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HAsTINGS LAw NEWS If there is to be a Hastings community, the students must have a voice Burton Forces Board Deans Kane, Martinez Up Of Directors To Rescind For Review, Reappointment ;,:~~"~~ge Project Special Five-Person Committee To Make Recommendation to Board of Directors On June 26, 2002, the by Michatl DUlldas. JL IHastings Board of Directors met COJleaguesi< d . bolh and rescinded a conlrOversial ane an Martmez project to build a parking garage On November 13, the 4 on property owned by Hastings at tenured faculty at UC Hastings the comer of Golden Gate and College of the Law will vote on Larkin. State Senate President whether they believe Chancellor John Burton (D-San Francisco) and Dean Mary Kay Kane and removed all funding eannarked for Academic Dean Leo Martinez Hastings, totaling $15 million, from should be reappointed to another the 2002-2003 State budget to five-yeartenn. pressure the Board to cancel the An appointed commit­ project., which was originally tee, fonnally titled the Decanal approved by the Board on June 7, Reappointment Review Commit­ 2002. tee, will receive lhe vote of the In addition to the parking facwty and then detennineamong garage, the project included safety themselves wbetherto fonnally upgrades and renovations to Ihe recommend to the full board of Tower, which were to be funded directors whether to renew the by revenue generated by lhe Deans' contracts. garage. Hastings ChiefFmancial The Review Committee Office David Seward stressed that is made up of three faculty mem­ the College anticipates beginning bers (Professors Joe Grodin, 10 the Tower renovation work next Carillo, and Sea Moulton) and summer as planned. Seward noted two members of the current that because revenue from the Hastings Board ofOirectors (Mr. garage will not be available, the lack Smith and Mr. Gene Towerrenovations will not include Freeland), the planned consolidation and According to the division of existing units to add 80 school's bylaws, the Review newWlits. Committee is allowed to pass on a Professor Charles Knapp JX)Sitive recommendation only if a noted, "On the bright side, now majority of the faculty vote for that Senator Burton is involved, renewal. Thecommiuee, how- hopefully he and the people ever, may pass on a negative working with him will assist recommendation even if a majority Hastings to resolve this issue so of the faculty votes forrenewal. that everyone is satisfied.lt would Nevertheless, faculty members be nice ifheand the other people who spoke with the Law News can come forward to creatively point out Ihat Ihe Review Commit- address the College's funding needs for the Tower renovati ons and safety improvements." Despite Sagging Job Marlcet, 431 Students Enter Hastings Demonstrators disrupted by S/aci Homrig, 2L the June 7 Board meeting 40 Francisco Recorder published an job ootlook will have improved. minutes after public comment Less than two weeks before article about the dearth of legal jobs JudyOlapman,directorof began. Randy Shaw, director of the schOol year began, the San in the sagging economy, but it didn't Student Services, said many stu­ the Tenderloin Housing Clinic and stop43 1 first-year students from dents have expressed concern about a Hastings alumnus, was testifying WHAT'S INSIDE: starting at Hastings in August theeconomy, and questioned when audience members started 1l1e ILclass-about whether the nearly $12,())) in chanting anti-Hastings slogans average in size-includes students PHOTOS OF THE CITY : resident tuition plustheestimated using bullhorns and blowing from 11 8 different tmdergraduate $22,())) in living expenses each year whistJes. Several audience mem­ instirutions, a variety ofcareers, and isa wise investment. bers, including San Francisco a veritable alphabet soup of ad­ But. at least a few first-years Supervisor Chris Daly (District 6), vanced degrees: MA, MS, MBA, are keeping the job market in climbed over the tables at which PHd, LLM, Med, MDR, MPH, perspective. lhe Board sat into the well fomled andMPP. ''It'ssuchaloogtimefrorn by the tables, where they stayed Onethingtiley all have in now," said Simon Nakajima. a UC until the police arrested and • PI\GE 10 Qp/Eo PAGE common isagraduation dateof 2005, when - hopefully - the See lLs ..... ,...... ,..... Page 3 See Parking ... " .... ,... Page 8 2 October 28, 2002 "nstinDs Iimu Nuu. Blue Ribbon Committee Appointed To b2h~~m~~e F ate Qf.J~e~!ciEmg~h!t:~p~!u5}~2~8~;m~i!~ Committee with its task, Hastings proposed by community groups) providing safe. affordable housing After the June 26. 2002 will survey the student body this would be equivaJent to ''maxing in downtown San Francisco. Board meeting at which the month 10 detennine the demand out Hastings' credit card." CuJJen has lived in the Tenderloin Hastings Board of Directors for student housing and what Seward explained that State policy for 21 years, and in 1990 he was rescinded the proposal to build a students currently pay for rental requiresthatauxiliary university named a Fellow of the Daniel parking garage at the comer of housing. David Seward, Hastings services. such as student housing. Koshland Civic Unity Program of Golden Gale and Larkin, the CFO, urged all students to be financially self-supporting. the San Francisco Foundation. Board appointed a "Blue Ribbon participate in the survey in order to Prof. C. In addition Committee" to assess building provide a clear picture to the Blue Keith to Cothcett options at the location. The IUbbonComm;ttee,'Thereal Wmgate. "The real estate ""dBrothe, Committee consists of five com- estate market has softened up and whoas market has softened CulIen,the munity members with an interest in the demand for below market rate chair of the Committee housing and development, and student housmg has dropped. Foculty up and the demand mciudesLeo contains no current Hastings facultyorstaff. :~=~~~e::~~~t:n- =: for below market rate ~~~y, Terry Sellars. TNOC Communications Director, said ~~~~;::!tiS:U:~~~~t~::~e :~~=ent student housing has ~~n:t that the TNOC, a nonprofit will1ikelyofferincentiveslikeraffle 7 Board dropped." during the organization providing affordable tickets for book store gift certifi- In!eting, _David Seward, administra- housing for cates to said "I look Hastings CFO lions of low-income "Hastings and the local maxUn;ze forward to Governors residents, there- the work of the Blue Ribbon George Deukmejian and Pete welcomes the conununity have a his- sponse Committee because the property WIlson. McCarthy was also opportunity to tory of cooperation .. mte. represents a major part of the Speaker of the CaliforniaAssem­ work with WhilelUgb College'sendowmenl." bly and is a former member of the Hastings. "We This will be another hopes have The chairperson of the San Francisco Board of Supervi- tltinkthe opportunity to coatinue been set for Committee is Joe Cotchett, a <Xl!llnU1tfe the Blue fonner Director andManaging Another member of the memberswill that tradition." R;bbon Partner of Cotchett, Pitre, Simon Blue Ribbon Committee is Brad make. Committee. & McCarthy of Burlingame. Paul, Senior Program Officer for s;gnilicant . Terry Sellars, TNDC Seward Cotchett is a former member of the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. contribution Communications Director cautioned the Hastings Board of Directors Fund, which is a San Francisco and we look that and the current CaJifornia Parks family foundation that serves forward to the Hastings and Recreation Commission Chair. nonprofit agencies with an empha­ results. Hastings and the local has limited options to develop the Joining him is Brother sis on, among other things, neigh­ community have a history of site. He said that the College has Kelly Cullen, the Executive borhoods, diversity and family. cooperation and we believe that $45 to $50 million in debt capacity Directorofthe Tenderloin Neigh­ Paul is the fonner Director of the this will be another opportunity to and to build something a structure borhood Development Corpora­ Mayor's office of Housing and continue that tradition" that offers both parking and tion(TNOC) TNDCwas Community Developmenl Rounding out the Commit­ Hastings Law News tee is Carol Galante, President and CEO ofBRIIX}E Housing, the If there is to be a Hastings community, the students must have a voice. largest nonprofit affordable housing developer in California Editor·ln-Chief Michael Dundas, 3L and a nationaJly recognized leader Sean Welch. 3L Alex Sood. 3L in state-of-the-art housing devel­ Copy Editor Sarah Peterma.n.3L opment practices. GaJanle is a NewsEdilOr Emmett Seltzer, 3L gubernatorial appointment to the Am and Entertainment Editor Brooke Goolsby, 3L SIaffPholograpller ReichiLee,3L Board of the California Housing Partnership and serves on the Editorial Policy Statement Board of the National Housing Partnership network. lllc Hustings Law N~s is the monthly student oewspaper of the Hastings College of the Law. Sig..ed opinion articles, when dearly The Committee's objective marked as such, represent the opinions the writer and nOl that of the College or the Law News. Nothing in thest: should he construed is to assess development options as the opinion of the College or any of its officials that are consistent with the News, feature and opinion articl es are lICcepied from the community at large as well as students, bul publication cannO! be guaran· Hastings' mission to provide ICed, Prospcdive opinion writers BUd 10 cont.act the editor· in·chief.