College of William & Mary Law School William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...) Archives and Law School History 1992 Amicus Curiae (Vol. 2, Issue 9) Repository Citation "Amicus Curiae (Vol. 2, Issue 9)" (1992). Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...). 79. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/newspapers/79 Copyright c 1992 by the authors. This article is brought to you by the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/newspapers A closer look at Naugahyde, page 10 I em ecu9{J.9L'E AMEUCNSARSTLAWSCHOOL A Publication of The Advocate VOLUME II, ISSUE NlNE MONDA Y, FEBRUARY 3, 1992 TWENTY PAGES Dean opts for vestibule Change in policy expected By NANCY KILLIEN said, "Sparked by concern over the pres­ Dean Sullivan issued a recommenda­ ence of smokers in the law school lobby­ tion on January 30 to change the smoking -an area through which everyone must policy at Marshall-Wythe from permitting pass--a number of students approached smoking only in the lobby to permitting the Student Bar Association about sur­ smoking only in the vestibule, the glassed­ veying student opinion on the issue. A in area between the lobby and the patio. referendum was held and 73 percent of Sullivan made the recommendation to those voting indicated an interest in Nancy Nash, Assistant to Vice President changing the current policy. The students for Administration and Finance William also identified an alternative smoking Merck. Earlier in the week, Sullivan met area. Based on the results of this student with student representatives to discuss the referendum, I am requesting that the outcome of a non-binding referendum on College smoking policy be amended to the issue. restrict smoking in the law school Nash said on Thursday that the smoking building to the vestibule area." policy "is not a working policy of the Board Sullivan said his January 28 meeting of Visitors. Dean Sullivan would make a with the students involved in formulat- . recommendation; the provost could review ing the referendum was "an attempt to Former Nixon aide Chuck Karl SchumannlCOUrlesy The Flat Hat it; but probably would take the Dean's Colson speaks. See story page 3. recommendation. " See CORRALLED, page 20 In his m·emorandum to Nash, Sullivan SBA withdraws funding for Grad Thing By KEVIN KRONER Brooks also said that next year, event comes directly from the later. Brooks announced on the 29th In yet another chapter in the the Grad Thing will be funded by Board of Student Affairs (BSA) In other SBA news, Brooks that ticket prices would increase continuing saga of the Student all graduate programs in the funds allocated for a twice-annual announced that his January 28th to $25 per person. When asked Bar Association' s budget woes, College, as opposed to exclu­ party for all graduate students. deadline to sell 200 Barrister's about the increase, Brooks said SBA has withdrawn funding sively by the SBA. Tracy Camp, Last semester's Super Grad Ball tickets was met. At last that he had planned to sell the from the Grad Thing. SBA President of the Arts and Sciences Thing at Lake Matoaka was count 235 Barrister's tickets were tickets at $25 all along, and that President Rich Brooks made the Graduate Program, made the similarly funded. The Spring sold at $20 apiece. The early the $20 price was an incentive to decision last week as a measure funding proposal at a meeting of event will be held in the Campus sales enabled SBA to make all of generate early sales. Brooks was to conserve funds. King of the the Graduate and Professional Center Ballroom. For a $4 cover, its preliminary payments for the See BREWS?, page 20 Thing Steve Shebest (3L) was Students Association after there will be beer, soda, catered event to Colonial Williamsburg. informed of the decision by SBA Shebest approached her with the food, and a band to be announced After meeting the deadline, Treasurer Stephanie Cangin last idea. week when he requested funds Shebest was quick to point Grade parity appears successful for this week's liquor license. out that this does not mean the According to Brooks, SBA's two end of the Grad Thing. Last By PAULA HANNAFORD Spencer's sections of these (Gerhardt); and for Civil Proce­ remaining financial commit­ Friday's event recouped its ex­ A close look at posted first­ classes. Apparently one student dure, 3.025 (Grover) and 2.950 ments, Barrister's Ball and penses along with money to pay year grades suggests that the did not formally withdraw from (Spencer). ·Graduation, must take priority the band. This means that there faculty are very serious about these classes when leaving school The grade curve for the Con­ over all other expenditures. will definitely be a Grad Thing sticking to the new policy on after the Property exam. Ex­ tracts sections are nearly identi­ Brooks said he could not guar­ this week. Shebest said it will be grade parity. The policy, which cluding this student's grades from cal, at 3.048 and 3.050 for Pro­ antee a successful Graduation if held at the Off-campus Student states that "[t]he distribution of the average narrows the differ­ fessors Selassie and Schaefer SBA continued to spend money House, next to the Bookstore. grades in all sections of the same ence in these classes to 0.042, respectively. An analysis of the on the Grad Thing. Traditionally, Sbebest stated that the current first-year courses should be es­ 0.039 and 0.053 respectively. Property grade curves could not the Grad Thing runs a $600 loss decision is just an extension of sentially uniform," was adopted The actual class averages for be calculated because, as of press over the course of the school the difficulty be bas encountered last April in response to concerns Torts are 2.957 (Hardy) and 3.042 year due to expenses exceeding all year long. He does not expect raised by the Gass of 1993 over (LeBel); for Constitutional Law, See YESSS!!!, page 20 gate receipts. As a result, this this latest development to pre­ disparity in grade curves in sev­ 3.069 (Devins) and 3 .007 year, SBA bas been reluctant to clude his plans for many more eral first-year classes. The dis­ fund the Friday-night, graduate­ Grad Things this year. The key tribution of last semester's grades - Inside this issue student party. is attendance. It takes 53 people in corresponding sections of each • PAD hosts free Brooks said funding for the for the Grad Thing to break even. first-year class are nearly identi­ • Graduation plans Grad Thing will be reevaluated As long ~ people attend, Sbebest cal. tentative, page 3. hinch, page 6. after Barrister's Ball. If Brooks promises a new and interesting The primary difference in the and Cangin feel there is more Grad Thing each week. class averages for Torts, Consti­ • Intramural basket­ than enough money to fund Brooks also took time to an­ tutional Law and Civil Procedure • Visiting profs settle Graduation, then the Grad Thing nounce a Super Grad Thing for result from one failing grade in in, page 7. ball poll,.page 19. may receive funding agam. February 15. The money for this Professors Hardy, Gerhardt and 2 ==================================================================== Monday, February 3, 1992 THE AMIcus CURIAE Out of our heads From the Editors ... The lunch-time party sponsored by Phi Alpha Delta last As Mark Twain once said student body. Not exactly an nificant Non-voters, apparently, week was exactly the type of event this school needs to have (more or less): 'There are thret: overwhelming mandate, is it? no longer belong to the student more often. And while PAD did the leg work on the event, types of lies--lies, damned lies, Finally, in his memo the Dean body at Marshall-Wythe. The much of the credit should go to Professor Neal Devins, whose and statistics." Dean Sullivan's requests that the vestibule be Administration prefers to hide concern for the students in his Constitutional Law class started recent memo to Nancy Nash re­ designated the smoking area for behind the convoluted results of a poorly conceived referendum the whole ball rolling. questing a change in the smok­ the law school "based on the It was Devins who approached PAD about finding a more ing policy illustrntes how far from results of this student referen­ and declare itself to be following the wishes of the students. convenient, less expensive way of distributing his course reality you can get by piling one dum." It doesn't take a rocket packet for the class. And the system devised by Devins and statistical characterization on scientist to see that 29% is hardly The attitude the Dean's memo PAD members not only saved the students a frustrating trip to another. a majority. Considering the pre­ conveys, one of merely serving the bookstore or Kinko's--and $4 to $5 each out of their In the memo, the Dean makes cision lawyers usually employ, as a conduit for the will of the student budgets-it also provided a chance for the faculty and much of the fact that "73% of the language of the memo leaves students, is the most troubling part of this entire affair. students to socialize. those voting" in the smoking quite a bit to be desired. unhappy Since hearing about this economical, convenient way to referendum were interested in No one has ever suggested If so small a group of students provide course materials for their students, several other changing the existing policy_ that American educational insti­ can consign a group of their fel­ professors that rely heavily on course packets have expressed Through this phrase, a group of tutions are a democracy.