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digitalcommons.nyls.edu NYLS Publications Student Newspapers 11-1995 New York Law School Reporter, vol 11, no. 3, November 1995 New York Law School Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/newspapers Recommended Citation New York Law School, "New York Law School Reporter, vol 11, no. 3, November 1995" (1995). Student Newspapers. 126. https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/newspapers/126 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the NYLS Publications at DigitalCommons@NYLS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Student Newspapers by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@NYLS. 9\(ew 'Yorfc.£aw Sclwo[ '£,PO 'T'E, ¥01/UM'E 11, 9{_'ll9,{'1J'£1( 3 Media Law Project Enters The WEB By John Clark and most importantly, links to other Want to know what media events For thoseofyou who may be won informationand pages. Thisis what are going on in the city? Want to net dering what exactly a web page is, this makes the web so attractive to those work with media experts? Exchange E may give you a pretty good idea. The of us who learned to use a computer mail with Media Law Project members? World Wide Web can be thought of as by pointing at an icon with a Circulateyourresume?Doajobsearch? an extensive interconnected frame that 'mouse'. You simply click on the Locate a Torts outline? All these things sits on top of the enormous network of highlighted text (hypertext) and you will be accessible through the Media networks that we know as the Internet. are suddenly surfing to the next Law Project's new web page, available This frame is the most graphically page. to all stude11ts ready to go on-line. friendly and easy-to-use interface cre ated thus far for 'surfing' along the net. Although the Media Law With the creation of the web page, It's kind of like how Windows simpli Project's page is still in its infancy, the Project has officially entered fied DOS and made the idea of using a one would not know it from its Cyberspace., personal computer less intimidating. professional appearance. This is Likewise, the web is very easy to ma extremely important because the What began as an idea this past nipulate and its advantages appear to appearance of the page is a reflec summer has quickly become a reality be limitless. Along this framework are tion upon the organization and ul through the work of an efficient com addresses known as 'web pages' which timately upon the students them mittee organized by President Gamal contain anything that an organization selves. Hennessy and spearheaded by Vice or an individual wishes to put upon it President Brian Lansbury. including graphics, text, advertisements Continued on page 6 A picture of the Media Law Project's WEB page. Picking A Bar Review Course By Elizabeth Shields perjence similar to Mr. Toad's yourself from hundreds m9re I just started law school wild ride. Is this really neces dollars later. Similar to buy not two months ago and al sary, I mean the bar exam is not ing a used car, you don't have readyI've got anxious recruit for another 3½ years, should I a good feeling about what ers who want to sign me up for really sign up now? Egad. you're getting into. a bar review class. BarBri, Pieper, or this year's new one Don't let these guys in To get a little insight on - West - these are the bar timidate you into signing until these classes I wandered over review classes most people you've done your homework. to Student Affairs and Student know about. But bar review Some of these recruiters have Services. Karen Shelton, from classes are just one of the many been promised free bar review Student Affairs and Helena -ry-p_e_s 01· classes offered. classes (or was it-a trip to Ber Prigal, Directorof Student Ser Student's anxiously listen to the 0. J. Simpson verdict in the Lawrite, PMBR, and the muda) if they sign up a certain vices were very helpful in get Student Activities Center on October 3, 1995. Skilman Method are other tu amount of students. Then ting the school's scoop on these torial type classes which are there's the promise that if you fil:Oups. NYLS does not sup- offered. All these elements sign up now for the low, low help make this law school ex- priceof$999.99, you can save Continued on page 20 Forgreatsushiplaces Perspec and events around town tives on the tum to Pages 17 & 18 0 . J. verdict. P. 10 Howtoconduct your job search pages New York Law ' School Reporter Dean: Reputation Does Not Reflect Quality of Institution By Kimberly Auerbach Although the school has Two years ago the school made a conscious WhenHarryH. WellingtonbecamedeanofNew an International decision not to participate in the rankings, Wellington York Law School, there was no Mendik library. The LawJoumaland explained. Administrators felt that admission should classrooms and the student center were not the newly offers several not be about LSATs but the whole candidate. renovated areas students enjoy today. There was no courses in inter passageway connecting all the buildings and even the national law, the "To quantify schools on the basis of quantifiable cafeteria area needed a full-fledged facelift. institutionisnot ___\ evidence had struck us as the wrong way to go," he known as a said. ".The whole idea of seeing this as a race is not "Cosmetically the school needed attention," leader in the what education is about." Wellington said in a recent interview. Sprucing up the field. This grant school and improving the quality of education within should certainly Students at New York Law School are not any were among the dean's top goals when he was ap improve the worse off than most other law students, Wellington pointed in July 1992 to succeed James F. Simon. school's offer said. It's a tough job market. i n g s , Three years later, due to the concerted efforts of Wellington said. At the same· time, Wellington acknowledged many people, including a trustee ofNYLS and alumni . that it takes a very long time for a law school's repu Bernard Mendik, former NYLS Dean James F. Simon, In addi tation to catch up with the quality of the institution. Associate Dean of Public Affairs Harriet Inselbuch, tion, Wellington The question, however, ofwho will continue to get the Chairman of the Board of Trustees and alumni hopes to see law school's name out in the community maybe up in Lawrence Huntington, and Dean Wellington, the built some the air. Dean Wellington is serving his fourth of five school is a very different place. where down the terms at New York Law School and is not sure whathe road a roof gar- will do when his contract is up. "The place desperately n,eeded a library," den ontop ofthe Dean Harry H. Wellington Wellington said. "The library was kind of scattered library and an- Wellington received his undergraduate degree throughout the A, B, and C buildings. You should other building to house student organizations above from the University of Pennsylvania and law degree have seen the place. It was not the handsome institu the parking lot adjacent to the school. from Harvard Law School. He served as a law clerk to tion it is today." U.S. Circuit Judge Clavert Magruder from 1953 to As wonderful as many of these changes are, 1954and toSupremeCourtJusticeFelixFrankfurterin Contrary to student protests that no one is doing · there are still whispers among students questioning 1955. anything to improve the school'sreputation orbolster the schools academic and professional standing. its standing in the community, administrators have In 1985 he became New York Law School's first launched a multi-prong campaign to make the school Most upsetting, has been the school's standing John M. Harlan Distinguished Visiting Professor of competitive. intheU.S.NewsandWorldReportlawschoolrankings Law and has been a member of the board of trustees over the past two years. Last year the school was put since 1989. In addition to beautifying the institution on the in a newly created fourth tier, and the year before, the ·, outside, internally therehas been a drive to strengthen law school did not submit statistics for the poll. He is one of the nation's leading scholars of labor the faculty and restructure the school's curriculum. law, legal theozy and constitutional law, and is the "I don't understand," Wellington said referring author ofmany articles and books, includinglnterpret "You can study the profession from a distance or to last year's poll. ''We didn't lose any rank but they ing the Constitu~ion: The Supreme Court and the Process you can study it hands-on," Wellington said. decided to have an additional tier and for reasons that ofAdjudication . are unclear to me and bear no relationship to the "The thought was that it was very, very impor quality of this institution, they put us in a rank that is '1 don't think students at NYLS should have an tant to us to prepare our students to be really ethical below Cardozo and Brooklyn. I don't think that's the inferiority complex," he added. "I think they lawyers, who understood what law was and who reputation in the academic or professional commu should be proud. I know about law schools. thought about legal problems from the perspective of nity." This is a great law school." the petitioner, rather than to think about it as an outsider, who looks at and studieslaw as ifthe student • was not a member of the profession." As a result, a committee was formed, a report ABA Students Exchange Ideas issued, and the workshop and extemship program was born, giving students a chance to not only learn in a classroom but practice what they are taught in the By Mary DeFesi community.