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98 Harv. L. Rec. 1 (1994)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec98 and id is 1 raw text is: ~. Harvard. RLw RECR t.aw EO e qmerica's Oldest Law School Newspaper i35 CENTS Volume 98, No. 1 Cambridge 02138 Fray,-Jappar 21, 1994 ._ . i . =: Frid ;!ja~iJaiy 2 ,1 9 New Guards Patrol HLS Campus By Greg Stohr The Law School has ended its longstanding relationship with the security guard unit of the Harvard University Police and has hired an outside compa- ny to patrol the HLS campus. The new guards assumed responsibility January 10 after a panel chaired by HLS Buildings Operations Director Frank Lamentea recommended that the HUP guards be dumped in favor of Security Systems, Inc. (SSI). Lamentea said he was not dissatisfied with the work of the HUP guards, but wanted more localized control of the security arrangements. We thought they could respond better to our needs, Lamentea said. They report directly to our office. Lamentea said the new agency would be less expensive than the HUP guards but that the changeover wasn't motivat- ed by money. He said SSI would devote more hours to on- campus patrol than its predeces- sors did and would implement a new electronic system to monitor - the patrols of the guards. We're saving a few dollars, but we're getting more for our money too, Lamentea said. SSI already patrols the Medical School, the School of Public Health, and parts of the Business School. Dana Milne, the new on-site supervisor for the Law School, said the job here would be similar to the duties performed by SSI at other Harvard schools. It's basically the same, only on a smaller scale, said Milne. Milne said that right now three guards are patrolling the HLS campus, a number that she expects eventually to increase to please see GUARDS, page 15 RECORDhot Io / MatheW IIUnI,,S Prof. Alan Dershowitz talks with Justfce Antonin, Scalia '60. Scalia Drops -in on Criminal Law Class By Matthew Huggins- of Saurabh. Shah '96, who drafted a letter,'signed by. 121 and David Weiss.: :I* students,andsentttcalia - 7 * --,', . ~.Thn~tationjenticed-thie con- Professor Alan Dershowitz ' tentious justice 'with -the picked up his office phone late promise of a good debate: Prof. last November to hear the Dershowitz has on numerous voice on the other end say: occasions in our class men- Professor Dershowitz? This is tioned you and commented on Justice Scalia. your judicial opinions.. We After he overcame his ini- would like to invite you to visit tial shock, Dershowitz learned the school and address our the reason for the call: his stu- class sometime this semester. dents had invited Supreme Scalia insisted that his Court Justice Antonin Scalia comments in the classroom be '60 to debate Dershowitz in off the record. He said he just class, wanted to get back in the class- Scalia was calling to accept room and address a group of the invitation, and on Harvard law students with the December 15, the last day of chutzpah to write him such a the fall semester class, the crazyletter, as he described Supreme Court justice it to Dershowitz. addressed Dershowitz's Dershowitz solicited writ- Criminal Law class. The invitation was the idea please see SCALIA, page 14 New Building Nears Completion to Spring Break but won't cause January move-in, but according By April Rockstead any serious administrative diffi- to Administrative Dean Sandra culties this semester, according Coleman, substantial completion A three-month delay in the to an administration official, is now expected in mid-to-late construction of the Holmes Field The building was originally February - after which it will building has pushed back the scheduled for substantial com- take about a month to put on the earliest projected move-in date pletion in late November and a finishing touches and ready the building for use. A late design decision and delayed delivery of material such as stone for lobby flooring were among factors that contributed to the delay, Coleman said. Nobody in the construction business thinks it's a big deal, Coleman said of the delay. It's not like we got some unexpected disaster. The delay is not expected to increase the building's $13 mil- -lion pric& tag, ofwhich about $10 million is construction cost. .Since the administration knew about the potential delays early enough to avoid assigning spring term classes to the new *building, there won't be any Entrance to the Holmes Field Building.. - lease see BUILDING, page 14 L Qualityof Life Worst. in U.S., Claims New Book ByJeff Bucholtz Life at HLS may not have improved much since the unla- mented old days.of The Paper Chase, according to the recently published Princeton Review Student Access Guide to the Best Law Schools. Author Ian van Tuyl con- structed the guide on the basis of more than 11,000 surveys of stu- dents-at 140 law ,'jchools, rank- ing and compiling information about the schools on a variety of subjects, from the traditional (admissions index) to the sur- prising (students' political orien- tation). But the ranking sure to provoke the most indignantreac- tion on the banks of the Charles deals with quality of life. HLS students might be accustomed to sniping .about ben gnumber twb,behindIYalei but the Law School now faces the novel experience-of seeing itself ranked dead last in a natinn1'snxvv.An U ORJCOA Cynthia Brantley, Princeton Review's director of publishing, -said the rankings were derived from surveys of approximately 100 HLS students, posing 70 questions on a computer form and requiring five minutes. to complete. Most questions used a strongly agree-to-strongly dis- agree or one-to-five rating sys- tem, said Brantley, and it cov- ered everything from range of course offerings to hours spent studying per day. Student reaction to HLS's ignominious ranking tended toward incredulity. Oh, come on! It's not bad at all here, opined Jennie .Thelen '96. Patrick O'Connor '95 was less charitable, terming HLS's last- place finish a complete crock. I'm. having a good time. Michelle Kisloff '96 wondered -loWjanyone could have a higher qualty:'of life in New Haven t.i6n in Cambridge. Brantley said, however, that. the surv'y' employd apartic lar reported their:quality of life as phrase's ordinary meaning. As the'lowest of all 140 law schools the guide explains, the quality- analyzed. More glamorously of-life rankings were based on than we ever could have hoped, student answers to questions .observes the Guide with barely about three items: the degree of concealed glee, Yale owns num- competitiveness among stu- ber one, so the twin titans of dents, the sense of community * American legal education . . . among students, and the quality anchor the top and bottom of our list. please see BOOK, page 12 Dean Returns From Saudi Arabia, Hails Trip as a Success By RECORD Staff Some people's vacations are be', ;r and longer than others. While most of us endured sub- freezing temperatures last week, others - namely Dean Clark and an HLS entourage enjoyed the warm, sunny cli- mate of the Middle East. Dean Clark '72 and other members of the HLS community traveled to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Egypt for 13 days over the December holidays, in part to thank the Saudi royal family for its $5 million gift to the Law School last summer. The entourage also secured addition- al donation commitments and worked to strengthen ties between Middle Eastern univer- sities and the Islamic legal stud- ies program that will soon be established at the Law School through the Saudi gift. I think we succeeded on all three dimensions, said Clark. It was a marvelous trip, he added. It was fabulous, fasci- nating, and fruitful. Development Dean. Scott Nichols, Professors Frank Vogel and Arthur Von Mehren, and HLS Capital Campaign Chairman Jack Cogan '52 joined Clark on the trip. They engaged in meetings, presentations, sightseeing, and social events - and even found time to snorkel in the Red Sea. The group did not visit with Saudi King Fahd but did meet with most of his top ministers, including the king's son and brother. The trip was a very con- crete step toward the interna- tionalization of the Law School, Vogel said. We went abroad to underline our seriousness. Clark also returned from the trip with two large donations to announce. SaudiArabian busi- nessman Bakr Binladin, who :escorted the group on part of the trip, pledged $1 million, and Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, LL.M. '56 made public a previ- ous pledge of $1 million. Both donations will be devoted to the Islamic studies program. Clark hinted that the' Law, School had secured some additional dona- tions but would not specify any please see'SAUDI, page 13 ,J,,,

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