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113 Harv. L. Rec. 1 (2001)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec113 and id is 1 raw text is: AMERICA'S FIRST LAW SCHOOL NEWSPAPER The Harvard Law- ECO RD 35 CENTS VOLUME I 13, No. I II RIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 200 1 From Shaw Hall to City Hall: Recent Harvard Law grad takes on the powers that be at the San Antonio City Hall.. . More on P. 3 A Living Wage? Controversy rages over the Crimson's decision to hire Cambodians to digi- tize their archive ... More on P. 2 Sideshow Bob: Bungling the Strategic Plan and selling out to business? Gurney says 12 years is enough for Dean Clark ... More on P. 5 New to town? The 1 L guide to restaurants, radio stations, cool bars, the best desserts, playing hooky and going to church . . More on P. 6 Not so different: This year's entering class is a little less diverse, but like every year there's still plenty of talent in the bunch... More on P. 3 He said, he said: The dueling restaurant reviewers take on the do- it-yourself grill Koreana, but decide to keep things civil ... More on P. 12 Cheating on wine: A beginner's guide to pretending you know something about wine - or at least can fake it ... More on P. 10 Bored? Do you like guacamole? Salsa? Liza Brann has an idea for you, and it doesn't involve the Hark More on P. 12 CONTENTS PROFILE 3 EDITORIAL 4 FORUM 5 CAMBRIDGE GUIDE. 6 FENNO 9 VINO & VERITAS I0 COMICS I I ETC. 12 The brains behind Legally Blonde m Screenwriters drew scenes from life at Stanford Law by Meredith McKee Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, screenwriters of the HLS fairy tale Legally Blonde, say they have made a business out of being hip. There's some sort of weird fusion of both our sensibilities put together that equates hip, Smith said. And it's not really manufactured by us, it just sort of happens when we collaborate. But Lutz and Smith, who pre- viously sold the script for 10 Things I Hate About You, want- ed their latest movie to be more than just a comedy. We definitely wanted to have a 'Don't let other people define you' message, Lutz told the RECORD. Smith added: We wanted to do a female empowerment movie, and I think it definitely comes across as that. And it's very seductive and .','s fun and it's candy-colored and gloss, but I think there's a good message for girls, and women, and even boys. Lutz and Smith were brought onboard when producer Marc Platt asked them to turn a book by the same name into a screen- play. Author Amanda Brown, an attorney, had written the book Legally Blonde after she grad- uated from Stanford Law School as an anthropological study of the law school species. Not sur- prisingly, Brown set the story at her alma mater, not HLS. Working from Brown's manu- script, Lutz and Smith concocted a version of the story for the big screen. After nervously pitching the proposed story line to the stu- dio suits, Lutz and Smith were given approval to draft a script. We had come up with a fairly cohesive outline for it, but it was clear to Marc Platt, the producer, who went to law school - he's TRACY BENM y MGM Slud, Reese Witherspoon and Linda Cardellini, left, star in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures' comedy Legally Blonde. Below, Robert Luketic directs. also a lawyer - that he wanted us to be able to flavor this with the realities of law school, Smith explained. So Lutz and Smith %xent to Stanford Law School. We were there during orienta- tion and the introductory period, so %% e got a lot of those 'Your life is going to be hell - wink, wink' speeches, Smith said. The problem was that we were there when, like, everyone's bonding and getting to know each other. When we told them that we were screenwriters just doing research, they just dropped us like hot potatoes, because we weren't Please see BLONDE p. 2 Universities earn big bucks as Harvard's stunt double by RECORD Staff Pity the soul who watches a cinema blockbuster set at Harvard Law School and believes the campus actually looks that good. Law students who watched this summer's Legally Blonde -noticed more than a few differences between the celluloid version of campus and the real deal. In place of such seige-mentality mon- stronsities as the Gropius Complex and Pound Hall were red brick facades draped in fake ivy. Even more sur- prising, Elle Woods moved into Wyeth House and no one gave her the this-build- ing-is-a-firetrap speech. Please we DOUBLE p. 2 LIPP undergoes $250K benefits upgrade The changes were designed to the same. When students receive amount alumni receive, she said by Mike Wiser address a range of criticisms loans, the school calculates how that the change would affect 80 In late April, just as the mem- aimed at a program that many much a student needs and how percent of participants. bers of class of 2001 were students and faculty saw as infe- much that student's parents are The definition of which alum- preparing to head off to their rior to similar programs at NYU expected to contribute. Under ni can receive LIPP funding has new jobs and wondering and Yale lax schools. The the old system loans that were also changed. Under the old ss- whether they would ever be debt changes, which took effect on part of this imputed parental tem only students in private o free, Dean Robert Clark '72 July 1, will affect the 200 or so contribution were treated differ- public sector law related jobs announced that the school's Low alumni in low-income jobs who ently by LIPP than the need- were covered. Now any alumni Income Protection Plan (LIPP) use contributions from LIPP to based loans. Dealy said that the working in a government, non- would undergo major changes. help pay off la x school loans, program xsas confusing and she profit or academic job Rill be The school would redefine Dean Clark and Lisa Deal\. the had many philosophical con- included in the program. Dealy which jobs were covered by the Director of LIPP, both said that versations xith students about said that under the old system plan, eliminate the different the changes x% ill put HLS in the why they would be responsible jobs were evaluated on a case treatment of need-based and same league as the best loan-for- for the imputed-parental contri- by-case basis and students were imputed parental-contribution giveness programs in the coun- bution five years after they had put into a Catch-22 situation o loans, replace the old salary cap try. graduated. While the change having to accept a job before with a salary-debt ratio and Under the neN program, LIPP would not have a huge effect on increase the LIPP contributions, will treat all financial aid loans the cost of the program or the Please see LIPP p. 2 r f

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