College of William & Mary Law School William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...) Archives and Law School History 1991 Amicus Curiae (Vol. 2, Issue 5) Repository Citation "Amicus Curiae (Vol. 2, Issue 5)" (1991). Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...). 81. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/newspapers/81 Copyright c 1991 by the authors. This article is brought to you by the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/newspapers Loan forgiveness illusory at M- W, page 3 AMERICA'S FIRST LAW SCHOOL VOLUME II, ISSUE FIVE MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1991 TWENTY PAGES College to monitor SBA funds By NANCY KILLIEN local bank. The SBA president and treas­ SBA officers and Marshall-Wythe ad­ urer have sole access to the account, and ministrators are replacing the SBA petty can withdraw funds at will as they would cash bank account ·with a college agency with a personal account, said Cangin. All account as part of an effort to reform the money deposited in the account comes student government's financial proce­ from SBA parties and fund-raisers. Par­ dures. ties such as Barrister's Ball can bring in as In a meeting on Monday, .October 7, much as $6,000 in gross profits, all of Deans Sullivan and Galloway, Richard which is deposited to the petty cash ac­ Brooks (3L), SBA President, and Stepha­ count, according to Brooks. nie Cangin (3L), SBA Treasurer, discussed The new agency account will replace setting up an agency account as a reposi­ the petty cash account almost entirely, tory for money raised at SBA functions. said Cangin. Money raised from parties Brooks said that although "the SBA will and other functions will now be deposited still control this money," the college will in an account held by the school. The also keep track of the account, "serving as college will not control disbursement of an independent check," on the treasurer. Devins deals 'em down and dirty at PSF Casino Canie Leonard According to Cangin, the SBA petty See BUCKS, page 20 Night. See story, page 16. cash account is a checking account in a Mock trial staging sin1ulates typical date rape experience By PAMELA ARLUK had known each other for two Defense counsel Will DeVan had given the defendant mixed guy." and would never do such a A mock trial involving a col­ years and had been out on sev­ (3L) tried to argue that the wit­ signals by inviting him to her thing. lege student charged with date eral dates. They spent over an ness consented to sexual rela­ room and kissing him on her bed. Professor Lederer played the rape was staged Wednesday by hour at the Greenleaf drinking tions, by stating that many times DeVan also called character judge, and the audience was the the legal skills firm of Lederer, and talking, and Zack walked women say "No" but actually witness Matt Boardman to the Posey, Stone, DeVan & Roth­ Flise home. She invited Zack up mean "Yes." DeVan tried to stand, played by Mike Him (lL). See MOCK TRIAL, page 20 stein. to her room, they began to kiss imply that perhaps the witness Matt testified that Zack is a "great The purpose of the mock trial, on her bed, and he pinned her held as part of "Soberfest," the down. Although she said "No" College of William and Mary's he did not believe that she really Cotnputer Integrated Courtroo~p. Alcohol Awareness Week, was meant "No" and continued. Bise to alert students to how a date screamed, her suitemate ran into assists M-W students in trial prep rape can easily occur on a col­ the room, called the campus lege campus, especially when police, and Zack was arrested for By WILL DeVAN eliminate the delay problems the system will be the availabil­ alcohol is involved, and to ac­ attempted rape. On October 17, Stenograph we've had getting trial transcripts ity of court reporters to take tran­ quaint the audience with the valid To try to prove attempted rape Corporation installed the first back from the Legal Skills bench scripts. Marshall-Wythe is de­ legal procedure. beyond a reasonable doubt, Law School Computer Integrated trials, and second year students pendant on the Court Reporting The mock trial took place prosecutor Stephanie Cangin Courtroom (CIC) in the nation at ought to find themselves with Academy of Virginia for court Wednesday evening in Washing­ (3L) stressed that the witness had Marshall-Wythe. The CIC per­ more time to prepare their ap­ reporters. ton Hall. Although the case definitely said "No," but the forms a real time translation of peals," said Professor Fred Le­ The system will provide users involved a fictional situation defendant continued to try to have court reporter transcripts and derer. with a number of advantages not created by the legal skills firm, it sexual intercourse with her. · displays a traditional transcript Lederer also said that although otherwise available. Hearing portrayed a realistic account of Cangin also emphasized that the on computer screens in front of other uses for the system remain impaired counsel, jurors, judges, how date rape often occurs on a defendant had held the witness the judge and counsel. Simulta­ to be seen, the system will pro­ and witnesses will all be able to college campus. down as be was preparing to have neously, the system creates a vide the school with an opportu­ more actively participate in the The defendant, Zack Taylor, sexual intercourse. Cangin called hardcopy transcript for later use. nity to prepare imme9Jate tran­ judicial process. Counsel and played by David Hopkins (lL), Elise's suitemate Carol Noland "We are very excited not only scripts of important lectures and judges will be able to mark text and witness Elise Saunders, to the stand, played by Ellen to be the first law school in the may allow the Trial Advocacy and look for keywords with played by Jennifer Ramey (lL), Ferris (lL), and Campus Police country to haYe the system, but class to depose \vitnesses for trials were out drinking one night at Officer Ken Love, to substanti­ we have an immediate and criti­ next year. The largest single See NEW AGE, page 20 the Greenleaf. Zack and Elise ate Flise's allegations. cal need for it. This ought to limitation on possible uses for CORRECTION --Inside this issue ----- The story about grade parity in the September 30 issue of The Amicus Curiae is substantially in error regarding the lack of a polic_· on grade parity at Marshall-Wythe. The faculty has, in fact, • Racism in Thomas • Cutler lecturer speaks on adopted such a policy. hearings? Page 8. bias in law. Page 6. Faculty members inteniewed for the September 30 story, including members of the current Academic Status Committee, neglected to mention the adoption of this policy when speaking vo.ith • Butler Baby Pool now • Best busts in the law the Amicus reporter. open. Page 12. school! Page 11. For a full update on the grade parity situation, please see Professor Glenn Coven's letter on page 2, and the story on page 3 of this issue. \.. 2 ========================================Monday, October 28, 1991 THE AMICUS CURIAE o ·ut of our heads From the Editors ... Well, the new College directories are out and this year, the world in America. Thus they go candidate for the coming week­ folks on the main campus remembered that there are 600 After the debacle of the Oar­ on, hoping each morning to get end. students over here on South Henry Street As many students ence Thomas hearings, the me­ through the day without being Contrary to Professor Rig­ have noted, Paul, Sam & Co. often seem to forget everything dia tried to paint the events of subjected to vulgar, degrading gins' desires, a woman can't about us but the color of our money, so this year they should that week as a sort of national remarks or actions. always be more like a man, nor be commended for actually proyiding us with copies of the di­ consciousness-raising session on It's hard for many men to should she be. Perhaps instead rectories that our student fees pay to print. sexual harassment. Despite this believe Hill because she waited of expecting women to be more Of course, if you want accuracy or useful information, portrayal in the popular press, I ten years to discuss the matter, confrontational, like one of the you'll have to wait until next week, when liz Jackson pub­ can't say that I've seen any in­ rather than raising hell about it guys, men could become more lishes a law school directory with the local addresses and creased sensitivity among those when she was a twenty four year attuned to subleties of human phone numbers of students. Could someone please find out who don't know what it must th~ old. behavior. how much money the College wasted on printing and whether feel like to be harassed because But that's a basic difference This is not to pass judgment we can get a fee rebate? of a biological fact which they between men and women and on which mode of behavior is It seems that in an amazing show of response to student in­ cannot change. the way they are socialized in better. However, in the put,_someone over on the main <4ffipus decided the book Many of the women I've America. Men are taught from workplace, or at school, people needed to be published "soon." Of oourse, you can get a clue talked to have spoken of a feel­ childhood to be confrontational, of both.