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Vol. mNo. 5 ALL THE NEWS WE CAN FIND • MAY, 1986 Koch Talks About Levitsky Charges Sinton 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," ternational 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 decried Simon. Levitsky 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. If he administration had been taken at least a remarks were delivered 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 the situation, the same Law 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 of the 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 tenure 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 Froesse/ Room appointment review and based upon the junior professors who will make their the heightened level of scrutiny to which tivities were discovered as a result of an criteria of teaching, scholarship and con full contribution to the school in twenty public servants are subjected. "In the intercepted telephone call. tribution to the law school, has recom years. I had no future at 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 student evalua bably start looking for another affilia called business expenses. In the public corruption. A commission, headed by tions for his three-years at NYLS were tion." sector they are called crimes". Koch also Columbia University Dean Michael very favorable, called the re Dean James Simon rejected the notion said " the long history of corruption has Sovern, has been appointed by Koch and appointment review a "dishonest that the school is pursuing a policy of made many New Yorkers perceive it as Governor Mario Cuomo to examine farce. " hiring younger faculty members as ~vitable. 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 pointed commissioner of the department NYLS, Prof. Levitsky said "I only know fluence the decision of the tenure com ists. According to the Mayor, in order of investigation, to conduct a review of that while up to now, I have regarded 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 minstration had predetermined the out tor general in each city agency. As a audits of all mayoral agencies.'' The me realize that the entire "re come of the committee as ''nonsense.'' result, 11,418 complaints of violations contract bidding system has been chang appointment review,' given the express Dean Simon appoints the members of by city employees were referred to pro ed so that all proposals must now role assigned to it in the rules approved 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, headed by constitutional On Persecuting Prostitutes ty reminiscent of that in 1984 may lawyer Floyd Abrams. The committee, By Kay Mackey and Joanne Zervos and China, women engaged in the ac emerge. "We don't want a society which will be "an independent screening An Acting New York Supreme Court cepted profession of prostitution in where video cameras are installed in panel," will make recommendations to Justice called prostitution the most order to avoid the domination . and every nook and cranny 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 require the advice and con NYLS forum. 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 I 9th century, noted that Geoffrey Lindenauer's ac- Continued 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 5P.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.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 Page? May22 National Lawyers Guild Labor 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 8P.M. Hors D'Oeuvers 8:00, Dinner 9:00 autonomy and independence.!' said Page6 All are invited $25 , last day to buy May I . Glen. For example, in ancient Greece Page2 • NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL REPORTER • May, 1986
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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 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 tenure 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 executh'.e 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 faculty committees. In a memo charged with observing his classes to Dean Simon said that he did not visiting scholar at the University of from Associate Dean Gerald Korngold 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 f acuity, dated Sept. 23, fice and said that the committee had or International Copyright Law will be Netherlands and at the Max-Planck In 1985, Korngold 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 of" 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 Virginia 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 Korngold 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, cumstances that you describe. Your Business Transactions next year. general and Soviet copyright law in and he 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 II class and Prof. Zeigler's Federal Comparative Law and he coached have no reason to believe that I was fed ter of Prof. Levitsky's resignation with Courts and Federal System class. NYLS's Jessup International 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 adrninstration spring of 1983. Prof. Levitsky began handed him his resignation. He said he pear in an upcoming "Soviet Law" issue to implement 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 it to go forward in and Comparative Law, withdrew their licencie-en-droit and docteur-en-droit a formal way. Had he not 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 by the tenured faculty. editor for ILJ, Simons said, "It is 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 faculty advisor for tal to his professional future." your journal. It is hard, if not impossi Prof. Levitsky 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 accused of professional incompetence, a law school and its administration that Simon thereby caused the regulations to would engineer 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 ed 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 he 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 contributor to the Soviet law issue." the tenure committee is negative, "the Prof. Levitsky said that he never ask chairperson shall report orally the ed Professors 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 Berg was 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 of the tenured 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 Co/fin 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, Suzanne 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 to the board Dean Simon said "It 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 voted "yes" journal for extraneous political reasons. Personals from people that care. Brown hair, blue then Prof. Levitsky would have been A lot of good work will be wasted. It is eyes, 160lbs. 5'11" and very lonely! reappointed. If, on the other hand, the most unfortunate and I find it inexcu To the female night school student who Friendship intrests. All responses Dean had 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 Please leave a message for Howard in the Box 149 Attica Correctional Facility At Dean to pass a positive recommendation _faculty advisor to the journal for this Reporter office, C-102 or 431-2117. tica, New York 14011 Page4 • NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL REPORTER • May, 1986
The New York Law School Editorial: REPORTER MANAGING BOARD The Levitsky Affair: BUNJI FROMARIZ, GLEN GENTILE, ROBERT GOLDMAN JOANNE ZERVOS Unanswered Questions
STAFF alld BRIAN McCARTHY, PETER KING ARTS and ENTERTAINMENT Questionable Answers "Something is happening here, but far from being deficient in any of these MANAGING EDITOR EDITOR and CHIEF you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. areas, he has been exemplary. BUNJI FROMARIZ ELLEN ROSNER Jones." Let's look at the record. -- Bob Dylan -- 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 face of it, make any sense. The commit- distinguished scholars in the world in THE REPORTER is published by and for the students. faculty, staff and alumni of the New York Law tee's deliberations are kept secret. The the field of the Soviet law. His book on school. committee decides by a closed ballot the Soviet copyright law is a gem. In ad THE REPORTER invites interested parties to submit columns, letters, articles, criticisms or suggestions to: majority vote whether or not to recom- dition to his excellent understanding of The Managing Board, THE REPORTER, 57 Worth Street, Room C-102, New York, N.Y. 10003. mend reappointment of a non-tenured law he brings to his work iti 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 ··v1EWPOJNT."' Persons interested in submitting a written opinion for this column tenured faculty and the Dean. There is history and literature of many coun should label it ··v1EWPOINT" and submit it to THE REPORTER. THE REPORTER reserves the right to edit all only a handful of people who know tries, as well as a rich experience in in material accepted for publication. Although THE REPORTER strives for a policy of responsible advertising, we do what went on behind closed doors when ternational business and legal not vouch for the accuracy of our advertisements. the committee discussed whether to ter- practice''. Entire contents© THE REPORTER. All rights of republication reserved. minate 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------resigned before the matter went to the fessor Levitsky's dismissal cares very tenured faculty. little about the students and the quality Dean Simon asked Serge Levitsky to of this school." resign several times over a two-week "It would surely be a weak, disinte period in October. If 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 The Sound 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 Sol 'tioti. 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 even 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 force me to renounce the very meaning tenured faculty? And why did they New York of my life by agreeing that I do not force a man of Prof. Levitsky's stature Audio Review Program know how to teach, my scholarship is out of New York Law School at a time Authoritative lectures at your fingertips. deficient, and that I have not con- when the administration has, at least Now you can take a complete bar 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 above. But if the resignation is to imply hidden agenda to undermine the inter York preparation complete with practice 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 cusations contained in Mr. Dent's state- more heavily on required and semi schedule. Our expert faculty will teach ment in the Dean's office, I refuse to required courses? Is there a hidden you as often as yot• want, wherever and whenever you want. 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 professional life." We call upon the administration to in Boston 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. f1ijUJ tion to the law school. A reasonable The students at this school deserve person, judging Prof. Levitsky's career quality teachers. BARREVIEW and his brief tenure at New York Law Serge Levitsky deserves to know the School, would have to conclude that, truth. May, 1986 • NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL REPORTER • Page5 Moot Court: Oral Agony On Persecuting Prostitutes Continued from page I 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. Each con 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 permeates a particular society during ed "the last bastion of entrepen with fellow students in writing, organiz arguments, held 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. Ostensibly passed to them; consequently, Carmen believes, criminal and constitutional. Specifical Attorney of Richmond County and Mr. 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 group for jury selec Jersey A.C.L.U. 1881 were actually attempts to curb ''Probably the most pernicious myth tion purposes. 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 for New York had not enacted legislation Although-crime is an ever-present factor represented in proportion to its popula the respondent. The best brief award criminalizing prostitution until 1%7. 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 Glen, 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 Amendment. Moot Court Executive Board have been passed the Ohrenstein-McCall have virtually no legal recourse. Carmen The competition was organized by awarded the Order of the Barrister: Luis Bill-(Penal Law Section 240.37) which recalled the astonishment of one trick ar Chris Burgess. Students were given 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 rounds were set for each Shor. torney Robert Morgenthau is lobbying Carmen also described the police lists the New York Legislature to require, for of prostitutes which are "synchronized the first time, mandatory imprisonment so that no one prostitute is arrested more for second and subsequent prostitution often than another." Carmen 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 In reaction to the AIDS scare, legis while in a coffee shop eating with pro Continued from page I lators are turning prostitutes into stitutes. She was imprisoned for more scapegoats by attempting to test them than forty-eight hours and subjected to Koch, this should end the stranglehold for the disease, Glen said. "In reality," three strip searches routinely admin which county political leaders seem to " she continued, ''the most current federal istered in a corridor. When she was final hold over the appointment process. studies indicate that less than five per ly arraigned, the charges were dismissed The Mayor also proposes create a to cent of all sexually transmitted diseases and she was released. city lobbying commission to review such from women to men are linked to pros Carmen also described how one night activity and has asked the corporation titutes." while sitting on the bus with a few pro counsel to review the financial disclosure "At 18,889 city-wide arrests for pros stitutes she noticed one woman chewing laws. titution related offenses at a cost of and blowing bubbles. Carmen asked the Koch was awarded an honorary $2,500 per arrest and processing, the woman for a piece of gum. The woman degree at the lecture, which was attended prospect of all those zeroes is chewing and the other women on the bus by Deans James Simon and Gerald Kor staggering.'' Glen said. Millions of tax started to laugh. The woman stuck out ngold, and Alexander Forger, chairman dollars which could be put toward social her tongue and Carmen was shocked to of the New York Law School Board of services are spent on an ineffectual see that it was a condom. The women ex Trustees, among others. 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, runs 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 M,J&K reasons asserted for regulation of street be, and what they do for a living."
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Mikey Hart and Bill Kreutzman kept a Sll1ll{INC• 1•1111.. 1.. Y: tight three beat tempo creating an 1 1 adrenalin rush of twist and rock among 'l 1I1~ S111~C~'l the Dead Heads. Lead guitarist Jerry l)E1ID·lll~1II) ll1JM Garcia sang the next tune "Deal." He took off with his styliled winding pro By Joanne 7.ervos tronic spaces of "Cryptical Envelop the East Coast Dead Tour. Spring gression leads while the rest of the band and special to the Reporter men t" and "The New Potato shows, usually general admission, clear furiously performed their own riffs Mr. Robert Epstein Caboose'•, into the Western type ballads the auditoriums of floor seats so the around his music. Rythmn guitarist Bob "In an article about 'Grateful Dead' of Marty Robins' "El Paso", their own Dead Heads can dance, stand, space and Weir sang the next tune "Willy and the published by thefolklore society in 1908, "Mexacali Blues", and promoting the celebrate without the aggravation of Hand Jive" a traditional blues tune. the motif of a widespread group of New Riders with Garcia on pedal steel, arena people checking tickets or trying to Garcia followed with the Hunter/Garcia folktales is described that recounts a into what I see as a heavy understanding confine them to seats. An authorized blues tune "Candyman" from the Dead traveler who comes on people refusing to and expression of the themes and music taping section behind the soundboard album American Beauty. The Spectrum, bury a dead man who had refused to pay of Bob Dylan. allows other Dead Heads the freedom to sold out at 16,000, seemed like a small his debts. The traveler pays for a decent The deaths of Ron "Pig Pen" McKer set up their elaborate recording equip college auditorium as the music encom burial and goes on his way,· later he finds nin and later Keith Godchaux respective ment without fear of it being confiscated passed the space. a horse or a dog which miraculously ly organist and pianist, had key impact by the authorities or trampled on by their The band played "Cassady" a helps him perform some task that earns on the band's style and strive for in unconfineable counterparts. Weir/Barlow classic about Neal Cassady him a fortune or wins him a princess. At dividual freedom. The '86 tour began with three shows in Kerouacs friend in "On The Road". the tale's end the animal benefactor The Dead, it seems, tread respectfully Hamden, Virginia, the traditional star This version exemplified the improvisa turns out to be the ghost of the corpse on its influences in order to capture the ting point of the tour. From there the tional abilities of this band as they jam that the traveler had befriended- and the highest degree of individuality in its tour took Dead Heads to the Phildelphia med on chords which seperately would new found fortune the gift of the peculiar potpourri of musical ex Spectrum for three shows, Cumberland seem incomprehensible, yet, together Grateful Dead... My question is: How perience. They have achieved a gentle County, Maine for two shows, Pro captured the speed, spirit and dust of the many other rock groups or folk singers balance of complete simultaneous or vidence, R.I. for three shows and finally beatnik road travellers Garcia followed use titles that have such deep cultural chestration of notes while maintaining Hartford Conn. for three shows. The with "West L.A. Fade-away." The roots?" William Safire, "Of 'The' I the personality and structure of the tour will go down in Dead chronicles as lyrics seemed mumbled and inaudible. Sing", N.Y.T. Feb. 1986. pieces they perform. the Box of Rain tour, The band played The tune sounds a little like Stevie · An attempt has always been made to Instrumentally, the Dead have moved the song in Virginia, Maine and Hart Wonder's "Supersitition", however, it characterize the Grateful Dead as the away from the alembic system of wall ford. It has been thirteen years since bass appeared a little simple, plaid for the forerunner of the pyschedelic scene, to-wall sound into a more controlled use player Phil Lesh sang and the band per Dead. Weir sang his polka tempoed ren misconceived as the San Fransisco of synthesized sound. formed this truly beautiful Dead song. dition of the Western tunes "Mama Sound. True. But this is only one phase What has not changed is the inter The first Philly show began with the Tried" and "Big River." The band of the band's musical accomplishment minable travelling nature of this band. band's powerful arrangement of the rounded out the set with a bouncy rendi and life story. The Dead evolved from Their music travels to cities and towns song "Gimme Some Lovin", originally tion of "Might As Well", a traditional motown and blues tunes like coast to coast (I guess like their fingers performed by the Spencer Davis Group. Hunter/Garcia tune about a Canadian "Dancing in the Streets", "He was a and arms move across their Brent Mydland, keyboardist, played train ride. The tune brought the crowd to Friend of Mine", and their own "Viola instruments). long cliff-hanger like chords on organ its feet, in good clean dancing fun. Lee Blues", into the psychedelic elec- The first signs of Spring foreshadows while the bass of Lesh and drums of Like Maestro Leonard Bernstein, Garcia nodded the introductory beats to "Shakedown Street" to begin the second set. Appropriately for this Palm Sunday Transition show, Weir sang their biblical version of the song "Samson and Delilah" by the Reverend Gary Davis. The version was one of the best in recent years because of its smooth, slow, tempo. At this time there was also a noticeable flow of power from the rythmn and drum section. Gar cia sang "He's Gone" from the "Europe '72 ·Album". Weir followed with "Spoonful" the Willie Dixon blues tune. Garcia displayed his own groovy version of blues music with long, rounded, enuciated siren like tones. As the rest of the band went back stage, Hart and Kreutzman took center sound with their Drum Jam. Hart played with synthesized drum and Nubian drum sounds. When Garcia and Weir came on stage they engaged themselves in a Maryann Kaufman, Assistant to Dean The Reporter's Party chinese-high pitched stacatto Space of Students Joan Fishman, left NYLS at Katie O'tooles March 20, Jam, which led into a stifled version of Friday April 11, after five years of ser If you missed it ...... "The Other One" with the rest of the vice, to join W-R Family Associates, a band. "The Other One" is from the private investment firm. The winners of the prizes were: Grand prize: Luis Cabezas Dead album "Anthem Of the Sun." During her tenure at NYLS, Ms. Second prizes: Jeff Friedman, I/ya Frenkel, Nick DeMarco It was time now for another Garcia Kaufman showed a sensitivity towards Third prizes: Maureen Caffrey, Christopher McC/aury, Chary ballad, the question was which one. The students and an understanding of their Fernandez, Carol Morokoff, Joseph Madsen and Diana Adriotis. choice was "Comes A Time" from the concerns Pick up your prizes at C-102 from Bunji. Garcia album "Reflections" the perfor mance was flawless. Garcia's voice, although sometimes inconsistent, at 44, was distinct, soulful and piercing. Weir FASTSERVICEOURSPECIALTY ended the set with the Young Rascals BREAKFAST • LUNCH • DINNER tune "Good Lovin". The Calypso-like THE SQUARE DINER arrangement of the tune got the whole Kindly take one of our Outgoing Order Menus house swinging. that are placed around the Dining Area. The Dead came out and encored with II __ _ FOR PROMPT DELIVERY CALL: the standard new tune "Day Job", a lamentable reminder to the weekend 925-7188 Dead Heads, that Monday at the office i" l /111111111, ~ >•: '.. ' ··.~ -111111111\ awaited them. As the song says t ,I - , ... , SEAFOOD STEAKS CHOPS 1 1--, ----, ~, ,·-, ..... """1 ·· "whether you like that job or not you got • t 1 , I • • I I I l 1 ~ I J I I t 1 ~ 11 I i I I II:: LAW SCHOOL STUDENTS JO% OFF to keep it on ice while you're lining up 6 am-11 am, 2 pm-11 pm your long-shot which is to say, hey, hey, 33 Leonard Street hey keep your day job till your night job pays." Page8 • NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL REPORTER • May, 1986
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