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SPRING2006
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2006 Grand
Chancellor
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plus:
SUSANA ALEMÁN LYNN BLAIS SARAH BUEL MELINDA TAYLOR WENDY WAGNER
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Kayla Dreyer,
’07, organized
the Fulbright &
Jaworski golf
clinic to help
women students
learn the game.
F E A T U R E S
FRONT OF THE BOOK BACK OF THE BOOK
2 VOIR DIRE LAW PARTNERS
CELEBRATING AND OTHER
4 IN CAMERA 100 YEARS OF MAJOR GIFTS 25
A new environmental law clinic WOMEN AT UT LAW
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and marching through history GIVING BY FUND 31
9 DEAN’S MESSAGE GIVING BY CLASS 54
A Bright Future Why UT Law is one of the best
by Steven A. Goode, Dean ad Interim places for women students FRIENDS OF THE
by Allegra J. Young LAW SCHOOL 68
11 CALENDAR
SPECIAL FEATURE CORPORATIONS AND
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LAW SCHOOL THE CONTRIBUTORS’
President-elect Carrin Patman,’82, REPORT 2005 CLOSING ARGUMENT 72
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Sarah Buel recognized, and Monuments of Paper
R. Anthony Reese’s global honor by Michael Widener
UT Law recognizes those who
gave to help us succeed.
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LETTERS BARRY SMITHERMAN,’84 Dean ad Interim
STEVEN J. GOODE
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A SENSE OF HUMOR?
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IT WAS WITH GREAT DISAPPOINT- Associate Director of Development
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CARRIN PATMAN,’82
As a friend and UT Law School
LAUDATE LIBRARIAN classmate of Patrick Black and as the
M AG AZ I N E
ISO MUCH ENJOYED READING THE executor of his will, in November
article about Roy Mersky in the 2004 I e-mailed to your column the Assistant Dean for Communications
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ly appreciate how extraordinary the The second sentence was not printed.
Contributors’ Report
library he built is and what they I cannot understand why you did
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Christiane DeWitt, B.A., ’82 career while you routinely print the ANGELA KRAUSE
Austin, Texas legal careers of others. Your editorial
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Highlands, Texas, find his way around humor, and sometimes it is most
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W A T E R W O R K S
Professors at the new Environmental Law Clinic help Texans
obtain safe drinking water and sanitation systems. Students work
with (left to right) Lynn Blais, Wendy Wagner, Melinda Taylor, and
local attorneys to provide legal services and guidance. Current
projects help rural residents with inadequate water supplies in Fox
Crossing Water District, Mill County, and a 400-home subdivision
with failing septic systems in Rancho Vista, Guadalupe County.
PHOTOGRAPHED AT AUSTIN’S SHOAL CREEK
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W O M E N S P E A K U P
In 1917 UT-Austin students rallied against Texas governor James Ferguson,
who had threatened to veto most of UT’s appropriation unless professors
he found objectionable, such as UT Law’s Robert Cofer, were fired.
(Cofer had spoken at a county fair in favor of Ferguson’s political opponent.)
After the march, Ferguson’s support evaporated and he resigned.
The next governor, William Hobby, opened primary voting to women.
FROM THE HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE AND THE CACTUS
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