University of Michigan Law School University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository Res Gestae Law School History and Publications 1981 Vol. 30, No. 11, November 25, 1981 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, "Vol. 30, No. 11, November 25, 1981" (1981). Res Gestae. Paper 435. http://repository.law.umich.edu/res_gestae/435 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]. Sit at the KidsJ Table estat Vol. 30. No. II The University of Michigan Law School November 25, 1981 Students Show Support . 9/inic Meeting Draws a Crowd by Dave Rubinstein Room 220 was jammed to capacity reaffirmin~ their dedication to the Clinic was the only opportunity to help Sandal ow. last Thursday as the Student Senate choice of Jaw as a career. The Clinic those who can't afford legal services. • sponsored an open meeting to air was seen as a forum to integrate Jonathan Rose, director of Student student vie":'s. of the Clin.ic progra~ classroom knowledge into a real life Legal Services, claimed that Clinic Servi· ce Not before the Chmc Reevaluation Commit· situation, and to combat the cynicism members are the most zealous tee. The students spoke out over- and boredom of second and third year representatives of their clients' rights, w~e~in~ly in favor of maintaining the academia. In addition, the students viewing their clients as individuals, not sch 0 01 's Job Clinic m Its present form. reported closer relationships with the just file numbers. Much of the meeting. which lasted faculty sponsors. First-year students emphasized that 1 almost 2 '2 hours, was spent Students also pointed out the Clinic's the existence of the Clinic was an im- by Jerr Blake enumerating the virtues of a clinical importance to non-Jaw students, portant factor in their decision to attend program. Students reported that the especially the Clinic's clients. David Michigan. The lack of a clinic was seen Dean Terrance Sandalow, who clinic experience increased their con- Schreier felt that in a school attended as discouraging many would-be showed up at Thursday's Clinic Review session long enough to have his one fidence in their own abilities, while by future corporate attorneys, the See Clinic; page 2 remark termed "ridiculous" by one third-year student, defended that remark Friday when he told the R.G. Competition that, in his view, "The law school does not have the obligation to perform ser­ Out of Hand? vice functions for society · • Sandalow said the law school meets Susan Eklund has held tht position of its entire obligation to society through Assistant Dean of Student ktmttes and its legal training and research. The Operations at the Law Schoof 1mce the Dean added that he expects "to have a summer of 1976. Much o} her tune 11 significant impact" on the Clinic spent carinf(, consofmf( und counsemnf( Review Committee's final proposals. students about the peculiar problems thi!.Y Sandalow attended part of Thurs­ encounter in the study of luw f:'klunrl day's meeting, in a room packed with talked with R.G. reporter Riel. Of.1hansky >tudent supporters of the Clinic earlier this wpek about vanou1 toptn. In 1rogram, long enough to hear third­ eluding cheallflll and comrwtttiort ut the tear student David Schreier argue that low school. the Clinic is the one opportunity the school provides for students to directly Q. How competitive is it at this law aid the community. Schreier added that school? Clinic is a place where the Jaw school :\. I can't really compare with other can "implant the 1dea of g1vmg our schools but from transfer students servtce to those who can't afford 1t." who come here I'm not sure we are In response, Sandalow wondered that much more competitive than whether 1t wouldn't be suHictent for the other schools which students here school to maintain the clinic, but would tend to thmk are less com­ without credit for enrolled students. petitive. Wayne for example. or Schreier implied it wouldn't be. maybe the University of Toledo I "That's another of those amazing think at those schools, where the ideas that keep coming from the same students are older there tends to be office ... ridiculous," Schreier said. less competitiveness. I think our "Schreier 's argument was that students here in similar situations students should do it <provide com­ are Jess competitive, more inner­ munity services) out of the good of their directed. I think other than just the heart," Sandalow said Friday. "But competition, our students are pretty this is a demand that others pay for lonely. They don 't share problems your good services. The students who with each other. do enroll are unwilling to pay anything Q. How much of the competition is R.G. Photo by Paul Engstrom like the full cost of the clinic." student-i mposed and how much is Elise Bean, third-year Jaw student, spoke strongly in support Sandalow suggested that the clinic University-imposed? could be conducted as any other ex­ A. I think by and large that it is self­ of the Clinic. See andalow. page 3 imposed. I don't think students believe it is mostly self imposed. I find that most students are shocked to find that it is permissible to drop Student on Leave Commits Sufcide courses late in the term or that if by Joe Hardig circumstances have changed and Doroshewitz was "the most brilliant Second-year law student Jay Hardin they have to change a pass-fail Michigan law student David Doroshe­ student I have had since 1969. •· He was was shocked and dismayed over the decision that those things are witz. 23. apparently committed suicide always stimulated by life; he was on death of the friend he had known since possible here. I think a lot of studen­ last week. the executive board of the student age ten ts are surprised to fmd that we Doroshewitz was on a one-year leave council during high school, Bialobrez­ "Davtd was al"'ays the most in­ believe them when they tell us they of absence when he apparentJy hung ski added. telligent guy in the netghborhood:· are iU and might not be able to take himself in the basement of his parents' Donna Dennis, a Southgate High Hardin thinks 1t more probable that a an exam. So I believe that in reality Southgate home. Southgate police· con­ Enghsh teacher. suggested that an we are small enough that even firmed the death, but refused to say autobiography which David finished in second book wherein David espoused though we are a orofessional school whether it was self-inflicted. August might contain a clue to the his philosophy of life. completed just we can be more flexible with Doroshewitz graduated from tragedy, the Daily reported. According one week before his death. would reveal students compared to experiences Southgate High School in 1976 and from to Dennis, the book, which traced Da­ the source of Oavtd's problem. they have had in large under- Michigan State University in 1980. vid's life after high school. was de­ David's friends constdered him Southgate High political science pressing and dwelled upon a death brilliant and creative wtth a basically S«>f Eklund. pag«> 2 teacher . William Bialobrezski. said WISh. cheerful disposition. Res Gestae November 25. 1981 page 2 through a character and fitness pecting people to go out into practice stress. Moving to a new place, con­ exam for the bar. I trunk something in a few years and be honest, and all templating moving to another new the faculty feels more acutely than the stuff we've been talking about, place, forming relationships, ending Eklund, the students is the pressures of prac­ and yet we aren 't sure we can trust relationships, with lovers and par­ f rom page 1 tice. The pressure of knowing that a them to take an exam one afternoon ents and siblings. There is a whole slight bit of perjury on the part of the and keep their mouths shut around area of stress that has nothing to do graduate universities. client may win a case that is just classmates till their classmates take with compet it i~enes s. Students are Q. Let me skip over to the situation anyway. it in the morning a little silly. Of very lonely and they don't talk to in Professor Martin's {:()mm Trans Q. Do you think that the cheating you course there is this thing in Jim each other, at least not in wide class. What was your immediate ' have seen is in any way a natural Martin's class which suggests that enough circles. Students fail to per­ reaction when you heard of his outgrowth of the competitive. at­ this would be a terribly silly thing to ceive. I'll bet, that next Monday when suspicions? mosphere here? do. I'm not s ure it would be they come back from Thanksgiving A. Basically it was not a reaction of A. Maybe understandable but not workable, and I do think there would that they will be very Uptight be­ shock. A lot of students tell me there something we can turn our backs on.