Campus Chronicle

Issue date: 10/25/03 Section: Wine & Cheese

No longer will you have to use bodily violence against your pseudo-stalker fish - just use the power of adverse opinion!

As some of you remember - and perhaps others have heard - during my first year of law school, I was persuaded by certain staff members of the American Jurist to write a column (inspired by name, of course), which gave practical and admittedly often cynical "love advice" about dating during law school and especially within the confines of WCL - or as I lovingly called it, the "fishbowl."

During the column's reign, teachers and students, maintenance and even community members would stop me to comment on the articles. Sometimes they would think I was writing about them; other times they wanted to tell me I had described someone they know (brother, friend, boyfriend, neighbor, cousin's uncle's girlfriend, etc.) perfectly. And still others would assume I had written about myself and proceed to give me unsolicited advice anytime I would run into them in the elevator, Starbucks, the bus, the gym, the bathroom and even class.

While I enjoyed the feedback, and it certainly helped break up the monotony of first-year courses, during my second year here at WCL, I started writing more substantive pieces. In my mind, if my mindless reflections on dating in law school had elicited such responses, I thought for sure pieces on current events would cause genuine discussion amongst my peers.

To my surprise, however, just the opposite occurred. The only thing professors and fellow students commented to me was, "whatever happened to the dating advice column?"

And so, after an entire year of "whatever happened to," "why did you stop" and a host of unsolicited ideas for great column topics, I have decided to respond to this popular demand by resurrecting "Juliet's Love Letters." I hope that the light and much needed distraction will serve as a life preserver to those of you drowning in the complex social and legal issues crashing against the fishbowl of WCL.

As I thought about what to write in this issue, I thought of all the funny and sometimes disturbing stories I have either witnessed, heard about and sometimes even endured here at the fishbowl...

I wanted to write something racy and bold. Something sexy that would suck new readers in and make old readers laugh. But in the end, I followed the ancient writer's proverb "know your audience" and settled on a topic that is probably more relatable to most of the fish reading this - "How to Get Rid of the Pseudo-Stalker Fish Using A Unique Law School Approach."

Continued...

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