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Vol. IV, No. 12 Price: 20 cents Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. November 19, 1969 Chicago 8 Conspirator 3 GULC Students Arrested At The OE O Speaks To Overflow Crowd by Kenneth F. Carobus by Allen J. Kruger not only young members of the Several Georgetown law students On Saturday November 8, George Washington community but also were arrested recently by D.C. au town Law Center was host to stu newspaper and television reporters. thorities on the charge of unlawful entry. The arrests occurred in the dent and professional leaders iden Mr. Leftcourt, who was one of the tified with the new radical left. The attorneys cited for contempt at the late afternoon of Friday, November days activities included speeches Chicago 8 conspiracy trial, devoted 7 and embraced a total of thirty- five citizens including, along with by Rennie Davis and Jerald Left- his comments to the duties of the the GULC figures, Howard law stu court, followed by workshops last law schools and their students im dents and former Reginald Heber ing the entire day. The workshops ploring them to affect the status centered around such topics as quo. He stated that the law schools Smith Fellows. Congress, Federal Agencies, Police, are not doing enough and that the The group was detained by the and College and High School re lawyer and the law student should police, while at the headquarters pression. Among the leaders of lead the change against the Ad of the Office of Economic Oppor these discussions were: Karl Hess, ministration and its repression. He tunity. The OEO visit was made former speech writer for Barry also commented on Julius Hoffman, with the purpose of obtaining in Goldwater, who seemingly has done the Chicago trial judge, picturing — Photo by Latham formation concerning the Reginald an idealogical reverse and now be him as a government tool merely Heber Smith Community Fellow come an outspoken leader of the carrying out specific policies form ship Program. The R.H.S. Fellow new left; Gary Greenberg, former ulated by the Administration in Huge War Protest ship is a summer school program Civil Rights Attorney who was re power. Mr. Leftcourt further said for law graduates involved in cently forced to resign by Jerris that the three branches of Amer neighborhood legal services with Leonard, head of the Civil Rights ican government were not repre principal focus on Poverty Law. Division of the Department of Jus sentative of the people and, there Fills Washington Last year, the program was held tice; and Andrew Kopkind, a well fore, contrary to President Nixon’s at the University of Pennsylvania known writer for Ramparts. statements, policy “must be made in by Tuck Miller other gentleman, challenging the which, however, declined further the streets.” The largest anti-war protest in use of the names of the war dead participation. Howard University Law Students in Vanguard Rennie Davis, one of the defend the history of the United States en was told by one girl that she was thereupon offered its facilities for Messrs. Leftcourt and Davis ants in the conspiracy proceedings, gulfed Washington last weekend. carrying the name of her brother. the current year but encountered spoke to standing room only followed Mr. Leftcourt and his The majority of participants in this The March Against Death con a two month lapse without answer crowds, at John Carroll Audi speech dealt basically with the trial mass demonstration against Amer tinued for forty hours and was the from OEO. It was at this point torium, and their speeches attracted Continued on Page 6 ican policy in Vietnam appeared to most serious and dedicated part of that the student group visited the be white, middle-class, and under the weekend protest. The attitude OEO to determine the status of thirty, although many older people of the marchers was quiet, polite, the Howard application. who, as they put it, did not want and determined, and many wore The students met and talked to Law Weekly Poll Outcome to be mistaken for part of Presi tags saying, “Keep the March Mr. Terry Lenzner, Director of dent Nixon’s “silent majority” Peaceful”. This peacefulness was the OEO Legal Sources Program, joined the dissenters. The fears reflected in the mutual respect whose office had the authority to Has Mixed Interpretations that the March would turn into a shown by the marchers and the po select the educational institution re general riot never materialized and, licemen along the route. sponsible for the R.H.S. Fellow by Lucius Rivers poorly, more in fact than felt it despite some violence at the end Violent Confrontation ship activities. Lenzner informed of the demonstration Saturday, the Wringing his hands, Smith points was doing well or excellently. At On Friday night, as marchers the group that any decision as to best, students feel it’s doing only Mobilization leaders were more the Howard grant was “out of his to the bucket. “We’re in trouble— than satisfied with the peaceful were still peacefully filing past the it’s half empty!” Complacently, a satisfactory job, hardly a clear White House, there was a violent hands.” vote of confidence.” solidarity shown by the marchers. Jones replies, “Everything’s fine. However, people seemed less opti confrontation between the more The group was then confronted militant factions of the SDS and the Remember, it’s half full.” In inter Satisfactory Means Approval mistic about the effect of their pro by the Assistant General Counsel viewing John Kolojeski and George police at DuPont Circle. A sched for OEO who informed them that K: “True, what we’ve been doing test on the President’s Vietnam Taft concerning the Law Weekly’s uled rally had drawn not only the they would have to leave or be does have shades of liberalism or policy. SBA opinion poll, this writer was “Mad Dogs”, the “Crazies", and liable for unlawful entry. The dele radicalism, but this poll clearly March Against Death impressed by how the results the “Weathermen”, but many of gation protested the announcement shows student approval. ‘Satisfac “clearly supported our position.” The protest began Thursday eve the more moderate protestors and on the grounds that they were not tory,’ for all its connotations, still Shades of gray. ning when the first of 45,000 per curious passers-by. After speeches interfering with the agency’s oper means ‘approval.’ The addition of sons began the March Against condemning the War and the Amer ations, the building was public and Taking the results on a point by another, milder disapproving cate Death, which started at Arlington ican system generally, it was an point basis: gory might have been helpful, but it they were in a conference room Cemetery, snaked past the White nounced that the rally would pro that was not otherwise scheduled would have taken votes only from Poll question No. 1: Personal House, and proceeded down Penn ceed to march up Massachusetts for use. Despite the groups objec the ‘poor’ category, not the ‘satis political philosophy — Kolojeski: sylvania Avenue to the Capitol. Avenue to the South Vietnamese tions they were subsequently ar factory’ or better.” “Clearly a majority of those willing Each marcher carried the name of embassy. The organizers had ob rested and detained for six hours. to get involved at the Law Center a casuality of the Vietnam conflict, tained no permit to march, how Politics is Immaterial are liberal or radical. I won last and as the protestors passed by ever, and the police set up a line Any official decision regarding year by about the same margin as Number 3: SBA participation in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, they about eight blocks from the build prosecution of the charges has been this poll indicates exists between socio-economic policies — K: shouted out the name on their plac ing. They warned the demonstra postponed by the authorities until liberal-radical and conservative- “Clearly a majority approves of our ard toward a White House made tors to disband, and when they did next week; however, if the charges moderate, and the SBA reflects the stand. Are we to confine ourselves invisible by an arc light which had not, tear gas*was fired. Massachu are pressed, GULC Professor, John views of that majority.” Taft: “In to the student lounge and the water been placed on the front lawn. setts Avenue was then quickly Murphy, has offered to defend the fountain? I would like to have seen this question, where students were Then, in front of the Capitol the scaled off as the SDS factions and three Georgetown law students another category to give students grading themselves, one must ask, names of the war dead were placed others fled back to DuPont Circle. involved. ‘Where does liberal start and mod a chance to say if they believe the in wooden coffins, which Mobiliza The confrontation was not over, erate stop?’ I doubt question 1 SBA should engage in discussion of tion leaders later unsuccessfully however, as the police used more really had much influence on 2 and conservative-moderate politics as tried to present to the President. tear gas to drive the challenging 3.” well. This would have certainly re There was little evidence of op and the curious away from the INSIDE Poll question No. 2: SBA’s gen moved many votes from the B position to the March. A business troubled area. Interspersed among Juris ...... Page 3 (stick to the Law Center) cate eral performance to date—T: man from Ohio was impressed but the wailing police sirens were the Nolo ...... Page 4 gory.” T: “The results here were chants of the SDS groups, “Fight “More than a third of the respond pointed out that for him withdrawal MOBE Pictures ...... Page 5 ents felt that the SBA was doing Continued on Page 4 was tantamount to surrender. An Continued on Page 5 Page Two Georgetown Law Weekly November 19, 1969 id e s t... CAPTAIN AMERICA “My Fair Spiro T. Agnew Lounge”
The latest sortie of Spiro T. Agnew into the national arena will by Steve Merrill undoubtedly add additional converts to the proposition that the The voice of a Student Body As Vice-President should be gagged. To this writer, such a proposition sociation representative was barely audible above the cat-calls as he is dangerous and counterproductive. To gag any man, even Spiro, tried to explain to a group of first- is to assure that in the future men of stature and with productive year students that they must clean things to say will also be gagged. up their trash in the student lounge. Maybe there was something more to the taunts than the typical first This is the lesson of both the McCarthy era and the tradition year student reaction to authority. that the Vice-President should be seen and not heard. Thus many Perhaps, beneath the frivolity, one- hundred-and twenty law students who view with alarm the continued lifelessness and stagnation of were trying to say something worth the State and Defense Departments should realize that much of this hearing. malaise is due to the continued fear of many involved therein that Food for Thought imaginative speech on their part wilt destine their demise. Those It is encouraging, however, to note that there has been some who view with alarm the continued disintegration of Hubert recognition of the conditions which Humphrey, leader of the liberal movement in this country for exist in the “pit” which is rather twenty years, into irrelevancy should consider that this demise euphemistically referred to as the “lounge”. Some students have began with his self-imposed reluctance to speak for himself, as noted that picking up trash in a a man, on the war in Vietnam while he was Vice-President. room that looks like a dump—even when it’s clean—is of nominal value. That is certainly food for But to assure every man the right to express his views on what thought. ever strikes his fancy is also to assure criticism and reflection by Haiu (ftruter $nbltratuuti5 I dreamt the other night that others on this expression. Reaction to the rational thoughts of GULC offered the lounge to a num Editor-in-Chief ...... Michael D. Gragert ber of students who were visiting most speakers will take the form of rational thoughts and dialogue. Business Editor ...... Stephen H. Gore the city to take part in the Mobili But how docs one react to the irrational tirades of Spiro? Tirades, Distribution Editor ...... Allen J. Kruger zation demonstrations. The march ers eagerly accepted—that is, until of one’s own, will only give dignity and substance to what Spiro they saw the lounge. They then is saying. (£eurgrtmmt IGaui ItU'rkUj Stmstmt informed the school that they would rather take their chances A possible alternative reaction is suggested by a crowd control EDITORIAL BOARD sleeping on the streets. I was dreaming, wasn’t I? and anti-violence technique explained to the marshals for the No Managing Editor ...... Charles N. Goldman Associate Editors .... Mary E. McGushin, Martin F. McKernan, Jr. Persistant Rumor vember 15 Moratorium. It was suggested that a successful reaction Feature Editor...... Robert G. Koen A persistent rumor among visit ors is that a first-year student to an “outside agitator” who is throwing bricks at the crowd is to Associate Feature Editor ...... Jo Gramling have a sexy female marshal run up to this individual, throw her yawned in the lounge recently and News Editors ...... Kenneth F. Carobus, Barry Mayefsky swallowed chips of paint that fell arms around him, and begin to kiss him in a sensual manner. It Production Editor ...... Blair Lee IV into his mouth from the ceiling. has worked in the past, the marshals were told, because an indi The student, it is said, is presently recovering from lead poisoning in vidual loaded with hate does not know how to react to love. Administrative Assistant ...... D'ana Johnson Photography Editor ...... Thomas Latham the Medical Center. I am pleased to report that there is no truth to So why not start a national drive to “Love Spiro Agnew”? Cartoonist Blair Lee, IV this rumor—yet! Staff Features: Steve Duvorvic, W. A. Helvestine, D’ana Something should certainly be Buttons could be issued with the latest “Spiroism”. A red, white Johnson, Belford Lawson, HI, Henry Plog, Jr., William done to eliminate the odor which and blue book entitled “The Sayings of Vice-President Agnew” Schatz; News: Marylou Giacomuzzi, Derek Hodge, Tuck greets students they they enter the could be printed and memorized. Cadres (excuse the expression) Miller, John T. Peak, Michael Reardon, Lucius Rivers, front (and only!) door. Perhaps Raphael Perl, Alan B. Soschin; Phootgraphy: Thomas Maser; the odor is a result of the substance of “effete intellectuals” could be organized to write fan-mail to the Production: Scott Blaze. Frank Lacey, Richard W. Schulz. used to wash the floor each day. If Vice-President and attend all of his rallies. Perhaps even a “Thank- The Georgetown Law Weekly is published twenty-four times a year. The views that smell is the price of cleanli expressed herein are those of the newspaper or its by-hned reporters and do not ness, it is little wonder that some You Spiro” day could be arranged. I myself would be willing to necessarily reflect those of the student body, administration or faculty unless other wise specifically stated. people prefer filth. lend my body to the cause by serving as a subject for those young Mailing address: 506 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001. Tele. 783-3912. Seating Capacity ladies wishing to learn how to kiss in a sensual manner. Until the new law center is com pleted, or until the lounge is con It will, of course, not be easy to show affection for Spiro T. Letters To The Editor demned by the Health Department, an improvement in the seating ca Agnew. But it is a hell of a lot better alternative than seeing Dear Sir: problems encountered by college coaches. pacity might be tried. A number friends, ideas and people we respect being showered with bricks. The standard of reporting accur- of folding chairs would eliminate Traffic Pollution r w r acy maintained by the Law Weekly the necessity of students’ sitting on hit a new low last week. Although Miss Giacomuzzi reported that. tables—and I understand that these the news items were of general top “When plans for the Bridge were are available from the Red Cross ical interest to the student body, announced, ;ome District citizens for all disaster areas. it is suggested that your reporters became aroused over potential un But what’s all the fuss about? should check the truth of their al wanted traffic, air pollution, (etc.).” It’s just a place where students go legations more thoroughly. Such In response to this allegation it to eat—or is it? Maybe the facil NOTICE action would enhance the quality should be noted that an efficient ities in the lounge and the facilities of the Law Weekly as well as the freeway system, planned with the in the library have something in Earn transcript credit! Be a BMOC! Win fame and/or noto reporters’ potential for the legal needs and desires of the community common. I agree that it is easier riety! Hie LAW WEEKLY needs three reporters, one layout profession, a profession which re in mind, takes through-traffic off of to criticize than to produce viable designer and one assistant distribution editor. Sign up now for lies heavily on truth and accuracy city streets and decreases traffic alternatives to the present problems an interview for next semester! in factual presentations. problems for the commuter and facing the school. However, before Two articles in point are those resident as well as the interstate student solutions came forth criti on the construction of the Three motorist. In conjunction with this cism, directed at lethargy, must suf Sisters Bridge and on the racial Continued on Page 4 fice. Have a good lunch. November 19, 1969 Georgetown Law Weekly Page Three
rapidity. We have even observed ject of a social policy judgment, the Emotion State of Women these same shifts within the tiny ALI proposal disregards the right Faced with Unwanted Pregnancy microcosm of our own Committee. of a woman to control her own As psychiatrists, we have been In the early days of our delibera life.” We w'ere also seriously deeply concerned about the emo tions much of our attention was troubled by the role assigned psy tional state and the rights of the focused on exploding the myth of chiatrists in determining “substan woman faced with an unwanted the word “therapeutic” when ap tial risk.” We doubted very ser and unplanned pregnancy. We dis plied to abortion performed on psy iously whether the ALI proposal covered that most abortions now chiatric grounds. Most of the mem would do what its proponents sug performed legally by licensed phy bers of the Committee who favored gest. namely, to make abortion sicians were performed by stretch some liberalization of existing laws, readily available to those women ing the concept of “psychiatric recoiled from the concept of “abor w’ho required it for valid reasons. grounds” to the breaking point. Al tion on demand" and even eyed In most states where the ALI pro though the psychiatrist may oc with suspicion the slightly less posals were adopted the new laws casionally have a legitimate role to charged concept of "abortion on work a real hardship on the poor play in influencing the decision to request.” who are ignorant of the law and abort or not to abort, this role is But the more intensively we cannot afford an abortion. The ALI a very limited one. We were also studied the problem, the more we approach also forces a type of concerned about the possibility of heard from our consultants in so “public confession” from the psychiatric sequelae in women who ciology and the law. and the more woman involved. Instead of pro had obtained legal abortions. How tecting the confidential nature of Dr. Zigmond Lebensohn we began to analyze the experience ever, we found no convincing evi of these states that had "liberalized" the doctor-patient relationship, the dence to support this fear. We were JURIS VII their statutes governing abortion, details in each case may conceiv equally troubled about what hap the more we came to recognize that ably be exposed to scrutiny by the pened to the unwanted child born all the liberalization in the world state and thus encourage an in to a mother who had been refused The Right To Abortion would not help as long as abortion crease in criminal abortions where an abortion. Here we found con remained within the province of the there' is no doubt that confidenti siderable evidence that a significant Dr. Zigmond Lebensohn was ings; the shame, humiliation and criminal law. We stated "For those ality will be maintained. For these percentage of these children later born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in resentment of those women who are convinced, as we are, that the moral reasons and others described in the developed psychiatric instability. 1910. Following undergraduate forced into unwanted motherhood; issues present an insoluble dilemma text of our report we concluded work at Northwestern University, and the incalculable psychic damage that should be left to individual that the ALI recommendations Religious & Moral Objections Dr. Lebensohn received his medical to the innocent victim—the child conscience rather than be the sub were unsatisfactory. Although this report w'as written degree from the same university in who is brought into the world un 1934 and has done postgraduate wanted and unloved. work in Neurology. Reform Abortion Law Lebensohn is currently Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at George In 1966 the GAP Committee on town University School of Medi Psychiatry and Law began its study cine, is a council member of the of the problem of abortion. At American Psychiatric Association about the same time larger seg ments of the medical and legal fra MIDTOWN LIQUORS and is Chairman of the Psychiatry Department at Sibley Hospital in ternities began to work on this Washington. He is also a teaching troublesome topic. Their approach, 629 E STREET, N.W. consultant at the Naval Medical however, was gingerly and cau Center in Bethesda and the Walter tiously in favor of some degree of Vi BLOCK FROM LAW CENTER Reed Hospital, and is a member of abortion law reform. In the sum the editorial boards of three medical mer of 1967 the American Medical journals. Association and the American Psy chiatric Association issued position statements supporting modifications Special Prices for Law Students and Faculty Only! An analysis of the recently pub in the abortion law similar to those lished report of the Group for the suggested by the American Law Must Bring Ad With You Good Until November 26 Advancement of Psychiatry Institute. The ALI recommends, in Abortion is a dirty word in polite essence, that “a licensed physician society. 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It is from CBS produced a morning hour- these illegal abortions that the vast long documentary on “Abortion majority of serious medical compli and the Law" which broke the way cations arise. As is well known, for a more open discussion of this these complications include serious pressing problem. 1/5 FRENCH BORDEAUX RED, WHITE & ROSE infection, sterility, and occasionally Shift in Public and death. What can never be esti Regular Price Sale Price mated. however, is the vast amount Professional Opinion of profound physical and emotional Thus, during the past few years $1.09 $.69 suffering of those women who are the climate of professional and forced to seek an illegal abortion public opinion in regard to abor in sordid and unsanitary surround tion has shifted with astonishing Page Four Georgetown Law Weekly November 19, 1969
Abortion domain of the criminal law and tions of Dee Andros at Oregon making the decision to abort a State University, Mr. Schatz is en Continued from Page 3 matter to be decided between the tirely inaccurate in inferring that from the psychiatric point of view woman and her physician, much in the coach was acting in a com the religious and moral objections the same way as other types of elec pletely arbitrary manner when he to abortion had to be considered tive surgery, will do much to elimi had no authority to do so. The con We concluded that those who take nate the suffering, humiliation and frontation occurred during spring the moral stand that abortion con psychosocial sequelae which are so practice when the black player was stitutes murder will themselves much part of the current sordid on the field in full uniform under avoid abortion and will be shocked scene. the supervision of the coaches. The by those who condone it. The re Zigmond M. I.ebensohn, M.D. player was also wearing a goatee port went on to say, “For those who Chairman (1966-1969) which is a slight bit more of a take this moral stand there perhaps Committee on Psychiatry and threat to the coaches’ discipline can be no absolute rebuttal’’ but it Law Croup for the Advance than is a mustache alone, another can be equally stated that such ment of Psychiatry fact ignored by Mr. Schatz. people do not need the law to sup I do not take issue with the view port their moral principles. Father Poll Reactions points expressed in these articles, Robert F. Drinan, S.J., a noted only with arguments used in their legal scholar, has stated that he Continued from Page 4 support. Just the facts, please. would prefer no law if the alterna very significant, since only a major Roger Hennagin tive was to be a liberalized law. ity margin of 25 approved the On the other side of the issue, the Class of ’70 SBA’s new policy of involvement, Professor William A. Stanmeyer well known psychoanalyst, Erik certainly no mandate for change. Erikson, stated, "The most deadly Further, a great many votes came of all possible sins is the mutila from first-year students, while our GULC Offers NOLO CONTENDRE tion of a child’s spirit.” There can petition hit second and third-year New Seminars be nothing more destructive to a men. Adding those who voted but Role-Morality And Professionalism child’s spirit than being unwanted didn’t sign to those who signed by Raphael Perl William A. Stanmeyer was born tion,” “Interest in students,” and and there are few things more dis without voting clearly shows a re For the community-oriented stu in Chicago, Illinois in 1934. Fol other evaluation-categories all ex ruptive to a woman’s spirit than pudiation. A conservative-moder dent, GULC will make available lowing undergraduate work at press standards for a “good” being forced, without love or need, ate politics alternative would have a number of new seminars next Xavier University, he received an teacher. Articulation of similar into motherhood. made no difference, because we're semester. Professor Dranitzke, who M.A. in Political Philosophy from norms for this community and law complaining about the involvement Remove from Criminal Law is currently giving a non-credit Loyola University and a J.D. de yers in general would include at per se, especially financial, in Draft Law course on Friday after gree from DePaul University. Pro least these: ability to suspend judg After three years of study and areas having little relevance to our noons, will offer a seminar for aca fessor Stanmeyer came to GULC ment, fact-consciousness, and open- debate, the final recommendations profession. The tenor of the politics demic credit entitled “Draft Law in 196S and is an Associate Pro mindedness—qualities, I might add, of our Committee, later approved is immaterial.” fessor of Law and teaches courses today sadly absent in society as a by the membership of the Group and Related Problems.” The course Only on Question 4 (student material will also deal with relevant in Property, Jurisprudence and whole, a lack which partly explains for the Advancement of Psychiatry, participation in the making of Constitutional Law. conditions here but renders all the were stated as follows . . we problems of administrative law, policy) did Taft and Kolojeski ap criminal law, and constitutional more urgent the need for lawyers recommend that abortion when per pear to agree. Taft remarking that by William A. Stanmeyer to display these qualities themselves. formed by a licensed physician, be law. this was a legitimate sphere for the Discussion of legal education at Judgment-suspension entirely removed from the domain SBA, Kolojeski feeling that here Shuman Offers New Seminar of criminal law. We believe that the Law Center has turned largely Prior to any informed judgment liberals and conservatives could Professor Shuman will offer a on such issues as the content of woman should have the right to unite. must be suspension of judgment. abort or not just as she has a right new seminar entitled “Directed courses, “student power” in decis When a lawyer interviews a client to marry or not." We realize that Finally, what is the significance Study in Community Develop ion-making, LC involvement in he cannot take everything said as these recommendations constitute of the 40% participation? Kolo ment.” This seminar will attempt socio-political problems. Almost Gospel. When he picks a jury, he a broad change of social policy jeski viewed the figure as typical to explore certain basic social prob nothing is said about the attitudes seeks impartial—i.e., judgment-sus which will seriously affect medical, for student government. “I don’t lems which have traditionally not a lawyer should cultivate. This pending—jurors. He always wants legal and moral attitudes on the want to indict 60% of GULC stu been covered in law school curric omission is serious, for it fosters a a judge who is not pre-judiced. whole problem of abortion. dents, but it’s obvious that too ula. Specific topics to be covered misapprehension of standards in Writing an appeal, he mutes his many students withdraw into their include the role of citizen partici our intellectual community and the The climate of public opinion thunderbolts with cautious respect shells. It’s always possible that pation in community development, profession at large. Thus I want to for what his opponent might say. and the attitude of the courts most of the non-voting, invisible the legality of controlled economic open a neglected question, with the To suspend judgment about con toward abortion have both been 60% are conservative-moderate, and racial mixtures in new com caveat that my remarks are not di changing so rapidly that the time tingent matters is not only a healthy but am I to be responsible to those munities. and the use of public-pri rected at any individual but have attitude at the outset; it is essential may soon come when a doctor or who refuse to articulate their views? vate corporations in planning, as their purpose simply to “tell it to having a balanced personality a hospital refusing a request for an Am 1 to act on guesswork about building and administering a com like it is,” as a basis for discussing and being a good lawyer. abortion may be sued for malprac their beliefs and repudiate those munity as contrasted with the tra how it ought to be. But some members of our com tice. In September 1969 a decision who elected me?” ditional use of municipal corpor in the Supreme Court of the State Role-morality munity manifest what Bertrand Time Will Tell ations. Russell once called, “militant certi of California ( I"he People v. I con Every profession has certain tude about objectively doubtful Phillips Bclous; Criminal Case Taft was encouraged by the turn The group will work closely with built-in demands. If a man accepts matters.” Oddly enough, the more 12739) reversed a conviction for out. ‘‘This was a vote on issues, HUD’s Fort Lincoln experimental these and applies his talents within complex and distant the topic, the abortion based on an 1850 law. not personalities, and we still got planned community. This will give the framework of norms they im greater their certitude. Thus we The Court noted that in 1850 abor 40% of the vote. Whether John the student a first hand opportunity pose, he is a “good” doctor, lawyer, have local experts on Vietnam, tion was extremely dangerous but Kolojeski and the SBA like it or to study the legal problems of such Indian chief or whatever. Thus in Judge Haynsworth, the Three Sis that now it was “safer for a woman not, they're responsible to all the a community. It will also allow the pro football a "good” player must to have a hospital therapeutic abor students of GULC. Ibis poll was student to contribute to the actual keep in shape, learn his play-book, ters Bridge, and even racism in football in Wyoming! Query: are tion during the first trimester than not a correct reading of student planning of Fort Lincoln. In addi go all out in practice, etc. A “good” such experts developing the legal to bear a child.” This means that body opinion as a whole—as we get tion, HUD will publish, or have doctor must keep abreast of his talent of suspending judgment.? if a request for abortion is re more and more students interested, published in trade journals, the specialty, cultivate empathy with fused the woman will be forced to we’ll find the radicals and outside work products of the seminar patients, submerge his own feelings Fact-consciousness members. face a potentially more dangerous activists have less support than beneath concern for others’ suffer Of course, one should not be a fate, namely, carrying the preg they realize.” A new seminar dealing with ings, and so on. In the theater, skeptic forever; a time comes to nancy through to delivery. Further Time will tell. questions of special interest to the besides learning his lines, rehears take a stand. Students are abso more, the 1850 law delegated a disadvantaged will also be open to ing endlessly, the “good” actor lutely correct that one must commit great deal of responsibility to the GULC students next semester. This must put the audience before his himself to what he believes right physician and did not provide him Letters seminar will be given under the own emotional needs: no matter and pursue its realization with satisfactory guidance. The old law his moods, “The show must go on.” Continued from Page 2 auspicies of the Center for Clinical vigor. But action must come after also biased his decision since a de When a man enters a profession, he makes a thorough effort to get is the fact that internal combustion and Legal Research of Howard cision in favor of abortion would he implicitly commits himself to all the facts. The lawyer who argues constitute risk whereas a decision engines working at steady speeds Law School. A sample of topics to try to live up to its standards. If a legal case or embarks on a politi in non-stop traffic are far more not to abort clearly absolved the be covered include low income con he does not make that effort, he cal crusade without first checking efficient than those mired in the physician of any risk. sumer problems, public medicine, ends by living a lie. As in other out his facts will make a fool of normal patterns of city traffic, and. Current abortion laws make and problems in public economic fields, this is also true of lawyers. himself. as a result contribute less polluting development. Interested students hypocrites of us all and force pro materials to the atmosphere. The use of student critiques of In viewing the deterioration of fessional men into decisions which should call 797-1768 to sign up. or teachers—which I support—reflects public dialogue at the Law Center, they are unprepared to make. Re Action of Oregon Coach should do so in person at room a perception of role-morality for a person is forced to conclude that moving the abortion laws from the With respect to the reported ac 126 of the Howard Law School. faculty. “Preparation,” “Organiza Continued on Page 6 November 19, 1969 Georgetown Law Weekly Page Five
A CHRONOLOGY BY PHOTO “All We Are Saying, Is Give Peace A Chance
1. Rep. John Conyers (D.-Mich.) Speaks To Newly-Arrived 2. Weary Demonstrators Continue Solemn March Against Protestors at 19th St. Baptist Church Death During Cold Early Morning Hours Photo by Latham Photo by Latham
3. D. C. National Guard Assembles at 3rd and 4. Saturday, November 15, 300,000 Begin to Merge on the Mall, Near Indiana, N.W. For Riots That Never Occurred the Capitol, for the Largest Anti-War March in U. S. History Photo by Latham
the Nixon Administration. At 10 trek home, but hbout 5,000 radi Continued from Page 1 o'clock the March began and the cals marched on the Department of protestors, led by a handful of Justice, principally to protest the on!”, and “War!”. It became ap notables, walked up Pennsylvania trial of the Chicago 8. They burned parent, however, that a large part Avenue to 15th Street and then up an American flag and a Viet Cong of the crowd did not favor their the Mall to the Monument. Al flag was in evidence before police tactics, as one protestor who picked though there were no visible coun again used tear gas. As was the up two empty bottles was forced to ter-demonstrations, the Mobiliza case Friday night physical con put them down. Despite the po tion’s Marshals kept the strictest frontation was kept to a minimum tential for large-scale violence, the discipline, refusing to allow anyone and the crowd soon dispersed, al- restraint shown by most of the to join the protest in mid-stream. thought the smel of the “C*” tear demonstrators and the police By the time the masses reached gas permeated the entire area. calmed the situation and by mid the Monument, they were more in Internal Success night the chances of more violence the mood for sleeping and singing were minimal. The Demonstration, then, was than in listening to the various massive and generally peaceful Festive Mood speakers. Pete Sceger, Peter, Paul and certainly an internal success. It and Mary, and the cast from Hair The 300,000 people who showed may have even changed some peo struck a more responsive note with up Saturday for the mass march ple’s minds about some of the dem from the Capitol to the Washington those who claimed to have heard onstrators. But with “business as Monument were in an almost fes too many speeches already about usual” at the White House, it re tive mood considering that they Vietnam. were protesting a war. There were mained to be seen whether it vendors peddling peace buttons Justice Department Protest changed anyone’s position on the and numerous signs chastising At this point many began their War. 5. The Long Road Home Begins— Page Six Georgetown Law Weekly November 19, 1969
BARRISTERS’ COUNCIL Stanmeyer HALFTIME Chicago 8 Continued from Page 4 An Open Letter To The Class Of 72' Continued from Page 1 some members of our community Bowl Choices and its ramifications. He described are more eager to change things Harry TLschler the Chicago 8 as a “bringing to than to study what they are chang controversy. This will become more Vice Chairman of by Willie Schatz gether of various types of dissidents ing, to resent rumored inequities effective as your background in the Barristers’ Council of the last decade—Panthers, New than to investigate the truth of the law of your courses progresses to Breaking all tradition and prece- a more workable level. It is there Left, academic radicals, etc.” He story they swallow, to assume sel The Barristers’ Council would cent, your ace reporter will return discussed the incidents of the mis fish motives in people they have like to take this opportunity to fore the faculty’s intention and be to the same subject for the second lief that a substantial amount of trial and contempt charges against never bothered to question, to jump answer the questions of your class straight time. Since my last article Bobby Seale and generalized Seale’s to conclusions—in a phrase, to concerning the legal research-argu work done in preparation for the on college football was so well re legal research classes in fact di struggles in the courtroom as the avoid “being confused by the facts.” ment program. The most prevalent ceived; and since I can’t think of symbol of Black Struggles. Were it appropriate, 1 would ap question presented by the critique rectly contributes to the credit re anything else to write about, I will ceived in other courses. It is pend a list of specifics; but every submitted to us concerns the fair return to the campus gridiron scene, Seale’s Sentence “Hideous” on the same theory and rationale regular reader can compose his own ness of the workload as compared albeit in a lighter vein than last that the faculty has imposed the time. Davis described the sentencing litany. Query: what kind of lawyer to the course credit given. Before of Seale to four years in jail for will be the man who disregards the considering the number of credits requirements of three arguments. Goal for Every Team contempt as “a hideous crime” and norm of fact-consciousness? which should be given, I would like From reading the critiques, I pictured Judge Hoffman as an Openmindedness to delineate the bounds of work have also been made aware of the As every good college football “Adolf Hitler.” He continued to load now prescribed for the pro worries of several students that the fan knows, the ultimate ideal for say that people were coming over The adversary system, which per gram: any team (with the exception of meates the work of a lawyer, pre program will interfere with the final to the defentants’ side even includ 1. ) There should not be any outside Notre Dame and the Ivy League) supposes that truth or agreement examination preparation in the ing marshals whose job it was to re assignments, other than the is to wrest an invitation to a bowl or rightful judgment will emerge Spring. To prevent that occurrence, strain Seale. He discussed the riot three briefs and arguments, (officially called “post-season clas from a fair hearing of opposing act and claimed that it was a “1984- from the time that the argu we have given the law club presi sics”) from the gods who sit on the viewpoints. The lawyer must be in ments commence. dents a tentative schedule for the selection committee. A bowl bid terested in “both sides”—if only to 2. ) After the first round, the fol later rounds of arguments that will, is really what the season is all grasp his opponent’s position in with your cooperation, terminate about. It gives the team a reward order to rebut. It hardly need be lowing problems should be as the program by mid-April. for having a big season, it gives said that this canon is as necessary signed at least five weeks prior to the date of argument. the fans something else to think in matters political as legal. I would also like to take this op about besides the pro champion Yet the more controversial a 3. ) The problems for the second portunity to briefly describe how ships, and, most important, it gives topic, the more we have been and third rounds are being the Beaudry Competition will be the school another chance to rake treated around here to a one-sided edited to reduce the number run. Prior to the end of the first in a lot of bread so they can go monologue in most newspaper arti of possible presumptions and round of argument, any student out and recruit more jocks and causes. cles and by the speakers invited. who thinks he or she may be inter come back next year. In effect, Instead of a militant desire to hear In relation to point three, I ested in arguing in the competition the bowls mean that you are play all viewpoints, we witness a mili would like to explain that the prob should reveal such to the law club ing ten games for the possibility of tant effort to foreclose the argu lems for the first round, as with the being able to play an eleventh. The ment before it’s begun. Yet mono president. Those students will be second and third rounds, were cre assigned their second round argu eleventh game usually occurs logue suspiciously resembles propa ated by the members of the faculty against another nationally ranked ganda. Pondering such arguments, who instruct the first year courses. ments to be argued in the latter team from another section of the I can’t help feeling, “They must Due to the lateness of the submis part of January and the beginning country. This affords fans, coaches, have a pretty weak position, since sions of various members, we were of February. Based on those argu and writers the opportunity to com they’re so afraid to let anyone re unable to collect enough of the ments, the Law Club President and pare football in those sections, and but.” As to the impact on one’s easier questions desired for the first Moderator will select two people also gives the winning team a Rennie Davis later professional life, query: what round and therefore were forced for the competition. They will re chance to move up in the final Photo by Latham kind of lawyer will be the man who to use questions created for the fol ceive the Beaudry problem on Feb weekly poll, which is taken after kept his mind closed to other view lowing rounds. ruary 15 and will argue in the the last bowl and decides the “myth type law” and unconstitutional and points during his training? ical” national championship. The said that we must fear the govern Additional Credit quarterfinals in the third week in Suggestions March. Eight of the thirty-four will national championship goes to the ment surveillance that is going on The problem with giving addi team that finishes on top in the last I think most people here recog advance to the semifinals and two in this nation. In this vein, there tional credit for the research course poll, which means that even if your nize the dangers in such attitudes. to the finals. were reports, although uncon Student leaders could go a long manifests itself in several ways. team has been on top all year, it firmed, that F.B.I. agents were in way in combatting them by follow First, any additional credit to the Lastly, I would like to answer the might not be there in that all-im the audience and that pictures of ing the norms of role-morality in night school would place them in two questions which have also been portant last poll. the crowd were taken for their files. the field of persuasion. Specifically, the position of receiving more cred presented frequently. its per semester than permitted by An Exception? the S B.A. should enact at once First, the procedural rules to be 250,000 Are a Permit and firmly adhere to its plans, in the ABA standards for part-time This year may be an exception, students. followed in brief preparation are Davis then addressed himself to areas of political controversy, to those set forth in the Barristers’ however. Ohio State has been lead the Mobilization and the war pro invite a range of speakers having Secondly, it was the intention of ing by wide margins all year, and Guide to Appellate Advocacy test. He felt that President Nixon divergent views across the spec the faculty in creating this program even though it will probably not had underestimated the strength trum. Similarly, in addition to its that it should supplement the sub (modified U.S. Supreme Court be permitted to go to a bowl be commendable practice of publish stantive materials of the other Rules). cause of a Big Ten rule, it is so of the NLF and said “that the dis ing conflicting positions on occas courses for which greater credit is And Second, attendance at the far above any team in the country senters should end the war, end ional topics of controversy, the Law given. This has not manifested it law club meetings is mandatory and that it should retain its champion imperialism and end persecution. Weekly could demand accuracy self during the first round of argu lack of such is grounds for being ship. Ideally Ohio State should face It is our nation—not Nixon's, Ag and relevance in its news articles, ments as during that round the pro required to repeat the course. second ranked Texas in the Cotton news', Mitchell's or Reagan’s” and, encourage rebuttals, and actively gram is entirely devoted to advo Bowl, but it won’t be able to. Texas whether or not the Administration solicit dissent from its own "estab cacy, research and brief writing The Barristers’ Council will pre should win its last big game against grants a permit to march, “250,000 sent for your comment a further lishment,” as The Saturday livening problems. It is, however, the inten Arkansas and go on to the Cotton people constitute a permit.” Post did in its "Speaking Out” tion of the program that on the sub course critique following the com Bowl as SWC champion. Its oppon column. We all could discuss the sequent rounds a substantial pletion of the present round of ent will be Notre Dame, whose norms our role mandates. If law amount of time should be spent on arguments. presence will constitute a major yers do not reintroduce rationality the substantive law and procedural shift in that school’s previous poli very much up in the air. Ohio into the public dialogue, who will? questions presented by each case in Thank you. cies. The Orange Bowl will proba State will win the Big Ten but can bly see third ranked Tennessee not repeat last year’s Pasadena (who would like to face Texas jaunt. Michigan should get the nod but probably won’t because they over Purdue (both should give L A W B O O K S LEGAL FORMS got creamed in last year’s Cot Ohio State a little trouble) and go The next edition of the LAW ton Bowl) against the Big Eight N E W & U S E D STUDENT SUPPLIES on to face UCLA, which will finally WEEKLY will be the last issue winner, which should be Missouri. for this semester. All notices end the USC monopoly by beating The Sugar Bowl will undoubtedly them on November 22. The Gator and advertisements which you get the runnerups in the SEC Bowl, foremost among the lesser ryC erner