Word: moot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Moot '43, an ex-president of the CCA from Coolidge Hill, says he believes that proportional representation, with its emphasis on minority rule, is the scourge of the coalition makers. He says that p.r. enables "a group of 300 citizens to throw their weight around," and forces certain councilors to play to small interest groups--causing fragmentation that hampers progress...
...since Crane departed from the scene no one person has been able to pull either neighborhood or business groups together. Moot notes that the CCA, once broad, powerful and shrewd, today is composed of inexperienced politicians, many incapable at the moment of mounting a coalition. And the community groups for the most part have yet to exercise the coherence or the political acumen to throw their weight behind a certain issue and get it done...
...hypothetical case before the moot court concerned a paroled official of the Carriers Guild Union who, by the conditions of his parole, could not hold union office until the time at which his original prison sentence would have expired...
...Ames Moot Court competition involves third year students at the Law School who argue before a panel of invited judges. The final competition represents the culmination of the Ames Program, which requires first year students to argue a hypothetical case as a means of gaining courtroom experience...
Boudin said that attending the Moot Court helped him clarify his own arguments and feelings about the Hoffa case, which he will argue next January...