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This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School History and Publications at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Res Gestae by an authorized administrator of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Interview Preparations The annual fall ritual is about to begin, so we bring you-- From the Placement Office: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL August 31, 1977 Welcome back! On-campus in­ terviewing is just two weeks awav and it looks like a very busy season. Professor Harry T. Edwards A revised tentative list should bt:. available within the next few days. Return to Michigan Announced You will note that many interview­ ers will be coming in late Novem­ This summer it was announced Edwards is co-author of two ber and early December and I urge that Prof. Harry T. Edwards will be casebooks, Labor Relations Law in you not to overlook them when you rejoining the faculty this year. the Public Sector (with Smith and are deciding which employers to After spending the past two years Clark), 1974, and Lawyer As A interview. Their late arrival on at Harvard (first as a visiting Negotiator (with White), 1970. campus in no way reflects the professor and last year on their Of more importance to many quality of the firm, so please give them careful attention. faculty), Prof. Edwards is return­ students is Prof. Edwards' reputa­ ing to Ann Arbor to continue work General Placement meetings will tion for his interesting and motiva­ be held as follows on Sept. 1 in on his third book, which is about ting classroom style. The Winter room 100: the law of education. He will 1971 Michigan Law Critique (by 3rd Year Students--3:30 resume teaching duties in the fall the Law School Student Senate) 2nd Year Students--4:30 of 1978. used these words to describe Prof. If you have questions, problems,. Prof. Edwards graduated from Edwards' Labor Law II course: need help with your resume -

Michigan in 1965, when he receiv­ I I An outstanding feature of the please come see us! ed a J.D. with distinction. While course was the professor's keen here he was an associate editor of enthusiasm for the subject and his INSIDE THE RES GESTAE the Law Review and a member of ability to stimulate independent Crusader Rabbit returns with re­ Order of the Coif. thought. Thus, due to an invigora­ ports from law students on how Before joining the Michigan ting professor, students felt the they spent the summer Page 2 faculty in 1970, Prof. Edwards course provided effective, practical worked for five years as a member insight into labor law." This summer's selection of records is examined Page 5 of the Chicago firm of Seyfarth, The courses that Prof. Edwards Shaw, Fairweather, & Geraldson will teach after completing his year Finally, we try to answer that old where he represented management away from the classroom will be in interests in labor board proceed­ Contracts question, "What is the areas of Labor Law, Labor Law Chicken?" Page 6 ings or contract negotiations. At in the Public Sector, Law of Educa­ the same time, he was director of tion, and the Lawyer as Negotiator. With the start of school, Hutchins' the Illinois division of the American Heroes return Page 3 Civil Liberties Union and worked with other legal aid agencies. He From the Res Gastae: In order to help people who will be having their resumes printed, the Res Gestae has also helped draft one of the first conducted an informal survey of the offset printing establishments in the downtown and fair housing ordinances in Illinois. campus areas. This list should give you an idea of the prices, though they are estimates For the past year, Prof. Edwards and subject to change. Each shop was asked how much it would cost to print 50 copies of a two page resume, and then how much a picture would add to that cost. You should has served as Secretary of the request to see a sample of their work before making your decision. Cost can be cut at American Bar Association's Labor some printers by having your picture matted at another shop (for about $5.00). Relations Section. In addition, he is Remember it is not necessary to spend a great deal of money for printing a good resume. on the Board of Governors of and 50 Copies of Two Page Resume w/o photo w/photo serves as Program Chairman for the National Academy of Arbitra­ Ann Arbor Task, 201 N. 4th Ave. $4.70 $19.70 Arbor Instant Printing, 214 S. 4th Ave. $4.40 $12.65 tors. He is Chairman of the The Copy Mill, 211 B S. State $6.00 (1) $11.00 Association of American Law Copyquick, 1217 S. University $3.50 Schools' Minority Groups Section. Goetzcraft Printer, 307 N, Main $23:oo (2) $27 .00 (2) lnsta Print, 221 S. Main $7.00 $12-$17 Prof. Edwards is the American Kolossos Printing, 310 E. Washington $12.00 $25.00 (2) Arbitration Association arbitrator Parkman Printing, 157 E. Hoover $11 .30 $30.30 for U.S. Steel and the Steelworkers Phoenix Printing, 213 N. Main $13 .00 (1) $28 .00 Speed-A-Print, 717 N. University $6.90 $11.90 and also arbitrator for T.W.A. & the Pilots Association. In addition (1) Estimate for 50 copies, usually require 100 minimum . to the book he is working on, Prof. (2) This is for 100 copies minimum. Page 2 1Rts <&rstnt eRUSADBI0 RABBIviola­ typeset format is that people will 'tell all about how they spent their summer vacations: tions were occuring. After contin­ feel that as a 'newspaper' we wi11 ually receiving nothing but back Rich D. Sires - I worked for only want staff prepared copy. That rubs, we sued them for false couldn't be further from the truth Loophole, Shelter, and DeDuction, advertising. since most of us are trying to get researching the fascinating ramifi­ out of this school as quickly as cations of the capital gains tax as Saul E. Darrity - I worked for the possible and don't have time to fill applied to Alaskan land swindles. I UAW filing unfair labor practice this paper week after week. noted that through the overassess­ charges against narrow-minded, Since I brought the subject of ment of pre-purchase value and Southern auto plant owners who staff up, I would like to say we are non-neg I igent underreporting of refused to recognize the basic right in great need of more people to of American workers workers to help spread the load. If you like to sale price, a firm could show a loss on every transaction, while making organize, and who hired scab labor write or draw (even occasionally), instead. In the midst of our most please stop by our office. Other a net profit because of their · pressing case, we experienced a important jobs we have available volume. After 10 weeks of crypto­ are for people to work on layout graphic study, I succeeded in wildcat walkout by our secretarial (and alayout editor). Lastly, as you translating one whole section of the staff, which threatened to imperil can see by looking through this IRS code into English. the entire project. I sure was glad I could type 80 words per minute, ed ition, we can use a photogra­ Gus Gazzler - I worked for General and help out during the crisis, and pher. If you have these or any other Motors in the public misinforma­ skills that you think can help (or at so was the whole office. least not hinder) us, stop by. Our tion section in Washington, D.C., office is 102A Legal Research. helping our lobbyists persuade Rip M. Auff - I worked for Wall, With the start of school, the Congress that pollution and (econ­ Street, Whyte, Collar, and Crymes student-faculty colloquium will be omic) health go hand-in-hand. investigating securities and secur­ returning and we encourage you to After securing our fourth extension ing investigators. I learned how to participate. The rules are-the same of the 1970 Clean Air Act stan­ respond in a non-responsive way to as last year. Questions may be dards, we filed suit to recall interrogatories, and how best to directed to one or more faculty 500,000 copies of the children's get change for a $100 bill. I also members then submitted to the book ''The Little Engine That wrote a paper documenting the R.G. We will generally screen all Could," to be replaced by "The rational behind the theory that if inquiries and then forward them to Big Engine that Couldn't Unless you are a building contractor who the appropriate faculty member(s). the Government Relaxed Its Bur­ Our purpose in screening is only to won't deal with a subcontractor avoid repeated questions and total densome and Unreasonable Res­ unless he gives you money, a irrelevancies. trictions Upon Private Enterprise." Prosecutor will say that that's a We- anticipate .that many ques­ Sue M. Noww - I worked for Hertz, kickback; but that if you are a tions will be academic, but not of Payne, Whippe, and Lash, a small banking official who won't deal the classroom genre. The field of law firm in Slippery Rock which with a bank unless they loan you possible inquiry, however, is up to handled almost exclusively plain­ money, a President will say that you. It should be understood that he's proud of you. there are limits to a professor's tiff's tort work. The first half of the time. To encourage faculty partici­ summer, I learned the symptoms of Freida Peoples - I worked for pation we have imposed the 25 medically disabling conditions Washtenaw County Legal Aid necessary restraint that answers be which could not be detected doing a variety of things. I got brief. A response may require a through X-rays or conventional lab divorces for 3 clients, return of few paragraphs or simply a refer­ tests. The second half of the security deposits for 6 clients, and ence to an article or court opinion. summer, I demonstrated these unemployment compensation for 4 We ask that you keep this in mind symptoms to clients who were clients; I defended 2 clients when formulating questions. preparing for medfcal examina­ against repossessions and 5 clients Forms are available outside our office in the library basement. Fill tions or court testimony. against criminal misdemeanors. Then the second day .... it out and slip your question under Phil I. Stein - I worked for the our door. Bob Brandenburg Poduck County Prosecutor's Office [See SUMMER, page 3.] HUT CHIN'S HEROES Page 3 WHL TH£~ ... Ul"\ • , , fY/. .. ,

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'My Summer' JUNIOR CLERK APPLICATIONS CAMPBELL COMPETITION [Continued from page 2.] AWARDS Kent Pardon- I worked for Wright, Applications for Case Club Junior Campbell Competition awards Wyng, Laww, and Order defending Clerkships are available in 318 from last spring may be picked up a man who was unfairly charged, Hutchins. Due Sept. 6. in Room 318 Hutchines. ridiculed and pre-judged in the ' press, and received a sham of a ' mockery of a trial. We made State St. Barb~r Shop : n repeated efforts to secure judicial :c review of his outrageous convic­ :-t !)> tion, and to overturn his prison :r sentence. When the appeals court ' ~ (") Gl 0 let leak certain confidential conver­ c 0 "'0 sations, we·· felt sure that we would 0 0 :::1 z succeed. Unfortunately, John Mit­ m chell sti II went to jai I. 0 r ' Dee Layem - I worked for IBM 2 m : defending them against the Gov­ - ernment's anti-trust suit. I wrote a 155 page memorandum on why the '------company could not respond to the Governement's request to produce documents until they defined all of their technical terms such as ,------, "pu nchcard," "electricity," and " computer". I also wrote a paper on " 18Y2 Minute Gaps in Tapes and How to Create Them." ! Follett$ ! Hi Tymes - I worked for my Michigan Book Store ''family'' doing research into crim­ ! ! inal law aspects of the pharmaceu­ i 32 2-s. State St. i tical industry. This involved num­ erous trips into desolate areas of the American Southwest in small I WE NOW CARRY LAW DICTIONARIES : private planes, usually at night. ALL LAW TEXTBOOKS Occasional quality control experi­ t t ments with the merchandise were t GILBERTS NUTSHELLS t necessary, for which I was an eager and willing volunteer: I will be t BLACKSTONE SUMMARIES t taking my 3rd year at U-M Law by correspondence because of certain I HORNBOOKS : restrictions placed upon my mobil­ ity by some misguided individuals. L------t Page 4

Books • Page 5 mediocre studio album "Life In the music is moody and haunting. His MUSIC Air Age". voice is similar to Tim Hardin's and by Timothy Sawyer Knowlton Sex Pistols-- ''God Save the even more like John Martyn's. Queen". This 45, which has been Drake's music is ethereal. Each I am a record junkie. In the past banned by the BBC and all of Great song creates a slightly different ten years I have probably traded, Britain's independent stations, has atmosphere. The works range from sold, or given away more records resulted in a savage attack on two the romantic to the desolate. I play than most people will ever own in of the Sex Pistols. It has also made both "Bryter Layter" and the their lives. One summer my mother it impossible for almost any earlier Antilles reissue, "Five traveled to Connecticut to visit my "punk" band to get government Leaves Left", frequently. I find grandmother. She left me enough permission to play a public concert. that my emotional reaction to each money to buy food for a ten day Musically the record reminds one individual song changes with each period. I spent most of the money · of the early Who. Although the Sex listening. This is definitely not on records. I ate almost nothing for Pistols are not as technically background or party music. The three days and became quite Ill. I proficient as the Who, they are by highly respected musicians who don't regret the choice. It came as no means incompetent. Ultimately, play on this album include John a personal shock, then, wheo I the Who's "My Generation" was Gale, Richard Thompson, Dave considered that I had purchased just a bunch of kids blowing off Pegg, Dave Mattacks, and Roy only five or six records in the last steam. "God Save the Queen" is Warleigh. four months. Furthermore I realiz­ just as angry, but it is also sarcastic Also recommended: June Tabor ed that I really didn't care to own and manifests a more complete & Maddy Prior--" Silly Sisters". any of the other current releases. alienation. It is a perfect rock (Excellent folk music). Peter Tosh-­ What this all leads up to is my single--high energy, righteous in­ "Equal Rights". (The only good selection of the best releases in the dignation, catharsis and all. reggae album released in the U.S. dry summer of '77. Nick Drake--"Bryter Layter". this summer). Be Bop Deluxe--"Live In the Air Nick Drake died in October 1974. Age". I first became aware of this His death was caused by a drug band's existence in the spring of overdose of a prescribed anti-de­ last year. Be Bop Deluxe was Patti pressant. Nobody really knows Smith's warm-up act for her whether his death was suicide or Detroit concert. I actually preferred accident. "Bryter Layter" was re­ Be Bop Deluxe's set. The band is corded in 1968 and 1969. It was fronted by Bill Nelson whom I released in 1971 in a different form consider to be the current great and reissued this year on the rock guitarist. like Robin Trower, budget label, Antilles. "Bryter Nelson is heavily influenced by the Layter" is an accoustic album. It is late Jimi Hendrix. Unlike Trower, also a successful fusion of jazz, Nelson's guitar work has gone classical, and rock forms. Drake's beyond mere imitation of the master. Nelson, who writes all the band's material, is also an excep­ tional lyricist and a good lyricist in a guitar oriented band is something of a rarity. His metaphor is unusual and his imagery is stunning. "live In the Air Age" consists of an L.P. and an E.P. The inclusion of the E.P. seems to be an attempt to justify the $7.99 list price. One side of the E.P. consists of the filler THIS AD piece "Shine". The album contains recordings of every song Be Bop INCLUDES Deluxe has ever hoped would increase their popularity in the EVERYTHING U.S. and two previously unreleased tunes. The selections include a lot YOU NEED TO ORDER of nice guitar riffs. The live AREAL PIZZA recordings are, for the most part, our number nearly identical to their studio counterparts. Some will object to 665-4517 this but I prefer this album to the numerous live albums which de­ 665-4518 monstrate that all too many bands our address in Ann Arbor are not competent to produce their studio music live. Caveat emptor: 810 &814 S.State Do not confuse this L.P. with the Page 6

WHAT IS A CHICKEN? We are reprinting this piem from The Woodsack, the University of San Diego Law School paper, as a The Plaintiff's sought to explain chickens in German. public service for first year students starting "Huhns" sneered the judge, "I remember those Contracts. They should cut this out and keep it for vermin." future reference. For the rest of you, we hope this will In the courtroom hung a flag, blue, white and red, bring back fond memories. ''Your turn, B,N.S.," was all Firendly said. "Fair is fowl and fowl is fair," Defendants' attorney said from his chair. THE ISSUE IS: Then his voice rose to the screech of a vulture, "I call the U.S. Department of Agriculture!" What Is Chicken?

John Wayne met the "Huhns" in the courtroom that day, [Frigaliment Importing Co. v. B.N.S. International And of course the plaintiffs lost, for it happens that Sales Corp., 190 F. Supp. 116 [1960] way. Now Hollywood plans a movie, the lead not to John Wayne. Instead the big bird goes to Shirley Maclaine. Come ye one and come ye all To the U.S. District Court Chicken Brawl.

1977-78 CASE CLUB MERIT CERTIFICATES Defendant B. N .S. was new in the t rade Of selling its poultry when offers were made Case Club Merit Certificates not picked up last spring When Stovicek suggested that the defendants export, are available in Room 318 Hutchins. B.N.S. never imagined they'd end up in court. Fragaliment wanted chickens, tons and tons, And B.N.S. promised they had just the ones. Two contracts were signed in terms less than frantic To shi p all those birds across the Atlantic.

The plaintiffs complained when to their chagrin ..... If the words ore They found out what shape the old birds were in. "Fowl isn't fair," Frigaliment frowned, LATIN and the course "Those birds look to be on their second time 'round," I "Do you want them or not?" B.N.S. quickly queried. "Okay," said the Swiss, while their salellmen is GREEK ...... scurried. B.N.S. shipped on from the ports of Uncle Sam. The Frigaliment changed its mind in old Rotterdam. maybe we con help

HORNBOOKS The cou rtroom was packed with experts in their field. GILBERT LAW SUMMARIES "Smells I ike a hen-house," one spectator squealed. CASENOTE LEGAL BRIEFS Testimony was heard on the concept of ch icken , Then Judge Friendly declared with his lips-a-lickin' NUTSHELLS "Where's Colonel Saunders, he's the only one SMITH'S REVIEWS missing?" The gavel fell twice to silence the hissing. BURBY LAW REFRESHERS NACRELU BAR REVIEWS

The plaintiffs proceeded and with Continental thinking • Convinced old Friendly they'd surely been drinking. 769-7940 ~ Somehow the judge saw apples in their case, intheM ichiganUnion ~ But quickly moved on when one missed his face. BankAmericard accepted woe'