Don't do a journal! Do moot court!

I'm on an "honors" journal here at USC . I say "honors" because I don't feel honored at all to be one of among 160 students out of my class of 210 who are in an honors program, especially since it is definitely the least prestigious of the three programs.

So my buddy Luke is on the journal with me, and both of us have been recently slaving over our "note," a 35 page minimum, well researched, footnoted, supposedly publishable quality paper. (Although there is no way either of us has any shot of getting published. Basically both of our topics are just stuff we like (mine is baseball and his is football) but really both our essential legal argument are pretty crappy. I'm trying to argue Congress should pass a law to break up the Yankees and he's arguing that DirectTV Sunday Ticket should be free or something. There is no real legal argument to back either of us up. We're going to have to work for at least 100 hours on it, so you might as well do something you don't mind, screw the difference between a 3.0 and 3.8, I got a job!)

Anyway, it's customary in a note to include information about the author in the first footnote . Usually it's the author's education or history of teaching positions or something, or maybe they thank someone. Luke sent me what he wrote, and what still remains when on his paper since I saw it last, less than 24 hours before the first draft was due. I'm just hoping he doesn't forget to change it before he turns it in:

"Luke Edwards is a leading staff writer for the Southern California Interdisciplinary Journal. He would like to thank his mother for always giving him the strength and motivation to pursue his dreams and also for passing him the genes that gave him really big balls. This paper will discuss nothing substantive whatsoever and Luke may or may not be expelled as a result of the massive and blatant plagiarism contained therein."