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74 Harv. L. Rec. 1 (1982)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec74 and id is 1 raw text is: HARVARD LA REOD America's Oldest Law School Newspaper FEBRUARY 12, 1982 25 CENTS Shots Exchanged During Everett Street Chase By Michael Medina Witnesses told the RECORD that Cambridge Police exchanged the Cambridge Police reported at gunfire with a fleeing car thief in the scene that they had been chas- an alley-way behind the Harvard- ing a reported stolen car when the owned apartment complex Terry car turned up Everett St. from Terrace on Everett St., startling Massachusetts Ave. The suspect residents, many of them HLS stu- abandoned the car on Jarvis St., dents, and shattering a window in (the short street from Everett to a house on adjoining Wendell Street. the HLS parking structure) re- The incident, which took place Jan. portedly ramming a police cruiser 27, was the climactic conclusion to in the process, and fled on foot up a chase which led to the arrest of the alley which separates Terry the alleged thief. (Continued on Page 3) 1 HLS's Private Pow Wows I By Mary Tarduno Have you ever heard of the Su- perior Court of the Pow Wow? Be- lieve it or not, the Pow Wow is one of the Law School's oldest and most prestigious organizations, at least in terms of past membership. While changing its activities and pur- poses with the times, the Pow Wow has been active since its inception in 1870. According to the Court's clerk, Angus West, 3L, the Pow Wow is not a secret society, although some people who have joined in recent years got the impression that it was a secret society. He refused, however, to grant the RECORD ac- cess to the Pow Wow's records for fear of breaching the trust and con- fidentiality of Pow Wow members. The RECORD pieced together the organization's history from an in- terview with West and from Pow Wow records the paper obtained from Illinois. Back in the 1860s and 1870s, no formal Ames competition or other oral arguments existed at HLS. In- stead, bright young law students, such as James Barr Ames, gath- ered spontaneously to discuss the law. The Pow Wow was created by some of those students, Ames in- cluded, to formalize the meetings and give students practice in ar- guing points of law. Once formed, the Pow Wow be- came very serious business for its members. An 1882 constitution mandated that Pow Wow sessions shall be devoted exclusively to the argument of points of law. At- tendance at meetings and argu- ments was mandatory, with fines exacted from absent or tardy mem- bers. Most stringent, however, is Article XII of the 1882 constitu- tion: No wines or spirituous li- quors of any kind shall ever be al- lowed at any of the sessions of the Court. In its early years, the Pow Wow consisted of three courts. Eight men (Continued on Page 6) O'Connor to Judge Ames Final U.S. Supreme Court Justice San- dra Day O'Connor will sit as Chief Justice of the Ames Moot Court for the final round this November, Dean Vorenberg told the RECORD Tuesday night. O'Connor accepted the School's invitation several weeks ago, Vorenberg said. She will hear the arguments on Mon- day, Nov 22. Vorenberg said he wants the jus- tice to spend a day or two at the Law School. Our hope is that she'll come early enough that there can be formal and informal meetings with faculty and students, he said. The announcement of the chief justice's identity is usually not made this early in the year, but Voren- berg said that efforts to find ajudge with the time to sit are usually underway now. Sometimes ar- rangements are not made final un- til much later, especially when a judge is not able to make an early commitment. Vorenberg added that he is now trying to fill the other two seats on the bench. We are very pleased that [Jus- tice O'Connor] will come this early in her tenure on the Court, A num- ber of students and faculty mem- bers expressed the hope that she would be willing to sit on the Ames Court, Vorenberg concluded. In a related story, the Board f Student Advisors has announced the names of the judges who will preside at the semi-final round of the Ames Competition this spring. (Continued on Page 14) 0 1 52 BY THE HARVARD LAW SCHOOL RECORD CORPORATION VOL. 74, NO. 1

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