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 • 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