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1303 San Jacinto St.
Houston. Texas 77002
ANNOTATIONS
Volume VII, Issue No. 1
July 1978
Dean Walker Explains School Policies
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No Move to Morning Classes
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By Gerald S. Bettman
Co-editor
Note j This is the
second interview of a two-part
series with Dean Garland R.
Walker. The first interview, pub-
lished in April, covered his
personal history and philosophy.
In this portion, he explains STCL
policies.
la there a problem securing
teach at
South Texaa?
No, there is a problem recog-
nizing who is a quality professor
because it doesn't necessarily
follow strictly from what's on
record.
You've previously mentioned
who was a born teacher, do you
look for this quality?
Yes, I do and it's not easy to
distinguish, sometimes you have
to give a person a try and they
either have it or they don't. It is
not something that's found on
paper.
Is there a problem when you
have a teacher who does not
represent the quality of education
Yes, it is a problem. You have
certain responsibilities. Maybe
that person has quit a job and you
owe that person some obligation.
He probably has a family and has
made a change of plans, so you
can't discard people at will. You
have to be very careful because
you are dealing with people's
lives.
It is said that you probably are
the highest paid Dean of a Law
School in the country. Can you
justify that fact?
I think mainly it's because I've
been Dean for so long. There's
hardly any deans in this country
that have had a longer tenure
than I have had. The average
tenure of a dean is a little over
three years and I've been here
since 1959, and running the
school since 1960.
What is your relationship with
the Board of Trustees at South
Texas?
I think my relationship with the
Board is very good. However, you
might want to ask some of the
members of the Board of Trus-
tees.
Do you feel that your long reign
at South Texas has enabled you to
have more freedom in recom-
That may have something to do
with it. However, I think the long
tenure is not as important as the
fact that I try not to ask the Board
for something I don't think I can
get. Therefore, I try to base what
I ask for on my past accomplish-
ments or because I can substan-
tiate what I ask for by factual
information. Therefore, I've built
up a certain amount of trust. Then
I think one must have a percep-
tion for the long-range needs of
the law school and I think I have
that. I think I have foreseen a
number of things come to pass
long before they were recognized
and adopted by other places. I
foresaw the need for requiring a
Bachelor's Degree to get into a
law school. We required it long
before any other Texas law
schools. 1 foresaw giving the J.D.
degree and we gave it before any
other school, simultaneous with
requiting a Bachelor's to get in. I
foresaw the Advocacy situation.
There was an intership which was
established very early and we still
are ahead of most of the schools
in the advocacy program. Most of
the schools' advocacy pro-
grams are geared toward the
graduate rather than the under-
graduate. Now then, to operate
successfully as a dean, I think
you've got to have the perception
of things that are going to happen
before they happen.
Does anybody give you assign-
ments to follow-up, or are you at
the position with the board that
No, I think I have always seen
the things that the school needed
and have gone to the board to ask
for these things.
When was die last time the
Board of Trustees went against on
of your proposals?
I don't remember.
Many students are accepted at
South Texaa during a five-minute
interview. I'm Interested In what
you may be able to detect in a
student in these five minutes.
You can detect very many
things very quickly. One, how he
expresses himself, how he han-
dles himself and his assurances.
His alertness is very important.
His mental agility is important.
All of these factors I think are
necessary in an attorney. Then of
course, I have his record which is
in most cases, will show a great
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Sports Law
The Athlete's
By Jack McCararick
Staff Writer
Editor's Note: Jack McCormick,
a sports enthusiast, will prepare a
monthly feature concerning cer-
tain areas of Sports Law. This is
the first of a two-part series
examining agents and their rela-
tionship with professional ath-
letes.
Pistol Pete Maravich has been
estimated to make $500,000 a
year for the New Orleans Jazz.
Who really knows his exact
salary? Answer! The agent who
gets between 10 and 15 percent.
Agents have been criticized by
owners, the public, and sports
media as being the key element in
the rise of prices at a sporting
events. This is mainly due to the
negotiation of high salaried con-
tracts. Are players like Dr. J.,
Tom Seaver, and Earl Campbell
really worth the money? It is quite
obvious the owners are still
making money or they wouldn't
be paying these salaries.
Big name ballplayers bring
more fans to the game an<*. also
increase the chances of a cham-
pionship which reaps a bonus
income for the organization. The
fans have been extremely volatile
over the rising costs of a
balígame. It is easy for a family of
four to spend $50 to $60 a night at
a baseball game.
Are oweere an
greedy? Considering the Rolling
Stones, who are now on tour, take
home at least a few hundred
thousand a night and Marlin
Brando made a fast million for ten
days work, does the fan of today
really have a viable complaint?
When did the astronomical rise
in athletes' salaries begin? Take
football as an example. Over ten
'years ago the American Football
League (AFL) arrived on the
scene to compete with the NFL. In
order to establish the new AFL
and provide good quality football,
owners in the new league offered
exceedingly high Salaries to top
athletes coming out of college.
The bidding wars between the
two leagues were fierce and the
high salaried AFL with low
attendance almost folded. It
wasn't until Broadway Joe Na-
math led his underdog New York
Jets to the 1969 Superbowl that
the AFL gained lespectability.
The two leagues were almost on
par with each other at this time
and the owners in both leagues
voiced the idea of a merger.
A merger would eliminate the
bidding wars and hopefully re-
duce the high salaries in both
leagues. The merger worked for a
few years until a court ruling
decided that a player could play
out his option with a team after
his contract had expired and then
negotiate with over 20 ball clubs,
enabling his salary to rise as fast
as a law student's blood pressure
when consulting the grade board.
All the talk about money is fine.
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Steve Baughman [left] as-
sisted in preparation of the
was recently adopted by the
Executive Committee of the
STCL-SBA. Rudy de la Gar-
za [right] resigned from the
code committee and is now
considered the "lone opposi-
tion" to the proposed code.
'Fox-Holing' Deleted From Code
By GeraldS.
The executive committee of the
South Texas College of Law
Student Bar Association (SBA)
has accepted a new proposed
student honor code that has
deleted the sections concerning
"fox-holing," but has included a
new grand jury proceeding.
The proposed honor code will
be voted on by referendum on
July 17 and 18 by the students.
The committee orderly and
efficiently examined the proposed
code on June 20 during a three
hour meeting. The page by page
presentation was made by Steve
Baughman, a member of the
committee that rewrote the code.
The proposed code was pre-
pared by Charles Petrolawicz
(who has since graduated), Steve
Baughman, Terri Flanniken,
James Gerardi, Miles Whitting-
ton, Wilton Chalker, and Rudy de
la Garza, who resigned from the
code committee because of cer-
tain conflicts.
During the three hour session,
many of the new sections were
disputed by both Whittington and
de la Garza. De la Garza, a
member of the SBA, opposed the
new code while Whittington, the
SBA vice president favored the
new code.
"I wanted to give the accused
the benefit of the doubt. That's
why I favored the grand jury
section of the new code. It should
be more difficult to have a trial,"
Whittington said.
De la Garza, the lone opposi-
tion through most of the after-
noon session, spoke out against
the proposed grand jury section.
He stated that he didn't feel it
should be in there "just because
they want another obstacfe before
trial."
The proposed code, which rep-
resents the first code presented
since the adopted November,
1974 honor code, contains fewer
words than its predecessor as
demonstrated in the first section.
The new code contains 32 words
compared to 147 words in the old
code's first section.
Baughman explained that one
of the basic reasons they pre-
pared the new code was to
simplify it "in such a way that the
student will read it and under-
stand it."
Many of the members, who
worked three hours a night, two
days a week, felt that there were
many sections which led to an
injustice for the accused.
Baughman described the ear-
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