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South
Texas
^College
of Law
The Annotation
Non-Profit Org.
U.S. Postage
PAID
Houston, Texas
Permit 8451
Volume XIV, No. 2
1303 San Jacinto, Houston, Texas 77002
September, 1985
1985-86 South Texas
College of Law Honor Court
The 1985-86 members of the South Texas College of Law Honor Court were elected by the SB A at the close
of the summer semester. Members are, from left to right: Kimbra Ogg, Clerk; Charles D. Rusciano, Chief
Justice; Lori Hood, Associate Justice; Dean W.J. Williamson, South Texas College of Law; Felicia E. Yanger,
Associate Justice; Andrew Sommerman, Chief Prosecutor; Sherry Tavel, Bailiff; (not pictured: David
Cooney, Assistant Prosecutor).
Student Housing Opens
by Anita Ponder
Staff Writer
If you are a law student looking
for housing and you want the luxury
of hotel living with all the comforts
of home, the Barrister Club may be
the place for you.
The Barrister Club, formerly the
Savoy Hotel, is a 17-story housing
facility which was remodeled and
renovated to meet the needs of law
students in Houston.
As you enter the facility, you
realize that it is more than your
everyday housing. As you stroll
through the lobby, your eyes are
first drawn to the chandelier hanging
from the ceiling.
Half of the lobby is dimly lit and
elegantly decorated with plush bur-
gundy sofas and matching chairs
surrounding a baby grand piano and
a bar. The other half of the lobby,
which is decorated with tables and
chairs facing a stage, has a two-fold
purpose. It serves as both a dining
room for residents and a live-enter-
tainment area.
The mezzanine of the club con-
tains the Garland R. Walker Mem-
orial Library, named after the
former dean of STCL.
According to Michael Spielvogel,
one of the three owners of the facili-
ty and a student at STCL, "Our
library is one of our biggest assets."
The library is open 24-hours a day
seven days a week. Sally J. Langs-
ton;' Library Director for the Bar-
rister Club, said, "This library is %
comparable to a library found in a
small to medium sized firm."
Across from the library, plans call
for a word processing business to be
housed. "This would mean that the
students will have someone in-house
to type their research papers and
briefs," said Armando Saenz,
another part owner of the club.
On the second floor, you will find
a game room that overlooks a patio.
The patio is equipped with butane
operated barbecue grills. The second
floor also contains conference
rooms and lounge areas.
Thus far, it seems as though the
only place missing is a place to sleep.
The third through sixteenth floors
have 221 rooms which are available
for lease exclusively to law students.
All rooms are the same size, corner
rooms being slightly larger. The
rooms are the size of a large hotel
room and are furnished with a queen
size bed, color t.v., a dresser, and a
table and chairs which can be used as
a desk. Every room has its own
bathroom and all utilities are paid.
Telephones and maid service may
be obtained for a monthly charge.
Code Amendment
Targets Resume Fraud
The seventeenth floor has been
reserved to accommodate visiting
parents, judges and professors.
Spielvogel said, "Prices range
from $420 to $655 a month. How-
ever we have an in-house work-study
program which allows the student to
work off some of their rent."
Included in the lease price are a
buffet style meal program, a security
system, seven levels of parking and
the Barrister Club Van Service
which runs back and forth from
STCL every 15 minutes before noon
and ever hour thereafter until late
evening.
The three owners of the Barrister
Club are Spielvogel, Saenz and Fred
Lowe.
Spielvogel is attributed with con-
ceiving the idea of the Barrister
Club. "When this was the Savoy
Hotel I used to check into a room a
week before exams to study. How-
ever, one day when I came in, the
hotel had been closed," he said.
"So, I said to myself that this would
be a great place for student housing.
And now we have the Barrister
Club."
Fred Lowe is also a student at
STCL and is known about the club
for his seminars on taking law
school exams and other specific
topics.
Saenz is a real estate investor.
by Gordon Brooks
Asst. Editor
That little exageration on your
resume that you thought didn't hurt
anyone and you couldn't really get
in trouble for may soon cause you to
be permanently suspended from
South Texas College of Law.
On Friday, Sept. 13th the Student
Bar Association (SBA) voted to post
a proposed amendment to the
Honor Code which would make it a
primary violation for a person to
"knowingly, intentionally or reck-
lessly place a false statement on his
or her resume or application and file
said resume or application with the
Placement Office."
This means the proposal has passed
the first hurdle to becoming section
6.05 of the Honor Code under pri-
mary violations. According to Arti-
cle IX of the Constitution of the
SBA, a proposed amendment must
be posted for 10 school days so stu-
dents may have the opportunity to
consider the amendment and
prepare support or opposition to it if
they so desire. All persons both for
and against the proposed amend-
ment will have the opportunity to
voice their opinion subsequent to a
final vote at the next SBA meeting.
New Chief Prosecutor for the
Honor Court Andrew Sommerman,
who authored the amendment, said
he wants to make sure there is a
specific code provision to deal with
this type of conduct.
"There are other code provisions
which a person committing this type
of act may be prosecuted under,"
Sommerman said. "But I don't want
to go before the Honor Court and
ask them to broadly construe a pre-
sent code provision that was designed
to deal with a different violation. This
amendment will make sure there is no
misunderstanding.''
Sommerman say's he has heard of
occassions where a person will repre-
sent themselves as members of
school organizations such as Law
Journal or the Board of Advocates.
He also said he has heard of students
purporting to be members of varsity
Moot Court and Mock Trial teams
even though he thinks the most com-
mon false statements probably con-
cern students' class average and
rank.
"Employers don't usually check
this type of data from a persons
resume," Sommerman said. "It's
more difficult to verify this informa-
tion than say a former job which can
usually be done with one quick
phone call."
If passed, a person in violation of
this provision could be prosecuted
under Title IV, section 8 of the
Honor Code which would allow for
permanent suspension from STCL
and a notation in the student's trans-
cript declaring he or she was adjudged
guilty of a primary Honor Code
violation.
The amendment also makes it a
violation for a person to leave his or
her resume or application on file
with the placement office if it con-
tains a false statement.
So if you think your resume con-
tains a false statement or even a little
exaggeration and it's currently on
file with the Placement office, you
could suffer some very serious con-
sequences should this proposed
amendment become enacted.
Inside ...
New Faculty 3
Moot Court Win 4
Gravitations: South Africa
and the Law. 5
Continuing Legal Education
Fall Schedule 6
The "Real" Bar Review 9
From the Ivory To wer 10
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