College of William & Mary Law School William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...) Archives and Law School History 1993 Amicus Curiae (Vol. 4, Issue 1) Repository Citation "Amicus Curiae (Vol. 4, Issue 1)" (1993). Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...). 390. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/newspapers/390 Copyright c 1993 by the authors. This article is brought to you by the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/newspapers Law journals reorganize, page 4 MARSHALL-WYTHE SCHOOL OF LAW Americas First Law School VOLUME IV, ISSUE ONE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 1993 TWENTY PAGES No inside favorites in search for M-W dean By MICHAEL HOMANS active role wouldn't be Nosinglec.and idate,noteven appropriate.'' fom1er Acting Dean Richard A. SuJiivan said he canceled the Williamson, is the early favorite first search because the tllree in Marshall-Wythe's second finalists, though excellent search for a new dean, according candidates, were not the "right to search committee leaders and fit" for the law school. Sullivan College President Tim Sullivan. would not elaborate, but said he Sullivan bristled last week at is confident "we will be the mention of student successful this year.·' speculation that he canceled the Asked if a Virginia first search last spring, in order connection or ties to William to give Williamson the and Mary are important. opportunity to vie for the position. Sullivan. who has been ''That would be associated witll the school for unprincipled,., Sullivan said. He nearly 50 years. said comment added later, "I remain a deeply -Tom Estes interested observer in t11is dean See HELP WANTED, tlagc 17 W&M celebrates its first Convocation in more than 25 years. See sear h, but for me to take an story page 3. Interviewing and employment trends from the OCPP By STEPHEN THOMAS KING as well as information volunteered by One of the reasons for the decline in One creative solution to thls problem Although figures for the class of 1993 graduates since graduation. emplo •ment rates at the time of and is for law school career offices to jointly are incomplete, Dean Robert Kaplan of One disquieting trend over recent years immediately following graduation is the conduct job fairs. The centralization of the Office of Career Planning and is the lower emplo rment rates among M­ 'dramatic change in the way employers several schools candidates is likely to Placement said that about 70 to 7 5 percent W graduates within the first three months recruit," says Kaplan. Since 1990 Jaw lure firms seeking greater cost efficiency. of last year's graduates are currently after graduation. Within six to nine schools across the board have reported a Although there has been a national employed. months after graduation, employment decline in employer activity. specifically decline in on-campus job interviews, the This constitutes a drop of about five rates are approximately at the same level a decline in on-campus interviewing. numberofinterviewsappears lobe holding percentage points oYer the class of '92 . as among graduates from past years. Firms are less eager to send individual Class of '93 statistics are based upon "Ultimately the percentage ... employed recruiters to different law schools across See JOB WA rTED, page 20 information collected prior to graduation, has remained constant.'' said Kaplan. the region or the country. Mule pub nixed; grex wants tv By SARAH R. NEWMAN desirable usc for the 1ule Barn. Coffee Students li,·ing in the graduate housing shop, convenience store and pub were the complex strongly \'Oiced their desire for top choices. Residence Life staff members better tele\·ision reception at the first Hall now re\·eal tllat \\ithout the knowledge of Council meeting held Aug. 30. the surveyed students. the College had Also re\·ealed at the meeting ,,·ere already determined the use for this plans fonhe Mule Bam. a structure located building as the Bookstore Annex. just behind the complex parking lot. This Attempts by last year's Hall Council space is the proposed site of a College to bring cable television to the complex Bookstore Annex and \\ill sell only law met \\ith disappointing results. At that books. time, theresidents\vere informed by Dc.an As some students may recall from last of Student Affairs Sam Sadler that tlle year. members of the undergraduate local cable companies were unwilling to Business Planning and Strategy class surveyed the law school population and See GREX, page 20 complex residents to determine the most - Inside this issue SBA plans an active school year. Health Center enlarges staff and Left to Ri ght: Serena Carmean (3L), Mike Hirn -Fred Ochsenhirt for M-W. Page 3. changes system. Page 5. (3L), Glenn Faunce (NoL) and Mari a Gallehr (3L) Crossfire debates censorship of An alum s view of tlle joys of enjoy the SBA's Lake Matoaka party. hate speech. Page 9. taking the bar exam. Page 11. 2 Tuesday, September 7,1993 THE AMiaJs CURIAE From the Editor's Desk • 0 • To those of you who are not strongly about, especially if it is familiar with this newspaper, of timely significance, please welcome to its pages. We hope consider writing an article, or at you will find it accurate, least suggest the topic to us. informative, amusing and TheAmicus also needs people provocative. In fact, we hope to cover local music, theatrical you like it so much that you will and other artistic events. Reviews be moved to lend a hand to its ofon-going productions are most preparation. welcome. Everyone knows there To those of you who are is not a lot to do in the 'Burg. so familiar with the Amicus, we what little there is should be hope you will fi nd that it publicized fully. continues to improve. Last year Ofcourse. the production staff kept us all busier than we cared always needs help during the to be. Important issues like the m:x:kendsbefore the paper comes dean search, the movement to out. If vou know how to use reform the Honor Code and the PageMaker or wish to learn, states' s continuing financial please Jet us know. problems and their effect on the Finally, as much as we try, College and the law school have we simply cannot always please not gone away. everyone. The Letters to the Any solutions will affect Editor column is the most many future generations of law effective way to voice Letters students. More than ever, we dissatisfaction. If you see To the Editor: Williamsburg verified that he of moot court arguments, and need your help to do a complete something in our pages that you As a graduate of the class of had been there throughout the while my teammates Joe and and accurate job of reporting believe is inaccurate or find '89, and one "in the know' month of July. Slowly, it dawned Mike studiously prepared for these and other equally important infuriating. do not hesitate to put about the Elvis lamp which on us that, gasp, THE further arguments, I took my stories. it in writing and/or speak with resides in the student lounge, I ADMINISTRATION had leave and \ entured to the lower In addition to "hard news. " the editor. have been urged to set the record secretly disposed of Elvis east side to "Little Ricky's, " the we are also always in need of The Amicus is YOUR straight for the legions of between the time the bar review store that had Elvis. To make a volunteers to write opinion pieces newspaper. It can only be as Marshall-Wythe students who do students left and students long story short, I got one of the for " Crossfire" and "Featured good as YOU make it. The staff not know the true legend ofEI vis. returned for fall classes. THE two remaining lamps, which was Commentary." These pages are will strive to provide the best (My thanks to Professor Jayne ADMINISTRATION did not identical to the lost Elvis. an open forum for student debate forum possible for information Barnard and John Faber, '89, think that Eh is projected the Elvis returned to Marshall­ and should be utilized to their and opinion, but we need your who both alerted me to the proper image for their school. Wythe amid much fanfare (I'm fullest. Submissions are not input to effectively serve the falsehoods currently circulating Throughout the fall, Elvis' not sure whether the students edited, only spell-checked. If interests of the law school about the lamp.) Josswasmoumedbyall. Tributes were happier that we had won you !\ave something you feel community. Therewereapparentlyat least ran in The Advocate (the the National Moot Court two articles in local Virginia predecessor to the Amicus competition or that we had newspapers last year regarding Curiae), and a collection was returned Elvis). Elvis resided in THE AMICUS CURIAE the origins of the Elvis lamp. taken up to purchase a the main lobby trophy case for Marshall-W~1he School of Law Both of these articles recounted replacement. However, to our some time and was eventually a false and potentially disastrous horror, no Eh is lamp could be returned to his rightful place in "Dedicated to the complete and objective reporting of student news and opinion" account of the Elvis lamp. located. It appeared that the the lounge, complete with a newly According to this tale, an school would remain Elvis-less. donated strand of pearls. And Editor: Leeanne Morris unidentified group of students In the meantime, life did go most importantly, the Managing Editor: Paula H:wnaford bought the lamp. and the first of on.