Annotations (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 5, March 2, 1973 Page: 1 of 5
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VOL. í, No. 5
SBA
Meeting
Wednesday, February 21
at 7:30 pm was a meeting of the
Student Bar Association. The
meeting iras called to order by
President Stafford and those in
attendance were Paul Zeis, Bob
Estrada, Chic Matthews, Rollie
Weium, Jack Pepper and Jo Ann
Gertaril. The minutes from the
last meeting were read by Paul
Zeis and the treasurer's report
was read by Rollie Weium. No
question or objection was raised
to either.
The following were appointed
to the election commlttie for the
election March 8 and 9."
Independents-- Steve Halpin,
Roger Schmidt, Dick Greenburg,
Dennis Rich.
Delts — John Mastin, Tody
Dupont (Election Chairman),
David Reed, Troy King.
Pads — J. R. Smith, Carl
Haggard, Mike O'brien, Bronson
Mann.
Dr. Charles Weigal is faculty
advisor to the election commit-
tee. The sum o! $25.00 wis al-
located by the SBA to cover any
incidental costs.
The annual 13th cicirit LSD-
ABA convention is March 8-11
in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Since
this situation presents a Ural ?
this situation presents a limbo
period fot STCL because our ele-
ctions will not be final at that
time, Bob Estrada who is
currently the only candidate for
LSD- Representative will be sent
as a reading representative.
James Stafford will be sent asan
alternate. The SBA- Board of
Governors allocated $280 for
theif trip.
Appointments for Honor Court
were tabled until the next SBA
meot'ig.
Jack Pepper dicussed the April
7 Spring Banquet at the Shamrock
Hilton Hotel. Volunteus are need-
ed for students ticket sales-
please contact Rollie Weium at
please contact Rollie Weium or
Jack Pepper (645-9782).
March 5 at 5:30 classes
will be dismissed so students
may attend speaches given by
candidates for the SBA- Board
of Governors.
The SBA meeting was (as us -
ual) only sparsely attended there-
fore the requisit 10% of the
Student Body was not for passage
of a constitutional amendment.
The amendments were tabled un-
til the next meeting.
Anomination from the floor
was brought by Stewart Gagnon
to award President Stafford an
hooorory "Golden Turtle Award
for his delay in presenting the
constitutional amendments. The
Board of Governors voted 3-3
on the motion and President
Stafford exercised his tie-Break-
ing power to vote in favor of
that motion. Chic Matthews made
a friendly amendment to that
mnt'an that the award be called
"Horse's Ass Award" but it died
for want of a second.
SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW
Friday, March 2,1973
New Publication Types of Election Polliig
Policy
Elections Hoces !■
_ fin ! i j -ol news-
paper mu.it maintain the highest
degree of accuracy and truth-
fullness and noting that many art-
icles published heretofore have
been inaccurate or based solely
on personal «opinion the Editor-
ial Board of Annotations in-
stitutes the following publication
policy, to wit:
1. Articles that are unsolicit-
ed, or that do not reflect
a news content will be
published as an opinion
column.
2. Articles solicited by the
Editorial Board, or accept-
ed by the board on request
wiU be published as news
items.
3. The Editorial Board will
publish upon reqiwji any art-
icle marked "annonymous"
4. The Editorial Board re-
serves the right not to
publish any article it feels
unfit to print; or to post-
pone publication of any art-
icle due to printing consid-
erations.
From the Desk of
Dean Walker
I have been asked by the Student
Bar Association to inform the
students on some recen1; changes
instituted by the Faculty in the ac-
alemic area which would affect
the students at South Texas Col-
lege of Law.
At a recent Faculty meeting,
the Faculty voted to institute a
pass/fail grading system for cer-
tain courses of a clinical nature,
_SU2h as Civil and Criminal In-
ternship, and Moot Court. The
course in Legal Ethics was also
included among thest courses.
The grade on a pass/fail basis
in these courses will not be use
in computing averages; however,
the semester hours will count
toward graduation. This pass/
fail grading will be effective with
the grades issued for the courses
undertaken in the Summer
Session, 1973, and thereafter.
At this meeting.* Faculty Com
íiittrHí was appointed to study the
question of excessive absences,
and also the plus or minus three
(3) points that is now authorized
by the Faculty to be added or
subtracted from the grades given
under anonymous gndi ig. From
a report of this Committee, the
Faculty made the following de-
cision: "That the instructor, at
his discretion, may elect to de-
duct a number of points from
the final grade of any student who,
in the opinion of the instructor,
has been deficient in elisorjoin
performance, provided, however,
in no event shall such point de-
duction exceed five (5) points."
This provision was voted to be
effective with the Fall Semester,
1973, and thereafter.
The students at South Texas
College of Law have a wide choice
in courses and in the time at
which thest courses are offered.
Many courses now have two sec-
tions, On an experimental basis,
a numb2 r of sections have been
scheduled for the late afternoon,
with another section of the same
course offered during evening
hours. It was thought at the time
this experiment was ínitiaged íha-
the fuü-time student would pre-
fer registering in the late after-
noon sessions so as to have some
of his evenings free. I would
hate to see the afternoon sections
discontinued, but this may be
necessary, unless there is suf-
ficient interest and enrollment
in the afternoon classes. All
full-time students are urged, in-
sofar as possible, to register for
the afternoon sessions so that the
afternoon sections may be con-
tinued.
Moot Court Team
Prepares for Regionals
Student advocates to represent
South Texas College of law in
the 1973 Philip C . Jessup In-
te rnational Law Moot Court Com-
petition were selected Saturday,
February 3. They are Denny
RegH.il; John Berkel, Mike
Powell, David Legg and Bob Tice.
The regional competition wiU
be held on the Washburn Uni-
versity campus in Topeka,
Kansas, March 2 and 3. Other
teams scheduled to attend are
from Arizona Slats, University
o' Colorado, University of
Denver, University of Houston,
University of Oklahoma, South-
ern Methodist. Texas Tech. Uni-
versity of Texas and the host
law school.
Written memorials and oral
arguments will be presented on
the 1973 problem dealing with
unilateral extension of fishery
jurisdiction on the high seas.
Each team will compete in iour
rounds.
One team from the regional
contest will advance to the semi-
finals in Washington, D.C. in
April.
Local tryouts for the State
Moot Court team will be an-
nounced soon. All STLC students
are eligible to compete, noted
Dr. Ensle, Moot Court Advisor.
Cecil Cook heads STCL
Houston attorney Cecil N.
Cook has been naned chairman
o? the board of trustees at South
Texas College of Law, Succeed-
ing Judge Spurgeon E Bell in the
M. Berliner, general
counsel for Continental Oil
Co., has been narn.-d a mem*
ber of the board.
Bell, retiring chief justice of
the First District Court of Civ-
il Appeals, will join the full-
time faculty of the College.
Cook, who has been a trus-
tee of the college since 1951
is a former president of th€
Houston Bar Assn. He is a
partner in the local law firm
of Butler, Binion, Rice, Cook
t Knapp. A native of Lufkin,
(Continued to Insert B)
Generally speaking, there are
several types of elections, to wit:
general primary elections, gen-
eral elections, city elections,
school district elections, special
elections (constitutional amend-
ment elections), bond elections,
water district and utility district
elections, and many more. See
Article 4.01, Texas Election
Code.
It is well settled law that State
and district elections are called
by the Governor, usually at the
instruction of the Texas Legis-
lature in the passing of some type
of bill, such as elections which
are called on constitutional am-
endments. See Article 4.01, Tex-
as Election Code.
General elections are specif-
ically called by a writ of elect-
ions by County Judge (Article
4.03, Texas Election Code), and
are held in even-numbered years
on the first Tuesday following
the first Monday in November.
See Article 2.01, Texas Election
Code. The general election in
1974 will be held on November
4th. When said writ of election
is received in the County Clerk's
office, a Notice of Election is
promulgated in said office. The
Notice of Election is usually
signed by the County Judge and
the County Clerk and is posted
in each precinct in which the
election is to be held at least
twenty (20) days before the
election; or, by publishing the
notice at least one time, not
more than twenty-five (25) days
nor less than (10) days before
the election, in at least one
daily newspaper published in the
county, or if there is no daily
newspaper published therein,
then in a weekly newspaper pub-
lished therein; or, if there are
one or more newspapers pub-
lished in the county, by issuing
the Notice in the form of a news
release sent to each newspaper
published in the county, not more
than twenty-five (25) days nor
less than (10) days before the
election. See Article 4.05, Tex-
as Election Code.
In all city, town and village
elections, the mayor, or if he
fails to do so, then the govern-
ing body shall order elections
pertaining alone to municipal af-
fairs, give proper notice as
prescribed by Article 4.05, Texas
Election Code, unless a different
meri-'iod be prescribed by the
charter of such city, town or
village. See Article 4.06, Texas
Election Code. City elections
are set by statute, and there are
also special city elections for
bond elections (like the City of
Houston bond issue to be hell
on February 24th), road bonds,
and so forth, which are called by
the City Council.
School district elections, trus-
tee elections and special bond
elections for school districts are
called by the respective school
boards of each school district
School district elections are
governed by statutory, authority
setforth in the election provis-
ions oí the Texas Education Code.
\Water districts and other
similar types of authority also
have the power to call elections
in their respective districts.
Water district elections are
governed by statutory rules and
regulations prescribed in the
Texas Water Code.
"Senior Law Student at South
Tens College of Law
Harris County
*By Tody Dupont
At the present time, there are
452 election polling places in
Harris County. Through the act-
ion of the County Election Board,
the County Clerk's office is re-
sposible for seeing that a poll-
ing place is located and avail-
able in each of the 452 pre-
cincts for each election held at
the expense of the county. In
all cases where it is practic-
able to do so, all elections-
general, primary, or special-
shall be held in some school-
house, fire station, or other
public builiiig within the limits
of the election precincts in which
such election is being held, If
no public building is available,
the Commissioners Court is au-
thorized to make the necessary
expenditure from the permanent
improvement fund of the county
to construct or purchas a suit-
able building for holding elections
in each voting precinct. See Art-
icle 2.03, Texas Election Code,
amended in 1967. As a general
rule, the majority of the voting
precincts in Harris County where
suitable polling places are not
available, and the polling places
are constantly moved from a va-
cant store to a vacant house.
The County Clerk of Har * >
County, including the addresses
of the polling places, the number
of qualified voters in each pre-
cinct, and the name, addresses
election judges to hold
elections held at the expense of
the county.
50th
Anniversary
Spring
Banquet
Saturday,
April 7, 1973
Shamrock Hilton Hotel
6900 Main
Holcombe at Main
7:00 - 8:00 Dinner -
Grand Ballroom
8:00 - 9:30 Speaker &
Awards
9:30 - 12:30 Dance &
Party
$12 per couple students
$15 per couple all othen
Contact Rollie Wieum or
Jack Pepper about ticket
sales or helping to sell
tickets (More details later
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