University of Texas School of Law - Peregrinus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Tom Breeding Talk of the Townes Q I If tonight was the night before your LSAT, would you still decide to take if? TOM BREEDING: More than likely. I went out the night before and got drunk on Sparkling Burgundy. I got in at 3 a.m. and my roommate had to assassinate me to get me up to take the exam. The LSAT was boring but law school’s fun: Really unique, better than working. It’s been real . . . well, really not. RICK DISNEY: Yeah . . . I’ve enjoyed law school. I’d do it again, but then I have a job now. That changes the outlook. Andreo Ferguion Q ! Out of all the cases you’ve studied in Law School, which have you thought was the most significant? ANDREA FERGUSON: I just love those cases where the judges write those fantastic opinions. I also enjoy reading those little bitty facts in cases . . . like the one where they were caught stealing in a house and said they were hunting mushrooms with a pair of pliers. Isn't that a riot? MARY ESTHER HERNANDEZ: The Alger Hiss case in Property. He was excluded from getting his pension from the State Department because of his trial. They had tried to deprive him of something not directly related to his job, just for political reasons. It was ex post facto and so I agree with the court that it was unfair. Reuben Caiorez Profeisof James Treeee Q Do you agree with the UT Law School grading system? REUBEN CASAREZ: I don’t agree with the system but I don't see any viable alternatives. Grades given often seem fraught with difficulties and inaccuracies, but I understand the need for them. I wouldn’t approve of a straight pass fail system. It's not the system so much as the importance of grades when someone else comes into the picture. YVONNE PUIG: I’d like to see it go to pass fail, but some oppose this because employers would have no way to differentiate between prospective employees. How would we reward the ones who work hard and the person who works super hard? There must be a better way, but I don’t know what. I Now that Gary Gilmore has been executed, how do you feel about the death penalty? PROFESSOR JAMES TREECE: I am opposed to the death penalty, so my attitude did not change after the execution. I think capital punishment brutalizes the culture. Whereas the victim's murder is an act that we are not responsible for collectively, we are responsible for the acts of the State in a more direct way. RON KIRK: I have serious ideological problems with it. In one sense, there’s nothing wrong with it. I'm victim-oriented, and it’s hard to find room in my heart for a murderer. But it's unfairly administered. 99% of those fried are minorities ... The fact that someone was executed bothers me. Mary Either Hernandez Yvonne Pv'9 Ron Kirk folk of the Town

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Dean Green: Res Ipsa Loquitur In 1947, Deon Leon Green returned to his alma mater to teach a coupla more years before retiring and to do some writing. Those coupla more years stretched into an extra 30 when Dean Green retired once again from teaching. A prolific writer. Dean Green has attacked his foremost enemy — the proximate cause doctrine — in many of his 16 books and 1 50 articles. Dean Green's former students all recall the times they had to recite” for him at the front of the class. After 60 years of devotion to his students, that's a lot of recitation. UR T -RELATlQl IASS OF I 2 — Dcon Green

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