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

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1993 PEREGRINUS STAFF Contributing Editors Maddic Boyer Chris Eggleston Laura Parchman Editor-in-Chief Karen Adams Assistant Editor Jerry R. Thompson Supervisor of Yearbooks Mary Felps Yearbook Assistant Clayton Brantly Darkroom Foreman Joseph Esparza David Garza Edward Guzman Gail Jensen Sue Krenek James Martinez Sandy Mindcrhout Robert Eric Riojas Photographers George Bridges James Brush Ali Cate Marc Garcia Rebecca Gonales Travis Higdon Brian Jackson Annclics Schlickcnreidcr Laura Skelding Brad Smith John Thomas CmgrUvulgii FRONT ROW: Sue Krenek. Karen Adams. Sandy Mindcrhout. BACK ROW: Chris Eggleston. Joe Esparza. Laura Parchman. David Garza. 2 — Staff Page

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1993 PEREGRINUS The University of Texas School of Law Volume 43 Austin, Texas Table of Contents Features...................3 Organizations.............22 Students..................50 Faculty...................92 Staff...... Index ..... Sponsors . . Advertising 110 116 120 122 Tabic of Comenu —

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The Legend of the Peregrinus The Peregrinus, patron saint of The University of Texas .School of I .aw, had its beginning in the Equity class taught by Judge W. S. Simpkins in 1918. Here’s the way Simkins told the story: “Many years ago I was trying to explain to the class in Equity the origin of the system in Rome and the source of equity in the Roman Empire. At that time, fledglings just from the high schools were admitted to the Law School. Many of them had never heard of the Roman Empire, and not a few spelled cow with a “K.” “Well, 1 explained to them that when Rome conquered a nation it was incorporated into the Roman Empire — that the Roman citizen was not subject to the laws of these incorporated nations — that in due course commerce sprang up between the citizens of Rome and barbaric nations, and there was no law to determine and settle their con- tractural relations. The Roman Emper-ior, to settle the troubles arising out of the fact that there was no law applicable to control their contracts, appointed a Praetor or chancellor to travel among those nations and to settle all disputes without reference to the laws of Rome, or of the incorporated nations, but to do justice and decide all disputes, alone by the conscience of the Praetor. Peregrinating from one nation to the other, he was called the Praetor Peregrinus. “The boneheads of the class evidently thought that Peregrinus was an internal organ of the body for they continually greeted each other with ‘How’s your Peregrinus today?’ This fact seems to have developed the humorous side of the incident, and Russell Savage developed a concrete expression of it on the blackboard and thus the tradition begin.'' While various descriptions have been given over the years of the Peregrinus, Julien Elfenbein, editor of the 1918 Cactus, got his description from Simkins of the original Peregrinus: “Perry is a creature of Equity. With his enormous tail he brushes aside all technicalities in favor of Justice. With the long pointed beak, he delves into the intricacies of the relevant and the irrelevant for the Truth. On his left forefoot is the Irish’s ditcher’s boot, confessing his membership in the rank and file. He puts his ‘right foot foremost’ and it is adorned with an expensive ‘Stacy Adam’ shoe (evidently a lot of force in 1918). The boxing gloves (on the hind feet) back up the law and Equity. His eye is all-seeing and his line head is crowned with the white cap of Truth.’’ Simkins also explained that Perry’s arched back, in the attitude of springing, indicates that the law is ever ready to protect the right or prevent wrong. The I-cgcnd of the Pcrcgriiiu — 3