrator was caught and one of the computers was recovered. The library staff and the administration both agree that the Bill of Rights Journal Announces new staff new security system is warranted to protect the library's book collection and computer The Bill ofRights Journal announced anew research editor, Tom Church (3L), and new terminals. The day-to-day routine of students will not be affected dramatically, staff members. Congratulations to : Dennis Barghaan (lL), Douglas Bush (lL), Sarah however the system will requires swipe cards for faculty and staff who wish to enter Crawford (JL), Rebecca Eichler (2L), Shelley Goad (2L), Brendan Holland (2L), after hours. The only major change is that the faculty entrance on the second floor near Melinda Kaufmann (lL), Alicia Lewis (1L), Eric Rudoloph (1L), Eric Smith (2L), the rare book room will require the use of a faculty or staffswipe card at all times. Petra Laura Spector (2L), Kevin Streit (lL), M!!gan Timmins (2L), Jennifer Vincent (2L), Klemmack, Library Goddess, will be lurking next Monday morning with a camera to catch Janet Benson (I L), David Carney(! L), Caroline Dooley(1L), Sean Fama(1 L), Robert the surprised look on the face of the first student who inadvertently trips the alarm! Greene (JL), Angela Jenkins (2L), Colleen Kotyk (2L), Anne Mayer (2L), Yama
HURRICANE from 1 The W & M campus sustained minor motors, including those which run the air Weather Line(221-1 SNO) Friday morning, em Virginia- the largest outage in the physical damage in the form of downed conditioning in Small Hall on the main however, didn't learn of the school's clo company's history. leaves and tree limbs, but much of the campus. sure. These outages caused problems for debris had been cleared from roads and Early Friday morning, Deans Dean Barnard explained that the emergency rescue crews all over central walkways by mid-afternoon Friday. Krattenmaker and Galloway decided to Weather Line is college-wide and didn't Virginia, as 911 systems were knocked StudentslivingattheGradplexemerged close the law school for morning classes. reflect any closures because the main out and rescuers had to dodge flooded to fmd shingles and scraps of roofing in The Law School Building was without campus was open. roads and downed trees and power lines. the courtyard. More significant problems power until around lunchtime on Friday When in doubt, students are advised Traffic arteries were blocked by acci- were caused by what Lisa Dessoffy, the and was still experiencing glitches in its to call the law school's main line (221 -3 800) dents and debris and there were reports of lnterirnDirectorofFacilitiesManagement, phone system throughout the day. Elec for information which is law-school spe flooding on the Rappahannock and James calls a "single phase power outage" which tric service in the Graduate Complex was cific and frequently updated. Rivers. Traffic lights, including the one at affected the entire campus. unavailable until late Friday evening. The good news is that the storm is the intersection of routes 60 and 132, Buildings had partial power run by Classes resumed for the 1:30 session, much over, we all made it through safely, and were out of service until midday Friday emergency generators;· air conditioning to the chagrin of Professor Coven and his most of us got an extra day off. The bad and VDOT crews were busy removing was knocked out. The power outage also Torts class. news is that the trailer is still in our back trees and debris from area roadways. caused damage to several pumps and Students who called the College's yard. PAD from 5 world, and to furnish networking PDP from 5 The Wythe Chapter, char- opportunities. At most, these Supreme Court. After oral argu tered in 1953, has 918 alumni .activities require no more than a ment, members meet as a group and twenty-six law school mem- couple of hours a month; and in with a sittingjustice of the Court. bers. The current law school fact, participation is completely Last year we were treated to an membershipofthe Wythe Chap- voluntary. P.A.D. is what you entertaining, insightful. and col ter seeks to serve the students make of it. With all these plans, orful talk with Justice Antonin and the community. For ex- the Wythe Chapter needs enthu- Scalia. This is the best opportu ample, this school year, mem- siasticnewmemberstohelpirnple- nity at W & M for law students to bers are continuing the ment its goals and supply new discuss the legal issues of the Bookstore, organizing a Toys for ideas. day at the place where they mat Tots drive, planning an Easter P.A.D. will have three Rush ter most And when the discus Egg Hunt for Big Brothers/Big activities this fall beginning with sion ends, PDP remains true to its Sisters, and participating in a asocial on Friday, September 13 role as a social fraternity, busing bone manow registry drive and at on~ of the local restaurants members to some of theLSICChildren'sFair. and culminating with initiation Washington's best bars for an For members only the Wythe on Thursday, October 17 at 6 evening of bacchanalian revelry Chapterwillreinstatetheoutline p.m. before returning to PDP will change your life,forever. bank in both hard copy and elec- Rush activities are not re- Williamsburg. tronic form , coordinate and quired, but they are an excellent I should also discuss the out worrying about that et. stress, and grow in your profes winetasting, and plan an alumni opportunitytomeetP.A.D.mem- line file we maintain for mem Let me be clear about the sion. In short, we offer one ofthe event in the spring to learn more bers and learn more about the bers to aid in studying for exams, benefits PDP offers as W & M's few opportunities in law school about the Wythe Chapter's his- organization. but exams will come quickly best legal fraternity. We offer to have fun and make friends. Not tory. to receive input on how life Formoreinformation,contact enough. And since PDP has out your best opportunity to social even a law student can raise an and work are out there in the real DanielleRoeberat258-0859. lines on file , you need not start ize with your colleagues, relieve objection to that. 8 Monday, September 9, I 996 THE AMICUS CURIAE
Student Organization Profiles. • • Law Students in the Community: Law & The Arts Society ffolds First Trading Trials for Trails Meeting Of The Year By David Young chair accessible. In addition, by provid By Victoria Blakeway next meeting is scheduled for Wednes Several law students and one law ing easy volunteer opportunities in the On Wednesday, September4, the Law day, September 18, at 7:30 p.m . at the school dean recently found themselves in beginning of the year, LSIC hopes that & The Arts Society had its first organiza Meridian Coffeehouse, 206 South Bound the back woods of James City County participation in all of the more formal ti-onal meeting of the semester. LAS is a ary Street (next to the W&M Parking dodging mud traps, pulling up roots, and community service activities will increase. relatively new organization; this is only Office). Please come out and get in leveling dirt. They were assisting the Assisting the new law students in the our second year in existence - but we volved. The formal agenda for the meet Virginia Park Service in building a new trail-blazing project were 3Ls from the have very big goals. Our raison d 'etre is ing is to announce thenewBoardmembers trail for the York River State Park as part William and Mary Law Review staff. to study the relationship between the law and form committees to organize some of of the Law Camp Community Service Cristin Zeisler, Managing Editor, stated, and the creative spirit through analysis of our upcoming activities and social events. Project on August 24. "This volunteer project at the park made intellectual property law and related fields The infonnal agenda is to get acquainted The Law Students Involved in the a good ending for our own week-long while also providing a creative outlet for and discuss plans for the semester. Ifyou Community (LSIC), the umbrella orga training period." Also getting her hands law students who appreciate or are prac cannot make the meeting please contact nization for volunteer groups at the law dirty in the trail work was Vice-Dean titioners of the fine and creative arts. Our me by hanging file or at 229-2725. school, organized the first Law Camp Jayne Barnard. Community Service Project. At the end The trai l currently being completed of the intense exposure to the law during was first started in April when several law the law school's orientation program. it students participating in the university was time for a change of pace by volun wide Into-the-Streets Project placed the Next Amicus teering their time and sweat working at original trail markers and removed the the state park. larger branches and trees. Now, volun Although all students were invited to teers are leveling the path and building meeting Wednes participate in the project. the main em bridges over the swampy areas. Virginia phasis was to involve the new students by Parks Ranger Tom Cervinak, director of giving them a chance to get their hands the trail project, estimates that work on day, 7PM at dirty. LSIC wanted the new students to the trail will continue until November. become better acquainted with one an He still needs volunteers to help out in the other by working together to achieve a project. If you would like to volunteer. Paul's Deli. common goal- in this case to help make contact LSIC or call David Young, Co a trail at York River State Park wheel- Chair. at 259-0786.
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What I Did This Summer: Students Share Their Experience
England: tion and history that they have and the only recipes they brought ask for the bill after she started What? Do you take credit cards? lost the capacity, or perhaps the back have somehow mutated into deliberately avoiding my section No. Do you have any change at Inside the Asylum will, to think and act indepen food that resembles their own. of the restaurant so that I would all? No. Examiningtheregister, I believe in stereotypes. This dently of the past. Commercial "Sir, I'd like, uh, PizzaAmericano." stop asking her for my drink. it was indeed, completely empty. statement is instantly politically practices, general attitudes, and 45 minutes elapse. "Cole Slaw! Very quickly we learned that Apparently, nobody thought that unpopular, and regarded by the levels of quality that would be What were you thinking? Why nobody but the English can tol some customer could need ignorant as a sign of ignorance, unthinkable in the United States is my pizza covered in Cole Slaw, erate their restaurants. Special: change. but so be it. The longer I stayed are so pervasive as to be unno mayonnaise, and ... corn?!? Is Mexican food, burritos, tacos, All ofthe pubs in England are abroad and the greater the extent ticed and unquestioned by En this slab of boiled, reddish meat etc. Do you see any Mexicans required by law to close at 11:00, of my travels throughout the UK glish who have not experienced byproducts supposed to be in there working? No just • and even apart from this, they are and Ireland, the more apparent other cultures. corned beef? Why is it, that English. Keep walking. This strikingly bizarre. For example, the core truths these generaliza For example: pub advertis when you cut open the sausage, a degenerated over the summer the bartenders don t even under tions are built upon became to ing exists in its own world. All congealed mass ofoddly colored into: Restaurant. See any immi stand the concept of tipping (not me. pubs have on the sidewalk in fat like substances spills out all grants in there? No. Keep that it would usually have mat The English are, broadly front of them chalkboards ad over the peas? " walking. tered)- the state seems to require speaking, devoid ofany desire to vertising prices, specials, hours, Of course, the dining experi The description that comes that they surrender anything improve themselves- their soci etc. Apparently these are for the ence in England isn t confined to best to mind, apart from sloth, is given them by unsuspecting for ety is mired in static social classes. benefit of tourists. Food served: combinations of food other radical short-sightedness. It is as eigners to the proprietor. Sir, These not only permeate the na 7 PM until LATE. Circa, 9:15 people would throw out. If pre if nobody anticipates future de why isn't their any music here? tives' conceptions of themselves, PM, "Sorry, mate, no food. We're pared and served by natives, it is mand for any product. "Could I What do you mean? Music, you but are systematically reinforced closed." Food ALLDAY. 2:03 matched by service that tran have, uh ..., an omelette?" know, fill in the background . ... by a myriad of ostensibly protec PM, "Sorry, no food after2:00. scends apathy and "What? An omelette, its on the You want ·music go to a club. tive regulations that ossify com Or, most dramatically, "FREE uncooperativeness to outright chalk board behind you. Oh, we Why does my Guinness look li\ Legal Services of court probably three times a week. Every Assisting Victims mony. Many of these cases involved client has a dramatic tale of insults and children who were victims of sexual as JYorthem Virginia injuries, and there were frequently tear And Witnesses sault crimes. This raised many difficult (Family Law) ful and angry scenes in the office and issues and was an invaluable learning courtroom. Often I had trouble keeping While working for the Victim!Wit experience. Through Crime Victim's Com a poker-face while the clients related ness Assistance Program and the pensation I was able to work with victims No one could ever say, "I sat around their tales. I had expected to hear lots of Commonwealth's Attorney's Office, I was in providing assistance for medical bills, all summer at Legal Services." From the custody and visitation problems, but I able to learn and experience many things. funeral expenses, counseling, and other outset I was caught up in the maelstrom. It certainly didn 't expect to hear about I had the opportunity to. write numerous expenses incurred due to the crime. This took a full week before there was even time bigamy or kidnapping! I never expected Briefs in Opposition to Petition to Appeal allowed me to gain experience not only to sit down with my supervising attorney that I would be asking the judge to order which were submitted to the Virginia Court with pe<)ple but also with state programs to have lunch. The office is small and the a maternity test, to determine who exactly of Appeals for review. The issues in those designed to help people who have been caseload heavy, so law interns are wel was the mother of the child. Emergency cases included self-defense, sufficiency victimized. comed with wide-open arms. We are the hearings were frequent. of the evidence, aggravated malicious Newport News has a special program only chance these people have to catch up As a 3L with my third-year practice wounding, felony child abuse, the defmi called PRIDE (Police Response to Inci on their workload. (They are grateful to certification, I was able to do more than tion of a deadly weapon, and proper iden dents of Domestic Emergency) designed those organizations who make these in the second-year students. I acted as tification of the defendant. I also wrote to help with the problems of domestic ternships possible. Thanks PSF!) By attorney for these clients. I communi several memos regarding key issues for violence. While most of the giving great amounts of substantive work cated with our client and with opposing cases including a motion for new trial Commonwealth'sAttomey's offices do not to us, Legal Services is able to do what it counsel, and even represented my client based upon the nondisclosure of exculpa prosecute domestic violence cases, this must do: provide quality legal aid to the in court. For those who think that the_ tory evidence regarding a witness' past office does through the help of the PRIDE disadvantaged. want to litigate, Legal Services is an excel involvement as a police informant, the program. The PRIDE program is an anger We learn by doing at Legal Services. lent training ground. Interns are given constitutional issue of Fifth and Sixth management counseling program that is I was immediately given pleadings to great responsibility and can reall use Amendment rights regarding confessions offered to the defendant if he is deemed draft, statutes to review, and three days the summer to experience legal practice. I submission of graphic photographs to eligible. To participate, the defendant after I began, I interviewed my first client. went into the summer with no plans what corroborate testimony, and submission of must stipulate thee idence is s·uch that he It's definitely a hands-on kind of place. I soever to appear in a courtroom; now I· m a defense attorney's statements under the belie es he would be found guilty of the never imagined that my Legal Skills train not so sure. If you are ever given the admission exception to hearsay. crime of which he is charged. He then ing would be so useful: as I sat there with chance to work there, I recommend that Another opportunity afforded to me pleads guilty upon the stipulation he will the potential client, I found myself think you seize the chance. Legal Services is a was the chance to work with victims of complete the anger management counsel ing, "Okay, ask open-ended questions." greatly needed program and greatly re crimes. I was ab le to participate in Kids in ing sessions and have no other charges Whatever you may think of it, family warding experience. Court School to help prepare child vic brought against him during this time. Upon law could never be boring. We went to - Elise Milstein tims and their parents for court and testi- See SUMMER on 17 lO Monday, September 9, 1996 THE AMicus CURIAE Crossfire Election Y·our C·uts: P.rogress -Or- Just .Politics Dole~ Tax Cut Plan Will Rein- Dole~ReversalonTaxesShows vigorate Americfl. - lfis True Colors. . ------Jim Scott "It is simply contrary to the Ameri Christian Mastondrea " Short on details but long can ethos for people righ and poor on promises, the former The tax reduction plan proposed by alike to toil for the goernment's ben Ah yes it is that special time of year deficit-hawk-turned Senator Robert Dole, Republican nomi efi t rather than their own. Dole's once again. The trees begin to turn a supplysider dumps this gar nee for President will energize the Ameri~ plan helps free the individual from beautiful array of colors, baseball is on its bage all over the Nation with can economy, raise the productivity of way out and football on its way in, but American workers, and collect ample rev a stiffli ng government" most importantly, it is election season - his quaterback friend" enue to balance the federal budget In that time of year when politicians come comparison, the minute tax cut proposed justified due to its fundamental fairness. out ofthe woodwork to promise things we ofus. Cuts in Medicare and Medicaid will by President Clinton is but a fig leaf which It is simply contrary to the American don't need and things we as a Nation hurt a broad spectrum of Americans. cannot cover the largest tax increase in ethos for people rich and poor alike to toil simply cannot afford. Republicans in Congress proposed these American history which he orchestrated for the government's benefit rather than Bob the deficit hawk Dole has taken cuts in 1994 and look at the public re after promising middle class tax relief to their own. Dole's plan helps free the a page out of that woman's (a.k.a. Gover sponse: the Democrats gained a tremen get elected. individual from a stifling government, a nor Christie Todd Whitman s) book and dous amount of support by holding the Senator Dole's tax cut plan is fair- legitimate end in itself. has promised the Nation a 15% across line against the cut-and-bum ideology of favoring families and the middle class. Lastly, Senator Dole proposed repeal the-board tax cut Short on details but freshman Republicans. Yes, these were His proposed $500 per child tax credit ing President Clinton's 1993 tax hike on long on promises, the former deficit-hawk real cuts, not just a cap in spending. Any favors only those outside the wealthy, as Social Security Benefits. This will re turned-supplysider dumps this garbage time spending does not keep pace with it is phased out in the higher marginal tax store the integrity of a supplemental re all over the Nation with his quarterback inflation, the amount we spend in con brackets. His proposed development of tirement income program by which friend. It appears that the Republican stant real dollars goes down, therefore tax-free Educational Investment Accounts income taxes are based on pre-FICA earn party will yet again rise to meet the chal services also must go down. (with maximum contributions of $500 ings and will end the double taxation lenges of the early 1980' s. Let us turn I digress. The point is that the budget per year per child) will allow all families which President Clinton prefers. back the clock to simpler time, 1980. deficit grew to these monstrous propor to invest for their children's education Acknowledging once again that the There were hostages in Iran, stag-flation tions based on promises that sounded without incurring tax losses on the gains Republicans have the best ideas, Presi seemed to linger, and Jimmy Carter ap much like this. Dole and the Quarterback in the accounts. His proposed expansion dent Clinton has proposed his own oppor peared helpless in the face of the lingering can promise all the cuts in government of Individual Retirement Accounts will tunistic election year tax cut proposal. recession. Enter an aging B-Movie star spending they want, but they can not permit Americans to better provide for This is simply a day late and a dollar short. turned Governor to save the Nation. Re deliver. their retirement and will accord the con This proposal is an insult to the millions member how we all rejoiced as he prom This tax cut plan is simply to get tribution which homemakers make to the who have suffered under the yoke of ised he would cut, cut cut our taxes and elected, much like the New Jersey elec economy. Clinton's \993 record tax hike. Given that bring, the horns of government l¥g,ess tion of three years ag,o when the new Senator Dole also proposes slashing in 1992 Clinton promised middle class under control? Remember how Reagan Governor (Her) came from behind to de the capital gains tax to a maximum of tax relief and then delivered everything said we could have all of this and balance feat Jim Florio based mostly on Her 30% 14%. This proposal, which has been but that, his current promise is simply the budget through the miracle of tax cut plan. She also managed to keep continuously opposed by the Democrats incredible. supplyside e-conomics? the state's budget in balance, but she cut in Congress and Bill Clinton himself, is Some say that Dole's plan, too, is in I will not bore you wiili the details of spending with indiscriminate abandon. the most overdue of all of the aspects of credible. They also said that New Jer the Laffer curve, but its record speaks for The state EPA has almost no enforcement the tax plan. Rather than reducing rev sey Governor Whitman's tax cut proposals itself Bob Dole said this was crazy way wing; the Office of the Public Advocate is enue, this proposal reduces the capital were unattainable, but those proposals back in the early 1980's -- and he was gone; the Division of Youth and Family gains tax rates, which have been so high have been significantly enacted. By con right He knew that average American Services was slashed; the state road sys as to discourage taking capital gains alto trolling growth (without cutting) in vari would say yes to a tax cut but then turn tem is collapsing from deferred mainte gether. This has led to inefficient deci ous middle class entitlements and limiting around and protect all of their sacred nance; the streetlights on I-80 in Newark sions on the part of those who might spending in other areas of the federal cows. Reagan tried to bring the deficit are now turned off after I 0 p.m. -- well, otherwise take capital gains as, rather budget, Dole can pay for the tax cuts he under control by cutting revenues -- a you see what I am saying. Many of these than paying Bob Dole's proposed lower proposes. By increasing productivity, the brilliant idea that was destined to fail. The are crazy cuts, but I think we can all agree capital gains tax, they currently hold ap tax cuts will help realize greater receipts total budget deficit today stands at over that the roads and streetlights cuts are preciated assets, thereby incurring no tax than the naysayers claim will be enjoyed. five trillion dollars. That's right -- we insane. These are the kinds of cuts that liability at all. (For more infom1ation, see More importantly Dole's proposals, be technically have to pay all that back. The will be required on a national level. Still the Wall Street Journal, August 29, 1995, ing Dole's, are more credible than another debt service payments alone are now the sound appealing? Section A, Page 14.) in the litany of broken promises of Presi largest single portion of the federal bud I am not arguing that fat cannot be Senator Dole also proposes a 15 % dent Clinton. get and, but for these payments, the fed trimmed, but with so much debt hanging across-the-board reduction in income tax The proposed Dole tax plan is fair, eral budget would be in surplus. o er our heads, let's pay this off before we rates, phased in at 5% per year over three sensible, and attainable and will contrib Bob Dole and the Quarterback want us cut ourselves a refund. Bob Dole has sold years. This aspect of the tax plan is ute to the Nation's prosperity. to forget the fact that, though a tax cut his soul to get the office that has always sounds good, it is costly. They want us to remained out ofhis grasp. With the Quar forget that if they also keep the promise of terback on board to lend credibility to his Public Service Announcement: balancing the budget, massive cuts will be supply side conversion, they are off try required in programs near and dear to all ing to buy the White House. Throw Your Butts Away! Public Service Announcement: If Y()U a r-e ()ld en()U!!h t() sm () k.e ~ TO ALL lLS: Y()U ar-e ()ld en ()u!!h t () Place Y()Ur Stay out of the library while you still can! c iaar-r-ette butts in the ashtr-ays. Next year it shall be called home. Monday, September 9, 1996 THE AMICUS CURIAE 11 St.··_-,Jatnes, The -.- Pa·t·ron· Saint of. Trailer-s? By Victoria Blakeway one professor have been over year's incoming -class by almost Bowing fmally to the ever heard this week expressing con 20%likewedidthisyear. Let'sdo increasing pressure for usable cern for the layout ofthe cottage. the math here: Notenough space classroom space, William & Conveniently, there is a load =increase the class ·sizes. While Mary Law School has added a bearing column in the center of two long-term plans are in the lovely trailer to its well - mani the front half of the room, di works, each are several years cured grounds. Supposedlytem rectly in front of a logical place away from receiving the fman porary, this trailer (stubbornly for a professor _to stand if she cial support needed or the rub referred to by the administration were teaching, say, Women and ber-stamp ofthe finicky Virginia as the Saint James Cottage) has the Law for example. Legislature. Admittedly, these taken up residence on the back The only accessible chalk are daunting hurdles, but since lawn. Its sturdy brick founda board has also been removed, our national ratings are continu tion and wide wooden walkway leaving only one in the rear cor ally kept out of the higher from the patio have a decidedly ner of the room. rankings by poor facilities, this more permanent appearance. While these little design prob problem needs our concerted ef It managed to withstand Hur iems are vexing, the trailer has forts and our top priorities. Or ricane Fran and her escort of momentarily received the most we might end up facing a situa tornado's which raced through pressing space issue which was a tion similar to the one at the .... the area last Thursday and Fri lack of classrooms, which are University of Wisconsin's law ·---- -~-- ~ - .. j ~ ,J .r r- ~ day. There is even a dinner normally considered useful at a schooL After it moved the entire A picture is worth a thousand words. planned in its honor. The annual law schooL law school into trailers in order to Dean's Council Dinner with fac To reiterate the obvious, a renovate their old building, its ulty, top alumni contributors, and plan to expand the law school's ratings in U.S. News and World the Dean's Associates has been facilities should be one of our Report s annual ranking plum moved to the cottage. top priorities. It might even be a meted. Where was St. James when Several students and at least good idea not to increase next they needed him? ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • • MULDOON from 3 • • fundraising and publicity. Megan has addition to acting as Grand Marshall in • • .• -- been responsible for coordinating ben various parades. He also travels the dis • The Amicus would • efits such as the upcoming dinner with trict (which is larger than the state ofNew • Oliver North and booking Muldoon's vari Jersey), stopping in towns in order to ous radio and television appearances. shake hands and get the people to speak ;like to thank Virginia; Muldoon's message emiJhasizes tradi their minds. He greets them in stores and • • tional values and sma\\er government. accepts dinner invitations generally as • Muldoon proposes to return control to suring that he considers himself their local officials and to strengthen the role of equals and genuinely cares how they want Power for their un- = the family in society. "For too long distant to shape the district's future. This is the politicians in Washington have forced most effective manner in which to distin their agenda down our throats," Muldoon guish himself from an iricumbent oppo dying support of the stated. nent who shuns the constituents and takes There has also been a keen focus di refuge in Washington and Northern Vir rect exposure to the constituents. This is ginia. It also underscores Muldoon's con colonial lifestyle. where the real down home, old fashioned tention that Rick Baucher, unlike himself, politicking plays into the campaign. is a man who is no longer in touch with the Muldoon has already spoken at tractor people and values of Southwestern Vir- ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• pulls and a United ]'v1ine Workers rally in amm. More Clip 'n' Save Marshall-Wythe Trading Cards! Collect them all!! This week: FRANtic! M~ W Students Cope With...... Hurricane ..I ------~I ..I ------~I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I ' I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I , I I I I I • I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I ..I ______Anne Marie Miles ..I I Michael Friedman I I Christian Mastandrea I I Matt Ahman I ...... -·. 12 Monday, September 9, 1996 THE AMicus CURIAE Cynical Guy Sounds Off As we begin yet another year had wanted to go to school in an 3) Could someone explain the My dog could run that office know what was wrong with the of law school at beautiful Will aluminum classroom I, would purpose of those card readers on more efficiently. (He's really world, he (or she or it; we'll stick iam and Mary, we should ail be have gone to West Virginia. I all of the law school vending quite bright, when he hasn't been with he, if only for the sake of asking ourselves one question: was under the impression that a machines when I am not aware drinking.) clarity) wouldn't call up Saint what in the hell are we doing primary goal of the administra of a single law student who par The Legal Skills dilemma Peter and ask him (I think the back here? Not that tion was to increase the school ticipates in the university meal goes beyond poor scheduling and gender is safe to assume on that Williamsburg doesn' thave much ranking. plan? (Although if there is one an irreconcilable grading policy, one). God would come to the to offer; after all we have almost 2) The last time I glanced at of you out there, please let me which are no trivial matters them common man who was experi two bars, 800,000 Northern tour my calendar, December 24th was know I would love to go to din selves. It goes to the fear of new encing the world at the time and ists, and my dog does enjoy the still Christmas Eve and not a fall ner sometime -- and so would ideas and an unwillingness to ask him. Catch my drift? C mon scenery, but a city this ain't. (We back day for final exams. Who in my dog. He's really very well change. Let's be honest, this is a professors, I know it s no fun to can sa "ain' t" here· we are in the hell decided to change the mannered when he doesn' t valuable program that could be be second place, but take a few the South.) The real question is scheduling of the school year so drink.) Of course, if there were even more so if the administra notes from the real God on this what's going on with this law that the last scheduled exam falls meal plan participants in the law tion was open to any sugges one. school? Just a few points: on December 23rd? school they would be hard tions, constructive criticism, or But hey folks don't get me I) With increased class size Follow me for a minute here. pressed to refresh themselves as simple input. wrong. My dog (his name is we will soon be parking at Busch In this southern paradise where it the card readers are constantly Teaching students the reality Grogan by the way) and I both Gardens and taking the shuttle to never snows, we canceled class a not in service, not in service, not oflegal practice in an unrealistic love it here. We are both de the roller coaster through the few times last year due to --you in service. and unrealistically constrained lighted and proud to be here. Festhaus to Tax class. Of course, guessed it -- snow. (While en As a matter offact , that phrase arena is ludicrous. The program This is a great school with a lot of while we are all making daily joying the scenery, my dog does seems to sum up quite a few has merit, it has potential. It is great people, but I'm the cynical offerings to the parking gods in not enjoy snow; he keeps losing things: parking accommodations, both revolutionary and vision one here and Grogan can't type hopes of good favor, valuable his favorite tennis ball.) classroom availability, exam ary. It is a powerful selling point worth a damn, so I get to point acreage is being occupied by our Now, should such a fate be schedule, Legal Skills -- Oops, for our graduates and it is a bless these things out from time to ultra-modern, tornado magnet, fall us again this year, the only hadn'tgotten to that one yet. Hey, ing to the school, but it is not time. trailer home classroom (Oops, day at the end of the exam period lets not harp to much on Legal what it could or should be. So with any luck and a couple, sorry St. James Cottage" ). on which to take an exam, as Thrills; they do their best, it just This program, designed to ofMilkbones, we'll be back in a I find it of the utmost impor suming that Christmas Day is doesn't work out. I mean it al benefit the student, ignores the future issue. I'd love to continue, tance to know that my classroom still sancrosact, is Christmas Eve. ways doesn't work out. I mean it complaints and suggestions of but Grogan just said he s going to can't be towed away during fi Good call. I'll take the incom doesn't always work out. Well, the students. Now I am by no eat my new BlueBook if I don't nals (although a professor or two plete. Thank you, and have a one of those anyway. Oh, the means a religious man, but I am take him out to play catch. could be a different story). If I nice life. hell with it, let's not mince words. pretty sure that if God wanted to Later. See you in two weeks. FINANCIAL AID from l 9ffice for help. They are offering emer These are very short term loans and are things will straighten out pretty soon. (like me) got your information in late, gency loans to those of us who have not basically only for major emergencies, so Let' s hope she' s right. well, God help you because not m ucb else recieved our financial aid yet. Iftbe delay be ready to have some explaining to do if There is some more good news. The can. You should be getting your check is because of their computer problems, you ask for one. Don't go in expecting an Bursar's Office knows that you don 't around Graduation. Not really, but it they can offer up to $1500 in short term, easy $1500; you'll likely only get the have your financial aid check yet and they certainly may seem like that long when no interest loans. When your loans come minimum you need to squeak by. don't expect you to pay your bill until you the landlord is banging on your door and in, Financial Aid will simply deduct the If you loans are late and you can't get actually have the money. Of course, they you run out of ramen noodles. Who needs amount from your loan check. If you any help from the Financial Aid office, will be the first to know when it comes books until finals, anyway? don't have your loan yet because you are Dean Faye Shealy stresses that her door is and all you' II be left with is the miserable If you are one of those super uptight a slacker, you can still get an emergency open to any student who needs her help. pittance they don't snatch out of your people who actually wants books now loan, but you probably can't get as much. Although the Financial Aid problems needy hands. and thinks that eviction isn 't fun , you are The Finacial Aid office measures how aren't under the control of the law school, Looks like you won't be buying the probably panicking. Well, Poindexter, much they will give you by your ability to a faculty advocate such as Dean Shealey Maserati this year; hell, you won't even take a deep breath and unclench. There is pay them back almost immediately. So if may be just what you need when you hit be buying heat this winter. But hey, your some help. If you are up against the wall you have a loan coming in or a paycheck a Financial Aid brick wall. Dean Shealy tuition will be paid. My best advice to all in a big way and you need some money from the summer you are expecting, then stresses that she is very concerned about of the financial aid victims this year is just yesterday, you can go to the Financial Aid you should be able to get some money. the situation, but that she believes that to relax as much as possible. Things are going to smooth out in a few weeks. TRADING C....::..__A_R_D...:_S:_F_R_A_N_ti_c_! _M_-_W_St_u_d_e_n__;;,ts_C....:::...... o.L:...p....:;...e_W___;_;_;,ith_;_,_;_H...... :;,u;..;..;..rr...... :;,ic_.:;.a.;,.;....;n....:;_e r------, r------, r------, r------, I MaHAhman I I Christian Mastondrea I I Michael Friedman I I Anne Marie Miles I I I I I I I I I I I I Afraid to ruffle his perfectly : I Blaming a conservative agenda I I Stopping by the law school on I Discovered in the basement of I coiffed locks. Matt sought shel- I : designed specifically to thwart his way to tee off at the Ripley's the library on Friday morning, ter in the law school and the production of attorneys I Believe It or Not Golf Tourna- Anne Marie explained that she passed the time by comment- : : advancing liberal values. Chris . ment, held annually during the had adopted a more tradi ing to everyone with two X . I tian identified everyone from first natural disaster of the aca tional method of studying the chromosomes how romantic I Kubla Khan to Oliver North as demic year, Mike pulled several law namely, one without elec he found the absence of light. I I possible leaders of this obvious ligaments in his ankle trying to tricity. Seeking refuge from her While practicing the pose he I I conspiracy to keep M-W with- retrieve important Student Legal own home which remained usually adopts during class. I 1 out electricity. Fortunately, Services documents from his powerless for several days, Anne hanging file. Ever resourceful, Matt confided to the Amicus I I Christian has lived at the Marie arrived at the law school Mike acknowledges the benefit his fear of returning home. I I equally power-sensitive Grad- only to discover that the Colo of using his elephantitic arm as discovering that his cable didn't I 1 Plex long enough to anticipate nial Williamsburg electrical prac a mallet to beot down insur tices had spreod to our own work. and actually being forced I I these little glitches and gents he encounters in his quest haven of progress and technol either to amuse himself or I I conseqeuntly came to the la_w for an honor code which doesn't ogy. Undaunted by these shudder to crack open one of I I school prepared with his own involve those pesky undergradu odds, Anne-Marie forged aheod I those pesky case books. I l litte hamster-driven generator. .. ______.. .ates______or administrators. .. .. with______her Client B research. ..I ·------~~ THE AMicus CURJAE Arts & Entertainment Monday, October 3, 1994 13 Music for the Masses MUSIC REVIEW: Pearl Jam And Social Distortion By Dov Szego happened to the wah pedal, the rapid chord less from the ashes that resulted when the the band has seen a lot of death lately, with Pearl Jam: No Code inversions, the powerful solos and outros obscure punk band the Adolescents broke the death ofthe man who produced its first King Solomon once said, "There is ofTen? The band seems to have been too up, the band has toured with the likes of two albums (Charles Ramirez), and a fair nothing new under the sun." At the tinie busy licking Neil Young's boots.to write the Ramones and Neil Young in its illus amount of change. (It took three drum he was probably listening to an album that good new material. trious 14 year history. White Light, White mers, including Chuck Biscuits to bring soundedalotlikePear!Jam's oCode. To Take, for example, the opening track, Heat, White Trash, the band's newest re the band from its last album to where it is be honest, I haven't liked an album by Pearl "Sometimes." This is one of the album's lease comes on the tail of the most recent now.) Jam since Ten, and I haven't liked more near a capella tracks. Vedder spends two wave of alternative music; the resurrec Perhaps this is the origin of such rare than a handful of songs since then either. and a half minutes singing softly well tion of old-school punk bands. Surpris punk-rock profundities as, "When the Beyond that, their ticket raffle antics, rock above his range, with two note chords, ingly enough, where the resurrection of Angel of Death comes looking for me and star foolishness, and increasing!, v hin one drum beat, and a repetitive bass lick the Sex Pistols reeked of economic con the angels sing, I hope I was everything I eccentric loser public image habits have running in the background. ' Large fin cerns and the resurrection of the Circle was supposed to be, when the angels sing. macte me just want to make them go away. gers pushing paint. You're God and you Jerks produced a truly lesser album, So There's gotta be a Heaven, cause I've The only cool thing about Pearl Jam in the got big hands. The colors blend. The cial Distortion has pulled off their own already done my time in Hell." "When the last 5 years has been their assault on challenges you give Man. Sometimes I revival with a flair, producing an album Angels Sing" is a good song; solid, three TicketMaster, though this was a largely know, sometimes I rise, sometimes I fall, that does their catalog credit. chord punk, one of very few guitar solos ineffective and somewhat rock-star thing sometimes I don't, sometimes I cringe, The band's singer, Mike Ness, has a on the album, and meaningful lyrics make in and of itself. sometimes I live, sometimes I live, some cool voice. Somewhat nasal, obviously it one of the best on the album. Sadly enough, Pearl Jam bas some times I walk, sometimes I kneel, sometimes the result of long, hard hours of drinking The best song on the album, b, far, is considerable punk rock roots. It sports I speak of nothing at all." Aside from and smoking, and a bit throaty, we get "Don't Drag me Down." I'll have this one members of the seminal (and long de making little lyrical sense to me, and being punk rock a Ia old school: some angry in my head for weeks. Some of the lyrics funct) Seattle underground band Green about as musically interesting as gridlock guy, yelling about something, and sound are a little cheesy, but the song is more or River. Some members of Green River traffic, this simply lacks the profundity ing pretty convincingly upset. Social less about people teaching and learning (notably missing now Mudboney and complexity ofthe band's earlier songs. Distortion also brought on board Chuck racism and ignorance. frontman, Mark Arm) went on to form ( "Evenflow" stands out in this case: Biscuits, a veteran of several venerable The band fits together tightly, with --- Mother Love Bone, which necessarily simple musically .in some ways, not in punk bands including DOA, the Circle obligatory overdriven guitar, snare heavy broke up on the eve of its major label others, and certainly not lyrically.) Jerks, and even Black Flag as a new drum lines, and the bass line well blended debut when singer Andrew Wood over In all fairness, not all the songs on the drummer. Beyond that, the band stays into the background. It's also another of dosed on heroin. In fact, Mother Love album are as pathetic as ' Sometimes." true to what has worked for punk rock for the three chord old school songs on the Bone and Pearl Jam are nearly the same ' Hai\, hai.\" the a\bum's hardest track, twenty years in their reliance on simple album. There are even a few lyrical gems band, minus one dead singer and plus the nearly approaches Ten quality. "Smile" songs, usually three power chords, verse embedded, most of which are humorous enigmatic, if overly Jim Morrison reminis even uses a harmonica: "Habit," another chorus-verse, no frills. out of context. (so I won't quote them, but cent, Eddie Vedder. Pearl Jam never bad an of the album's hard tracks, deals crypti The result is a good album. There are take my word for it) . u.ndeq~round following, skipping from cally (I think) with drug abuse, straying no songs on White Light that I dislike, and Just to sound impartial, the album and nothing to a major label, and almost imme from the album's general tendency towards most of them are even somewhat catchy. the band both have their flaws . Chuck diately releasing their debut, Ten, amidst near meaninglessness. 'Mankind" seems While previous albums relied a lot on Biscuits is clearly uncomfortable being the larger clatter of the Seattle grunge to use the rhythm of surf-rock; it's interest blues and country resulting in something the new guy, as evident in the often me thing. Since then, Pearl Jam has released ing at least, and it has a real guitar solo. not at all unlike Neil Young, it is clear that chanical, oversimplified drum tracks. two more albums, Vs and Vitalogy, yet it If! was forced to pick a high point from Ness and crew returned to their roots Some of the songs, while not bad, are a lot has refused to release any videos since the the album, it would have to be the packag delivering more of what would now be longer than they needed to be. This is still incredibly popular "Jeremy" video, citing ing. As strange as that may sound, it is considered a hard-rock/alternative sound, a good album, and one well worth owning a dislike for forcing interpretations oftheir clear that the No Code packaging designer easily reminiscent in all ways to bands like for those who like a harder rock sound in songs onto their listeners. was a sick individual. Furthering its com the Ramones, early Black Flag, and even the punk vein. Since Ten Pearl Jam seems to me to mitment to recyclable packaging materi more recent punk bands like Nirvana and Special thanks to Echoes Tapes & have grown progressively softer. No Code als, Pearl Jam uses an all cardboard case, Screeching Weasel. Records for providing both the pre-re is, unfortunately, no departure from this with the lyrics (to on ly some of the songs) Social Distortion even dares to take on lease version ofSocial Distortion's Wh ite trend. Primarily a collection of ballads, written on the back of polaroids: simu the subject of religion, an oft maligned Light, White Heat, White Trash and the some of which seem almost a capella in lated photographs of somewhat disturb topic in the world of punk rock. In the promo copy ofP earl Jam's No Code. The the near absence of guitar accompani ing images like someone falling out of a label's bio of the band, Ness says that the store is located at the corner ofRi chmond ment, No Code explores no new musical window and a bloodshot eye. The disk song "When the Angels Sing" is about and Monticello Roads. territory, but instead comes even-closer to and the folder for these polaroids slide into his grandmother's death in 1993 . In fact, the ever growing pool of Alternaclone sleeves in the cardboard and then these bands, (I can no longer distinguish Pearl sleeves fold down, with the package fold Jam from the likes of Stone Temple Pi ing like a wallet. The album is pathetic, but lots, myself.) The band also seems to the case alone is worth looking at. The -- have abandoned their former penchant case is better than the album; this means for lyrical and musical complexity in fa don't buy it. vor of forced rhymes (telephone, alone, zone?), trite attempts at irony ("Are you woman enough to be my man?"), near Social Distortion: White Light, White platitudes ( "So this is what it's like to be Heat, White Trash an adult, ifheonly knewnowwhatheknew then."), and three or four rhythm figures Social Distortion has been around for throughout the album. Beyond even that, a while now. They released their first the guitar parts on some of the songs are album, Mommy 's Little Monster in 1982, simplistic enough that they could be mas and their last, Somewhere Between ten~d by a paraplegic labrat. Whatever Heaven and Hell in 1992. Formed more or -·- 14 Monday, September 9, 1996 THE AMicus CuRLA£ What to do on a Ranieri day .. Dead Man More Memorable Than Doctor Moreau By Lee Ranieri Before long, Douglas is picked up by Planet of the Apes, without the rubber efforts. THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU a passing boat and nursed back to health masks. Then Brando arrived. Rolling Despite a horrible video montage of The opening seconds of The Island of by a self-described ·'veterinarian" named along in a make-shift Popemobile, with human violence tacked onto the end, de Dr. Moreau set the tone for the rest of this Montgomery (Val Kilmer). Montgomery dozens of failed experiments fa wning and signed to bludgeon the "message" into film: ftrst we see a calm but cloudy sky, escorts Douglas to the nearby island where grunting around him, it's painfully appar you, Dr. Moreau wasn't a bad movie. The then a close-up of an iris, and then a he 's staying, and proceeds to lock him up. ent that Bran do is going to reprise his role manimals looked seamless, and appropri spastic montage ofblood cells and violent When Douglas escapes and decides to go as Colonel Kurtz -- Planet of the Apes, ately grotesque. Branda was relatively weather. The message? Powerful forces exploring, he stumbles onto the results of meet Apocalypse Now. The rest of the energetic, even while coming across as an are hiding in the tiniest places. It 's a good the experiments conducted by the good movie basically follows this pattern. Al unholy union of William F. Buckley and start and sets the stage for some interest Doctor Moreau (Marlon Branda). most immediately after Douglas arrives, Liberace. But overall, there's not much ing exploration. Unfortunately, Dr. In the book, Dr. Moreau was experi the nati es start getting restless. They've that makes the film memorable. On the Moreau spends the next ninety minutes menting with ivisection; in the movie had just about enough heavy-handed treat other hand, if that's the worst thing to say running in circles. the boogeyman is genetics. Apparently, ment by their "father," and think maybe about a summer movie, it must have done The Island of Dr. Moreau is based on Dr. Moreau has gotten tired of that liberal it's their tum to run the show. Inevitably, it's job. the H.G . Wells book of the same name, animal-rights crowd breathing down his the revolution comes, and the good Doc Rating: * * Y, (out of four). and while the movie glosses over the neck, and has moved to an island where tor is the first one up against the wall. At Video Pick of the Week: DEAD MAN deeper ideas, it stays faithful to the plot. he can create perfect, peacable humans this point, though, the mo ie stumbles WALKING As the mSvie begins, Edward Douglas out of animals. and turns predictable. Instead of mining This is one of the best studio-release mov (David Thew lis) is adrift in a liferaft after It's never really explained why animal its themes, the film is content to let the ies of 1995, if not the best. Director Tim a plane crash. Watching the other two people are supposed to tum out any better effects run the show. Robbins does an excellent job of making survivors kill each other over their can than the normal variety, but .. . why ask On the plus side, however, Val Kilmer his point without pulling any punches, teen, Douglas thinks they seem "more questions? The strength of the movie, finally stopped sleep-walking through his and even though Susan Saradon won the like beasts than men." After all of three after all, is in the imagery, not the ideas. lines and became interesting. After a little Oscar, Sean Penn was (surprise!) the real minutes, the movie has laid all of its cards Like all great visionaries, Dr. Moreau soul-searching (is it an island of laws, or show-stealer. The soundtrack was memo on the table. But even though Dr. Moreau doesn't let a few setbacks get in his way, of beasts?), the movie ends where it be rable, too. Interesting fact: the execution doesn't have anything more to say, it's and consequently his island is overrun gan, only now Douglas has an outboard scene isn 'tjust heavy-handed crucifixion got more to show, and it shows it well. with manimals. My first reaction was, oh, motor and a bucket of fruit to show for his imagery-- that's how it really looks. A Quick Guide to What's Cooking ln Williamsburg strikingly reminiscent of Dave's berry cake, applesauce cake, ba you like deep dish or Paul's By Ian W. Siminoff down-home Southern, Old Airport creations. For example, nana cake, or a lemon bar, all Its time to go eating with me Mediterranean Deli on Rich Chickahominy House, located the prime rib sandwich served moist and fantastic. mond Road if you like thin crust; in Williamsburg again. First off, in an old house on the right after there have been a few culinary with melted provolone cheese, Every day there is a selection for sandwiches, The Cheese the intersection ofJamestown and Dave's specialty, is now a per of homemade breads, including changes and additions since May. Shop or Pottery Wine & Cheese I 99, known for their homemade Most notably, Dave, the jovial, manent fixture on the menu, al white, whole wheat, sun-dried located off Route 60 in the biscuits, surry ham, and rich white-aproned, white-haired chef though they were out of it when tomato, olive, and honey wheat. Kingsmill Shopping Center; for baked pies. who served up piping hot prime I went there. However, the french Just call 253-BAKE for their rib sandwiches, North Carolina dip with melted provolone, daily specials. barbeque, and loaves ofsoft white served au jus, is not available at I still recommend that you bread from cramped quarters at the cafe (you have to go to the try Carrot Tree (travel down Charly's restaurant at the airport for that one). Other no Jamestown Road 3-4 miles, fol Williamsburg Airport (located a table items on the menu include low the curve in the road to the mile off of 199 between a sliced pork barbeque sandwich right, and on your left is a green Jamestown Road· and South drenched in a tomato-based motel called Carrot Tree, in the Henry), has moved to barbeque sauce, served with ei back is the bakery), where the Williamsburg Crossing (at the ther homemade potato salad, desserts are a little more rich and Williamsbu..-u CJ"()Ssin!! intersection ofRoutes 5 and 199), pasta salad, or Dave's outstand decadent. Try the cream cheese ..J()hn TYie..- tii!!hway where he and a local coffee ex ing homemade vinegar-based brownies, sticky buns, cream ~~()-()S()S pert teamed up in opening the coleslaw. (Christian Mastandrea cheese and peanut-butter frosted Williamsburg Coffee and Tea noted that the pork and the bread cupcakes, carrot cakes, rasberry Company. The Williamsburg were fantastic, but the barbeque bars, and cowboy c~unk cook Coffee and Tea Company re sauce needed some more sea ies. placed the Gourm~t Faire, a soning). The greek salad sand For lLs who don t know the sparsely-filled specialt, food wich is also good, with lettuce, area, there are not many great Mon--Fri 5--7 pm store. cucumbers, tomatoes, on ions, places to eat in Williamsburg. Williamsburg Coffee and Tea and feta cheese all served on To give you all the benefit of not "Food and Beverage" Specials is di ided into two sections. Dave's homemade bread. wasting your money, in addition When you enter the green inte On May 8, after most people to the places mentioned above, (and you know what we mean) rior, directly in front of you and had bolted from the here are some of the places you to your left is the coffee and tea Williamsburg area in record time should try. For Italian make section, where hundreds of Bea-Bees Bread Basket opened your own at home, unless you Hosting Bar Review coffees and teas from around the up off of Richmond Road on want to gi e Giuseppe's or Sal's Thursday world greet you. As you make Longhill (make a left off Rich a try; fo r Vietnamese, Chez September 12!!! your way to the back of the store, mond Road at Ewell Station, Trinh in Monticello Shopping you can taste (at no charge) the where Giuseppe's is located). Center is outstanding, especially coffees of the day. The right half Modeled in the Carrot Tree for lunch, where you get soup, Large Microbrewery Selection ofthe store is Charly's Cafe. Dave motif, the bakery provides you appetizer, and entree for $5.00; cooks up the same oven-fresh with small treats at incredibly for barbeque, Queen Anne's 11 Pool Tables homemade bread he did at the low prices. At $.50 a pop you Dairy Soak which also has great airport. can purchase a piece of lemon shakes, on Second Street past the Damn Good Food!!! The menu at Charly's Cafe is cake, a slice of chocolate-rasp- Farm Fresh; for pizza, Uno's if Monday, September 9, 1996 THE AMicus CURIAE 15 What's Going On Student Bar Association ·Kicks Off The Year By Shaun Rose up quickly and will be held on that we can have a large amount ~ - - There are a couple of things Friday, October 18. For those of of input into what the new Honor that the SBA has planned for the you new to the school (or who Code will look like. We will be upcoming weeks. First of all, as were so drunk last year, you don't working with the Administration in the past, we will be having Bar remember) Fall From Grace is our and guiding the process rather Reviews every Thursday annual, semiformal fall dance. In than fighting a unification pro evening. The next Bar Review addition, we w ill also be trying to posal supported by (and in some will be on Thursday, September plan some events which are not sense mandated by) the Presi 12 at the Comer Pocket. The Bar centered around drinking, such dent of the College as well as the Review for the 19th is tentatively as bowling and maybe even a Board of Visitors. We have de planed to take place at Pitcher's paint ball trip. cided to concentrate our efforts 'Sports Bar (Where the good times On the political side of the on making sure that the new sys are always BREWing). While SBA, the Honor Cqde unifica tem works as efficiently and, we hope to have them planned tion debate has once again be more importantly, as fairly as several weeks in advance later in come the major issue with which possible. the semester, for now check the we are dealing. After thoroughly Finally, it is almost time for SBA President Shaun Rose. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• walls in the lounge on Wednes examining our options, the SBA SBA elections for the I L repre • • days and Thursdays for the loca and the Judicial Council voted to sentatives. This will take place tion and specials. I know that the acquiesce to the unification man somet~e during the fifth week :Reminder: M·andatory: lLs have classes at 8:30 on Fri date by the College. of school. Shortly after the elec days, so we will try to have a few While most of the members . tions we will be appointing four : Bush rod Tournament : Bar Reviews on Friday nights. are still opposed to the idea of I L s to the Judicial Council.· Look • Fall From Grace is coming unification, it has become clear for more information to come. • • • meeting tonight at • • • • • • 7:30 • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • The Concert Corner ·· :. :·.=.·.. B-y Dave Mincer ' .. ·. · . . . Welcome to the Cpncert Comer. Those of you who are new to Williamsburg you may soon begin to feel constrained by the apparent lack of social opportunities that Williamsburg has to offer. ALL IS NOT LOST! There is a thriving concert scene less than an hour away. The Abyss in Virginia Beach hosts a lot of awesome alternative/techno (Soul Coughing, My Life With The Thrill Kill Cult) bands. The Flood ZOne in Richmond hosts alternative bands with more of a rock edge to them, (Toadies, Presidents of the USA) but on Friday and Saturday nights it turns into an all-out dance club. The Flood Zone also has a jammy band, Agents of Good Roots, playing every Wednesday. The Boat House in Hampton usually has a lot of alternative/rock (Pavement. The Vervepipe, Indigo Girls) bands !hrOughout the year. All tickets can be purchased by charge at 671-8100. Prices at the door will be slightly higher. For more information, call the Flood ZOne at (804) 643-1117, the Boat House at (804) 622-6395, the Miller Concert Line at (804) 622-3679, or the Cellar Door Concert Line at (804) 46.3-7625. Here is a calendar of upcoming shows: Tues., Sept. 10: Cracker @The Flood ZOne, Richmond 311 @The Richmond Amphitheater, Sat., Sept. 14: "·'*;~'-'; : ,: -;::~' 'lr' ' ' 'F. J8 · · ~· , - h . 'o D .· .; :· ·. ::· , .'.f''.' .:. __; . ..;." 15% . Richmond Thurs., Sept. 19: The Kelly Deal 6000 @The Nocturnal cafe inside The Abyss, Va. Beach Thurs., sept. 19: Beck @The Flood Zone, Richmond Tues., Sept. 24: Goldfinger @The Abyss, Va. Beach Sun., Sept. 29: My Life With The Thrill Kill Cult @The Abyss, Va. Beach Fri., Oct. 1: Jars of Clay @The Flood ZOne, Richmond Sun., Oct. 13: BoneJunkies and 2 Skinny .Jays @The Abyss, Va. Be<~ch Sun., Oct. 20: Soul Coughing @The Abyss, Va. Beach Fri., Oct. 25: rhish @Hampton Coliseum, Hampton THE AMICUS CURIAE Calendar of Events Mond!ly, October 1994 16· Monday, September 9 Friday, September 13 OCPP Upcoming Programs: Judicial Clerkships for 3Ls in Room 127 at Anyone for a Cheese Royale? :The DOG Street Theater will fmish off what 12:30 p.m.; Second Group Mailing Resume Submission Deadline; Lexis Job obviously is a John Travolta week with a showing o.f Pulp Fiction. Friday Search training begins (sign up at the Circulation Desk). and Saturday at 11 p.m. only. Phenomenal! : The DOG Street Theater will begin showing John Travolta's P.A.D. Rush begins: Social TBA, probably atthe delis. most recent movie, Phenomenon. Called the "Sleeper Hit of the Summer!" by Pat Collins. It will run through Thursday, 7 p.m. only. Saturday, September 14 Melrose Madness!!: The Season premiere of television's classiest show airs Are you ready for some football? : The Tribe will play VMI in their first tonight at 8 p.m. Called the "Procrastination Technique of Law School home· game of the season at 1 p.m. at Zable Stadium. Tickets are free with a Champions" by the Amicus staff, this episode is a must see! student J.D. Tuesday, September 10 Wednesday, September 18 New Hampshire Job F1,1ir: Fourteen legal employers from New Hampshire Avalon Volunteer Training Begins: Avalon assists survivors of domestic and Vermont will interview 2Ls and 3Ls for summer positions on Thursday, violence and sexual assault by providing shelter, a 24-hour helpline, advo October 10 in Manchester, NH. Pick up a detailed memo and registration cacy, information, referrals, counseling, and support groups. They need form from the Application File Cabinet in OCPP. Submission deadline is volunteers to help on many projects including acting as court advocates. For closing time. further information or an application, call Kate McCord, EducationNolun United Way Day of Caring : The College faculty ahd staff are sponsoring a teer Coordinator, at 258-5022. blood drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in William & Mary Hall. For appoint Law & The Arts Society Meeting: at the Meridian Coffeehouse, 206 S. ments call229-8969. Boundary Street (next to W&M's Parking Office), at 7:30 p.m. Please come out and join us! Thursday, September 12 OCPP Upcoming Programs: Interview tips in Room 119 at 3 p.m. Also, Thursday, September 19 today is the last day to participate in the program on using Lexis in your job SBA Bar Review: TBA. search. Goya and Authority: Lu Ann Homza, Assistant Professor of History, will Friday, September 20 present a lecture in conjuction with the Muscarelle Museum's special exhibit Jane Austen, Anyone? : Austen's classic, Emma, will begin at the DOG GOY A, Prints by the Spanish Mastert Lecture begins at 5 p.m. in Newman Street Theater tonight and continue showing until October 3. 6:45p.m. and Auditorium, Andrews Hall. For information call 221-2703 . 9 p.m. until Thursday, September 26, with a Sunday matinee at 3 p.m. SBA Bar Review: The Corner Pocket, Williamsburg Crossing Shopping Striptease : Upon enhancing your social graces by watching Emma, you can Center, 7-9 p.m., Beer and Pool! Come out and watch Dawn Crawford (2L) watch Demi Moore take it all off at the DOG Street Theater, at 11:15 p.m. clean up the tables! • Showing only Friday and Saturday nights. , Please submit your entries for the Amicus Events Calendar to Toya Blakeway (2L) or the Amicus hanging file. Entries rna include activities sponsored by law school organizations, main campus or community events. REVIEW from 1 However, in her· memo to all cia! constraints that the William willing to put in extra hours ~ with faculty, Editor-in-Chief Sara and Mary Law Review faces. or without credit." He noted that Gottovi did outline her arguments Moreover, that many of these membership on a law review is for maintaining the current sys schools have many more editors voluntary and that other very tem. First, she argued that edi than the 15 we currently have, prestigious schools offer no tors have a very heavy time which lowers the time commit credit, including Harvard, commitment, which results in less ment required by each editor. ••• Stanford, and Chicago. Although available time for another class. This will in turn, she asserted, heard about this month's W-M required more total credits Second, she argued that "theRe deter high quality students from for graduation, Professor Meese port creates a functional defini joining the Law Review. asserted that removing credit will tion of editor based on a list,of Professor Meese c~untered , GREAT only require one more class from intellectual work of the sort for by arguing that his alma mater the editors. which academic credit may be Chicago Law does not afford Although the Law Review appropriate and then rigidly cat credit to Law Review and that it *3¢ responded to the Committee's egorizes editors on a hierarchi functions with a Board of 16 proposal in writing, it has be cal basis without regard for the editors, publishing four issues a come clear, after asking several quantity of the intellectual work year. He also noted that those COPY DEAL ·a¥.. x 11, 201b. Bond White, 1 Sided members of the Law Review for each editor performs." Finally, schools without credit do not Expires 9·30-96 comment, that a code of si lence she maintained that work on the have problems attracting high has been imposed upon mem Law Review is academic and quality students to the Review bers by the Editorial Board. should therefore receive credit, citing examples such as citing sub-checking and editing Georgetown, Harvard Stanford, PRINTING as examples. Michigan, and UCLA. Both sides of the debate have With the debate far from over, · 948 Capitol Landing Road utilized examples of otper the Law Review has closed ranks ~!lliamsburg, VA 23185 schools in order to demonstrate by mandate from the Editor-in-· their points. The Committee s Chief. Staff members have been Across from report cited many law schools advised not to comment, either the Department that either do not award credit at officially or even personally, al of Motor Vehicles all, or award fewer credits than lowing Gottovi to control the PHONE M-W for journal work. They debate among her staff (757) 220-3299 note that all maintain prestigious However, with both Profes reputations and high ranks. sor Meese and the Committee FAX However, Gottovi responded agreeing that the system needs Present (757) 220-0366 Student that many of these schools are revision, the issue is sure to rise I. D. HOURS private and do not face the fman- again. · 8:30-5:00 Monday - Friday THE AMICUS CURIAE Calendar of Events Mond!ly, October 1994 16· Monday, September 9 Friday, September 13 OCPP Upcoming Programs: Judicial Clerkships for 3Ls in Room 127 at Anyone for a Cheese Royale? :The DOG Street Theater will fmish off what 12:30 p.m.; Second Group Mailing Resume Submission Deadline; Lexis Job obviously is a John Travolta week with a showing o.f Pulp Fiction. Friday Search training begins (sign up at the Circulation Desk). and Saturday at 11 p.m. only. Phenomenal! : The DOG Street Theater will begin showing John Travolta's P.A.D. Rush begins: Social TBA, probably atthe delis. most recent movie, Phenomenon. Called the "Sleeper Hit of the Summer!" by Pat Collins. It will run through Thursday, 7 p.m. only. Saturday, September 14 Melrose Madness!!: The Season premiere of television's classiest show airs Are you ready for some football? : The Tribe will play VMI in their first tonight at 8 p.m. Called the "Procrastination Technique of Law School home· game of the season at 1 p.m. at Zable Stadium. Tickets are free with a Champions" by the Amicus staff, this episode is a must see! student J.D. Tuesday, September 10 Wednesday, September 18 New Hampshire Job F1,1ir: Fourteen legal employers from New Hampshire Avalon Volunteer Training Begins: Avalon assists survivors of domestic and Vermont will interview 2Ls and 3Ls for summer positions on Thursday, violence and sexual assault by providing shelter, a 24-hour helpline, advo October 10 in Manchester, NH. Pick up a detailed memo and registration cacy, information, referrals, counseling, and support groups. They need form from the Application File Cabinet in OCPP. Submission deadline is volunteers to help on many projects including acting as court advocates. For closing time. further information or an application, call Kate McCord, EducationNolun United Way Day of Caring : The College faculty ahd staff are sponsoring a teer Coordinator, at 258-5022. blood drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in William & Mary Hall. For appoint Law & The Arts Society Meeting: at the Meridian Coffeehouse, 206 S. ments call229-8969. Boundary Street (next to W&M's Parking Office), at 7:30 p.m. Please come out and join us! Thursday, September 12 OCPP Upcoming Programs: Interview tips in Room 119 at 3 p.m. Also, Thursday, September 19 today is the last day to participate in the program on using Lexis in your job SBA Bar Review: TBA. search. Goya and Authority: Lu Ann Homza, Assistant Professor of History, will Friday, September 20 present a lecture in conjuction with the Muscarelle Museum's special exhibit Jane Austen, Anyone? : Austen's classic, Emma, will begin at the DOG GOY A, Prints by the Spanish Mastert Lecture begins at 5 p.m. in Newman Street Theater tonight and continue showing until October 3. 6:45p.m. and Auditorium, Andrews Hall. For information call 221-2703 . 9 p.m. until Thursday, September 26, with a Sunday matinee at 3 p.m. SBA Bar Review: The Corner Pocket, Williamsburg Crossing Shopping Striptease : Upon enhancing your social graces by watching Emma, you can Center, 7-9 p.m., Beer and Pool! Come out and watch Dawn Crawford (2L) watch Demi Moore take it all off at the DOG Street Theater, at 11:15 p.m. clean up the tables! • Showing only Friday and Saturday nights. , Please submit your entries for the Amicus Events Calendar to Toya Blakeway (2L) or the Amicus hanging file. Entries rna include activities sponsored by law school organizations, main campus or community events. REVIEW from 1 However, in her· memo to all cia! constraints that the William willing to put in extra hours ~ with faculty, Editor-in-Chief Sara and Mary Law Review faces. or without credit." He noted that Gottovi did outline her arguments Moreover, that many of these membership on a law review is for maintaining the current sys schools have many more editors voluntary and that other very tem. First, she argued that edi than the 15 we currently have, prestigious schools offer no tors have a very heavy time which lowers the time commit credit, including Harvard, commitment, which results in less ment required by each editor. ••• Stanford, and Chicago. Although available time for another class. This will in turn, she asserted, heard about this month's W-M required more total credits Second, she argued that "theRe deter high quality students from for graduation, Professor Meese port creates a functional defini joining the Law Review. asserted that removing credit will tion of editor based on a list,of Professor Meese c~untered , GREAT only require one more class from intellectual work of the sort for by arguing that his alma mater the editors. which academic credit may be Chicago Law does not afford Although the Law Review appropriate and then rigidly cat credit to Law Review and that it *3¢ responded to the Committee's egorizes editors on a hierarchi functions with a Board of 16 proposal in writing, it has be cal basis without regard for the editors, publishing four issues a come clear, after asking several quantity of the intellectual work year. He also noted that those COPY DEAL ·a¥.. x 11, 201b. Bond White, 1 Sided members of the Law Review for each editor performs." Finally, schools without credit do not Expires 9·30-96 comment, that a code of si lence she maintained that work on the have problems attracting high has been imposed upon mem Law Review is academic and quality students to the Review bers by the Editorial Board. should therefore receive credit, citing examples such as citing sub-checking and editing Georgetown, Harvard Stanford, PRINTING as examples. Michigan, and UCLA. Both sides of the debate have With the debate far from over, · 948 Capitol Landing Road utilized examples of otper the Law Review has closed ranks ~!lliamsburg, VA 23185 schools in order to demonstrate by mandate from the Editor-in-· their points. The Committee s Chief. Staff members have been Across from report cited many law schools advised not to comment, either the Department that either do not award credit at officially or even personally, al of Motor Vehicles all, or award fewer credits than lowing Gottovi to control the PHONE M-W for journal work. They debate among her staff (757) 220-3299 note that all maintain prestigious However, with both Profes reputations and high ranks. sor Meese and the Committee FAX However, Gottovi responded agreeing that the system needs Present (757) 220-0366 Student that many of these schools are revision, the issue is sure to rise I. D. HOURS private and do not face the fman- again. · 8:30-5:00 Monday - Friday THE Atvacus .Cuuu: Sports Monday, October 3, 1994 Stitch - Center Sports ltighlights Counting On The Playoff Cowboys! By Mike' Stitch" Melis \\latching one (or three or four) Ste\ art) to the current return of is out indefinitely due to injury. they were considered dead and Before I begin gi ing my of the fifteen or so showings of Herschel Walker, the man whose There is a noticeable lack ofdepth buiied a few times last year, and humble opinion on what's hap Sportscenter per day. I laugh, I trade reju enated America's on both sides ofthe ball. Tailback then rose from the dead to win pening in the v orld of sports, let cry, I become informed. And if Team and catapulted Dallas to Emmitt Smith, without whom the Super Bowl. In the past, me make one thing clear; I don't I catch .. Plays of the Week," I it's rightful status as the ·'Team Dallas has shown it cannot win, controversy has only served to have cable. So what deal with know its going to be a good day. of the Nineties'· is banged up, and was even car motivate the Cowboys to prove it, worse things could happen, What am I going to do. For Despite last week's ... 2- 6 loss ried from the field on a stretcher their critics wrong. With Barry the casual sports fan may shout the sake of the aluminous read at Chicago, I'm sticking by the in the Monday night opener. Switzer at the helm, its go ing to back. Howe er, the true sports ers of the Amicus, I will try to Cowboys again this season. Of Finally. last week's game was be up to the team leaders to en fans out there have already let keep up to date and comment on course, rumors of Dallas' de one oft he sloppiest games I ha e courage the rest of the Cowboys out a gasp of horror upon realiz whatever seems to be going on in mise have been flying al l sum seen Dallas play in a long time; to play with the intensity neces ing the words .. 1 don't ha e the world of sports by reading mer with every new piece of bad not a great way to start the sea sary for winning not only in the cable," mean "1 don t ha e the sports pages of whatever news. After last week's debacle, son. If San Francisco and Green regular season. but in the play ES PN. I can't watch newspaper I can get my hands San Fran fans, hoping to once Bay can take advantage of a pos offs, and dare I say, the Super Sportscenter!" That's right. no on. In addition, I will watch as again step out of the CO\vboys sible slow start by Dallas. the Bowl. Keith 0 !berman, no Dan Patrick. much sports on the networks as I shadow in the 90's, have been Cowboys may be left without Thus, iflrvin comes back in None of those cool ESPN com can. I am willing to sacrifice, rejoicing at the prospect of a home-field advantage in the play anywhere near top form, Emitt mercials starring an ensemble and take time out from m very much weaker Dallas team with offs. That's right, Dallas will be and the offensive line and de cast offamous athletes and ESP busy schedule (yes, I hear you which to contend. These fans are in the playoffs. fense stay relatively healthy, and anchors making their acting de laughing) to read and watch joined b, Redskins fans hoping There is some good news, the tandem ofAikman and Sand but with memorable lines like sports. What drives me? Lo e of somebody, anybody, will join however. for the Cowboys. ers continue their great play, the ·'Just pia the game, plumber the game, man, lo e of the game. them in the cellar of the NFL Quarterback Troy Aikman Cowboys will do well again this bo, !" Nothing. Not even that Because this is an opinion standings. Despite what the looked impressive (-l- 37, 192 season. Admittedly, Dallas may funk-a-delic ESPN spin-off The column, my biases are sure to naysayers eager to see Dallas yds . I int.) despite having only not win or even be in the Super Deuce. shine through. Sometimes I will fall, rna, think, one game does one effective receiver. That re Bow I. but I believe the Cowboys So, I am already two steps come right out and tell you what not a season make. cei er, of course, was Deion are playoffbound. Look for San behindbecause1havene erv rit they are, like right now. Football I will concede Dallas has Sanders. Deion put on a great Francisco and Green Bay to con ten a sports column before and I season has started and I am a plenty of problems with which to performance on both sides of the tinue fighting it out with Dallas am without m main source of Cowboys fan. I have been a fan contend. Star wide receiver ball, playing l 07 of 115 plays. for the NFL title. Sorry AFC sports information. Sure there through thick and thin. since the Michael Irvin is serving a five He had nine catches for 87 yards fans. your conference is as irrel are newspapers, magazines, and days of quarterback/punter game drug suspension. Tight-end and I even saw him actually hit evant in the grand scheme of network pregame shows, but it's Danny White (the original Slash; Jay Novacek, Troy Aikman's go somebody. In addition, adver things as the Warner Brothers just not the same. Nothing beats eat your heart out Kordell to guy in many clutch situations, sity is nothing new to this team; Network's primetime line up. Sports Roundup W&M Football Full of Rookies and on Losing Streak; Soccer Strong By Kristan Burch La cock will count on Beyer to help mo cided to take over the coaching defensi e Whipple, and Porch all scored touch FOOTBALL tivate the line as it provides protection for ends for this season. Williams is a native downs fo r W&M. Five minutes later the Returning less than half of its starters quarterback Mike Cook. Cook is the of Norfolk who has been coaching foot Tribe added its fourth touchdown of the from last season, W & M looks to the 1996 only quarterback on W&M's roster who ball and track and field at Norview High third quarter when Cook sent the ball to season as a rebuilding year for its pro has played that position for the Tribe in a School. He was a running back for the wide receiver David Conklin for a 70- gram during which it can integrate its new game, backing-up Byrne last st:.ason . Tribe from 1988 to 1991. Solderitch and yard touchdown. talent with its ten veteran starters. Last With six veteran starters for the Tribe, Williams join Laycock and the rest of the After the Tribe scored 27 unanswered season, the Tribe finished fourth in the the defense will be anchored by free safety coaching staff a Laycock leads the Tribe points. the Golden Knights put seven Yankee Conference with a 7-4 record, Darren Sharper and linebackers Stefon program in his seventeenth year as head points on the board before the close of the beating conference rivals Northeastern, Moody and Jude Waddy. Sharper is a coach. third quarter to set the score at 27-17, ew Hampshire Rhode Island, Villanova, two-time all-American whose skills have The Tribe opened its season against Tribe's advantage. Yet, UCF was not and Richmond. W&M finished the 1995 driven him to lead the Yankee conference Central Florida August 29 when the team willing to give up as its offense caught fire season in 19th placeofthe I-AA rankings. in interceptions for the past two seasons. traveled to Orlando, to play at the Florida in the last quarter in which it scored 22 The Tribe only returns four offensive amed second team all-conference last Citrus Bowl for a Thursday night tele points. W&M opened the fourth quarter players from last season losing fullback season, Moody is another of the Tribe's vised game. There was a crowd of 18,0 13 with a field goal, but the Golden Knights Troy Keen, tailback Derek Fitzgerald, captains. Waddy was named to third team in attendance for the Golden Knights' responded with two quick touchdowns to recei er Terry Hammons, and quarter all-conference last year. He and Moody first game as a Division I-A member. take a 31 -30 lead. back Matt Byrne. Last season, Keen and turned in a total of 12 sacks last season. UCF was able to hold off the persistent The Tribe hit another field goal with Fitzgerald rushed for a total of2008 yards Besides having many new players this Tribe efforts, beating W&M, 39-33. almost seven minutes of game time left to and scored a combined 17 touchdowns. year, the Tribe also has two new coaches The Golden Knights led the Tribe on take a two point advantage, but UCF The Tribe will look to tailbacks Alvin on its staff. Bob Solderitch starts as the scoreboard for the entire first half, scored another touchdown with just I :4 7 Porch and Tony Harris to try and fill the W&M s offensive line coach after coach scoring a field goal in the first quarter and left on the clock. The Tribe had several vacancies left by the graduation of Keen ing for two years at Virginia Militar a touchdown and extra point in the second scoring opportunities before time expired, and Fitzgerald. Academy. He graduated from W&M in quarter.· Although the Tribe was scoreless but was unable to get another touchdown. The Tribe offensive line is grounded 1986 with four varsity letters for t)le job for the first ha lf, it came charging out of The Tribe returned to action Sept. 7 \Vhen by all-American Josh Beyer who returns he did on the football field as a center. He the gates after intermission, scoring 27 it played Rhode Island at Meade Stadium to the offensi e line as one of the three pre iously was a graduate assistant for points in the third quarter. The first three in Kingston, R.I. The first home game for captains on the team. Beyer played right the Tribe from 1986 to 1990. Alan Wil touchdowns came in a span of less than the Tribe is against VMI Sept. 14 . guard last year but will move to left tackle liams joins the Tribe staff as the running five minutes on the game clock as wideout for the 1996 season. Head Coach Jimmye backs' coach after Matt Kelchner de- Billy Commons, wide receiver Josh See ROUND UP on 19 Monday; September 9, 1996 THE AMicus CURIAE 19 Amicus computer-like rankings 2L's Yet To Beat By Master-Nate Green other first round match-up pitted 3Ls our success proved to benefit X-Large as mendous 12 inning marathon win over On Saturday, the stormy weather which Occum s Beast against a lL team, which Whipkey went 5-5 with a homerun and Occum s Beast. Strong defense from Ray threatened to ruin the weekend faded continued to show a disheartening lack of Dickey, well he was just Dickey. X Ray Ray Raya along with helped propel away, as did all hopes of derailing the respect for its elders, 3 Ls Swallow. With Large continued to get all the offense they Haden to the win I 0-6. softball locomotion that is the 2L Class! out the administrative assistance this lL needed from the long ball as Ed I don t In the championship game X-Large The sun was shinning brightly as five team did not fair as well, losing 12-5. even like to play Haughey, and Ken May appeared to have things easily in hand as teams, 2 from the 1L class and 3 from the As the second round began, the key be-heiu better back up both hit multiple Haughey and Mayheiu continued their 3L class, attempted to dethrone the reign game proved to be AI Iafrate providing homers. But the star of the game was Jeff impressive hitting, both launching first ing softball champions from last year in the first test for X-Large Please. Early cant hit this Almeida who threw a five hit inning homeruns. However, after getting this year s Law School Softball Tourna indications were that it would be a tight shut out against his own team. Unfortu their catcher off the goal post, Haden ment. The champions, fearing compla contest as both teams used the short right nately the game ended in tragedy as um struck back in the bottom of the first on a cency, shook things up from the get-go by field porch to score early runs. For X pire and all around good guy Christian tremendous blast from Almeida with Ray a changing their name. What was The Large Jim McMahonford Man lead the Mastandrea was struck by an errant throw, already on board. The game remained Legal Briefs became X-Large Please. power surge while Brent I m expecting causing massive swelling. The game was close with outstanding defensive plays Not much of an improvement, but an royalties Haden went deep for AI. But as called before more ankles were bruised. from both sides. The shortstop combina improvement none the less. the long-balls continued to mount up for Now in the losers bracket, Brent Haden tion of Almeida and Raya made diving With favorites X-large, and 3L team X-Large, only Justinside Gillmore was was forced to contend with 2Ls Suck stabs on two X-Large line drives. Joe Brent Haden pulling byes in the first able to connect for AI. Final score 15-3. before getting a chance to go head to head Daddy Kiefer returned the favor by mak round, the early morning games came In the losers bracket, the two 1L teams with fellow classmates AI Iafrate. With ing the play of the day for X-Large on a down to two cross class battles. AI Iafrate met to decide once and for all if the 2Ls new found power, Haden was able to take smash up the middle. By the seventh & the Players To Be Named Later, Suck, or if the 3Ls Swallow. Early on is a commanding lead over the 1Ls. Alex inning X-Large led by only 4 runs, a lead representing the 3Ls, coming up against was a defensive battle as Dave Hitchens a doing it with Stiles went extremely deep which was quickly cut in halfby.another the up-start 2Ls Suck, representing the ride and Danny Vaughn but not forgotten for Haden and Kenny Green-eggs and two run blast by Almeida. However, 1Ls . Short players, 2Ls Suck were forced both made outstanding plays for their span provided some outstanding glove Haden couldn t muster any more. Final to make due as Laura Don t Sull-her short respective teams. As the game moved on work which held 2Ls Suck at bay. Jeff score 9-7. ivan lead AI to an early lead. But the Robert no Worst for wear was able to shiver me Timmers, Que Sera Sara Hirsh, With two law school championships plucky 1 Ls would not go quietly as they provide enough offense for Suck to win a and Quinton time Roberts had outstand under their belt, X-Large now goes on to rallied to keep the game tight. The young close one, 7-4. ing games for 2Ls Suck but it just wasn t attempt to take the intramural title, then sters showed not only heart, but an incred Back in the winners bracket, X-Large enough as Haden moved on to face AI. onto UVA in the fa!J for their annual ible ability to suck-up as they not only moved on to its next test as they faced With a trip to the championship on the nation-wide tournament. They also have started Mean Dean Krattenmaker, but put Brent Haden, the team not the man. The line, the two 3L teams battled it out. a chance to be the first team to win thiee him at the top of the line-up. Exams are pre-season trade which sent 2L Steve I Haden looked strong as they showed they championships as coach Maqui-p on prac anonymous guys. In the end AI was just know I had a shirt when I got here Dickey were ready for a rematch with X-Large, ticing Parkerson has already begun sched to strong as they pulled it out 15-13. The to team Haden for 3L Lynn Whipkey to while AI showed the effects of the tre- uling practices for next year. ROUND UP from 18 OTHER SPORTS The men's soccer team won its first game oftheregular season, downing North Carolina, 4-0, at Busch Field. UNC was ranked No.l5 when it was shut-out by the CROSSW RD® Crossword Tribe Aug. 31 . Senior Waughn Hughes Edited by Stan Chess scored the first goal of the season for the Puzzle Created by Fred Piscop ACROSS 42 Crow homes 4 BrontA's 35 Atistode Tribe just under three minutes into the 1 Dress to lhe 43 Confront the governess Conrefr¥1/ating game. A second half goal came off a nines ump 5 Province of the_ 6 Andy Capp's 44 Suffix wilh Soulh Africa Homer direct kick by defenseman Michael Botta wife krypton 6 Draw strength 37 Letters of and midfielder Wade Barrett also found g Hand-dyed 45 Tony M.Jsante from obligation fabric TV series 7 Smallvile's 38 Timetable, the net. 14 From Russia 47 Brake part Lang slangliy The women s soccer team also domi WilhLollfl 51 Dan OJayle, 8 Swing lhe bat 39 Elaborate actress once more shindig nated its opening game of the season as it 15 Oaire, Wis. 54 Duct effectively 40 Go~ toumey crushed American, 8-0, at Barksdale Field. 16 From lhe 57 O.T. book 9 SquaDs 41 Like a same mold 58 Magazine lor 1 0 Hang-gliding, chicken The newcomers to the Tribe team imme 17 Flat jailbirds? perhaps 42 ·-the diately took control of the offense, scor 19 Part of NOW 61 • Street 11 Conway of season .. ." 20 Magazine lor Blues• McHale's 46 The Beaver ing six ofW&M s eighth goals. 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