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The stuff that threw my second attempt at the MN Bar Exam in the Summer of 1991 was what had happened at the Law Library convention in New Orleans. I had been studying for this MN Bar Exam while attending the conference. The University of Minnesota Law School/Library paid my way via train down from Minneapolis and also paid for the hotel. But, my getting more input about how some Law Librarians at the University of Minnesota split my concerns about the respect for survivors/victims of crimes into a professional/personal dichotomy. They tried to make the issue of practical materials for survivors/victims of crimes I had based on my personal experiences with the 2-24-1976 Michelle Mitchell murder as some kind of personal hurdle for me. It is not. The issue was what kind of practical materials were in law libraries for survivors/victims of crimes.

I wrote other law librarians about this personal/professional split that I thought was artificial and did not reflect real world experiences.

The result of this was that when I locked myself out of my New Orleans hotel room without a shirt on but with pants after putting the room service tray outside of my room after the door slammed shut; one of the Law Librarians upon seeing me laughing said "That's not all he has locked himself out of!"

I did find myself blacklisted from law librarianship. And it got worse as the summer progressed with more attacks on me to the point where a fellow University of Minnesota Law School Class of 1989 Graduate and supervisor at the University of Minnesota Law Library -- Suzanne T., told me that she did not think that I needed mental health counseling but that the University of Minnesota would pay for it if I went even though I was no longer an employee of the University of Minnesota Law Library/School. This telephone exchange was around September 1991.

They twisted things basically to cover up a niche they had had in practical materials for survivors/victims of crimes. I was the issue rather than what they had in their law libraries for survivors/victims of crimes.

I am not saying that they interacted with me at the University of Minnesota Law Library/School in a unified way. A bunch of law professors and law librarians do not conspire together as their egos would be way too big to do that. Even Suzanne T., seemed to be talking on the basis of something someone told her to say as she sounded like someone talking from one side of her mouth while the other side says something else.

I have not worked in a law library though since June 1991. My 224 613 Project has though I believe influenced many to improve their holdings in some law libraries for survivors/victims of crimes. I did not start using these numbers until talking about this whole mess with a interviewer/researcher Myra Y., at the University of California San Francisco Health Sciences Campus over 17 weeks in late 1992-1993. This was after a Summer of 1992 Law Librarian convention where I was basically just laughed at while trying to find some kind of employment in a law library. The UCSF Health Sciences Campus had had a study on stress on the unemployed which I had taken part of during those 17 weeks in late 1992-1993.

I did tell the Minnesota Bar Exam people about some of this at least whatever had been on my mind while I was studying for late Summer of 1991 Bar Exam.

There has to be a joke somewhere in here though! I sure never found any of this all that amusing. I did have a lot of chuckles when I started seeing these numbers 224 and 613 in more and more places after I tried to get many different kinds of media to shine a spotlight on this whole set of problems involving legal education. Of course, the joke was sometimes on me as it made me sound crazier and crazier to expect that one very committed person can make a difference just with a computer, stamps, letters, paper, and a desire never to give up on something believed in.

There were lawyers that eventually seemed to get what I was trying to do as well as leaders in other fields.