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August 1983 — ANNOTATIONS - Page 3
Parking meter violation policies being reviewed
by Carlos A. Pazos
A middle-aged woman dressed
in a medium blue pant suit leans
over the fender of a green 1974
Mazda. She pulls back on the
windshield wiper, inserts a white
card and slams the wiper back into
position. Another meter violation,
wouldn't you know it. An offense
punishable by $10 fine payable
within 10 days. The fine could in-
crease to as much as $20 or $30,
which includes the fine, late fees
and possibly a warrant fee. This is
but one of repeated situations
totalling into the hundreds within
a week.
An attempt was made to reme-
dy this situation. An effort to
resolve the enormous number of
SBA plans for year include
students' use of free phone
by Ed "Scoop" Goldberg
Can we talk? Just between you
and me the S.B.A. is planning the
best party since Lenin and Stalin
got together with Marx. Pull out
your gorilla heads and clown
costumes because the S.B.A.
Halloween Costume Party is so
wild you won't want to be recog-
nized. For the modest sum of $8
per couple, S.T.C.L. students and
their guests will be taken to the
magnificent Grand Hotel on
Westheimer. Their evening's stay
will include a free beer and wine
bar while you dance to the mar-
velous tunes of a major record
producing group (to be decided
later). It is even possible that
"Moby in the Morning" will
bring his group and entertain. A
hard liquor cash bar will be pro-
vided for those that get no thrill
from champaign. All students are
expected to attend this gala event
on Saturday, October 29 with
their chin up, their eye to the
future and their nose to the grind-
stone.
Who has tried to call your stock
broker or trust fund manager but
couldn't find a quarter to make
the call? Well, you are not alone.
The S.B.A. is working on install-
ing a free phone. The location of
the phone hasn't been decided yet,
so if you want to put your two
cents worth in contact Kevin Bell
or any of your elected officials.
Applications for Freshman ad-
visors for the Fall Semester are be-
ing taken by Mark Burtner and
Debbie Petryzak. All those ac-
cepted will advise freshmen how
to run their educational lives.
Hurry, only a few will be ac-
cepted. Don't you wish there was
an adivisor when you were a
freshman?
Looks like the student directory
is going to come with pictures this
year. Louis Chapman is heading a
committee that will get out a
directory, with pictures of all
South Texas students this year. He
hopes to have the Directory avail-
able at no cost to all students by
the first of November.
The S.B.A. has also created
other committees to work on the
following items: S.B.A. Constitu-
tion Committee headed by Lauri
Goldman, Annotations Code
Committee headed by Bill Mc-
Coy, Administrative Recom-
mendations Committee headed by
Tod Yeslow, and Student Recog-
nition Committee headed by
Kerry Hagan. If you are interested
in working on any of these meet-
ings, please contact the S.B.A. of-
fice or any of these people.
The members of the Student
Board of Governors wish you
good luck on your final exams.
Freshmen Orientation will be held
Wednesday, August 17 beginning
at 6:00 p.m. If you wouljJ like to
come and welcome our new in-
coming freshmen, please feel free
to do so. The S.B.A. will have its
first Fall meeting Tuesday,
August 30 in Room 112 at 4:00
p.m. Please come by the meeting
if you have questions or would
like to get more involved in the
workings of Student Activities at
South Texas.
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unpaid tickets, last semester,
proved to be somewhat of a suc-
cess. In cooperation with Judge
Fred Stanley, Director and pre-
siding Judge for the City of
Houston's Municipal Courts, 197
students representing well over
1000 tickets were permitted to
plead these tickets out. Over
$4,000 was collected and paid to
the city's Municipal Court.
In a recent interview with Judge
Stanley, he expressed his personal
sympathy to the students of South
Texas College of Law. He has
been a member of a long string of
South Texas graduates which in-
cludes his parents, a brother,
brother-in-law, a son and a
daughter who currently attends.
Nevertheless, he is a man who
profoundly believes in performing
the duties of his office. He stresses
the importance of following the
law, especially those who should
know better. He is concerned with
the respect for the law which ap-
pears to have gone by the wayside.
In our interview, several new
situations have arisen which he
wishes everyone to be aware of.
Effective early this month, the
Municipal Courts will no longer
accept plead outs from anyone.
The workload appears to have
made this arrangement unmanag-
able. The City also considered a
method of encouraging payment
of meter violations. The City is at-
tempting to adopt one of two
policies. The first was referred to
as the "Denver Boot", which is an
apparatus that attaches to the
wheel making the vehicle immov-
able. (The City seems to have
turned down this option.) The se-
cond option would be the enact-
ment of a towing ordinance.
Houston's ordinance is currently
being reviewed by the City's legal
department to work out the de-
tails. As it now reads, anyone with
a determined amount of out-
standing tickets and parked in
violation of a meter will be towed.
A Federal Court of Appeals has
upheld a similar towing ordinance
which is referred to as the
Milwaukee Ordinance. The City
feels confident that such an ordin-
ance would curtail the existing
problems of non-payment of
fines.
The final suggestion offered by
Judge Stanley is that regardless of
the numbers of tickets, take the
time and money to pay for your
fines. It is my understanding that
the court will at least listen.
The South Texas Law Journal
cordially invites you to an
INSANITY DEFENSE
SYMPOSIUM
FRIDAY, SEPT. 23, 1983 10:00 AM
South Texas College of Law
1303 San Jacinto
Houston, TX 77002
Four special guests, representing different positions on the Insanity Defense,
will speak and answer questions from the audience.
DR. JONAS R. RAPPEPORT-Chief Medical Officer,
Medical Services, Circuit Court for Baltimore, Maryland.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine.
SENATOR RAY FARABEE—State Senator for District 30,
Sponsor of Texas Insanity Defense Bill, Chairman of Senate
State Affairs Committee.
RICHARD P. LYNCH—Director, Standing Committee on
Association Standaids for Criminal Justice for the American
Bar Association.
JUDGE FRANK Q. NEBEKER—Associate Judge of the
District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
JUSTICE MURRY COHEN—Associate Justice of First Court of Appeals, moderator.
This Symposium has been approved by the Texas Board of
Legal Specialization for credit towards the continuing legal
education requirements for certification and recertification
in Criminal Law.
The College of the State Bar of Texas has approved this
Symposium as a four hour credit toward membership in the
college.
Presented free of charge as a public service.
For more information contact
Sharon Brand, Special Project Editor
South Texas Law Journal
1303 San Jacinto
Houston, TX 77002
(713) 652-0865
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