College of William & Mary Law School William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...) Archives and Law School History 2005 The Advocate (Vol. 3, Issue 5) Repository Citation "The Advocate (Vol. 3, Issue 5)" (2005). Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...). 41. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/newspapers/41 Copyright c 2005 by the authors. This article is brought to you by the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/newspapers The Advocate VOLUME III, ISSUE FIVE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 02, 2005 WILLIAM & MARY SCHOOL OF LAW Marshall-Wythe Students Dress Up, Get Down at 'Law School Homecoming' bus company canceled out on us byWilliam Y. Durbin for drinking, dancing, and general After discovering that the merriment. The event provided Ramada 1776, the location of last because of mechanical diffi culties,” It started out like a genuine an excuse for “Marshall-Wythe year’s Fall From Grace, had no Quigley said. “It was down to the high school dance—attendees High” students to let loose halfway dates available in October, Quigley wire, but, with the help of Profes- hugging the walls, shuffl ing and through the fall semester, a time tra- and Bisk chose the Clarion from sor Williamson, Dean Jackson, and eying their feet, and keeping their ditionally reserved for high school among several contenders. distance from the dance fl oor. By homecoming dances. “The factors we looked at were Continued on page 2 the end of the night, though, it was SBA Representative Linda cost, the size of the space and the INSIDE clear the attendees were no teenag- Quigley (2L) spearheaded the dance fl oor, and whether they could ers; rather, they were law students event, booking the D.J. and coordi- provide enough bartenders so that Property Rights Conference....3 gone wild. nating the catering spread. Quigley long lines would not be a problem,” The Student Bar Association also worked with SBA President Quigley said. PSF Summer Story...................5 (SBA) hosted its annual Fall From Meg Bisk (3L) in securing the The two also had a little last- Grace dance on Friday, October 21 venue and delegating other duties to minute planning excitement with Stale & Trivial News................7 at the Clarion George Washington various other SBA offi cials, includ- the shuttle bus hired to run between Hotel and Conference Center. ing Vice President Trey Freeman the law school and the hotel, which Ask A Canadian.......................9 Approximately 300 Marshall- (2L), SBA Representative Sarah many attendees utilized. Wythe Law School students and Fulton (1L), and SBA Representa- “Meg and I worked like mad to B-Law-Gs................................10 their guests fi lled the ballroom tive Tom Robertson (1L). get a bus booked after the original News 2 Wednesday, November 02, 2005 FFG, continued from page 1 ing everyone looking so relaxed Sam Sadler, the contract got signed and having a good time,” Quigley at 5 p.m. on Friday.” said. Partygoers arrived dressed After the dance, some partygo- mostly in semi-formal outfi ts, with ers retired to the rooms they had some putting their own rakish spins rented for the evening at a special on the expected attire. To wit: an SBA-negotiated rate, but not as ill-fi tting three-piece suit made of many partygoers took advantage questionable material worn by one of the rate as the planners had lanky third-year student. anticipated. Early in the evening, students Some elected not to retire right milled about talking to one another, away, instead choosing to chow sipping drinks by the two full bars down on the cheese and shrimp that and greeting new arrivals. But by remained on the catering spread at the end of the night, the dance fl oor the end of the night. Fassie, Amy was packed with people enthusias- Wallas (2L), and others raced to tically shaking their tail feathers fi nish all the shrimp before the hotel and lovely lady lumps. staff took them away. In a race like “My friends and I defi nitely had that, everyone is a winner. a blast,” said second-year student In its ongoing effort to col- Nathalie Fassie. “I love dancing, lect donations for Project Relief, so any excuse to dress up and get which raises funds for those af- down—count me in. My boyfriend fected by Hurricane Katrina, the does not like to dance, so I’m sure SBA offered Mardi Gras beads to it’s pretty amusing to watch us in- students who donated an extra dol- teract. I pretend I’m on ‘Dance 360’ lar when purchasing their tickets. and he stares at me blankly.” The plan raised more than $100 Indeed, a good time was had that evening. by all. Such were the good spirits “The highlight for me was see- that even turning on the lights 45 THE ADVOCATE "Complete and objective reporting of student news and opinion" minutes before the end of the night the “law school prom” held in the could not stop the Marshall-Wythe spring, promises to be another Editor-in-Chief: Nicole Travers dancing machines. With such tenac- event to remember—or be so much News Editor: David J. Byassee ity and sense of purpose evident fun that there’s no remembering Copy Editor: Nicolas Heiderstadt Editorial Policy in these students, Barrister’s Ball, at all. Features Editor: Raj Jolly The letters and opinion pages of Assistant Features: William Durbin The Advocate are ded i cat ed to all Business Manager: Jennifer Rinker student opin ion re gard less of form Layout Editors: Myriem Seabron or content. The Advocate re serves Nicole Travers the right to edit for spell ing and Clarion Hotel Robbed Photographer: Jennifer Rinker grammar, but not con tent. Letters to the Editor and opinion at Gunpoint Writers: articles may not neces sar i ly refl ect the opinion of the news pa per or David Byassee Kelly Pereira byWilliam Y. Durbin standing 5’7” and weighing 135 its staff. All letters to the Editor Matt Dobbie Stephanie Spirer A masked gunman robbed the pounds. At the time of the crime should be submitted by 5 p.m.on Will Durbin Jennifer Rinker Clarion George Washington Hotel he was wearing a black hooded Nicolas Heiderstadt Tom Robertson the Thursday prior to publication. and Conference Center just before sweatshirt and black jeans. Jason Hobbie Tara St. Angelo The Advocate will not print a 3:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October According to SBA Treasurer Raj Jolly Zach Terwilliger letter without con fi r ma tion of the 19. The robber entered the hotel Ryan Browning (2L), representa- Michael Kourabas Nicole Travers au thor's name. We may, how ev er, lobby, showed a pistol to the lone tives of the Clarion Hotel did not withhold the name on re quest. Let- lobby clerk, and demanded cash. alert any of the Fall From Grace ters over 500 words may be returned The clerk complied, and the per- organizers about the incident, to the writer with a request that petrator fl ed the hotel through the which happened just days before Address Correspondence To: the letter be edited for the sake of rear entrance. No one was hurt in the dance. The Advocate space. the incident. Those with information about William & Mary School of Law Although a ski mask hid the the incident are asked to call the P. O. Box 8795 Williamsburg, Virginia 23187 culprit’s face, witnesses described Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U- (757) 221-3582 him as an African-American male, UP. News THE ADVOCATE 3 2nd Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference by David Byassee a greater good to the public than that to which A was putting it. Ac- The Brigham-Kanner Property cording to Dana Berliner, a Senior Rights Conference is the brainchild Attorney at the Institute for Justice of Professor Eric Kades, who in Washington D.C., a MSNBC poll serves as the Conference Chair- conducted shortly after Kelo was man. This year’s conference began handed down by the Court showed on October 28 with presentation that 90 per cent of the American of the Brigham-Kanner Prize to public thought the decision was Professor Richard A. Epstein of the terrible. So where does the dis- University of Chicago. Three panel agreement come from? discussions followed on October 29 The Fifth Amendment of the and were capped by a roundtable U.S. Constitution tells that “No discussion. person shall … be deprived of … The first panel focused on property, without due process of Academic Refl ections on Profes- law; nor shall private property be sor Epstein’s Work and its Impact; taken for public use, without just the second on Public Use in the compensation.” It would seem Aftermath of Kelo v. City of New therefore that persons may not be London, Connecticut, 125 S.Ct. deprived of property unless pro- 2655 (2005); and the third on Re- vided due process of law, and that if Speakers and Participants at the Conference included Vicki L. Been cent Developments in Due Process property is taken for public use, just of NYU, Dana Berliner of the Institute for Justice, and Eduardo M. Protection of Property Rights. The compensation must be provided. Penalver of Fordham, among others. roundtable discussion focused on Simple enough, right? No. the role of the press in making the Berliner said that most aca- from replacing any Motel 6 with placing further restrictions on its public aware of the use of eminent demics thought “public use” law a Ritz-Carlton, any home with a exercise of the takings power.” Id.