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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1980
Lawyer gets Aggie briefing
By JENNIFER AFFLERBACH
Battalion Staff
h While advising students of legal
alternatives to their problems, the
1 student legal advisor at Texas
: a&M University is getting briefed
limself, on Aggie traditions.
Dan Usiak, who was hired a month
ago to assist Jim Locke, the Student
Legal Advisor, said he is not entirely
familiar with the traditions at Texas
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what’s going on,” he said. Usiak was
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freshmen cadets walked around cam
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“The students are great,” he said.
“A lot of them are real happy to go
through the motions it takes to solve
their legal problems and that’s real
encouraging. It shows a lot of motiva
tion on their part.”
This is Usiak’s first full-time job
since graduating from the University
of Houston law school in May. He
clerked for four different Houston
law firms while attending law school,
he said. He took the Texas state bar
exam in July and is awaiting the re
sults.
The most common problem Usiak
has dealt with so far is landlord-
tenant disputes. He said he also sees
a lot of students interested in their
legal alternatives concerning car
wrecks, traffic tickets and arrests for
public intoxication.
A more optimistic case he handled
concerned a student possibly receiv
ing an $8,000 inheritance.
Since he joined the staff, Usiak
said, the backlog for an appointment
with a legal advisor has been reduced
to about a three-day wait, “but I’m
sure we ll never completely catch
up.”
He cannot give advice to a student
who wants to take action against
another student. In addition, the
student legal advisors do not provide
actual court representation except in
consumer protection cases, such as a
serious landlord-tenant case. And
then representation is limited to Bra
zos County.
He can, however, write letters for
students, advise them on going to
small claims court, and put them in
touch with an attorney.
Counseling students is an impor
tant and satisfying part of the job,
Usiak said.
“A lot of times, it just helps if they
get a chance to tell somebody,” he
said. “Some people come up here
and say ‘Well, this happened to me. I
want to know what my legal rights
are.’
“While we really can’t do anything
for them, they’ve gone out a lot less
frustrated than when they came in
just not knowing where they stood.”
Usiak has one counseling tip dis
played on a plaque in his office. It
reads in Latin: “Illegitimi non car
borundum,” which Usiak translated
as “Don’t let the bastards get you
down.”
Dan Usiak
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Travel planning
European tour
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By MARY ANN HINNANT
Battalion Reporter
The MSC Travel Committee has
planned another excursion for
ggies who want to see the world
ithout joining the navy. The Euro-
an Grand tour will begin May 20
ith the first stop in Greece and from
ere the tour will continue on to
|taly, Switzerland, Austria, Ger-
lany and ending June 15 in France.
The price for the tour is $1499 and
icludes transportation to and from
rports, all hotel accomodations,
|ightseeing, continental breakfast,
inner each night except while in
fParis and Rome and all service
arges and gratuities. Due to the
iances in airfares from now until
May, the airfare for the tour will not
be known until one month prior to
departure when flight reservations
are made.
Five people have already signed
up for the tour and paid the required
$500 deposit. Anyone interested in
going may sign up in the Student
Programs Office in the MSC. Stu
dents have from now until one
month before the tour leaves to sign
up so that they will have a flight re
servation.
The travel committee needs at
least 22 people to sign up for the tour
and will take as many people as there
is space. In previous years Texas
A&M has offered European trips in
conjunction with other schools, but
this trip will be only for Aggies if the
22 people needed sign up. If not,
the committee will seek out stu
dents from other schools to fill the
space.
Preservation group
to see Dallas project
1 The Citizens for Historic Preser
vation (CHP) will meet at 7 tonight in
Be City National Bank meeting
room to see a slide presentation on
restoration of Swiss Avenue in
Dallas.
i-The program will be given by
Mustie Roller of Austin and Judy
Dooley of Dallas.
A special student membership is
available for CHP. For more infor
mation contact Dr. Rand Evans, 845-
6027, or Dr. Paul Van Riper, 845-
2525.
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The MSC Camera Committee still
has openings for the San Antonio
photo safari Saturday.
Up to 40 people can take the bus
trip to see San Antonio’s river walk,
zoo, missions, Sunken Gardens and
the Alamo. On-the-scene seminars,
conducted by photographers from
Bryan-College Station and San Anto
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graphy, available light photography,
wildlife photography, flash photo
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Cost of the trip is $5 for committee
members and $7 for other Texas
A&M University students and facul
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cost. Individuals must provide their
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Chairman Ed Martinez said stu
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river between seminars.
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