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Time to go to the dry cleaners! est a£ Vol. 44 No. 2 The University of Michigan Law School September 27, 1993 Students See Support for Boycott By Brian O'Donnell & Julie Beck would bar Colorado employers from terview at NYU this year, she said. Colorado f urns have scm unsolicited have minimal impacto n the state while RG News Writers interviewing at the law school unless Those two firms are among 13 statements describing their partici­ causing genuine harm to Michigan A group of law students began they show that they are devoting "a frrms scheduled to interview at Michi­ pation in efforts to defeat the amend­ studen ts seeking jobs there. And they pressuring the faculty last week to substantial amount" of resources to gan in September and October for ment also note that the boycott could dis­ bar Colorado employers from cam­ overturning Amendment 2. The positions in their Colorado offices. Not surprisingly, the proposal courage young lawyers who are most pus, in protest of that state'sconstitu­ policy would also prohibit the usc of The proposed policy does not re- has sparked mixed reactions among likely to fight Amendment 2 from tional amendment pcrmitling dis­ law school funds for the purchase of moving there. crimination against homosexuals. goods and services from Colorado­ Please look inside for re1ated " It only hurts people who might In response, some other law based companies and for conven­ bewiiJingtogohomeandworkagainst students are recoiling at the prospect tions and meetings. The bar would be stories: the amendment in the first place," that their Colorado job search, al­ part of a general boycou of the Colo­ said one thi rd-year student from Colo­ ready burdened by a weak economy, rado economy, with exemptions for Co1nmentai·y oq :. R;ige 3 rado, who said she is having a hard will soon face new hurdles. academic endeavors. enough time finding a job there. "It's The Queer Law Students Alli­ NYU's policy requires employ­ QLSA.Lette1· oll.. p,g~ 3 not that I don't sec the principle of . ·::-·. -:. -··. ance (QLSA) - formerly known as ers to describe in writing their efforts what they're trying to do. It's just the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Law to combat the amendment, and in the quire wriuen statements, but instead students. There has been spirited very frustrating. ll's hurting people Students Alliance - is urging the recent interview season, on ly two insists that a "Boycott Colorado hallway debate since QLSA distrilr who are innocent" faculty to insutute a boycou similar law fumsdid so, said Jane Thieberger, Committee" decide whether fums uted lavender fliers describing the CharlOtte Croson, a leader of the to one approved in April by the fac­ assistant dean in charge of place­ have made it a "high institutional proposed boycou to all students QLSA, is sympathetic but unyield­ ulty at New York University Law ment Those firms - Arnold & priority" to fight the amendment. Thursday. ing. School. Porter and Holland & Hart - were According to Nancy Krieger, Students seeking jobs in Colo­ The policy proposed by QLSA the only Colorado employers to in- Michi gan Director of Placement, rado maintain that the boycott would See BOYCOTT, page 4 First-Time Professors Join Law F acuity By Stacie Brown legal careers with a day full of con­ both graduates of Yale Law School, As a law student, Logue co-au­ RG News Writer tracts, property, torts, and case club joined the Michigan faculty as full thored an article entitled The First­ The first day of classes marked a assignments, two professors were time assistant professors. Party Insurance Externality: An new beginning for studenL~ and pro­ beginning their teaching careers. For Croley, whose primary in­ Economic Justification for Enter­ fessors alike. While ILs began their Steven P. Croley and Ky le D. Logue, terest lies in torts and product liabil­ prise Liability, which appeared in ity, accepting a position at Michigan the Cornell Law Review. Logue was like a homecoming. A native of values legal scholarship and said t11 at Michigan, Croley earned his A.B. while in practice, he had many ideas from the University in 1988. He later for scholarship which he would like clerked for the Hon. Stephen F. Wil­ to pursue at Michigan. liams of the U.S. Court of Appeals "I liked prac ti cing law," said for the D.C. Circuitand then auended Logue, "but I think I like this better." graduate school at Princeton Univer­ Logue stated that as a practitioner he sity. Croley is now preparing his dis­ learned things about career choices sertation in the area of administrative and the legal profession itself which law. he wants to share with Michigan stu­ Professor l..ogu.e Logue (B.A., Auburn Univer­ dents. sity), a former Truman Scholar, Both Croley and Logue want humor into the class and have a lot of clerked for the Hon. Pa!rick E. Hig­ their students to gain a thorough people participate each day." ginbotham of the U.S. Court of understanding of the law, as well as Professor Croley currently Appeals for the Fifth Circuit before an appreciation for the undcrlymg teachesTortsand will teach Adminis­ practicing tax Jaw at Sutherland, policy issues and theoretical frame­ trative Law next semester. Professor Asbill & Brennan in Atlanta. He work. Logue teaches Tax I th1s term and will credits his desire to teach not only to Croley describes his tcachmg teach Insurance Law in the winter. his family,manyofwhom were teach­ style as "unconventional". "Intel­ ers, but also to his experiences in the lectually, my class is extremely seri­ Photographs by Emily Auckland. Professor Croley field of legal scholarship. ous, said Croley, but I like to inject The Re~ Ce~tae- Seplember 27, 1993- page 2 Students Deserve to Have f xams Read By Noah Finkel to award an arbitrary grade- was fair. examination. She extended the deadline for both to June 1. RG Executive Editor · I must admit I have chronic difficulties writing legibly on Therefore, she had a month to grade all these papers and ouLiines The faculty's recent overhaul of the grading system, pro­ exams. I do not type my exams because I am a slow typist and do prior to the school's dcadlme for providing grades. Even if she viding professors with added grade options for their students, not think I should be penalized on my grade because of that. Nor didn't glance at the students' outlines, she had 6000 pages of was in part motivated to better reflect subLle $1ifferences in should legibility ever factor into a grade. It has no bearing on papers to read and grade in a month. That's about 200 pages a stu<knt perfonnancc. Previously, a student"' ho wrote a "good" success as a lawyer and thus should not have any bcanng on day.It m:.~y not t'C difficult to r~ad 200 of John Grisham's prose exam a point away from an 8 received a C+, the same grade as students' grades. When other professors had dtfficulty reading tn a day, but 200 pages of legal analysis is another matter, someone who wrote a "mediocre" exam. Now that student can my exams, they asked me to type what I had wriuen for them. I especially "'hen all the studcnLo;' papers must be compared earn a B-. a grade higher lhan the "mediocre" performance. always returned a typed exam wtthin 24 hours. agamst C:J-.h thc r. Such a shift should provtde students with a more accurate Sensing that this exam might be difficult to read, I wc'1tto And in another class IJ,t term, 18 students enrolled in a assessment of their perfonnance. But that conclusion is prem­ the Records Office a week aftcrthecxam and asked a cit rk 1f she scmtnar. The professor did not require a paper of the students, ised upon a now questionable assumption: that aU professors could ask that professor if he could read my exam and,tfhecould as is customar) in seminars. Rather, the professor required actually read their students' exams. not read it, whether I could type it. The professor did not respond c;tudcnts to give class presentations in pairs. At the end of the In one class last tenn, I received a grade below what I to those overtures. Instead, he guessed at my grade. semester, the professor issued two As and 16 Bs. Included thought I had earned. When I went to ask the professor where I would like to think that this represents an isolated incident, among the Bs were a few studcnL~ who never gave presentations I went wrong, he admiued he could not read my handwriting but in other classes last tenn professors issued students grades and others who attended barely a majori ty of all classes.