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1986 The Advocate (Vol. 17, Issue 11-2)

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Copyright c 1986 by the authors. This article is brought to you by the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/newspapers America's c",,'est Law Sc"oo"'

Founded 1955

MARSHALL-PRESLEY school of l?w

BUSHROD WASHINGTON'S HOT NEW LP

"BIGFOOT WAS MY LAWYER," "" LITIGANT , CLAIMS

LAUPER AND REHNQUIST'S DUET "ALBUM

SEXY, SUCCESSFUL, AND SPEAKING AT ,RICHMOND: The Mary Sue Terry Interview IN THIS ISSUE: t e r s •

TABLE OF CONTENTS Dear Editor, Dear Editor, What is the Elvis Presley stuff? I am just writing to say that I How, in y~ right mind, can you think your publication is great. I Hello, Mary Sue ...... 10 endorse natlling the school after really do. I mean, your articles are such a drug-addicted, overweight simply fantastic. Mere words can­ child-molester? If anything, why not describe the joy I experience Rock-And-Law Hall o_f Fame .. 10 not the Marshall-Lewis School of each time I open the front cover of Law? Now, Jerry Lewis is one that your paper. Your writers are Elvis Costello Writes for Law we should reverse. The way he brilliant, inciteful, and don't use carries himseLf on stage, and all of too many consonants. 1 cannot Review ...... ·...... 10 those great pratfalls. Now, that's think of a more important paper to entertaininent.. As you probably the future of mankind and Western Thermo-Nuclear· Holocaust- know, Jerry Lewis is c{)nsidered a Civilization as we now know of it: genius in France. Let's give him Your photos are breathtaking, a Where to Eat ...... I 0 his proper due in Williamsburg. masterpiece above each caption. Sincerly, Your features keep me abreast of Associate Dean Martin all the latest fashion and musical Columbia Records to Interview at trends. Your recent series on tort M-P ...... •...... 10 liabilities help my husband and I through a difficult period. Thanks to your editorial staff, my ------!"""' Dear Editor, knowledge of the law and other I go to a medium-sized, state jurisprudentia). matters is utterly supported liberal arts college. I unparalleled. I cannot imagine a was always skeptical of letters better way to spend my time than printed in this magazine in the. DEPARtMENTS reading and rereading the articles, past, until last Thur!?day when I letters, cartoons, editorials, and, had an experience I must share yes, even the advertisments in with you. I had just finished work­ your paper. All-in-all, I think you ing out at the gym, so I was hot and people are iridescribably fantastic sweaty and we waring very little. Letters ...... 10 and should all be made saints. I took a wrong turn - going Sincerely, downstairs in the gymnasium, Madonna, ML&T '82 On the Road ...... ~ ...... I 0 . when I wakled in one these two­ (Editor's Note: Please excuse the Video News and Notes ~ ..... : ... I 0 unfortunate typesetting error) -Name and Address Charts ...... 10 withheld

Y<)uve read the book. NO,"T\IOU ca-n see tIle movie! THE ROLUNG ADVOCATE. .,

Surf Punk and Dude-in-Charge ...... Dugmel Morgencline Managing Surf Punk ...... Fabian Assistant Managing Surf Punk ...... Jan Senior Surf Punk ...... Dean Distribution Surf Punk ...... Mike Love Photogenic Surf Punk ...... Bo Derek Surf Punk With Deluxe Haircut ...... Charlie O'Brien Key Grip ...... ; ...... Bee Lender Backing Vocals ...... Lizzie Coughdrop Person in Charge of Silly Noises ...... Slim Line of Death Manager ..... ~ ...... George Spelvin Columbian Connection ...... Juan Valdez Passive Sentence Editor ...... Dweebus Anonymous als ra Toano Bureau Chief ...... Sues-Ann Who-bone-ah American in Paris ...... Gene Kelly. THE MOVIE AMA ACCREDITORS VISIT M-P School in Danger of -'Ii ' Losing Accreditation

The yearly visit of the American over again, retaining only the Music Association accreditation Janis Joplin and Beatles committee brought some serious­ Reporters and the one scratched ly bummed-()ut vibes to the nor­ Vanilla Fudge LP. "This school is mally mellow and totally cool halls great as far as, like, early stuff­ of Marshall-Presley. The commit­ from like 1955 to early GO's," one tee determined that the library accreditor named Bruno observ­ was, you know, completely inade­ ed. "But man, it's like the flower quate and really just not together scene didn't even happen here, at all. They were aghast at the man. Like no 13th Floor Elevators, paucity of good metal, old Rolling no Chocolate Watchban~ , no Stones, and Jimi Hendrix. One nothing, man." member noted disgustedly, The administration has already· "There isn't a Jack Kerouac novel taken steps to remedy the situa­ in the whole--joint, man." tion. The Library staff will be sent The committee was not like at to a really intense psychedelic all impressed with our extensive music camp in San Francisco, and collection of Bee Gees and Shaun the school is like on the same wavelength with Grace Slick in an Cassidy albums and memorabilia. The AMA accreditors were clearly bummed out by the parking sce~e In fact, they recommended chuck­ effort to get her to be our special at M-P. ing the whole mess and starting consultant for aCQuisitions. like. (/) SITE FOR ROCK-AND-LAW HALL OF FAME c::c both the music industry and the thrill, but you lovin' don't pay my . bar, The Rock and Law Hall of bills") ; Rockin' Ron Rosenberg, "Bye, bye Miss American Tort, Fame has been established. the first to truly integrate disco Z Drove my Chevy to the' levee Organizers have picked Marshall- and future interests; and Prince, I got hit by a truck, Presley, where the union of Rock- who.before.devoting full attention W Driven by young men and-Law f1I"St took place, to be the to his musIc career, taught civil , A Drinking whiskey and rye, site of the Hall of Fame, and they procedure and guitar feedback at V I Singing 'This'll be the day we get sued, hope to have the first exhibits up ,M-P. Former Student Band This'll be the day we get sued.' " by early 1999. Association President Cat Scratch Paul "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' Nugen~ h~ also been supported as O When Emric "Great Balls of On" Lebelle was ecstatic over the a candidate. ... Fire" Presley penned those fateful school's selection. "Yeah, like, The exact karma of the museum ..a. words in 1955, Rock-and-Law was man, you know, we naven' t. come has not been decided; nowever, on the verge of sweeping the na- down, yet, you know . .. man." tentative plans call for the razing tion. Now, thirty-()ne years after Although the list of initial in- of the law library. In its place, a U Emric unbuttoned his shirt and ductees is not yet complete, it is multi-level, soundproof museum jumped up in a smoky expected that Marshall-Presley and recording studio will be built, a.. Williamsburg lecture hall to sing will be well presented. Our housing three sound stages, a Moot " Roll Over, Llewellyn (And dig founders, Marshall Tucker and Court Room equipped with Dolby • these Rhythm and Laws); "Rock- Emric Presley, will have a promi- and Sensorround, and the fabled and-Law has returned to its bir- nent place in the plans. Additional missing Mojo of Spiro T. Agnew. E thplace, the Marshall-Presley nominees include current M-P The administration of M-P feels School of Law. Mter a long period Dean and former Beatie, Tim that the student use of the facility The Marshall-Presley Art Collection will be featured in the of intense effort by members of Sullivan ("Your lovin' gives me a will Continued on Page Ten Rock-and- Law Hall of Fame.

The Tenth Annual Here are some winners from previous years:

Composition winner, 1980. Photographer used a Kodak DisC Camera in the pocket of his jeans jacket to snap this illicit ROLLING photo of the Office of • Unconstitutional Research. ADVOCATE' LEGAL PHOTO- JOURNALISM COMPETITION

The 'Rolling Advocate is pleased to present The 10th Annual Legal Photo­ journalism Contest. Entrants will be judged on both composition and controversiality. Entries are limited to 17 per person and must have - been published somewhere, sometime. Controversiality Winner, 1977. This was the photo tlrat proved that Send entries, ready for framing, to: The Rolling Advocate, Marshall­ several 3Us at M-P were actually creme-filled Boopers who had suc­ Presley School of Law, 77 Sunset Strip, Venice, California. cessfully posed as law students for 21h years. Photographer used a 35-mm Brownie hidderrin a bag of Doritos, which served as an'infrared filter to reveal this Booper as it relaxed on the patio. , • r .e v I e w s

The Review picks up abit with nalism. Meaningless jornalistic shadowy group known as the Ad­ .. , ...... , _ ...... ~. ~ "The Duty to Rescue: a Reex­ cliches such as putting out regular ministration, which refuses to tour , William ~ amination and Proposal," which is issues and writing articles are put and works completely out of the spaciously laid out, evoking a in their rightful place at the studio, the Docket is a minimalist & Mary • . sense of ' tediousness with the Lawyer- in the wastebasket. The smorsgasboard. Katherine Hep­ Law Review material world. Ginger Baker Lawyer adheres to a radical par­ burn is wonderfully cast, although helped ~;th the drum work on this ty line which serves to push to the she never appears in the first two number, and Potter Stewart's frontiers of the literary avante­ pages of the publication. chromaticism on the electric grade. The Colonial Lawyer con­ The stark contrast of the black guitar is unmistakeable. The song demns conventionality with both letters amidst the white backdrop drags a bit , and barrels blazing. of the Docket serve to emphasize the listener is lulled into a hypnotic The Lawyer, though many the inherent dichotomy of modern sense of depression at continued critics claim it has its head in the living. Some critics have at­ existence. clouds, still has its feet on the tributed this choice of coloration to Side One closes with a cut ground. It has rejected much of the Administration's tortured adapted from monotone Buddhist conventional and banal style and world view and perception that life chants. The song, entitled form, but it still holds true to one is only worth living if it is struc­ "Punitive Bamages for Wrongful ancient jornalistic credo. That one tured into neat little rows of Discharge of at Will Employees," maxim, which the Colonial paragraphs. The reader can only is spaciously laid out, evoking a Lawyer editorial staff lives and hold the Docket in two hands and sense 'of tediousness with the THE breathes like their very existence, marvel at the wonder of it all. THE material world. Ginger Baker is "Stop The Presses." The helped with the drum work on this Lawyer, though, oftentimes isn't number, and Potter Stewart's COLON IAL even comfortable with this dictim, W ILLIAM chromaticism on the electric and sometimes the presses don't guitar is unmistakeable. The song even start. ' drags a bit near the beginning, and LAWYER & MARY the listener is lulled into a hypnotic From the opening credits, one sense of depression at continued word floats into this reviewer's the docket existence, mind about the Colonial Lawyer­ LAW Side Two drives hOlJle the restraint. The Lawyer, as we Review's loathing of shallow legal/literary wags refer to it, of­ creativity with two covers of old fers the reader restraint in almost B '1lE:r. O'Connor Write f r I."'" R vi<''W REVIEW favorites: "A Suggested Remedy every aspect. Unlike other u for Toxic Injury: Class Actions, publications, like the Epidemiology, and Economic Ef­ Times and the New Republic, the The William & Mary Law ficiency" and "Workers' Rights Lawyer is restrained in its com­ Review's latest cut "Pretty in Against a Bankrupt Employer." ment about society and politics. Green and Buff" reaches out to Both songs are spaciously laid out, The reader of t~e Lawyer is not embrace new styles, yet remains evoking a sense of tediousness subjected to reacing inane articles true to the group's more tradi­ with the material world. Ginger about the famine in Africa, the '88 tional . On Side A, Baker helped out with the drum Presidential election campaign, or THE the first song, "A Lesson in Incau­ work on both of these numbers, analyses of the latest Supreme tion, Overwork, and Fatigue: The and Potter Stewart's inability to Court decisions. The reader is not Judicial Miscraftmanship of play an undistorted note is plain­ bombarded by idiotic adver­ ADVOCATE Segura v. United States, is ly evident in both songs. The songs tisements for everything from ar­ THE drag a bit near the end of their Once again, Slim and the Gang spaciously laid out, evoking as tificial furniture polish to Calvin have put together a puulication sense ot tediousness with the tiues, ano. the ustener is forced in­ Klein gym socks. The reader is not material world. Ginger Baker to a sense of utter despair at the pampered by overly-clever layout DOCKET that sends the critics back to their thesauruses to seek out new helped with the drum work on this prospect of having to read the liner and splashes of color like the " I don't know what art is, but I superlatives. Every-other-week number, and Potter Stewart's notes. . typical USA Today in which con­ know what I like," a famous per­ chromaticism on the electric The William & Mary Law tent is the sacrificed for the sake after every-other-week, they pro­ son once said. It is hard not to like duce a gripping, thought­ quitar is unmistakable. The song . Review contains graphic legal of eye-catching frivolity. The Col­ the Docket, providing just enough provoking masterpiece of which drags a bit near the beginning, and jargon, obscence punctuation, onial Lawyer, rather, is a publica­ and no more. Produced by a the listener is lulled into a hypnotic dweeb situations, mature themes, tion that dares to say, "NO." The Continued on Page Tell sense of depresSion at continued and a passive sentence on page lawyers rejects bourgeois, pedan­ existence. 463. tic notions of traditional jour- ~"iIiIIiiI·Iii"_::::: ::: ads ..· ....··;·To ·p····· ..ii~ ...... 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