UC Hastings Scholarship Repository Hastings Alumni Publications 12-1-1997 Hastings Community (Winter 1997) Hastings College of the Law Alumni Association Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.uchastings.edu/alumni_mag Recommended Citation Hastings College of the Law Alumni Association, "Hastings Community (Winter 1997)" (1997). Hastings Alumni Publications. 98. http://repository.uchastings.edu/alumni_mag/98 This is brought to you for free and open access by UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hastings Alumni Publications by an authorized administrator of UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. II .\ ::; T I ~ (; S a II LETTER TO ALUMNI CAMPUS NOTES ANNUAL REPORT OF GIFTS Dean Mary Kay Kane describes -New Scholarly Publications Center Opens. -Big Gains Posted in Donations and the campus improvement projects -Hastings Hosts ABA Conference on Donors in I996-97. now under way and some of the naming Professionalism. -Fritz L Duda to Chair I997-98 opportunities they create. -Two Hastings Board of Directors Annual Campaign. Members Step Down. -Honor Roll of Donors. -Hastings Law Journal -Major Class Gift Campaigns Presents Evidence Symposium. Achieve Success. -Marvin Sussman Seminar Room Opens. -The Ralph Santiago Abascal II Post-Graduate Fellowship. -Hastings Hosts Conference on the Study of Highlights from Comparative Law in the United States. ATTORNEY GENERAL -Hastings Students Qualify for Preferential JANET RENO'S Loan Rates. CLASS NOTES COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS -200 McAllister Lobby Remodeled. Catch up on your classmates' activities. to the Hastings Class of 1997. ALUMNI RECEPTIONS PICTU RE BOOK II Sacramento Alumni Chapter's COMMENCEMENT Alumnus-of the- Year Award Luncheon. DO You HAVE A JOB .. PHOTO ALBUM Reno Alumni Reception. for a Hastings student or graduate? A selection of photos from the activities Hastings/ ABA Reception. surrounding the 1997 ceremony. ON THE COVER : FACULTY NOTES 1 'oam 1endelson, \ aledlccorian for the Class of '997, u 'lth US. Atcorney General Janet Reno, Hastings faculty report on II ho delitered the Com mencement Address. their recent activities. ( eT P/ux r.:rph trw k.ltr.-r<wn \1 ... ..:00 .1 I IjETTEll T() A l~lT~1XI WINTER 1997 s an urban law chool, Hastin gs closing 198 McAll ister in May 1998, fo ll ow­ A does not have the luxury of ing Commencement, and hope to reopen rolling green lawns and bell towe r sometime in late Jan uary or February to provide the traditional ca mpus 1999. In the interim, modular classrooms feeling that most students assoc i­ will be installed on our vacan t property ate with attending a U niver it y. But we are on Golden Gate Aven ue, and the other located in a vibrant and exciting cit y. Thus, functions that are carried on in that the chall enge is to create a campus environ­ build ing will be transferred to leased space ment suitable for our metropolitan setting, in other buildings in the C ivic Center. one that is welcoming and user-friendly, Obviously, fa ll 1998 will be a time of some encouraging tudents and faculty to remain JAMES EDGAR HERVEY (,51). This se rious dis ruption and inconven ience, but at the College sharing their insights and space is spectacular, offering a 360 degree as I noted in a letter to the student body, ideas and working together outside formal view of the C ity. It will become a center "i t is im portant to remember that tho e class room hours. Additionally, our ca mpus a vailable for casual gatherings of studen ts, effects will be only temporary and that should have a professional atmosphere, fac ulty, and alumni and, I predict, will be the end result is ve ry worthwhile." reflecting the ultimate caree rs that ou r stu­ one of the most popular meeting places Let me conclude by noting that to make dents are pursuing. around campus. all these facilities improvements as effec­ These ideas are not new ones. Indeed, In addition to these exciting develop­ tive and desirable as possible, we must, the notion of creating a UC Has tings ments, Has tings received State bond fund­ once again, turn to our alumni to help us "campus" became a reality several years ago ing that will allow us to completely add the finishing touches to these projects. with the erection of our Library and upgrade our primary class room building, While the State is willing to pay for the Faculty Office building and the acquisi­ 198 McAlliste r. The building, which was major construction and infrastructure tion of McAllister Tower, containing stu­ first opened in 1953, with one major addi­ work, the refurbishing of the rooms, such dent apartments. We now have turned our tion in 1969, is in need of se rious rehabili­ as the Marvin Sussman Seminar Room, attention on how to improve those facili­ tation, as well as refurbishing. While much must be accomplished by priva te funding. ties to make them be much more inviting. of the work that is planned in volves things Thus, the Board of Directors has autho­ This kind of effort is only possible by a such as se ismic upgrades and changes to rized a campaign to seek the necessary combination of State and private support, bring the facility into compliance with the funds to accomplish that goal and a book­ and I am pleased to report that we are suc­ Americans with Disabilities Act, some also let with "Naming Opportunities" for our cessfully moving to achieve our objectives. will have a marked effect on the quality of facilities, including descriptions of the This issue of the Community contains life in the classrooms. Thus, an entire new various rooms and the improvements and several articles and pictures describing ventilation and air conditioning system amounts needed to complete them, has some of our newest renovations. These will be in stalled, alleviating the poor venti­ been created. The completion of the include: (1) the complete renovation of the lation problems that we suffer eac h year Sussman Seminar Room and funding for Lobby in the 200 McAllister building to when the hot weather comes. To make the Hervey Skyroom have started us on allow for an expanded Student sure that we ca n take advantage of the our way, and I am most hopeful that oth­ Information Center, the reconfiguration technological changes that are happening, ers will join in this effort. Anyo ne who is of our Bookstore, and the repos itioning of all classrooms will be wired for technology, interested in finding out more about this our security personnel at the entrance of with all the desks allowing students to important endeavor, please feel free to the building; (2) the renovation of the 22d hook up their personal computers. And, contact either me or Tim Lemon, the and 23d floors of McAllister Tower to Class room B (our monster classroom, Director of College Relations. house the O 'Brien Center for Scholarly which currently seats 198 people) will be Let me conclude by in viting those of Publications, a new state-of-the-art facility divided into a large modern-style class­ yo u who have not been back to the cam­ for our six student scholarly publications; room, seating about 100 people, and two pus for awhile to stop by and see the excit­ and (3) the refurbishing of the new seminar rooms. All in all, these changes ing environs we are creating. We would Marvin Sussman Seminar Room, creating will significantly enhance our cl assroom love to see yo u and I know yo u will be a professional conference room from space and help to ensure that our teaching impressed with your alma mater's what was a bare room with metal tables facility is one of the finest, not only now, enhanced looks! and chairs merely strung together. but well into the 21st century. Additionally, the College just received a To accomplish the kind of dramatic very generous private gift that will allow improvements I just described requires us us to refurbish the Skyroom on the 24th to vacate the building for about seven to M~Jt~a\(~ floor of McAllister Tower in honor of eight months. Consequently, we will be Dean, Hastings Co llege of the Law . ,. II \:-;'1' 1:-' (;:-; Highlights from ATTORNEY GENERAL JANET RENO'S COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS to the Hastings Class of 1997 'm so very proud to be at Has­ convert vanity to prayer; it provides a don't care about their obligation as tings today. In the four years that view of life, its joys and its tragedies, that lawyers, they've got to think about it in I have been Attorney General, is better than any book; and it provides an the greater se nse of humanity .... I've had the opportunity to work opportunity to serve others. Lawyers acros this country should be with a member of your faculty who has Use the law to serve others by sol ving dedicated, both in their practice and in made a major contribution to the Depart­ their problems, whether you choose to be publi c and community service, to making ment of Ju tice, Professor Rory Little. the corporate general counsel or a lawyer sure that the children of America have I have been counseled on so many occa­ advising a per on who makes $35,000 a appropriate preventive medical care, that sion by the brilliant lawyers who are year on how to solve their aging parents' the children of America have appropriate graduates of this law school, who now complicated social security problem. But, child care in tho e formative years of zero work at the Department of Ju tice.