UNIVERSITY
High Court
deliberates
at University
J Students get first hand ex
perience interpreting the
U S. Constitution
By Hope Nealson
f "-ofa'd Repeater
"Oyoz! Oyoz! ()%••/’ Ml person* bay
li t; business before the Honor.title, the
Supreme Court of the I’nited States.' .ire
admonished to draw ne.tr .inti give their
attention lor the Court is now sitting.
Clod save the l tilted States, and this
Honorable (lourt."
As one student reads the traditional
Supreme Court introdui lion, the t lass ol
about tOO stand in one motion The nine
blu<.k rol>ed figures somberly tile in and
take their seats at the front of the room
The nine students have had two weeks
to review past i uses and decade how the
justli es they are portraying would see
the t uses they are about to hear This
simulation is part ol Political Science
■1H1, t' S Supreme (four!
As the class sits, the counselors stand
to argue before the court One of two
lawyers representing eac h side barely he
gins when .1 justice interrupts, asking a
question about the c ounsd's reasoning
As in the real Supreme Court, the
counsels argue their cases, answering
any questions tiiat members ol the Court
may have
Student counsel Ann Frederic ks said
trying to understand the legal language
ol the cases was hard at First, hut eventu
ally understanding the typical to to -to
cases needed lor bac kground information
became easier
l! was eye itmg to go helore the ( our!
and keep pushing myself, Fredericks
said
Fan h week nine new members lile into
the room to hear and argue their c use
precisely as their justice would File in
dividual student s opinion bus no place
in this class
Students of the class sia in to approve
ol tile simulations
Hr i t K-,we who p'.iyi d Juste, c While
said the exponent e o! taking on another
justice’s identity can he quite uver
w helming
You go most oi the term doing noth
ing. just watching simulations with no
i : tares or anything, and ail id a sudden
tn a two week period you have two
vs t-cks of terror, he said
Lisa Lawrence, who played justice
Clarence i horous, said she wouldn't call
U S Supreme Court Justice* (trom left) Antonin Scalia (Jett Barrett), John Paul Stevens (Pete Moe) end Byron White (Brad Howe) in
terpret the Constitution during professor James Klonoski s innovative Supreme Court class.Political Science 4S4
no! hav ing lectures a dlsadv antage of the
class. am! said she a< tually Irarnt'd more
about thf Supreme Court by walldung
tho sirnulalions
"You ran always loam tlio mils and
bolls of constitutional law In reading,"
she sanl
She said tho partK iputorv nature ol !ho
i lass Ion rs students In real I v know their
rases inside and out
It allows us to use everything we've
learned so far and apply it and show our
own ability, she said I w ish more up
per division ( lasses would tie like that
I’rolessor lames Monoski said lie ion
verted the conventional lei lure < lass into
a student role playing type of ( lass in
Klonoski said his reasons lor tile
switch were to break the tradition ol stu
dents in the passive role ol listener and
get students to participate in an active
w ay
1 he end prodiu I should Is an analyl
leal mind disposed to get into affairs ol
the community or what good are
you he said
klonoski said that bv having everv stu
dent learn the hat kgroiiml and vaim - o!
e.a h justice, students discover the trutii
alxiul the Supreme ( .ourt that these peu
jilr (ion ! find the law lint make it out of
their v allies
"They are a political riei iston muktnj.;
body " tie said You can't avoid that In'
cause the large (juestions are totally poll
tii al no matter how mm h you doss u up
with i onstitution.il language
Klonoski said that overall, students do
a gixnl job of correctly Interpreting the
justice's would he opinions, Init the
main challenge for students is (o demon
strate they i an think anal yt leal ly
Brad Kuwe said lire long hours at the
law library definitely taught him a lot
ali< Hit tin- inner working-, of the ( am rt
By going so m depth on one topic,
you learn what tin l onstitution is all
about, tie said
! to students get to < li ise their is
tiles' Wit ijllite Students write down
w ba h i! if e (hey pri fer hut in tin . nd
tin- I hoe es .ire s i of iOsk !
A graduate student taking tin ■ t ■ H(
Ad.m, said when lie signed lip lor the
first S I ,: lie I'; lie told i .a A w! it:
Ul ! li e he prefer n i
1 went up to fnm tin- first week of
class and said, please please make me
Stevens (one of two liberals on the
court) And he said 'I'm going to make
you Kehnquist
Ail-in said whi rl Monoski unnouni ed
the justices m i lass, hr saui I put your
names in «i hat Sonic <if you got who you
wanted and. hr said, looking -it
\dan some of you didn't
Ad.in said the groups of student jus
lues that are assigned the same raises
tend to hang out together after the < asr is
tried and decided
i hat i omr.idery is -i wonderful gift
and wonderful tool he said It really
develops a student Iwmd as opposed to a
student pas.sivtdv listening to the lei tur
er
klonnskt said he knows tins i lass has
a lasting » Ifei ! hr( ansr people stop him
and e ► d he's still teai lung the course
What do \i)ii remember about your
education' he asked You remember
■ a > • where you got into it .uni whore
van ?n i ame a p.irtn ipant and an a< tor
k ' ■ . ki said h> had more fun leach
in,’, tf ia-.s vv lien the W arren ( ami w is
har;d ing down more i ibr n, i di e i• aorr
hut the changing court is not enough to
o : n .‘u >p tea; hi?.' the i lass
i could tjuit. hut i l*ll my wife, what
woii Id l tic#'
The University is not only a place to learn, it’s a place to dream
jin acting classes, students are intro
duced to the world of the theater and
end up learning something about
themselves along the way
By Karen Engels
Emerald Reporter
Reporters Notebook
A giddy princess .1 frumpy lihrar
um turned seductress, .1 Hollywood
producer, and .1 parrol That's me
Sort of.
When I signed up lor Acting I, I
took il as a dare lo myself You
know, to banish the terror of the re
( urn lift (heater dream The one ev
ervone has Weil, *11 least the one i
have
I'm on stage, tile /eud/ng iady. hut
/ don't know mv line-. or anyone e/s<-s. <«r tne />/<•». for
ih.ii mutter I promptly destroy the production lor the
other .it tor-. The oblivious audietn n .ipplauds am w.n
! also embarked >n tins i lass to learn abmil in v self,
the inlru: :vvorU: >! ll><• i;• r ,r;d : n-.t ■ ,i :i.\ s. .1 watti
poise for the inevitable u>h interviews of mv long put-off
adulthood.
K - r the first few da vs as :■■■: am! • iassmates .v!
e.iiuainted. we learned about evervone s aetinv
nr lac k, (hereof Mine consisted pretty mm h of small
town print ess page.nits anti I Mi- time 1 dressed a. a giant
lilooti tfriip for tnv high school blood drive i need n't
have felt sillv
Others' illustrious ailing careers included real high
school and college plays, but others were in inv league
having plaved shepherds and angels in church Christ
mas shows or apples in Oirl Scout presentations
Sigh of rebel At least I wasn’t the only one there
without "real" a< ting experienr e
1 he i lass was everything 1 didn't expel t and more I
must have read the time schedule wrong Surely tins
class was worth JO i redds, not the three I signed up for
Hut I did happily survive and even enjoyed myself
After right weeks of < lass, I'm nowhere near kathr
rme Hepburn, and Constantine Stanislavski would
snicker at rnv feeble attempts of portraying some an
else, but that isn't really important, bet auso halfway
through the term, my dream changed
I'm on s/age, hut tins tinir ! Arrow rm /roes /'/;. w
is bfifinninc. but I have a ptnbb-m I iwr: ' ' 'h
i ostunif shop, n seems / run o rf n , Hey ,ii i " -
quenth miss hull lllr phi y Hut ill's ;j, i! s' Mh r /
* 'lew m \ t m
Acting class even ISCS are ill's..:: •• j
thought pfoi ess and preparatn n i:,\ .i . i
The show is beginning, but I have
a problem. I never got to the
costume shop, it seems. I run out
to change and consequently miss
half the play. But all’s not lost
After all, I knew my lines.
Oni' o! our hr*.! exercises w.ix to imitate ourselves
Sun|i:<■ eh ' It's hauler III.in i! links We then gr.elu.it* 1
to spying on .mil subsequently imil.itir 1 our i iussmeles
mannerisms .uni voue patterns lor the whole i l.i-.s kn
!ighteniru> .mil embarrassing to x.e, the le.ist Do I really
cliii niv tongue when 1 speak mil play with u:. i
that nun h7
U t! • n progress. | to •.! npterl si . ties. .•: jit . .
tio.v.. te l rehearsal evenuses, designed • , give ux re-w
insight ■ - our . hoseri charm ters One nl mv favorite
:t m * • - He dav when we . ,.:ne dt. ■ m d as . i.r