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Page 2, Annotations, April, 1977
Editorials
A lot of nice things happened at the Spring Banquet. Those at-
tending had a good time. Dean Walker was introduced as the man
who has done so much to make South Texas what it is today. Terry
Wyrick, before presenting her awards, thanked the faculty and ad-
ministration for giving the students so much, and the opportunity to
work toward a law degree, taking into consideration each of our
special talents and situations, and not making numbers out of us that
must fit in square holes whether we are round or not. (She didn't use
quite those words; hers were a little more refined).
But the one thing that didn't happen at the Spring Banquet that
should have is a congratulations to Mike Snyder and Mark Stegel,
mid-law senators, for producing such an exquisite evening, complete
with roses and cigars at the dinner table. So here are your congratu-
lations.
Spring has arrived and with it time for new things. There are
several new babies in the law school community (including mine)
and there is a newly elected SBA Board of Governors. There are also
new areas of the school that have been torn apart and hopefully
there will soon be some areas of the school that will be newly used.
(The Law Journal and the SBA in one office can't last for long or
they'll all go nuts.)
There are also signs everywhere for bar review courses. Dean
Ensle spoke with students about courses to take for the bar exam
and the only thing wrong with it is that he didn't do it (or I wasn't
aware of it) 2 years ago when I was setting up my schedule. I
strongly recommend checking out what he said, if not with him then
at least through the article in this paper. Would that I had known.
Editor Summer Milton
Business Manager James Evans
Assistant to the Editor James Horvath
Associate Editor Linda Lilland
Reporten Dan Dobbins, Bill Hall,
Lynn Parsons, Bill Snypes
Cartoonist Richard Gladstone
Annotations is published monthly except June and January
by students at South Texas College of Law, 1303 San
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CORRECTION
Richard Gladstone was mistakenly identified as the cartoonist
in the March issue. Credit should go to Xavier Greñas.
Letter to the Editor
In response to your editorial
in this past month's newspaper
dated March 1977, concerning
my remarks as Vice President of
the Student Bar Association at a
recent meeting, it is difficult for
me to understand your inclusion
of my statements when you
were not present at that meeting
to witness them yourself.
If it is the practice of this
paper to include hearsay com-
ments, out of context, in your
editorial column, then you
should at least attempt to verify
their veracity before you go for-
ward with potentially misleading
The proceedings I faced early
this year were not impeachment
proceedings, and the Board there
voted to excuse my three ab-
sences, which I might add, have
been the only absences I have in-
curred throughout my term of
office. Similarly, the proceedings
of which you wrote about were
not impeachment hearings
against Ray Fuchs and Carol
Stowe.
In the future I hope that
when you and your pack of vigil-
antes attempt to consider the
"interests" of the Student Body,
you might begin by providing
them with unbiased and accurate
reporting and editorial com-
ments, since that same student
body who pays for your half
scholarship does not do so to
provide your henchmen with
their own private soapbox.
The quality of this paper is a
disgrace to our students, and I
for one, reiterate my pride in the
overall efforts and accomplish-
ments of this year's Board of
Governors. They're a fine group
of individuals who have devoted
ample time to their jobs only to
receive your gripes, and I think
its time the tables were turned.
Sincerely,
Dennis I. Wilenchik
Vice President
Student Bar Association
Dear Editor:
As a graduating senior, I am
taking an internship and have
had the privilege of coming to
know some of the assistant DA's
down at the District Attorney's
office.
In the course of my work,
from time to time I have heard
comments about STCL, some of
which I thought were worth
mentioning.
There is a new twist to the
discrimination against STCL stu-
dents. When f first started law
school some two years ago, the
report was that STCL was a
lesser law school because its
students were not of the same
quality as those of other schools.
Since I've been down at the
DA's office, I haven't heard that
criticism; and as a matter of fact,
I hear just the opposite. The
criticism I hear now does not
pertain to the students; it per-
tains to the faculty.
The other day one of the
assistant DA's said to me, and I
quote, "The problem with South
Letters
Texas is that they have too
many instructors who are prose-
cutorc, practicing lawyers, or
senile old judges, who are good
attorneys but who can't teach."
For a moment I was defen-
sive, but then it began to in-
trigue me as to how this assistant
DA had come to this opinion.
Since he hadn't gone to STCL,
the only way he could have
come to the conclusion that we
had inferior teachers was from
people who had gone to STCL
and complained about them.
My personal opinion was that
his general criticism was not
quite accurate, but as to the
general charge of inferior in-
struction, I had to admit there
was some merit. What I hear
students complaining about
most is not the "prosecutors,
practicing lawyers, or senile
old judges" but the new teach-
ers teaching a course for the
first time.
How many times have you
heard a new teacher say, "This is
the first time I have taught this
course. I'm going to make mis-
takes. You're going to make
mistakes, but I can assure you
that THERE'S NOTHING TO
WORRY ABOUT." Then the
grades come out (way after the
deadline).
Meanwhile all semester stu-
dents were lost, the course had
little structure, there were no
outlines or exams on file to give
any direction or cohesiveness to
the course, etc. etc. The rest is
history.
The real problem, I think, is
that not only do the students get
burned and go out and complain
in the "real world" about our
faculty, but those very faculty
members who did such a poor
job of teaching go out and bit-
terly complain about the quality
of our students.
As long as this school has to
function with new teachers, we
ought to make some changes to
help both teacher and students. I
have heard two suggestions.
First, if the teacher has never
taught here before, there ought
to be some kind of "new teacher
handbook."
Maybe such a thing exists.
Maybe it wouldn't help if it did.
But I think one thing that would
certainly help would be to re-
quire any teacher (regardless of
whether he has ever taught here
before or not), who has not
taught the course before, be
required to turn in a sample
exam.
That at least accomplishes
two things. The students have
some idea of what the professor
thinks is important and the pro-
fessor has at least formulated in
writing some idea of what the
professor thinks is important.
Regardless of what happens,
we ought to do something, be-
cause the school reputation is
still at stake.
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Milton, Summer. South Texas College of Law, Annotations (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 9, April, 1977, newspaper, April 1977; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth144365/m1/2/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting South Texas College of Law.