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SOUTH TEXAS
COLLEGE OF LAW
What's new
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ANNOTATIONS
Volume xxii number 2
The Student Newspaper of South Texas College of Law
September 1993
Student hopes to help others learn
By RUTH PILLER
Annotations Editor
The biggest worry facing
first-year student George William
Walls Jr. is tardiness.
Not his. Rather, he fears
the Metrolift drivers who bring
him to South Texas College of
Law each day won't keep to their
schedules.
Walls, who answers to
Bill, began law school Aug. 16.
Like many other lLs, he accepts
studying tips from 2Ls and 3Ls,
and he isn't really thrilled about
taking Legal Research and Writ-
ing.
He's just like all other
students — except for his mode of
transportation. Walls maneuvers
through the hallowed halls of
South Texas in a wheelchair.
Walls, 31, broke two vertebrae in
his neck in a diving accident seven
years ago. Since then, he has been
paralyzed from the chest down.
Walls, who is enrolled in
contracts, torts, civil procedure
and legal research and writing,
tape records his classes. Using a
mouth stick on his wheelchair, he
types his class notes into a laptop
computer as his teachers lecture.
When he gets home each night,
he, like numerous other students
at STCL, uses the tapes to fill in
whatever he missed during the
lectures. He hopes to take his
high-tech notetaking one further:
He wants to get a computer scan-
ner, so he can scan his required
reading into his laptop computer
and take notes on the scanned
textbook pages.
Walls lives in an apartment
on the University of Houston
campus, where he earned his
Photo by Mci Patfliaro
Bill Walls says law school is not as much of an adjustment as he expected it to he.
sonal attention I got here ...
impressed me a lot," he said.
"Even though UH was still hem-
ming and hawing around, I had
pretty much made up my mind to
go here."
Walls said he is surprised
at the ease with which he has
adapted to law school. "I came
here thinking I was going to be
totally lost," he said.
He said STCL was fairly
wheelchair-accessible; only a few
doors are tough to navigate. In the
library, a table is being raised to
accommodate his wheelchair.
"They were very receptive about
what I needed," he said.
Walls, who says he once
considered pursuing a career in
undergraduate degree in psychol-
ogy. Each day, Walls is picked
up by the Metrolift for the rides
to and from school. The state
pays for his transportation and
the attendant care program
provided at his apartments.
He is supposed to arrive
at STCL at 10 a.m. But recently,
he said, his driver arrived at his
UH residence at 10:12 a.m.
"That's going to be my biggest
headache," he said, adding that
he made it to class on time —
that time.
Walls opted to attend
STCL after meeting with admin-
istrators and faculty here — and
after UH could not seem to sift
through the paperwork in the
admissions process. "The per
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Looking ahead:
the Court and
its new justice
By R. RANDALL KELSO
(Editor's note: What follows is an
excerpt from a story written by
Annotations' faculty sponsor,
Prof. R. Randall Kelso.)
Any attempt to predict
how an individual will decide
cases once that person reaches
the Supreme Court is a perilous
enterprise. While most Justices
decide cases about as one
would expect, there are notable
exceptions, such as President
Eisenhower's appointment of
Earl Warren, or President
Nixon's appointment of Harry
Blackmun. The stark contrast
between Justice Felix
Frankfurter's pre-Court life as
a crusading liberal, and his on-
Court behavior as a model of
judicial restraint, also suggests
that predicting an individual's
behavior on the Supreme Court
is more complex than just
knowing his or her general
political views.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's
road to the Supreme Court has
elements of the Frankfurter
model. While director of the
Women's Rights Project of the
American Civil Liberties Union
in the 1970s, she was at the
forefront of the women's rights
movement. It has been said that
what Thurgood Marshall was to
the civil rights movement, she
is to the movement for
women's rights. On the other
hand, she has been a much
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