Annotations, South Texas College of Law (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 10, Ed. 1, April, 1991 Page: 1 of 12
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'A Day With Sarah Weddington' highlights Law Week
Sarah Weddington, the
Texan who argued the
winning side of Roe v. Wade
in 1973, will be the featured
speaker .at South Texas' Sixth
Annual Law Week.
Weddington served three
terms in the Texas House of
Representatives, and served
. as an assistant to the
President during the Carter
administration.
"A Day With Sarah
Weddington" will have
history-making attorney
involved in a variety of
activities to close out Law
Week 1991 on April 10.
She will begin the day having
breakfast with the faculty
and speak to a class later
that morning. After lunch,
she will judge the finals of
the Spurgeon Bell Moot
Court Competition and hold
a round table discussion in
the afternoon.
Law Week will be filled
with a full schedule of
speakers who will discuss
some aspect of the Bill of
Rights.
Peter Riga, a former priest
who now practices law, will
open Law Week with a
speech on the clergy-penitent
privilege at 5:30 on
Thursday, April 4. His
speech is sponsored by the
Christian Legal Society.
Judge Morris Overstreet,
the first Black to be elected
to a statewide office in Texas
since the Reconstruction, will
speak at 5:30 on Friday,
April 5. He is here at the
invitation of the Black Law
Students Association.
Students, faculty and
alumni golfers may
participate in a golf
tournament on Saturday,
April 6. South Texas' social
event of the year, the SBA
Spring Banquet, will be held
that evening. Tickets are
$10 per student. Ticket sales
end at 5 pm the day before
the banquet. Banquet
organizers have encouraged
students to buy tickets early,
and student organizations are
once again being urged to
buy tables for their groups.
The banquet is a social
event that features a dinner
and dance, and only a few
awards are given. Among
those awards to be handed
out that night will be those
for outstanding full-time and
adjunct professors and
outstanding male and female
graduates.
Three speakers are
scheduled for Monday, April
8. Nancy Bunin, a South
Texas graduate now with the
American Civil Liberties
Union, will speak at 12:30.
Felix Sanchez of The
Houston Post will speak at
(Please see Law Week on
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Parking Problems
There have been such an increased number of
complaints regarding parking violations that a new towing
policy has been implemented. See the story on Page 5.
Susan Durr win SBA presidency
By Raymond Daniel
In a close race for the
SBA presidency that saw the
top three candidates
separated by only 26 votes,
Susan Durr defeated Tracy
Moore by a 100-vote margin
for the top post in the
Board of Governors.
Durr lead the general
election with 186 votes. In
the tight race for the other
run-off spot, Moore edged
out Anthony Zamora by a
margin of 167 to 160. Durr
subsequently beat Moore
324-224.
In other run-offs, Shaun
Devine bested David Falk
for vice-president by a vote
of 284-228, and Tucker
Graves defeated Kay Kurtin
for State Bar of Texas
representative 230-142.
. Devine and Tucker had also
lead in the general elections.
In the election's only
uncontested race, Cathie
Ehrenkranz was elected
secretaiy.
Charles Koerth was clected
treasurer, and Rob Clark
narrowly escaped a run-off in
a three-person race to be the
American Bar Association
representative.
Chris Bell and Melody
Tezino outdistanced two
opponents to win the two
senior senator slots, Sonya
Aston and Bruce Kaye were
elected mid-law senators and
Lisa Cullaro and Erik
Wollam won the race won in
the freshman senator
election.
The two candidates in each
of the senate races are
declared the winners.
This year's election was
marked by some controversy.
After a vote by the Board of
Governors was challenged as
unconstitutional, filing for
office was halted when it had
been going on for less than
two days. A special
referendum was held to
determine the requisite
number of hours which each
candidate had to have in
order to file for election.
This election, held March
18-19, passed by a margin of
3.5-1.
This election essentially
ratified the actions of the
Board, and established the
qualifications for office.
Filing began again the next
morning, and continued for
three days.
Campaigning began after a
mandatory meeting on March
18, but in response to
campaigns last year that left
the student lounge littered
with paper throughout the
election, the Board had
previously limited the
campaign activities to one
poster per candidate.
Students could have their
supports wear campaign
buttons, but fliers were
prohibited.
Gia Surla and Rick Morris
were in charge of the
Election Committee, and
Kiri Martin and Chris Prine
served as Elections
Commissioners
For the complete
returns from the Student
Bar Association elections,
please turn to Page á
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