Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, November 16, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, November 16, 1969 1' REVAMPS PROGRAM I I V S International Voluntary Services, Inc opportunities overseas in- " education " agriculture * community development SEE RECRUITERS Tuesday, November 18 'Poverty law' courses expand WALL-TO-WALL BODIES: Harts open home to D.C. war protesters 8:30 A.M.-5 P.M. 3516 SAB NED'S BOOKSTORE YPSILANTI This new store carries more trade (non-text) books than any other in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area. Unusual 1970 calendars, thousands of paperbacks, lots of them used, some hardbacks. By TAMMY JACOBS and JIM NEUBACHER The Law School's only for- mal course in the field of pov- erty law has been dropped - but there are more opportuni- ties than ever for law students interested in working with the poor. Legal problems of the Poor, a course offered on a temporary basis for the past two years, was dropped this semester. How- ever most of the information taught in that course is still be- ing presented as part of the subject matter of other cours- es, says L a w Prof. Terrance Sandalow, chairman of the school's curriculum committee. The course, which was taught by five profesors, included see- tions on welfare, consumer cred- it problems, landlord - tenant problems, procedural problems in test litigation, and general problems of providing good le- gal services to the poor. ' "Each part should have been a course in itself," says Prof. David Chambers. "It was drop- ped for just the right reason - to expand." However, many law students, while admitting that the school is attempting to expand its pro- grams in the area of poverty law, are not satisfied. "They're making efforts, but the offerings a r e still inade- quate," says Judy Munger, sec- retary of the Law Club Board of Directors, the school's stu- dent government. Mary Bery, a member of the Black L a w Students Alliance, says the "b i g problem is re- forming the whole curriculum so that there are more alterna- tives available for students in- terested in community law." However trying to develop a number of specific, relevant courses in the field of poverty law has not been an easy job for the school. Prof. Joseph Sax, currently on leave from the school and work- ing for the Ford Foundation, was one of the original backers of a poverty law course. In a telephone interview recently, Sax said that Legal Problems of the Poor had b e e n intended from the start to exist only un- til more specific courses could replace it. "Two years ago, we began, along with Berkeley and Colum- bia, this sort of 'slap-dash' broad course," he explained. "At that time there was a real lack We We think we're interesting- hope you will. of persons qualified and avail- able to teach such specific courses, and a real lack of good textual material." "No one had even compiled a case book of the relevant de- cisions in the field," he added. Despite the difficulties, Sax said the course was satisfactory at the time. "We were operating with a real sense of urgency." Sandalow agrees with Sax, and adds that the original objec- tive-to- offer a stopgap course until better material could be gathered - has been accom- plished. "Our offerings in the area of poverty law have grown much richer, and will continue to ex- pand," he says. Both the consumer credit and welfare sections of the old course have been expanded this year into new individual courses. In addition, aeffirst-year' property course, offered consistently in the past, now contains the in- formation on landlord-tenant problems. The section on slum housing is now dealt with in a seminar on metropolitan area legal prob- lems, and Sandalow is incor- porating the section on test lit- igation into his course The Fed- eral Courts and t h e Federal System. Besides courses dealing di- rectly with poverty law, several courses which on their face ap- pear not to be relevant to the field include material on the subject. T h e "corporations" course, Sandalow says, has in- creased its emphasis on small businesses and is taking a look at legal problems involved with black capitalism. Other courses, such as those dealing with civil rights and civil liberties, have been made' increasingly relevant to the situ- ation of the country's poor. In addition to the formal course offerings, there are a number of special credit pro- grams dealing with poverty law. Last summer, for example, Prof. James White sponsored and supervised ten students who I worked half time at the Wash- tenaw County Legal Aid So- ciety. The students earned four hours credit. Some law students have ful- filled requirements in research courses by working for Legal Aid, while 100 others have work- ed for the society counseling persons who come in for serv- ices. A special court order al- lows students to try certain kinds of cases for Legal Aid clients, Sandalow notes. He points out that "almost everything we do in the training of law students is relevant in teaching them to represent the poor. Many techniques are equally important whether the lawyer is representing a rich corporation or a small ghetto business." Just how relevant the school's offerings are is open to dispute. "You can't even talk about rele- vance unless you have the stu- dents to take the course," says Ed Fabre, chairman of BLSA's communications committee. "A major problem is the lackhof black students in this law school to take the courses and a lack of black faculty members to teach them." Sandalow admits a major problem still exists in getting professors to teach poverty courses. The law school turn- over, which is always high, hit. the poverty law program par- ticularly hard this year. The increasing demand for poverty law courses at other schools across the country may make qualified personnel even more scarce, but the Law School plans to continue its expansion in the field. "I've s e e n a significant change, one which will -n- tinue." says Sax. "If you'd pro- posed such a program for con- centrating on the problems of the poor in 1960, a lot of people would have just laughed at you." But times have changed, and he says, "I think the law school has been reasonably responsive to the change." Sociology untit asks changes (Continued from Page 2> sponding concur that some re- vision of course credits and re- quirements is necessary. But they are divided over specifically what should be changed. Reform will depend on how the department's all-faculty ex- ecutive committee will interpret the poll whose results may be considered by the executive committee at a meeting t h is Tuesday. Jq A*m 'AW f 04 It' By TAMMY JACOBS "We had wall to wall bodies" laughed Mrs. Janie Hart, wife. of Michigan Senator P h illi p Hart. The Washington D.C. home of the Harts has been invaded for the last few days by students participating in the moratorium activities. As many as 39 stu- dents at a time have slept in the Hart house this week. "It's a good place for them to take shelter from the wind and the cold," Senator Hart com- mented, adding that he wasn't worried at all about the many strangers in his house. "I don't think he's scared of anything - that guy," com- mented a coed from Chicago, a friend of a friend of the Harts' daughter. Senator Hart spent most of yesterday downtown. "I march- ed from about 11th St. to the Washington Monument," he said. He added the demonstration was "wonderful", but express- ed regret at the "ruckus" late last night, "although it was just caused by a tiny handful." "It's all very casual," ex- plained University student Janis Braun. "People walk in and out of the door and just mill around." The Hart's have a roster in the front hall that keeps track of who is visiting and records guests messages. As each stu- dent leaves he crosses off his name. "They have been filing out as they have found some form of transportation," Mrs. Hart explained, saying that Friday night was busiest. "But we're getting eight more tonight, friends of one of the students who are here from Boston." Mattresses covered the flpors of most of the house, and stu- dents sprawl on the floors in sleeping bags or wrapped in blankets. "We turn over our bedrooms to them." Mrs. Hart said, "and the boys kind of shift in and out." But she add- ed their two youngest children and her daughter Ann have re- tained their own rooms. "Ann has been doing a won- derful job. She ran the place while I was away." Mrs. Hart was in Ann Arbor part of Thurs- day and Friday. "The Harts have been really fantastic to all of us," Miss Braun said. "I'd rank the accommoda- tions somewhere between the Sheraton and the Hilton," joked Wilson. Its been delightful," Senator Hart said. "I wish it would hap- pen every night." ' Yipies, police clash in streets (Continued from Page 1) downtown area. However the large contingents of police and troops in the area had not been removed from duty, they said. Yippie and SDS leaders called a protest rally for 10 p.m. last night in DuPont Circle, scene of Friday's violent action, to plan retaliatory action. The rally drew only a small number of persons, however, and fizzled. Many of the anti-war demon- strators, some who have been in the city since Wednesday, began leaving tonight, and police officials said they expected the situation to remain quiet. Five policemen were reported to have suffered minor injuries, at least two of them felled by tear gas inhalation. Police said 97 dem- onstrators were treated at local hospitals. Assembly to jaet on ROT RC TC Continued from Page 3) Campus", not just this Univer- sity, says Rieke. The most important aspect of the resolution, said Payne, is that it gives the faculty an option on whether to participate. Students supported a bookstore referendum in the Staudent Gov- ernment Council elections 1 a s t week by a 10 to 1 majority. This institutes a rolling assessment of $5 per student upon the student's entrance to the University, and can be returned upon his request when he leaves, provided the store it solvent. Students already en- rolled will be assessed for the first time this September along with incoming freshmen. Is YOUR Car Safe To Drive Home Thanksgiving 1 Have us check your transmission i SWe'll Keep You in Stit ches" By Travis Cash The recipe for a good speech includes some shortening. First busrnessman: 'Is y our adverising getting results?" Second businessman: "It sure is. Monday we advertised for a night watchman, and that very night we were robbed!" 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