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88 Harv. L. Rec. 1 (1989)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec88 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume 88, No. 1 America's Oldest Law School Newspaper February 17, 1989 Dissatisfied Students Push For Improved Course Lottery an~m j choices are denied. Ifa student's Whllenotlngsomeotthebene- first choice is unavailable, for fits of the proposed system, emmple, the system would at- R SueRolInaonsid that 'r. mi semmid- tempt to give the student his or ittooas tsunfavorable coe Fya prpaoednew p-regis- her second choice, or If that quences. First she noted. under l courseIiled, hisorherthird theproposedaystemastudents that t may nt be Implemented cheewoudbefllled.Onb'a/ter second or third choice could unless students expres the every student has received one becomethestudent'sfirAtround suppOforhr It. T syslte. de- seewouldtheseoa dround choice. As a result. It would be ve=o b'trLaw Coun- b,&*,. Studetswould beable to possible for that student to get c (LSO) Legal ducatin Cam- list as many as 23 dibrent nto a course ahead of another mitteelicmmitteel over the Domcorse p m s tudent who listed the same two and haf 6- Another problem students course- aafirst chie but was poned in r ttuenit find with the current system, lower on the randomized list. disjifaction with the present Savae sid, is that it does not Second Robinson empresaed allow students to isot courses concern that students might Sthe proslh whose scheduled meeting times receiveanumberofeoumes they discussed with AdmnstraIve enoafletwithotherhstedcoures. listed near the bottom of their Dean:m ea . Registrar nor nmy students list diffenmt form Thus,. thIr scheduls Sue R and Asistant sections of the same course. might consist mostly of -pd- Rellostrsrdarklwsu atpra-Thus wben studerts are denied ding and nat redset r true ent it is not da whtlhre r a r articulr course seetion, - P-11101- Moreen- when the I opIo system wi they cnnot be placed in an al- alny son *ate tat -tere be Implemented. According to terate course. w always be trade-ohfli. There RabInsonZtecn ltbedse- m new sysim would alow is no such thing - a perfet sean] Isuptothedeas,'butsbe stihtes to sign up for multiple su.. added that I think the deans sectiorsofaeoursesswellaefor adese ofthepsent .ys- would fel better Isbout appe- courses with tme conflicts. so if term Robinson stated that the ing the proposall If there ws their first choices are denied, great majority of students do snm more student feedbek. they can be registered in one of gettheirfirstchoices, and. al- BonniefSavage. SL a member their 'bak-up' couses. thougth urvafr yflry oflheCommittee~descrbedwtiat Under the proposed system, to year. studentsgenerallywin she ee s the benefts of the Savage said, students am more up with complete or nery proposed system Under the kelytoend upwithafullisched- -lete Siirt-l~hd curent pe-reglatratlonsyteM.n ule since they can list back-up ules. She further explained that she said, students who ae de- courses. Although students less than full schedules 'ae not ried class apaeuso r their fis would still have to think are- really a problem. because at coedstno peority ar stn- fully as they fill out their pre- Harvard we shop fr courses. etwho oet thei firt- regstration ns she saidthe Students who need to add choices, rTi means that sme need hr strate n and sec- courses in the fall have the op- studentscanwinateverylevelof ond-guesn( ofotherstudents portunity to sit In on various choew eoterstudentsmywould be reduced, classes and hence to make truly lose at every level. As under the present system, Informed choices about which The propod system. Savage 21A5 would continue to receive one they would like to add. aid was developed to address preference forsecond-year bask According to Savage. the pro- thspreblemrh system priorit- courses and 1 wouldcontnue =e Is fialyundrseiu tises stu.dents' subsequent to receive preference for upper- onlertonaer a choees when their higbher level courses. (continued on back pge) Bok Delays Minority President, Superv, Dean ChoiceeditoCrysMr. 2L also Dean hoice %=j= a Princeton graduate. may be the first black ever on the mast- Depte=petoui that ~The 1981191orarodlawu, head. According to Cart Cole- H PresidentDerek view masthead includes the man, 2L. the other supervising Bok 54would announce his publication's second minority editor. 'the 10 year memoy ol selection forthe newdeanof president and the first black the buinesoolcecan'treiem- HL3when he returned fn wmanevr.Theeightnewsaff er anyone else, andl the rumor a working vacation In early heads were approved unani- here at the oflice is that Crystal February, there hasbeenno mously by Revlew member in is the first. word yet on is choice, an election on Feb. 5 and Feb. 9. 'Our class [class of V0 was Bot Indicated to the fac- The new president, Peter Yu, more diverse to begin with. rm ulty last fall that the deci- 21. from Annandale, Virginia. is glad to be a part of the greater sion would likely be made agraduateofPrincetnUniver- diversity on the Law Review.' befee Chroitmas. but there aiy and is working toward a Nix said of her ground-breaking has been no ofcial expla- Ph.D. in Harvard's Government status. nstion for either delay, and Department. He described the Taeeoftheelghtmembersol Boks administrative as- new masthead as a diverse and the new masthead are women, a tant refused to comment. broad-ranging group. Yu. an proportion roughly equivalent to A number of professors Asia-American. is only the the forty percent female compo- famillarwlththedeansearch second minority to head the Law sition at HIS. One ofthe women. said they had only heard Review. The first was Raj Mar- Caroline Brown. 2L a Harvard speculation about the de- phatia '88. who is of Indian graduate, was next in line to Yu layed selection by Bok. descent. In the election for president and One of the two new supervis- will be the new treasurer - a po- FBE Directo Wiliam Sessforts FBI Chief Defends Investigative Methods By Patick 111111 our society which values its Staf rter fteedom. C Cvil liberties are very The use of sensitive nvesti- prominent on everybody's gaive tc.hnique, while at- mind. As Americans. most of tthe rights us are offended by any intru- ofsocietywlthindviduarlights sion into our private lives. On was the top of chgiven the otherhand., we a angered by Federa Bureau of Investi- thatofsodetyIsnotproteced gallon FB) Director Wllam frrm those who want to do us Sessions to the HIS Forum on harm. Feb. 8. -lnrough the lawful use of Sessions, a former United sensitive Investigative tech- States District Court Judge niques. w can ucceafulyt- Texas. believes the balance is lsckcrimnaconductn ash- both possible and beneficial to feontinued on back page sing Editor Elected To Review sltion considered to be second to the presidency. Theotherwoman member of the masthead. Christina Uhlrich, 21. a Dart- mouth graduate, is to be one of the three executive editom. The Review is more than race and gender-diverse, however. since the new mathead reflects a diversity of academic and oc- cuptional backgrounds. Execu- Uve editor Tom Krause, 21., for instance, was a lieutenant on the U.S.S. Sturgeon, a fast-at- tack nuclear submarine, before coming to HLS. Scott Collins. 2L, managing editor, was cap- tain of the Harvard football team. Coleman. a Georgetown gradu- ate, is ean.;ng a masters degree at the East Asian Studies De- partment and has spent a vear studying in China. Brown also studied for a year in China be- fore attending HIS. and Nix has been a reporter for the New York Tmes. Most of the candidates and other members of the Review were pleased with the diversity ofnextyear's masthead. Nixsaid the masthead is one of the most diverse boards the Law Review has had.rhe members also plan to extend the diversity of the Review in the future, according to NIx. who said that at a recent candidates' forum, all but one candidate supported' the Low Review's new afirmative action policy. The policy. Implemented for the first tine this year. is an attempt to increase the number of minority editors on the Re- view, but does not extend to positions on the masthead or the presidency. Outgoing president Dan Kahan. 31.. described the presi- (continued on back page) .rvard Law Record

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