Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 2005 — Page 2

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Wednesday, May 11 at the Omni Severin Hotel This year’s theme, “Ethics in Journalism: Fundamental to Democracy” Featured speaker - R. Gustav Niebuhr, one of America's leading religion writers. Includes a morning panel discussion with The Indianapolis Star's Dennis Ryerson, WISH TV-8’s Tom Cochrnn and the Indianapolis Recorder’s Carolene Mays For more information, call CTS at 931-4224 or visit ww\v.els.edit

A regional meeting was held at the Raddison Hotel recently for College Is Possible (CIP), the American Council on Education's K-16 youth development program that motivates middle and high school students from underserved communities to seek a college education. Attendees take a group photo during the meeting. Those present at the event included (from left) Patrick Weaselhed, Montana State University Alumni Association; Gregory Pence, president of Hampshire College; Jennifer Hightower, University of Houston-Downtown; and William Harvey, American Council on Education. (Photos/C. Guynn)

Howard law students defeat Harvard

By CHRISTOPHER WALL NNPA Special Contributor

WASHINGTON(NNPA) - The Howard University School of Law Moot Court Trial Team participated in the American Bar Association Criminal Justice and John Marshall Law School competition and placed first in the event, the first Black college to do so. “The confidence that we had in ourselves created a command in the courtroom like no other,” Errick Simmons said, team captain and third year law student. “We submitted a declaration of interest lastsummer,” Simmons said. “The national committee selects teams based on prior success records.” Eight weeks prior to the competition, each team is given a fact pattern written by a problem drafter who is also one of the judges in the final round. The fact patterns are based on real life cases with the parties and witnesses changed. The competition is structured around trial advocacy, a component of law where

advocates representtheir clients under the rule of law in a trial format. Each team was graded on speech advocacy, opening statements, direct examination, cross examination, objections, closing arguments and the presentation and use of exhibits. “Our preparation was independent of endowment or funds and rested primarily upon the fate we have in ourselves,” Simmons said, who assisted with the preparation of the team. “We are social engineers.” The four-member team consisted of Derrick Simmons, Adonna Bannister, L. Chris Stewart and Nisha Brooks. The history-making team was coached by Professor Monique A. Pressley. Membership on the team is selective and began with an inter-school competition with an estimated attendance of 80 to 100 students. After selections were made, there was an intra-team competition in the fall to determine the representatives for the spring. The Howard University School of Law Moot Court Trial Team participated in

four competitions this school year: the National Trial Competition, the National Black Law Students Association Competition, the American Bar Association Criminal Justice and John Marshall Law School Competition and the Atlanta Association of Trial Lawyers of America, where the team placed first in the region beating Georgetown, American University, Catholic University, George Mason University and the UniversityofMaryland law schools. Simmons attributes the success of the team to Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., who was a lawyer in residence at the time of the team’s formation in 1997“There is a true sign that after the passing of Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. on the sameweekofthenationalwinofBlacklaw students, that it was revealed and assured that there’s hope in the African-American Black lawyer for years to come,” Simmons said. “The torch has been passed from the old to the new underrepresented.”

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