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VOLUME XXII, NUMBER 6
SOUTH TEXAS
APRIL 1994
COLLKGK OF LAW
ANNOTATIONS
Center shows
students how
to use ADR
By URSULA WEIGOLD
(Editor's note: After
completing law school at the
University of Texas, Professor
Weigold worked as Chief
Justice Evans'briefing attor-
ney at the Houston [ 1st Dist.]
Court of Appeals. She then
served on the court's central
legal staff for five years, first
as a research attorney, then as
senior staff attorney.)
Many in the legal
profession believe that the
future of resolving disputes
lies not so much in traditional
litigation, and the lawyer as a
"hired gun," as it does in
various forms of alternative
dispute resolution, and the
lawyer as a problem-solver.
The adversarial nature of the
lawyer's role in society has
also contributed to a break-
down in civility and profes-
sionalism among many law-
yers. Although South Texas
College of Law has provided
its students with courses in
alternative dispute resolution
and mediation for several
years, a new program aims to
take legal education at STCL
one step further. The academic
focus of STCL's new Center
for Legal Responsibility is to
give students addi-
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From potty law to property law
Student trades in fame for law books
By RUTH PILLER
Annotations Editor
She's on a first-name basis
with Johnny Carson, Joan Rivers
and GeoRge Strait.
She inspired, at least in part,
a Legislative bill designed to make
life easier for women.
You can find her name in
Lexis — and in the South Texas
College of Law student directory.
She is Denise Wells, a
37-year-old student just finishing
up her first year at STCL. You
may know her as the "Pottygate"
woman — the lady who, in a
desperate moment in 1990, used
the men's restroom at the Sum-
mit, was ticketed and told to
leave a country music concert.
Puttin1 on the Ritz
Professor M. Diane Barber, center, poses with graduating 3Ls Pat Wadlington and
Kay Brown at the STCL "Prom." Barber won two teaching awards and
Wadlington and Brown were named outstanding graduates at the Spring Banquet
on April 9 at the Westin Oaks Hotel: Page 3.
Now big brother wants to listen, too
By JIM BUSSIAN
Recently, the White
House sent Stewart A. Baker,
general counsel for the National
Security Agency (NSA), to the
annual Computers, Freedom
and Privacy Conference in New
York City to speak about the
Clinton Administrations's
desire to safeguard the
government's ability to eaves-
drop on every American. At
that conference, Mr. Baker posed
the question: "Do you want to
live in a world where law enforce-
ment cannot do its job because of
the need for privacy?"
Everyone who cherishes
his constitutional rights should
answer, "Absolutely." The
Orwellian, or Al Gorewellian,
technology that would foster the
government's ability to eavesdrop
on its citizens is essentially a
microcircuit that the Administra-
tion wants all American tele-
phone and computer companies
to install in their products. The
microcircuit, dubbed the "Clip-
per" chip, scrambles all elec-
tronic communications between
individuals, resulting in gibberish
to outsiders — all outsiders, that
is, but the federal government.
The plan to implement the
Clipper chip is an insult to the
American people and its realiza-
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Life has quieted down
somewhat for Wells, a newlywed
who has fielded more than 100
radio interviews about potty parity
in the past three years.
"It was kind of an innocent
little gesture that blew up into a
big cause," Wells said.
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It's finally here!
By SHANNON FITZPATRICK
Ah, my last semester. I
thought it would never come. My
mother thought it would never
come. My professors thought it
would never come. Well, in any
event, the blessed month of May
will bring with it graduation,
even if it does happen in those
cavernous, cold concrete halls of
the George R. Brown. You
know, when I was two, I wanted
to grow up to be a big, red fire
engine. I wonder if little Georgy
Brown wanted to grow up to be a
big, cold convention center? The
world may never know...
Where was I? Oh, yes, GET-
TING THE HELL OUT OF
HERE. I am already looking back
in nostalgia on those first seven
years of law school (It wasn't that
many? It sure seemed like that
many...). We all, of course, will
remember that Exciting Elevator.
You know the one, the one that
jerks to a start, or stalls at any
given floor without the benefit of
opening its doors. Yes, the same
elevator that is coveted by the
city and county attorneys as a
wonderful, speedy marvel unlike
anything they now have. Makes
me proud. Makes me want to
seriously avoid public service.
Speaking of elevators, don't
you just love it when you get on
the elevator with 37 other people?
Of course it gets so much better
when you go up one floor to find
an intrepid soul (or two or three)
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