Page Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, October 24, 1968 Heber- Smith Project boosts ghetto legal aid MAX By ELIZA PATTERSON A program conducted this sum- mer by the University's Law School: might supply the nation's ghetto residents with the type of "respon- sive legal aid" they have long needed. The program, the Reginald Heber-Smith Law Project, recruits and trains socially responsible law school graduates and sends them to county and dity legal aid clinics around the country. Sponsored by the Office of Economic Opportunity, the pro- gram trained 38 recent graduates from 22 law schools in courses- ranging from welfare to tenants rights. Officials of the program hope the Heber-Smith fellows will gen- erate a more militant spirit in the usually conservative personnel staffing the nation's legal aid clinics. "Traditional legal aid clinics are, timid and too inaccessable ti poor," charges Prof. Rober Harris who co-directs the prog "The legal aid offices look themselves as providing the :. of the poor but not as an inti part of the war against pove The OEO's present legal aid gram hires lawyers and secret to serve indigent clients for problems as divorce, ado] housing, and criminal misden ors. To qualify for the servi single person must earn less $3,500 per year, and couples than $4,500 per year ' with exemptions for each child. By all indications the H Smith project has succeede boosting the effectiveness o neighborhood legal aid c Prof. James White of the School who co-directs the'pr with Harris says the trainin been "beneficial in that the dents are able to stimulate other offices to bring in new ideas." 1 White also feels the project has given the young lawyers training; they need to examine and reform the law, in addition to applying the law.] Harrison Fitch, one of the two black lawyers in the program and now working in a Boston clinic, also feels the program has been a' success. "We are as a group, an organ-, gram as "one of the finest of its terests was to stir up, in the law kind in existence." Thus far, they faculty, more interest in poverty say, no major problems have I law," Harris says. He believes they arisen. have been successful. However, their situations are special, because they are free to pick and choose their cases. They have no supervisor and are free to plan legal strategy as they wish. Houseman, though, criticized the training offered at the Uni- versity, saying, the courses were "too theoretical and did not offer In the past the University law school has offered only one course' in the law of the poor. This year there is an additional course of- fered by professors White and Kennedy. Next year, Harris hopes to add a third course in Welfare law. Because OEO and the University law school consider the program program lasted a year, the first five weeks were devoted to classes and the remainder of the term to actual work in the clinics. - 2452 E. Stadium at Washtenaw Ann Arbor DIAL 663-8800 l 0'ox NEW HOURS Daily6:30 AM to 10 PM. Till 1:00 AM Fri. & Sat. Night Now serving Mediterranean Cuisine feat Iur ia Chef Theodoros from Athens ization that is needed, a shot in enough on the use of- substantive 1st.ntr *x s less the arm to the legal clinics," Fitch' $500 says. However, Fitch thinks the pro- eber- ject, could be improved if moreI ed in blacks participate. The lack of f the black participation might be due linics. to the fact "the program was not: Law well enough publicized," he says.: roject Both Alan W. Houseman and g has Thomas L. Smitson, Smith Fellows stu- working in Detroit, regard the pro- 'w. a success, they will continue it In welfare law one works at the next summer with 250 students at expense of ;the poor, and thus, it a university not holding a summer is important to be efficient. The school, so that the students may two fellows claim the courses of- all be housed together. The In- fered here failed to teach this ef- stitute of Continuing Legal Ed- ficiency. ucation will administer the pro- But the Heber-Smith program gram. appears to be doing more than The first Heber-Smith program just training ghetto lawyers. began at the University of Penn- "One of the OEO's greatest in- sylvania in the summer, 1967. The INCORPORATION: Newell sets terms for release of funds (Continued from Page 1) Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Wilbur Pierpont. The statement cited Section 8.5 of the State Constitution as the legal basis for Regental control of! funds. The section creates the Regents and states this board shall have. "control and direction of all ex- penditures from the institution's! funds." "The question is not whether SGC can incorporate," the state- North wood tenants seek hou ing planI (Continued from Page 1) brought up other problems t h a t' will have to be dealt with at the Committee meeting tomorrow. Chief among them is the charge that at least 20, per cent of North- wood's residents can afford to live in non-University housing. Related to this is the charge made by association president Alan Cline,,grad., that some of the people living in Northwood are not even connected with the Uni- versity any longer. ment noted, "such a move might' in fact be a very good thing." "The question is only whether SGC can transfer University funds to the corporation," the statement continued. Council member Carol Hollens- head said Mrs. Newell's action represents "a vestige of in loco parentis." Miss Hollenshead said Mrs. Newell is "giving us our al- lowance as long as we're good children." At the SGC meeting, Davis in- troduced a motion formally cen- suring Mrs. Newell for her "out- rageous act," but action on the measure was postponed until next week in accordance with normal! Council procedure. In other action, Council passed a resolution supporting the SACUA amendment to the Committee on Communications Media "deleting the power of the Board in Control of Student Publications to make senior editor appointments for The Daily.' Neff also introduced a motion, to be voted on next week, asking SGC to reaffiliate with the Na- tional Student Association (NSA). E. 0. Knowles said he strongly opposed the measure since "there is nothing NSA can give to us. 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