Annotations, South Texas College of Law (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 10, Ed. 1, April, 1991 Page: 4 of 12
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ANNOTATIONS
APRIL 1991
Collier, Lanan win settlement and negotiations competition
Experience is often
considered to be the best
teacher, but Sharon Collier
and Kathiyn Rogers Lanan
proved that theory incorrect
as they won the 1991
Settlement and Negotiations
Competition.
Neither Collier nor Lanan
had ever competed in any of
the Board of Advocates-
sponsored activities. Be*
that didn't seem to matter as
they defeated several
experienced negotiators on
their way to victoiy.
Second place went to
Alissa Eason and Tom
Mosele. The Eason-Mosele
team was originally an
alternate, but moved into the
octi-finals when a team vr&s
unable to make their
scheduled round. Eason and
Sharon Collier and Kathiyn Rogers Lanan celebrate their victoiy in the Settlement and Negotiations Competition, while Alissa
Eason and Tom Mosele celebrate their second place finish.
Mosele proved that they
belonged in the competition.
They defeated one team after
another until they faced
Collier and Lanan in the
final round on March 1.
The teams of Steve
Howard and Joe Mullen and
George Pharis and Betty
Luke were the semi-finalists.
Teams that advanced to
the quarter-finals were
Kanchan Bhalerao and
Margaret Lloyd, Raymond
Daniel and Elizabeth
Woodward, Stephanie Hall
and Jo Ann Miller and Alice
O'Neal and Fred Wagner.
Octi-finalists were E.J.
Bernacki and Lea
Manganaro, Susan Dicioccio
and Hank Rhodes, Everett
Hurst and Joe Mohr, Debbie
Kirsch and Cindy Wilson,
Jeanne Kovas and Mary
Wechtenhiser, Kiri Martin
and Allan Rittenhouse,
Arden Morley and Brad
Oesch and Sam Mellor and
Lauralee Vallon.
David Hagerman was the
BOA Officer-in-Charge and
Bruce Kaye was the
competition's chair.
Willie battles South Texas
to receive degree in May Advocates continue winning streaks
By Steve Petrou
Joe Willie, a South Texas
student activated for military
service to support Operation
Desert Storm, is now
engaging in a battle with the
administration to allow him
to be graduated from South
Texas this May.
Willie received his orders
for active duty on January
16, the day the Gulf War
began. Willie had just
started his final semester at
South Texas when he was
dispatched to England Air
Force Base in Louisiana to
fill in for Air Force medical
officers who were sent to
Saudi Arabia.
"When I left, I notified the
school and they said they'll
tiy to work something out,"
said Willie.
Willie was enrolled in
Procedure III and in two
paper courses for a total of
seven credits.
While away on active duty,
a friend had been sending
Willie notes and tapes of the
procedure classes that he had
missed and Willie said the
professors in his paper
courses had already approved
his topics.
When Annotations
interviewed Assistant Dean
Sandra DeGraw for an
earlier issue, she said while
South Texas has strict class
attendance policies, a waiver
might be made in the case of
a student who was activated
for military service.
Willie said that after
returning to his home on a
weekend pass in mid-March,
he found that all of his
tuition had been returned.
"I was veiy upset," said
Willie. The South Texas
senior, who is also a dentist,
said if he is not allowed to
finish his seven credits this
semester, he won't be able to
sit for the bar for almost
another year.
Willie said he is continuing
his negotiations with the
college administration.
Dean Bill Wilks said he is
willing to meet with Willie
about his status, but he
refused to speculate about
what the results might be.
Two of South Texas'
advocacy teams kept school
winning streaks alive, and
another started a third
winning streak during
competitions n March.
The American Trial
Lawyers Association (ATLA)
Mock Trial team won the
regional championship for
the third consecutive year.
The team of Susan Lehman,
Phil Nizialek, Rob Roy and
Cindy Weaver will vie for
the national championship in
Denver April 5-7.
Darin Darby, Tracey Foster
and Debbie Novick were the
wining team in regional
round of the ABA National
Moot Court Competition
held March 7-9 at South
Texas. This victory marks
the ninth consecutive year in
which South Texas has won
the regional competition.
Greg Eidman, John Kim
and Shelly Van Natter
finished third in this
competition. They, too, will
advance to the national
finals in Atlanta this August.
The ABA teams also took
several individual awards.
Novick was named top
individual advocate. Kim
and Eidman finished fourth
and fifth, respectively. The
Darin-Foster-Novick team
was awarded second best
brief.
Chip Brennig, Donald Kidd
and Jerry Young were the
members of South Texas'
team that won the first
Vanderbilt Invitational
Tournament, held at
Nashville on March 15-17.
Scott Cordes and Edie
Premason advanced the
patent moot court team to
the national finals by making
Nit to the final round of the
regional tournament.
Student-coach Jim Bennett
was also instrumental in
contributing to this victory.
AALS team inspects South Texas April 9
The AALS inspection team
will spend three days on
campus checking on
everything from the quality
of professors to the variety
of courses to the way the law
school is administered.
Wilks said the AALS
inspectors will also tour the
library and they will be
visiting classes and talking to
both students and faculty.
South Texas officials are
hoping that an inspection
tour this month will be the
first step in the law school's
drive to increase its standing
in the legal community.
On April 9 a team from
the American Association of
Law Schools (AALS) will
visit the campus to see if the
school is fit to be accredited
with the AALS seal of
approval.
"It's the creme de la creme
of accreditations," said Dean
Bill Wilks.
South Texas has met the
requirements of the
American Bar Association
for many years, but AALS
accreditation is considered
more prestigeous.
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