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ANNOTATIONS
of
The South Texas College of Law
A PUBLICATION OF THE STUDENT BAR ASSOCIATION
WINTER 1968
HONOR CODE -
1st SEMESTER REPORT
The students of South Texas College
of Law again have an honor code, which
is an important part of student life at
this school. All law schools I know
have an honor code. It places the
responsibility for the conduct of student
life squarely on the students where the
responsibility should be placed. Just
as the ethics of the licensed prac-
ticing bar is subject to the control
of the supreme court of the state,
administered by local grievance com-
mittees, the honor code and honor
court of South Texas College of Law
derives its power by grant of the admin-
istration. That the administration of
South Texas College of Law is clearly
working toward a better defined relation-
ship between school and student cannot
be subject to good faith doubts when the
honor code and its provisions are studied
in any detail. The present code was
adopted by the Student Bar Board of
Governors after lengthy open hearings
where all students had an opportunity to
present their views. The result, while
not perfect, appears to be workable. It
differs from prior codes in some few
very important areas.
Prior codes were not readily sub-
ject to amendment because they re-
quired 66.66 per cent of all eligible
students to vote in favor of the amend-
ment. The present code simply requires
that fifteen per cent of the student body
sign a petition requesting that the code
be changed in a given particular, and
the Board of Governors of the Student
Bar will then be required to call an
election—a referendum—and two-thirds
of the voting students can then amend
the code. Certain necessary amendments,
impossible under the old code, will now
be much more easily obtainable with the
more realistic requirements.
The new code makes it a violation to
inform another student, or be informed,
concerning the contents of a prior exam-
ination without the consent of the in-
structor concerned. This seems desir-
able in that it will prevent future exam
"file building" by any fraternity or inde-
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MORRISON ADDRESSED
STUDENT BODY
Justice W. A. Morrison of the Court
of Criminal Appeals addressed the stu-
dent body on March 4, 1968, under spon-
sorship of the Student Bar Association.
The subject of Justice Morrison's address
was "Has the U.S. Supreme Court Turned
the Corner."
Judge Morrison has served as Pre-
siding Judge, the youngest in the history
of the court, and as Chairman of the
Judicial Section of the State Bar. He
has collaborated in the writing of man-
uals and texts used by the legal profes-
sion and has served as Chairman of the
Editing Sub-Committee of the State Bar
for a revision of the Code of Criminal
Procedures. Judge Morrison has served
as Chairman of the Committee for Eval-
uation and Recommendations on Proce-
dure During Trial. For his work on the
new Code he was named by the State Bar
of Texas as the recipient of an award of
commendation.
Shortly after graduation from the
University of Texas Law School, Judge
Morrison became City Attorney of the
City of Cameron, Texas.
This was followed by a long period
when he served as District Attorney of
the 20th Judicial District, during which
time he was President of the District
and County Attorneys Association of
Texas. While acting in this capacity, he
enlisted in the U. S. Army as a Private
and served 36 months in Europe, receiv-
ing four battle stars for combat service.
Upon his return he was elected Dis-
trict Judge. In 1950, he was elected to
the Court of Criminals Appeals. In 1956,
he was re-elected, and then in 1962 he
was re-elected to the term he is now
serving. During his tenure, the Court
has decided more than 15 thousand cases
and less than one-tenth of one percent
have been reversed by the Supreme Court
of the United States.
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Student Bar activities at the South
Texas College of Law do not suffer
from lack of interest or involvement. The
SBA is already well on its way into the
activities calendar (see related ar-
ticles). Not having these basic problems
to cope with, we should turn to other
needs of the system to see if we can
do something to insure that the present
state of affairs may improve, or at
least remain at its high peak.
The transitory nature of a student
body necessarily presents problems to
school institutions which purport to
remain and grow while its life blood,
the students, come and go. Elected
leaders of our school organizations,
student government representatives, and
especially Student Bar Association
committee chairmen, generally start their
work each year with little or no know-
ledge of what the job entails. Few are
still around to answer inquiries as to
"how it was done " and, as a result,
valuable information and tools are lost.
The problem therefore seems to be a
twofold one: that of providing those
stepping in with the information nec-
essary to get the ball rolling, and pre-
serving the procédural work and know-
ledge of those moving on.
A proposed Student Bar publication,
which we will call BARDEX, seeks not
only to answer these problems, but also
to provide other valuable services.
Accumulated information will be pre-
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Davidge, Miller. Annotations of the South Texas College of Law (Houston, Tex.), Winter, 1968, newspaper, 1968; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth144321/m1/1/: accessed May 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting South Texas College of Law.