University of Michigan Law School University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository Res Gestae Law School History and Publications 1977 February 10, 1977 University of Michigan Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.law.umich.edu/res_gestae Part of the Legal Education Commons Recommended Citation University of Michigan Law School, "February 10, 1977" (1977). Res Gestae. Paper 635. http://repository.law.umich.edu/res_gestae/635 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]. Feb. 10, 1977 (RES GESCJ'AE I the law school weekly Sunday ·• You can still register to attend Today the Susan B. Anthony Potluck· Dinner. This year's dinner will be Sunday, February 13 at 7 p.m . in the Lawyers­ "~·- ·- YEARBOOK Club Dining Hall. The dinner is lst and 2d Year Students: an annual event regularly attended by all segments of the law school. Pictures for those who didn't like their "Picture Book"pictures, This year's Dinner will feature or who have one to submit in it's Amanda Bailey and Fred Small place.l2:00-3:30,Rm 100. singing Suffrage songs of the period. Jane McAtee will deliver excerpts PAD from several Suffragists' speeches, 'Thursday Luncheon as well as explain the importance 12:00 Faculty Dining Rm. of the Suffragists' political. efforts. In addition, the recipient The Honorable J. Feikens of the Susan B. Anthony Award (E.D. of Michigan) will be announced . "Can the Federal Courts Survive?" The Susan B. Anthony award is FEMINIST LEGAL SERVICES given each year to the person who 12:00,WLSA Office has d'one the most to improve the Sue Gzesh:"Women in Prison" situation of women in the law school. SECTION V To make your reservations for the 12:15,Lawyers Club Lounge Potluck dinner, call Ellen .Jean Labor Workshop Meeting Dannin at 662-1818 or Gayle Horetski For everyone interested in helping at 761-2061 . Those who live in prepare for the workshop.All Welcome. dorms can bring items that don't need cooking. REMINDER-- LSSS MEETING TODAY (Thur.) at 6:30 PM in the Faculty Dining Room . ~~~ BUDGET REVISIONS ~~ Monday IMPORTANT NOTICE Saturday To all students who had LAND FINANCE last semester: There will be an informal PHID PARTY meeting Mon., 2/14/77 at 1:00 in room 100 to discuss that class' grading curve. SATURDAY, FEB. 12th A group of interested students could then meet with the Dean at the PHI DELTA PHI Housea ~to explore the possibility of 1) raising the curve to an 502 E ~ ·Madison acceptable level, (next to South Quad - 2) allowing voluntary pass­ corner ,of Thompson ) fails, or 3) some other possible solu­ BEER - .. DJl..NCING tion. Alumnae Tuesday Conference The Women Law Students Association again invites the Michigan faculty, staff, and It's time to begin planning and student body, along with their spouses and staffing the Summer and Fall Orientation friends to join us the we.ekend of Feb. programs for first-year and transfer 25-27, 1977, for the Second Alumnae Con­ students. I need volunteers for ference. Organizing the event has been a revising the Law School Survival Handbook very rewarding challenge that has given us as well as "leading". Three meetings will an interesting historical picture of the be held next week. If you're inter.ested history of the women law students who have in being a leader or working on the g~aduated from our hallowed halls. programs in some other way, please com~ to one of the meetings. I think you'll The first alumnae conference, held in find participating in Orientation a · · November of 1975, sent out approximately rewarding experience. The meetings ·450 invitations. Note that it took over will be: half a century to acquire that many women 'grads (a number roughly equivalent to one First-Year Orientation third of the present student body. ) Less Wed., Feb. 16, 3:15pm Room 138 than two years later, the ranks of alumnae Thu., Feb. 17, noon Room 132 have swelled to nearly 550 and our postage bill has grown accordingly. (We are at Transfer Orientation least encouraged by the trend.) Tue., Feb. 15, noon Room 132 Thus far, over fifty alumnae have registered ' Dean Eklund to join us that weekend and they are coming from all over the country. Among them are District Judge Margaret Schaeffer, Probate Judge Zoe S. Burkholz, Professor Whitman Thursday and many others who have gone out to prac­ tice, to teach and inform the public about feminist concerns. Besides receiving ENVIRONMENTAL LAW SOCIETY registration forms, we are obtaining bio­ Thursday,Feb. 17th graphical material from those who cannot 12:00, E.L.S.Office(ll2 LR) attend but are with us in spirit. Here is Bring Lunch;Presentation and a sample of their self-descriptions : prac­ Slides by:Eric Lipson; ticing in labor and discrimination, former "Reserve Mining: assistant Attorney General, active in com­ Economy v.Environment." bating sex-based discrimination in the law· have a very general small town practice ' (some might even say backwards) in Blacks­ burg, Va.; Executive Direct or of the Allergy Rehabilitation Foundation with a NOTICES general solo practice in Georgia; f eminist, yogini, trying to set up private practice; I'm implementing mental health l aws under a 1977-78 S~nior Judgeships joint ABA/CBA grant; professor of law at Univ. of Maine; full professor at Creighton Univ. Law S.chool; Associ ate ~ Dean of New · Applications for Senior Judgeships College of Cal School of Law, author, in the Writing and Advocacy Program teach canst •. and labor law; poet-column for are available in Room 318 Hutchins 22 years in Saginaw News, apl'~aring with Hall. The selection process will ·--· · ·-··-· -- Judd Arnett in Free Press, released first include an ~ppellate brief evaluation exercise and personal interview which book on Nov. 30, 1976, willing to speak at must take place by Friday, March 4, future conferences --- on poetry, not law. 1977 . Any questions should be di­ We think you can begin to see that your '-l attendance at this conference will be an rected t o Assistant Dean Cohen. ...1 1 enriching experience in many respects •. (CONT. PAGE 4) For all of you, ?.d'nission is free, with tim~ lor preseritation and debate at charges only for the meals you purchase the 6th Circuit Conference in.ear'.ly tickets for. Luncheon is $3.50, the banquet March. During ~h:e next two weeks, is $9.00 and a special brunch will be held a committee will be formed to re­ at the Lawyer's Club Feb. 27 for $2.85. view, revise, and present resoluc­ For smaller pocketbooks , thete will be a tions at th,e forthcoming conference. brown bag signup for those wishing to at­ tend the luncheon but bringing their own If you have a few hours of time food. Please be sure to sign up so we and would like to try your hand a:t· know how many chairs and tables to set up. Bar Association politics, member­ There is also a dessert and coffee alterna­ ship on this committee would be an tive for $1.20 which entitles you to blue­ ideal way to get to know the ABA-LSD. 1 berry cheesecake, coffe,e and admission to Those members who will be free to t he banquet speeches and other presentations. travel to the Conference wi l l be in­ vited to attend and try t h eir hands Detailed s chedules will be printed in the at some actual on- the-scene d ebat·e RG t:he next two weeks ; meal ticket sales on the materials presented. begin the week of Feb. 21st. For more information, call Ba r b Etheridge, Con­ If you or your organization have ference Coordinator, at 994-3027. an idea which you would like to see the ABA take action or express an opinion on. we a~ so n-~-~~--t~-- hav~ ­ .. your input as soon as possible • ABA-LSD WANTS YOU ! ! ! Any issue affecting the law, the Although the ABA Law Student Div­ profession, or legal education is ision tends to keep a low profile fair game, and past Division recom­ on campus, it exists nationally-as mendation~ to the ABA would indicate that there is no need to respect the p~ ime student input mechanism for the profession's most powerful any supposed sacred cows of our el­ lobbying organization. The Division der brethren. These ideas may be submitted in any form, but each act in two ways to influenc e its es­ tablished (and generally more con­ should contain at least a brief sup­ porting document detailing the rea­ servative) collegues in the parent sons why you believe the ABA should organization . Through annual meet­ take a particular stand on the issue. ' ings of the Division Assembly, var­ ious specific resolutions are adop­ Who? Where? and When? ted and submitted to the ABA House of Delegates for consideration. As Those interested in serving on an ongoing matter, Division members the ABA Committee should contact are selected to serve as liasons to Jim Schnare directly by: ABA Sections and major standing com­ mittees. 1} phone, at 764-8930 2) message, leaving name, address, , and phone number at the Law Club desk , Naturally , the voice of the Div­ 3)person-- in the halls or at H-11 1 ision in ABA affairs is only as in the Law Club strong as the collective talents of This should be done as soon as pos-· the individuals actively involved sible, as we must start work by next in the preparation and presentation of proposals.