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Vol. filNo. S • MAY, 1986 Koch Talks About Levitsky Charges Si1non Corruption... . at Jeffords Forced His Resignation .. By Glen Gentile . By Robert Goldman . by-the board of which you are the chair- Mayor Koch said "we. have yet to Serge·Levitsky, NYLS professor of in- man, was turned into a dishonest farce.'' find a cure for evil in.the human soul," temational law, has charged his resigna- as he discussed the corruption scandal tion from the faculty was forced b)I Dean In· another letter to Forger; Prof. currently plaguing the city and dectjed Simon. J.,evitsky said that a faculty ·member the perception that corruption is a nor­ Prof. Levitsky said he was "summon-- stated to him both before and after the mal and, perhaps, necessary compo­ ed" to Dean Simon's office in October ,review that the "decision of the school's nent of· government. The Mayor's and·asked to submit his resignation. Jf he administration had beeri taken at least a remarks were deliverel as the twelfth did not submit his resignation, Prof. year earlier... In a candid and unofficial annual Jeffords lecture ·at New York Levitsky said he would have been "writ- evaluation of th~ situati9n, the same l::.aw School on March 19. ten out of the profession." highly respected member of the faculty, Citing a recent New York Times poll At the October meeting, Prof. Levit- stated that in his interpretation ofthe ad­ which indicated that only fifty-four per­ sky .said, Prof. .George Dent, chairman minstration's attitute, I did not fit into cent of the respondents thought the city of the t~nure committee, said "The the new long range policy of the school could operate without corruption, tenure committee has completed its re-- which will be based -upon young and Koch said this "cynicism" stems from Koch addresses crowd in FroessetRoom appointment review and based upon the junior professors who will make their the heightened level ofscrutiny to which tivities were discovered as a result of an criteria ofteaching, scholarship and con- full contribution to the school in twenty public servants are subj~ted. "In the intercepted telephone call. tribution to the law school, has recom- years. I had •no future a~ NYLS, will private sector," the Mayor said, " The Mayor then outlined the steps he mended to deny re~appointment." never be given tenure, and should pro- bribes, kickbacks and payoffs are often has taken in the hope of counteracting Prof. Levitsky, whose studentevalua- bably stm:t l901cjng for another affilia­ called business expenses. In the public corruption. A _co~ion, headed by tions for his three-years at NYLS·were tion." sector they are called crimes". Koch also Cdlumbia University Dean Michael very favorable", caHed thC- ,re• ~JamesSimonrefecteclthenotion uid." the-long~ ot c:otrU-ption has Sovern, has beenappointed byKoch.and appointment 1'eview W' '-'dishonest - thi um,~•=•~ p,qlicy -0f made many New Yorkers perceive it as Governor Mario Cuomo to examine farce.•-• · , - hiring younger faculty members as evitable• campaign financing laws. Koch has •In a letter to Alexander D. Forger, "baseless." He adamantly denied that . - The problem with fighting corrup­ directed Kenneth Conboy, recently ap­ chairman of the board. of trustees at the adminstration attempted to in­ tion, Koch said, is finding where it ex­ poiritecl commissioner.of the department NYLS, Prof. Levitsky said "I only know fluence the decision of the tenure com-= i~ts. According to the Mayor, in order of investigation, to conduct a review of that while up to now, I have r~ded the mittee which, he said, "went about its to detect corruption's breeding places, the inspector general system. The Mayor individuals involved in my dismissal as job with great care. "He also rejected an inspector general system was has: also ··created a new position of merely devoid of a sense of honor-and Prof. Levitsky;s assertion that' the ad­ established in 1978, placing an inspec­ auditor general to ''conduct internal decency, ·the student evaluations made minstratio,n.,ha&-precletermined the out­ tor general in each city agency. As a audits of all mayoral agencies." The me realize that the entire '~re"- comeor-the committee as "nonsense." result, 11.418 complaints of violations . contract bidding system has been chang­ appointment revi~/_ given the express Deari Simon appoints the members of by city employees were referre<;l to pro­ ed ·so that all proposals must now ~i~ed to 1t in the rules appr~ved Continued on page 3 secutors between 1978 and 1985, the undergo a two-tier review before con Mayor said. sideration by the Board of Estimate. Koch was fearful, however, that in Koch also created a, committee on ap­ the zeal to eradicate corruption, a socie­ pointments, lieaded by constitutional On·Persec~ting Prostitutes_ lawyer Floyd Abrams. The committee, ty reminiscent of that in J984 may and China, women engaged in the ac­ which will be independent screening By Kay Mackey and Joanne_Zervos emerge. "We don•t· want a society "an An Acting New York Supreme Court cepted profession of prostitution in panel," will make recommendations to . where video cameras aJe fastalled in Justice called prostitution the most order to avoid the domination and every nook andcranny to spy on public the Mayor as to appointments to posi-: misunderstood · profession at a recent allegiance expected of them by the hus­ employees and we don't want phone tions which r~uire the advice and con­ NYLS foruJQ. . band or in a family situation. During the . taping· to be an everyday event." Koch sent of the City·Council. According to Judge Kristin Booth Glen said, "Pros­ 18th century and early 19th century, noted that Geoffrey Lindenauer's ac- eontinued on page 5 titution is not only the oldest profession, Europe maintained "a laissez-faire at­ it is the most misunderstood" at the titude toward prostitution with no clear March 18 forum sponsored by the Legal Continued on page 5 Association for Women, the NYLS NYLS Calendar· chapter of the National Lawyer's Guild and the Gay and Lesbian Society. · April 29 Phi Delta Phi Elections of Officers Glen and Arlene Carmen, co-author: INSIDE SP.M. . .C-105 of Working Women: The Subterranean April 29 National Lawyer's Guild • Gavin Evans-law student and World of Street Prostitution were the Editorial :page4 5:30P.M. draft resister from South Africa. featured speakers at the forum, which Wine & Cheese, Student"Lounge attempted to draw attention to what they described as a basic aspect of urban life­ May22 B.A.~.L.S.A. Annual Alumni Dinner street prostitution. ARTS& R.S.V.P. May 8 Glen gave a historical perspective of ENTERTAINMENT $25; $10 students the treatment of prostitution and the Honoring Hon. Emilio Nunez reasons women have engaged in the pro- . Grateful Dead Page7 May22 National Lawyers GuHd Lab.or Committee fession over the centuries. Carmen B-405 discussed her experiences working with Wine & Cheese prostitutes in New York City. , "Prostitution has always been an Up From The June7 '86 Grad Bash ' Sporting Club, open bar 8:00-9:30 P.M. avenue for women to assert their Underground_ Page6 · SP.M. Hors D'Oeuvers 8.:00, Dinner 9:00 autonomy and independence." said . NI are ~v_ited $2~., last day ~o.l;my May 1. 9len. . For ex~ple, in ancient. Greece . ::

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/ (212) 505-2060 (Collect) , 10 East 21st. Street .New-York, N.Y. 10010" (800) 253-3456 (Outside NY) , May, 1986 • NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL REPORTER • Page3 special issue. Prof. David Schoenbrod · from the University of Paris (Sorbonne). also serves as faculty adviser to ILJ. The He continued his legal education at Ox­ Levitsky~ s Resignation special issue is scheduled for publication ford and Columbia universities and in the early summer. taught at several American universities, Continued from page 1 I - Henry Saurbom, editor-in-chief of including the graduate schools of For­ - ILJ, said that the decisions taken by Pro­ dham and Adelphi and Columbia Law all the faculty.committees, including the along to the board of.trustees. The board fessors Simons and van der Berg were School. During his tenure at Adelphi and teQ.ure committee. All the members of makes the final determination. "inappropriate. We got caught in the Fordham, he served for ten years in the tenure committee, with the exception Prof. - Levistsky also said that one middle. I couldn't justify their decisions. various executive capacities at Texas­ of Prof. Simak, serve as chairpersons of member of the' two-person review team, But there's not much you can do." Gulf. He then returned to Europe as a other facuity· committees. In a memo • charged witli observing his classes to Dean Simon said that he did not visiting scholar at the University of from Associate Dean Gerald Komgold assess his teaching ability, came to his of­ know, at this point, whether Soviet Law Leiden Faculty of Law in the to the full-time faculty, dated Sept. 23, flee and said that the committee had or International Copyright Law will be and at the Max-Planck In­ 1985, Komgold said "Dean Simon and I chosen to disregard his positive recom­ offered next year. · stitute for Foreign and International Pa­ will serve as ex-officio (non-voting) mendations and evaluation. · Dean Korngold said that New York tent, Copyright and Competition Law in members of all committees." Associate Mr. Forger responded to Prof. Levit­ Law School will continue to have a Munich, Germany. Prof. Levitsky serv­ Dean Korngold is also a voting member sky's letter in November, saying he was strong program in international law next ed as senior vice president of the Chase of the tenure committee. He served on "quite concerned by the nature or• his year. .Manhattan Bank, N.A. He represented the committee when it made its recom~ comments. "I am at the moment in no He said that NYLS appointed the bank in negotiations in the USSR and mendation not to renew Prof. Levitsky's position to respond intelligently to the Ramadan assistant professor of law for Eastern Europe. contract. Dean Komgold refused com- matters you have addressed," Mr. two years: Prof. Ramadan, who is com­ Prof. Levitsky has written six books ment as to whether the school is pursuing Forger continued, "but will, of course, ·pleting her L.L.M. degree at Columbia and more than 240 articles on legal, in- a policy of hiring younger faculty seek -to understand better the cir­ Law School, will teach International . dustrial and commercial -topics in members at the expense of older ones, curnstances that you describe. Your Business Transactions next year. general and S~viet copyright law in­ and be referred all questions on the com- statements are disquieting and I certainly In November, twenty-two students cluding Introduction to Soviet Copy­ mittee's recommendation not to· renew shall direct my attention to them." signed a petition to ask for a scheduling right Law and Copyright, Defamation Prof. Levitsky's contract to Dean Prof. Levitsky said that Mr. Forger change for Prof. Levitsky's class in . and Privacy in Soviet Civil Law.He cur­ Simon. had taken no further action on the Soviet Law because of time conflicts rently serves as a faculty advisor to the · Prof. Levitsky said that "in the matter. with Prof. Rosenfeld's Constitutional NYLS Journal of International and absence·of evidence to the contrary, I Dean Simon said he discussed the mat­ Law· n class and Prof. Zeigler's Federal Comparative Law and he coached have no reason to believe that I was fed ter of ·Prof. Levits,Jcy's resignation with Courts and Federal System class. NYLS's Jessup Intern~tional Moot wrong information by someone privy to Mr. Forger, and that he told Mr. Forger Dean Korngold refused the request, Court team this past academic year. the committee proceedings." that "the action was taken in accordance and ·said that, in. view of the extensive Former Dean Donald Shapiro asked Dean Simon told Prof. Levitsky he with the rules of rank and tenure." . time spent on scheduling, it would be a Prof. Levitsky to come to·NYLS in the was "relieved" when Prof. 'Levitsky Two authors, whose works were to ap­ "very rare event" for the adminstration spring of 1983. Prof. Levitsky began handed him his resignation. He said he pear in an upcoming "Soviet Law" issue to implem~t a scheduling change. teaching at NYLS in the fall of '83 when asked for Prof: Levitsky's resignation , of the NYLS Journal of International Prof. Levitsky received the 'degrees of Dean Simon ·was Dean pro tempore. "ratherthan allowing itto go forward in ~d Comparative Law, withdrew their licencie-cn-droit and docteur-en-droit a formal way. Had he nor resigned, it articles from the issue to protest Prof. would have gone before the tenured Levitsky's resignation. Professors faculty for formal action. That would ~ William-Simons and.Ger van den Berg, have been part of his formal record. I both of the University of Leiden, the thought it would be better that that not Netherlands, withdrew their'works after occur. It seemed to me it would be to his learning of Prof. Levitsky' s resignation. (Levitsky's) advantage that no formal In a letter to Michela Daliana, topics .action be taken b-y the tenured faculty. editor for lLl, Simons said, "It i.s my He resigned on that basis. I did say I was understanding that Professor S.L. Levit- relieved. There was an avoidance of a sky has been unceremoniously removed formal record which could be detrimen- from his position as f~culty advisor for taI to-his professional future."· your journal. It is hard, if not impossi- Prof. Levi~ky had no comment on ble, for me to perceive the logic behind Dean Simon's reasons 'for asking him for the decision to remove Professor Levit­ his resignation. However, he did say that · sky, and this fact leads me to doubt the "by asking me· to resign to avoid being · scholarly sincerity, if not competence, of 8'µ1Sed of professional incompetence, a law sch~ol and it~ administration tru:! Simon thereby caused the regulations to ~ould engmeer such a course of events. be bypassed. The regulations specify Daliana wrote to Simons asking him that the .whole matter be referred to the to reconsider. In response, Simons tenured faculty and-that I should have wrote: ·''You will, I hope, understand been notified in writing." that as much as I regret the fact that the Prof. Levitsky said "Dean Simon ask- students are being 'made the victims, if c;d me to resign to avoid the procedure. not the scapegoats, this farcical and yet What is it that I was being accused of?'' tragic little black comedy only reinforces · be asked. · ' my initial misgivings and concerns and The NYLS Standards and·Procedures makes it for me personally and profes­ for Tenure; Promotion and Review sionally -impossible to participate as a · stipulate that if the recommendation ·of contributo! to the Soviet law issue.'' the tenure committee is nept:ive, "the Prof. Levitsky said that he never ask­ chairperson · shall report orally the ed Prof~drs Simons or van den Berg to recommendation of "the committee, the withdraw their articles. He said that reasons for it and the vote at a meeting of when Prof. van den Bergwas in the pro­ the tenured faculty and the Dean.'' cess of reconsidering whether to submit Prof. Levitsky charges that there was . · his manuscript to the journal, he con­ no meeting ofthetenureid faculty.and the' tacted Prof. Levitsky for advice. Prof. Dean because he was "forced to resign" Levitsky said he told Prof. van der Berg, Bruce 0,/fm addressing the Media Law Project's Entertainment Career Conference. before the meeting was to have taken- '"Please do not put me in the middle. If Seated [I-r] are Harris Miller, Suzan~ Baer and Co/fin's law partner, place. . ·you feel you should keep it in, by all Jeff Jacobson. · If Prof. Levitsky had not resigned, means, do so. If you feel you want to the tenured faculty and the Dean would withdraw, withdraw. I do not wish to have ·voted whether to recommend the stand in the way, one way or the other. ., professor's reappointment t9 the 'board '·µcan Simon said "!t is unfortunate· WANTED:'Behind the walls' College of trustees. If a-majority of the tenured · that anyone· would. peanlize our student . student looking· for correspondence faculty and the Dean had votea "yes" · journal for extraneous political reasons. Persollals from people thl}t care. Brown hair, blue then ·Prof. Levitsky would have been A lot of good work will be wasted. It is eyes, 1601bs. 5'11" and very lonely! reappointed. If, on the other hand, the most unfortunate and ~ find it-inexcu- To the female night school student who Friendship intrests. All responses DeaQ..~ voted against reappointment, sable." • gave me a lift to 14th St. in her taxi-I welcomed and answered. Write to: An­ at least two-thirds of the tenured faculty · Thomas Tyler, managing editor of ·still owe you . money for that night. thony Prentiss, 79-A-36, Post Office would have been needed to override the ILJ, said that Prof. Levitsky remains 1Please leave a message for Howard in the Box 149 Attica Correctional Facility At­ Dean 'to pass apositive recommendation . faculty advisor to the journal for this . Reporter office, C-102 or 431-2117. · tica, New York 14011 ' . \ : . .. .~ .., . / - - - . . . . , ...... ' NEW YORK LAW-SCHOOL REPORTER • May, 1986 l Editorial: I The New York Law School t t I > REPORTED · MANAGING BOARD The ·Levitsky A~fair: . BUNJI FROMAR1Z, GLEN GENTILE, ROBERT GOLDMAN JOANNE ZERVOS _, Unanswered Questions-

SfAFF ~ and BRIAN McCARTHY, PETER KING · ARTS and ENTERTAINMENT Questionable Answers "Something is happening here, bur far from being deficient in any of these l .MANAGING EDITOR EDITOR and CHIEF you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. areas, he has been exemplary. BUNJ/ FROMAR1Z ELLEN ROSNER -Jones. II Let's look at the record. I . -- -- Prof. Harold T. Berman of Harvard, The tenure committee's recommen- one of the most highly recognized pro­ { EDITORIAL BOARD dation not to renew Prof. Levitsky's fessors of international law, . called KENNY FR/EDSON, DIANNE PINE tenure-track contract does not, on the Prof. Levitsky "One of the most t face of it, make any sense. Th~ commit- distinguished scholars in the world in THE REPORTER is published by and for lhe students, faculty, staff and alumn\ of the New York Law tee's deliberations are kept secret. The the field of the Soviet law. His book on l hool. committee decides by a closed ballot the Soviet copyright law is a gem. In ad­ THE REPORTER invites interested panics to ~ubmit colwoos, l!=ners, articles, criticisms or suggestions to: majority vote whether.or not to recom- dition to his excellent understanding of The Managing Board, THE REPORTER. 51 WonhSII\lCt, RoomC-102, New York, N.Y. 10003. mend reappointment of a non-tenured law he brings to his work in com­ Telephone: (212) 431-2117. THE REPORTER, which is published periodically during the academic year, h~ third-year faculty member to the parative law, a broad knowledge of the an opinion column entitled .. VIEWPOINT:· Persons interested in submitting a written opinion for this colwnn tenured faculty and the Dean. There is history and literature of many coun­ shquld label i.t ··~1Nr· and submit it to THE REPORTER. Tl{E REPORTER reserves the right to edit all only a handful of people who know tries, as well as a rich experience in in­ 11n:ia1er·ial·~ for publicarion. Although mEREPO/UER stri,;cs for a policy of~advettlsing, we do what went on behind closed doors when ternational business and legal not vouch for the accuracy ofour advertisements. tl:ie committee discussed whether toter- practice". Entire cootents © THE REPORTER. All rights ofrepublication reserved. mipate Prof. Levitsky's ·contract. Here's what some of our fellow Members of the tenure committee and students had to say about the professor selected members· of the school ad-. on his Fall, 1985 evaluation forms: ministration are privy to this informa- "I feel very fortunate to have had the tion. The tenured faculty does not for- opportunity to have studied and learned mally know the reason for the recom- from him." mendation because Serge Levitsky "Whoever is responsible for Pro- __,;;;;...... ;;;.;.,;,;;~..;;...--_...;~~;...;.;.-----..;;.;..~.;;._...---.;.____;;;,....;...-"--.a;._--- resigned before the matter went to the fessor Levitsky's dismiss~ cares very tenured faculty. little about the students and the quality Dean Simon asked Serge Levitsky to of this school." iesign several times over a two-week "It wouJd .surely be a weak, disiolo­ period in October. ff the professor . rested and stupid administration which ~~~--~=~~;.;..;~;;;;;~~.;;..;~...... :.....--_.:,.;:....::.;;..,..;;;...;....;;...__,;;;;;;;;;;.;;.....;...._.,. · resigned,' he would not have a negative let a professor like this go. How often committee recommendation on his. can one say that he was taught by a record. If he did not resign, he would gentleman and a gentle man." have faced the possibility of a negative "I think whoever decided to fire vote-a vote not ·to renew his con- Levitsky ought to be hanged and I tract-by the full tenured faculty. Dean wouldn,'t mind being the one to tie the Simon later said he asked Serge Levit- noose around his neck." sky to resign because he was concerned As for contributions to the law about the professor's professional school, Prof. Levitsky serves as a facul­ future. But there· may have been other ty advisor to ILJ and he helped coach reasons. Had Prof. Levitsky not resign- the moot court team. - ed, the vote of the tenured faculty por- The Levitsky resignation raises im- bably would have been very close, and portant questions about the school's the issue could have divided the entire policies and the resignation itself. . : faculty. We're forced to ask why? Why did the Prof. Levitsky resigned ev~n though tenure committee vote to deny re­ he never knew why the tenure commit- appointment to a renowned scholar on tee had voted not to renew his contract. the tenure track? Why did the ad­ In his letter to Mr. Forger, he wrote: ministration pressure Prof. Levitsky to ''The New York Law School wants to resign rather than face the vote of the New York force me to renounce the very iµeaning tenured faculty? And why did they Audfo Review Prograpi of my life by agreeing that ·1 do not force a man of Prof. Levitsky's stature know how to teach, my scholarship is out of New York Law School at a time Authoritative lectures at your fingertips. Now you can take a complete· bai deficient, and that I have not con- when the administration has, at least review course that meets the need for tributed anything to the School. You publicly, said that it supports a strong portability and convenience without , have my resignation, ·as specified international law program? Is there a sacrificing quality. Multistate and New York preparation complete with practice above. But if the resignation is to imply hidden agenda to undermine the inter­ question review and analysis. No need my acceptance of the truth of the ac- national law program and concentrate to fight traffic or rearrange your busy cusation~containedinMr. Dent'sstate- more heavily on required. and semi­ schedule. Our expert faculty will teach you'as often as yol! want, wherever and ment in the Dean's office, I refuse to required courses? Is there a hidden whenever you \\'.anl comply, for they are not based-on the agenda to·grant tenure only to younger July 1986. preparation will consist of truth. They are, in fact, an insult to my faculty members? . . lectures from the live NY course given entire profess~onal life." We call upon the administration to in Bos~n during May and June of 1986. • The school's Standards and Pro- address our legitimate concerns at a . Knowledge you can take cedures for Tenure, Promotion and public forum . with you~ 1-800-343-9188 Reappointment stipulate that the tenure And we, at the Reporter, would like committee bases its recommendation to go on the record as the first student for renewal of contract upon the criteria organization to urge Serge Levitsky to of teaching, scholarship and contribu- withdraw his resignation. tion to the law school. A reasonable The students at this school deserve person, judging Prof. Levitsky's career quality teachers. and his brief tenure at New York Law Serge Levitsky deserves to know the L------'. School, would have to conclude that, truth. M~y. 1986 • NEW YORK LAW.SCHOOL REPORTER • Page5 Moot Court: Oral Agony: On Perse~uting Prostitutes Continued from page 1 By .Joanne Zervos demarcations between good and bad prostitutes are inaccurate and pretex­ The N. Y .L.S. Moot Court Associa- contestant for the third week. Eachcon­ women, Glen added. tual. "Street prostitutes are not forced tion hosts an intramural competition testant argued both the petitioner's and "Restrictive prostitution legislation into the profession by villanous pimps; each semester. The competitions offer respondent's position· before ,Moot manifests and reflects social and political instead, women choose the profession to students a unique opportunity to test Court alumni. The quarterfinal and needs for ·control" said Glen. "Anti- escape unhappy living situations: sexual their advocacy skills before students, semi-final rounds, heard the fourth and prostitution legislation," she continued, abuse, battering and forcible ejection professors, practicing- attorneys and fifth weeks, were argued before "assaults civil liberties~ but ironically from the home are the common judges. The brief writing enables N.Y.L.S. faculty and Moot Court Ex­ mirrors the gender discrimination that scenarios", she said. In what Glen term­ students to experience collaborating _ ecutive Board members. Final p_ermeates a particular society during ed "the last bastion of entrepen­ with fellow students in writing, organiz- arguments, beta in the Froessel Library, periods of significant economic expan- eurialism," women choose to work for ing and presenting,a submittable piece were heard by Hon. Judge Ellsworth sion." themselves. Many street prostitutes, of written work. Van Graafieland from the Second Cir- · Glen said that during the Crimean Carmen said, are single women who This spring's John Marshall Harlan cut Court of Appeals, Hon. Judge War in the late 19th century, heavy legal must support their children. Welfare is Moot Court fact pattern was written by Keenan of the Southern District of New and moral sanctions were brought inadequate as are virtually all jobs open Luis Caso. The issues addressed were York, Mr: Richard Murphy, District against prostitution. Os~epsibly passed to them; consequently, Carmen beijeves, criminal and constitutional. Specificak Attorney of Richmond County andMr. for V.D. prevention, the Contagious street prostitution becomes the most ly, whether young adults, ages 18-29, Jeffrey Fogel, Director of the New Disease Act and the Mortal Sin Act of lucrative alternative. form a cognizable grouJ) for jury selec- Jersey A.C.L.U. · 1881 were actually attempts to curb "Probably the most pernicious myth tio11purpos~. Where cognizability ex- The finalists were Diane Loewe and social class unrest by stigmatizing and surrounding street prostitution is that it ists, the jury rolls are monitored to in- Michael Morris for the petitioner and punishing prostitutes, Glen averred. creates an · escalated crime rate. sure that the cognizable group is Helen Miller and Moira Umemori foi New York had not enacted legislation Although crime is an ever-presen~ factor representec;l in proportio,11 to its popu.la- the respondent. The best brief award .criminalizing prostitution until 1967. in the life of a street prostitute, the pro­ tion within the community. The second was given to to John Koester and However, according to Gleq, in anticipa- stitute is seldom the perpetrator-she is question concerned whether strip sear- Herbert Lazar. Best appellate advocate tion of the Democratic National Con- usually the victim." Carmen said. ches of all arrestees placed in a holding award went to Moira Umemori. vention held here in 1969 and the civil '·'Tricks", she said, are the greatest cell is constitutional under the Fourth· The following members of the 1986 protest which might result, New York danger to prostitutes, since prostitutes­ Atneridment. Moot Court Executive Board have been passed the Ohren stein-McCall have virtually no legal recourse. Carmen The competition was organized by awarded the Order or"tbe Barrister: Luis Bill"-{Penal Law Section 240.37) which recalled the astonishment o.f one trick ar­ Chris Burgess. Students weregiven two Caso, Richard Mackiewicz, Edward prohibits loitering for the purpose of rested for killing a prostitute:·"Imagine; weeks to conduct research and write a Margo, Carol Morokoff, Phyl prostitution. · - going to jail for killing a whore," he brief arguing either position. Two Newbeck, Michael Rubin, and Micheal At present, Manhattan District At- said. preliminary roun~ were set for each Shor. tomey Robert Morgenthau is lobbying Carmen also descri~ the police lists the New York Legislature to require, for of prostitutes which are "synchronized the first ti.me, mandatory jmpris~nment so that no one prostitute is arrested more for second and subsequent prostitution often than . another." ·cannen under­ offenses. (Intro. to S. · 5327 A. 4476 scored this fact by telling her own ex­ Koch (1984)). · perience of arrest in a vice squad sweep Continued from page 1 In reaction• to the AIDS scare, legis- while in a coffee shop eating with pro. lators are turning prostitutes into stitutes. She was imprisoned for more Koch, this,should end the stranglehold scapegoats by attempting to ·test them than forty-eight hours and subjected to which county·political leaders seem to for the disease, Glen said. "In reality," three strip searches routinely admin­ hold over the appointment process. she continued, "the most current federal istered in a corridor. When she was final­ studies indicate that less than five per ly arraigned, the charges were dismissed The Mayor also proposes to create a city lobbying commission to revJe\\'.: such cent-of all sexually transmitted diseases and she was released. activity and has asked the corporation from women to men are linked to pros- Carmen also described how one night counsel to review the financial disclosure titutes." while sitting-on the bus with a few pro- laws. "At 18,889 city-wide arrests for pros- stitutes she noticed one woman chewing Koch was awarded an hong,rary titution related offenses at a cost of and blowing bubbles. Carmen asked the degree at the lecture, which was attended $2,SOO per arrest and processing, the woman for a piece of gum. The W.Qman by Deans James Simon and Gerald Kor­ prospect of all those zeroes is chewing and the other women on the bus ngold, and Alexander Forger, chairman staggering." Glen said. Millions.of tax started to laugh. The woman stuck out of the New York Law School Board of dollars which could be put toward social her tongue and Carmen was shocked to Trustees, among others. services are spent on an ineffectual see that it was a condom. The women ex­ revolving door policy, she added. plained to her that even though tricks do Arlene Carmen, a staff worker with not like it, the women have devised a way Judson Memorial Church, i::uns the to use condoms in order to protect Working Women Project which offers · themselves from disease, when perform­ free medical and gynecological services , ing oral services. for prostitutes. Since 1975, the project "The lesson to be learned," Carmen has operated a renovated bus where said "is that prostitutes are only rarely A COMPANY CALLED prostitutes can gather, socialize and find arrested for committing a criminal act. respite from· the street. They are almost always arrested because Carmen pointed out that many of the of who they are, where they happen to ~,J&K reasons asserted for regulati~n of street be, and what they do for a living."

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