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November 2005
A Message from SBA President,
Stephanie Clark
Law school can be very stressful and overwhelming at times, especially at the end of
the semester when things seem to just pile up on top of each other. However, these
Ihree weeks of finals will be over before you know it - so hang in there. I really do not
feel qualified to give anyone finals advice since, as a 3L, I still get petrified during this time of
the semester. I will tell all of the lL's that the best advice I received was to take breaks in between studying - just a five-
minute pause or a fifteen-minute walk somewhere during the day to go grab a coffee or breathe in some fresh air makes a
huge difference. Most importantly, keep yourself in good spitits and find a little bit of humor in just how miserable finals can
be. To help out, I have included some funny lawyer jokes and law school stories to read during your breaks. Best wishes for
success in mastering the art of taking a law school final!
Tell the whole truth
Mr. Dewey was briefing
his client, who was about to
testify in his own defense.
"You must swear to tell
the complete truth. Do you
understand?"
The client replied that he
did.
Then lawyer then asked,
"Do you know what will hap-
pen if you don't tell the
truth?"
The client looked back
and said, "I imagine that our
side will win."
1/3 of a person
We were in first-year
torts and discussing slander.
The Professor stated that
one of the elements of slan-
der was that the defamatory
statement must be heard by
"one third person." A student
raised her hand and told the
Professor she didn't under-
stand.
The Professor went on
to explain how if one third
person didn't hear the state-
ment it wasn't considered
published and didn't fulfill the
elements. The student, still
obviously confused, asked:
"But I still don't understand
which 1/3 of the person has
to hear it!"
Mastering the Vernacular
One of my classmates
was having a little trouble get-
ting down the vernacular. He
particularly had trouble with
mortgagor vs. mortgagee. So
he was always careful to
check to see if he was on the
right track when new words
were introduced. One day in
class the Professor was dis-
cussing wills.
After spending some
weeks with exercises that re-
ferred to a "grantor" and
"grantee," we had a problem
with a testator in it. He was a
bit confused, so he asked, "If
the grantor leaves stuff to his
grantees, does that mean the
testator leaves stuff to his tes-
tes?"
The class roared. It took
him several seconds before
he realized what he'd said,
and our professor was ren-
dered speechless.
The Socratic Method
A simple, yet funny,
classroom exchange took
place between a Professor
and his first-year civil proce-
dure student. Having one se-
mester under their belts, the
class had begun to figure out
the Socratic method. The
Professor posed a compli-
cated question to a student
named Mark, who gave a
long-winded but intelligent
sounding answer. The room
was silent for a few seconds
after Mark finished speaking,
until Mark finally shrugged
and said, "Well, that was my
best guess. I'm sorry it was
wrong." The Professor re-
plied, "How do you know it
was wrong?" With the utmost
sincerity Mark responded,
"Because you're smiling."
Merry Christmas in Le-
gal Terms
Please accept without ob-
ligation, express or implied,
these best wishes for an en-
vironmentally safe, socially
responsible, low stress, non
addictive, and gender neutral
celebration of the winter sol-
stice holiday as practiced
within the most enjoyable tra-
ditions of the religious per-
suasion of your choice (but
with respect for the religious
or secular persuasions and/or
traditions of others, or for
their choice not to practice re-
ligious or secular traditions at
all) and further for a fiscally
successful, personally fulfill-
ing, and medically uncompli-
cated onset of the generally
accepted calendar year (in-
cluding, but not limited to, the
Christian calendar, but not
without due respect for the
calendars of choice of other
cultures). The preceding
wishes are extended without
regard to the race, creed,
colour, age, physical ability,
religious faith, choice
ofcomputer platform, or
sexual preference of the
wishee(s).
Food Drive Hits Record
The annual fall food drive at South Texas College of Law will provide over 500,000
meals through the Houston Food Bank. The college's 1,200 students generated
donations totalling $13,600 that will be used by the Houston Food Bank to pur-
chase 272,000 pounds of food, or the equivalent of 68,000 cans, to be distributed in the
greater Houston area this winter. Each year the students compete by class sections,
spurred on by professors, to generate the largest donations. This is a new record
amount for the students who, for nearly a decade, have provided the Houston Food
Bank with one of its largest private donations each year.
Year End Whatever
Confessions of a Law Junkie
By Tabltha Serrano
Assistant Editor
I am fascinated by little
people. Once I helped a
friend move to College
Station from West Texas.
She had transferred to Texas
A&M from Boston Univer-
sity. I, a geeky ivy leaguer,
was fascinated by the whole
mystique of the football,
crazy-mega spirit powerhouse
that is Texas A&M. I mean,
don't get me wrong, we cer-
tainly had fraternities at Co-
lumbia, but A&M has a
freakin' core! We pissed our
pants at the thought of cam-
ouflaged young men and
women traipsing around our
well manicured campus. We
were much more comfortable
with the International Social-
ist Organization handing out
flyers and spewing flaming
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commie propaganda lunacy.
But, really I love commies.
I used to drink forties with
one at the top of Columbia's
Butler library and, in the midst
of the frost, we would com-
miserate about the plight of
man and the folly of the guys
who would refuse to lust af-
ter us as we did them.
When I think about my
commie friends, I think about
their ideology and I, an
avowed free market libertar-
ian, wonder if the world
events of these past three
months would have been any
different had some benevo-
lent follower of the old Marx-
ist guard been directing
things. I quickly dispel such
thoughts from my mind be-
cause, hello, I can't even find
my old copy of the interview
with Stalin featured in the
now defunct Look! Maga-
zine.
We all wonder how
Katrina would have been
somehow handled better in a
socialist democracy. I sup-
pose this was effectively an-
swered during the last weeks
of October when France
erupted in riots and there
wasn't even natural disaster!
Okay, maybe this wasn't de-
finitively answered. Yes,
there were probably different
socio-whatever mishaps. I
admit this, but come on!
Let's all repeat it to-
gether, "Bureaucracy sucks
the big smelly one!"
But let us not get all
caught up and absurdly sen-
timental about bureaucracy.
There are bigger fish to fry,
like this McDonald's McRib,
which I swear to you I used
to love in my youth. Truth
to tell, I could not fully con-
sume the wondrous taste of
the sweet, tanginess that
erupted in my mouth. I
recall that its debut coincided
with Halloween and I had
yearned its sweet, succulent,
barbeque goodness until I,
belatedly, found out that it
contained, alas - the horror
-onions. Onions.
Back to the little people,
well my friend and I went to
the mall in College Station
and I saw a family of little
people exit an oversized
Cadillac. They had a baby.
I'm sure it was normal sized.
I thought that was cute.
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