South Texas College of Law Annotations (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 2, Ed. 1, September, 1993 Page: 3 of 12
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September 1^3
Plain talk: SBA launches new year
By CLINT E. JONES
I would like to take this
opportunity to welcome those
continuing students who are back
for the Fall semester, as well as
those who are entering their first
semester at South Texas. By the
time that you read this article,
you should have already started
classes or new clerkships, and
some of you first-year students
will have already had the pleasure
of reciting for the first time in
class. But, whether 01 not you
like being back in school, the
SBA officers and I hope that we
can make your stay a little more
enjoyable by providing various
activities for you during the
semester.
Before I inform you of the
current plans for the SBA, let me
tell you about some things that
occurred during the summer,
most of which was mentioned in
the summer edition of Annota-
tions. We began the summer by
dividing the past SBA activities
into various committees. By
now, most of you have seen a list
of these committees on the large
poster in the hallway. The pur-
pose of organizing these commit-
tees is to allow any volunteering
student an opportunity to get
involved in SBA activities.
Thus, if any of you are interested
in helping organize or plan any
activity which is listed, we want
your help. You all are members
of the SBA, and each of you is
entitled to a voice in this organi-
zation—=———-
We also solved the "locke:
lottery" system this summer, by
implementing a policy that al-
lowed current locker lessees to
retain their lockers, and placing
remaining locker hopefuls and
entering students into a lottery
type system. We are still working
on obtaining cable TV in the
student lounge and a graduation
speaker, and I will let you know
how those efforts are going in
later editions of Annotations.
In addition to these things
which happened over the summer,
a proposal was drafted in an effor
to increase the two-hour time limi
for atrium parties to three hours.
Hopefully, by the time you read
this, the faculty will have ap-
proved this proposal. Other pro-
posals expressing concerns voiced
in the SBA suggestion box will be
addressed as soon as possible
during this semester, and I will let
you know the results of these
proposals soon.
At press time, the officers
and I have not held our first
meeting. So all I can comment on
are ideas we hope to implement.
For instance, there should be a
vacation package available for
students and friends for each
break we have over the next year.
Also, we hope to either improve
the fall picnic or replace it with a
better activity. If you have ideas
for a replacement activity, please
let us know. We also have though
about hosting a either a Malpract-
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Remembering STCL
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By PEGGY PARKER
As I was helping my
parents clean out a closet re-
cently, I came across a dusty, old
(1928) torts book. It was then that
I learned my grandfather, Burney
Parker, had attended South Texas
College of Law back in the late
1930s. I asked him what this law
school was like over 50 years
ago. Not only did he not have to
supplements, no computers and
no online research. My grandfa-
ther worked full time as a banker,
spent three nights a week in class
from 7 until 10 p.m. and spent
another nine hours a week, at
least, actually pouring over the
casebook, with no canned briefs
for guidance.Unfortunately, this
load eventually proved too taxing,
take the LSAT or the accompa-
nying prep classes, he did not
even finish high school. "Who-
ever wanted to go, could go --
you didn't have to pass a test or
have a certain number of hours,
just an inclination to go.
"It was very inexpensive;
maybe $100 a year. It was in the
YMCA building and these attor-
neys who taught got very little, if
anything!'(There were no student
loans back then.)
Also, there were no law
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and he had to withdraw from this
course of study six months shy of
a law degree, when he was diag-
nosed with tuberculosis.
He said he has few regrets
about not finishing. He indicated
that it was never his desire to
practice as an attorney in the first
place. He never intended to get
out of banking, he said, but saw a
law degree as a way to get pro-
moted and help him become a
better banker.
About 20 percent of the
students in the school, which was
limited to night classes, were
women, but not all wanted to
become lawyers; most saw a law
degree as an added dimension to
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Piller, Ruth. South Texas College of Law Annotations (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 2, Ed. 1, September, 1993, newspaper, November 1993; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth144494/m1/3/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting South Texas College of Law.