"I have no problem with beer at meetings as long as nobody is inebriated," Law School Council President Mainigi says. She says her only problem was the use of council funds.

Second-year law student and council representative Spencer G. Levy was even more vocal with his opposition, especially at the meeting.

"It was a black and white issue," Levy says. "The resolution to allow beer was unconscionable. I got angry and I'm glad."

"I don't even think they should be able to bring their own beer in," he says.

The Truckers say the debate showed the true reason behind the creation of the coalition.

"If there was no other justification, the debate was [enough]," Growney says.

"It is so typical of the Law School," Fincher says. "The beer resolution was as divisive as the diversity issue."

"As the debate went on, people started playing lawyer. It started off as a joke and then became a fight," Fincher continues.

Immediately after the September 27 meeting, a motion to rescind the measure was placed on the agenda for the next meeting--when the newly elected first-year and graduate representatives will be on the council.

In the election for first-year representatives, the Truckers picked up another seat on the Council as Joseph "Grizzly" Ditkoff was victorious.

Growney says he will filibuster any motion to rescind.

"I'm going to filibuster," Growney says. "I'm going to read the entire Cambridge phone book."

Clear the Roads

All beer aside, the coalition has bigger wheels to spin. They want their trucks, and they want to see them soon.

"I watch TNN (The Nashville Network) every time I go home. [The law school] has deprived us of our monster trucks," says "Shovelhead" Moxon, adding that he could not afford cable even if it was offered in his law school dormitory.