The New York Law School Reporter, Vol. 9, No. 3, November, 1991
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digitalcommons.nyls.edu NYLS Publications Student Newspapers 11-1991 The ewN York Law School Reporter, vol. 9, no. 3, November, 1991 New York Law School Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/newspapers Part of the Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Communications Law Commons, Constitutional Law Commons, and the Sexuality and the Law Commons Recommended Citation New York Law School, "The eN w York Law School Reporter, vol. 9, no. 3, November, 1991" (1991). Student Newspapers. 27. https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/newspapers/27 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. Media Sexual Law Randolph Iannacone Harassment Project reviews Hospital Newsletter Responsibility for at NYLS? Medical Malpractice See Page 3 AfterPage8 The New York Law School Volume IX, Issue 3 "On the Cutting Edge of Credibility" November 18, 1991 Hon. Nicholas Tsoucalas, New York Law School, '51 Hon. Yorka Linakis, New York Law School, '43 Hon. Stanley Ostrau, New York Law School, '51 Professor Zuhayr Moghrabi, New York Law School, '67 At the Alumni Association's reception honoring "Alumni Serving in the Judiciary (\ The REPORTER November 18, 1991 Issue 2, Volume 20 Corrections , In This Issue .... and Our cover photograph includes four New York Law School alumni who were among those90who attended the Alumni Credits 1 Association's reception honoring "Alumni Serving in the Judiciary" Often when one aims for greatness, great Please Note Corrections ness is achieved. Yet more often, the runner may 2 stumble. The Reporter stumbled in its last issue on several occasions. We at The Reporter takes full Sexual Harassment. What can students, Cable Piracy in Queens responsibilty for these stupid errors. First, the article on Third World economic faculty or staff do when confronted by Media Coverage of the 3 harassment? growth that was attributed to Patrick Benn was not 1 Thomas Hearings his own work. In actuality, it was an article pulled from a Lexis search. The piece is originally from The Economist magazine. That article was copied Students Fight for Constitutional 4 to disk for later use as background material for Rights on Campus another article, but in the process of layout was mistaken as an actual student article. Centennial Gala Honors Forward Mr. Benn did not perform the Lexis search, "Hank" Greenberg, NYLS 'SO An Interview with nor did he submit the article that was published in 5 NYLS-Public Interest Campaign Professor Botein 2 The Reporter. Indeed, The Reporter states cat Using Class Notes to studey egorically that he was not connected with the An Interview with article published in his name in any way. A Proposal to Restore Professor Feig The Reporter layout staff assumes total re Student Financial Aid Cuts sponsibility for this mistake. Layout Editor Joe 6 Conway, who has ultimate responsibility for what gets put down on each page, has apologized pro Tom Smith takes Aim atTed Kennedy fusely to Mr. Benn for the ridicule he has been 7 SBA News subjected to by several of our fellow students over Reporter Advertisers offer discounts this matter. NC 17 ... Another way tc A similar problem occurred with the Great NYLS graduate Randolph spell X? Lakes article which appeared in the Environment Section. That article was apparently accidentally Iannacone looks atMedical Public Interest and Malpractice 8 3 scanned in from Omni magazine. Luckily, we Local Programming credited its real author, Ms. Justine Kaplan, but the magazine itself was not given credit. Also, Ellie Benz was not given byline credit for her article "Visiting with Visiting Professor Moot Court teams gather Jeffrey O'Connell" that appeared on page 20. experience, respect, trophies The Law according Anotherimproperlycreditedarticlethatwas 10 to television 4 accepted for publication was the one on inexpen sive wines. The Reporter will no longer accept A New Clinic at NYLS? articles written without being able to give attribu The Portable Lawyer tion to a specific author. (Although the author's L. A. W. Symposium 11 name may be withheld at request, our editors must know who wrote each article). Due Process and the Other articles and photos/drawings were 5 media not given proper credit as well. Scott Star took the A Guest Editorial photo on the front cover, the three photos on page Thank You, Anita Hill! 12 8, and the photo of Monica Coen on page 24. Reporter Photo Editor Darlene Miloski took the photo of NYLS students playing football which appeared on page 24. Michael Wood and Alesia SBAMinutes Albanese took the other photos on pages 24-25. In Jack Froelich on Drug Testing Damages and the future, The Reporter will make a concerted 13 the Arts 6 effort to credit every piece of work that goes into each edition-we will never go to print again before we are .able to verify and credit each source that deserves publication credit. This includes making an all-out effort to properly credit each quotation Television in A New York Law School used, as well as each and every source used. student recounts HIV test Politics: We are instituting new guidelines over the experiences 14 7 Access, Form, use of CALR and are revamping the editorial process to make it multi-layered. Substance Yes, we at The Reporter made mistakes in the process of putting out the paper. There are typos, grammatical errors, layout errors, mangled stories and missing pages. But this is the nature of a law school newspaper. The mistakes we make 15 can be called silly, sloppy, unprofessional, infan tile, or many other things, but they were not inten tional. The time and academic pressures on a law The New York Law School Reporter student are incredible. Extracurricular activities 47 Worth Street by their nature must give way to the demands of New York, New York 10013 Brennan, Michael Bressler, Heather Brownlie, Jeryl Bruner, Mitchell a full academic agenda. The students who work on The Reporter recognize this, but have never Tel.: (212) 431-2117 Donner,Bernadette Dono, Jack Froelich, Jeanne Forester, Caroline Gargione, Glenn Gavin, Jennine Gerard, Patrick Hayes, Gail Karan, theless made a commitment to our school and its Fax: (212) 431-2327 Rebecca Koch, AndrewKurtz, Arnold Levine, David LaPorta, Alex newspaper. We will stand by that commitment, Michael Wood, Editor in Chief Lee,Eric Levine, Clui.stopher Luongo, Carol Mashamesh, Joseph Macri, and will continue to work on this worthy project. William Meredith III, Publisher Thomas Mavis, Glenn Miller, James McClymonds, Darlene Miloski, I. We know The Reporter isn't perfect. But we Bryce Moses, Melissa Meares, Seamus Murphy, Brian Neville, Efram James Horan, News Editor Peller, Peggy O'Brien, Mary beth Pascal, Nicholas Penkovsky, Elizabeth have been trying to create a school paper of which Joseph Conway, Layout and Production Editor Rose, Meredith Simpson, Michael Simone, Robin Sherak, Philip we can all be proud. With each issue we try to do Doug Stem, Advertising Manager Spyropoulos, Lome Smith, Thomas Smith, Louis Taubman, Peter a little better. To be successful, we need your help. 1991-1992 Staff: Alesia Albanese, Ali Agha, Craig Wagner, Cheryl Williams, Anthony Van Zwaren, Steven Zorowitz and We need your assistance in writing articles, your Andrioli,JeffBerger, Patrick Benn,Ellie Benz Robert Boder, Joseph many others who we forget to mention. patience when we are slow to get to press, and your understanding when we make mistakes. Sexual Harassment On Campus? by Michael Wood adults, as are (presumably) the students. tion; or drawn up and filed with the appropriate As Sexuality is, of course, one of the more enjoy 3. Such conduct is abusive of others sociate Dean. TherecentSenateconfirmationhear able aspects of life. When does a free expres and createsorimplies a discriminatory hostility A complainant may make use of for ings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Tho sion of interest or attraction become harass towards their personal or professional inter mal proceeding by filing a complaint with th1 mas have brought an increased awareness of ment? ests." Human Rights Review Board, even after uti sexual harassment to the entire nation. A be According to the Code, "Sexual ad The Code prohibits sexual relation lizing the informal procedures. The Boarc leaguered Anita Hill, upon returning to her vances, requests for sexual favors, and other ships between a student and a faculty member consists of four members: one chosen by fac duties as a law professor at the University of conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual who has academic responsibilities regarding ulty; one elected by staff; one student chose1 Oklahoma, had these words for those who are harassment when: the student. Students are prohibited from tak by the Student Bar Association; one membe victims of harassment; '1 am hopeful that 1. Such proposals are made under ing classes or accepting a recomendation from of the Administration, serving ex officio. others who may have suffered sexual harass circumstances implying that a person's re any teacher with whom they have a sexual The proceeding is intiated by th, ment will not become discouraged by my sponse might result in negative academic or relationship. filing of a complaint form. The Board, at it: experience, but instead, will find the strength work decisions; or Any student, staff or faculty member own discretion, may decide to hold a hearin~ to speak up about this serious prob- on the complaint. If it does so, it i: lem." required to schedule a hearin~ Long before the Thomas within 7 days of the filing of th1 nomination, the staff, faculty and complaint. Both thecomplainan students of New York Law School ~uGoTr~~•T and the respondent may appea hammered out a program for deal accompanied by counsel or oth 1\lAT ~~~ "~$M~T ing with sexual harassment on cam ~rlcAN ~ ~ ers.