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October 2005
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13 Questions
A Q&A at STCL
You've seen him. He's the guy with the head band, the mail cart and, the smile from
ear to ear. That's Jim Calvert and he was nice enough to sit with me for a moment
and let a few things slip about himself.
IHow long have you
been working here?
Since 1992, about 13 years.
2 Are you married,
have any children?
No children, but I am mar-
ried, have been for over 40
years, my wife deserves a
medal.
3 What's the best
place you've ever
visited?
The mint in Denver, I like
coins. I've collected a few,
so that was a really inter-
esting place for me.
Watching the First
Amendment
4 What's your favor-
ite pastime?
I like to watch movies,
mostly comedies and musi-
cals. My favorite movie is
Second Hand Lions and my
favorite musical is Phantom
of the Opera.
5 What's the most em-
barrassing thing
you've ever done?
Well, it's embarrassing when
I give-someone the wrong
mail, they're like "this isn't
mine, can't you read?"
That's pretty embarrassing.
6 What about yourself
would surprise others
to know?
My wife and I took Karate
for a while, I'm a yellow
belt, it was fun- gives you
sore muscles, but fun.
7 What's your personal
mantra?
I think that every morning
you wake up with a choice,
you can either be happy or
depressed. I choose happi-
ness and i try to spread it.
8 How many head
bands do you own?
Oh gosh, I don't know, at
least 30. I sweat so easily I
just leave it on all day.
9 What warrants a
honking from your
horn?
I honk when I'm going
around he corner, to warn
people- or I just honk to start
the day off right.
1 What's your favor-
X \J ite time of day?
Around 6 or 7 o'clock,
when I get to settle in and
unwind.
n What's your favorite
food?
Pizza, any kind, with anything
on it.
-| If you could offer
I J advice to everyone,
what would it be?
Stick to it and keep on
keepin' on, that's what it
takes to get through law
school.
What about life?
A Same thing, keep
on keepin' on- it's too
much fun not to enjoy!
Fred Parks Law Library
Celebrates 500,000 Books
TO promote the First
Amendment, the stu
dent association of the
American Civil Liberties
Union at STCL hosted a
Banned Books Reading on
October 12, 2005. The
STCL-ACLU used the op-
portunity to focus on free
speech rights granted to
Americans by the First
Amendment.
The event coincided with
National Banned Books
Week, an annual campaign to
raise awareness about the
dangers of government cen-
sorship of the printed word.
Prominent members of the
community rt^d excerpts
from literary wcdcs that have
been challenged or banned
from public libraries, schools,
and other institutions. The
book list includes Harry Pot-
ter, The Color Purple, The
Bluest Eye, the Handmaid's
Tale and many others.
South Texas College of Law Professor Kathleen Bergin
reads allowed from a "banned book" during the STCL-
ACLU Banned Book Week presentation. Bergin
teaches both Constitutional Law and First Amendment.
The Fred Parks Law Li
brary at South Texas
College of Law re-
cently announced the acqui-
sition of its 500,000th vol-
ume, William Blackstone's
Commentaries on the Laws
of England, 1765-1769. The
first edition book is a four
volume set that includes a rare
supplement to the first edi-
tion. This work has been
touted as the single most im-
portant book in Anglo-Ameri-
can law.
Blackstone's was heavily
used by lawyer's of the early
American republic, including
Abraham Lincoln. When
asked in 1860 how best to
study for the law, Lincoln re-
plied: "Begin with
Blackstone's Commentaries,
and after reading it carefully
through, say twice, take up
Chitty's Pleadings,
Greenleaf's Evidence and
Story's Equity in succession.
Work, work, work is the
main thing. Yours very truly,
A. Lincoln."
The library also acquired
Spain's Las Siete Partidas,
1610-1611. The five volume
set was first compiled in 1265
and first printed in 1491.
Considered one of the most
enlightened law codes of the
Middle Ages, the edition in-
cludes editing and commen-
taries by famed jurist
Gregorio Lopez. •
The library celebrated
their new arrivals on Octo-
ber 21, 2005 with a recep-
tion commemorating the mile-
stone achievement of
500,000 volumes. The rare
book collection at STCL in-
cludes early editions of fun-
damental works in English
law by authors" such as
Blackstone, Coke, Justinian,
and Selden.
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