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"On the Cutting P.dge of Credibility' October 23, 1991 The Reporter October 23, 1991 Issue 2, Volume 19 In this issue ...

In the Features Section: 4 Professor Harry H. Wellington has While the first Monday in October may Fernando Cruz interviews herald the opening of a new Supreme Court been chosen to succeed James F. Simon as New York Law School's Term, it's the second Thursday that signals the 14th Dean of New York Law School. new Director of Career The Reporter profiles the extraordinary the start of the new L.A. Law rw;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;11 Services, Deborah Howard. I!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~ season. Are Grace and Victor careers of both men. coming back? Get a preview of the really important legal issues of the How is it that a particular 19 Something is noticeably different at judge gets appointed to the the U.S. Food and Drug Administration new '91-'92 term. Also: A review United States Supreme these days. And the reason is David of the new Bogosian movie, "Sex, Court? Is it because that Kessler, wunderkind extraordinaire. Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll". particular judge is the best Attorney m the News Column. qualified for that honor? ..._~Who,.,,,..-mak-~cs- that detenrunation? The 20 An interVJew wtth visiting Professor Constitution on its face fails in any real Jeffery O'Connor. New Column: The sense to answer these questions. Over the Healthy Law Student. years the jud1oal appombnent process has evolved, and with the recent nomination battle over Associate Justice Oarence In the Centerfold: The paparazzi Thomas, we see it is still evolving. Today page gets busy. the maJ<>r components of a judicial appointment, the President, the Senate In Technology & the and the ABA, play out a Kafkaesque Environment Could global tragedy before the nation's video cameras. wanning cause the Great Lakes to dry up? While 7 The Centennary Display at 60 Center that's not too likely (at least Street is a treasure trove of our school's i.======for the immediate future), a history. rise in temperature and C02 could play havoc with the region's entire ecosystem. 8 A photo essay of the Centennial Carnival, by Doug Stem. 26 Environmental Extras with Pete Wagner. Centennial Carnival, pages 8, 22-23 9 Plans for renovating the Froessel Room 27 Personal Computer Review: The under way. Plus, what's Nadine up to Olivetti 520 notebook . now? 31 Music Review: Metallica 28 Arts & Entertainment: Crowded House comes to New York. 33 Jamie McDonald reviews some of the 10 Medical Plan Options for Law most memorable restaurants in the city, and Students. Also, building the eighth ten excellent wines that even a law student wonder of the world right on top of the can afford. Mendik Library. 34 In Hers: The Pro-Choice movement 12 California ok's term comes to Manhattan, and an analysis of limitations, a good friend of the tenured women faculty at NYLS. Also, a Mayor's dies waiting for assistance Jeannine Gerrard Essay. at Harlem Hospital, and a slave burial ground is found in lower ~;;;;;;;~~ii Does Patrick Ewing have the Manhattan. dumbest lawyer in the business? Can Pat Riley pull 13 The October Legal Lines. Ewing and the Knicks together this season? Could 14 In Memoriam: Chester Floyd ~==~~!J anybody? Eric Levine on Carlson, N.Y.L.S. graduate and Sports. inventor. 38 The Pat Hayes Calendar Page. The World Bank's new World Development Report 41 The Commentary Section: Cheryl 1991 looks back on Williams puts a perspective on the Crown four decades of Heights tragedy. economic policy- making in Third World countries. 42 A Libertarian's thoughts on the SBA Patrick Benn has read it, and argues that Scenes &om an S.B.A. Party, page 22 Budget Process. Also, some final words on the costs for bad policies- and the rewards the Thomas nomination. for good ones-are even bigger than we thought. 44 Lou Taubman on drugs.

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3 Harry H. Wellington to Become President and 14th Dean of New York Law School

School, the University of Special to the Reporter California at Berkeley and Stanford University. He has On Wednesday, October 16, served on the faculty of the 1991, New York Law School Salzburg Seminar in American Board of Trustees Chairperson Institutions and a scholar at the Bernard H. Mendik announced Rockefeller Foundation Center in that Professor Harry H. Bellagio. He has served as a Wellington will become the 14th member of The Board of Dean of New York Law School. Overseers of the Faculty of Arts Professor Wellington is the and Sciences at the University of former DeaJT of Yale Law School Pennsylvania and has taught in and Sterling Professor of Law at the Aspen Institute's Executive Yale. Professor Wellington will Seminar Program. succeed James F. Simon, who has Wellington is admitted to the been Dean since 1983. bar of the District of Columbia 'This is an historic occasion and is a member of the American for New York Law School," Mr. Bar Association, the Connecticut Mendik said. "Harry Wellington, Bar Association and the one of the Nation's most Association of the Bar of the Oty prominent legal and academic of New York. Professor figures, has agreed to lead this Wellington also cites membership institution into its second in the American Law Institute, century." the Connecticut Bar Foundation Wellington said that the and the American Academy of challenges and opportunities in Art and Science. heading a large urban law school Professor Wellington is a dedicated to educating a diverse trustee of New York Law School, fields of constitutional law and population led him to accept the at the ta ord hool of Law and a member of the National legal theory. Professor New York Law School deanship. in 1956 joined the Yale Law Governing Board of Common "While the criticism of law and School faculty as an assistant Wellington has had a number of Cause, a member of the National articles and books, including the legal profession has never professor of law. He was and Connecticut Panels of Interpreting the Constitution: The been more apparent," he said. promoted to associate professor Neutrals for Alternative Dispute Supreme Court and the Process of "Accordingly, it is essential that a in 1957, to full professor in 1960, Resolution, a member of the broad spectrum of lawyers to the Phelps Chair in 1967 and Adjudication, published last Eoard of Governors of the Yale spring by Yale University Press. receive an excellent education Sterling professor in 1983. He University Press and Chair of its rooted in scholarship and ethical became Dean of Yale Law School During his years at Yale, Committee on Publications. he is Professor Wellington served as a values." in July, 1975 and served for two a fellow of Jonathan Edwards Professor Wellington was five year terms. consultant to a number of College, a member of the domestic and foreign born in New Haven, Connecticut, Professor Wellington is Elizabethan Oub, the Yale Club government agencies and and completed his married to Sheila Wacks, the of ~ew York City, and the commissions and has been undergraduate work at- the Secretary of Yale University and Century Association. University of Pennsylvania (BA, lecturer in the school's actively involved in bar Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., association committees 1947) and received his law degree Departments of Public Health President of Yale University calls from Harvard in 1952. and Psychiatry. They have two concerned with law reform. Professor Wellington " ...One of Subsequently he served as law sons, John and Thomas. Wellington has been a Ford the country's leading legal and Guggenheim Fellow, a Senior clerk U.S. Orcuit Judge Calvert Professor Wellington scholars and teachers. He is a Fellow of the Brookings magruder (1953-1954) and in the originally worked in the areas of superb human being. As 1955 Tenn of Court to Supreme contract and labor law. In recent Institution, a visiting member of professor and Dean at Yale Law the faculties of the London School Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. years, Professor Wellington has School, he has made brilliant of Economics, New York Law Wellington taught for a year moved increasingly into the contributions here, and I know that he will bring extraordinary wisdom and leadership to New York Law School. I and all his James F. Simon, 13th Dean friends at Yale wish him well in this new endeavor." Yale Law School Dean Guido American Bar Association's Special to the Reporter covering major trials across the Calabresi says that "Harry country as well as the Silver Gavel Award for the best Wellington is a splendid choice. book published in the legal field. Outgoing Dean Simon is one philosophical transition of the He was a superb Dean at the Yale Simon later wrote Independent of the nation's leading professors Court as leadership shifted from Law School and also has been a Journey: The Life of William 0. of constitutional law and an Chief Justice Earl Warren to great teacher here for 36 years. I Douglas, which received the award-winning auth>r. Professor Warren Burger. was one of his first students and scribes Award of the American Simon was appointed the 13th Dean Simon earned his law still benefit from what he taught Dean of New York Law School in degree in 1964 at Yale Law School Society of Writers on Legal me. While we will miss his full­ Subjects in 1981 as the best book June 1984, after serving as Acting after receiving a B.A. from Yale time participation at Yale, we are. published in the legal field. His dean for a year. College. He has been a Visiting glad that he will be able to most recent book, The Dean Simon joined the Lecturer in American Studies at remain- as an emeritus faculty Anta,onists: Hugo Black, faculty of New York Law in 1975, Yale University, a Harvard Fellow Felix member- a part of this school Frankfurter and Qvil Liberties in having distinguished himself as a in Law and the Humanities at and we look forward to working Modem America, published in journalist and scholar recognized Harvard University; and a with him over many, many for his expertise on the modem visiting Fellow at the University 1989 by Simon and Schuster, years." U.S. Supreme Court. A of Warwick in the United received widespread critical Contributing Editor and Kingdom. acclaim. Correspondent for Time His book, In His Own 1ma,e: Dean Simon is married to Magazine from 1968 to 1974, dean The Supreme Court in Richard Marcia Simon, a social worker. Simon spedaliz.ed in legal affairs, Nixon's American. received the They have three children. 4 The Politics of a Judiciary Confirmation by David De Siver

Article ll, Section 2 of the Uni­ the Constitution, nor any Federal Black, appointed by Franklin D. ted States Constitution gives the Statute furnishes any practical gui­ Roosevelt); (5) past judicial experi­ Orief Executive the power and res­ dance to the President to aid him in ence (Oliver Wendell Holmes, ponsibility to nominate, and with discerning who is the most suitable appointed by Theodore Roosevelt). The Senate is by no the advice and consent of the person to designate as a Supreme Many feel that the fourth means a rubber stamp Senate, to appoint judges to the Court nominee. characteristic, commonly known as for the President's Supreme Court. Since 1946, the The Chief Executive's nomina­ the "real politics" of the nominee, will. Time and time American Bar Association also has tion decision, is generally has played the largest role in the again the Chief Exe­ influenced by three political factors. Presidents' nominating decisions. played a significant role in the cu ti ve' s power has judicial appointment process. First, he must be cognizant of Sena­ Attorney General Thornburgh, has Together, the President, Senate and torial courtesy, and thereby strive stated that "[approximately 92%) of been shown to bow to the ABA are primarily responsible to select a nominee which would the individuals appointed to the the will of the Senate. for determining who has earned likely receive approval from the bench have reflected the party of the privilege to sit on the highest nominee's home State Senators. the President who [nominated] Court of our nation, and discern the Simply, when the Senators from the them." Hearing of the Senate Judi­ supreme law of the land. Com­ nominee's home State vote not to ciary Committee, (6/2/89). menting on the roles of these three consent to the nomination, Sena­ Although a President who components of the judicial torial courtesy will likely prevent nominates on the basis of "real appointment process, Attorney Senatorial consent. Second, the politics'' could be said to be "pack­ II. The Role of the Senate General Dick Thornburgh stated President takes heed of the ing the court'', many feel that this Alexander Hamilton rightly his belief that the Executive and nominee's rating provided by the apparent potential for abuse is can­ stated that the Senate serves as a Legislative branches should con­ ABA. Third, the President is in­ celled out by the fact that Judges check to Presidential favoritism in sider the nominee's "ideological fluenced by ~itting and retired change once they get to the appointing Justices to the Supreme and pohtical background", while jurists. Chief Justice William Court. Levy, Encyclopedia of the the scope of the Amencan ~ar Howard Taft (tenure 1921-1930), to American Constitution. Former Association's Standing Committee illustrate, President George Washington set "should be confined to its area of ,------the tone for the Senate's role in the expertise... [specifically,J the was known nomination process when he nominees' professional qualifica­ to exert in­ refused to allow the Senate any say tions." Hearing of the Senate fluence on on who he should nominate. Judiciary Committee, (6/2/89). judicial Further, should a majority of the nomina­ Senate agree with the nominee, the tions to such Senate was said to have consented an extent within the meaning of Article II, that some Section 2, to the nomination. Sen. Charles Grassley said that he Today, the role of the Senate Judi­ in essence ciary Conunittee is to aSc:ertain has stated that, " ... a "appoin­ nominee cannot and which candidates have the "intel­ ted" some lect, integrity, and temperament" should not answer judges to to serve on the Supreme Court In specific policy ques­ t h e modern times, the Senate cannot tions. A nominee Supreme rescind approval of a nominee, but cannot and should Court. this was not always the case. In the The past, the Senate had two ~ys after not be asked to decide Cons ti tu­ a case until that case, approving a nominee, in which it tional privi- could recall an approval. Witt, with all of its per­ 1 e g e to Congressional Ouarterly's Guide to tinent facts, presents designate the United States Supreme Court. itself." nominees to The Senate is by no means a t h e ------~------' rubber stamp for the President's Supreme Court is a great source of will. Time and time again the Chief power to the Chief Executive. Supreme Court, and they con­ tinually change while on it. In Executive's power has been shown Throughout history, many Presi­ to bow to the will of the Senate. As dents have tried to take full short, a President's interpretation of a judge's "real politics", contras­ of 1986, the Senate, under the auth­ advantage of this power by at­ ority of Article II, Section 2, has L The Role of the President ted with the manner in which that tempting to pack the Courts. The refused to confirm 27 of the 139 During the Constitutional Encyclopedia of the American judge actually decides issues while Convention, our forefathers strug­ sitting on the Supreme Court, may nominees sent before it by the Chief Constitution, reports that the Presi­ Executive. Levy, Encyclopedia of gled in an attempt to determine bear little resemblance. dential Records of Chief Executives the American Constitution. what role, if any the President In more recent times, according who have nominated judges to the Senator David Prior, during the should play in filling vacancies of to Attorney General Thornburgh, Supreme Court reveal certain nomination proceedings of Judge the Supreme Court. Many dele­ the Chief Executive has directed the characteristics of the nominees that Robert Bork (133 Cong. Rec. S. gates were determined to vest all Department of Justice to simplify seem to recur throughout the years. 13268; Vol. 133 No. 152), has poin­ nomination and appointment the nomination process, by assem­ These characteristics are: (1) objec­ ted out that while some believe this power solely within the Senate. bling a pool of prospective judges, tive merit (personified by Benjamin Senatorial power might be used to However, in the last few days of including "an appropriate number N. Cardozo, appointed by Herbert exert leverage over the Chief Exe­ the Convention it was decided that of women, Blacks, Hispanics, [and] Hoover); (2) personaJ friendship cut iv e, he views it as a the President shall have the power persons with disabilities." Senate (Harold H. Burton, appointed by Constitutionally mandated check of nomination and the Senate shall Judiciary Committee Hearing, Harry S. Truman; (3) considerations on the power of the Chief have sole power to confirm the (6/2/89). From this collection of of representativeness; (4) political Executive. President's nomination. Neither ideological compatibility (Hugo judges, the President chooses his nominee. The Constitution offers no real s 'Judiciary' judicial candidates." Senator Orrin Hatch, agreeing with Sena­ In dismay over the power that the ABA has assu­ (Continued from previous tor Thurmond, poses the extreme med over the years, Senator Strom Thurmond view that the ABA should no page) points out that some of his colleagues feel that "the longer be permitted to have any administration's reliance upon the ABA to pre­ say in the nomination process. guidance to assist the Senate in screen potential nominees ... has provided the ABA, Senator Hatch, expressed alarm its decision whether or not to at the fact that the ABA makes its a public interest group, with a virtual veto power analysis and final decision in vir­ consent to a nomination. Senator over judicial candidates." John Breaux, during the nomina­ tual secrecy. He contends that tion proceedings of Judge Robert President Bush should sever the Bork (133 Cong. Rec. S. 13677; ties between the Constitutionally Vol. 133 No. 156), recognized that appointed powers of the Chief the task which the Constitution every nomination to the federal ABA to reveal the factors it used Executive and the unofficial gives the Senate is an arduous bench." Senator Biden con­ in reaching its decision; (2) power of the ABA, by refusing to one, and that his decision "can­ tinued, " ... since 1948, (the Senate require the ABA to reveal the rely on the ABA rating. Senator not be a political decision. It Judiciary Committee] has sought "qualifications, backgrounds, Hatch feels that at the very least, cannot be a popularity contest. It the opinion of the American Bar and professional affiliations of the eight points cited above cannot be decided by adding up Association." Although the standing committee members"; should be invoked immediately. the numbers in a poll or merely Constitution explicitly recog­ (3) require the ABA to reveal the · The scope of the ABA counting the mail received." nizes only the Chief Executive "names of those consulted in the screening committee's analysis of Rather, each Senator's decision and the Senate as being those evaluation process, their recom­ nominees has shifted over time. whether or not to approve the bodies who may have a role in mendations, and their basis In 1977, the ABA resolved to base nomination must tum on each the nomination process it is un­ therefore"; (4) require the ABA to its decision solely on "profes­ Senator's perception of "whether disputed that today, the disclose which way each com­ s i o na l qualifications" (ie. [the) nominee in and of himself is American Bar Association's role mittee member voted, and why; competency, integrity, and judi­ the right person for the job." This in that process is truly significant. (5) insist that the ABA disclose cial temperament). Three years begs the question: How does a In 1948, the Senate had deter­ how much weight it has given to later, the ABA made a modifica­ Senator determine for himself mined that "the selection of "academic and scholarly perfor­ tion, stating that its analysis whether the nominee is the right federal judges relied too heavily mance"; (6) discipline those would primarily focus on profes­ person for the job? on political patronage. Crony­ standing committee members sional qualifications. One way is by conducting ism, not competence, was all too who leak sensitive information to Additionally, the ABA added Senate Judiciary Hearings. Dur­ often the reason for selecting the public; (7) require the ABA to that "the Committee does not in­ ing these hearings, the nominee, a ...nominee." Hearing of the substitute its present rating sys­ ves ti gate the prospective over a series of days, is asked Senate Judiciary Committee, tem, for the dichotomous nominee's political or ideological many questions by a portion of (6/2/89). So, in response, the "qualified" or "not qualified"; (8) philosophy except to the extent the Senate. The scope of these Senate asked the ABA to submit require the ABA to make its that extreme views on such mat­ questions has been sketched by their recommendations on recommendation to the Senate, ters might bear on judicial various Senatorial statements on nominees. and not the administration." temperament or integrity." In the matter. Senator Charles On June 2, 1989, the Senate Senate Judiciary Committee, Grassley has stated that, " ... a Judiciary Conunittee conducted a (6/2/89). nominee cannot and should not hearing focussing on the ABA In dismay over the power answer specific policy questions. nomination process. During that that the ABA has assumed over Although a Presi­ A nominee cannot and should hearing, many Senators voiced the years, Senator Strom Thur­ dent who nominates not be asked to decide a case until exception to the role which the mond points out that some of his on the basis of "real that case, with all of its pertinent ABA has assumed in that pro­ colleagues feel that "the politics" could be facts, presents itself." 102nd cess. Senator Biden, chair of the administration's reliance upon said to be "packing the ABA to pre-screen potential Cong. 1st Sess.-137 Cong Rec S Senate Judiciary Committee, in­ the court'', many feel troduced several proposals for nominees ... has provided the 9295; Vol. 137 No. 10. Acrording that this apparent to Senator Joseph Biden, during discussion. The substance of ABA, a public interest group, confirmation hearings, the Senate these proposals were that the with a virtual veto power over potential for abuse is "[should not attempt) to deter­ Senate should: (1) require the cancelled out by the mine whether or not the nominee fact that Judges agrees with [the Senatorial view] change once they get on each and every pressing social to the Supreme or legal issue of the day." 102nd Court, and they con­ Cong. 1st Sess.-137 Cong Rec S 9295; Vol. 137 No. 10. In light of tinua 11 y change suggestions by some that the while on it. nominee be subjected to a litmus test to determine his views on oO various issues, Senator Edward 1988, the ABA further modified Kennedy has asserted his belief its analytic criteria to read, "Po­ that "it is offensive to suggest litical or ideological philosophy that a potential Justice of the are not considered except to the Supreme Court must pass some OD extent that they might bear upon ~ presumed test of judicial philo­ other factors." Senator Grassley sophy. It is even more offensive ~~I has declared that, "[it] is stagger­ to suggest that a potential justice ing how far removed this must pass the litmus test of any standard is from the ABA's ori­ single issue... ". 102nd Cong. 1st D[)J ginal narrow function." Senate Sess.-137 Cong Rec S 9295; Vol Judiciary Committee, (6/2/89). 137No.10. Attorney General Thornburgh concludes that the 1980 and 1988 DL The Role of the ABA modifications are entirely inap­ Since 1946, the American Bar prop r i ate, because they Association has played an inte­ 0 announce an intention on the gral part in the nomination part of the ABA to rely on, process. In June 1989, during a among other things, a nominee's Hearing of the Senate Judiciary philosophy and ideology. Committee, Senator Biden noted, "Since 1952, every President of the United States has consulted the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary on nearly 6 .,... . ·' . Centennial Display Opens at 60 Center Street

by Doug Stem

Janet Ozzard end Jack Golden, years in existence. who with the assistance of the New Some of the notables included York Law School administration former faculty members Woodrow and many other concerned alumni Wilson, former Chief Justice and friends of the NYlS legal com­ Charles Evans Hughes and alum­ munity, have created a pictorial nae, former Secretary of State and textual history of New York (under Wilson) Bainbridge Colby Law School's first one hundred and James S. Watson, the first black years. judge in New York State. New York The display of tri-fold boards, Law School was closed for one year managed to capture the essence of during World War I and the first New York Law School's one hun­ "phase" of New York Law School dred year history through a series had ended. of photographs, newspaper clip­ After the war, the law school pings and school related moved to the McBumey YMCA documents. As one peruses the and remained there throughout exhibit, you would find a chrono- the1920s. At that time it enjoyed 1o g i cal display of those the largest enrollment of any law personalities and events that school with over 1,150 students. brought New York Law School to The _p,e~od up until World War 11, its present day form. was bOtli a blessing 'an'd a burden New York Law School was for the law school. The "roaring born from a controversy that erup­ twenties" saw the graduation of ted at Columbia's School of Law in Associate Justice John Marshall the spring of 1891. The focal point Harlan and all was going well. The Hon. Emilio Nunez, NYLS '27 of this rift was a conflict of teaching first woman graduate, Elizabeth styles between then Dean of Col­ Johnston Schenkel, and the inven­ umbia's Law School, Theodore tor of the xerography process, future named partners in large law founded in 1983. The Mendik Li­ Dwight, and the president of the Chester Carlson both graduated in firms graduated, as did circuit brary was established and the same institution, Seth Low. the 1930s as did New Deal framer court judges, poets, influential school was renovated several "Dwight's method" consisted Senator Robert F. Wagner. politicians and successful times. This marks not the conclu­ of lectures that applied the \aw to a However, in 1924 Dean Chase entrepreneurs. ' sion of the third "phase" but its practical fonn of everyday life. Low died and Robert Petty was instated However, the law school was inception and hopefully uninter­ proscribed to the "case" (Harvard) as the new Dean. This was a pre­ not immune to the tumult of the rupted continuation. method which was widely accep­ lude to the school's near collapse 1960s. During Dean Gutman's New York Law School's 100 ted at the time. Neither Low nor and merger with City College in tenure the school was a hotbed for year exhibit will never make it to Dwight was willing to concede the face of the depression and an protest and change. Dean Gutman the floor of the Museum of Ameri­ their teaching posture. Dwight impending World War. Dean Petty resigned in 1968 and was even­ can History, but it is a must see for along with Professor Keener from died in 1937, the war broke out in tually replaced by Dean Walter those students, laculty, and staff Harvard moved to the Equitable 1939, and many men in New York Rafalko who served until 1973. who care about the institution Building at 120 Broadway and the were drafted in September of 1940. Subsequently Dean E. Donald Sha­ which educates and employs them. genesis of New York Law School The school closed its doors for six piro took the mantle and was the It is rich with history, be it complete was under way. years and so ended the second predecessor to our present dean, or nol Within the setting of the The exhibit begins with the use "phase" of New York Law School's Simon. rotunda of the Supreme Court of pictures from the New York His­ history. Theperiod from 1970 to 1990 building one gets feeling of a true torical Society and articles from the The law school reopened at 244 saw many great advancements for sense of tradition, value and im­ New York Times and other publi­ William Street in 1947. Allison New York Law School. The Journal portance among the New York Oty cations such as The Columbia Reppy became the dean of the law of International and Comparative legal community. Spectator. It portrays the New school in 1950. In 1954 New York Law was established in 1979 and York Law School's first night divi­ Law School earned an accreditation the Journal of Human Rights was sion which was located at Cooper by the American Bar Association. Union, and many of the important In 1962 the law school moved to its alumni and faculty that were asso­ present home at 57 Worth Street. ciated with the school's first few During the SO's and 60's, many

305 CHURCH STREET 212 219 9200 FAR OUT MEXICAN FOOD PSYCHEDELIC DRINKS 60'5 ATMOSPHERE BRING AD FOR COMPLIMENTARY MARGARITA WITH DINNER 7 Party in the Parking Lot: Centennial Carnival Blowout

Centennial Carnival is a Success to convince Sally Harding that they hadn't picked up their stu­ On September 15, students, dent identification cards. They faculty, staff and alumni of New explained that they were first York Law School gathered to year students, and hadn't yet celebrate the 100th anniversary of been to class. The three were tur­ our school. The parki~ lot was ned away, giggling, in favor of transformed by Prom/ Oceans for bona fide members of the New the occasion with large circus York Law School community. tents, game booths and food The Carnival was a family stands. day. Members of the NYLS com­ Hot dog stands, pop gun tar­ munity brought their children, get shooting, basketball toss and, who danced to the music and of course, the popular "dunk the were entertained by the games dean" tank attracted the interest and downs. They were given of party revelers between tours of free tickets for the excellent food the buildings and lively conver­ and the games. sation about the rigors of Students Joan Sutton, Liz attending NYLS in years past. Colontonio, Eric Jacobs and Jeff In spite of the overcast day Slate served on the committee and the light drizzle, almost one which planned the carnival. They thousand people turned out for worked through most of the the festivities. An accomplished, summer on the project, which but very loud, rock and roU band became a fuJI time job as the date could be clearly heard as far away for the celebration approached. as Canal Street. They worked with the Public The driving rock and roll Relations Office, the Alumni five students worked on the car­ NYIS never rests. music attracted the usual Man­ Association and Helen Prigal of nival day. Student organizations, The Centennial Carnival was hattan coterie of gate crashers. Student Service. among them the Student Bar funded by the Student Bar Asso­ Three young women attempted Between thirty five and forty Association, BALSA, LAW, Asian ciation, The Alumni Association American Law Students, the and the Public Relations Office of The Village Copier Rush Service, REPORTER, Lesbian and Gay New York Law School. Many of Law Students and the Criminal the revelers expressed a desire to 91 Worth Street Low Prices Law Society operated game make the carnival an annual booths. affair. At press time, however, no Laser printing, covers, Pickup and delivery service While the festivities were copying, binding, briefs decision had been announced. 966-0606 occurring in the parking lot Students who wish to work on (one half block east of NYLS) below, the semi-final rounds of the carnival next year should the 1991 Froessel Moot Court contact Joan Sutton. Competition were unfolding in­ side the school At work or play, FANCY BAKERY PIZZA & DELI ON THOMAS ST. ONE BLOCK SOUTii OF NYLS SERVING BREAKFAST& LUNCH

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8 ti Froessel Renovations Well Under Way

by Caroline Gargione wall surrounding the room give a glimpse of the past decor. One of the unattractive parts Under the renovation plan, of NYlS is the Froessel Room. It grates will be replaced in every is dark, old, and certainly not in­ arch. In addition, glass and win­ viting. Fortunately, Froessel is dow panes will be placed in the

about to change for the better. upper half of the arches to pro­ ::ii: Before the Froessel Room vide a window-like appearance. en a: was dosed for renovations, it was The restoration is planned for w used by students as a study completion by December 1991. Ill > lounge when there was no place Benches are planned to be placed I-

else to go, or when they got tired under each arch for student use. ~ of studying in the library. New carpeting, a refurbished 0 According to Dean Helm, the ceiling with new light fixtures, I- > plan aims "to restore Froessel to new tables and chairs, and a Ill its original beauty." Looking at brighter overall color scheme 0 the room as it currently stands, may truly make the Froessel l­ one can only try to imagine what Room an attractive part of NYLS o ::r it used to be like. For instance, a once again. 0.. few of the arches etched into the

Hold a piece of tape up to your eyes, Strossen Speaks at dim the lights and try to fill out your taxes. Libertarian Party Now you're seeing things from her point of view. Convention Almost everybody has to rile taxes, but not evervone can do it on their own. \blunteer and by Joseph D. Brennan the organization's stance on the help. make someone ·s taxes less taxing. Call 2nd Amendment, which, she 18()()829-1040. A!'\dteS«-..oo()l ltft - '~ OnThursday,August29, 1991, admitted, they, as well as the ihls~~~ ~~"' New York Law School professor courts, have viewed narrowly up Nadine Strossen participated in a till now. In closing, Strossen panel discussion of the Bill of commented on the purpose of Rights at the Llbertarian Party's government. "The end of Presidential Nominating Con­ government is not security or vention in Chicago (see related efficiency. The end does not jwr WANT A LIGHT LUNCH story). The panel discussion, tify the means." To this the entitled "The Bill of Rights - 200 Libertarian audience responded Years Later," began with a man with a standing ovation. OR NO LUNCH dressed in colonial era garb read­ Overall, the Libertarians res­ ing aloud each of the first ten ponded favorably to Professor COME TO amendments to the Constitution. Strossen. Her comments seemed The audience applauded each of more focused on the libertarian­ the amendments, with particu­ ism of the audience than was the larly thunderous outbursts for case in her July 4th lecture at the the 2nd, 9th, and 10th Cato Institute Seminar (Reporter, Amendments. August 1991, at 8, col. 3). Speaking as the President of After the panel discussion, I the American Civil Liberties asked Nadine Strossen if, given Union (ACLU), Strossen focused her recent appearances before on the 4th Amendment. She libertarian organizations like the characterized the 4th Amend­ Cato Institute and the Libertarian SPORTS BAK ment as "fundamental" and said Party, the ACLU might move ~ it guarantees "the right to be let the direction of adopting a more alone" as well as "the right to libertarian position? Libertarians 57 MURRAY STREET privacy." Strossen accused the believe that an individual's (Between Church & West broadway) Supreme Court of having eroded economic liberties should be the protections of the 4th defended as well as an indivi­ Amendment, and, after discuss­ dual's civil liberties. (BOWLING) @ASKETBAL0 (DARTS) (Foos BAL0 i ng Florida v. Bostick. __ The ACLU characterizes U.S._, 111 S.Ct. 2382 (1991) itself as neutral on economic (allowing random bus searches issues. Although Strossen was conducted pursuant to pas­ unwilling to commit the ACLU to ctJ senger's consent), said, "Probable a move in a libertarian direction, \lq@ cause is a casualty of the War on she responded by saying that she Drugs, which is more accurately preferred to focus on the areas called the War on the Bill of where libertarians and the ACLU BURGERS, llOT DOGS, ClllClfErl lk /tlEX fOOD Rights." agree, as opposed to areas where Sl!R l'ED BY UJCY Professor Strossen, acknowl­ they disagree. edging the popularity of the 9th Further, Strossen recom­ 1 FUIL IHER SUPER MUGS OF BEER $3. 00 Amendment with the audience, mended that Cato and the described the ACLU's support for Libertarian Party form coalitions FREE SNACKS & TACT> CllIPS the 9th Amendment as "vigor­ with other groups on issues they ous." Also, she told the agree on, and she described the Libertarians that she has recom­ ACLU as issue oriented and wil­ mended that the ACLU appoint a ling to form such coalitions. special committee to re-examine 9 Law Student Medical Coverage Green Acres by Doug Stem ASSOCIATION. Thispolicy by Caroline Gargione In addition, tables, chairs is available to both full and part­ benches and other lounging As we all know, any health time students and their families. If everyting goes according to equipment will create a related. treatment be it medical or The ABA/lSD Group Plan may plan, N.Y.L.S. will have an community atmosphere for dental is beyond the means of be pun:hased by any member of outdoor deck on the roof of the N.Y.L.S. faculty, students and most law students. The Office of the ABA Law Student Division library by the spring of 1992. guests to enjoy and use every Student Services has made avail­ taking more than eight credits. The idea hatched some years day. There are also plans on the able to all students brochures The New York University, ago when the Mendik Library drawing board to use the deck for relating to three separate medical David B. Kriser Dental Center, was still in the planning stages. open-air lectures and panel insurance programs and one that sponsors a dental health care Although the Administration has discussions. will cover your dental care needs. program titled SfU-DENT. The been moving through the process Presently the plan does not COLLEGIATE CARE Stu-Dent plan is an optional pre­ slowly- getting the building provide for lighting, so there is a OPTION ONE, provides paid dental program available to permits, hiring engineers and chance that the deck will only be coverage for full-time students all undergraduate, graduate, full, architects, and drafting a plan­ used during the daylight hours. through the Health Insurance and part-time students of the idea is finally becoming a Since the deck is outdoors, it will Plan of Greater New York (HIP) participating colleges and uni­ reality. oniy be used during the warmer and Empire Blue Cross and Blue versities. The spouses and The plan divides the roof into months. It will open for use only Shield. dependents of eligible students three phases of construction. between March~April and COLLEGIATE CARE are also invited to enroll in Stu­ Future plans include a snack bar September -October. OPTION 2 provides coverage for dent. and dining area. Although Access to the rooftop will be full time students and their Contact Sally Harding at Stu­ phases two and three are not yet through the fourth floor of 57 families through Empire Blue dent Services 481-2852 to pick up on the calendar, construction of Worth Street ("A" Building). A Cross and Blue Shield. brochures relating to these health the first phase is scheduled to ramp will be provided to ensure The third option is offered plans, prices, deadlines and begin early next semester. accessability for the through the AMERICAN BAR qualifications. On paper the rooftop deck handicapped. looks just like one would expect. Since construction is The deck has a wooden surface, expected to proceed quickly, the and would be covered with Administration is hopeful that shrubbery and planters. The phase 1 will be completed this Katie O'Toole's elevated step along the deck's spring. It certainly will be a 134 READE STREET perimeter enables one to peer out welcome change from hanging over the surrounding wall and out on the comer of Worth and \lll11d.i) j, \iYLS Student N1~ht view the city below. Church. I ! ~ PRICE DRINKS EVERY WEDNESDAY lS RECESSION NlGHi SO'S LIVE BAND AND $.50 BEERS 7:30 to 8:30 music Jill 11 :30 pm with the ROCKIN' REBELS POOL, DARTS, TRIVIA, CD JUKE BOX, PINBALL call TONY 226 8928 For Reservations

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• Mailbox Rentals The New York State Bar Association has released the results of a survey of pro bono publico work by attorneys. The survey shows that more than 583 of respondents performed some pro bono work, and that almost 30% perfor med more than twenty hours of pro bono work during the last year. The state bar association also released a report, ''The Status of the Voluntary Effort to Address Unmet Needs of the Poor in New York State''. This report outlines the New York State Bar Associa­ ALOFT BUSINESS CENTER tion' s program of providing needed legal services through a 234 WEST BROADWAY 274-8800 combination of strong legal serv­ ice programs and voluntary pro just 3 blocks North at White Street 9am - 8pm mon-sat bono activity. Both the survey and the report are available through the New York State Bar Association, Department of Pro Bono Affairs, One Elk Street, Albany, New York, 1220'7. 11 California Term Limits Upheld

by the Reporter News Staff agreed with the framers of the in­ year terms. After the maximum legislators. The incumbent poli­ itiative that the restrictions serve term has been reached, incum­ ticians are predominantly On October 10, the California a rational public policy. Although bents would be barred for life Democrats. Supreme Court upheld, by a six they "may deny qualified men an from running for re-election to The six to one vote of the Cali­ to one majority, the Political opportunity to serve, as a general the post. They would, however, fornia Supreme Court reflected Reform Act of 1990, which amen­ role, the overall health of the be free to run for other offices. partisan politics as six conserva­ ded the California State body politic is enhanced by limi­ The California statistics show tives, appointed recently by Constitution to limit legislators' tations on continuous tenure". that 92% of all incumbents were Republican governors, supported terms in office. The initiative, which passed re-elected last year. It was in the the initiative over the dissent of The incumbent legislators in November 1990, received the same election that 52% voted to the liberal Justice Stanley Mosk, had sought to overturn the ini­ support of 52% of the voters in limit the re-election of who had been appointed in 1964 tiative. They charged that the that election. It provides that the incumbents. by Democratic governor Edmund new changes would unduly vio­ forty members of the State Nationwide, the movement to Brown. late a First Amendment right of Senate, beginning in 1990, may limit terms of incumbent officials A similar term limitation voters to elect the candidates of only be elected to two four year has aroused partisan feelings. measure will be decided in the their choice and the right of the terms. The eighty members of the Changing demographics and State of Washington. It will in­ legislators to continue running State Assembly are limited to population shifts have aroused clude limitations on the terms of for offic:e. three two year terms and the feelings of anger and helplessness the state's representatives in the The decision, written by other state offices, including on the part of voters, who feel House of Representatives. Chief Justice Malcolm M. Lucas, Governor, are limited to two four increasingly alienated from their

NYLS Grad Dies Waiting for Medical Care at Harlem Hospital

by Michael Wood Chance described hjmself as Chance moved from the rural and Surgeons. a ''country lawyer", and often South of Parmele, North Carolina A statement from the Harlem Prominent attorney William dressed the part, wearing sus­ to New York in the late 1930' s. He Hospital claimed that Chance Chance Jr., NYLS '51, died on penders, boots and a straw hat to worked in Manhattan and atten­ had previously visited the emer­ October 7, 1991, after twice being court. However, he was most ded New York Law School. He gency room and left without told to go home from the Harlem respected for his political savvy graduated in 1951. He was active treatment. Hospital. His cause of death was and skills as a defense attorney. in community affairs. Ironically, It went on to say that "Preli­ a gastrointestinal hemorrhage, It was this "country lawyer" he was a personal friend of the minary hospital investigations due to a bleeding peptic weer. to whom Adam Clayton PoweJJ mayor and had served on the reveal no improprieties on the Although he was bleeding, turned when Powell tried to community board of the public part of the emergency room spitting up blood and writhing in upset his 1970 congressional hospital in which he died. staff... " pain, the 74 year old attorney was defeat at the hands of Charles Harlem Hospital is currently William Chance Jr., is survi­ told twice to go home by the at­ Rangel. William Chance defen­ being inspected by the Joint ved by two brothers, Anson tending physician, according to ded the first black Manhattan Commission on Accreditation of Chance and Edward Chance, and Abraham Taylor, Chance's cous­ Borough President, Hulan Jack Health Care. The hospital failed by a sister, Anice Chance Wilson. in. Taylor had brought Chance to on charges of bribery. He also the inspection in 1990. Medical His funeral was held Saturday, the hospital by ambulance after unsucces.sfully defended one of care at Harlem Hospital is provi­ October 12, at the Abyssinian the distinguished attorney had the assassins convicted of the ded under contract by the Baptist Church in Harlem. begun bleeding. murder of Malcolm X. Columbia College of Physicians

I UI Slave Burial Ground tJncovered

by the Reporter News Staff from Oty Hall, now a prize piece by the street were disturbed by The erection of a cyclone of real estate, the location was the construction of previous fence at the site has forced stu­ Construction of the new 276 once considered an unattractive buildings on the site. dents hurrying to school from the million dollar, 34-story Federal area outside of the city limits. It The remains of fourteen City Hall and Chambers Street office building for the General was deemed fit for a cemetery bodies have been exhumed. They subway stations of the N, R, 4, 5, Services Administration on where slaves were allowed to had been laid down in coffins, 6, J, and M lines to use the side­ Broadway between Reade Street bury their dead. The burial and the graves had been marked walks on the west side of and Duane Street has been tem­ ground was closed in 1790. by head and footstones. Very lit­ Broadway. porarily halted as archaeologists Portions of the burial ground tle has survived the effects of According to William J. Dia­ uncover the remains of a two have survived the last two ren­ their two hundred year inter­ mond, regional director of the hundred old slave cemetery. turies' development, protected ment. The coffins had General Services Administration, Sidewalk superintendents under an L shaped street formed disintegrated, leaving only traces the GSA is committed to treat the can watch as archaeologists dig by the junction of Republican in the soil. Shroud pins, coffin bodies with respect and dignity for evidence of life and death in Alley and Manhattan Alley. The nails and metal buttons have and to the re-interment of the early New York Oty. Two blocks graves which were not protected survived. human remains at a suitable site. 12· ELLSA Panel Discussion LGLSA Hosts Annual on Labor Law Party

by Otis Damslet throughout the academic year in by the Reporter News Staff attorney, National Labor Rela­ cooperation with the Lesbian and tions Board Region 29; and On Friday, October 4th, the Gay Law Association of Greater On Thursday, October 3, Professor Laura Stein, former Lesbian and Gay Law Students New York and area law schools. 1991, the Employment & Labor associate in the Philadelphia law Association hosted its annual in­ Next on the calendar is a recep­ Law Students Association firm of Pepper, Hamilton & troductory party for returning tion at Lambda Legal Defense (ELLSA) held an informal recep­ Scheetz. students, new students, faculty, and Education Fund, 666 Broad­ tion in the Faculty Dining Room. The purpose of the reception alumni, and friends. This year's way, 12th Floor, on October 22 The guest speakers, all attor­ was to acquaint students with the event drew more than forty pe<>­ from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. neys practicing in the field of practice of labor law. Those at­ ple and featured. music, videos, For information about future labor law, included such notables tending were able to discuss toys, and an abundance of food events, or to add your name to as Vincent O'Hara, NYLS '80, a various topics, including and drink. The gala evening the LGLSA mailing list, please partner in the law firm of Holm, employment opportunities, with began around 8:00pm and con­ contact Coordinators J. Will Cook I

Legal Lines A Reporter Digest of Recent Filings and Actions

by the Reporter News Staff total of $10,000. lines who crossed the picket lines courts have only recently extended during the machinist's union such rights to children when a Utah Abortion Row BTook\yn Supreme Court strike against the now bankrupt parent is seriously injured. Nine Justice Edward Rappaport, who carrier have filed a lawsuit in states, including Texas, West Vir- A Utah law firm was hired, is to preside over the trial of Miami against seven individuals 5 in i a, and Wyoming, have then withdrew, in the defense of LcmricJt. Nelson, Jr., accused in and the Air Line Pilots Associa­ endorsed suits brought on behalf the new state anti-abortion law. the murder of Yanke! Rosen­ tion. The suit asks for 1 billion of children. The Salt Lake City law firm of baum, has come undeT fire. dollars from those it says put This Massachusetts case is un­ Jones Waldo Holbrook & Defense attorney Arthur Lewis together and distributed a list of usual because it is the first time the McDonough has agreed to with­ has asked Rappaport to recuse those who crossed the picket state's highest court has isued a draw from the case. The himself because of previous ties lines. The plaintiffs allege that ruling in a case in which the child American Civil Liberties Union to members of the Lubavitcher this "bJacklist" has prevented was not yet born at the time of his had filed a motion accusing the community. them fTom getting new jobs. father's injury. Earlier this year, a firm of an unforgivable breach of jury in a state court in Springfield, ethics for failure to notify a client­ Pee-Wee on Film Court Fo.rces 10 Judges Mass., awarded a child $50,000 for -the Utah Women's Clinic-that to Retire his losses in a similar case. the firm was defending a law Actor-comedian Paul Rue­ In a case decided by the Ten New York State Judges, Mas­ which would force the clinic out ben s, better known as the sachusetts Supreme Judicial Court including six from this city, will of business. The Utah Women's character Pee-wee Herman, plans in Boston last month, Leo LePage, be forced to retire as a result of a Oinic performs 75% of all elec­ to use a security video-tape in his the child's father, suffered per­ U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June tive abortions in Utah. defense against indecent expo­ manent brain damage in 1985 that held that state mandatory sure charges. His representatives when a car in which he was a pas­ retirement policies for judges did Abulan.ce Chasti.ng claim that a time stamped hit a light pole. After the not violate Federal age discri­ senger security film shows him in the accident, Mr. LePage and the child mination Jaws. The New York The New York City Human theater lobby at the same time filed suit against the Swansea, State Constitution requires all Rights Commission has awarded arresting officers claimed he was Mass., restaurant where the driver j,udges to retire at age 70, but $15,000 to the family of a Brook­ playing in the-auditorfun\. was served alcohol. allows two-year extensions for lyn man who was denied aid in A lower court dismissed the Supreme Court Justices. coming down a flight of stairs by Stem Warning clu1d's suit, ruling that because the The city judges affected by an ambulance driver. Joseph dills could not have survived out­ the ruling, according to the Office Moloney was denied help Manhattan Supreme Court side the womb at the time of the of Court Administration, are, because the ambulance driver Judge Carmen Ciparick dis­ accident, he was not entitled to Kathryn McDonald, the Family was fearful of being exposed to missed a $550 million lawsuit recover any damages for his Court's Adminstrative Judge, AIDS. Moloney died in July. The agains·t radio personality emotional losses. Acting Queens Supreme Court ambulance company which was Howard Stem. Stem had aired a The state's high court ruled Justices Allen Beldock, Eli ordered to pay, All County Trans­ television tape in November that the child had a right to sue Lazarus and Anthony P. Savarese, portation Ambulette Service, is 1990, which showed Stem getting because he was oonceived prior to Bronx Civil Court Judge Robert B. appealing the ruling to the Kings a rubdown from a negligee clad the father's injury. Hunting and Court of Claims County Supreme Court. woman. The woman's husband Alan A. Amaral, a Somerset, Judge Adolph C Orlando. claimed that Stern's comments Mass., lawyer for the child, said Whafs the Life of an Attomey made him look like "'an idiot, a the decision may affect the Children Can Sue for Emotional Worth? schmuck, a wimp ... " Judge national debate about abortion. Losses Due to Father's lnjwy Ciparick described the commen­ "The court here has ruled that a Queens attorney Sergio M. tary as gross or vulgar, but were child's viability is not a standard Taub was killed by gunfire on the "nonsensical entertainment''. Many states allow spouses to by which to measure the right to Meadowbrook Parkway August make claims for so-rolled Joss of sue. By extension, other courts 29. Four New York City men have Dirty Tricks consortium, which involves in­ may also rule that it is also inap­ been charged with his murder. It tangible such as a loss of propriate to use it as a measure of is alleged that they were paid a Former pilots of Eastern Air- companionship or affection, but when to abort," Mr. Amaral said. 13 In.Memoriam: Chester Floyd Carlson, One Who Entered by Jeanne Forster nology and graduate, during the while a student at New York Law son's invention and persistence Great Depression, in 1930, with a School, Carlson produced the became fully evident. When it "One who persists in B.S. in physics and $1,400 in copy of "10-22-38 ASTORIA," was finally introduced in 1959, knocking will succeed debts. At that time, jobs were heralding in the process that the Xerox 914 was a simple and in entering." scarce. After writing to 82 com­ revolutionized offices and spaw­ convenient office copier that car­ panies, and receiving only two ned a multi-billion dollar ved. a niche in American business -Moses ibn Ezra replies, and no offers, Carlson got industry. history and created a legend in a job in July 1930, with Bell Carlson continued. to work the annals of industrfal success. A brief two and one-half line Laboratories. ln 1933, as the on finding better techniques and Interestingly, Chester Carl­ note mentioning a 1939 New Depression grew worse, he was materials that could be used to son was never employed by the York Law School graduate, Ches­ laid off. He then worked briefly transfer images to a sheet of Xerox Corporation. Rather, he ter Floyd Carlson, is nestled in in a New York patent law office. paper. In 1939, the year of Carl­ remained in the background, as a the middle of a page of a xero­ In 1934, Carlson found work son's graduation, World War II conSultant who preferred anony­ graphic copy of the biographical in the patent department of P.R. broke out. ln 1940, the draft was mity, giving his opinion only dictionary, Who Was Who in Mallory and Company, an elec­ instituted and Carlson was when asked. for it. American History - Science and tronics firm best known for its admitted to the New York bar. Haloid (Xerox) bought the Technology. On that page, his batteries. While at Mallory, Carl­ The draft dealt the school a Carlson patents from Battelle for name is surrounded by long and son became frustrated with the crushing blow and in 1941, the nearly 2 million Xerox shares profound references to great inconveniences of obtaining extra Board of Trustees were forced. to under a complicated royalty American biologists, chemists, copies of documents and close the school. During these agreement. It is rumored that the educators, engineers, physicists, drawings. years, Carlson SEl~Shed in vain price was close to $64 million. physicians and surgeons. At that time, copies were for buyers. How much of that went to Carl­ How did Carlson get his made with carbon paper or by Undaunted, Carlson filed son is not known. It is known name listed among these eminent Minnesota Mining and Manufac­ additional patent applications, that Carlson, whose life was full individuals? He did so by simply turing Company's Thermo-Fax the most important of which was of hardship and sacrifice, earned producing the words that spar­ or Eastman Kodak's Verifax. If a his basic xerography patent, over $150 million from his mag­ ked. a technological revolution in mistake was made on the type­ issued in October 1942. Year in, nificent invention. It is also this country: writer, it could not very well be year out, the frustration wore on known that he donated at least erased., if at all, on the carbon as Carlson tried abortively to sell $100 million to various charities "10-22-38 ASTORIA." copies. Both Thermo-Fax and his dry-copying method to more and foundations. Verifax relied. on expensive che­ than 20 companies, including Before his death in 1971, the Hardly amazing, barely mically treated paper furnished. Bell and Howell, General Elec­ late Joseph Wilson, who had memorable, they were nonethe­ by the manufacturer. Delicate tric, IBM, and Kodak. His work succeeded his father as president less the .first words reproduced Thermo-Fax copies turned dark was even dismissed by the of Haloid, and who took the risk through the process originally when exposed to excessive heat, National Inventors Council. of developing the Xerox 914, had called. "electrophotography," a and Verifax copies were wet and Refusing to give up, Carlson this to say about Carlson's con­ word coined. by Carlson for his would smear if not properly managed. to gain the interest of tributions: "First, we will never invention. This electrostatic dried.. the Battefie Memorial Institution forget that in the individual is the copying process subsequently In 1935, Carlson undertook in Columbus, Ohio. In 1944, origin of the great creative act ... was named xerography after the his first experiments in the kit­ Carlson and Battelle, a nonprofit Second, we learned that great Greek words for "dry" and chen of his apartment in Jackson research organization, negotiated rewards come to those who see "writing." Today, it is simply Heights, Queens. Over the next an agreement under which the needs that have not been clearly known as photocopying. two years, after having tried and institute would undertake to im­ identified by others, and who Born February 8, 1906, in rejected numerous methods, prove the copying process and have the innovating capacity to Seattle, Washington, Carlson was Carlson settled on a process of share in any future profits. devise products and services the son of Ellen Josephine and electrostatics. He now moved his In 1947, following World War which fill these needs." Olof Adolph Carlson, both of experiments to tiny rented room II, New York Law School reo­ According to Dean James F. whom suffered from the crip­ in Astoria, Queens. nus make­ pened. at 244 William Street. ln Simon, "The founding principles pling effects of tuberculosis. As a shift laboratory was equipped that same year, the Haloid Com­ of our School are to provide an skinny, awkward boy of 12, he with only a work bench, some pany, later to become the Xerox excellent legal education to did odd jobs to help support his glass and metal plates, a few Corporation, acquired the rights deserving students who might parents. By the age of 14, he chemicals and a Bunsen burner. to develop a machine using Carl­ otherwise not be given the became their chief support, rising During this period, Carlson son's patents from Battelle. It opportunity to enter our profes­ at5 A.M. to wash store windows, was a night student at New York was a tremendous venture for sion and serve the bar and the sweep out a bank and a newspa­ Law School. These were hard Haloid. The company invested broader New York Community." per, and working from6A.M. to6 times for the nation, the School $12.5 million - more than the Indeed, it seems appropriate that P.M. on Saturdays. and for Carlson. The country had company's total earnings from Chester Floyd Carlson is a dis­ By working all kinds of odd plunged headlong into the 1950 to 1959 - to develop the first tinguished alumnus of New York jobs, Carlson managed to put depths of the Depression. On photocopying machine, the 914. Law School, since his life's work together enough money to attend October 22, 1938, nearly a year It was not until 1959 that the was a perfect implementation of the California Institute of Tech- after filing his initial patent, and revolutionary impact of Carl- those very founding principlEs.

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14 Economic Analysis Sustaining Growth and Development in the Third World

by Patrick Benn projects which had been suppor­ in a relatively undistorted regime These four elements- a com­ ted by either the Bank or its sister, had rates of return that were 5% petitive macroeconomy, global "Choose your friends the International Finance Corpo­ higher than projects undertaken linkages and investment in peo­ wisely," goes the old adage. It ration. The sample is broad as in a distorted regime. If this im­ ple- feed on each other. For might just as well apply to central well as big: it includes private provement in efficiency could be instance, a competitive microe­ governmental macro-policy deci­ projects as well as public ones, achieved for all investment across conomy furthers educational sion-making. Compared with and ranges across agriculture, in­ an economy, incomes per person progress because it raises the earlier history, the developing d us try and the parts of the would typically rise by more than economic returns from extra years countries have grown quickly economy that produce "nontrad­ an extra percentage point each of schooling; equally, better edu­ over the past 40 years. The time it a bles" (i.e., infrastructure, year. cation makes an economy more takes to double real incomes per utilities, etc.). That part of the report, in competitive by making workers head in the early stages of indus­ As part of their normal pro­ effect, finds new evidence for more productive. There are many trialization has fallen cess of appraisal, World Bank something the Bank has been tel­ more such links to be found (see dramatically. Britain needed analysts work out the economic ling governments for years: get chart). roughly 60 years to do it after rate of return on completed your prices right, mainly by Another new piece of 1780, America nearly 50 years projects. For each borrower the intervening less. The result will research gives an indication of after 1840, and Japan about 35 bank also keeps track of a variety be a more competitive domestic how important such links might years after 1885. Turkey achieved of economic distortions in, for in­ microeconomy with strong links be. The World Bank studied two the same feat in 20 years after stance, trade (tariffs and non­ to the outside world. Elsewhere, different aspects of policy- price 1957, Brazil in 18 years after 1961, tariff-barriers such as import the new report takes pains to distortions (using the foreign­ South Korea in 11 years after 1966, quotas), foreign exchange (the stress that government has a cru­ exchange premium as the meas­ and China in lOyears from 1977. premium on black market cial positive role to play as well. ure) and education- then plotted Despite the mood of "deve­ exchange rates), interest rates An efficient domestic the results against grQwth in lopment pessimism" that has (whether positive or negative in economy needs investment in in­ aggregate GDP for 60 developing prevailed for much of the period real terms), and fiscal policies (the fra s tr u c tu re. And if new countries during 1965-87. The since the second world war, his­ size of budget deficits). investment opportunities are to countries that scored badly on tory shows that poor countries The new study has put all of be seized, people need to be both aspects of policy grew at can indeed grow-and much faster this information together to see, healthy and educated, especially, 3.1 % per annum. The countries than today's rich countries did at on a project-by-project basis, what in basic skills- which calls for that did well on one aspect of a comparable stage of develop­ difference distortions caused by public spending. And macroe­ policy and poorly on the other ment. The main reason is the policy make to projects' rates of conomic policy needs to be a grew at an average of 3.8% per choices governments make return. On every measure of dis­ stabilizing, not a destabilizing annum. The countries that scored regarding technological progress. tortion, projects yielded the influence. highly on both measures of policy Through trade, today's poor highest returns where distortions grew by an impressive 5.5% per countries can import the means were Jow and the lowest returns annum. (goods, ideas, technology) to were seen where the distortions "An efficient domestic So the reward for improving make their assets Oabor and land) were high. economy needs invest­ one aspect of policy was an extra more productive. Take distortions in the for­ 0.7% of growth, while the reward But the figures also tell eign-exchange markets. Where ment in infrastructure... for improving both was an addi­ another story. Between 1950 and these were low (a black market people need to be tional 2.4% When you get 1989 real incomes per person in premium of less than 20%), healthy and educated, different aspects of policy right, it Asia went up, on average, by economic rates of return averaged especially, in basic skills­ seems, the whole is greater than 3.6% per annum. During the 18%; where they were high (a w hich calls for public the sum of the parts. same period in Latin America, black market premium of 200%), spending." they went up only one-third as the average return was 8%. fast, at 1.2% per annum. Sub­ Overall, projects undertaken Saharan Africa fared even worse: its real incomes went up only by 0.8% each year (and during the The Development Cycle past two decades actually fell). Within regions, there are even bigger disparities. Asia has South Korea and Taiwan at one extreme, Rapid growth Knowtedge& India and Vietnam at the other. in productivity Investment ------Technology Latin America has Chile, but it in People also has Argentina. High retums Abilitytomeet The World Ban.k's new World from educetion --.. wor1d standards l Development Report argues that these disparities are mainly T1 Abi6tyto ettract l caused by economic policy. To l r Gains from foreign put it bluntly, developing country trade investment governments can choose whether Competitive Globel their countries will prosper or Micro economy Linke.ges stagnate. The past 40 years have not answered every question in Ability to attract Gains development economics, but the t orei gn investment from trade evidence is now good enough to T! know which policies are likely to r l work and which are certain to fail. Prices as signals .,__ --- Capital The new report combs l Stable Abi6tyto through a vast amount of earlier l Macro economy Financial ..;th3tend shocks research. But some of the most dbcipine ------... striking information is new- deri­ ved from a big study of the Bank's own operations as a lender to third world countries. So wee: The Wot1d Development Report 1991, lhe Chelenge The Bank's economists of Development." Publshed byO)Cford Univenity Press. looked at 1,200 investment 15 REGISTRATION MUST BE RECEIVED BY 11/1/91 ---.llMD~~-~<9-....-- The Pieper Course Includes: * Complete lecture series *Essay writing -•..: WITH THE :.+c-- * Multistate Practice and Exam * Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE) * Multistate Volume * New York Law Volume * Professional Responsibility Volume

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The Reporter would like to judges for the final round Congratulate all of the 102 parti­ included the Hon. Lawrence J. cipants of the 1991 Froessel Moot Bracker, New York Superior Court Competition. Froessel is an Court, Appellate Division, intramural competition held Second Department; Hon. annually for second and third George Bundy Smith, New York year students to put their Supreme Court, Appellate advocacy and practical skills to a Division, First Department; Hon. test. David N. Edelstein, United States This year, the students District Court for the Southern argued whether the Fourth D1~trict of New York; Hon. Above: Elizabeth Eilander, 1991 Froessel Winner Amendment applies to .searches Warren W. Eginton, United States Below: L Bryce Moses, Froessel Finalist and seizures by U.S. DEA agents District COurt for the District of of property owned by a resident Connecticut; Hon. Daniel J. alien and located in a foreign Mahoney, United States Court of country. They also argued Appeals for the Second Circuit; Sullivan, New York Supreme Thomas and Pina Vricclla. whether the Sixth Amendment Hon. Thomas J. Meskill, United Court, Appellate Division, Listed below are the names right to counsel is violated when States Court of Appeals for the Second Department; Hon. of the thirty-one competitors the prosecutor obtains tape Second Circuit; Hon. Milton Ellsworth A. VanGraafeiland, chosen as candidates to the New recordings of attorney/client Pollack, United States District United States Court of Appeals York Law School Moot Court telephone conversations. Court for the Southern District of for the Second Orcuit; Hon. John Association: The panel of distinguished New York; Hon. Thomas M. Walker, Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Elizabeth Eilender, 1991 This year's top honors went Froessel Winner to Elizabeth Eilander. Her co­ finalists were 1. Bryce Moses, Steven Senior and Richard Steven Antico Straussman. Steven Senior and Gary Axisa, Froessel his preliminary argument Semifinalist partner, John Daly, also won Christopher Ball Best Brief and Best Team award. Patrick Benn, Froessel Jeryl Brunner won Best Oralist Semifinalist for the preliminary round. Andrea Blair The competition ran Jeryl Bruner, 1991 Froesse] flawlessly, due in large part to Best OraJist the caliber of all of the Michael Cifelli competitors and the hard work Joseph Conway, Froessel and dedication of the Moot Semifinalist Court Association. This year's John Daly, Best Team, Best Competition was Co-Chaired by Brief Winner Sonia Metellus and Maria John Fox Ressos. Metellus and Ressos Jeffrey Gaier were a5.$isted by Ivonne Prieto James Gillespie Law Review, Journals (Moot Court Assn. Chairperson), Ann Kenny Debra Robb (Vice-Chairperson Richard Land Announce Winning Write-On and Froessel co-author), Steve Arnold Levine Candidates Benham, Gayle Hyman, EriJc. Janke Lunde Jacobs, Andrew Shipper, Bill Oifford LoCurto James Mendel Howard Meyers Ille Reporter is proud New York Law School and New York Law School I. Bryce Moses, Froessel the Reporter would like to Journal of Intemmonal and to announce the addition Finalist of Ms. Margia G. Kramer to congratulate all of its students Comparative Law Thomas Murphy who were successful 1991 Joseph M. Conway the admininstrative staff at Laura Obahdiah N.Y.L.S. write-on candidates for the Fernando L Crw: Eliza Ryder The multitalented Ms. New York Law School Law George S. Matthews Harold Rosenthal Kramer joins us as the new Review, the Journal of Interna­ Nancy C. Nissan Joseph Sanfilippo tional and Comparative Law Caroline A. Peebles Business Manager for the Brian Schwartz and the Journal of Human Journals and the Moot Steven Senior, Froessel Court Association. Ms. Rights. Congratulations! New York Law School Ftnalist, Best Brief, Best Journal of Human Rights Kramer is a former Team Winner New York Law School Denise Campbell Professor at Duke Robin Sherak Law Review Mary E. Fritz University and public Richard Straussman, James Brennan Edward}. McGowan grants writer. Froessel Finalist Jane Goetz Her office is located on Louis Taubman Robert B. Leonard the eighth floor, in the new Journals Center. Weloome Jonathan D. Porter Congratulations and best wishes aboard Ms. Kramer! to all! 17 NYLS Profiles Deborah Howard, Esq. New Director of Career Services Emphasizes "Service"

by Fernando Cruz firms and their particular needs with students and their particular This year, the new semester at skills and interests. The system, New York Law School opened says Howard, will make access to with a new Director of Career information and changes to exist­ Services, Deborah Howard, Esq. ing data bases much easier. Howard's route to the NYLS However, this software system is Office of Career Services offers not expected to be available for at insight into alternate career paths least another two months. open to a person with a law Howard recommends that the degree. Howard is a native New process of deciding what a stu­ Yorker who was born in Brook­ dent wants to do after graduation lyn. Howard received a Bachelor begins with a personal evaluation of Arts degree from Harvard -- "looking to whom you are University, where she majored in before trying to look at the law." East Asian Studies. She speaks She suggests that students sort fluent Japanese and lived in out what it is that they like and Japan during her senior year. what they don't like to hone in on After receiving a law degree areas that suit their personalities from Northeastern University, and preferences. In so doing, Howard went to Japan for a year students should use internships to study Japanese child protec­ and summer positions as "testing tion laws. She then returned to grounds." Students who do the U.S. where she worked as a know what they want to do judicial clerk in Alaska. This ex­ should take courses that emphas­ perience proved to be especially i ze their special interests; fulfilling; as a judicial clerk in a otherwise, there is no need to frontier state, Howard was able specialize in any area because to "make law" besides "receiving "more diversity of courses may a decent salary as a public serv­ better your chances of finding ant." However, Alaska's long, employment," says Howard. Deborah Howard, Director of career Services dark winters soon took their toll Yet, given the current economic and Howard was D.C. bound. conditions, students must work InWashington, D.C., Howard harder to get job offers. "The practiced law with a small firm of the Office of Career Services. Howard is a proponent of net­ recession is real," explains where she specialized in consult­ This means that the office is ''here working. If the students "don't Howard, and networking can ing work for Japanese clients. for 100% of the student body and network, don't use the career make a big difference. For the Although Howard enjoyed her not just the top ten percent." services office or come to see us time being, law schools can work, she found that she ''hated Although not a reaction to what too late, then there are no magic expect less on campus interview­ DC." Apparently, DC's repu­ had previously existed at the solutions," she states. Addi­ ing, especially while law firms tation as a "one industry town" Office of Career Services, the new tionally, students need to show are moving people out. Howe­ should not be easily dismissed - emphasis seeks to lessen student interest in and respond to Career ver, since there is very little that Washington, D.C is not for "alienation" which Howard Services initiatives. "Some­ the schools could do to change everyone as politics is the indus­ believes impeded the career times," claims Howard, "I don't this, students should simply con­ tJy, and name-dropping is the office's functioning. An "open know how to reach students" tinue preparing for better times. name of the game. Howard sub­ door policy" is central to the because some students don't While bankruptcy and environ­ sequently returned to New York "services" emphasis. Accord­ bother to read what's in their mental law are currently "hot where she worked in the Code ingly, students should not mailboxes or read postings. areas," Howard cautions that it is Enforcement Unit for New York hesitate to come to the office and These sane students then claim hard to tell which way the pro­ Oty's corporate counsel. ask for guidance. 'We have a that they did not have enough fession will move in the future. Howard eventually migrated wonderful staff which is energe­ advance notice. Students need to When asked about the school's toward the human resources field tic, concerned and desiring to read the Career Services News­ siu and reputation, Howard res­ when she began to recruit for an assist," maintains Howard. If a letter and attend forums and ponded that she did not believe employment search firm that student encounters any difficul­ panels sponsored by the office. that the school's independent specialized in placement of attor­ ties in using the office, then they A change that the Career Serv­ status disadvantages NYLS. In neys. Switching from lawyering should look for Howard, foe, as ices office will implement is certain respects, she continued, it to ''headhunting'' was a difficult she asserts, "the buck stops here!" sponcering more panel discus­ is easier to implement changes or transition but one that Howard Nonetheless, Howard stresses sions. Panels offer students the react to market conditions with a was ready to make: "I simply that students need to take an opportunity to learn about a par­ smaller student body and smaller grew tired of litigation," she says. active role in formulating their ticular area of the law while bureaucracy. Concerning the Howard concedes that New York career paths. No matter what meeting persons involved in that school's reputation, Howard said is "tough to litigate in," citing the resources the office makes avail­ area. Additionally, the office is "the better [New York Law immense bureaucracy and intri­ able, it is the "job searcher who working hard to expand the School's] reputation is, the Jess cacy of the New York legal conducts and shapes the job ''Mentor-Network Program" that stringent employers will be about establishment. However, search." The Office of Career seeks to COIU\ect NYLS alumni grades." Consequently, it is in­ Howard is really very excited Services has many resources with current students interested cumbent upon everyone at NYlS about coming to New York Law available to the students, includ­ in particular practice areas. to work toward this end. School. Her education and expe­ ing individual counseling, Howard hopes that this program riences can benefit all of its forums, a video library, and will be up and running soon. students. numerous directories and Another new service that will be Howard plans to make "serv­ manuals on legal job opportuni­ available is a computer software ice" to NYlS students a hallmark ties and job seeking techniques. system that will be able to match 18 Attomu In the News guarantee laughable. In fact, as gress skillfully. He has deflected long as eight years can often go by criticism of the agency and mas- between the inspections of an tered the art of public relations David Kessler Takes on Big average food-processing plant. with the print and television Kessler plans to change that, media. False claims about foods, Business, Congress and and more. In April 1991, in one of Kessler insistsJ are about as his first public moves since join- dangerous as getting prescription the F.D.A. ing the agency, Kessler suprised drugs from a non-physician. the food industry, Congress and 'The law says that a false and the Bush Administration by misleading claim adulterates the ordering the seizure of 2,000 cases food. I don't need anything more by Joseph Conway that other staffers were selling in- of Citrus Hill orange juice. Proc- than that." sider information about drug ter & Gamble, the parent Kesler's obsession withfood Something is different at the approvals to stockbrokers. And a company of Citrus Hill, refused to stems from his days as an under- Food and Drug Administration federal report had just concluded remove the word "fresh" from its graduate at Amherst. "I was a fat these days. For a change, Con­ that the agency's outmoded labs packaging cartons, which the kid," he says, being the only one gress and corporate America have and meager staff were incapable FDA claimed was misleading at school with an regular-sized begun to take the Rockville, Md­ of ensuring the safety of foods or because the juice is actually made refrigerator from home. He kept based agency seriously. The the efficacy of new drugs. from concentrate. When P&G it stocked with sodas, bagels, F.D.A., often accused of being a But to Kessler, inheriting this refused to remove the offending cream cheese and cold cuts. In lapdog for the very industries it mess was the opportunity of a word, Kessler seized the goods. law school he trained on pizza, was supposed to be regulating, lifetime, one he's.------. Chinese food and ice has become respectable. been rigorously cream. But back in The person responsible for training for since col- December, at 205 lbs., this change is Dr. David A. Kess­ lege. When he was Kessler was concerned that ler. During his first months in tapped for the F.D.A. he'd cut too large a figure office, Kessler has shaken the post, he was serving for a top health official. So agency from the top to bottom on a federal commis- with his characteristic dis- with a massive restructuring pro­ sion analyzing that cipline, he decided to gram. He has hired a squad of very agency. "A lot reduce his caloric intake investigators to crack down on of my background (by skipping lunch) and fraud, forced Procter & Gamble, comes together start exorcising (usually one of the world's largest consu­ here," he says, ''I feel running at la.m.). Now, mer goods manufacturers to back comfortable, enorm- after altering his suits down on an orange juice labelling ously comfortable twice, he's a bony 155. controversy, and has radically here." Says his wife Paulette, a reduced the time it takes to get From aspirin to Scarsdale, N.Y. attorney: approval on new products. AlDS drugs, from "He just has incredible Dr. Kessler, at the age of 39, is soup to nuts to fish, willpower, and he's very certainly the most capable person about 25 cents out of focused." ever put in charge of the mori­ every dollar spent by And yet everyone who bund Food and Drug the American consu- knows Kessler invariably Administration. It is not a post m e r g o e s f o r comments on his more most people would relish. When products regulated human side. Kessler is a Kessler was appointed last by the FDA. The member of the 60s gener- December, he faced an agency FDA is charged with David Kesler: The 60ts idealist who has decided ation who never lost the that for more than a decade had guaranteeing the to make a change from the inside naive conviction that an in- been bled of funds by the White purity of the food we dividuaJ can change the House and burdened with new eat (minus meat and poultry, Two days later, the food giant world. Deceptive food labeling responsibilities by the Congress. which are the domain o{ the agreed to make some changes. bothers him because it is dish- AIDS activists were picketing the Department of Agriculture) and Inside the F.D.A., Kessler has onest and unfair. front doors because of the of cosmetics and drugs. The aggressively cut the time frame While both the White House P.D.A.'s sluggish pace in approv­ agency is supposed to test for for legal action against a violator and the Congress are pleased by ing drugs. Five employees had defects, unregistered chemicals, from 50 to 25 days. He has also his performance so far, F.D.A. been convicted of accepting dyes, preservative, and other begun to streamline the organiza- watchers outside government are bribes from the generic drug in­ dangers. But the agency's lack of tion, consolidating 23 department skeptical that he will succeed in dustry. There were allegations financial resources mak.es that heads into five new positions. For reverse in the fortunes of his these spots, Kessler has recruited. agency. Over the past 12 years, fo from the private sector a number terms of 1979 dollars, the FDA of high-powered management budget has remained relatively consultants and Washington at- flat, despite its increased respon- , tomeys. Most are in their early sibilities, rising from $302 million 40s, and some of them will be in 1979 to $.389 million in 1991. earning less at the F.D.A. than Industry analysts all agree that they paid last year in taxes. the agency would need a half-bil- ., Dr. Kessler is the former lion dollars more per year just to medical director of the Jack D. modernize to the point that it ~H~ET Weiler Hospital of the Albert Ein- would be on equal footing with stein College of Medicine here in its Canadian and Western Euro- New York. He has taught food pean counterpoints. But with the Breakfast Specials: 7:00- 11 :00 AM and drug law at Columbia Uni- fiscal mood Washington is in, a versity School of Law, and while cut seems more likely for the Great lunches, pasta , big burgers he was training to be a pediatri- upcoming year. served until 4:00 PM cian at the Johns Hopkins School Yet Kessler remains undaun- of Medicine he worked part time ted. ''What I care most about is for Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, restoring the credibility and inte- drafting food and health legisla- grity of the Food and Drug BAR open til 8:00 PM tion for the Labor and Human Administration," says Kessler, Draft beers and McSorley's Ale Resources Committee. His J.D. is "and the only way to do that is to from the University of Chicago, focus on strong enforcement. We Start your weekends every Friday night at Tony's and he has an advanced degree in are going to enforce the law." 83 Worth Street management from N.Y.U. as well. This background has helped (one half block east of NVLS) him navigate the waters of Con- m 19 Visiting with Visiting Professor Jeffrey O'Connell

by the Reporter Features Staff O'Connell. Review entitled "A Model Bill enjoying their stay in Manhattan. Professor O'Connell was a Allowing Choice Between Auto ''I love architecture and this city is Professor Jeffrey O'Connell, litigator for five years before Insurance Payable With and filled with absolutely magnificent an eminent authority on no-fault becoming a law professor. He Without Regard to Fault), he co­ old buildings" said O'Connell. insurance and tort reform, is here spent three of those five years as a authored in 1965 with Robert Golf (18 handicap) and reading at New York Law School for the judge advocate in Japan and Keeton one of the seminal works (non-fiction and autobiographies) Fall, 1991 semester. During an Texas. The other two years, he on no-fault insurance entitled fill his spare time. The O'Con­ informal chat with Professor was associated with Hale & Dorr Basic Protection for the Traffic nells have two children. Their O'Connell, the Reporter learned in Boston, Mass. Professor Victim. daughter Mara, an exhibit desig­ that he is a "double ivy'' - Dart­ O'Connell's hometown is Professor O'Connell's main ner at the Baltimore Museum of mouth undergrad and Harvard Worcester, Mass. areas of interest are tort reform, Industry, is expecting their first Law School. Professor O'Connell When asked why he became a no-fault, and improving the laws grandchild any day now. Their is the Samuel H. McCoy Professor law professor, Professor O'Con­ on the books. ''We need to struc­ son, Devin, lives in Los Angeles of Insurance Law at the Uni­ nell responded that he discovered ture the rules to remove the where he is an insurance versity of Virginia Law School. after a few years of practice that incentive to litigate, even though executive. He teaches torts, insurance, "all I did as a litigator was nego­ that's not a very popular idea" After grading two hundred or and legal drafting. "I'm teaching tiate and what I really want to do said O'Connell. so tort exams in December, Pro­ two sections of torts this semester, was write and speak about the Professor O'Connell has also fessor O'Connell will be leaving and while New York Law School law." written numerous book reviews. New York Law School for a lec­ is a more urban environment than Professor O'Connell has cer­ His most current review was a ture series in Japan. Be sure to the University of Virginia, I find tainly lived up to his wishes. He is three-way effort with his brother, stop by his office (C502) to say the difference between the two a prolific contributor to legal Thomas E. O'Connell, and hello before the semester ends. student bodies marginal They literature. In addition to dozens Charles Elson on the 1990 biogra­ ask the same kind of questions of published law review articles phy of Adlai Stevenson. [First in a series of interviews] and respond to my questions in a (the most recently published in O'Connell and his wife, Vir­ remarkably similar way" said 1990 in the Ohio State Law ginia (a native New Yorker) are

The Healthy Law Student H you're moving into a new most stressful occupations? apartment, or upgrading an old Below are the American Institute one to semi-liveable status, you of Stress's 1991 picks for the the What's Below Your Belt? can safely take some of your ten most and least stressful jobs in mom's old scratched-up Teflon America: pots. Many people throw out their worn Teflon or Silverstone The 10 Most Stressful Jobs: non-stick pans for fear that they Inner-City High School by the Reporter Features Staff calories in 196.5 to 2,330 calories will be poisoned by them. Teacher in 1988. But while the poorest They won't. The non-stick Police Officer The latest evidence indicates still eat too little, rich countries coatings don't react with food., Miner that above the waist (i.e., belly) gorge themselves. The Irish ate and unless you get really carried Air Traffic Controller fat is more hazardous to your the most in 1988, with 3,700 away with your spatula, the resin Medical Intern health than below-the-belt fat To calories a day, just ahead of the won't come off during cooking. Stockbroker check your shape, stand relaxed U.S.'s 3,670. Even if it does happen, the parti­ Journalist and measure around your waist Of the rich countries, Japan cles will pass unchanged through Customer service at its smallest point (don't suck in has the healthiest diet, 2,850 your body. I Complaints Worker your stomach- that's cheating). calories per day. The average If you still are worried about Waiter 1hen measure around the widest person in Mozambique tries to what you cook in, get stainless Secretary part of your hips. Divide the survive on a meager 1,630 steel. Better yet, buy some of waist measurement by the hip calories per day, the world's those old cast-iron pots and pans. The 10 Least Stressful Jobs: measurement to get your "waist lowest intake. People in disaster­ These will actually boost your Forester to hip ratio." If it is dose to or prone Ethiopia, Bangladesh and health by adding iron to your Bookbinder above 1.0, you are at a greater risk Sudan do little better on 1,660, diet, especially if you cook acidic Telephone-line Worker for increased cholesterol levels 1,930 and 2,000 calories respec­ foods in them such as tomato Toolmaker and heart attacks. tively. But remember, these are sauce. Millwright just averages; wars, floods, fam­ ...... Repairperson .. .. ines and local politics mean that Civil Engineer many people eat far less. Therapist The World Bank's la test Sure, everybody complains Natural Scientist World Development Report says ..... about the intolerable stress levels Sales Representative that daily food intake in low in­ that come with being a law stu­ rome economies rose from 1,990 dent. But what really are the

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20 New York Law Student Goes to the Libertarian National Convention by Joseph D. Brennan Legislator Andre Marrou and nomination process was Al Gold­ presidential canrudate is not just Richard Boddie, who sought to stein's (publisher of Screw a "rubber stamp" procedure. There is probably a certain become the first African Ameri­ magazine) seconrung speech for Therefore, even though Andre excitement in attending any can male ever to head a national Richard Boddie (I hadn't known Marrou had indicated his pre­ national political convention, but ticket. New York Law School's that Goldstein was a Libertarian). ference for Mary Ruwart, on the the emotional impact of attend­ own Nadine Strossen participa­ After the first ballot votes were third ballot, Nancy Lord received ing this year's Libertarian Party ted in a panel discussion on the cast and each state's delegation the VP canrudacy in a 228 to 195 Presidential Nominating Con­ Bill of Rights. had announced its votes, Andre victory over Boddie. vention was particularly strong Entitled "Liberty Triumphant," Marrou had won with 257 votes. During the remainder of Sun­ for me. Admittedly, it was my this year's convention, held m Boddie finished second with 155 day's session, various Party first national political convention, Chicago, opened August 29 and votes. offices were fiUed and motions but the significance seemed to be ran through Labor D~y Weekend. Although a presidential candi­ were entertained from the floor. based on more than that All day Thursday and Friday, as date had been selected, the drama Mary Gingell was elected the I had never even heard of the well as on Saturday morning, was not over. The vic~presi­ next National Chair. I was one of Libertarian Party (LP) before the over 400 convention delegates dential candidacy remained to be twelve people nominated to fill national convention two years hammered out changes to the filled. Nominations for the VP seven positions on the Party's ago. I saw parts of the 1989 con­ Party's bylaws and platform. spot included Richard Boddie; Judicial Committee. This was the vention on C-SPAN and was Early Friday evening, the main Mary J. Ruwart, Marrou's choice; first time I had ever been intrigued by the Party's platform. convention floor was packed for Nancy Lord, MD, attorney, and nominated to any National Party I called the 800 number dis­ the Presidential Candidate 1990 LP candidate for Mayor of office. Unfortunately, I finished played, for information, and five Debate, televised on C-SPAN. By Washington, D.C.; and Calvin tenth, so I was not elected. After months later, in January 1990, I Friday night, the tension had rea­ Warburton, a New Hampshire all the Party offices were filled, joined the LP. ched a perceptible level. Marrou State Representative who many delegates began to leave By the time the next convention declined to participate in an un­ recently resigned from the Repu­ the convention floor. At one rolled around in 1991 (the LP official debate held late Friday blican Party and joined the LP. point, a quorum call was required holds a national convention every night. At the end of the first ballot, to determine if enough delegates two years), l was an elected dele­ The unofficial debate failed to Boddie had the most votes, remained to conduct further gate representing New ~ork tum into a one-sided Boddie Ruwart was second, and Lord business. Ultimately, the con­ State. My excitement was event when a third candidate, third, however, Boddie failed to vention was adjourned. It had all heightened by the fact that 1 was David Raaflaub, showed up to receive a majority of the votes come to an end. mixing with the most prominent announce his candidacy. ln true cast. Balloting was suspended This year's convention was the people in the LP: David Nolan, Libertarian fashion, Raaflaub was and the convention was adjour­ largest gathering of Libertarians I founder of the LP and its first welcomed and allowed to parti­ ned until Sunday morning. have ever attended. Jn the two National Otair; Karl Hess, a well cipate in the debate. Overnight, some of the years since the last convention, 1 known libertarian journalist and And then on Saturday after­ nominees, particularly Ruwart had gone from never having speechwriter; Ed Oark, the LP's noon, shortly after 2PM, the big and Lord, campaigned hard, heard of the LP to participating 1980 presidential candidate; event, selection of the presi­ speaking to groups of conven­ on a national level as a conven­ David Bergland, the LP's 1984 dential candidate, began with tioneers in "hospitality suites." tion delegate. It is doubtful presidential candidate; Ron Paul, nominations and seconding On Saturday night, conven­ whether such a level of involv~ the LP' s 1988 presidential canru­ speeches. tioneers also had the opportunity ment could be achieved so date; Dave Walter, the National Altogether, there were five to attend the "Presidential Ban­ quickly within either the Repu­ Chair. These were all people I nominations. Marrou, Boddie, quet and Dance." At the banquet, blican or Democratic parties. had only read about, or seen on and Raaflaub were joined by Party leaders, former candidates, Sometimes there are rewards for television, before. Hans Schroeder, editor of The and the new presidential canru­ being smaller. During the '89 Objectively, there were other Pragmatist magazine, and ''None date gave speeches. There was an convention, the Party received aspects of the '91 convention of the Above." Libertarians impassioned plea for donations about 1,000 telephone inquiries as which added to the excitement. always allow the choice ''None of towards the presidential cam­ a result of C-SPAN coverage. 1991 is the 200th anniversary of the Above" to be included in all paign and $10,000 was raised. This year over 11,000 inquiries the Bill of Rights and the 20th balloting, on the principal that Finally, on Sunday morning, have been received. The LP is the anniversary of the LP. Gavel to voters should be free to reject all delegates returned to the main third largest and fastest growing gave) television coverage was candidates. Under the Party's convention floor to cast their political party in the United provided by C-SPAN (only con­ Convention Rules, if ''None of the second, and ultimately their States. The next national con­ vention highlights aired on C­ Above" should receive a majQrity third, ballots for the vic~presi­ vention will be held in Salt Lake SPAN in '89), with additional of the vote, no canrudate shall be dential candidacy. After the City and some of the delegates at media coverage by CNN and The nominated and if "None of the second ballot, in which no "Liberty Triumphant" com­ MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Above" wins an election for any nominee received a majority, all mented that, at the rate the Party The contest for the presidential Party office, that position will be the nominees other than Lord is growing, we may not be able to nomination was closely contested declared vacant for the term of and Boddie withdrew from the fit our next convention into a this year, with two announced office. race. In the LP, unlike some other hotel. candidates, fonl\el' Alaska State The biggest surprise of the parties, the selection of the vi~

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21 Face to Face With Four First Year Students

by Alesia Albanese ~use," says Meredith, "that's where l got accepted." We interviewed four mem­ Meredith, we look forwan:i to bers of the class of '94 to discover joining you for a big beer at some of the backgrounds, per­ Stan's! sonalities, and interests of this year's lLs. Jonathan Grosser Jonathan, an SBA senator, hails Meredith Berman from Philadelphia and graduated Meredith is from Rockland from Tulane University. An County, New York and is a recent undergrad poli sci major, graduate of the University of Jonathan is interested in politics Massachusetts at Amhurst. and the law, as well as environ­ Meredith majored in manage­ mental law. Jonathan's favorite ment and is now interested in NYLS class is torts though he corporate law. Her favorite class claims to like them all. Even legal in law school is contracts, and her writing, Jonathan? Above, Jonathan Grosser. Below, Janine Azrtllant least favorite is legal writing. Jonathan is another fan of Stan's is the social activity of Stan's, and his other interests in­ choice for our first interviewee, clude politics and athletics. and her other interests include Jonathan lives in the West Village skiing, vacationing, and sunning. and loves New York Oty. Why 1s Meredith has yet to join any this aspiring politician in law NYlS clubs, but says that she school? "I think that being a will in the very near future. lawyer will be intellectually sti­ As do all of the students mulating; and I see 1t as a interviewed, Meredith loves springboard into politics." Why New York Oty. Irs no wonder, NYLS? Jonathan cites since she lives in Battery Park geographic location. City. Meredith says that she Good luck, Jonathan. decided to go to law school because she "wants to help busi­ Janine Azriliant ness people." Most importantly, Janine Azriliant from Wood­ though, she made this decision bury, New York, is a graduate of when, in her business class, she Lehigh University in Pennsyl­ discovered that everything that vania. At the Reporter, we await she was learning was biased, an article submission from this Janine likes NYLS and loves Association, Steve also is interes­ with the exception of the law! journalism major who has not yet NYC, but who doesn't? She is ted in several other clubs. In Why New York Law School? joined any dubs, but plans to. interested in sports and enter­ contrast to those who live in the tainment law; they have a club West Village, Steve says that NYC here too, Janine. Contracts and is, "fun and quaint." Guess civil procedure are her favorite where Steve lives. In an NYU classes. Actually, there are no dorm. Why is Steve at NYLS? classes that she doesn't like. His father is an alum. Though she didn't name We look forward to seeing you Stan's, Janine says that she likes in Washington Square Park, the bar scene. Her other interests Steve. include sports and writing. The West Village seems to be the What do the first year stu­ place to live, Janine is another dents have in common with those resident of that area who claims in their second year? To find out to LOVE NYC. She is in law we interviewed a former 1L . school pursuing a "family busi­ ness thing." Why NYLS? Janine Chris Luongo likes this city, the location, and Chris Luongo, a Berkeley th~ ~9venie~. Heights, N.J. native, is a graduate ~'t fof~t~t article, Janine. of Rutgers College. On 1L expe­ riences, Chris said, "The first year Steve Roseiy>aum in law school is an important step Steve Rosenbaum of New City, in one' s legal career. Unfor­ Rockland County, is a graduate tunately, 1 tripped." of The University of Michigan. Chris says that NYLS is a Ask Steve what a good major for great school with delightful law school is, and he'll tell you architecture. We asked him why it's English. As for NYLS, he says he attends NYLS, and Chris res­ its "so far fme." Steve isn't sure ponded: "New York Law School? what area of law he wants to 1 thought this was NYU. Oh pursue, but enjoys the law and well." finds that he is good at it. Steve's Olris also frequents Stan's, favorite classes are lawyeting loves NYC, and is currently in the and Civil Procedure (with process of forming a new club Professor Perlin). here at NYLS: The Federalist Steve enjoys people watch­ Society. ing, as well as health and fitness We eagerly await any related activities. A new member upcoming events, Chris! of the Jewish Law Students

22 On Our Planet The Not-So-Great-Anymore Lakes

by Justine Kaplan in2054. NOAA study, which was drafted Less water would result in Just four years ago, water for the Environmental Protection decreased hydropower Crowded beaches once levels along Lake Michigan's Agency (EPA), should be production, used extensively separated Lake Michigan from scenic North Shore had risen so received with caution, says along the lakes and important the sparkling glass-and-steel high that when a severe winter Thomas E. Croley II, a member of because it is cleaner and less skyscrapers that line Chicago's storm sent ten-foot waves the lab's lake hydrology group, expensive than fossil fuels. And waterfront. Giant Luxury crashing into expensive lakefront "because the computer model has while warmer air could mean a condominium towers possessed apartments, living rooms were large uncertainties" and the longer growing season, soil expansive views of lush public submerged in as much as nine results are only "possibilities for a moisture shortages could curtail parks and and yacht-filled feet of water and flooding forced future with increased C02 agricultural operations. harbors. The beaches are gone the shutdown of all 28 miles of content." Conditions such as last summer's now, replaced by miles of the heavily travelled Lake Shore According to the report, if the drought cause an increase in reeking, mosquito-infested mud Drive. Two summers ago, those predicted climate changes do evapotranspiration- when plants flats. Dead fish float at the same residents enjoyed views occur, lowered lake levels could grow faster, use more water, and water's edge where boats were that resembled the coast of reduce wetland areas, the deplete soil moisture. once moored. Florida, when the lake dropped shallow marshes that serve as And with even a 3 degree This is Chicago in 2091, a three feet, uncovering miles of breeding grounds and nursery Celsius warming, commerce that scenario recently generated by sandy beaches. areas for fish and wildlife. depends upon reliable· snow researchers at the National Water levels in the Great "Salmon," says Frank H. Quinn, cover may collapse, although a Oceanic and Atmospheric Lakes Basin, the largest body of head of the lab's lake hydrology reduced ice cover could lengthen Administration's (NOAA) Great fresh water in the world, have group, "would be forced to move the shipping season. But lower Lakes Environmental Research been rising and falling since the to deeper waters," brook trout lake levels could increase Laboratory in Ann Arbor, North American glaciers "would migrate to cooler streams shipping costs and cause traffic Michigan. Through computer retreated 18,000 years ago and where they would have to backups because during low models, scientists have have proved unpredictable for compete for habitat." Quinn adds periods more trips have to be concluded that the greenhouse scientists. ln October 1986 the that "whitefish populations made to move the same amount effect could, over the next five lakes (Erie, Michigan, Huron would die off because they of cargo. century, not only severely impact and Superior) and their six require an ice cover to keep their To come up with the water levels in the Great Lakes quadrillion gallons of water were eggs alive in winter." computer model, information but also imperil shipping, at their highest levels since record Lowered water levels would was compared with EPA data industrial and commercial keeping began after the Civil also affect commercial fishing from the Goddard Institute for operations and agriculture. War. Furthermore, levels have because as channels become Space Studies, the Geophysical The scientists have risen five feet since just 1955 but shallower, extensive dredging Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and determined how things such as have dropped three and a half would be required to maintain Oregon State University. Each watershed runoff, precipitation, feet since October 1987. navigation depths of 27 feet from group had a general model that lake heat storage, evaporation The rising waters were one lake to the next. Bottom compared the present climate and other parameters would be caused by high precipitation and sediments in channels and with future possibilities. While affected by a doubling of carbon a cooling trend, which has harbors are highly contaminated the separate models disagreed on dioxide in the atmosphere-- decreased evaporation over the with toxins, causing the added precipitation, wind speed and from 350 parts per million in 1988 past 15 years- a direction problems of dredge spoil humidity, they all agreed on to possibly 700 parts per million forecasters believe is rapidly disposal and poisoning of fish. climatic warming. reversing. But results from the

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26 The Olivetti S20 Notebook

by Joseph Conway

Olivetti, one of Europe's leading manufacturers of personal computers, is finally making headway into the U.S. market with its new line of notebook computers. At the top of the line sits the 20-Mhz 386SX model 520, which supports a standard 60MB hard drive, and 2MB of RAM, expandable to 6MB. That's 4MB less than the 1OMB ceiling on the new Toshiba T2200SX, but lMB more than the maximum on the Dell320N. The 520 is unique in that it features a PS/2 compatible touch pad mouse integrated into the base of the unit. By using the mouse pad, the screen cursor is maneuvei:;cd with the touch of a pen or a finger. This feature allows the user all of the comforts of a mouse or miniature trackball without the hassle of carrying around these peripherals. Our testers reported that they had to press hard on the pad to move the cursor. INTEGRATED MOUSE A dedicated processor olivettl controls power consumption and an LCD panel displays the level of battery power remaining. An acoustical signal warns of imminent battery depletion, hours. On our tests, the 520 came first notebooks and the now de major drawback. Olivetti's which is a nice touch not found in just under 3 hours, a rigueur black casing. distributors are going to have to on any other notebook we know respectable time for a notebook. At a list price of $4,850.00, the seriously discount the machine if of. The machine comes in a grey 520 comes out at the high end of it is going to remain competitive When no processing is taking casing with a matted finish, a nice the pricing scale, and is its one with similar comparable models. place, the power-saving ''Resume change from the putty color of the Mode" function safeguards existing data, and automaticaUy shuts down the power. When the PC lS switched on, operation is resumed from the point of interruption without reloading the program. The 520 features a 3.5" floppy disk unit, one serial and one parallel port, connectors for an external keyboard and slots for a modem/fax board. The full-size PS/ 2 compatible keyboard is removable. The 520 has a first-rate 9.5" backlit, page white 640x480 VGA display. Jt weighs 6.39 pounds, again loosing out to the slim 5.5 pound moo, but less than the hefty 7.3 pound AT&T Safari. The Olivetti notebook comes with a single NiCad battery, which Olivetti insists lasts 3-4

27 Neil Finn's Crowded House: Quality Music Goes Searching for an Audience

By Michael Simone

Crowded House's 1986 debut album is considered by many to be a classic. Although it took the public over eight months to catch on to this group's irresistible wit and catchy melodies, the record ended up selling over a million copies on the strength of the sin­ gles "Don't Dream it's Over," and "Something So Strong." 1991's version of the band - vocalist/guitarist Neil Finn, bassist Nick Seymour and drum­ mer Paul Hester - has taken on Tun Finn, Neil's brother, a refu­ gee from a disappointing solo career. In addition to sharing songwriting credit with his brother, Tim plays keyboards and adds effective vocal harmony's to the band's a1ready pleasing melodies. Their third record, Woodface (Capitol), is a welcome remedy to the optimistic, impersonal music the pop world has been dishing out over the past year or so. If you can't tell the difference be­ tween Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston or the hope­ Jt?lSSly upbeat mood of such songs as Paula Abdul's "Promise of a New Day" and Jesus Jones's "Right Here, Right Now'' makes your stomach turn, this bands pure pop sarcasm may be what your looking for. The records first single, "Chocolate Cake," was inspired by a woman in a New York Res· taurant who asks a friend whether she should have another piece of cake after a enormous meal. This anecdote serves as an example of American excess for the unfocused, but amusing, lines that pepper the rest of the song. Tammy Faye loses her faith, cow noises emerge as Elvis exits a Seven-Eleven, and the excess of Crowded House fat on our american bones cush­ Clockwise .from top: Neil Finn, Tim Finn, Paul Hester and Nick Seymour ions the fall as we sink like a stone. The jazzy piano lines and pleasing beat make these stinging lyrics easier to take. subtlety subversive lyrics hidden vague I would challenge even good in black. If this ll>ng is too dark for you, beneath the facade of conven­ Tipper Gore to find a reason to Stick around after the final here is a lighter side to Crowded tional songs. The toe-tapping ''It's subject this product to a warning track for a sample of the bands House, as represented by a hand· only natural" is a come-on as label. boisterous humor. ful of romantic ballads. ''Fall at classy as Bonnie Raitt's ''Let's talk There are other surprises Crowded House will arrive Your Feet," ''Weather With You" About Love," but included is a here. "All I Ask," includes a dra­ in New York on October 22nd. and "Four Seasons in One Day" line or two that may have you matic orchestral arrangement and Catch them at the Beacon Theater have instantly been compared doing a double take. (Read me existential lyrics; (All l ask is to with opening act Richard with Lennon/McCartney like a book/that's falling down live each moment free from the Thompson, who will treat inspirations. However, they rank between your knees) "Whisper last) in "Italian Plastic," drummer audiences to a special acoustic closer to material of early and Moans" paints a vivid pic­ Paul Hester tells his Bella Bam­ performance (i.e., he's broke, he Squeeze. They are exquisite pop ture of an eavesdropper who bino that he'll be her glass of can't afford to pay a band, and his songs that are substantive as well would like to be a fly on his rather water; and "There Goes God" ex-wife wants money). as accessible. loud neighbor's wall. Even so, finds the big guy jealous at his This band also has fun w:ith these sexual references are so arch enemy because he looks so 28 Music Review An Ex-Policeman's Second Career Rolls Along Quite Nicely

by Michael Simone

If you are familar with Andy Andy, on tracks like "Ruffled Summer at all, you know him Feathers" and "Rhythm Spirits," from his days with The Police. displays his affinity for scream­ While Sting burned his ego onto ing, whammy drenched guitar the vocal tracks of each song, leads, a talent he rarely employed Andy provided the subtle instru­ in the limited forum of mental background. The The Police. ''The Blues Prior to haunting classical guitar on the Richard" may be a tribute to misunderstood "Every Breath Richard Pyror, who's sad condi-· You Take" and the Rhythmic tion was observed by Andy pop/reggae chords that made during the filming of "Another "Roxanne" so infectious were Your." (Remember that movie. entirely hiscontributions. Andy played the bandleadcr - Since the members of The with Pryor on sax.) Police went their separate ways, The record's cover, with rather than living in the shadows Andy Sununers' name displayed of his ex-bandmate, Andy has in big, red and white letters, does been carving a notch for himself not fully inform the public that in the new age music market. this record was recorded by a Tracks from his three previous tight, professional band: Chad albums, Mysterious Barricades, Wackerman on drums, Tony 'The Golden Wire, and Charmed Levin on bass, Mitchel Fomlan on Snakes, can be heard regularly on keyboards, with the addition of CD-101. 9. Songs from his pianist Eliane Elias and Victor recently released album, World Bailey on bass. Each musician Gone Strange (Private Music}, are adds character and style to Mr. already in heavy rotation. Summers' eclectic collection of Fans ol new age music, as compositions. well as jazz fusion, will find This is Andy's fourth album much to enjoy in Andy's new in three years, which is quite an work. The rhythmic guitar sig­ accomplishment, consider that natures on the opening, title track his career also spans film scoring, blend with scatting vocals to form acting and photograghy. a pleasing contrapuntal line that Recording this type of record is not easy to forget. On "Bac­ requires 1/3 the time of the usual cante" Andy shares the spotlight pop record, since all the with Brazilian pianist Eliane musicians are usually Elias. The song begins with a in the studio at simple Brazilian melody, which the same by songs end develops into a tirre structured vehicle for the musi­ cians to demonstrate their improvisational skills.

and overdubs are rarely necess­ ary. 'This leaves Andy plenty of time to persue other interests, such as embarking on lengthy tours after the release of each record. The U.S. leg of his tour will begin in November. So watch for your chance to see this five-time winner of Guitar Player's annual rea- der's poll in concert. This time, thankfully, he can be seen in a in­ timate small club instead of cavernous Shea Stadium.

29 Movie Revlew do that, you'll feel the guilt that is or huge profit hungry entities called familiar to all who ride the subways. corporations. Stay in your cage. It's You'll feel repulsed by, but also com not important how you really feel, Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll passion for, the bragging macho stud just so long as you wear our sneakers, A film by Eric Bogosian who's life is controlled by his sex drink our beer, drive our cars and do organ. With each character, the everything everyone else does. Con­ author masterfully brings us his in formity is the key. It is these ideas by Michael Popkin which he also wrote. Hopefully, sights into the world. which come from the head of a pot­ ''Sex, Drug and Rock n' Roll," this With stories as interesting as the smoking artist who has stopped For no reason other than the fact book, the movie and previously his time he and his pals got trashed at a creating because be fears the system. we have all seen it carved into desks off-Broadway show, will establish his stag party and fought with some He creates only in his mind so the or heard rock stars roar it as their presence to all. This work, about our Hell's Angels, you are guaranteed to system can't get at il If the system battle cry or just looked up from a world, takes the form of a variety of find something to bring a smile to knew what he was thinking he stall and saw it pencilled on a wall, short monologues. Each focuses on a your face. would be dead. the epithet "Sex, Drugs and Rock n' specific character ranging from a But as Bogosian warns, "there's Since the movie left out a few of Roll" garnishes our attention. For pushy panhandJer on the subway to also the dark side." The frustration the roles which Bogosian brought to most of us, until just recently, it could a phone juggling rock lawyer in his and paranoia we all sometimes feel the stage, you might want to read the probably have served as a summa­ glitzy office. turns up often. A man who play itself. Knowing how much we tion of our lifestyles. It's the philo­ The author accurately captures acknowledges that he is consumed law students have to read, I wouldn't sophy that we are all bulletproof and and depicts the many contradictions with hatred, but at the same time :mggest this book unless 1 thought it that if we are not going at breakneck which make up our lives. Reading proud of it, will cause us all to ques­ could have more impact and be more speed, the world will pas.s us by. As a through his book allows you to be in tion ourselves. A young black rapper thought provoking than most of title it is extremely powerful. For the same room as each character. His struggling to gain some type of what we are assigned. This is the these reasons and more Eric Bogosian powerful social observations and power, whether by rhyme or crime, type of book you'll read in one sit chose it as the title for his latest work. accurate characteriz.ations will make could not be a more accurate reflec ting. There is no chance you will As he says in the book's introduction, you think. However, the booklA.not tion of what many poor minorit come away without having put some "5ex, drugs and rock n' roll is a just thought provoking, it' s also youths in the ghetto are more thought into your own life. It provocative title. It promises fun and humorous, sad, and stirs up just experiencing. will also become instantly dear to excitement. We all want about every emotion in between. Bogosian saves his most chilling you that Eric Bogosian has estab­ satisfaction." After reading the pan handler's character portrayal for last. In our lished himself as an important voice Eric is known to some for his role monologue, about a beggar who society, many people are afraid of for our times. as a fast talking and abusive disc could be holding a knife to our going after their dreams. Nobody jockey in the film "Talk Radio," throats, but would rather not have to cares about people anymore because Five Gavels. everything is either run by machine

Television Review frequently finds himself defending retarded mailroom clerk and office the other side due his position, and boy, whom the firm has "adopted" as politics within the firm. He recently one of their own. L.A. Law found himself a victim of police bru­ Zoe Oemmens, assistant district Thursdays at 10pm tality and discrimination, but was attorney and ex-wife of Tommy vindicated with the help of the firm's Mulaney, has found herself in court­ contacts with a certain A.D.A. (more room confrontations with the firm, by Mitchell Donner, Joseph Macri firm has alienated many of his col­ to come). His tenacity and court­ but has also helped out its members and Brian Schwartz. leagues, but has also gotten him room successes make him a sure bet on a more personal level (see grudging respect. for partner in the near future. Jonathan Rollins), possibly to her Sex. Money. Sex. Prestige. Sex. Arnold Becker, the divorce attor­ C.J. Lamb is an English attorney own detriment in the D.A.'s office. Armani Suits. Sex. Fast Cars. Sex. ney who can't seem to stay out of his who after battling the £inn was invi­ Michael Kuzak, Grace van Owen and Power. Sex. If you aspire to all this, clients' beds, is presently undergoing ted to become an associate. She Victor Sifuentes were three of the but feel limited by your wallet, tune therapy to treat a nervous break­ always seems to be two steps ahead firm's main litigators who broke in on Thursday nights at ten o'clock down. His current emotional state is of everybody's game, and can away at the end of last season after a to NBC. There you'll find L.A. LAW, a result of his wife's leaving, due to usually extricate herself from the power struggle with Leland Macl<­ the stuff dreams are made of. The Amie's uncontrollable [sic] extra­ potentially sticky situations she finds enzie. Their futures on L.A. LAW are new season begins on October 16th, curricular activities. When we last herself in. C.J.'s bisexuality has led to the subject of much rumor and spe­ and for those of you who have saw Amie, he was falling through the some interesting plot twists (see culation, but don't be surprised to see always wanted to start watching, but ceiling of Leland's office, while Abigail Perkins). expectant mother Grace, and her new were afraid to jump in at the middle, "seeking comfort" in the arms of Tommy Mulaney is a scruffy, husband, expectant father Victor, here is a brief recap of the show's his longtime friend and secretary, down and dirty attorney who was making guest appearances through­ characters "in order." Roxanne Melman. brought in to the firm as a favor to his outthe season. The show takes place in the Ann Kelsey and Stuart Mar­ old friend, CJ. His abrasive style So as we look forward to the sea­ downtown L.A. firm of MacKenzie, kowitz are two partners who are also doesn't exactly mesh with the firm, son premiere, everyone had better Brackman, Cheney, IUs groups, but this wil problems head on. by weeks end it was the number He sings from his soul, but his probably only help sell more While this album is not their one selling album in the country. voice carries no beautiful tones, records. best, it is definately their most For a band that receives almost only rage. The band's tremen­ Metallica and heavy metal's important. I hope some of you no radio airplay and has done dous playing transforms their great appeal is somewhat diffi­ will open up your minds and give only two videos to ddte (one for music into the voice of thousands cult to explain. The music carries this album a chance. Don't be this album) this accomplishment of angry youths. with it a stigma which is far from surprised if you don't like it at· is extremely significant. The admirable. Its listeners, (who first, the music has to grow on band's su~ can best be attri­ While most thrash metal affectionately call themselves you. If you decide not to give it a buted to fan loyalty, which sterns albums sound as if they were headbangers or metalheads, try, I'll leave you with a bit of from the honesty the band shares recorded in recycling plants, named for the wild thrashing advice that underlies most of with their fans. Choosing to use thanks to the help of veteran rock movement of their heads during their work. Be honest with your­ their own name as the title of producer, Bob Rock, Metallica's concerts) have been branded self. In their own words, "So their fifth a.'bum is a warning to production is crystal dear. The everything from devil worship­ dose no matter how far, couldn't the world that Metallica and their influence of punk legend Glenn pers to drug addicts. The music be much more from the heart, fans will no longer be ignored. Danzig, former lead singer of The itself has been said to cause forever trusting who we are, no Many people accuse heavy Misfits, is quite evident as the teenage suicide. For some metal­ nothing else matters." metal bands of being pretty boys music has slowed down and the h ead s it is exactly these incapable of playing their instru- lyrics are darker. On this album, preconceived notions that appeal Four Gavels. Cafe Society

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32 Options for That Special Evening Out by Jamie McDonald a guitarist for your listening Jacket and tie required. Thursday and 2am Friday and Manhattan offers some of the enjoyment. The lounge is closed Saturday) Jackets are NOT most romantic restaurants, many on Sunday. Jacket and tie are THE VIEW required. To get to the lounge of which lend breathtaking and required. Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broad­ take the express elevator to the impressive views. If you are way (between 45th & 46th 9th floor and then "The View" looking for such a place and are WINDOWS ON THE Streets) 704-8900 elevator to the 48th floor. willing to spend a few extra dol­ WORLD lars on that special man or On the 48th floor of the Mar­ THE OAK ROOM AND woman, one of the following may 1 World Trade Center, 107th riot Marquis, located in the BAR do the trick: floor, West Street (between Liberty & Vessey Streets) Theater District, "there isn't a bad The PlazaHotel, 768 Fifth seat in the house" in the city's THE RAINBOW ROOM 938-1111 A venue (58th Street) 546-5330 only revolving restaurant. GE Building, 30 Rockefeller On a dear evening, the view Usually there is no problem get­ If not too crowded, the maitre Plaza, 65th f1oor (between 49th & from 'Windows", located on the ting a seat at one of the many d' will allow visitors to enjoy 50th Streets) 632-5100 107th floor of 1 World Trade Cen­ tables that line the perimeter of drinks in the Dining Room. ter, is like none other. The the lounge allowing an unforget­ Although there is no view of the On the 65th floor of the GE cocktail lounge is open Monday table 360° view of the lights and city, the live pianist coupled with Building, the view from the Rain­ through Saturday from 3pm to action of Broadway. The lounge the oak-paneled walls creates an bow Room is spectacular. Seating lam. The last elevator up leaves opens at 5:30pm Sunday, Mon­ atmosphere of elegance and next to the windows, however, is at 12:30ain. After 7:30 there is a day, Tuesday and Thursday, Spm romance. Cocktails are served limited and usually full. Cock­ jazz trio for your dancing plea­ Wednesda)' and Friday, and 4pm Monday through Thursday from tails are served beginning at 4:30 sure. There is, however, a $3.50 on Saturd~y. A live jazz band 11am-1am, Friday and Saturday pm Monday through Saturday music fee that will be added to performs Tuesday through Satur­ 11am-1:30am and Sunday noon­ and continue until lam during your bill. Sunday, the hours are day from about 9:30pm until midnight. Jacket and tie are the week and until 2am on Satur­ 3pm-9pm and music begins at 4. closing. (lam Sunday through required. day. Later in the evening there is Bon appetit!

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33 Women in Legal Academe An Analysis of N.Y.L.S. Female Professors and the Tenure Track by Kate Brady and Liz Ames Women on American Law School lack prestige and have women on the tenure track at Faculties" (Dec. 1988), "The traditionally paid less than N.Y.L.S. focus on a lack of There is a noticeable lack of dramatic appearance of large teaching substantive courses, women in the candidate pool. women faculty members at New numbers of women in contract according to the University of However, 20 years ago when York Law School. Of the 142 fulJ­ legal writing positions suggest Pennsylvania article. Professor Meyer attended law time faculty, only 43 are women, that a historically typical A tenured position, in school her class at Rutgers or a mere 27.5%. Although women's job" pattern is contrast, offers financial and University was composed of 43% roughly 1/3 of the faculty might emerging. The data gathered for academic security as well as a women and she remains seem a heartening number to the law review article suggested certain measure of success in unsatisfied with this explanation. some, when the numbers are that law academe. According to Prof. Meyer, it is no broken down, the figures quickly schools I n excuse to say that there is a become dim. may be addition, sufficientnumber of women role Of the 43 full-time faculty, tracking deans and models among the women four women have tenure, only 7% women o t h e r faculty when nearly 50% of the of the tenured faculty. However, who are cd:riraatxs student population at N.Y.L.S. is the number of women faculty qualified are drawn female. members begind to expand as the for regulat from the Professor Meyer also teaching positions become lower­ I e g a l fu 11-time discussed the dearth of tenured paying and less prestigious. teaching a n d and full time women faculty in Womenare 30% of the adjunct positions tenured terms of its impact on society at faculty and an almost a n d ranks , large. The Feminist Majority overwhelming percentage of the instead leaving Foundation recently reported the writing adjuncts at 57.5%; neither puttung f e w good news that women will positions are tenure track them into women eventually reach the top of positions. the slots faculty at America's corporate ladder. The Writing teachers are the for legal N.Y.L.S. bad news is that "it will be 475 gypsy scholars of academe, often writing eligible for years- or the year 2466- before commuting between second and positions s u c h women reach equality with men third jobs, and they tend to be or clinical positions. in the executive suite." (Labor contracting positions, providing work. By To date, Law reports, No. 426, Sept. 17, little security and even -less of a doing so, n i n e 1991). voice on institutional policies. women do women are Professor Meyer addressed Seldom do they lead to more not gain on the the issue of why the number of permanent teaching positions at stronger tenure women faculty should matter. the law school. According to a footing in legal institutions. track at N.Y.L.S. University of Pennsylvania law N.Y.L.S. has recently hired Professor Carlin Meyer review article, "The Hiring and two women to head clinics here states that traditional arguments (Continued on the following Retention of Minorities and but in academia, clinical positions for lack of tenured women or page)

Marching Down A Taste of the Evening Fifth Avenue Section byLizAmes The chanting and lively pro­ by Jennine Gerrard choice marchers contrasted to see a recognizable face. I don' t In defiance to Operation sharply with members of OR Church Street is lonely after know any of my classmates in the rescue (OR), pro-choice who stood mute and one-deep dark. As I make my way to the evening section, mainly because advocates marched down Fifth along Fifth Avenue holding station- deserted but for a few we don't have the time to stop Avenue to show the strength of identical white placards stating characters even scruffier in their and talk to each other. We crowd New York's abortion rights "Abortion Kills Children." appearance than I in my crum­ in at 5:55 exhausted with our movement on Sunday, The chanting and lively pro­ pled suit, I am reminded what it briefcases and requisite brown September 29th. OR members choice activists chanting such is to be a Night Student. Last year folders, which bespeak our intended to protest abortion by slogans as 'New York is Pro­ at this time, I began my days chosen careers. forming a human cross on Fifth Choice" and "Keep Your chatting convivially with my Slumping into chairs, we Avenue which intersected with Rosaries Off My Ovaries." A few compatriots, nestled in the stare at the clock, wishing we 34th Street in mid town Incidents between the two alcoves on Worth Street. I used to could be eating dinner and Manhattan. groups erupted when abortion just sit and smoke, drinking cof­ watching the news, knowing that The New York Times (Sept. activists held coat hangars, fee and feeling like a student, sleep and food are lightyears 30, 1991) reported that the cross twisted into crosses, over OR immersed in my studies and my away. was sparse in places, with gaps members' heads and shouted, purely theoretical knowledge of While I long for my old com­ from eight feet to several blocks, "Shame! Shame! Shame!" or law. rades, among the strangers there and was composed of OR "Right-to-lifers, your name's a Now the Student Lounge is is a closeness among a group of members standing in silent lie, you don't care if women die!" my fluorescent oasis. I scan it people who knew what Hell was pray~, holding signs aloft, or Members of the media carefully every evening, yearning ahead... and chose it anyway. fingering rosaries. In the article it was stated that 1200 abortion (Continued on the following opponents formed the cross. page) 34 Meet a Mentor coming to NYLS last year. She is Joyce Saltalamacchia has been presently teaching Employment the Director of the Mendik The Legal Association of Women Sponsor a discrimination and Contract Law. Library for the past eight years. Gathering of Students and Female New York Next semester she will teach In addition to her work in the Law Professors Labor Law and Administrative library, she developed and taught Law. Professor Stein's current the course Advanced Legal research concentrates on Method. Four years ago she by the Reporter Features Staff the speakers with hope that "feminist theories of privacy and began teaching Legal Method for students will contact them to equality." She attempts to rebut 1 L's, and this semester is The Legal Association of learn more about the professor's critics who argue that these instructing Tort Law. Professor Women (L.A.W.) held an legal specialty and to network on doctrines are unfit to further Saltalamacchia's interests lie in infonnal afternoon gathering on future projects. feminist goals and argues that legal research and she has September 24th called "Meet a Professor Carlin Meyer, the feminist values can be imported published a number of Mentor! Meet N.Y.LS. Women first faculty member to address into the principles of privacy and student/teacher manuals for Faculty" to introduce new the gathering, has taught at New inequality. teaching Legal Method. Her recruits to present members and York Law school for three years, The third speaker, Professor work is now in its third edition to provide a forum for students taking last year off to start a Ruti Teitel, has been teaching and is used by law schools across and women faculty members to family. This semester she teaches Constitutional Law at New York the country. meet one another. Lawyering I and Women Law Law for the past four years. She Finally, as the last speaker About thirty students, male and Theory. Next semester she presently conducts a seminar to and newest faculty member at and female, joined five professors will offer Employment Law and examine religion and the first New York Law, Professor Linda for wine, fruit, cheese and Advanced Family Law, which amendment. Although her Keenan described her work in crackers in the 5th floor faculty she refers to as "reproduction and schedule for the next semester is environmental Jaw before lounge. Liz Ames, co-chair of the new family." Her past unconfirmed, she hopes to offer coming to teach Property Law LA.W. with Ellie benz and Risa research has focused on legal another seminar. Before teaching this semester. Next semester she Procton, opened the fete by issues surrounding pornography Professor Teitel was the Assistant will be teaching Administrative extending an invitation to and she is currently exploring Director of the Anti-Defamation Law and Environmental Law members and interested Jaws pertaining to domestic League Law Department. Her classes. Professor Keenan's individuals to join in the workers and discrimination in interests include the relationship interest also lie in Family Law coordination of a spring the workplace. between religion and the law, and she has published several celebration marking the 20th Professor Laura Stain, the and theories underlying biased articles regarding custody anniverary of L.A.W. On behalf second speaker, practiced labor and hate crimes. litigation and child kidnapping. of L.A.W., Ms. Ames introduced law in Philadelphia before The next speaker, Professor

'March' Girls" and a multi colored placard dirty kitchen tables to pressuring Bill Baird, a veteran of with "I would die to defend my the government for new reproductive and abortion rights, (Continued from page 13) mother's right to an abortion." constitutional rights and recaJJed a woman who had an Groups rep re sen ting improved health care. abortion herself with a coat photographed the infrequent abortion rights ranged from Activist and former hanger and bled to death in his confrontations; legions of blue­ Omrch Ladies for Choice, ACT congresswoman Bella Ab.zug arms. Baird declared, "No unifonned police contained the UP, and the ACLU's Reporductiv said, To tell a woman she cannot woman should ever be made to marchers and kept the two Rights Project. have what is necessary to save suffer because of the bigotry on groups separate. The spirit was buoyant as her life is unacceptable. We will the other side." The identical, mass made pro-choicers assembled at not be gagged over our right to signs of OR contrasted sharply to Columbus Circle at 12:30 Sunday choice." Abzug also reminded {This article is a first-hand pro-choicer's individualized afternoon and was fueled by the the audience that OR members account written by features signs bearing such messages as dozen speakers at the rally. Their "Do not have a right to speak for Editor Liz Ames, who "U.S.A. Out of My Womb," pink speaches ranged from graphic all those who believe in the participated in the pro-choice banners saying "No More Nice stories of illegal abortions on cross. n march on Sept. 29th, 1991)

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She pointed to their impact on how law is "defined, refined and carried out and said that an increase of women would affect school policies in such areas as maternity leave and sexual harassment procedures. The policies are difficult to implement when one is a mmority, said Meyer. The first step toward tenure is being hired. Of the most recent hires at N.Y.L.S., a majority are women. This indicates that N.Y.L.S. is moving in the right direction. However, whether or not these women are tenured remains to be seen.

fThis is the first in a series of articles on Women in the Legal Academic Community] 35 Will the Knicks Have a Winning Attitude? by Eric S. Levine only tenure in the NBA He has competed for by Quinnett, markets in the world, the NBA the potential to do it all at either Basnight and McKinney. wants Ewing to stay here because The basketball season opens guard position, but has not yet If Riley can instill a winning he sells the tickets and is very November first, and Knick fans proved consistency at the NBA attitude, perhaps the Knicks can personable. Hence the NBA and finally have possibilities to look level. Greg Anthony, the recent get past the first round of the New York get richer. Ewing forward to after a dismal past draft pick out of UNLV is an playoffs. Riley's biggest asset is didn't stand a chance of winning season. The Iund Tim McComOCk. Yes, he for the year is lower than unbder Pat Riley. Then perhaps leader who can distribute the ball is stiff, but he has experience and Ewing's. New York can win again. If well, but has proved himself in­ will only need to play 12 minutes Ewing, with the help of his Ewing wants to bea baby, then he consistent, egotistical, and slow a game while Ewing rests. attorney David Falk, claimed that can be traded for some major on defense. Gerald Wilkins, the Walker's spot is now filled by he was entitled to free agency talent. Ewing and the Knicks athletic 360 degree slam dunking training camp standout Anthony since Bird will be paid more than both realize that this is not in monster provides a spark for the Mason, a 6-7 260 pound 2..J..yea_r._ h~Nloc:king him out of the top either's best interest Hopefully team, although he may not have old, who was not given a chance- four salary spots. The I

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36 New York Law School Represented at ABA Fall Round Table by Glenn Miller an evening student herself. than the present format. Resolu­ annual Spring meeting of the • The bureaucratic delays in tions are the means by which the Second Circuit. The Annual Fall Round Table baving membership subscrip­ LSD/ ABA members may inf­ Finally, resolutions may be of the Law Student Division of tions mailed by the main office in luence national policy. After approved for inclusion on the the American Bar Association Chicago was addressed. At the passing the annual convention, annual meeting of the ABA/lSD representing the interests of law New York Second Circuit meet­ most resolutions are passed by by prior approval by other cir­ schools along the Eastern sea­ ing, nearly every school voiced its the Board of Governors, to then cuits. Resolutions must be set in board, met in Washington D.C. concern that students were sen­ be channeled to the professional proper form, and must be the weekend of September 27. ding checks, yet not receiving Bar. received by the Circuits no later The conference settled several their subscription to the Student An example of a resolution than February 1, 1992 in order to items for the Second Circuit, and la"".)'er until much later- often which changed the way law be considered at the Spring renewed the ties between law the delay was as long as 10 schools operate was making gra­ Meeting. school leadership in the Nort­ · weeks! The official response was ding anonymous. The meeting of New York Law School rep­ heast. Among items decided at that all complaints or inquiries Lieutenant Governors for Reso­ resentative Glenn M. Miller has the Conference: must be made in writing, or Chi­ lutions also stressed that students brought a resolution requiring • The annual Spring con­ cago, which is inundated daily whose resolutions are ¢.aced on professors to provide their stu­ ference to elect the new with calls from law schools across the annual convention agenda dents with information about division governor was the country, simply can not add­ would be represented by the individual performance in a set for New York city. ress the problem. Division representatives from course before the course ends. • A newsletter to keep Glenn M. Miller, new York their law school who would act as This resolution has met stiff Second Orcuit ( state of Law School Division representa­ advocates. opposition from law schools new York ) law schools in tive to the American Bar • The Second Circuit, represen­ where there is no grading by the touch was launched. Association and Lieutenant ting the law schools of New York curb. Governor for Resolutions, pro­ State also clarified , through • Other resolutions by the New ABA/LSD members (anyone posed and had adopted an Division Governor Robert Wach­ York Law School representative who has filled out the ABA /LSD agreement that any resolution tel, access to making resolutions include 1) open, non-GPA or class membership application and emanating from one law school before the Law School Division of rank interviews for on-campus mailed their $15.00 check) may be sent to other law schools for the American Bar. Wachtel stated interviewers as is done at Geor­ mail articles concerning law stu­ discussion and support, before that resolutions, which may getown School of Law 2) a tax dent concerns and the ABA to the annuaJ national convention of range from a statement on world credit for payment of loans by Mark Zaid at Albany Law School, the American Bar Association. affairs to adjusting the by-laws of those law students entering pub­ or give the articles to Glenn M. Lieutenant Governors for Reso­ the American Bar Association in lic interest law (which was re­ Miller, the New York Law School l u tio ns from other circuits areas like non-discrimination, worded and adopted in altered Division Representative. Articles representing Washington D.C., hiring, or grade reporting, may form by another circuit) 3) a should preferably be in Word Pennsylvania, Virginia, Mary- be placed before the national crime victim's rights resolution, Perlect on either floppy or 3.5" 1 and, Massachusetts, convention in three ways. asking state and municipal disc. Connecticut, New Hampshire, ANY individual who is a governments to reimburse crime • Evening students will be asked and Maine), adopted the idea, member in good standing of the victims who appear in court at to fill out an infonnation form for pledging to send resolutions Law Student Division of the the same rate as jurors. the LSD/ABA. These forms, sent from their circuits to other cir­ American Bar Association may Thus the easing of resolution to the LSD representative on cuits before the Spring propose a resolution directly adoption at the Fall Round Table campuses, were approved for Conference meeting. through their ABA/ LSD rep­ may smooth the adoption of the multi-copying and distribution to • The meeting of the Lieutenant resentative, or by forwarding it resolutions proposed by New evening students. Governors for Resolutions also directly to the Tracey Giles, Presi­ York Law School Representative. . • A committee to address the decided to make model resolu­ dent Elect of Law Student The one area of agreement among problems of evening students is tions from last year's ABA/LSD Division. Resolutions may also be all the law schools: try to get stu­ being formed under the aegis of convention available to member printed in the resolutions book of dents to get involved and stay Cheryl Forbes, the current Vice­ schools, and declined to set the the annual ABA/lSD convention involved with the American Bar president of the LSD I ABA, and form of resolutions more rigidly after being approved in the Association!

ABA Law School Division Information by Glenn Miller Advocacy competitions. Student members also can enroll in On campus, students should membership in areas of their find available brochures with a specific legal interest. The • "Mentor" logo explaining the subscription to one of the advantages of membership: magazines alone is well worth the subscriptions to the Student $15 membership dues. Lawyer, the ABA Journal, The most important benefit eligibility for group health from ABA membership is the insurance, one time fee credit connection with the national card application, PMBR network of attorneys and judges •__ .::..~"?"l; [multistate bar review) discounts, and the issues facing our · .~-..:.~..... ~~~ _, eligibility for national ABA .• profession offices, and national Client ONLY \'O.J CAN PREVENT FOREST FIRES. Counseling and Appellate Oc~obeir & N ovcembeir 1991 a~ Newv Yorik ILarw by Patrick Hayes

October room. Oct 31- SBA Halloween Party. 7pm in the Student Lounge. Prizes for the best costumes. Oct 17- t.eg;slative Monday. Student Services Oct 24- Legal association of woman's panel and the Law Enforcement Students Associa­ discussion on woman victims rights fromSpm November tion will co-sponsor "Drugs in the - 7pm, faculty dining room. Workplace," an educational presentation by Nov 5- The Sports and Entertainment LAw Lt. James J. Bradley, Commanding Officer, Oct 25- NALP/NAPIL public interest Jaw Society will sponsor a program on attorneys as Special Projects Unit of the Narcotics Division. career fair at Georgetown University, see agents in the FDR at5prn. Speakers: Barry FDR,4~pm. career services for more info. Klaeburg, Deloit & Touche; Cal Ramsay, New York Knickerbockers; Willis Reed, New Jersey October 18- The Black Law Students Associa­ Oct 29- Black Law Student Association and Nets; Lloyd Friedland, Librett, Friedland & tion will sponsor the Outreach program. Jelr,'iSh Law student Association co-sponsor a Liberman; Craig Feneck, The Sparta Group. Students from inner-city high schools will be panel discussion on the Crown Heights inci­ invited to the law school for an introduction to dent from 5pm - 7pm, faculty dining room Nov 21-SBA will sponsor a party in the the study of law. Speakers: Gary Bird, WBLI Radio; Eutrice student lounge. 5:30pm. Oct-18- Deadline for resume submittal for Leid, Editor of the City Sun; Colin Moore, At­ Nov 26- The Legal Association for Women will membership on the Office of Career Services torney; C. Vernon Mason, Attorney. sponsor a discussion with Barbara Downs, an Non-Discrimination Committee. advocate of legalizing prostitution. FDR, Spm. Oct 30- Alternatives to law Practice Panel Dis­ Oct 22- Career Services panel on in house cussion. FDR, 5-7pm. See Office of Career counsel beginning at Spm, faculty dining Services for more information.

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by Cheryl Williams system. It may very weU be that the beliefs of the community Last week, I felt some genuinely demand exclusivity, wariness after accepting the but to the wider group Reporter's request to give one unschooled in that belief ,and perspective on the Crown made sensitive by years of being Heights affair. In this my debut excluded itself, it is a bitter irony offering to the newspaper I that in a community in which it is neither wished to be sidelined a majority it again that feels that into the" black thing", nor to be exclusion. This is conducive to misunderstood. However, it was interpretations of racism. a responsibility J could not 1 asked Owens if attempts had 1 \ ignore. To understand how the been made by both groups to Blacks of Crown Heights felt l build bridges. Yes, there have interviewed several residents been attempts but they have including Thaddeus Owens, failed because of the distrust fed longtime community activist, and by the exclusivity and cultural son of Justice Owens of the Yusef misunderstandings. Hasidic and Hawkins trial fame. black leaders did set up some The Crown Heights affair was integrated community patrols, an inner city crisis waiting to but the failure of the Hasidics to happen. All agree that the death disband their own patrols only of Gavin Cato was only the increased the distrust. More than catalyst to an internal malaise ever gestures of cooperation are that a££ects so many of our imperative now if the descent communities. It will recur unJess into immutable hatred is not to the underlying causes are occur, but Blacks are too pained remedied. It has to be by the circumstances understood against the larger surrounding Gavin's death and background of a plural society in Hasidics by the death of their which settlement, status, the member. All agree that they must acquisition of resources, and the be made, however. "Of course power corrupts! But absolute power 1s even betterI" responses of the groups and the Yet for Blacks it requires responses to the group are so more than gestures. What Owens often determined by race and describes as the perceptions of class. inequities and preferential 'The society has not yet worked treatment of Hasidics over Blacks out the modalities for proper co­ must be addressed, for this is the existence and cooperation among largest single source of the rage. their numericaJ strength. Owens Finally, many in the the groups, although this is the Blacks complain that they are seems puzzled about how the community feel embittered by the stated goal. Add to this the treated as second class citizens in Hasidim Jews were able to media's handling of the events. problems of inner city decay, comparison to the Hasidics. They acquire certain buildings which Only a few attempts were made intensified by the present point to differences even in the Blacks have long sought. The to analyse the root causes of the economic crisis which has hit the collection of trash. The basic options, he argues, should have crisis. It was easier to raise a poorest groups the hardest, and distrust of the Blacks of a legal been open to the public, spectre of black racism, as if that you will sense that feeling of a system which seems harsher to especially in a community with absolves the society from any community embattled and under them and less responsive to their dire needs for housing. This new responsibility for what siege. needs is borne out (they feel) housing is exclusively 100% happened. Some also feel Crown Heights is a striving daily in Crown Heights. Police Jewish. Because of the need to be insulted by the media's apparent community of Black Americans, respond less swiftly to calls for within walking distance of the attempt to define who are the best older Caribbean immigrants, first help from Blacks. By comparison, synagogue, the Hasidims have leaders for Blacks. generation Americans, Hispanics, they claim that the Hasidics seem been quick to purchase property I agree with William Pleasant and roughly 10 % Hasidic Jews. a law unto themselves and in the locaJe. Many Blacks have in his exceJJent essay on the crisis Many see it as a stop on the way appear to have tremendous felt insulted by persistent that the Black-Jewish to a more affluent neighborhood, influence over the law. Ten years propositioning for the homes confrontation is a structural but there are many who will not ago the Grand Rebbe was which they are unwilling to seU. political issue. He traces the run. These include a black apparently threatened by a rival There is another perception decline of Black-Jewish unity to middle class, the Hasidirns, those sect. Today he still has a police among many Blacks that the severa I factors, including with nowhere else to go, and the escort. Blacks question why the political administration differences in class mobility, the numerous community police were more concerned continually fails to address the decline of the Civil Rights reform organi7.ations who daily face the about ferreting the Hasidics to problems affecting them- many movement, and the failure of the challenge of building and safety, than removing trapped the problems of poverty and not Democratic Party to weJd its rebuilding their world. There is and dying children from under a race. And this continues no multicutural parts into some an important sense of vehicle. In the recent crisis over matter who is in charge. There is a cohesive whole. I will include the community. The Hasidims also 167 Blacks were arrested and no widespread feeling of political failure of true multiculturalism. strive to build a community Hasidim was arrested when both disenchantment. It is the reaction This is the kind of analysis which within that community. Both sides threw missiles. Many to David Dinkins which is most will help us all, rather than visions have dashed. Blacks say they are not surprised telling. Many of the black elected histrionics or race baiting on aJl In attempting to explain by the Grand Jury results. They officials are seen as unwilling or sides. The level of the debate why, Owens restated that the remain convinced that the two­ impotent to do anything to must be lifted, for in the end aJl desirable goal is for cooperation ti er requirement for the remedy the root causes of the groups legitimately beJong to and coexistence, but black indicbnent has been met for the distress, even though they these communities, and the distrust arise from the very driver was speeding and he also garnered votes by articulating mechanics for equable and nature of the Hasidim ran a red light that distress. The talk of the meaningful co-existence must be community. It is a closed, Owens claims that another gorgeous mosaic sounds developed. exclusive, religious community perception is that the Hasidims vacuous, empty placebos in with a collective communal have a political clout far beyond communities reeling in disorder. m 41 Brennan's Justice Problems with the SBA Senate's Budget Allocation Process

by Joseph D. Brennan of their choice, bypassing the SBA (advertising). If I've forgotten to Americans in any foreign land Senate. This would eliminate the mention anyone's group, I assure where they choose to place them­ Recently, the SBA Senate has immorality of the current system you it was just an oversight. selves. Such a policy would drag been deliberating over the budget of financing student organiza­ There are so many, one can easily this country into an endless series requests from the various student tions. It would also cause the loose track. It's not that I have of wars. The proper response to organizations. Senators enjoy the student organizations to be more anything, particularly, against situations like the one in Haiti is privilege of allocating the money responsive to the needs and any of these organizations, I even to allow individual Americans to collected through the Student desires of the student body. agree that many, if not all, may privately send whatever aid they Activities Fee, which each stu­ Some fear that the system I add to the quality of the campus wish to countries in trouble. ln­ dent at NYLS pays each semester. propose would make it impos­ environment, I just don't want to dividual Americans should be As a libertarian, I object to the sible for some clubs to raise be forced to finance them all. Let 1e:.poru.ible for paying for their financing of the student organi­ enough money to continue exist­ the student organizations be self­ o~n defense when they travel in zations through the forced ing. If some clubs are unable to sufficient. A moral end cannot be dangerous foreign lands, and collection of money. interest enough students to be accomplished by immoral means. should not be used as a justifica­ Within the NYlS community, able to raise sufficient funds to tion for military adventurism at the Student Activities Fee is, in continue operating, then so be it. And About Haiti taxpayers' expense. effect, a form of taxation. Like all Perhaps ther~ arc too_many As I WTite, America is, once forms of taxation, it is immoral. dubs now, anyway. Also, 1 find again, facing the possibility of If you have any questions Money is expropriated from stu­ the proliferation of ethnic organi­ military intervention abroad. you would like answered dents without their consent. The zations on campus disturbing. President Bush has demonstrated from a libertarian point pretense of electing student There are organizations catering an alarming willingness to in­ of view, or any comments Senators, who in tum, based on to Asians, Blacks, Gaelics, Hel­ volve the United States in you would like to make, their whims and vagaries, allo­ lenics, Italians, Jews, Latinos, and military action around the globe. correspondence is welco­ cate the expropriated money to the list keeps growing. I wonder As a libertarian, I deplore the loss med and should be the clubs, does not add any moral if the proliferation of such of freedom for any people, in directed to: justification to the system of organiz.ations leads to "tribalism" Haiti, or in any other corner of the financing the student organiza­ at NYIS? We have clubs for gays globe. However, the United BRENNAN'S JUSTICE tions. In fact, it has the opposite & lesbians, women, law enforce­ States military should only be c/o The Reporter, New effect. There is no system of elec­ ment personnel, Christians, used for the defense of the United York Law School, 57 toral p rocess by which any urban law students, in addition to States. The internal problems of Worth Street, particular number of people can organizations for those interested Haiti are for the Haitians to New York, NY 10013 be justified in taking an indivi­ in criminal law, environmental resolve. d ua I student's money and Jaw, media law, sports & enter­ The United States cannot Correspondence may spending it on any activity, except tainment law, and a chapter of the afford to be, nor do we have the also be left in person at where that individual student ACLU. Someone's even trying to iustification for beine. the "oolice the Reporter office. Any consents to the taking. resurrect the Federalist Society. officer" for the rest of the world, responses that I may As an altemative,J propose Of course, we also have the regardless of any UN resolutions. have will appear in that the Student Activities Fee be Reporter and Frolic & Detour, but Our military should not be future editions of this eliminated and that students pay the newspapers are already, pret­ employed to protect individual column. dues directly to the organizations ty m u ch, self-suppor ting

A Fox Guarding the Henhouse? by Liza La.Rousse discrimination suits for sexual should have filed a claim- a 25 great faith in the reporting of harassment and sexual year old female against her male sexual harassment. Perhaps that Confi rmation of Clarence discrimination. boss who headed the EEOC, an is because so few of her detractors Thomas is a resounding defeat The state's commission on appointee of the President of the have had to travel through the for women, one that will echo discrimination found probable United States. Hill is fortunate to byzantine process of asserting a throughout the work place. As cause. So did the E.E.O.C. My have tenure at her law school; I sexual harassment claim. To the senate voted Tuesday night, mother also won at each stage of doubt Iler "whistle-blowing" deride Hill, detractors recast her America watched as 98 men arbitration. However, the would have garnered her votes at alleged harassment as "jokes", voted while only two women did. university simply failed to her tenure re\.;ew in Oklahoma. "humor'', and "suggestions" and The vote is a vhnd reminder that implement any of the remedies I wonder if Prof. Hill would failed to define it as "obscenity", until more women are elected ruled on in arbitration. Forced have been received with less "violence against women" and into political office our laws, into the courts, she eventually ran skepticism if she had instead "sexual slurs." Until discourse perception of women, and out of money. After being fired, alleged racial or ethnic about sexual harassment women's rights will not develop. she was blacklisted and unable to harassment. Was her credibility develops, violation of women One tactic used to undermine get academic positions. threatened partly because of the will continue to be trivilized. HHl's credibility was to focus on Since my mother's case, nature of her claim, sexual All in all, voting Thomas into her failure to report the alleged sexual harassment and sex harassment, an act which the Supreme Court when he had harassment. Filing a discrimination have become victimizes women? To her such credible allegations discrimination suit is a time­ more public issues. However, it detractors, I would ask how launched against him, when his consuming, expensive and has only been five years since the many of them have filed record shows so little support for emotionally painful proceeding. Supreme Court chose to complaints, or confronted bosses women's rights, and when his In the 1970s, as the first woman recognize "a hostile who made racial slurs, anti­ integrity is highly dubious is like professor at the university's environment'' at the work place. semitic remarks, or offensive having a fox guard the henhouse. department of criminal justice, I marvel that so many of Hill's ethnic jokes. my mother filed one of the early detractors so blithely say that she Hill's detractors also express 42 From The Evening Division V.P.'s Desk: ing." It implies that only rules apply to you as well as the criminals supported the prece­ "criminals." H you are on a bus dents of "Justices Marshall, or happen to find yourself near Purely Personal Prejudices Brennan & Co," and the consis­ some activity that requires a tent judicial decisions regarding police presence, you don't have a personal rights are important sign on that makes you exempt. only to criminals. The sneering by Jack T. Frohlich, NYI.S A personal thank you for tone and and the specious argu­ Evening Division Vice President those responsible for presenting ments were beginning to make Professor Bleeker's play "Vote me angry when I realized it must The evening division of the No" during the September 15th have been a spoof. Good job SBA Evening Division Vice SBA is here to help you with your Carnival. The play was enter­ Tom, you really had me going. President Jack T. Frohelich has problems, concerns, wish lists, taining and informative, and the agreed to write a column for each etc. Check the office any day discussion afterward with Pro­ One of the functions of the issue of the Reporter. V.P. before 6pm. Either Glenn Miller fessor Blecker provided me with court is to protect us from the Frohlich joins our other or I will will usually be there a much dearer understanding of misuse of state power, including distinguished Evening Division before class. If you have a speci­ how the Constitution and the Bill police power. During last year's columnist, Tom Smith, who pens fic problem or request, just leave of Rights were passed, and the term the Supreme Court issued a the ''Right at Night" column. a note with my name in it in the politics of the times. number of decisions in the cri­ The Reporter continues its SBA mailbox, or slide it under the minal law area that weakened attempts to reach out to the SBA Office door. I'll do what I Kudos also to the Reporter those protections. Fulminante Evening Division, in an effort to can to help you out. for the best is.sue I have seen in now allows coerced confessions. address the needs and concerns the more than two years since Bostick allows the police to board of the night students. We also An evening division gold star coming to NYlS. Keep up the buses and ask passengers to con­ hope night students will feel they to the Office of Career Services for good work. sent to a search without suspicion have equal access to the Reporter, Setting up an evening student's of criminal activity, and and we urge every one of them to information table. The table will Last month's column "The Mclaughlin allows police to jail write an article for the Reporter. be in the student lounge every Right at Night'' by Tom Smith someone for 48 hours without Monday from Spm to 5:45pm. distorts and misrepresents what showing probable cause. it calls liberal politics and think- Keep in mind that these new

track Latino law professors (not • Florida law schools with 50 or Some National including Puerto Rico), 1989-90: more Latino students but no 51 tenured Latino faculty members Law School Statistics (1989-90): • The number of U.S. law schools 'The University of Florida with at least one Latino faculty University of Miami member (1989-90): 34 Florida State University • 'The number of law schools faculty members (not including accredited by the American Bar minority-operated institutions): •The estimated Latino popula­ • The estimated Latino population Association (1989-90): 175 0.7% tion of California: 8.8 million of New York: 2.1 million 'The number of Latino faculty • The number of J.D. law students • The total percentage of minority • California law schools with 50 members in New York: (1989-90): 124,471 faculty members (not including or more Latino students but no C.U.N.Y.: 2 minority-operated institutions): tenured Latino faculty members New York Law School: 1 • The number of white law 4.4% (1989-90): students: 108,751187.4% U. of Southern California Sources: • 1be percentage of men in Southwestern University ''The Hiring and Retention of • The number of minority law tenured or tenured-track class.­ Minorities and Women on Ameri­ students (not including Puerto room and clinical positions • The estimated Latino popula­ can Law School FacultEs" Rican schools): 15,720/12.6% (including minority-operated tion of Florida; 1.6 million Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. institutions): 84.1 % 137:431, December 1988. • The number of black law students: 6,79115.5% • The percentage of women in tenured or tenured-track class­ • The number of Latino law room and clinical positions students: (including minority-operated A Passage to Ponder... Mexican-American: 1~1.3% institutions): 15.9% Puerto Rican: 483/0.4% Other Hispanic: 2,580/2.1 % • The number of tenured or tenure-track faculty members (In­ "To Marshall, Rehnquist's stark revisionism often seemed • The number of Asian-Pacific cluding Puerto Rican and crude and mean spirited. Marshall insisted on looking Island law students: 3,67fit'3% traditionally black colleges), beyond Rehnquist's apparently sincere literalism to the 1988-89: 5,860 motives of the man who had nominated him to the court. • Number of men: 71,..158/57.3 Cfo Marshall viewed Rehnquist's nomination cynically as Nixon's • The number of minority faculty calculated revenge designed to curtail liberty for the less for­ • Number of women: 53,113 members: 425 (7%) tunate and underprivileged ... " 142.7% 'The prospect of living out his remaining years on the • The number of men: 4,702 (80%) Court with Rehnquist did not please Marshall. He was parti­ • The number of tenured or cularly chilled by Rehnquist's warning that the liberals tenured-track classroom and clini­ • The number of women: 1,158 should curtail their broad interpretation of the Constitution. cal faculty members (including (20%) It was only recently that activism on the Court had become Puerto Rican and minority institu­ '1iberal" activism, rehnquist reminded them. Only 40 years tions): 1986-87: 4,275 • Percentage of law schools with before, the Court's activists had all been conservatives. The no minority faculty members balance was once again shifting back, Rehnquist said. Once it • The percentage of black faculty (1986-87): 26.4% had, the liberals would be the ones calling for judicial re­ members (not including minority­ straint, and chiding conservatives for ignoring precedent." operated institutions): 33 • The percentage of law schools The percentage of Latino faculty with one minority faculty member: -Robert Woodward & Scott Armstrong, members (not including minority­ 25.7% fromThe Brethren, 1979. operated institutions): 0.6% • The percentage of other minority The number of tenured or tenure- 43 A person who grows up in a tend jail will be let out only to Fighting the Symptoms system which gives him no rea­ return at some future date and sonable method to advance, will the costs of imprisoning the real but Not the Disease not respect that system or its laws victims of the drug epidemic and will look outside the system become clearer. to better his or her economic In an era where violent crime by Lou Taubman are terrible. Increased criminal position. Our system however is up it is no wonder that politi­ activity to feed dangerous addic­ goes one step furtha-. First we cians want to appear tough on We are now almost a decade tions are a severe problem. cut off legal means for economic crime. However, there comes a into the war on drugs and it However, by concentrating funds advancement by shortchanging time when we as a society must seems as though there has been and man power on locking up our education system and then determine that a proposed solu­ very little progress and several addicts and dealers we are fight­ we put extra towards arresting tion to a serious problem has severe side effects. This is ing the symptoms of the serious these people, which further failed. We must determine why because the government is misa­ social problems such as the lack alienates them from our society. the solution has failed and find a loca ting our tax dollars by of education and opportunity for Furthermore we do not only better one. The war on drugs has treating a problem which is social our impoverished inner city impose this stigma of criminality failed because we looked for and economic in nature as a cri­ populations, while not attacking on those who supply the drugs, short term solutions to long tenn minal problem. While I do not the root of the problem. we also stigmatize the addicts by problems. I applaud the efforts of dispute that many aspects of If our government truly branding them as criminals as those people such as Nancy Rea­ drug control require police wants to curtail the drug problem well. This is interesting since gan who stressed education as a enforcement, treating the entire in our inner cities and the crime most experts agree that drug solution. The drug problem is a drug problem in the US. as one of that goes with it, more funds addiction is a physical problem soci~nomic problem and not criminal enforcement severely should be given to education and and not one involving free choice. a criminal problem and should be overburdens the criminal justice social services. If these root Moreover on the average it costs treated as such before it gets system by treating the symptoms problems are ignored, children three times as much money to worse. Let's use our brains as well of the problem and not its cause. growing up in our impoverished build and staff rehabilitation cen­ as our brawn. No one will deny that the areas will not see any altemativ~ ters as it does jails. Add to this symptoms of the drug problem to a life of crime or addiction. the fact that most people who at-

44 On the Right at Night says, "the country doesn't trust her to head the Office of Home- us with the economy - and they're 1es sn es s and Single Room right." In my view, accurate Occupany Services to show Koch Profiles in Cowardice enough. How does Tsongas plan how its done. What happened? to change this perception? Beats Less than two years later Wack­ me, but recently when proposing stein decided she couldn't take by Thomas Smith suspicious of the Gov's Demo­ a new Marshall plan to aid the the heat in the soup kitchen and cratic Leadership Council (now Soviet Union he said, "The issue quit. Wackstein cited, "frustra­ "Hiding in the bathroom that's a contradiction in terms) is not whether we can provide tion." Cry-Baby-Quitter #2 - Mr. until it's over" is the advertising which espouses welfare reform, aid, we must provide aid." Charles E. Williams, head of the theme of one successful car tax breaks for the middle class Sounds like spend now, worry NYC's Scoot Construction Auth­ manufacturer. Despite begging and strong defense. later economics to me. Keep up ority, also threw in the towel. The and pleading from his wife and a Despite begging and plead­ the good work guys, with this Authority's generous budget and local fireman - poor ''Danny the ing, Ron can't coax a viable kind of talk President Bush won't exemption from the Wicks law Car Salesman'' refused to come candidate out of the DNC out­ be filling out change-of-address apparently weren't enough for out. Danny's hibernation remin­ house to run in '92. And when he cards anytime soon. Williams. Seems the City had the ded me of potential Democratic wasn't watching a few slipped By the way, if anyone noticed, audacity to take a closer look at presidential candidates. Did out the back.door: Gov. L. Dou­ even "Danny the Car Salesman" how the Authority was spending Danny have company? glas Wilder so eager to squash beat the Dems out of the bath­ its money. With that in mind, my the Thomas nomination to the room. The outhouse vigil sources have taken to watching Supreme Court that his Catholic­ continues. October questions for those bathroom doors at the headquar­ bashing was heard from here to left-of-center: ters of the Democratic National Rome and back; someone forgot On a local note, "Mr. Mayor" Why have liberal corrunenta­ Committee. Reports of the DNC to tell Doug that Catholics vote, Dinkins, in between sets, reminds tors taken to labeling those Chainnan, Mr. Ron Brown, malc­ and that Thomas isn't even us that he can't solve New York's supporting abortion as "pro­ ing numerous trips to the DNC's Catholic. Sen. Tom "Testos­ problems alone. Considering the choice" while those who oppose executive washroom conjured terone" Harkin says, "President growing number of resignations it are "anti-abortion"? Seems a images of yet another successful Bush has feet of clay" and, get by his own appointees, he may more balanced approach would commercial which poses the this, he "intends to take a ham­ have to anyway. The latest: Cry­ be to refer to the opposing camps somewhat embarassing question, mer to them" - cruel and unusual Baby-Qui tter #1 - Remember as "pro-" and "anti-" abortion. "Do you su Her from ... punishment Tom? Why does homeless advocate Nancy Wack­ How does gay activist irregularity?" Democratic hopeful Paul stein, the relentless attacker of Michelangelo Signorile justify By now, poor Ron must be. Tsongas think his party can't win former Mayor Ed Koch's housing "outing" persons who wish to lmagine the standing-room-only the White House? Because, he policies? "Mr. Mayor" appointed keep their sexual preferences a crowd Ron must appeal to: Gov. private matter? In the wake of the Mario Cuomo, who managed to warnings his compatriots offered evX:t Sen. Bob Keney... Sen. Jay that Robert Bork was a "threat to Rockefeller came off his gold privacy'', I find Mr. Signorile just throne, started toward the door a tad confusing. and ran back in before the seat D.N.C. ) A Final Parting Shot: Men J got cold. .. Sen. Joe Biden stealing R•strooms l I l Womyn Congratulations to soon-to-be someone else's ideas from the ~ Associate Justice Thomas for outhouse wall ... Rev. Jesse Jack· Occ~i.d 0 Out of 0 making clear the distinction aon, finally gainfully employed, S.R.O. Ordeor between the roles of policy is juggling his talk-show schedule advocate and judge. This is a and duties as "shadow-senator'' distinction some of his (whatever they are)... Ron is try­ predecessors failed to ing to explain to Gov. 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' FED UP WITH EXORBITANT BOOK group masturbation and SBA Quote of the Day: allowed to speak at any time PRICES? /~uhH posterior vocalization after his initial two minute whereby a handful of indi­ presentation. Every new semester students at New York viduals, generally the ones If time is so precious to Law School (as well as all other post-second­ most respected for their ex­ Elitism is not so bad the senators that they will ary schools) suffer from the inevitable: book perience in this exercise, when the elite have a not tolerate any prolonged price sticker shock. It seems that acquiring an dominate the course of the general notion of what has snivelings by the underlings education requires not only intelligence and to be done and how to do it. dialect. they have been elected to hard work, but also, that your wallet (or more A brave few with the for­ My recent experience with serve, then they should allo­ likely, your credit card) be assaulted twice a titude to resist the now the SBA confirmed a grow­ cate the representative's two year when you purchase required texts and rampant group dementia are ing suspicion that our minut~or the end of any study aids for your classes. either drowned out by a student government had senatorial discussion where Of course, there always some books are somehow surpassed a pin,­ wave of procedural incan­ misguided arguments can that we all want "brand-spanking new'' - if nade of witless judgement tations or by a perverse be rebutted and misconcep- only to assure ourselves that what ever mark­ and extraordinary incompe­ flood of cerebral dribble. • tions about a proposed ings exist when we go to study for finals are tence heretofore reserved for Motions are made, decisions event can be cleared up. ours. But is paying big bucks every time are passed all without any cretins and Mississippi Unless, of course, organiza­ really inevitable? No doubt, from time to time further consultation with the congressmen. tion leaders' views and we stumble upon a relatively clean used book student organization repre­ My problem with the concerns are merited the in the book store and pay a few bucks less. sentative- the one best able SBA is not so much in that relative worth of a feisty Additionally, we can always register into they de facto rejected the to answer any questions or slug, then their otherwise courses that friends have taken and, regardless misgivings about the event. funding of my organiza­ dull-minded disregard of of how much we hate the subject matter, bor­ But then of course this tion's event- this has the person and information row the books and save money. Yet, this would leave the Knights of happened plenty of times in most relevant to the discus­ approach is limited and haphazard. It's time the Tattling Orifice with less the past for occasionally sion is entirely justified. that students at NYLS start helping each other. time to tattle. senSible reasons- but in the Alright, maybe it wasn' t How? ... way it was rejected, and After the meeting one so bad. Maybe I'm just Students at NYLS need to establish a senator assured me, "Don't especially for the reasons it pissed off at them for being "Student Book Cooperative." A book co-op is worry, I'm sure they'll even­ was rejected. such tight-wads and at hav­ a student run club or organization devoted to tually pass your budget The workings of the ing such a stupid system of placing commonly used text books and study request after the policy dis­ September 23 SBA Budget debate, one which drowns aids back into circulation at little cost to future crepancy is ironed out". Meeting was a case study of out those in-the-know and users. Book co-ops are not new. They are That's nice. But it does not how a handful of small further institutionalizes commonly found at other schools, both large minds can dominate an address the fact that the ignorance. But one thing is and small. Senate was debating a policy otherwise well-intentioned certain, the system is far Here's how a book coop at NYIS could issue for five minutes (and democratic process to from acceptable and what work: Srudents who have completed a course made its decision) based on generate Absurdity. must definitely be changed can deposit those books in the co-op and substantive information The very process of debate is the degree of participation receive credit toward other needed texts. The and decision was flawed to which was clearly erroneous that student organizations credit could be pro-rated to account for the and which could have been begin with. The student are allowed in SBA budget value of each deposited book. For example, if easily rectified by allowing organization representative meetings. 1 point is awarded for every five dollars of the the student organization is given two minutes to pre­ book's purchase price when new, then a per­ representative to speak on sent his/her case to the Phillip Spyropoulos son turning in a Contracts text which had cost the matter. Yet the student senators. The senators then $40 could receive 8 points. This person could representative was not engage in a type of ritual then trade the 8 points for a book that another student had turned in to the co-op. Credits from several books could be added together to allow "trade ups" to more expensive books. Additionally, credits could be ''banked" and applied to later purchases. .,Jc All. Abt?Ef ilfRf's A MATuAAL LAW This model is only one of several ways t-\t~R IHAN 1iiE G~Tr fullof\\ ... that students can set up a book co-op. A sys­ tem could also award a nominal cash price in addition to credits for each deposited book. However, this model requires some start-up money as those making the first deposit would have to be paid up front. This could be done through user fees or with some seed money from the school.. A book co-op is not without its problems. 0 Diligence, dedication and honesty on the part 0 0 of those students running the co-op is a must. • Additionally, book thefts for the sake of trade ups could occur if a proper monitoring system is not adopted. Nonetheless, these problems are small compared to the potential gain to all students. Come on NYLS students, get fed up with paying those big bucks to West Publishing, Foundation Press and Little Brown, et al. Let's start a student book co-<>p and keep some of those bucks in the pockets that really need them-ours. 46 1988) that you paid about $8 for a death penalty conviction. Mister Bressler last year and replace it with The Author's full names (including Bluebook: A Uniform System of mi.s) as they appear on a title Speaks His Mind Citation (15th ed. 2nd printing page are now used in everything, 1991). Here are some of the more and not just first initial and last significant changes found in name. by Michael Bressler Bluebook, which is no longer A This is a positive change. Uniform System of Citation. Now when you look up an author CROSS EXAMINATION done to my prose, the article did State court cases are cited on LEXIS or WESTLAW, you have some impact: My sources only to a West Regional reporter don't need to "Next Doc" like Student Voices. It seems that tell me that Prof. Massey took the in non-court papers, e.g. P.2d, crazy through ten other writers NYlS students have about much article to heart, has put his draft N.E.2d, etc. This move serves to who share the same first initial influence on our school's deci­ article on reserve (so students strengthen West's monopoly­ and last name as your subject. sion-making process as African know what their profs are up to), hegemony on legal citation. Student notes and comments are Amencans hdu at the Coru;titu­ and has decided to have lunch Thankfully, Bluebook still allows no longer written by that most tional Convention. Why are there with students on a regular basis? for the citation of official repor­ prolific writer: Mr. or Ms. Note no students on the dean selection ls Prof. Massey buying? Regard- ters when submitting court and Comment, they are now committee? Why are there no students on the academic stan­ dards committee? Why is it that when several professors went away on a retreat in New Jersey and came to the decision to scrap Legal Method (albeit, an excellent decision) and create the Lawyer­ ing Skills program? Etc., etc., etc. Yes, students have "observer status" on certain committee._, but we should be more than "shadow Senators." Students should be integrally involved in all decisions. While the faculty will argue that students are a transient community, while the faculty has a long-term interest in the school's future. The faculty should know bet­ ter. Students' needs remain constant: finding professors who can teach well, finding a job when ...M~Y "t>otJ"T they get out, having good Pl-A~ PAT administrative staff members in / student services, financial aid, etc. Moreover, to some faculty members NYLS is just a stepping stone to bigger and better things (read a higher rated law school) while for the rest of our lives the reputation of NYLS will be of vital importance, so who has a more long-term interest? Dean Simon can have a great impact for the NYLS's next century by giv­ ing students the voice they CARTOON BY ALEX LE E deserve. Students our battle cry should be, "No more tuition, without representation."

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