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Finance STCL's First Concern, Cook Says
Cecfl N.Cook
By TERRY WYRICK
and CAROLYN WHITTINGTON
ANNOTATIONS Staff Writers
Cecil N. Cook, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at South Texas
College of Law, has prepared a letter about the topic of merger of
the school with a college or university.
It is to be mailed to all alumni and he has given a copy of it to
the Annotations for publication so that students may have an insight
into the Board's feelings on the matter. Excerpts are printed in the
Editorial Column.
Cook also granted an interview to give the paper some of his
thoughts for publication on subjects ranging from the new building
to recruiting at his firm, Butler, Binion, Rice, Cook & Knapp.
Richard Allen, head of public relations at South Texas, was also
present at the interview.
Construction of the new building will be finished before the end
of the year, Cook said, but the building will not be in full operation
for 30-60 days after it is delivered.
One of the attractive features of the new building is a 926 seat
auditorium and Cook is hoping it will open the door to additional
financing.
"We are instituting a program where a person can buy a seat in
the auditorium," Cook said. 'The price will be $240 a seat and for
that price a person will get his name on the back of the seat."
The new building will cost approximately $2.1 million and
according to Allen, STCL has raised approximately $1.5 million.
Cook hopes to raise another $200,000 from the sale of
auditorium seats and will look to private foundations for the
remaining half million.
"If we have to borrow money, we can borrow against the old
building," Cook said. "We can finance easily $700,000."
The invitation to purchase auditorium seats will be extended to
students as well as alumni.
Tuition will not be affected by financing although it could be
affected by the economy. If the economy stabilizes, there will be no
tuition raise, according to Allen.
As Cook states in his letter, the Board sees little to commend
merger of the school. The subject has not ever been raised while he
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^ANNOTATIONS
Volume IV No. 2
Brannon Taking Post
At U. North Dakota
ByPAULMCGUFFEY
ANNOTATIONS Editor
Dr. James H. Brannon,
Contracts and Conflicts
professor, will be Visiting
Associate Professor of Law at
the University of North Dakota
for the following year.
Brannon, who first taught
part-time at STCL in the fall of
1971 and gave up his law
practice to become a faculty
member in January of 1972, will
teach Contracts, Remedies and
Jurisprudence Seminar this fall
and the second half of Contracts
and debtor-creditor relations in
the Spring.
The University of North
Dakota law school was founded
in 1899 and became a member
of the AALS in 1905. It is
located in Grand Forks.
Brannon graduated from the
University of Texas in 1964,
served as a briefing attorney for
the Texas Supreme Court in
1964-65, and practiced law from
1965 untü 1972. In 1969 and'
1970, he served in Viet Nam in
the United States Army Judge
Advocate General Corps.
Although Brannon's
activities at South Texas have
been generally limited to
teaching Contract and Conflicts
law, he has been the able coach
of the Blue football team, and
served last year as advisor to
Annotations.
lames H. Brannon
Since Sept. 1973, Brannon
has been a member of the
Houston Area Steel
Industries-United Steel Workers
Expedited Arbitration Panel.
He has often sparred with
Dean Walker on questions of
policy and curriculum and was
often critical of the ethics of the
legal profession.
"He is one person here who
really wants to be a legal
educatof' one STCL professor
said. "He will be a real loss to
the school."
Byron Preston Davis, who has
taught Procedure I and Equity
previously as an adjunct, has
been hired to the full-time
faculty beginning Sept. 1. Davis
will teach two sections of
Procedure I and Legal Research
and Writing I.
Dean Walker says that two
more full time faculty posit i ons
Byron Preston Davis
are in the budget, but that no
one will be hired until after the
move to the new building.
STCL's new regular faculty
member, Davis, is an alumnus
and was editor in chief of the
law journal. He clerked for
Judge Bell in the Court of Civil
Appeals and has been an
assistant district attorney in
Harris County.
Dean Walker said he was
taken by surprise by Brannon's
acceptance of the job at North
Dakota, but that he is sure
Brannon will do a fine job there
and he wishes him well. The
opening at North Dakota came
recently due to the death of a
professor.
No one has yet been hired to
teach Contracts, said Walker, but
James R. Gough will teach
Conflicts.
Twelve Miss
Grading
Deadline
By BILL HALL
ANNOTATIONS Staff Writer
Grade deadlines come and
go. And with one grade still out
from STCL's spring semester, it
appears that all too many
instructors just let them go.
No less than 12 South Texas
professors, four full-time and
eight adjunct, missed deadlines
following the first semester of
operation of the deadline
system.
Still delinquent is adjunct
professor Jim Skelton. Skelton,
in the Criminal Evidence
Seminar, had a deadline of
Monday, July 7, for submitting
marks. Deadline for full-time
teachers was June 23.
South Texas' faculty voted
unanimously last December to
adopt a deadline which requires
full-time professors to submit
examination grades within six
weeks and part-time instructors
within eight weeks. That time
period for the deadline begins on
the Monday following the last
exam.
Full-time instructors missing
their June 23 deadline were led
by Dr. Bernard A. Reiter who
missed the mark eight days in
Torts and one day in Equity. Dr.
Charles A. Weigel also missed the
deadline with two courses, being
two days late in Family Law and
two days late in the Legal
Medicine Seminar.
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August 1975
Walker
Fends
Questions
By JOE COLLETTI
ANNOTATIONS Associate Editor
On July 22, 1975, Dean
Walker met with concerned
students to discuss ^chool
policies and to answet any
questions which the students
asked. Some of the more
interesting questions and their
respective answers are reiterated
below:
Q: Why is there no student
compensation allowed within
the internship program?
A: STCL tells the attorney
what to do via the internship
program. If the attorney pays
the student he is then required
to run errands and be more
personally obligated to the
attorney. The faculty decided
against student compensation
reasoning tfiatWithout it the
students would receive more of
an education in the internship
program.
Q: Is there a day division in
STCL's future?
A: A day division is coming
but not within the next 3-4
years. The school must first
make ends meet for the addition
of a day division would be a
great financial drain. There are
certain drawbacks to having a
day division. It has been
established that a day division
receives all of the honors
students and honors programs
and this would make the night
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