Annotations, South Texas College of Law (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 1, Ed. 1, Summer, 1986 Page: 2 of 12
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ANNOTATIONS
Summer, 1986
EDITORIAL/OPINION
FEEDBACK
From the Editor
Think About This . . .
One of my most vivid first semester memories involves a recitation (not
my own, fortunately) in Professor Weigel's Torts I. class. The nervous
student was attempting to muddle through his first case, which is no
small task once clinical shock has set in. He was doing fine until asked his
first question by the ever probative Dr. Weigel. "What, then, should be
the result?" asked Weigel, lips pursed, pocket watch twirling in his hand,
his lazer glare beaming into the heart of this stricken student. The entire
class watched with great anticipation as the cogs whirred and clanked in
this student's mind, or what was left of it. He stood frozen, afraid of
breaking some known or unknown law school commandment. All the
"thou shalt nots" flashed through his brain: Thou shall not assume any-
thing . . . (gleaned from those memorable first lectures in contracts by
Professor Charles); Thou shall not hyperventilate, snort, roll one's eyes
back or keel over in a dead faint ... (A bad omen for anyone who might
ultimately have to be standing before a judge in a real-live courtroom or,
horrors, facing the world on a late night television sleaze commercial).
"I ... I think . . .", the student all but clasped his hand over his
mouth upon uttering his last word. The look in his eyes was filled with the
fear that he had murmered some offensive obsenity. "Uh . . . that is,
I'm sorry Dr. Weigel, but are we allowed to think?"
Weigel never missed a beat. "Yes," he deadpanned, "In fact, we en-
courage it."
A Rare Absolute
So, while there may be a great debate raging in law school over whether
it is appropriate to ever "assume" anything, there seems to be a rare and
universal consensus that it is all right to think.
Some of the things it might be helpful to think about this year are such
topics as what can be done to improve the school, THE LAW, and the
profession itself. It might be wise to think about the fact that one of these
days you will be out in the real world, carrying the weight of representing
real clients with real problems, always mindful that what you do in and
out of law school is a direct reflection on STCL, your profession and the
public's view of us all.
Does all of this sound vaguely familiar? Does it remind you of parents
who always told you that you had better be "good" because any "bad"
thing you did would reflect on them? It sounded pretty stupid then, and
of course as wizard child logicians it didn't make the least little bit of
sense. Thinking about it now, or at least reflecting, it does seem a tad
more comprehensible. It makes even more sense when children of your
own magically appear along the way.
Your life is your song, and each day you are writing a new verse. Give
your school, your profession, and your life some thought. If you actually
have a thought which you wish to share, jot it down and drop it off at the
ANNOTATIONS office. If it makes even half a lick of sense, we'll
publish it.
Think about it. We encourage it.
The "MATCH GAME"
By Susan M. Bishop
SBA Mid-Law Senator
To facilitate administrative retention of grades and convenience
of determining your grade without the necessity of recording each
exam number (and hoping you still have that piece of paper 8
weeks later!!), grades are now posted by social security number.
It is appalling to see my "professional" colleagues comparing
class lists, comparing state social security number prefixes, or run-
ning to the parking lot to scan student parking permits for social
security numbers to determine the grades of another student, and
publish this private information among 'friends'. The integrity
evidenced by this careless disregard of another's dignity is inex-
cusable. I challenge you to, instead, use volunteered grade infor-
mation constructively; offer to help another student in academic
trouble.
I would plead that you not use this as another tool for creating
more divisions within our student population; there are none amng
us who should fail, for failure of even one is the failure of all.
Before proceeding to act in such abhorrent disregard of another in-
dividual's privacy, I invite you to question the purpose of such
potentially malicious and destructive publication; most assuredly,
such actions do not enhance your character, nor popularize you
among those 'friends' who learn of this intrusion.
Dear Editor:
I read with great interest the
front-page article in the March
1986 issue of The Annotation
("Bar Results Reveal 'Gratifying'
Statistics"). My interest was
sparked by two factors:
1. I had just taken the February
1986 bar examination.
2. My grade point average at
South Texas College of Law was
72.6. This meant, according to Dr.
Kelso's study as reported in the ar-
ticle, that I had only a one in
twelve chance of passing the bar.
And so it was with some trepida-
tion that I waited these past two
months for the bar results.
I am now happy to report that I
passed the bar, and will soon be
licensed to practice law in this
state. To those students who, like
me, find themselves in the 7.5% of
their class that made the upper
92.5% possible, I will say:
Remember what Han Solo said to
C3PO as he piloted the Millenium
Falcon through an asteroid belt —
"Never tell me the odds!"
And to Dr. Kelso I say: I do not
doubt in the least the validity of
your survey. I just feel sorry for
those other 11 examinees who
didn't pass the bar because of me.
Yours truly,
Mark D. Dunn
Attorney at Law
We welcome letters to the
Editor. ANNOTATIONS
reserves the right to edit let-
ters submitted. All letters
must be signed and contain
the address and telephone
number of the writer.
By Prof. R.J. Graving
Waldheim: His Real Crime
The only figure to emerge from I'affaire Waldheim with an enhanced
reputation is Simon Wiesenthal, the 77-year-old survive: of five Nazi
death camps, legendary hunter of Nazi war criminals and still head of the
Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna.
The losers were Waldheim, exposed finally as a closet coward; the
World Jewish Congress, confirmed as officious and maladroit meddlers;
and the Austrian electorate, seduced by illusions of becoming a pivotal
point of diplomacy but winding up instead with a political pariah for
president.
Wiesenthal's Vision
The posture of Wiesenthal was that Waldheim was "an opportunist"
but not a war criminal. The campaign of the World Jewish Congress
against Waldheim, he said, had undone years of patient work for recon-
ciling young Austrians and Jews by aggressively mixing in Austrian inter-
nal politics. In this he was seconded by Ivan Hacker-Lederer, president
of Vienna's Jewish community. Their credentials to hold these views are
beyond all impeachment.
Waldheim's Past
Like hundreds of thousands of his Austrian compatriots, Waldheim
served in the German Forces during World War II. Under international
law this is not a war crime. Austrians either left Austria or automatically
became German citizens, thus liable to conscription for military service.
Waldheim, whose family was actively opposed to Nazism and suffered
for it, was drafted when war broke out and served to the end of the war.
He was wounded on the eastern front in 1941, sent home to Vienna and
then in 1942 reassigned to active duty in the Balkans. During his second
tour of duty he served in the regular Wehrmacht command of General
Alexander Loehr, later convicted and hanged for war crimes involving
mass deportations of Jews from Salonika in Greece and the execution of
Yugoslav Partisan guerrillas.
The Jewish community has not charged Waldheim with participation
in the deportations; Yugoslavia has not charged Waldheim with the
execution of Partisans. He is thus not even an accused war criminal. The
problem with Waldheim lies elsewhere.
The Cover-Up
In the German-language edition of Waldheim's 1985 memoir, "In the
Eye of the Storm", he had this to say (in translation):
"After my sabbatical leave for studies was over and my
leg had healed, I was recalled for service with the troops.
Right before the end of the war I was in the area of Trieste."
That is not very much to say about three action-filled years of one's life.
"Right before the end of the war 1 was in the area of Trieste" is a rather
succinct way of putting things.
Waldheim's attempt to obscure and obfuscate the record is made all
the more patent by the English-language edition of his book, published
in the United States and in England, in which the above passage is
rendered as follows:
Nothing. Nichts. The paragraph was deleted in its entirety. Even Trieste
evaporated Continued on pg. 6
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