The Gun Club (secret society)
- The Gun Club (secret society)
The Gun Club is a secret society of students at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Chief Justice Earl Warren is the Gun Club's most famous and only known member. [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,860019,00.html EARL WARREN, THE 14th CHIEF JUSTICE - TIME ] ]
Though little is known about the secret group, it has been reported that the Gun Club continues to meet and is composed of " [m] en" who "lived for the drink who died by the gun." [ [http://www.law.berkeley.edu/alumni/transcript/fall_05/thennow.html Boalt Hall Transcript Fall 2005 ] ] (This reference to " [m] en" is controversial, as more than more than 50% of recent Boalt Hall classes have been composed of women [ [http://www.law.berkeley.edu/admissions/welcome/facts/students.html Students ] ] ). Most notably, it is believed that a book (a "tome", in Gun Club parlance), "well hid" by Members within the law school, has had its pages mutilated and its contents replaced with a flask presumably containing liquor.
It is believed that the Gun Club has no codified body of rules, but rather only a common law derived from individual cases.
History
It is unknown how the Gun Club began. In his biography of Chief Justice Earl Warren, Ed Cray describes how Warren was invited to become a member of the secretive Gun Club. Membership in the society, based on companionship rather than social standing, nurtured Warren's idealism. As a member, he strove to earn "a love between men who would put virtue and honor and loyalty above all else," as a later member put it. Ed Cray, Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren 27 (1997). [ [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0684808528 Amazon.com: Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren: Books: Ed Cray ] ]
References
External links
* [http://www.law.berkeley.edu/alumni/transcript/fall_05/thennow.html Eris Quod Sum, Ergo Bibamus] - Boalt Hall Transcript, Fall 2005
* [http://www.law.berkeley.edu/library/gunClub.html Gun Club] - the Boalt Hall Law Library
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