Tomorrow I have to watch a great film for work. Well, someone has to do it! Br. Gerry Molyneaux is teaching a course called "Film and Law" in which students will watch a film with a legal angle and then discuss it with a "real" lawyer afterwards. A reporter with the Pennsylvania Law Journal is coming to do a story on it, and I'm picking him up from the subway and taking him to the comm ctr. The movie is "A Man for All Seasons" which is about the trials of Sir Thomas Moore; it won Oscars for best picture, actor and director.
The "real" lawyer discussing it is Tim O'Toole, and I have a present for him. In 2006 Tim received an honorary degree from La Salle (he was graduated from the U in 1977). His acceptance speech was so good the Phila. Inquirer published it. But Tim hasn't seen it, so I'll give him some copies.
Last week the Inquirer published an oped by Dr. Marc Moreau, chair of the Philosophy Dept., on Darwin and Genesis. He wrote it last year to commemorate the 200th birthday of Darwin, but the paper didn't publish it. Since nothing has changed except the 200th part, I resubmitted it and the paper ran it. So far, Dr. Moreau says he's received about 80 emails from readers, mostly positive.
I tell students that the main thing for newspaper coverage is that it contain the words "La Salle"; last week I sent a reporter in California some comments from Br. Gerry. The reporter used th comments but attributed them to me! The kicker is that Br. Gerry used to work in that area and read that paper!! I've asked (nicely) for a correction.
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