College of William & Mary Law School William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...) Archives and Law School History 1997 Amicus Curiae (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Repository Citation "Amicus Curiae (Vol. 8, Issue 3)" (1997). Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...). 367. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/newspapers/367 Copyright c 1997 by the authors. This article is brought to you by the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/newspapers A~icus Blast from the Past, page 6 ~mtcug C!Curtae MARSHALL-WYTHE ScnooL oF LAw Ame.1•iea~ Fi.1•st Law SeiJool VOLUME VIII, ISSUE THREE MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1997 SIXTEEN PAGES First--Year Representative Elections Declared Invalid; New Election to be Conducted . Today By Sutton Snook . "I don't know why the complainant would be released until the Honor Coun- identified as Carla Boyd. "I had no com~ Last Thursday night, the Honor Coun­ waited to file, ' commented Kiefer. The cil had resolved the dilemma. munication from her after the initial ' In­ cil invalidated the frrst-year representa~ complaint was filed after the election was The initial meeting is the source of the tent to Compete' fom1 was handed in, tive elections due to a complaint filed by over and the results published. controversy. " It was primarily Frank commented Sabia. one of the candidates. The new elections, In fact, the Honor Council was in the [Sabia]'s meeting," stated Kiefer. Kiefer Sabia added that one of the candidates in which all of the . candidates, barring process of conducting a run-off election added that the meeting was also attended for Secretary did properly withdraw in one, are listed on the ballot, will be held when the complaint was received. The by Aaron Goforth (3L), Honor Council writing, but that Boyd did not communi­ today. · Council decided to finish the election member and Election Committee Chair. cate to any officer that she did not intend According to Joe Kiefer (3L), Chief pending a decision by the full Honor Sabia admitted being in charge of the to continue in the election process. Justice of the Honor Council, one student Council. Consequently, no winners ofthe meeting, but added that he conducted a Although her name has been removed complained on Wednesday that one of the preliminary election were identified, the · head count, but miscounted. " It was a from the ballot, she currently has cam­ other candidates did not attend the man­ results of the run-off were not released, mistake on my part," said Sabia. "I'm paign signs up in the student lounge. Kiefer datory meeting, during which the election and all candidates running for the first sorry for this unfortunate incident, but I noted that nowhere in the Constitution is and campaign rules were explained by the year position were notified that some­ hope the 1Ls will vote again for the can­ it prohibited for a student to run a write-in SBA President and a member ofthe Honor thing had gone wrong in the election didate of their choice." campaign and added that the signs are not Council. process and that no further information The student that did not attend was See ELECTION on 5 Journal of Women. and the Law Selected. by the Order of the Coif to Host Annual Lecture By Krista Newkirk The Journal has already re­ undertake e ·pansive advertise­ back from the printer shortly. The article analyzes the lan­ The Journal of Women and ceived numerous letters and ment of this lecture to alumni Although the volume was com­ guage ofthe Convention as com­ the Law has been selected as a phone calls from scholars inter­ and scholars interested in femi­ pleted behind the original sched­ pared to other international recipient of the Order of the Coif ested in writing commentaries in nist jurisprudence. ule, the volume will be larger human rights agreements. The Lecture Fund. The Order of the response to Wendy Williams The Journal has received, and and will contain a variety of article' s thesis is that the Con- Coifhas selected The Journal of article. The article and its com­ is very grateful for, the strong timely, well-written articles. ention on the Rights of the Women and the Law from many ments will compose a special support from administration, Thehighlightofvolumethree Child, due to its inclusion of other applications to host a lee­ Order of the Coif issue of the ulty, and the Journal's advisor, is two articles concerning the female, as well as male pro­ . ture by Professor Wendy Will- Journal. Wendy Williams will Professor Susan Gro er, in its international treaties for human nouns, more efficiently protects iams of Georgetown University be speaking on campus on Feb­ effort to coordinate this lecture rights. Cynthia •Price Cohen, a the rights of the girl-child than School of Law. Professor Will­ ruary 27, 1998. with the Order of the Coif. well-known scholar in the area any other international agree­ iams plans to discuss a retro­ The Journal proposed, and The Journal of Women and of human rights treaties, wrote ment to date, including the Con­ spective examination of liberal was strongly encouraged by the Law has completed its third an in-depth analysis of the Con­ vention on the Rights of feminism. former Dean Krattenmake~ , to volume. The olume is expected vention on the Rights ofthe Child. See JOURNAL on 3 Students Rush to Busch Gardens Last Friday Law School Students Confused Over Where to Buy Tickets Last Friday, October 3 over 2500 school over where law students could Frida morning that Sabia received the plained that for special events, only Ger­ William and Mary students, including purchase tickets. Signs posted in the extra thirty tickets, at which time all of the many remains open, but that this section over 80 law students attended the William lobby and in the Amicus indicated that the subsidized tickets had sold, forcing the contains the majority of the roller coast­ and Mary Day at Busch Gardens. AI- Student Bar Association would be selling SBA to subsidized the tickets themselves. ers, the circus ·games and the Festhaus. though miscommunication bet\'l'een the tickets in the lobb . When students looked Students were allowed into the park at The issue was never resolved, but no pak management and the Student Assem- for someone from whom they could pur­ 2:00 p.m.~ and were allowed to remain other sections of the park were opened. It bly resulted in the management closin$ chase one, howe er, they looked in vain, until 10:00 p.m. The park closed to the is unclear-whether Patton will follow up the majority of .the park, the students , as the SBA had run out. SBA President general public at 6:00p.m. Lines for most on the apparent discrepancy. enjoyed the remainder until 10:00 p.m. Frank Sabia initially ordered fifty tickets rides were non-existent, and students were See photos, p. 12 TheCollegesoldapproximately2500 from the Student Asembly, and 388 of able to walk straight on. Many other rides tickets, according to Travis Patton, Presi- those sold the frrstday.leaving only twelve only had a five to ten minute wait. E en dent of the Student Assembly. The Col- or day t\'10, all ofwhjch sold quickly. the line for the front row of Alpengeist Inside SBA President Speaks 3 lege subsidized the first 2000, lowering Sabia theninstructedJimmyRobinson, was only 45 minutes. Weird Legal News in Law Watch 4 their cost to $12.00. The remaining tick- the law school representative to the Stu­ Some confusion was caused at ·the PSF Tales of Slimmer 7 ets were $16.00. Several dormitories, dent assembly, to get more tickets from park at 6:00 when the ·park management Virginia Attorney Ge.neral 8 including the Graduate Housing Com- Patton. Robinson, unfortunately. was told ·began closing off all se tions of the park Television Violence Rules 11 plex. further subsidized tickets, lowering that the SA would need to get more tickets except Germany. Both abia and Patton Coughlin's Pigskin Challenge 14 the cost for residents to $10.00. - from the park and that Patton would give understood that the entire park would Some s:;onfusion was caused at the law them direct!_ to Sa.bia. It was not until remain open. but the managment ex- --.~ I 2 Monday, October 6, 1997 THE AMicus CURIAE From -the Desk • . ~. l Last Friday, the Judicial seems to be having an especially the patio of the Campus Center. campus food services. Sabia rec­ Council declared the first-year hard time. Unfortunately, one­ The second issue was the an­ ognized that it may be hard to elections invalid and ordered new ninth of the year is over and the nual Student Activity Fair. Al­ find a vendor willing to serve on­ elections to take place today. It SBA is still struggling. They though the fair traditionally has campus, so he formulated a plan I appear~ that when the Student need to organize themselves, and been held during the first week during the campaign by which Bar Association held the manda­ now. of classes, as most upper­ student organizations could sell dent Sabia had requested that tory meeting for all candidates, The first problem to plague classmen do not return to cam­ food on a rotating basis in ex­ one of his officers get 30 more one candidate did not show up, the organization was the annual pus until the weekend prior to change for profit-sharing. Sabia tickets, who in tum asked Stu­ disqualifying her from running party at Lake Matoaka.