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Page 2, ANNOTATIONS, September 14, 1973
They shoot horses, don't they?
This paper , in the past, has made light of the de-
plorable conditions surrounding the grade situation at
this school, this semester, though, the situation has
surpassed the point of being humorous.
Much is spoken about the obligation of the student
of being prepared. In fact, severe penalities are often
imposed upon the unprepared student. We accept this
policy as adding to the quality of the lawyer being grad-
uated from this school. But, should not the faculty be
required to "be prepared" in respect to tis assign-
ments as the students are in theirs?
We are sure that grading exams are as much an
unpleasant experience for the professor as taking tern
are for the students. It seems absurd to expect that a
student will be excused from taking an exam until
he feels like it; but it seems equally absurd to us that
some professors are allowed to put off grading their
exams untill the time siuts them. Any student who took
BILLS AND NOTES form Professor Wilk in the Spring
Semester is well aware of this problem because that
class did not get its grades back until the Summer Sem-
ester was over. Other classes have experienced the
same problem.
This laxed attitude on the part of some of the faculty
has ceased to be funny and become tragic. The answer
does not lie in another Golden Turtle Award (although
the original Horses Ass seems more approiate now), but
in disciplinary action by the Dean. We hope the Dean
will take immediat action to insure that, in the future,
grades will be returned within a reasonable time of
the exam. S.W.G.
Something borrowed,
something rue
Several students have asked us to make some com-
ment in our pages on the current Watergate situation.
Thomas Jefferson said it best when he said, "The
whole of government consists in the art of being
honest."
THE ANNOTATIONS
of
South Texas College of Law
EDITOR: Stewart W. Gagnon
ASSOCIATE
EDITORS:
Bob Tice
Jerry Traynham
BUSINESS MANAGER: David Coover
EDITORIAL BOARD:
J. Weldon Granger
Dong Clark
Kin Pier
Don Brandy
Dr. Charles Weigel
The basis of our government being the
opinion of the people, the very first object
should be to keep that right; and were it
left to me to decide whether we should
have a gov't without newspapers or news-
papers without government, I should not
hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. —
Thomas Jefferson
A free press can, of course, be good or
bad, but most certainly, without freedom it
will never be anything but bad. — Albert
Camus
The First Amendment presupposes that
right conclusions are more likely to be
gathered out of a multitude of tonques than
through any kind of authoritative selection,
to many this is, and always will be folly;
but we have staked upon it our all. —
Learned Hand
I believe when our Founding Fathers...
wrote this (First) Amendment they... knew
what history was behind them and they
wanted to ordain in this country that Con-
gress. . .should not tell the people what
religion they should have or what they
should believe or say or publish.
Hugo Black.
Si
oCetteró to the C^ditor
ANNOTATIONS editorial labeled 'Mickey Mouse Club' calibre
LETTER BY JP CASSIDY
I am writing in response
to your editorial concerning
the parking place for the SBA
President and the Law Jour-
nal Editor in the school park-
ing lot. While S?W?G? is
to be commended for his
egalitarianism, I feel the ed-
itorial is a cheap shot and
reflects the sophomoric att-
itude on the part of the wri-
ter.
Would there really be that
much of a difference if the
two spaces were made ava-
ilable? The basic reason for
the lot is to serve the Ad-
minstration, the Staff, and
the Faculty. The Student
Body is fortunate that the re-
maining spaces were made
available to them. Would
S.W.G. go so far to propose
that all of the spaces go on
a lottery basis between Ad-
ministration, Staff, Faculty
anci Students? No, I do not
think so, since a justification
can be made for the first
three groups.
I. for one, am not upset
by this. The SBA President
and the Law Journal Editor
have volunte red their time
for the benfit of the student
body and the school as a
whole. While in one respect
it was of their own volition,
the fact remains they ire
performing a neccessary
service.
So, if one of the "spoils
of office" is a parking space
so what! Perhaps it can be
used as an incentive for
students to trv for these of-
fices. Maybe S.W.G. feels
slighted because the
ANNOTATIONS Editor does
not have his own spot. Well
the the SBA should give him
a spot also, and have No. 15
curse his fortune.
In conclusion, I think the
whole idea behind the edi-
torial was Mickey Mouse and
irresponsible.
Believe it or not?
Lounge is looking up-
in a Pig's eye
Letter,to the Editor
A recent article published
in the ANNOTATIONS and
signed S.W.G., captioned
"pigs Will Be Pigs", was
writtened in reference to our
student behavior. After a
conversation with Mr. Knox,
Building Superintendent, I
was told students had made
an effort and the situation
was improving. It is my
opinion that the tremendous
job of repainting , cleaning
and repair done by Mr. Knox
and his staff this summer
has helped students change
their attitude toward clean-
liness and hopefully this will
continue.
Most of us have a life-
span of three to four years
as law students and do not
realize nor appreciate the
improvements made to this
building in the past five to
ten years. There are changes
that still need to be made,
but they are not feasible due
to the new addition plan
which will encompass the
remodeling of our present
building.
To the student I ask that
you continue the effort to
keep our school clean and
to Mr. Knox and his staff,
namely Jack Matthew, Jessie
Daisy and James, I thank
them for their hard work.
J. Weldon Granger
Senior Law Student
I would like to submit the following questions for
publication in your next copy. If you will print a place
for people to respond to the questions, I will be most
happy to collect the reponses and tabulate them for
your next paper.
1. Are you a Democrat or Republican?
2. Did you follow the Senate Watergate Hearings on
television of radio?
3. Do you believe that President Nixon knew nothing
about the Watergate cover-up?
4. Should President Nixon resign or be impeached?
5. Do you believe most all of the testimony given by
John Dean before the Senate Watergate committee?
6. Should President Nixon turn over his tapes to the
Senate Watergate committee or Archibald Cox?
7. Will main Watergate characters such as Haldeman,
Ehrlichman, and Mitchell be founs guilty and have to
serve time in jail?
8. Do you agree with President Nixon on the mater
of ending the Senate Watergate hearings now and turn-
ing the matter over to the courts?
9. Is it still possible for the witnesses who appeared
before the Senate Watergate committeee on television
to recieve a fair trial?
10. Would the United States be better off if the enitre
Watergate affair had never become known?
I hope you find it possible to print these questions.
It should be most interesting to all concerned to see
the reaction of the STLC students concerning on of the
most important issues of our time. Mark W. Brickman
Freshman Student
(Mr. Brickman, we can't think of a practical way
to handle your poU, but have presented your questions
for student consideration. Editors)
Student Bar President's Report
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by J. WELDON GRANGER
I welcome all of you back
to the start of another sch-
ool year. This message will
reiterate many of my ideas
and statements made in our
last edition of the ANNOT-
ATIONS during the summer
semester.
For those of you who were
not with us this summer the
following projects have been
embarked on by the Student
Bar Association:
1. A research pool that will
service attorneys in the Hou-
ston area and provide stu-
dents with an income.
2. Outlines are now being
taken to continue the out-
line file hopefully tobe com-
pleted by the end of this
semester. Those wishing to
contribute leave your out-
lines at the SBA office on
the 3rd floor.
3. The new student direct-
ory will be available in the
first part of the semester.
Address changes should be
made as soon as possible
for the new directory.
4. A Constitutional Revisit
committee has been organiz-
ed and chairman Mitchell
Gross hopes to submit the
rough draft for approval by
the Board of Governors early
this semester.
5. During the summer ses-
sion the architect and build-
ing committee met with the
SBA to obtain ideas which
will be considered in the
final drawing of the plans.
Ground-breaking is to occur
in the first part of 1974.
Those with possible suggest-
ions see Richard Allen in
the External Affairs Office
on the third floor.
6. The administration has
now provided students with
an active placement service
which is also being operated
by Richard Allen in the Ex-
ternal Affairs Office. Much
concern for the need on a
placement service was ex-
pressed during the last SBA
election and was heard by
Dean Walker who has pro-
vided us with such service.
7. Dean Walker asked that a
student opinion be taken on
the desire to have Legal
Research & Writing taken
during semester break. This
idea was submitted to the
SBA--at a summer session
meeting—and an affirmative
answer was received on the
between-semester course. It
was offered between the
summer and fall semesters
and will hopefully be offered
in subsequent semester bre-
aks.
First SBA meeting will be
held on Tuesday, Sept. 11 in
Room 102 at 4:30 p.m. Se-
cond meeting will be held on
September 18 for the pur-
pose of selecting our Hon-
or Tribunal. Therefore all
of those interested in a just-
ice position submit your
names by September 14 in
the SBA office. Require-
ments for Justice are 30
hours, good scholastic
standing and Criminal Law
I urge all of you to part-
icipate in the SBA and in-
vite al 1 suggestions. Our
office will be open from
noon until 5:30 p.m. Mon-
day through Friday.
LSD
(Continued from P. 1)
Mid-law Senator's Remarks
By Mark Muellerweiss
FACT APPLICATION PROBLEMS
FACT APPLICATION PROBLEMS: STLS's
main goal is and should be to grad-
uate quality lawyers who can properly apply
the law to a given fact situation. Unfortun-
ately, it is possible for a student to re-
ceive a 55 in a given course and still
graduate. Does this mean that he's cap-
able of properly representing a client in
that area of the law?
If STLC is truly interested in. turning
out quality lawyers, why not adopt a pro-
gram to teach "proper application" of the
"Fact Application Porblems " during the
following semester and then take both
written and oral finals. Finally average
both exam grades(from both semesters)
to compute his final transcript grade.
This type of program would serve a
two-fold purpose. It would upgrade STLC's
graduating class and at the same time give
the student who just took a bad final a
chance to redeem himself.
STUDENT VOICE: The student-architect
meetings again pointed out the need for a
student voice at the Board of Trustees
meetings. The student representative would
not necessarily be a votiigi taember, but at
least he would educat the trustees to the
Stuntsv$£ws on subjects affecting "OUR"
Why not?
In a report accompanying
the resolution, the students
pointed out they are not rec-
commending that joint-filing
of income tax returns be
abandoned. They stated that
those who complain they
would pay more tax after ma-
rriage by filing jointly when
both spouses work may be
answered by pointing out that
they may continue to file sep-
erately. "In this case, both,
.husband and wife will pay the
same tax they prior to mar-
remains at home, she and her
husband may file jointly, thus
enabling them to take advan-
tage of whatever deductions
she may have, as well as
her personal exemption
the report said.
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