Cheating
New Dean
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Cheating investigation under way
Student-dominated committee probes charges
By PENNY RHUDE
The short-I ived tempest
over the proposed honor code
last spring may prove to have
been a symptom of deeper
trouble. The Law School is
now faced with real, not
hypothetical, reports of cheating.
Shortly after spring finals
concluded-"within a day or
two," according
to
one
source-a number of first year
students reported conduct
that they considered to be
cheating to Dean Amandes.
Three individuals, all members of last year's first year
class, were named in the
allegations, but no formal
charges have been brought
against any individuals. The
reports continue to be "unsubstantiated allegations ."
Dean Amandes formally
informed the faculty at the
May 13th meeting . Faculty
members were concerned
about the cheating reports,
and they worried over the
reports that students were
quite openly discussing the
incidents and the individuals
involved.
Fearing that innocent individuals might be harmed by
the careless rumors Circulating
in and out of t he commons,
the faculty created a "Special
Committee on Reports of
Cheating."
Two faculty members and
three students were named to
the committee-Prof. Daniel
H. Benson and David C.
Cummins,
and
third-year
students Deborah D. Brown,
Rob Junell and Mike Morgan.
The committee's function is
to (1) investigate the allegations made against specific
individuals, gather fact s, and
make a report to the faculty;
(2) insure adequate due
process protection for any
individuals named in the
reports; and (3) examine the
present honor system, how it
works (or doesn't work), and
how it is perceived by both
students and faculty.
Committee members felt
that they all worked well
together, each bringing different perspectives to the
problems under discussion .
"There is a good mix of
different kinds of people in
the law school." As one
student member put it.
The committee members
say that the rules drawn up
insure adequate due process,
in line with those who set up
in the Code of Student Affairs.
In the absence of Law School
guidelines or protections, the
only other alternative is to
proceed under the Code.
The Code provides that in a
case of cheating or plagiarism
in which the student denies
dishonesty and further action
is desired, the case is referred
to the student's academic
dean for review and recommendation.
While it is not clear how
this process eventually plugs
into
University
discipline
procedure, the student is very
clearly not given any notice of
charges against him until well
after the procedure
has
begun.
A student is informed that
he is being charged with the
comission of an offense and
his right to appeal only after
an investigation, after the
evidence has been evaluated,
and after a conclusion has
been drawn on the type of
punishment to be imposed.
But under the committee's
rules, any individual now
named in the allegations
receives a certified letter
disclosing the allegations that
have been made. They are
invited to respond to the
charges and may procure
assistance if they desire.
Second, there will be no
identification of the individuals involved-those that
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make any allegations-nor
those persons named in any
allegations. And third-each
person involved will receive a
copy of the Special Committee's report to the general
law faculty.
Committee members feel
that an examination of the
present operation of the honor
system was both desirable
and necessary.
"There is a gap in what the
students perceive the honor
system to be, and what is or
isn't acceptable behavior,"
said Brown.
Junell said, "Under the
present confused system, it is
altogether possible for innocent conduct to be misinterpreted
and
reported
as
cheating."
"How much time is too
much time for taking a
bathroom break in the middle
of an exam?"-a frequent
example of confusion used by
HAVEN'T HAD A CHEATING RrAJR1ED SINCE'
committee members.
Committee members expressed little surprise at the
fact that cheating allegations
had been made.
"People have become aware
of being number 79 or 81 in a
class and that it might count
in the future," our member
said. Committee members
ruled out the possibility that
the allegations were maliciously motivated.
"I dont think anybody is
malicious, just mistaken."
The idea that somebody might
be "mistaken" in the allegations is lending impetus to
committee's view that, at
least, any report to the faculty
should contain recommendations of guidelines for examtaking.
The committee members
had mixed reactions to their
role in the investigation. One
student member was quick to
point out that they were not
"headhunters"
or
a
"McCarthy-like" inquisition.
All of the members hoped that
would
find
clearly
they
exonerating information.
One faculty member of the
committee felt that it was time
for an examination of the
honor system, while another
committee member wished
that "students would take on
the responsibility for much of
this type work."
The
members
of
the
committee have circulated a
letter with their names and
numbers where they can be
reached, and they encourage
anyone with information tending to "implicate or exonerate" anyone to come
forward. Other comments or
observations on the committee itself or on the honor
system are also encouraged.
Quid pro Quo: Give a buck to help a friend
By CLIFF AVERY
Last year, somebody in the
SBA decided the law school
should have a newspaper, so
he or she did what anybody in
the same position would do he or she formed a committee.
To this committee matriculated some law students with
journalistic background
two former reporters, couple
of ex-j. teachers, a guy who
used to run a bar, an English
major, a campaign worker for
President Ford and others. A
few of them were tired of
writing briefs in inverted
pyramid style . Others were
driven by an obscure desire to
. . . well, contribute.
After an interminable gestation period, as first editor
Steve Dial put it, these
midwives gave birth to QUO
(NEVER say "The" QUO; just
"QUO"). In its first three
issues last spring, it covered
stories on the split in the
faculty, minority recruitment,
curriculum changes, reluctant
Law Review members, the
women's caucus and ran a big
picture of an Easter Bunny.
Quo's been quoted twice in
the erstwhile U-D (big deal, I
know) but the score still
stands QUO 2; U-D O.
So as QUO starts Its second
year, we think we've come far
enough to jOin the ranks of
people who are asking for
YOUR MONEY.
You see, the situation is
this. The Student Bar Associ-
ation will pick up the tab for
this issue, but after that well, we just don't know.
The law school administration paid for half the printing
costs last spring, but Dean
Richard Amandes is reluctant
to commit any funds just yet,
because he's not sure how
much money he'll have and
where the money will be
pigeonholed. The dean says
he's supportive and should
know soon, but in a budget
pinch (The Guv says no new
taxes, you know), a monthly
law school publication may be
one of those luxuries that the
powers that be will find
easiest to abandon .
The Student Bar Association, and especially this year's
President Karen Tandy seem
anxious to help, but their
funds are limited and they,
too, depend on your SBA dues
not only to fund Quo, but a
number of other projects too.
The SBA is making a pitch
before the Students Association over at the Big School,
asking that student government fees paid by law
students be returned in toto to
the SBA. You never can tell
about student politicos, and
I'd be surprised to see the
SBA return all the money
without taking a little off the
top for "administrative costs."
More likely, the student
government will be very, very
tightfisted. Money is power,
eh what?
To sum it all up, QUO wants
to publish eight times this
year. That'll cost $1,200.
Advertising will pick up one
quarter of that. The SBA can
probably be persuaded to pick
up another quarter which
includes the costs of this
issue. That leaves $600 we're
just not sure about.
So we'd like you to help out,
if you can spare a buck. This
year QUO has borrowed an
idea from our friends in Public
Broadcasting. If you pay $1 a
semester, you can have a
Sustaining Membership in
QUO.
If you think that gets you a
certificate or something, forget it. It'd cost more than a
buck to print a certificate. I
guess you can put it on your
resume, if you're that hard up.
What a Sustaining Membership will get you is half-price
classified ad. Like the ad I'm
dbout to draw up says, if you
have a pregnant dog or a
garage sale or just want to say
happy birthday to somebody,
you can buy a classified ad for
$1 per 10 words. If you're a
Sustaining Member, only cost
you 50 cents. And you'll know
people will see it. You don't
have to play bulletin board
roulette.
So the next question is
"Well, hell, how many times
am I gonna place a classified
ad?" Who knows? But if you
pay a buck, chances are better
the QUO will be there when
you need it. Even if QUO has
to fold, the money from
Sustaining Memberships will
go to the SBA to be put to
work for your benefit. But
we'll do just about anything to
keep QUO afloat, short of
selling Pat Moseley into white
slavery.
Then everybody will get
eight issues free, right? For a
buck a semester? What a deal!
I'm a bit uncomfortable
making a pitch for money. I'd
rather talk about some of the
stories QUO will be working
on. Stories like ... How the
faculty operates in the last
year of the Amandes deanship
. . . What the SBA does with
your money ... Law students
in the electoral process . . .
Why law school is like high
school .. . Sex in law school
... The First Class: where are
they now? ... How to get the
most out of the Placement
Office . . . Plus the regular
features:
Quorterbackin',
Quotes, Quopinion and Guest
Viewpoints.
Most of all QUO recognizes
that law school requires
almost total immersion. QUO,
if it survives, will offer you
what everybody needs: a
spark of humor and a
sensitivity to the world around
you.
We need your help. Become
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New dean search
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seems precarIOUS
First year
class differs
There are more minority
group members in the 1976-77
first year class, but minorities
still make up less than ten
percent of the class enrollment.
blacks
and
Fourteen
chicanos begin their studies
this fall, an increase over a
scant five minority students
admitted last year.
The total projected enrollment for this fall is 165, a drop
of four from last fall's first
year class.
The proportion of women
beginning their law studies
this fall remained constant,
after marked increases in
preceeding years.
There'll be 34 women in the
first year class, up from 32
last year.
By STEVE DIAL
Two profs
not so new
"Welcome
back.
Your
dreams were your ticket out.
Welcome back to that same
old place ... "
Two new faculty faces for
Fall '76 are actually returns.
One comes from a two-year
hiatus for academic enrichment, and the other returns to
Lubbock eleven years after
completing his undergraduate
degree at the main campus.
Professor
Robert
P.
Davidow returns to the Tech
Law School faculty after a
year at Columbia as a
graduate student and a year in
Belfast, Ireland as Temporary
Senior Lecturer at Queen's
College.
Professor Robert E. Wood,
Jr. returns to Texas Tech as a
law professor after acquiring a
B.A. here in 1965 and a J.D.
from Vanderbilt University in
1968.
LAWYER-PRESIDENT -Dr. Cecil Mackey, who
takes over as Texas Tech's president Sept. 1, holds a
law degree from the University of Alabama and will
be a member of the law school faculty. Mackey, who
cites Tech's "regional mission" in supplying the
South Plains with it's professionals and business
leaders, says he has no plans to teach a course until
administrative duties on the main campus allow it,
probably not before the 77-78 school year. The
former Assistant Secretary of the Department of
Transportation, has specialized in transportation law
and has written numerous law review articles on the
subject.
On the occasion of his
resignation from the faculty
last spring, Prof. Martin Frey
observed that the law school
had reached the end of an era.
Frey's resignation left only the
dean and librarian remaining
from the original faculty and
indicated the school's formative stage had ended .
Frey's statement was at
least as accurate a prophesy
as an observation, for, five
months later, Dean Richard
Amandes had resigned.
Amandes' resignation, like
Frey's, was attributed tn part
to the occasionally bitter
faculty conflict which seemed
at times to involve style as
much as substance, personality as much as policy. But,
most significantly, it involved
the dean.
Amandes was the architect
of the law school, from
physical plant to philosophy.
His most vigorous detractors
among the faculty concede
his leadership was pivotal in
propemng the law school
toward respectability in its
early years. But as the faculty
grew and
became
more
diverse, his brand of leadership met with increased
hostility and resistance.
The faculty is now engaged
in the precarious task of
defining criteria for selection
of a new dean. Precarious
because it involves a subject
on which the faculty has in the
past displayed anything but
unanimity.
Precarious because if the faculty fails, new
Cecil
university president
Mackey, himself a lawyer and
to be a tenured member of the
Why did you come to law school?
Oh, sure, it's the second
week in the semester and you
haven't been called on in
class, and the faces and the
stories behind them are still
new, and the professors
haven't really begun to bear
down, expecting you to know
what they're teaching. The
skies are clear, and the
afternoons are warm, and if
you work it right, you might
be able to get a little tennis ...
But there will come a time.
There always comes a time
when you'll ask yourself the
Big Question, the same
question your friends who are
out of school and making
thirty thou-a-year are asking
you . The Big Question.
"What in Hades am I doing
here?"
Maybe you
won't ask
yourself out loud, and certainly you'll be reluctant to tell
anybody else that you asked.
Image, you know. But you'll
ask. Only fools and political
science majors who know
there are no jobs teaching
political science never ask.
But probably you'll find an
answer, an answer that you
believe. If you don't believe it,
you'll leave-maybe get a job
that'll gross you thirty-thou-ayear and then you'll ask other
law students what they're
doing in law school.
The answers run something
like this :
"A law degree will open
doors for you" . .. This is the
big line for law students who
know they'll never practice.
And it's true. With the job
situation like it is, you might
well end up a doorman.
"I want to make a lot of
money." . . .Another good
answer, but it assumes that
all lawyers make a lot of
money, and that you couldn't
make a lot of money doing
anything else. If you use this
answer frequently, you'll find
your eyes brightening and
your palms sweating when
you hear a siren.
"I want to have something
to fall back on in myoid age."
Wrong answer. That's the
answer to the question: "Why
did you get married?" not why
you came to law school.
"I want to make a lot of
money." Keep repeating it.
"Like, man, I think you
gotta get involved in society's
problems to work out some
solutions." Uh huh. This is
often a cover for the "I want to
make a lot of money" answer,
but if sincere, you probably
have posters of William
Kunstler and Petrocelli in your
carrel.
"It keeps me off the street."
This answer assumes that the
street is a bad place to be and
that you would necessarily be
on the street if you were
forced to leave the cloistered
order of academe. Probably
you fear that without law
school, you'd wind up listening to old Hot Nuts albums
while in the throes of a
massive Ibogaine hallucination.
"I seek the truth" Hahahaha
hahaha. Practical joker type.
"My
father-slash-motherslash-first
cousin-onceremoved is a lawyer." The
family business maintains its
legitimacy,
but
the
law
student who answers this way
is usually too busy studying
to
answer.
Daddy-slashMommy-slash-Harold
was
probably Law Review at
Columbia, while you really
only wants to make pizzas for
a living.
"I want to make a lot of
money." But then,
who
doesn't?
"I seek the Holy Grail." You
have been in law school too
long and will have to work for
a firm with padded law books.
"What can you do with a
Folklore degree?" One thing's
for sure: you can't make a lot
of money.
-D. Minimus II
law faculty, may determine
the criteria himself.
Partly to avoid a "default
judgment" by Mackey and
partly to promote faculty
harmony, a committee of four
faculty members and one
student has been establ ished
to
propose
criteria
and
procedures for a dean selection. The committee's report
will be presented to the full
faculty at its first meeting this
semester and, if approved,
will be presented to Mackey .
The committee has recommended few mandatory criteria, the primary requirements
being that the candidate have
"significant" experience in
legal education and not be or
have been employed at Texas
Tech. "Important," but not
mandatory, criteria include
personality traits, work habits, experience and significant
personal and family circumstances.
The recommended composition of a search committee is five members of the law
faculty and two law students.
This proposal, if approved by
the facu Ity, may be the one
most difficult to sell to
Mackey, in view of his
expressed inclination toward
a search committee which
would include representatives
of non-law school constituencies.
If the committee's suggested
search
procedure
is
approved by the faculty and
Mackey, the search committee, with assistance from
"advisory"
members ,
will
identify potential candidates
and solicit their applications.
The number of applicants
would be reduced to a group
invited for interviews and the
faculty would submit to
Mackey a list of those found
"acceptable" as well as an
indication of the faculty's
preference.
The committee has recommended that the applicant
who survives this process be
hired for a five-year term with
an option for renewal with
faculty approval.
Student Bar Association
vice president AI Pandolfi, the
student
member of
the
committee on criteria and
procedures, has recommended student members of the
search committee be selected
by the new board of governors
from among students who
express interest in serving on
the search committee.
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First outing
In any publication anywhere, the editor's first editorial is
supposed to set some sort of tone. Usually the new editor
pays lipservice to deep, philosophical - very meaningful,
don't you see - insights that are quickly laid aside in favor
of sparkling diatribes on The Advantages of Cutting Weeds
or Being Sick Isn't Much Fun.
You'll be spared that.
For this first editorial, I thought i'd comment on some of
the events of the summer and leave the deep philosophical
insight for some other future professional.
THE DEAN'S RESIGNATION
No surprise. I had expected to see the face of the new
dean on the first cover of QUO this fall, but the surprise
came in Dean Amandes' timing . It must have been a quick
decision on his part "to go back to teaching." Had he made
up his mind before the end of the spring semester, he would
have gone ahead and done it, just so the Search Committee
could look for some candidates before they inked new
contracts to begin in June .
And a YEAR to find a successor? That's a long time for a
lame duck to keep his wings spread . Still the long transition
period provides two opportunities.
First, to the students. Students, and particularly a Student
Bar Association administration that ran on a platform of
"accountability", must start early to win places (emphasize
plural) on the Search Committee - if not to make sure that
the new dean is openly committed to seeing that students
learn the law, then to demonstrate once and for all that law
students don't automatically shed their cloaks of humanity
at the door of the building.
I have heard once too often that students aren't equal.
Perhaps they don't yet know the law, but nowhere is it
written that a law degree is a prerequisite to becoming a
sensitive and sensible human being. Law students, like
everybody else, need to cast aside that smug contempt as
the relic it is , by demonstrating a sincere and articulate
concern for matters that affect their lives, present and
future.
The second opportunity is the faculty's. During what will
become an arduous search for Amandes' successor, the
faculty tends to come together and assert itself as a
stabilizing force - a leadership force - in the transition
time. Faculty members would do well to refresh themselves
on the goals they set in the spring of 1975. (Look in the card
catalog under Texas Tech). The implementation of the goals
shouldn't lie fallow while faculty and students await a new
dean.
CHEATING
Don't use it myself . Figured I could make my own
mistakes without any help, thank you kindly. But cheating
raised its malformed head with the current . .. er, probe.
Probe is a good journalistic word.
Another good journalistic phrase is "wait and see." The
committee looking into charges of cheating is top notch and
will, I think, be fair. But we should reserve judgment until
they finish their work.
Two thoughts: First, cheating is abhorent to just about
everybody, but the law school should stamp it out. The best
way is to get rid of the climate that creates cheating - this
tremendous pressure heaped on students' shoulders by
one-shot examinations, arbitrary grading standards and the
implicit enforcement of a class median mandated not to let
students learn, but to make it more difficult for them to
learn. This leads to the creation of "sharks" and as everyone
from Peter Benchley on down knows, sharks will eat
anything that moves .
Second, the cheating investigation shouldn't stampede
anybody into reconsidering an Honor Code defeated last
year. An Honor Code reeks of academic paternalism with
students, stroked by their own self-importance, acting as
play- like judges . Let's see where the problems lie in an
investigation by an extraordinary committee into an extraordinary subject, then solve those problems with a minimum
of bureaucracy and legalistic nitpicking.
LONGLEY-STAUBACH
Big Time Wrestling comes to Pro Football. The Mad
Bomber v. The Jolly Roger as the main event.
CLIFF AVERY
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Lesson in Legalese
By CHUCK LANEHART
Once upon a time, the
world 's people decided to
build a tower tall enough to
reach Heaven. They hired
lawyers to draw up the
contract.
God didn't much like the
idea, and He refused to sign
the contract, but the lawyers
went ahead and awarded bids
and the construction began .
Well, this really angered God,
and since there have never
been any lawyers in Heaven,
He decided to take a self-help
remedy. He created "impossibility of performance."
He made all the workers
speak different languages .
Soon the hard hats were
hitting each other with their
jackhammers, and the construction
stopped.
The
workers took off in all
directions. Those who spoke
Chinese eventually wound up
in China. Those who spoke
Greek migrated to Greece.
Those who spoke gobbledygook bought C.B. radios. And
so forth.
But God saved the worst
language for the folks who
had drawn up that silly
contract. To these people, the
lawyers, He gave Legalese.
Law students have cursed
that contract ever since
to get through law school, one
is expected to learn to speak
Legalese. And to make it as a
successful attorney, one is
'3xpected to spout those
legal isms freely and frequentIy. It justifies a fat fee.
Now, Legalese is a near
impossible tongue to master.
God planned it that way. But
why should today's lawyers be
forced to pay for the sins of
our ancestors? No way.
A method has been devised
to get around learning Legalese. All one need do is learn
the words. Forget the meaning. Even if the meaning is
wrong, legalese sounds great
in a sentence.
"The tee tail of the first year
class is quite a chose in
action this FaiL"
"To be sure! De facto is,
abet the one that just walked
by would be an excellent
accomodation party."
"Maybe. But I've heard that
that one shares a tenancy in
common with a rather mean
fiduciary."
"Indeed! Well then, let's
aquit this conversation and
retire to the Bar."
The practice of just learning
Legalese words and not
bothering with their meanings
has made many modern
lawyers very wealthy individuals. What client would not be
impressed with the following
advice?
"Yes, Mr. Smith. I believe I
will be able to handle your
problem. Venue first told me
about the case, I thought you
probably
in
loco
were
parentis, and that we might
habeus to corpus. However,
now I'm certiorari that we can
res your ipsa loquiter with no
problem. Wherefore, my fee
will be one thousand dollars .
Course changes
Bv DIANNE THOMPSON
First year students this fall
will find their curriculum
different from past years. The
faculty heard several proposals from the Curriculum
Committee before making a
final decision.
First year required courses
(in the fall) will now include
five hours of contracts, five
hours of torts, two hours of
civil procedure, two hours of
criminal law, and one hour of
legal research and writing.
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the works
combined with Moot Court.
The two hour course is set up
to accomplish several objectives. Faculty opinion is that
writing courses should all be
taken during the first year.
According to Prof. Bubany,
the faculty plans to teach
basic legal writing instruction
in the spring which will
culminate in an appellate
court brief.
The two hour combined
course will also eliminate the
two hour requirement of
advanced
legal
research.
Second year students who
took one hour of legal
research and one hour of
Mood Court in their first year
will only have to take one hour
of advanced research either
their second or third year.
A petition from 16 students
who objected to the reduction
of the 2 hour advanced legal
research prompted the faculty
to offer the 2 hour course this
fall for the last time.
In the past, civil procedure
was a five hour course taken
in the spring, and five hours of
criminal law and procedure
were taken in the fall to give
students a total of 16 hours
per semester. The new plan
decreases the course load to
15 hours each semester of the
first year.
In the spring, first year
required courses will include
Constitutional Law and Property (both five hour courses),
three hours of civil procedure,
and two hours of Legal
research and Moot Court. The
remaining three hours of
Criminal Procedure will be
picked up in the second year
as an advanced required
course.
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The biggest change in
curriculum is the new legal
Research and Writing course
TEXAS TECH
EVERYTHING FOR THE
STUDENT, PROFESSOR
AND CLASSROOM
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GENERAL BOOKS
SCHOOL SUPPLI ES
STATIONERY
ON THE CAMPUS
You can a fortiori one
thousand dollars, can't you?"
There's only one problem
with this method of getting
around learning Legalese.
After God created the language,
He
created
law
professors to enforce it.
One does not say, for
example, "The color of title
was
black-on-white,"
in
answer to Prof.
Reese's
question . Even worse is: "The
defendant impleaded with the
plaintiff not to be sued, Prof.
Wicker." And never tell Prof.
Hemmingway that "Mr. X.
Parte Young" was a party to
the action.
The best course of action,
simply, is to learn just enough
Legalese to get by. There are
certain multi-purpose Legalese terms and phrases which
may serve one's purpose. "Et
cetera" and "et al" are good
examples: "Well, in answer to
your question, Prof. Edgar, I'd
say the plaintiff could sue, et
cetera. But there are et al
alternatives. He could also not
sue, or for that matter, he
could be sued, et cetera and et
al."
However, be careful of
saying, "I et al the pretzels,"
in the presence of law
professors.
The thing to remember is to
be on your toes. If you can
keep up the charade for three
whole years, you're on your
toes. You can do your own
thing when you're in practice.
Or, as they say in the
outside world, "Do your own
res."
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AND
OPERATED
BY
TEXAS
TECH
UNIVERSITY"
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30, 1976
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A some ,times-bitter square
Assoc iation~members and faculty
a special election this week to s a
on the committee to searoh for a new dean~
The SBA officials -- President Karen Tandy and Vice
Presid ent A1 Pandolfi -- had urged the faculty to seat more
than one representative seleoted by t he SBA Board of Governors
atter applications by interested students.
But the faculty, in appr oving a motion by Prof. Murl Larkin,
limited student representation to a single member, and amid
comments that the SBA method was undemooratio p the fa culty
required the student repre sentative to be elected "at the
earliest opportunity".
After hasty me e tings among SBA offic ials, it was deci ded
that a special commi ttee of law student organi zations was to
meet Sunday night. The committee will take applioat ions from
students.':.intereste d in serving on thG Searoh Committee Monday
through Wedne s day.
Wednesday night, the organization representative s will
peruse resume-type appl ication, select an as-yet~und ete rmined
number ~f finalist s and submit the names for stuaent vot e
Thursday. A run-off eleotion, if ne oessary, is s ohedule d
Friday.
The lone student r epresentative 30ins Pr ofs. Larkin, Hal
Bateman, Rodrio Schoen, Dan B~nsonp and Assooiate Dean R.ed
Quilliam on the oommit teso Tp088 names were ohosen by the
faoul ty Wedne sday. Still to De named are a law school alumnus,
a member of the local bar or judioiary who's not a grad uate of
Texas Teoh Law School, and an acaaemio dean from anot her sohool
or oo11eg. on the oampus.
The two lawyers are expeoted -to be named by the tacul ty
this week.
Benson, seoretary to the faou1ty? predicted the
(aculty would also pass several n£J.mEi S of academio deans they'd
like to see on t he Searoh Committee t o President Cecil Maokey
for his selection of one.
But that may not be the end to the selection of the
seleotors. Prot. Frank Skillern, in a memorandum cir oulated to
the faoulty Friday, asked that the f a culty consider an advisor y
oommittee, to sit with the Search Commltte e, wtthoQt a vote.
sKillern told Quo that the oommitte e would be made up of
an alterna te faoul ty member and s tudent member s of the Law
Revi ew and the Moot Court B oard~ seleoted by tho se t wo organizations .
Skillern said that t he advisor y oommi tte e would g arantee
-more direot input " o
.
"The new dean will be particularly int ar~ste d i n the Law
Review and the Moot Court programs 7 and pe ople involved in those
aotiviti es can give the new dean bet -,e:!' M:nlers," Skill ern said,
"r'd be very surprised i f there 8 s any opi>oIDi "~ ion to the proposal. lf