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1972 Student Law. Letter [1] (1972)

handle is hein.journals/stlwlet1972 and id is 1 raw text is: JANUARY, 1972 ABA Midyear Meeting The American Bar Association will hold its midyear meeting in New Orleans the first week in February. At that time the House of Delegates will meet, discussing, debating and voting on a number of issues important to the profession; such issues are in the form of recommendations and reports from the various ABA sections and committees and other bar association groups having membership in the House. The Law Student Division has submitted three recom- mendations and reports. The Division's two delegates, Ron Stites of UMKC and Dan Kamin of St. Mary's, have spent considerable time preparing the recommendations. Addi- tionally, both delegates will lead the debate in the House on the recommendations. Those recommendations are set forth below. I. Minority Group Recruitment The Board of Governors of the Law Student Division recommends and urges the adoption by the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association of this policy of minority group enrollment as further commitment to the concept of encouraging minority group students to seek a legal education. Subject: Minority Group Enrollment RESOLVED, the American Bar Association urges the adoption of minority student recruitment programs at all law schools not now having such programs and specifically affirms the commitment of the Law Student Division to the goals of the 1968 Law Student Division resolution as follows: That the American Bar Association strongly urges individual student bar associations to initiate, and to cooperate with their law school faculties and administrations in carrying out, programs designed to expand the enrollment in the nation's law schools of members of groups historically and presently disadvantaged by reason of ethnic prejudice; and That the nation's law schools make every effort to insure the success of minority group students in law school, such as by taking into account any underprivileged background in administering the general admissions policies and providing tutorial and financial assistance; and That the Law Student Division make an effort at the national level to encourage minority group students to pursue the study of law; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Law Student Division coordinate and make available to all law schools the names and credentials of those minority group students who are desirous of and prepared to enter law school. I1. Hiring Practices BE IT RESOLVED, that the American Bar Association strongly condemns all forms of discrim- inatory hiring practices, whether on the basis of sex, religion, or race within the legal profession. Ill. Legal Education The Law Student Division recommends adoption of the following resolution: WHEREAS, there is a great need for the law schools of the United States to enhance the legal education experience by the establishment and expansion of extra-curricular and co-curricular programs to give law students relevant experience in the practice of law, and WHEREAS, there is an unfilled need in today's society for adequate and readily available legal services for lower income citizens, and WHEREAS, law school clinical programs are uniquely appropriate to meet the aforementioned needs and, WHEREAS, clinical programs, to be successful, require new sources of financial support for legal education, and WHEREAS, federal funding for clinical legal education has not been forthcoming in spite of the existence of authorized legislation. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the American Bar Association strongly reiterates its support and approval of clinical legal education and will take all appropriate and necessary measures to effectuate the implementation and adequate fund- ing of federal legislative measures, such as Title XI of the Higher Education Act of 1965, designed to Law Student Division, American Bar Association: Jeffrey Wentworth, President; Edward Babic, First Vice President; Charles R. Ashman, Second Vice President; Laura M. Horton, Secretary-Treasurer; Dan T. Kamin and Ronald J. Stites, Division Delegates. Circuit Governors: First Circuit, Howard J. Gan; Second Circuit, Robin Schimminger; Third Circuit, Frank Giorno; Fourth Circuit, Richard Salem; Fifth Circuit, Randy Biser; Sixth Circuit, Fred Dellapa; Seventh Circuit, Paul Glick; Eighth Circuit, Denny Titus; Ninth Circuit, Phil Kazanjian; Tenth Circuit, Frederick A. Ruth; Eleventh Circuit, vacant; Twelfth Circuit, Thomas Hillier; Thirteenth Circuit, Tully Shahan _, f-

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