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Deposed CLS leaders expres sed shock and dismay at the sudden turn of events. " Slimy and disgusting behavior . .. I'm appalled!" shrieked former As sociate Dean Schlegel.
"This is not the place to be ... CLS must leave here and go to the Promised Land!" de clared Alan "Moses" Freeman. CLS leaders expect a purge by the PTL within a few weeks. In siders believe that CLS re fugees will attempt to escape by parting the waters of Lake LaSalle. The PTL takeover ap pears to have been swift and absolute. Newly appointed Co-deans Jim and Tammy Bakker address the faculty. Blackacre Theme Park to Brighten UB Campus by Milly Graham begun at Parcel Hon the shores land ride best remembered for and the purported remains of • Specialty restaurants and In the wake of its surprise of Lake Lasalle. President Ste the phrase "the timorous may Reasonable Man, found at Old food booths, including "The takeover of the UB Law School, ven Sample was unavailable for stay at home." avai Gorge last summer by Turkey Trot," run by the Wawa PTL (Praise The Law/People comment but sources in the • A hand-cranked cable car famed anthropologist Richard tosa Women's Auxiliary; "Tortes That Litigate) has announced President's office report that , ride entitled "Negligence in the Leakey. The exhibit is heavily is Torts"; and traditional Eng plans to turn part of the Am Sample is "relieved" to finally Air." guarded due to the extreme lish meat pies from the distin herst Campus into a law theme be rid of the parcel. "We can • A ski resort and toboggan fragility ofthe remains. "It's got guished London firm of Sween park called "Blackacre." finally stop ma~ng up those run called "The Slippery Slope." a thin skull," said Chief of Secu ey, Todd, Dudley and Stephens. Blackacre is the fictional es stories about building shop • "Taxland," a separate sec rity B. Fife. • A r'ide simulating the ex tate used in many law school ping malls and apartment com tion of shelters clustered • Bands of street performers periences of walking on water. Property classes to illustrate plexes over there every fall and around "Safe Harbour," where will stroll through the park The attraction will not open property interests and estate concentrate on other empty attorneys can ride the Cuba reenacting famous fact patterns until next fall, but booking re planning. PTL spokesman 0. promises," Sample is alleged to Railroad, dine on bologna pre for the amusement of onlook quests are already flooding PTL Wendell Douglas explained the have said. pared by tax expert/master chef ers. Audience participation will offices. "Juvenile Law Profes name Blackacre was chosen for Douglas stated that all of the Lou Del Cotto, and thrill to the be encouraged in classics like sor Charles Ewing has outbid the theme park because "there rides, services, and other attrac dance interpretations of Fahrid Palsgraf and Garrett (in which everyone for the inaugural is nothing more sacred and fun tions at Blackacre would relate es-Sultanah. a boy pulled a chair out from ride," reported Douglas, adding damental to the American legal to areas of law and famous • A museum housing arti under an elderly woman). "Per that many inquiries have also system than private property. cases. Among the planned facts such as Hawkin's hand; sonal injury is the lynchpin of come from judges and doctors. Besides, Green Acres has been amusements are: the chapati pan wielded by American entertainment, as Enthusiasm over the ride may used." • The Flopper II, a reconstruc Camplin; a gas meter; a work well as American law," com lead to other delusions-of-gran- Construction has already tion of the infamous Coney Is- ing model of a widget factory; mented Douglas. conrinued on page 2P Image in 106: Indira, Kenny or • • • Jesus? by Tipi Canough getting dirtier and d1rt1er, and has been able to come up with University of Buffalo stu- then the guy next to me said, a definite explanation of exactly ' dents and staff members are 'Hey, isn't that Jesus?' " Al- what the marks are or where flocking to Q' Brian Hall to view though this statement would be they came from. what has been described as considered hearsay, there However, the head of UB's "the most remarkable and seems to be a general agree- Maintenance Department has glorious event ever to take ment that the spots on the wall suggested that the spots on the place at the Amherst·Campus." are indeed an image of Jesus wall of room 106 are not a religi- What is presumed to be a like- Christ. ous phenomenon, but are sim- ness of Jesus Christ appeared The markings on the wall of ply "unremarkable seepage," on the front wall of room 106 room 106 vaguely depict a resulting from last year's leak- on Thursday, April 16, and it is robed, bearded man standing ing roof. He speculates that attracting attention from -'a ll w ith arms outstretched. water and dirt, "and God knows over the Buffalo area. However, many witnesses what else" got into the walls by A Miracle are still not completely con- way of the leaky roof, and have Calling it "nothing short of a I vinced that the larger-than-life taken all this time to travel Worshipers patiently wait to view image. miracle," UB President Steven image is at all miraculous. down to the first floor. Having Sample sa id that the recent di- "I thought it looked like nowhere else to go, the dirty has initiated a $5.00 General It is reported that many indi vine manifestation is certain to Kenny Rogers," suggested one water seeped out of a super- Public and $3.00 Student ad- viduals are even taking the ele bring " oodles" of revenue dol- skeptical student. saturated wall. mission charge. vator to the seventh floor of lars to the University. "All we Indeed, the image has been "Besides," says the chief O'Brian in order to crawl all the Several student organiza- can hope is that people will con- described variously as "just a maintenance man, "I don't way down to the first floor. tinueto be willing to pay money dirty wall," "a blur," Papa think it looks like a man at all. I tions are selling "holy relics," to see it." Smurf, and even former Who th.ink it looks rather like Indira such as pieces of cloth reputed Money to have been taken from Christ's Big bassist John Entwhistle. But be- Ghandi. With a beard." President Sample is expect- lievers are staunch in their in- W h" burial shroud, and toothpicks ing UB's latest attraction to gen- "lt's big," described one sec- . h h k' ors ,ppers made from the wood of the ond year law student, who wit- s1stence t at t e mar ings are _ Whatever the image repre- erate as muc h as $500 , 000 ·in a message from the Lord. cross on which Christ was nessed the image's first appear- sents, it has spawned extreme revenue for the University, crucified. ance during Professor Birzon's Seepage reactions from the University which Sample plans to put to- Evidence class. The student UB maintenance crews and community. Central Adminis- The most dramatic reaction, wards funding for sports. "Now continued, "At first it just researchers have been examin- tration has stationed armed however, is from thousands of we have God on our side," he looked like the wall was kind of ingthewall since the marks first Public Safety officers at each of worshippers who are crawling said. "Now we can make it to dirty,•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• but during class it kept mysteriously appeared. No one the entr'ances to the room, and to see the image on their knees. Divison I." ill "Three------Bow Ties" "Farrah, Kate and -KATY KELLY Jackie are better and bitchier than ever" ,,,,Jaclyn is -REX REED at her radiant best" Nff you miss half of - MADEMOISELLE this movie you won't be allowed to see the .•: END...So there!N - CHARLES EWING "Send up a , ·\t:::::: cheer for 'Battered Women' "I don't get it It's the what's all this must-see movie ,::1\il fuss about of 1987" 'Buttered - GENE SISKEL Women?" - ROGER EBERT "Better than 'King Kong'... a real ""What BLOCKBUSTER... (happened to Dino's really done it this time" Farrah's hair?" -JOSE EBERT -JEFF SIMON ~;; I Page two The Opinion April 22, 1987 Volume 28, No. 1 STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO SCHOOL OF LAW April 22, 1987 The SBA Election Candidates Speak Out by John Bonazzi · ily. Kimi King and Michael Kulla felt that the student body - dents informed, to establish a On April 1-2, law students ran unopposed for the Trea should be behind student gov suggestion box for student voted for next year's SBA surer and Secretary seats re ernment before it acts in certain input, and to work for a stronger Executive Board. The biggest spectively. situations. He felt that it is okay student presence on the 100th indeed, the only- battle came Much has been made of this for the student government to Anniversary Planning Commit on the ballot for SBA President. election, largely due to the con ban the JAG, but the question tee. Andy Bechard was pitted troversy engendered by a re should first go to a student re Directors must also assume cent Spectrum article, as well ferendum. more responsibility. As Will as the disappointing student Part of Williams' agenda will iams noted, "Some directors turnout. be to get fall registri;ition moved now don't do an adequate job John Williams, the new SBA up to an earlier date in the of representing their class." President, felt that the Left vs. spring, so that students will Williams further noted that Right label the Spectrum used know what they're coming back SBA officers and directors was unfair and misleading. to in the fall. He is also in can't do it all. The student body Also, while he noted that he terested in exploring exactly itself has to provide some initia doesn't agree with all of Kimi where the Law School fits into tive for change. Williams felt King's political vjews, he SUNY's $64 Million Graduate Derek Akiwumi that if students wanted to bring thought the Spectrum made Initiative. about change in a certain area, too much of that in their story. Williams also would like to io the mailroom before each it is up to them to bring it to the He felt that he will work well take steps to post the agenda meeting, to issue an SBA News attention of the SBA. Only with with tier next year. of the upcoming SBA meeting letter each month to keep stu- continued on page 4 Williams thought that the re cent campaign was a tough one, but that his opponent, Dean Hopefuls to Visit UB Andy Bechard, used what he called "Republican tactics" - by Krista Hughes more names will be added re All three of the candidates Bechard too often attacked him The Dean Search Committee mains to be seen, according to who have made it past prelimi John Williams rather than saying what his own has invited three of its nine ini Headrick, but at this point there nary interviews are currently against John Williams, with agenda was. tial interviewees to return to the are no more "live" candidates, teaching at law schools. David Williams winning the election Williams pointed to the con Law School for two-day visits or candidates who are under Filvaroff is now at the Univer by a mere 10 votes. Derek troversial JAG Corps issue, the with faculty, staff, administra serious consideration by the sity of Texas Law School where Akiwumi won the Vice Presi biggest point of contention in tion and students. Committee. he has taught Civil Rights, Con dent seat, beating write-in can the recent election, as a case in David Filvaroff, Gerald Thain There is still one in-house stitutional Law and Interna didate Belina Anderson hand- point. Unlike Bechard, Williams and Lucy McGough will be vis candidate under consideration, tional Law. iting Buffalo during the final but the Committee has yet to Lucy McGough is currently a two weeks of class in this sec decide what kind of procedure professor at Louisiana State ond round of the Dean Search will be followed and exactly University Law Center where interviews. where this candidate will fit into she has concentrated in Clinical According to Dean Search the Dean Search process. Teaching, Domestic Relations Our Legal System Committee member Prof. Professor Headrick declined and Juvenile Law, and has been Thomas Headrick, each candi to make a guess as to when a a consultant to the Georgia At by Barbara Mclean physical educator with a strong date will have a "fairly full" two final decision will be made, al torney-General and the Depart and Martha McCoy professional background in oc days of meetings which will in though he did indicate that the ment of Human Resources. Why can't Sharon come cupational therapy, became an clude lunch with members of Committee is anxious to pro Gerald Thain is a professor home? Upwards of 75 law stu integral part in Ms. Kowalski's the Erie County Bar and alumni, duce a Dean. "We'd like to see and Associate Dean at the Uni dents and concerned others - rehabilitation. and which will hopefully in the job done and done well," versity of Wisconsin where he a near unprecedented turnout The court, however, has de clude an appointment with UB Headrick said, pointing out that has taught Administrative Law, nied Ms. Thompson visitation President Steven Sample. the Committee has met every Commercial Law and Unfair rights even though medical rec Of the nine potential candi week since it was formed and Trade Practices. ords and videotapes document dates who came to the Law has been working extremely Filvaroff is scheduled to visit the progress that Ms. Thomp School for preliminary inter hard to locate and bring to UB April 20 and 21, Thain on April son and Ms. Kowalski achieved views with just the Committee, the potential dean candidates. 27 and 28, and McGough will together in the areas of com three have withdrawn, three are HOVI(_ quickly the process will go be here on April 29 and 30. Stu munication and Adult Daily Liv still under consideration, and from this point will depend dents are strongly encouraged ing Skills (ADLS). They further the remaining three are sched upon the success of the indi to attend the candidates' sched continued on page 4 uled for second visits. Whether vidual meetings. uled meetings. Whites in S. Africa Are Ignorant of Apartheid by Krista Hughes · An all-day Symposium on tices which exist. gardener. Blacks are trusted to fare when people are dying." Karen Thompson South Africa and Apartheid was This view of South Africa was take care of white children and Centi gave an overview ofthe - gathered Friday, April 10 at held in UB's Knox Hall on Satur confirmed by Lael Bethlehem, prepare the daily meals for historical background to the 4:30 p.m. in O'Brian Hall to day, April 4. The Symposium a white South African exchange white families. current apartheid regime. explore this question. was organized independently student who is one ofa growing Lael Bethlehem voiced the South Africa was first colonized Karen Thompson was intro by third-year Law Student Carol number of white anti-apartheid hopes of the anti-apartheid in 1652, and the representative duced to the audience by Pro Ho-Rezvani, and was co-spon activists. While she affirmed movement, and quoted Peter of power has shifted until the fessor Isabel Marcus. Professor sored by several Law School that white people in South Af Gabriel that "You can blow out current situation was created. Marcus stressed the suffering, and University-wide clubs and rica are "incredibly ignorant" of a candle but you can't blow out The African National Congress the high personal cost that student organizations. the appalling situation which a fire ... You can jail the resist is now in its 75th year of the clients can incur when trage UB Law Professor Judy exists around them, her discus er, but you can't jail the resist struggle against colonialism, 50 dies catapult them into the legal Scales-Trent opened the Sym sion was essentially forward ance." years of which were spenf system. Ms. Thompson's pre posium with a brief introduc looking and h'opeful. She is evi Her message was essentially struggling peacefully, until the sentation vividly underscored tion which was followed by a dence that a younger genera reiterated by two other speak ANC decided to "explore other this truth. showing of the film Witness to tion of South Africans is finally ers, Lassina, from UB's Anti means." Ms. Thompson is a tenured Apartheid. The film provides a beginning to see through the Apartheid Solidarity Commit Centi addressed the argu professor at St. Cloud State good overview of the situation haze of propaganda which the tee, and Centi, a representative ment that the ANC is a commu University in St. Cloud, Min in South Africa. Blacks are Pretoria government has been of the African National Con nist organization. He pointed nesota. For four years she and being jailed and killed every day providing. gress. Lassina pointed out that out that the ANC encompasses Sharon Kowalski lived together by mandate of the Pretoria gov Bethlehem pointed out tha~ divestment is only one element people of all races and reli- in a committed relationship. In ernment, and the majority of Blacks in South Africa are in an of the movement to end apar . gions, including some commu November 1983 their lives were white South Africans, who live interesting position because theid. He remarked that some nists who are a minority. The shattered by an auto accident as close as 20 minutes from the whites trust them with so much. people will oppose divestment duty of the ANC is "to liberate involving a· drunk driver. Ms. violence, have never been to Bethlehem grew up, as most because of the potential it has South Africa," and "those who Kowalski sustained a closed the Bantustans where Blacks white South Africans do, in a of actually hurting the people it are against apartheid ... if they head injury and was severely are forced to live, and are com fairly affluent neighborhood is supposed to help, but you are prepared to fight ... then disabled. Ms. Thompson, a pletely ignorant of the injus- with a Black nanny and a Black "can't talk about economic wel- continued on page 9 April 22, 1987 The Opinion Page three SBA Elections ...... • ■ • • • • continued from page 3 the student body's involve Bechard favors the SBA ex past experience as a Vice Pres tougher student issues. These will be able to work effectively ment, does Williams feel the panding on the activist theme ident of the Student Associa include playing an instrumental in her capacity as Treasurer. SBA can work in the students' it had this year. The JAG Corps tion should prove helpful to him role in motivating student sup On a budgetary note, King interests. issue should be pursued until in his new role. port and providing student predicted that most organiza Andy Bechard, who lost out organizations that discriminate Akiwumi feels that his role in feedback in the Dean Search tions will likely have their in his bid for SBA.President, in are not allowed to interview the SBA is as assistance to the and faculty hiring causes. budgets cut, due to current fi sisted that he had fun during here. Also, he feels that the Law President. He is interested in King stated that the SBA must nancial problems at SBA. There the campaign, and that he was School should hire a minority bringing the SBA back to the also be made more visible. Stu- is a $3,000 phone bill which not bitter. However, he expres students, where he feels it be needs to be paid, and student sed complete disagreement longs. He stresses that all stu fees will not cover all of that with Williams' agenda and dents automatically become amount. The difference will campaign statements. members of the SBA upon en probably come out of the or Bechard sees the SBA Presi rollment in the Law School, and ganizations' pockets. King felt dent as the student representa should therefore be kept well that the SBA should reward stu tive and does not feel that a informed of SBA activities and dent clubs that are active, and President should focus concern news. stop penalizing clubs for suc on many of the things Williams Improved publicity, greater cessfully engaging in fund-rais did both during the campaign interaction between directors ing. and after the election. and their constituents, and es Michael Kulla, the newly For · example, Bechard felt tablishing a suggestion box in elected Secretary and presently that the physical plant is not a the Mailroom are ways of doing the President of the Buffalo proper concern of a student this, he exclaimed. Public Interest Law Program, representative. [Williams had Furthermore, Akiwumi feels sees his role as the person who stated in the Spectrum article t~at all students should receive will keep things organized. Be a copy of the SBA Constitution that he would like to see the Kimi King sides taking minutes, he would Law School moved into a new Michael Kulla and By-Laws. Continued social like to use The Opinion to keep building.) Other concerns ofthe functions, making SBA meet dent access to the SBA meet students informed of what the new president, such as course or woman candidate, or at least ings more open, and bringing ings and office must be in SBA is doing. registration and school ranking, someone in the CLS move in notable speakers round out creased. She would also favor Kulla felt that a recent Spec indicate to Bechard his neo ment. A similar stance should Akiwumi's agenda for next providing a bulletin board to trum article misquoted him, conservative leanings and mis be taken regarding faculty hir year. alert students to the agenda for stating that he had no experi placed priorities. He feels that ing. Kimi King looks forward to the the upcoming SBA meeting. ence for his SBA job. He stres they are non-issues and ques Bechard would like to see next year. In her role as Trea King felt the recent Spectrum ses that while he has no SBA tions how much influence the more student involvement in surer, ~he wishes to tighten up article was inflammatory. The experience, he is confident that SBA can have in this school by such important issues. Stu the budgetary process, in part article wrongly tried to portray his experience with BPILP has making these things its top dents need to carve out a role to relieve the SBA of its present the recent presidential election prepared him for his role in next priorities. for themselves, he maintained. financial burdens. She doesn't as a Left vs. Right choice. She year's SBA. Bechard felt that there was a Our destiny cannot always be see herself as a tradtional trea feels that it instead was really Kulla would like to see the clear difference in the two can left to President Sample, he surer. To her, it's just a title. an active vs. passive choice. SBA remain active in academic, didates' agendas, and that added. While she feels that she brings While admitting that John administrative, p_olitical, and while he lost the election, that Derek Akiwumi is pleased certain financial skills to this Williams and herself may con social events. Specifically, he does· not necessarily indicate with the results of the election. position, beyond that she feels flict on some issues, she in feels that the JAG Corps issue support for Williams' agenda. He feels that all four members she is just another member of sisted the article wrongly por should be pursued, and that ef On the contrary, he feels that of the SBA Executive Board the SBA. trayed that conflict, noting that forts must be made in regards the close vote reflects a lack of bring valuable experience to King would like the SBA to conflict is a healthy part of the to the Dean Search to keep stu support for the new president's the SBA, and is looking forward continue with Brett Gilbert's ac adversarial process. Despite dents informed and to increase ideas. to serving as Vice President. His tivist agenda and take on the differences, she feels she student awareness. Homophobia . . . continued from page 3 document the fact that Ms. sire for the MCLU to represent bers are from Hibbing, Minne rights in case a tragedy like Ms. Human Right to be tested for Kowalski was markedly less re her, and that she be allowed to sota), and the governor of the Kowalski's occurs. "Everyone competency." sponsive to other care givers. see KT (her nickname for Karen State of Minnesota (thJ gover should come out, not only Ms. Thompson said other Since the appointment of Ms. Thompson). nor appoints members of the homosexuals, but everyone. groups around the country (in Kowalski's father as guardian in Yet the court has denied her court) are all from Hibbing, Min Tell your family and friends California, Boston, New York, July 1985, Ms. Thompson has rights by ruling that she can't nesota. what you want if something like Colorado, etc.) are getting been denied access to Ms. Kow communicate her wishes. Ms. Ms. Thompson said, "I used this happens, who you are, who ready to demonstrate during alski. Ms. Kowalski has been Kowalski has never had a com- to believe we had a justice sys you want to make decisions, the hearing to show that con moved twice, each time to an petency hearing in court as re- tem; I have since found we have how you want to be kept, where cern for this case is nationwide~ institution with less rehabilita- quired by law! Why? The law a legal system that does not and by whom. Designate a She stressed that people in Buf tive facilities. Currently, she is says she must also be retested_ necessarily protect justice." guardian, learn what the laws falo could also demonstrate on a resident of a nursing home in for competency every six to 12 Disabled groups around the of your state are." that day, and to make sure to Hibbing, Minnesota. months. She hasn't been test country advocate to allow A question and answer peri get media attention. ed! Why? When appealed to the handicapped individuals to be od followed and was initiated The audience expressed con Ms. Kowalski's rights to self- Supreme Court, the question in the courtroom to have by a young woman who sum cern with why Ms. Thompson determination and to the high- was asked whether a disabled maximum input into their deci med up the concern most prev is being denied the right to est quality of life have been ig- person is entitled to as much sion; they advocate to get the alent among the audience: medical care and rehabilitation. nored. The validity of Ms. legal protection as a criminal. person back into their home en "What can we do to help in any One woman who works with Thompson's and Ms. Kowal- As the motion was denied, the vironment. Ms. Thompson way?" Ms. Thompson said that AIDS victims said, "It's a crime,• ski's relationship has been ne- answer appears to be no! asked, "Why won't they allow people can and have made a it's heartbreaking. Unlike AIDS, gated. The ensuing legal strug- Why does the court portray Sharon to come home? Is it be difference. In this case a write there is no reason for Sharon gle, which commenced in April Ms. Kowalski as helpless and cause we might have to deal in campaign to get national to be going downhill." 1984, continues. Ms. Thomp- childlike when a videotape pro- with Sharon? Deal with her media attention has worked. The last time Ms. Thompson son's legal fees to date total up- vi des evidence showing her to handicapism? Deal with some She has tentative plans to be was allowed to see Ms. Kowal wards of $97,000. be competent? Why has the body different from us?" on the Phil Donahue show ski was in July 1985. Ms. Thomp In hopes of bringing attention court denied discovery, viola- Ms. Thompson went on to within the next month, and son said, "The last time I saw to the grave inequities, Ms. ted her right to counsel of say, "Sharon and I are sepa West 57th Street has decided to her she typed 'help me, get me Thompson has been speaking choice, violated her rights to rated and in pain. I asked her do a documentary which she out of here'...then I said my vis out to groups and media across freedom of association and to about 'coming out' (after the in hopes will air in May or June. itation time is up and I have to the nation. She is also in the due process? Her parents' attor- cident) and if she understood if Ms. Thompson said, "People leave... she typed 'please take process of writing a book about ney has a conflict of interest by I came out she did too, and she have made a difference in that me home with you'." the ordeal. Her comprehensive representing the parents in the laughed." Ms. Thompson then respect so I'm no longer asking During the enthusiastic and and compelling presentation guardianship case and Ms. said to Sharon, "Don'tyou think for a media write-in. I do ask prolonged period of question focuses on homophobia, sex- Kowalski in the personal injury I'm the most logical person to you to talk about the case, edu and answers, over $400 in con ism, and handicapism in our case. stand up and fight for gay cate that it's a human rights tributions was made to the legal medical and legal systems. It is The court has denied her vis- rights? and Sharon typed 'least case and everyone has to be assistance fund. The presenta impossible to hear her, to re- itors she chooses to see thus likely'." concerned...talk about how to tion ended in a sustained stand view the facts, and not be pro- denying the Patient's Bill of Ms. Thompson had never ad protect yourselves legally but ing ovation. After the presenta foundly moved. Rights. The court has even mitted prior to the accident she be aware of different laws in dif tion, a reception was held in the This case has shown no logic taken a verbal motion over the was gay. She knew she had a ferent states." student lounge of the Law or reason. Evidence shows Ms. phone to stop a deposition al- loving relationship with anoth School. Kowalski can communicate. ready in progress and gave no er human being, Ms. Kowalski. Ms. Thompson went on to en On Saturday, April 5, from 2 She has clearly typed re- chance to respond to the verbal She said, "Why I came out of courage those present to put to 4 p.m., a discussion was held sponses to questions put to her motion. The apparent court the closet is because as long as pressure on those in power, to at Emma's Bookstore, 168 Elm by handicap groups and the "misconduct" goes on and on. I stay in the closet I'm saying write politicians, to fund raise, wood. Ms. Thompson served as Minnesota Civil Liberties Union Why? there is something wrong with to inform her of other places to facilitator for a group of about (MCLU). She has been asked Perhaps it has something to me ...as long as I'm afraid to say speak. She also said that there 15 women. She discussed her and correctly answered her do with the fact that Ms. Kow- I'm gay, I'm a lesbian... as long is a major demonstration being relationship with Ms. Kowal birthdate, the make of the car alski's parents, their attorney as I'm invisible, I'm vulnera planned in Minnesota during ski's family members prior to she was driving when the acci- Jack Fena (a nine-year member ble." the upcoming hearing on the the accident, ways of m'aking dent occurred, what she taught, of the Minnesota Legislature), Ms. Thompson advised every motion by the Civil Liberties connections in the case to dis what being gay meant. She cor- the chief justice of the State Ap- one, regardless of their sexual Union to restore Ms. Kowalski abilities, and gave a similar rectly solved a compound math pellate Court, another member orientation, to take steps in to capacity. Its slogan will be: synopsis of what she had pre- problem. She also typed her de- of that court (two of 10 mem- order to protect their legal "People should have a Basic continued on page 7 Page four The Opinion April 22, 1987 We designed our "Programmed Learning System (PLS)" on the premise that studying for the bar exam is useless without constant review and reinforcement. We at Josephson/Kluwer understand that all the "cramming" in the world won't get you past the bar if you do not build your knowledge systematically. That's why we designed the "PLS" to give you that competitiue edge. . Admittedly a pretty big claim. But then, it's really what you would expect from the recognized leader in bar . review. 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SUNY AT BUFFALO J/K REPS Lawrence Basel Julie Brett David Brown Philip Chamot Eric Chester Raymond Dziedzic Irene Fassler Ronald Francis Celia Garelick Evelyn Gawronski Carol Giarrizzo Laura Green Evelyn Gurdin Maryellen Gunnison Nancy Holtby Rose-Anne Landau Lois Liberman Fern Merenstein Pamela Neubeck Karl Niedermeier Elaine Pers Martha Post i .·.··=-=-=-··········=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-iiir:?tt/II\u.·_· _·_·_·_·_·iii.·.·iiiii:.i:.::.:\ttt\:_i·.·.·.:_·_·_·iiiiiiirt\t:r:tiiiiiiiirrrrrrr:??t:>:::{:??:I/tttt>?>tt:>:{:>>>:t:f\:It?t:t:?itiiii:·:-iii:·:·i April 22, 1987 The Opinion Page five women Attorneys S_peak at Career Pariel .. by Zulma Bodon clients. This, she said, "is due because, in her words, "it's is the variety of the work itself: once you are in ... there are ad The Erie County Women's to the fact that salaries and fun." "When I started working I kind vances in title but it does not Bar,. Association sponsored a bonus programs are not based The Internal Revenue Service of expected to be dealing really change your job descrip career panel on Wed., March 25 upon how many clients an as Prior to her partnership posi mostly in mortgage closings tion," Grace explained. at UB Law School. A group of sociate brings in to the firm." tion at a small firm, Hollis Hite, and bankruptcies. I have not Corporate In-House Attorney dynamic and • successful This allows the young lawyer of James N. Hite and As had to do either, and never will. Prior to working for Rich women attorneys discussed the to concentrate on actually sociates, worked for the IRS. As All of that is handled by outside Products, Maureen 0. Hurley various settings of law practice, doing the work without having a tax attorney, she handled, attorneys." practiced for several years in a including large firm, small firm, to worry about trying to bring in primarily, estate tax work which Among the variety of work law firm. She believes that the banking and litigation. clients. requires auditing and evaluat Grace's duties include "ans experience gained in a firm is large Firm ing businesses such as real es wering operational ques "probably the best prerequisite Resources are a big advan Small Firm tate holdings. tions from a branch person and to be an in-house attorney" be tage of major law firms, said Hollis Hite, a partner in James According to Hite, in order to handling the corporate mat cause you tend "to develop an Annabelle Forrestel, represent N. Hite and Associates, shared recruit attorneys, the IRS pays a ters." But her major practice is area of expertise that is of value ing Phillips, Lytle et al. She her views about what it is like good starting salary. However, with the consumer credit. to the firm and it makes you pointed out that having an ex to be a partner in a small firm. "when you start working for "What we do quite a bit is set much more sensitive to outside tensive library, a lexis machine, She indicated that if you have them, and it is similar to a lot ting up products ... (such as) counsel needs." and a resource person to do the the right "mix of people" it can of other government agencies, the home equity line of credit Hurley's role as in-house research for you can be quite be a very enjoyable "family life you do not have your own of which we now offer in New counsel is pretty basic: coun advantageous when the pres experience." But like families, fice. I worked in a big open York State." This involves ad seling the corporation on any sure is on to meet.certain dead she warned, you have to be able room with little partitions that vising the bank's business thing that could come up on a lines. In addition, support staff to get along with the people that separate you from the other at people on how to go about set daily basis in the corporation's such as paralegals, secretaries are in your firm "because there torneys." IRS attorneys also do ting up the practice in other agenda. Hurley indicated that and clerks facilitates and expe are so few of you that if per a lot of secretarial and clerical states, and drafting the forms the whole area of in-house dites the routine legal work. sonalities don't match, or there work. This, she said, is one of and contracts that are involved counsel is developing as "a "This gives the attorney the are people involved in a power the major disadvantages of with the product, said Grace. new phenomenon with an flexibility _and the time to con struggle, it is going to be abso working for the IRS. Another advantage of work economic value because litiga centrate on other matters be lutely miserable ... there is not But there are some advan- ing with a bank is the client con tion is so expensive that if the cause he or she- knows some enough humanity to get lost - tages, however. Hite explained tact. Grace noted that "you get company brings somebody in one else will do the follow:_up in." that in addition to a good salary, to develop your own clients, who can, at least if not avoid procedure," said Forrestel. Hite also explained that when "you get very intense, high your own relationships with the the litigation, it could perhaps Large firms, either in a formal you work in a small firm you quality tax training in a very business people inside the put (the company) in a better or informal way, have tra~ning will get buried with day to day short ptlriod of time." She said bank ... you are involved in ad• position than it would have programs for first and second , administrative tasks. "This is this training opens up a lot of vising people." She also indi been otherwise." year associates. This, Forrestel , even more so if you are one of opportunities for job offers on cated that working with a bank The size of an in-house staff said, is very important because the managing partners where the outside. Thus, the IRS, she permits you to learn the busi makes a big difference: "We even though they have a good you spend all day long doing emphasized, is a great training ness of banking from the ex don't have the luxury of having - understanding of the legal prin administrative garbage with no laboratory. perts. Banking, she said, "is a eleven or thirteen attorneys ciples learned in law school, time to do the legal work." Banking practice of lawthat is very much each with an area of specialty," "most recent law graduates feel When she is not playing the Patricia Grace works in the In in demand and a lot of banks explained Hurley. Thus, as an they lack practical experience." role of an administrator, Hite House Counsel Department of are beginning to open up in in-house attorney you don't Another advantage of work confessed she gets a lot of per Marine Midland Bank. Her work house counsel departments be have the advantage of passing ing for a large firm is that young sonal and professional satisfac generally concentrates on the cause of economic reasons." or delegating an assignment to associates have the opportu tion as a litigation attorney. The consumer credit area and cor Also, the experience obtained another lawyer. You are ex nity to meet many people with fact that she was a teacher be porate type of work. Specifi in a bank can open doors in the pected to become an expert in different backgrounds and with fore entering law school has a cally, her duties are divided into corporate sector. "You can go many areas of law. "I am now different areas of legal exper lot to do with her success. "I four general areas: 1) retail into several different areas such an 'expert' in food and drug tise. Forrestel explained that love standing in front of groups banking which covers all as as corporate law." law, labor and employment this broadens the scope of your and teaching." She also indi pects of consumer products The hours are another advan law, contract law ... you name work experience: uThe oppor cated that Nif you are going to such as credit cards, loa11s, and tage to bank work. Although it," said Hurley. But this could tunity to work with different at go into litigation yoti have to home equity lines of credit; 2) long, the hours tend to be very al~o be 11n advantage because torneys throughout the firm is feel comfortable standing in monitoring changes in legisla consistent. "I could generally "it is probably the closest thini;i the best way to get the broadest front of big groups and talking tion regulating the banking in be in and out at the same time to being a general practitioner." experience. Notonly do you get to people, and you better be dustry; 3) servicing subsidiary every day," said Grace. Law School Training to learn about the different comfortable teaching because corporations by setting up the One major disadvantage of As far as law school prepara areas of law, but you also get essentially if you are speaking corporation, handling the qual banking, according to Grace, is tion for any of the work settings to use different attorneys as in front of a jury, that is what ifications on other states and ar that unlike a corporation where addressed in the panel discus role models." you are doing ... you are ranging board of director's attorneys are subject to the pay sion, there seemed to be a gen Another advantage is that teaching the jury about the case meetings; and 4) litigating cases increments of the corporation, eral consensus among the there is not so much demand from your point of view." Thus, brought against the bank. salaries go up relatively slower. speakers that although some in the beginning of an as if you like teaching, Hite recom According to Grace, one ad Also, "there is the problem that business background might sociate's career to bring in mends looking into litigation vantage of working for a bank there is really nowhere to go help in the corporate and bank ing sectors, what is most needed is the ability to com Plaintiffs' Bar Turns To Networking municate and write effectively. Personnel and counseling skills by Idelle Abrams documents, and prepare docu going into bankruptcy, the net Galanter, groups have "moved are also a big asset to being an The last 20 years has seen the ment packages. work mobilized and the very beyond enriching the informa effective and successful attorney rise of a new phenomenon in This was highly advantageous next day there was a meeting tion flow to actually coordinat regardless of the area of law a the litigation arena: the devel to the members of the group of 150 plaintiff attorneys. ing the discovery effort." recent law school graduate opment of plaintiff attorney liti because "for about $1,000 they Galanter remarked on the As a general rule, however, it wants to pursue. gation networks. In his presen got all the relevant documents highly developed communica is rare for any of these groups tation on "Mass Torts and Law together with a key as to how tion network this required as to develop real strategic coordi yers' Litigation Networks," they could be utilized," said well as "the willingness of nation, said Galanter. He pro Marc Galanter, professor at the Galanter. This points up the people to invest in this kind of posed three factors that could • PROFESSIONAL TYPESETTING University of Wisconsin Law unique advantage of this kind cooperative activity." account for this. The first is a R School, described how these of network. It allows attorneys There are- approximately 50 matter of the personalities of • OFFSET PRINTING "congregations" of attorneys in small firms to "act with some of these plaintiffs' attorneys' plaintiff attorneys. "Plaintiffs' E • FAST SERVICE have begun forming coalitions of the economies of scale and groups now functioning in a lawyers tend to be very indi s to share information and tech some ofthe possibilities of divi variety of areas in addition to vidualistic, competitive peo • COMPETITIVE PRICING nical assistance, especially in sion of labor that the lawyers in asbestos, including litigation ple," said Galanter, and as a re u • MANY the products liability area. the large firms enjoy." on the Dalkon Shield, disaster sult there is intense competi M DIFFERENT The first group of this kind, The effectiveness of this cases, and antitrust cases. The tion for leadership in these net TYPESTYLES & said Galanter, developed in the cooperation can be seen from groups share information at works. E PAPERS early 1960s when a number of the results. Of the 11 cases that meetings, produce newsletters A second problem, said Gal • RESUME civil cases were brought were eventually tried, six of the about current developments, anter, is the "classical free· rider s SAMPLES against the Richardson Merrill seven plaintiff victories were and convey information ob problem"; that is, "there's a AVAILABLE Company in connection with awarded to group members. In tained in informal, behind-the constant temptation to appro their anti-cholesterol drug, contrast, only one of the four scenes discovery. They also priate the information without MER-29. The company had pied plaintiff losses was tried by a help locate experts and monitor sharing the burden of produc nolo contendre in the criminal WE ARE RESUME PRINTING group member. the other side's experts, keep ing it." Selective incentives SPECIALISTS! trial and had been fined the One example of the sophisti ing track of their testimony in may be needed to encourage CALL US OR VISIT US FOR A statutory maximum of$80,000. cation and coordination possi earlier cases. people to reciprocate. Often the QUOTATION TODAY! The documents subpoenaed ble within a group is the asbestos More rarely groups have best results are obtained when by the grand jury were a fertile litigation group, said Galanter. commissioned scientific stud some kind of "relational glue" 3171 Main Street source of information for plain (Main S. of WlnBpear) The group began very infor ies and made presentations to already exists between the par Buffalo, NY tiffs' attorneys bringing civil mally in 1966 but it wasn't until influential government bodies ties as in the case of a clats ac 835-0100 suits. These attorneys, who had about a decade later that the including the FDA and various tion or a multi-district litigation 1676 Nia. Falls Blvd. worked on air disaster cases to network really "thickened." congressional committees. In proceeding. (•croH from K-M•rt) Tonawanda, NY gether, set up a clearinghouse When Johns Manville, a major some cases groups have held Protective orders sought by 834-7046 to sort through the information, defendant in the asbestos schools to prepare people for defendants also pose a serious summarize and outline the cases, announced that it was trial. And occasionally, noted continued on page 7 ff I BIHi-i Page six The Opiaion April 22, 1987 Course Srirvey Results Anriounced by APPC by John Bonazzi and Diane Dean _ The student representatives mentioned was the administra first time than by having a students were unaware that lete" traditional law experi of the Academic Planning and tion's proposal to change the ready-made sample given to this new catalog even existed. ences. Policy Committee surveyed law New York Practice curriculum. them, from which they could One wonders why A&R doesn't Seniors had a variety of sug students last semester regard A number of students opposed copy and mimic. publicize this and make them gestions for making the regis ing their opinions o.n various changing the New York Practice Students disagreed. They felt available to students. tration process easier and more courses and registration course from a research and a sample of a memo dealing Consistent with the above, fair. These include: policies of the Law School. writing course to an exam with a subject far removed from students from all classes com • Letting students know Three different surveys were based one. Of course, only a the welfare benefits issue used plained that they must wait when professors are expected employed to gauge the opin quarter of the students - those in R&W would provide the until the summer to register for to go on sabbatical well in ad ions of the three classes. Sixty in Prof. Sullivan's class - still necessary perspective and gui next fall's classes, instead of vance so students can plan their eight seniors, 75 second-year have a purely R&W format. dance, while keeping the stu being allowed to do so during curriculum accordingly. students, and 97 first-year stu The professors were given dents from relying too heavily the spring, as most other • Instead or registering stu dents responded, a group com the option of offering exams in on the document in writing schools do. dents for four classes at a time, prising 35% of the law student stead of civil practice papers, their own papers. do it one by one, so everybody At the APPC meeting, Dean body. The results of the survey and one professor is requiring At the APPC meeting, this is registered for- one class, then Newhouse said that while the were given to the Dean and the papers in addition to an exam. issue was discussed and put on everybody for two, etc. This will administration was conducting faculty members of the AAPC While Dean Newhouse worked the "back burner" to be dealt 1avoid some people getting all a pre-registration to gauge stu at the committee meeting held hard to keep the classes small, with at a later date. four of their first choices, and dent_s' course preferences, he recently. many of the students were not In addition, students felt that some getting none of their first would suggest the change from While there was great diver given what they asked for - a the course should not be choices. summer to spring to his succes sity in the responses to specific third-year Research and Writing graded according to the "H," • Let third-years add/drop sor. questions, some responses course. "Q," "D," "F," structure, but on before second-years do. Contrary to the widely-ac were seen on a recurring basis. First-year students felt that by a pass/fail basis. Some students • Schedule classes at the cepted notion that we are a Pub Across the board, it can be far, the worst experience of felt that the course should be same general time each day to _lic Interest law school, many said that students felt strongly their first semester was Re taught by attorneys, rather than let students plan a regular work first-year students expressed the ConTorts should not be in search and Writing. Students students. Some also felt that schedule. the opinion that there is too cluded in the first-year cur were upset that there was so the work load be intensified and • Enforce a policy whereby much emphasis placed on pub riculum. "Eliminate ConTorts," little instruction provided to the credits given for the course each professor must use the lic interest law here, and not "Stop teaching ConTorts," and prepare them for their assign be increased from 2 to 3 or 4. same forced-registration proce enough opportunity to pursue "Teach traditional contract and ments. First-year students also ex dure. a corporate-related law posi tort classes first!" were com "Like throwing darts in the pressed unhappiness with The students on the APPC tion. mon responses. dark", "More guidance and in- · being kept in the dark about also suggested returning to the In fact, 96% of the seniors struction is needed," and "The their future'courses. Most stu These students expressed a old procedure of allowing first who took it felt that ConTorts faculty here is supposed to dents were not aware of the heavy interest in corporate law year students to choose one of should not be taught to first teach us, not frustrate us" were courses they would be taking courses, and complained about their second semester courses. year students, often suggesting representative of the re during the second semester, let certain "leftist" and "liberal" While doing this would create that it be made an upperlevel sponses. Students felt that the alone during their next two courses presently offered, more complications in schedul course. This sentiment was faculty should allow the T.A.s years. Many felt that a listing of which they felt could be aban ing, the committee said they echoed by first and second year to provide more explicit direc such courses should be posted doned in favor of more tradi would consider the proposal. students. tion and guidance regarding by A&R during the fall semes tional, business / corporate The student members of the While Dean Newhouse lis the structure ofthe legal papers ter. courses. APPC left the meeting gratified tened to students' concerns at assigned. Furthermore, many students, Of course, there was another that their suggestions had been the recent APPC meeting, he unaware that the administra faction which complained of considered; however, it is obvi was hesitant to act unilaterally, The R&W professors, accord tion had just revised the school the exact opposite - that more ous that the only way to imple and instead plans to speak to ing to T.A.s, felt that students bulletin,· complained that the - needs to be done to expand ment the changes suggested is the professors who teach it. would learn more by grappling school needed to do just that. public law programs, instead of a continued active participation Another subject frequently with the issues and ideas for the Yet, as late as last week, many providing for "dull and obso- by the student bar. Networking ...... • • • • • • continuedfrom page 6 threat to the successful opera of the insurance com pany, to tiffs' networks. It does seem ciplined prima donnas of the neys, who are paid by the hour, tion of these networks. These dispose of the most number of "coun er-·ntui ive" npted Gal plaintiffs' ba{." will no,t-.,M..SQm,iMl'llMliliGI..~~ orders hurt the smaller firms, cases at the least cost, is in con anter, that "these defendants' On closer examination, said work done by other attorneys. destroying their access to low flict with the defendant's in- attorneys - sober, cautious, Galanter, this does make sense. Networks of plaintiffs' attor cost information. terest, which is to protect the disciplined, calculating organi The value of each plaintiff's neys also operate in the public Among defendants' attor reputation of his product. zation people should experi case is affected by all the other interest arena. The primary neys, coalitions have develop However, networking among ence so much more trouble decisions made on the same example of this is the NAACP ed as a response to insurance defendants' attorneys has been cooperating than these indi issue. The loss of an asbestos network. Devised to conduct companies. Often the interest much less prevalent than plain- vidualistic, egocentric, undis- - case, for example, by an in extended litigation campaigns adequately prepared attorney to outlaw restricted covenants hurts all the other asbestos and segregated schools, it has SBA Dinner Dance Pies cases. Defendants' attorneys, provided a model for many on the other hand, are natural other public interest litigation enemies. Their clients each groups. want to defeat liability and minimize the damages. In addi Attorney networks could be tion, defendants' lawyers are significant in three ways, said competing for the same clients, Galanter: by improving the "who typically represent a quality of the information avail pretty large chunk ofthe office's able; as a solution to the prob practice." lem of aggregation of cases; Fee considerations also rein and as a way to enable "widely force the degree of coopera dispersed lawyers in small tion. Plaintiffs' attorneys "don't firms to remain competitive sacrifice any part of their con with large firms." On a larger tingency fee by relying on the scale, Galanter said, analyzing discovery and preparation of networks is a useful way "to un their lawyers," Galanter point derstand the role of litigation in ed out. But defendants' attor- our society." Law Day Run The Erie County Bar Association will hold a 5 kilometer race on Friday, May 1 at 6:30 p.m . The race will start in front of Erie County Hall located at 10 Franklin. Registration forms are available from the Erie County Bar As sociation office at 1360 Statler Towers (phone: 852-8687). The reg istration fee is $8 before race day and $10 on race .day. T-shirts w ill be provided to the first 400 registrants. In addition, awards w ill be presented to the top three male and female finishers overall, and to the top three finishers in each of 10 age groups. The race is sponsored by Jack W. Hunt & Associates, Inc. Re t freshments will be provided after the race by Shayleen's. Music, merriment and mousse Homophobia . . continued from puge .J sented the day before at the Henderson of WBFO FM 88.7. highlighted the gala affair Law School. · The interview will be aired in On Saturday night the Gay the near future on the 4 and 11 held Friday, April 10 at the Law Student Organization p.m. news report, and on a fu (GLSO) hosted a reception for ture segment of Women Speak Ms. Thompson at a private Buf which airs Sundays at 4:30 p.m. Niagara Falls Convention Center. falo home. On Sunday morning on FM 88.7. _,. Hk -11-i ., she was interviewed by Behi April 22, 1987 The Opinion Page seven I I l WIGH ;I HAD TAl"EN I r ~PIEPER I I f r - r - I I r I I I I f The Bar Course That Cares. · I for information see your Pieper Reps or contact: PIEPER NEW YORK-MULTISTATE BAR REVIEW, LTD. 90 Willis Avenue, Mineola, New York 11501 • Telephone: (516) 747-4311 Judith Kubiniec Doris Carbonell Mark Pollard Donna Siwek .Brian Bornstein Amy Sullivan Susan Roque Maria Lotempio Amy Murphy Shelly Rice John Rowley Terrance Flynn Cynthia Gonzalez I . Page eight The Opinion April 22, 1987 ! Cook Claims Media Twisting ofNicaraguan War by Richard Giacoma from disingenuously slanted such information from him. here because the victim was During a lengthy question So you think you're getting the writing to complete fabrication, Another reporter from the armed." and answer1 period, Cook said truth on Nicaragua- from the ✓ Cook said. Washington Post, whose writ- Cook said the contras are the likelihood of such an inva-;_ New York Times? Not accord- He told of press coverage at ing apparently did not conform carefully and uniformly de sion is significant. "I could even ing to journalist Mark Cook, the dedication by Sandinista to the line, was labeled scribed by the press either as see Reagan invading after next who has been reporting from leaders of a newly constructed "Johnny Sandinista" by the "rebels fighting to overthrow year's presidential election Managua for the last five years geothermal plant in 1983. The reactionary Accuracy in Media the leftist Sandinista Govern- then dumping the quagmire in for the Central American Histor- New York Times' lead reporter organization. He left the Post ment," or "anti-Sandinista re the lap of his successor." And ical lrJstitute, the San Francisco in Nicaragua arrived at the cere- when the paper would not sup- bels." The latter "does not even once troops have been commit Chronicle and the Japanese mony late and asked him port him against such charges. credit the Sandinistas with ted, he said, it would be hard News Service. "What's happening?" Cook Cook also faulted the main- being a government," he to get them out. Liberal polJti Cook told large audiences at shared his notes with the repor- stream media for not covering added. cians like Senate Majority UB Law School and the ter who then left early, saying contra atrocities ~againsf c~vi- The program, organized by Leader "Robert Byrd would Elmwood Avenue Unitarian "I have to get back to Managua lians. In one recent attack close the National Lawyer's Guild, then say 'I opposed interven Church (Mar. 26 -27) that most to file my story on time." to 30 people were killed while originally was to have included tion earlier, but I can't tell our major media in the U.S. tow a That story reported that a riding in a truck on.a mountain former Nicaraguan soldier mothers that their sons died in strict anti:Sandinista Govern- man at the ceremony told the road. A major U.S. news service Frank Serrano. A veteran of im- vain now.'" ment (Reagan Administration) author that the government justified its silence by saying portant battles with the contras, Cook refuted charges of San line in reporting on Nicaragua. forced him to attend by with- that three of the victims had Serrano, 19, was denied an dinasta. abuses of 1 power by If reporters do not conform, holding his previous week's guns so it could not have been entry visa by the U.S. embassy. challenging members ofthe au their stories are not printed. pay. Cook said the reporter a group of civilians. That, Cook Cook explained the U.S. pol dience to name a single in Tactics employed in this cam- spoke with no one else at the said, is equivalent to the Buffalo icy of granting visas only to -stance in history when a gov paign of misinformation range event and certainly did not get News "not reporting a murder those Nicaraguans with signifi ernment at war suspended cant property holdings to as fewer rights than the Sandinis sure that they return to their tas. "During World War II Murphy Discusses Prison country. Ironically, he said, it is Churchill had Britons of Ger the wealthy plantation owners man and Italian descent locked by Daniel lbarrondo Blacks. Albany, with 3,830 Black For Blacks, the trend is in re who have not returned and now up, and we know what hap On Monday, April 13, Jim males between the age of 16 verse. live in Miami. pened to the Japanese here." Murphy of the Center for Jus and 35, had 298 Black males in Murphy's study on incarcera Serrano, like most Nicara He conceded that the govern' - tice Education came to UB Law prison, a rate of 7,780 per tion in NewYork Stat~ revealed guan soldiers, ac·ording to ment closed the opposition La School to talk about minority/ 100,000. that these disparities exist be Cook, is not overly fearful of a Prensa newspaper but noted white incarceration in New York In comparison, there were cause of-a demonstrated racial U.S. invasion. Civilians are that its editors openly support State. The lecture was spon 367 white males in prison and bias in the imprisonment rates. more worried, saying, "If the the contras. In El Salvador, he sored by the Baha'i Association 43,000 males between the age He warned that "the Unifed U.S. invades us, other countries said, the government has of SUNYAB and the Black Law of 16 and 35, a rate of 835 per States as a whole has exceeded will come to our aid, right?" The blown up the offices of the op Students Association. 100,000. He concluded that if South Africa in its rate of incar soldiers recognize the danger position press and murdered its Murphy spoke about the dis jail population was considered, ceration of Blacks." but feel prepared to address it. editors. proportionate number of mi Albany County Vl(ould have the The solution to this problem, They have strategically de nority inmates stating that the equivalent of over 10 percent of · he said, is more than a matter feated the contras and are con-• A new Nicaraguan opposi imprisonment rate for Blacks the young Black male popula of crime and punishment. It is fident they would do the 'same tion paper funded by several was 12 times the rate for whites. tion in prison or jail. The racist tied to broader social policy is with U.S. forces, said Cook. Scandinavian countries will In a study on incarceration element he stated was in felony sues, especially those of em A professional force, "the begin to print soon. "It should which he conducted in Albany, probations. There are three ployment, education, housing U.S. Marines would fight well, be a good thing," Cook said, Murphy analyzed the imprison times as many whites on felony and access to basic supportive but to them there is little differ noting that it will not get fund ment rates for both whites and probation as there are in prison. services. _ ence between Nicaragua, Chad ing from the CIA as did La Pren and Lebanon." The speaker en sa. visioned Nicaraguans entering Nicaragua's openness under army bases with explosives BP/LP Sponsors ''Public'' Event such conditions has helped to strapped to their bodies, killing by John Farrell political mood of the country. legal standards. Her office as inspire the current reforms in hundreds of American soldiers The Buffalo Public lnte~st Since much of prison opera sists geople who may not know the Soviet UniOA .and a free, at a time, as in Lebanon. Law Program sponsored a pre tion is kept insulated from pub what their rights are. press in Cuba, he said. He quoted a politician from sentation of attorneys who lic view, part of the task of her Ziegler, who works for the the Independent Liberal Party Asked about his political pos work in public interest areas on office is to try to keep the public Appeals Division of the Legal - one of seven opposition par ition, Cook said "the Nicara Wednesday, April 1. The speak informed of these vital issues Aid Bureau in Buffalo, began ties - as saying, "If he U.S. guan people did not elect the ers included Ellen Yachnin from with press conferences or re his presentation with a brief, invades, Central America will U.S. Government so it has no Prisoners Legal Services, Carol ports. Yet, these press confer but helpful, description of how be in ruins and 1n the hands of right to overthrow their govern Eisenmann from Oak Orchard ences_often prompt libel law criminal defense counsel is pro the left." ment." Legal ·services and John Zieg suits from di~gruntled prison vided for in New Y_ork State. ler, from the Appeals Division officials. Despite the many Some countie!:> set up locally of the Legal Aid Bureau. drawbacks and obstacle_s en- funded public defender offices. countered in this field of work, Others have judges assign·coun Mistakes Cost Mooters by Paul W. Kullman · written page as an example of Ellen Yachnin explained that Yachnin suggests that things sel who are then reimbursed at A change in scoring rules and one of the technical mistakes working with prisoners can be would undoubtedly be a lot a statutorily fixed rate. Buffalo technical mistakes,in their brief that proved costly. a frustrating as well as reward worse off for prisoners if her of contracts with a non-profit cor proved costly to UB's Peter Ab Abdella and Dropkin argued ing experience. Prisoners Legal fice did not exist. poration (the Legal Aid Bureau) della and Shelley Drapkin in on behalf of the Peak Experi "..,ervices is a state-funded agency Eisenmann, from Oak Orchard to provide legal defense coun their attempt to capture the sec ence Corporation against the which was organi1ed in the Legal Services in Batavia, de sel for indigents. ond annual Domenick L. Gab State of New York. The case mid-1970's to insure that pris scri_bed her agency as a "tradi- , Ziegler has found that ap rielli Moot Court Competition in dealt with a state agency's de oners would have access to the tional" legal service. Much of peals work can be especially Albany. nial of a proposal by the corpo court system. the work involves entitlement challenging and rewarding. His The competition, which in ration to build condominiums. The office she works in repre benefits and most advocacy oc work almost always involves cluded two teams each from Al The agency had -Successfully sents prisoners from ten pris curs at agency level proceed- appellant, rather than respon bany, Syracuse and St. John's delayed the proposed construc ons in civil matters including - ings. Other areas include land dent, advocacy because pro law schools, was held'April 3-5. tion pursuarit to a statute. conditions of confinement is lord-tenant disputes, divorces, secutors are rarely allowed to A team from the host school Abdella and Dropkin argued sues and mistreatment charges. and consumer complaints. She appeal a not-guilty verdict. won the event, and with it, the that the Court of Claims had Much of the work involves con- has found that in the fairly rural Ziegler pointed out that, as an coveted Steuben Glass bowl. jurisdiction to hear the claim; stitutional due process issues. area where her agency is lo appellant, one has more control "We were very strong in that the corporation's claim Yachnin has found that pris cated, officials sometimes have over shaping the issues to be terms of oral advocacy," said was not barred by res judicata; oner "rights" tend to expand or a tendency to create their own debated and more opportunity Abdella, "but it just wasn't that the application of the stat contract depending on the rules or procedures, ignoring to expand the law. enough." ute in question _amounted to a Abdella, who teamed with regulatory taking requi~ing just Apartheid • • ■ • • • ■ • • ■ ■ ■ ■ • • continued from page 3 Mark Metz to take top honors compensation; and that the ap they are welcome to join the and the more "unracial" this the Southwest African Peoples in the competition last year, did plication of the statute consti ANC." war becomes, the greater the Organization. win the best advocate award tuted an invalid exercise of the He addressed, as did Lassina, chance for a non-racial recon this year - though he said it state's police power. On April 8, Phi Alpha Delta the question of whether divest ciliation. was somewhat of a "hollow vic ment will hurt the Blacks. Other speakers at the Sym sponsored its first Transition of tory." The competition, whic,, each Officers Dinner. The event, at "Blacks in South Africa want posium included Aubrey Mc "Scoring for the competition year focuses on current issues apartheid abolished, whatever cutcheon from the National tended by members and guests, was different this year," Ab of New York law, is held in the cost," Centi maintained, so Conference of Black Lawyers, welcomed the elected officers della said. "The briefs were honor of Albany Law School's "going without work for anoth who spoke on ~he "Illegality of into their official positrons. counted during each round this most distinguished alumnus. er five years or so_is no worse Apartheid," Vicki Erenstein, a The Phi Alpha Delta officers year. Last year they were Gabrielli was elected to the than apartheid existing for member of the Southern Afri for the 1987-88 year are: Barry scored once. New York State Supreme Court another three centuries." can Subcommittee of the Na Stopler, justice; Edward J. Joz "We actually won on our oral in 1961. In 1967 he was elevated Centi stressed that the war tional lawyers Guild, who wiak Ill, vice justice; Forest scores and lost on our brief to the Appellate Division by against apartheid must be spoke on "U.S. Foreign Policy Strauss, marshal!; Richard scores," he said. ''We just didn't then Gov. Rockefeller. Gabrielli fought with as non-racial an ap Toward Pretoria," law student Wong, clerk; Bruce _Frankiew pay enough attention to details. was later elected to the New ich, treasurer; Joseph Ferraro, proach as possible. The "youth Festus Campbell who conduct We made stupid mistakes." York Court of Appeals in 1972 historian; and Derek Akiwumi, , of the ANC is prepared to see ed a poetry reading, and Lucia Abdella cited things like where he served a 10-year term tribune. the war carried out to its end," Hamutenya, a representative of using too many lines per type- until his retirement in 1982. April 22, 1987 The Opinion Page nine r------==-:::a"'~==i The Opinion Mailbox I 0PINION Ill"'\·!;!~ad~ck ~~~~.!s Hiring Record srATEuN1vERs1noFNEwmR I Page ten The Opinion April 22, 1987 The Boy Mechanic by Kevin O'Shaughnessy ...,...... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • have some pretty wild Not all the problems are ad education. · Student part1c1pa force for the reform and restruc "When the going gets weird, dreams .. . ministrative. As Opinion Editor tion is an integral part of that turing of society. the weird turn pro." One of them involves this in Chief Paul Kullman observed, education. Courses, activities Pretty wild dream, huh? ... -Hunter S. Thompson Law School .. . "There seems to be a Law Re- and student government Maybe not. from the book When I came here, people view-or-nothing attitude among should strive towards tearing Epilogue The Great. Shark Hunt told me that this was a "pro the first and second years." Last down the hierarchy that is in This is it. The last Boy gressive" Law School: The Buf year, 11 students ran for the four herent in traditional legal edu Mechanic. Like Richard Nixon, The weird are about to turn falo Model. The Buffalo Model top SBA offices. This year, six cation. In addition, UB should "you won't have (me) to kick pro. The class of '87 is about to meant more than learning students (including one last continue to offer courses that around anymore" (Nixon is still enter the "real world." I am one rules, getting grades and pass minute write-in candidate) ran no one else can or will. The pre 2round, and if you see him, kick of the wierd. Barring divine in ing the bar. There was a spirit for the four top SBA offices. sence of Critical Legal Studies him). I get the feeling that the tervention or Marjorie Girth, I here. A sense of doing some Closer to home, the Opinion's at UB is imperative if this Law layout (a newspaper term that will graduate on May 17. I am thing different. Faculty and stu staff has dwindled from eight School wishes to remain na most of you rubes won't under ready to leave this Law School. dents trying to humanize the to four. tionally recognized. If this place stand) for this issue is going to Friends tell me that I have law and the way it was studied. These are just two examples. turns its back on CLS, it might be like the last episode of Bar never ent~red 'the "real world." The Buffalo Model is going I did not conduct a student as well sink into the swamp it's ney Miller. They tell me things are very dif the way ofthe Dodo. An idea on apathy poll (too lazy, I guess ... built on. The Opinion has been one of ferent there. It's full of stress, the verge of extinction. The but then again the apathetic The Buffalo ·Model means my most pleasant Law School high finance (anything beyond class of '87 has plodded through wouldn't fill out the question that on graduation day, stu experiences. It's right up there rent and utilities is high finance the Family Law cheating scan naires) but I feel it would con dents walk away from here with with flag football, Wade's War to me) and back stabbing career dal, the Dean Search Debacle firm Paul Kullman's assess more than a diploma and a cre riors and drinking heavily with mongers (sounds like Dallas, and the Gourman Report. The ment. This view may not be per dential on their resume. They my friends. I am proud of the doesn't it?). Some of my friends CLS Faculty has become splin v9sive, but many other graduat walk into the "real world" with things this paper has ac are downright depressed about tered and factiorialized. The ing 'seniors share it. They are a social conscience; a sense complished. I am hopeful it will entering the real world. As one school is lagging in faculty ap ·people who care about this Law that life isn'tfair to most people. continue to do so. The people of them put it, "I hear the real pointments for both women Schot>I and they are worried. And that they have to do some here are something special. world is more\ miserable than and minorities (especially mi This Law School should lead thing about that. This Law Good bye and raise hell! your wildest dreams." norities). the way in progressive legal School could become a major SelfAppreciation a Factor in SelfDetermination by Daniel lbarrondo encounter worldview, perhaps self love. Yet, it is possible for power strategies. of the rural Puerto Rican. If we To conclude the analysis of more of a believer in the Amer a person April 22, 1987 The Opinion Page eleven These Things Will Not Be Tolerated • • • You're sitting along the walk stand on cert·ain controversial ways speak continue to speak the representative of an entire recorded for the Character way having lunch. A fellow law issues becomes a matter for de and those who never do still race or class or ideological Committee by the Dean. The student sidles over to ask if any bate. don't. The inequality remains. point of view. It is scary and free speech, rights-based slap one wants to have a look at a No. These Things Must Not The power imbalance contin lonely and frustrating. You sit on the wrist just will not do. nude photograph of his latest Be Tolerated ues unchallenged. The same in a classroom an.d when you Do you believe in anything? conquest. "Don't.worry, I fuck These racist, sexist and voices are heard, the same raise your hand, if you get Take a stand. Alter the balance. ed her first." You reach into homophobic attitudes cannot voices are silenced. If we do not called on, pens drop. Eyes roll. Overtly protec! and encourage your mailbox · and pull out a continue to go unanswered. try ,to make our voices heard, Here s/he goes again. minority voices. Speak out handwritten homophobic note Each of us has a responsibility we are complacent in this It can also be empowering loud, don't think- do. slandering a classmate. You to act. The false deferential silencing. and, it has to be done. We owe This letter marks our recogni look and see that these have treatment of one another in the We must act. When you hear it to ourselves and to each tion that these types of be been stuffed into many of the name of "free speech" is a lie. something that is offensive to other. If we are reluctant to havior must not be sanctioned, first year boxes. If it isn't, my speech should be you, speak up. It may seem like speak out within the insular either directly or through de Various posters advertising free as well as yours. Instead, a small and insignificant action. confines of this Law School, fault. We will no longer partici GLSO, NLG, BLSA, LALSA, those -of us with alternative But by not doing it, we allow how will we ever make our pate in oppression through our ALSA, and AWLS events are opinions remain silent, quick to the offender to perpetuate the voices heard outside it. silence and we urge our class ripped down or defaced. "I advocate free spee~h for fear of myths and the lies that prevent Practice now. The personal is mates and administrators to hope you all get AIDS." A full being stifled ourselves at some any progressive changes in our indeed political. We can't wait join with us and take the first professor stands in front of his mythical point in the future, world from ever coming about. for someone else to come along individual step toward collec class and refers to people in ever fearful of the slippery We help to maintain the status and lead us by the hand into a tive action. Don't let yourself be socialist countries as "com slope. This is a self-defeating quo. We are guilty. better world. We must act on silenced. Don't silence yourself. mies." Whether or not the stu- stand. It is hard. It is exhausting. It our own behalf in the name of Molly Dwyer, dent government should take a The fact is that those who al - is a burden to be thought of as things we believe in. In The Public Interest This message applies to the Michael Cuddy, administration as well. What Andy Bechard, Steps to a Nonsexist Classroom does all that propaganda about National Lawyer's Guild Recently, -there has been an guage) lays the basis for feel- detail than other topics, and the Buffalo Model mean any Barbara M. Mclean, increasing realization among ings of alienation. sometimes they are covered in way. Is it just filler? Some grab Gay Law Students Association the students at this Law School 2. Don't Tell Sexist Jokes, a way that is insensitive to bag message uttered in a vain Samuel S. Rodriguez, that sexism did not end with the Stories, Poems or Parables women. You should carefully attempt to make this school Latin American Law sixties. These perceptions are Some jokes and stories are go through the syllabus for stand out among the many? Students Association not unique to UB, but have be- clearly and blatantly sexist - your course and ensure that We fell for it. We believe in it. Michael a. Kulla, come a major concern in law right, don't tell those. But also you are adequately covering Actions of racism, homopho Buffalo Public Interest schools across the country. In be careful not to use anecdotes the curr'ent issues that would be bia, sexism and marginalization Law Program an effort to educate its own law and pithy sayings that may not of particular concern to women. should not be allowed to go un Barbara M . Mclean, school community, the Harvard seem overtly sexist, yet in fact punished. At the very least Cindy A. Fenichel, 5. Be Conscious of Whether Women's Law Association depend for their power or their those found guilty of such be Association of Women Women Are Participating in (HWLA) has developed guide- humor on a sterotypical view of havior must have their actions Law Students Your Class lines for a non-sexist classroom women and men. The issue of class participa environment. We believe UB 3. Treat Dated, Sexist Cases tion is a complex one in the can benefit from an overview With Understanding and Sen- Wine and Cheesers Irked school. We are asking that you Editor: ded by our opposition to the of this work. sitivity simply be conscious ofwhether On Feb. 25 an article appear Opinion article. HWLA has identified " Five Many older cases were de- women are participating in ed in the Opinion describing Our women faculty are in the Easy Steps Toward A Non-Sex- cided during a period when your class in less than their three wine and cheese recep minority, yet they have found ist Classroom Environment." women had fewer rights than proportionate number. If you tions, hosted by the women fac time and energy to show con We believe these factors can they have now, and when find that to be true, try to find ulty in the Faculty Lounge for cern by initiating this activity. I provide useful guidance for judges and lawyers were con- out the reason why. (HWLA, first, second and third year have always, personally, found transmitting constructive criti- siderably less enlightened re- "Five Easy Steps Toward a women law students. the women faculty here very cism and positive reinforce- garding women's "proper Non-sexist Classroom Environ After reading this article I open, reachable, and suppor I ment to the faculty. HWLA rec- roles." When you cover such ment," 1986.) began to wonder if I had at tive when I have approached ommendations are directed to cases in class, do not simply ig- Attention to any one of the tended a different function than them with questions or prob r~ a faculty audience. The point- nore any sexist statements or first four fa~tors will improve the author. Upon sharing my lems. Let us not confuse their ers, however, may be used by assumptions that may have female participation in classes. feelings and perceptions with qualities with a student's fear both faculty and students to been made in the case ... You Encouraging your professors to other classmates I became or inability to reach out to voice evaluate the impact of certain should make an effort to com- consider all the above ideas will aware I was not alone in my the student's own needs in the actions and social conventions: ment on the fact that you know greatly enhance the learning at confusion. first place. 1. Use Gender - Neutral Lan- the sexist statement or assump- mosphere for male and female If, indeed, numbers are an ul While beginnings as well as guage tion is present in the case. students alike. timate measure of success or all events in our daily lives have It is easy to learn gender - 4. Include Doctrinal Issues of value, then Rosa Parks' riding both positive and negative neutral speech. Instead of al- Particular Concern to Women Mary Anne Bobinski on a segregated southern bus sides, that is a part of life in gen ways using the male pronoun In different areas of the law, Susan Facer Kreidler ~ in the 50's would have been his eral, a part of the condition of "he," try using- "he or she," or there are specific issues that Christopher Doyle I torically insignificant. Begin being human. I alternate between he and she, disproportionately affect worn- Paul J. Wessel nings are just that... BEGIN Quite possibly it is such a fu l or repeat the original noun, or en. Sometimes these issues are Jane Smith NINGS ! ture forum that will encourage I just put people in the plural. not covered at all, sometimes Miriam J. Bandes -Too often we fail to vocalize some students to express their r . .. (failure to use such Ian- they are covered in much less Philip S. Chamot I our positive responses to needs, ideas, and concerns to events. We become vocal, if the women faculty. Gilbert's Memo Alerts Sample ever, generally when we are in We, the undersigned, sup port the women faculty in this To: Steven Sample, the Law School student body. ing Vice President Wagner's re- opposition to an event or idea. beginning. We also want to President, SUNVAB By a vote of 288 to 42 (87% commendation to selectively I and the other women law stu thank them for their concern From: Brett Gilbert to 13%), law students over- arm the campus police. If Col- dents I have spoken with are and effort, and we look forward President, SBA whelmingly rejected the sug- umbia University, a univer- concerned with the negative to attending future events. Re: The Arming of Public gestion that public safety offic- sity on the edge of a very crime- tone of the Opinion article: We, too, have failed to vocalize our Barbara Mclean Safety Officers ers should be armed. Such a ridden neighborhood, does not Fredricka Sands Date: April 7, 1987 lopsided vote was a surprise arm its security officers, it is dif- positive response to this event Paula Hoffman As you may know, the Stu- even to those who lobbied ficult to un_derstand why UB, a in the first instance. We have Zulma Bodon dent Bar Association conducted against arming public safety of- university ill' the middle of sub- become vocal only when prod- an "Official Student Opinion" ficers. It represents a clear de- urbia, needs to. It would seem on April 1 and 2 concerning sire on the part of law students like such a terrible waste to Judicium Authors Cop-Out whether or not Public Safety Of- to study and work in a gun-free have to wait until after a bullet Editor: do you not have the courage to ficers should be selectively environment. from one of those proposed The following is addressed to be associated with your beliefs armed. The results of that re- We knowthat once your mind guns strikes an innocent person the students responsible for and opinions? ferendum are in and the pur- is made up that it is difficult for to decide that the arming of Judicium. Your libertarian and reaction pose of this memo is to inform others to change it, but we ask public safety officers is not a I only have one comment ary stands en the issues ad you of the collective decision of you to seriously consider reject- good idea. about your opinion sheet; pub dressed in your sheet are not lication and distribution of such worth the time and effort of op The View From a Heartbeat Away opinion without the names of position unless you accept the authors included is a decidedly responsibility for making such good press rather than respon by Jack Luzier would be wise to build on our cowardly stance. This goes in stands. The Executive Elections are sible journalism. strengths. direct opposition to your "stand Identify yourselves and I will all over and the keys will soon SBA can be a great vehicle I have been very impressed up and be counted" theme and be more than happy to com be passed on to another Board. for change, especially in a small with this year's executive mem does nothing to further dia ment in more detail. , Congratulations and good luck community such as ours. Al bers. Brett has been our idealis logue, growth and communica Andrew Bechard to the newly elected executives. though the organization is tic leader. He has taken on is tion within the institution. Why National Lawyers Guild I have every confidence that largely administrative, it can be sues that others would have re they will do a great job. more. I believe this year we es jected as too political or con inherited financial mess into a mal meetings. She has also As a side note for those who tablished a high level of credi troversial. We should all be as well-oiled machine. In a thank cleaned up our image with don't know, the article in the bility, accessibility and open · active as he has been. less role, we all owe her a thank angelic presence. I'm glad she Spectrum on the election was ·ness. Although there are still Vicki has done an excellent you. Karen has performed ad was there. extremely misleading. It ap plenty of areas that could be im job in a very difficult and impor mirably in preserving the rec pears to be an attempt to make proved upon, the new Board tant position. She has turned an ord through some very infor- continued on page I 7 Page twelve The Opinion April 22, 1987 P" • ... .. • • .. .. " •• - • • • • ,. ••• Reproductive Technologies Focus of Conference by Idelle Abrams The techniques of reproduc the precise time of ovulation, were born in Britain out of six stances it is not possible to dis "Why are we now trying to tion vary in their level of techni treatments to induce the pro or eight clinics. In the United lodge the embryo; and in that invent new ways of producing cal complexity and the thorni duction of more than one egg States, out of 108 clinics 180 case, the woman who expected babies and new technologies to ness of the social and legal is per cycle and procedures to re babies were born. only to produce the embryo assess the health of fetuses?" sues. Artificial insemination move the eggs from the The fourth procedure, used suddenly finds herself preg That was the central question, and surrogate motherhood are ovaries. much less frequently than in nant. posed by Ruth Hubbard of the the simplest procedures tech After all these technologies vitro fertilization, is embryo These technological proce Harvard Law School, at the nologically, but present the are applied, the rate of success flushing and transfer. This pro dures provoke a number of so morning session ofthe Mitchell more difficult social and legal is very small. Most of the fail cedure was developed in agri cial issues. Questions of ex Lecture Series presentation questions. Artificial insemina ures of in vitro fertilization culture for the breeding of farm pense are a factor in all these "Alternative Reproductive Tech tion, also known as donor in occur around implantation. animals. In that case, an animal methods. The cost of having a nologies: A Feminist Critique" semination, has become in "The chances for a successful is donor inseminated and with child by using a surrogate on March 27. creasingly technological with implantation of an embryo is in a few days the embryo is mother is up to $30,000 - According to Hubbard, there the medicalization of the proc generally assumed to be one in flushed out and transferred to $10,000 for the woman who are two main sociological ess. Sex selection, health and five," said Hubbard. However, the gestating animal that will bears the child, and $20,000 for trends that have led to the de genetic screening of donors successful implantations do not carry the embryo to term. medical and support services. velopment of reproductive and the -choice between fresh all result in successful out- Substantial risks are asso In vitro fertilization costs run to technologie The first phe and frozen sperm are the issues comes, i.e., babies. ciated with this procedure. approximately $4,000 per cycle. nomenon is the medicalization that must be considered. "Successful outcome rates There are health risks incurred This does not take into account of life. Increasingly society is Surrogate motherhood, which vary enormously between cen from the repeated lavage of the the number of attempts that are preferring to treat social prob is essentially donor insemina ters," cautioned Hubbard. Ac uterus in the attempt to flush made before a successful im- lems as medical and technolog tion, raises all the issues that cording to 1985 data 200 babies out the embryo. In some in- continued on page /'7 ical ones. The problems of re have been so graphically dra production and gestation could matized by the Baby M case. be treated socially, said Hub The social issues center on de SBA to Hold ''Senior Week'' bard,. by redefining the social fining who the parents of the Editor: will be meeting for happy hour wait until you've played with concept of family. Instead, "we baby are. Legally questions The senior class is proud to at one of those hopping har Kevin's rules! Followed by a insist on narrowing" the defini arise around the enforcement announce the first annual bourfront bars, which is in walk free beer and pizza party at tion of family even though the and enforceability of the con SUNY Buffalo Law School ing distance of the Blue Jays Casey's Nickelodeon. (9 p.m. to narrower definition does not, in tract and the custody of the Senior Week, to be held May Royals game. We will also be midnight.) fact, reflect most people's ex child. 11-15. The activities are open to within walking distance ofmost perience. Many people, in this In vitro fertilization, in con th.e entire Law School. Tickets of Toronto's top attractions and Thursday, May 14: Pee Wee age of divorce, have non-tradi trast, though technologically will be o~ sale in front of the shopping areas! (10 a.m. to Herman Party- Slick back tional familial relationships complicated, "is the simplest of library, and will cost $40 for the midnight.) your hair, put on your bow tie, which include biological par all the procedures" from a legal entire week of activities. The fee Tuesday, May 12: Beaches grab your bike, and don't forget ents as well as social parents. perspective, said Hubbard. This will include free beer for the en and Bars in Angola - We'll the aluminum foil before join Second, the language of is because "the donated egg is tire week, free food at selected supply the buses to get you out ing us at the long-awaited Pee rights has perpetuated an em from the woman who expects events, and round trip bus to Angola, and enough beer to Wee Party. The food and beer phasis on the individual. This to be the social mother and the transportation for the day trips see that you'll have a hard time is on us from 9 p.m. to mid emphasis has been reinforced donated sperm is from the man to Toronto and Angola. It will getting home! Enjoy a day at night. by the civil rights and women's who expects to be the social also include the price of the the beach followed by an eve Friday, May 15: Senior Ban movements. The phrases that father," she explained. The final senior banquet. The ning of libation at Captain quet- 6:30 p.m. to midnight. we now hear include "Every technological procedures, how schedule of events is as fol Kidd's. Enjoy a final blow-out with all woman has a right to have a ever, are many and are quite lows: Wednesday, May 13: Golf your friends at the Aud Club. A child," and "Every child has a complicated. Monday, May 11: Toronto - Tournament/Party at Casey's - buffet dinner, a four-hour open right to be born healthy." Each The woman has to undergo Includes round trip bus trans Join our own "Boy Mechanic" bar, and a D.J. should keep you of these phrases has serious a whole host oftests which may portation, and a packet with dis and David Gugerty for the an busy for most ofthe night. Tick implications socially and ethi include exploratory surgery, count coupons for restaurants nual Buffalo Open .. lf you think ets for this event only will be cally. hormone treatments to control and shops on the Harbour. We you can't play golf now, just sold separately for $23. •• ; , ,, • i \ ' April 22, 1987 The Opinion Page thirteen Public Interest Symposium Deemed a Suc~ess by Diane Dean public service setting," Many terest Unit" within the State At- Horowitz, who observed a [from the symposium) of what The New York University jobs pay well, he learned, torney's Office which provides problem with the "meat mar- it means to be an attorney. We Public Interest Careers Sym- "allow for a balanced lifestyle civil representation to poor ket" atmosphere in the sea of as law students have an impor- posium has grown from a 30- and offer satisfying work." people in those areas of law the blue suits, suggested you not tant decision to make. We can employer program to one hav- Peter Muniz said it allowed him LSC can no longer afford to wear a suit if you don't want to. either lead our lives purely for ing more than 75 employer par- to "experience a potential fu- handle. She's received one job offer so self-gain or we can attempt to ticipants this year. While there ture employment field without When students weren't sit- far from the symposium, so it's make a difference in other are still complaints (which are any pressure." ting in on panel discussions, fair to say that your credentials peoples' lives for the better. being passed on to NYU by our Third year student Robin they tended to be milling can go as far as your wearing Money is relatively easy to ac- CDO) that the symposium cat- Rosenberg said she found the around the Greenberg Lounge apparel, at least with public in- quire. Success, and the aspect ers primarily to New York City panel discussions extremely where dozens of employers col- terest employers. of self-esteem that goes with it, employers and students, a vast helpful. "The various panel dis- lected resumes and talked jobs. Perhaps Favata was the most is an entirely different matter." array of employers from· as far cussions especially reinforced Calling it an "awkward" setting, philosophical about his experi- away as Cal ifornia and Florida my own commitment to public both Rosenberg and second ence at the symposium. He It appears the symposium attended and interviewed at interest law by showing me year student Michale Kulla summed up his reaction this was much more than a job least 30 UB students. Reaction how dedicated the panelists are suggested that employers and way: "You g_et a clearer sense workshop. to the program from UB stu- to their jobs. Make use of the students be given some guide- dents who attended was very panel discussions as much as lines about protocol at the infor- positive. possible," she advises. Having mal sessions. On the other One thing seems to be certain · attended many of the panel dis- hand, another student noted Part-Time Lawyers about the symposium. If you cussions myself, I can share in that the informal interviews come prepared, get to the sym- Robin's enthusiasm. provided a lesson in assertive- posium very early both days I found the panel discussions ness training. And Charles Speak at PLSA Panel (especially if you're an alter- provided a place to learn but Favata, a first year student, said On March 30, five speakers, have a phone extension, direct nate), and are ready to work to also a place to be inspired. One he distributed 30 resumes in at the invitation of the Parents from the office, installed at get some interviews, you will panel, for instance, was on "Un- Greenberg Lounge, receiving Law Student Association, home so calls may be forward meet many employers for orthodox Attorneys." Its mem- 12 responses, and 5 interviews shared their experiences as ed. whom you would like to work. bers included a lobbyist for gay/ "directly traceable to the sym- part-time lawyers before a Ann Herman had been an in- Two students who had been lesbian groups, a self-made de- posium." gathering of 25 students. They ternational tax specialist for a rejected by the Manhattan Dis- velopment/fundraiser currently Everyone who attended had participated as panelists on the Wall Street firm. When she trict Attorney's Office through working for ·the American Civil good advice for students plan- topic of "Job Sharing, Flex moved to Buffalo, her expertise the resume-collecting process Liberties Union, and the direc- ning on going next year. Bar- Time and Alternative Work Ar- was a great bargaining chip. through COO didn't give up. tor of Lega, I Action for the bara Johnson, a second year rangements." Though others suggested the · Once they got to New York City, Homeless. Each of these attar- student,• said: "Don't be dis- Ann Evanko of Hurwitz & best way to get started on a they signed up for open slots neys saw a need, used their couraged if you aren't selected Fine, P.C. was the first person part-time basis was to look to with the Manhattan D.A. and foresight, and created an office to interview for a position within her firm to ever broach small firms, Herman purposely both got formal interviews with to fill that need. Working hard you're interested in because the subject ofworking less than sought out a large firm. She be that office. If they get job offers, at something they believe in, once you're at the symposium, full time. It was not a new situ lieved that at a large firm she they won't be the first students these attorneys showed a high you have a very good chance ation for her to be "the first." would have the ability to turn who benefited from rising level of commitment rarely ob- of getting that particular inter- In fact, she had been the first away work, with the knowledge above the planned procedures served within the legal profes- view." woman hired by the firm, in that there were plenty of other and taking matters into their sion. Melinda Schneider, a third 1979. She had been with the attorneys at the firm who could own hands. Another panel discussion year student, suggests you firm for three years when she pick up the assignment. For some students, meeting was on criminal law. Bordering "Plan well in advance - or- made her request. By that time, A small firm, which by defini like-minded students and attar- on animosity between the de- ganize resumes, cover letters, she was a known and proven tion has fewer attorneys, may neys made the trip worthwhile. fenders and prosecutors at mo- etc., so most interviews are set commodity which allowed her not be able to afford the luxury It had many educational bene- ments, the panel included one before you go." to sell her value to the firm. The of a part-time attorney who fits as well. Second year stu- attorney implementing what I First year student Dianna Har- firm was economically better turns down assignments. The dent Maria Doti noted that she see as a wonderfully creative ris said she thought that arrang- off to keep her on a part-time dynamics of a small office may found "there is a difference be- answer to the current legal ser- ing interviews with employers basis, rather than train a new force someone who is unwilling tween government work and vice office's problem. At the not at the symposium while associate with unknown ability. or unable to work more hours the Legal Aid Societies in terms Chicago office of the State. At- you're in New York City that The panel discussion pre into choosing between incon of how they relate to the com- torney's Office (the equivalent weekend would be helpful, ceded her appearance at a State veniencing themselves or bur munity at large." to our county District Attorney's primarily in saving on travel ex- Bar Association conference dening the other few people Cbarles Johnson, also a office), the director saw that he penses. where she was to give a report with whom he or she works. - second year student, said was getting a windfall of Many students suggested on the same topic. As a result Deborah Carr-Hoagland works the "most important lesson operating funds while the local you get there early both days of her research for the confer for a small firm in East Aurora learned from the symposium Legal Services Offices were to be able to put your name in ence, she compiled a list of and takes an occasional assign was that there are good career being cut drastically. As a re- a forfeited slot. readings on the subject, which ed counsel case. Small firms opportunities available in the su_lt, he created a "Public In·- First year student Sara she distributed to the audience. make good places to begin as Professor Judy Scales-Trent's a part-time lawyer. Part-timers experiences predated her fel are attractive to smaller offices Dean Bids a Tearful Adieu low panelists by 10 years. Then, because, though there may not by Diane Dean the concept of part-time lawyer be enough work or revenue to In a recent issue of Barrister, come through my office in the your questions about summer ing was unheard of, as opposed sustain a full-time associate, the American Bar Association's last two years. Many of them employment? Knowing what so to being merely novel in this there may be more work than Young Lawyer's Division veteran grassroots organizers, many of you have done, and decade. Although she sought the present personnel can rea magazine, an article called "The mental health advocates, human what you're committed to do in such a position, it was not until sonably handle. Also, part-time New Lawyers" appeared. In it rights activists, literacy volun the future, makes me feel as if divine providence, or a fortui attorneys, generally speaking, 20 young lawyers were cited as teers, women's rights organiz / have had a score of counselors tous happenstance, intervened do not receive benefits, such as "attorneys whose work makes ers and a slew of other people who have helped me in my that her goal was obtained. An health insurance. a difference." Noting that these from inspiring backgrounds. career planning. EEOC commissioner's hand While this is an obvious plus lawyers are "changing the legal In listening to the work these At the end of my first year picked assistant refused to to an employer, it is an equally profession and our system of students have done before and here, Jim Atleson reminded our work more than a couple days obvious drawback to the em justice in very positive ways," during law school, I have often Labor Law class that we create a week. Scales-Trent was given ployee. This factor can be miti the article named seven public felt both privileged and selfish our own reality. Ten years from the job for the remaining days gated if a spouse enjoys such interest attorneys, three gov in knowing almost all of the UB now we can be doing some of the we_ek. benefits at,his/her place of em ernment attorneys, two young students who have come from thing that matters, something By sharing a position, she ployment. One benefit that judges, four entertainment act1v1st backgrounds. I felt we believe in, or we can collect stated, the level of productivity part-timers do receive is the lawyers, one academic, and privileged because ofwhat they VCRs, drive a Porsche, vacation was greater than if one person payment oftheir malpractice in three innovative private attor have taught me, and selfish for at Club Med, and wear $350 held the job. All on the panel surance premiums. neys as the " new generation of not thinking of more channels suits. Maybe we can do both, agreed that part-time lawyers Several ofthe panelists noted lawyers in America." to introduce them to the others but whatever it is. we do, we were more productive during that the issue is not, and should In reading the article, I re I've met. Inasmuch as these stu make the decision to step .off their hours at the office than at not be, a women's issue. Her joiced over the fact that credit dents came to UB to be lawyers the "legal conveyor belt" Tom torneys who worked full time. man noted that her firm has a was being given to such people to carry on their work, the Bar Headrick once alluded to, and Not surprising, that notion paternity leave policy, and also as the director of the National rister article is perfect proofthat finish what we came here to do. appeals to employers. When knew of a man in New York City Coalition for the Homeless, Am it can be done and that it will If we don't step off, we'll never approaching an employer for a who was a part-time attorney nesty lnternational's staff coor be done by those most commit know whether we could be the part-time position, a cost-bene and writer. dinator, and the " Rainbow War ted. ones who'll change the legal fit analysis is an effective instru A man from Prisoners Legal rior" Greenpeace chairman, My job as graduate assistant system in positive ways. ment for selling the idea, ac Services was scheduled to ap among others. I thought to my for Public Interest Careers has When I began this article, I cording to Evanko. pear, but was unable to attend. self, "Its true - public interest moved both my intellect and just wanted to let you know that The third speaker was Amy He was able to arrange his lawyers can make a difference my emotions. How could I not the ABA recognized the unor Stromberg, a partner in the firm schedule at Prisoners Legal and people notice." Even an or stop and talk to the student who thodox achievements of 20 of Yellen, Halpern & Strom Services so that his work day ganization as conservative as stopped me in the hall at 6:30 non-corporate lawyers. Here at berg. As such, she has more began at noon and ended in the the National Bar Association p.m., on my way home, to ans the end, I must also say "thank control over schedule. evening. noticed. wer questions about finding a you" to the students who've One of the problems with At the conclusion of the re After reading the article, I public interest job? How could taught me how many ways fu part-time positions is maintain marks of the speakers, there began to think about the I not offer suggestions to you, ture young public . interest ing continuity with clients and was a brief question and an streams of students committed Andy, at 11 :30 on Friday night, lawyers can and will make a dif with the firm. One solution swer period, followed by a wine to public interest law who have in my pajamas, in answer to ference. proposed by Stromberg is to and cheese reception. Page fourteen The Opinion April 22, 1987 Women Law Students Attend Nat'l Conference by Robin Rosenberg, Barbara dress the audience gave Avery translate some of the weaknes gets divided between them. As women as a means to over Johnson, Cindy Fenichel, a standing ovation for her in ses of legislation into positive, a result most property goes to come isolation. Practicing law Fredericka Sands and spiring speech. effective case law. the husband, who often has the yers also gave pointers on Lisa Sizeland Seven women law students But, progress is slow. greatest future earning capacity how to survive the real work-a- This year the National Con from Buffalo attended the Con For example, when a father as well. Women lose what bar- day world and the importance ference on Women ~nd the Law ference this year. Some of our contests in a custody case, he gaining power they have in of non-white laywers to their took place in Washington, D.C. impressions about the Confer almost always wins. Judges re mediation and in joint custody specific communities whether from Thursday, Mar. 19 to Sun ence are recorded below. tain biases and apply legal stan decrees. they function in the role of tra- day, Mar. 22. Last year I remember stu dards accordingly. Thus, in the Thanks to a strong, effective, ditional lawyer or not. The conference began on dents using words and phrases "best interests of the child," feminist lobby, New York State One of the major hits of this Thursday with a feminist trial like "inspiring," "energizing," custody is awarded to the has so far resisted most of year's conference seemed to be advocacy seminar. The work "the best thing that ever hap wealthier parent (almost al California's "reforms." And al- the "mini conference" on "Sex shops and panel discussions pened while I was in Law ways the father). And the "pri though our equitable distribu- in a Repressive Age." Partici- began on Friday, and they con School," etc. to encourage mary caregiver" standard is tion law had an uncertain start, pants included Rhonda Cope- tinued through Sunday at noon. those of you who hadn't at turned around if a mother be case law (O'Brian) strengthened, Ion, who recently visited our Byllye Avery, the national di tended a National Conference haves improperly according to rather than weakened the sta- Law School as a panelist in the rector of the Black Women's on Women and the Law to do the judge's moral standard. tute, to achieve a truly equitable "Alternative Reproductive Health Project, spoke on Satur so. I did attend this year's 18th Also, courts are disproportion result. Technolgoies: A Feminist day afternoon at the keynote Conference and can echo those ately impressed when a father The keynote address on "Em- Critique" conference spon- add~~ ;. A strong, dynamic sentiments. spends any time at all with a powerment" was given by Byl- . - sored by the Mitchell Lecture speaker, Avery addressed rac In part what makes the Con child - even if the mother pro lye Avery. Avery is not a lawyer; Series committee. The all-day ism in health care. She em ference so laden with energy is vides 80-90 percent ofthe care. she founded the National Black "mini conference" included to- phasized that no one in being able to meet and speak In cases where there have Women's Health Project. Her pies running the gamut from medicine pays attention to dis with so many exceptional been. reports of child abuse, so emphasis is on communication pregnancy and birth issues to eases affecting Blacks, and that women all gathered in one cial service agencies remove and self-awareness, on reach- reproductive rights to lesbian if we don't understand self care place, who are deeply and ac the child from the home. ing out to people to encourage rights. we are all basically ignorant. tively involved in a number of Courts, however, tend to dis and facilitate self-help. To re- * * * She described how the Project legal issues. When they speak credit mothers', children's, medy a problem: look at you_r The 18th National Confer got started in 1970 and of their experiences, there's a physicians', and psychologists' strengths and weaknesses; ence on Women and the Law explained that one aim of the relevancy that too often re testimony as arising in the con look at the problem from your provided an opportunity to Project is self-exploration. maiHs peripheral in the law text of a custody dispute. And own prospective, not from the share in the successes of Avery suggested that the school classroom. only seven states require, either perspective of a majority who women who had already posi only way to eliminate racism For example, a classroom by statute or by case law, that may not be affected as severely tively impacted on society, en and sexism is to change course I took on Law and Public a court take into acocunt the or in the same way. couraged them to continue, and people's attitudes, beginning Education acquired much more father's abuse of the mother What does this have to do allowed us to gain direction in with an exchange of informa meaning after I attended a when determining custody or with the law? While problems the process. tion among Black women. That workshop at the Conference visitation. such as child abuse, spousal "If it is meant to be then it is must start by asking the ques and listened to a woman Reforms in Domestic Rela abuse, employment discrimi up to me," was the conviction tion: "What does it mean to be eloquently relate the process tions Law have been idealistic nation, sexism, racism and of keynoter Byllye Y. Avery, a Black women in the United involved in forming a grass experiments, with disastrous, homophobia are societal dis successful crusader for ade States?" roots parents' organization to discriminatory results because eases, they are also directed at quate health care for poor Once attitudes have changed deal with some serious in they did not take into account specific, targeted victims. Legal Black women. Her inspiring within the Black community, . adequacies in her school dis societal realities. Although both solutions - "justice" - should words called all people to rec there has to be a corresponding trict. The Conference really pro spouses should be treated not only stop the causes but ognize and commit their tal change of attitudes in the rest vided me with an opportunity "equal~y", they rarely start off should also heal the victims. ents, while respecting those of of society. That can only take to observe through the experi with equal bargaining power, There is great need for im other people who might appear place through dialogue among ences of others just how the wealth or status. provement in our legal system. threatening, in efforts to exer different groups. Avery em theory fits in with the reality of California, for example, At the conference I listened to cise our social responsiblity. phasized that such a dialogue actively addressing legal and enacted the most "progres and spoke with attorneys who A workshop on the "Abuse of must take place w ith in the soci al problems. sive" reforms in divorce law: no are trying to identify these Women at the Hands of the feminist movement, and that * * * fault divorce, equal distribu problems from the victim's per Medical/Pharmaceutical Estab "women must aim for and build Some of the workshops I at-· tion, joilflt custody, and media spective :..- and to effect posi lishment" alerted me to the a movement where we can all tended were about "family tion. Child support guidelines tive change. tragedy which will begall unin be together as sisters." law," covering such issues as leave any payment exceeding * * * formed New Yorkers. who were A prerequj site to dialogue, divorce reform, determining welfare levels up to the whim In "The Women of Color/ victims of exposure to DES, as however, is understanding and custody, parental leave, and of the court, rather than accord Third World Women in the bestos, and several other toxic liking oneself. Avery wanted us childcare and child abuse. We ing to the parents' incomes. The Law" panel, lawyers and law substances.Jf they don't quickly to ask ourselves: ' have a long way to go before result is that many children live students discussed the chal become aware of their rights to "What's been good as a our legal system "justly" re at a bare subsistence level. lenges, advantages, and dif bring previously barred claims Black/White/Jewish woman?" soives these problems or These laws reflect a trend in ficulties encountered by minor by July of this year, their claims "What's been hard?" adequately addresses the the 1970's and 80's favoring ity women who decide to enter will be barred forever. "What do you simply adore needs of women who are laws that appeared "gender the white, heterosexual male The necessity of organizing about yourself?" harmed more than helped by neutral." Ideally, marriage is a controlled profession of law. citizens and legal networks to "What has your life been our courts. Fortunately, women partnership. Ideally, any prop Many students spoke of the take full advantage of laws pro like?" are beginning to have an im erty or income that arises from emotional, cultural and intellec tecting individual rights was It's important to ask these pact on the system : as lawyers, a business partnership is di tual isolation they epxerience at stressed in a workshop on coa questions, Avery said, because as shelter operators, as lob vided evenly. Marriage, how predominantly white law lition building. it's important to "know who byists, as members of organiza ever, is not treated as an equal schools. Practitioners offered There is a great deal to be you are. Be proud of who y0u tions seeking to document and partnership by the courts. encouragement, suggestions done and commitment is the are. You can't help me as Black correct inadequacies in our The reality is that very little and advice on how to maintain only qualification necesary to women unless you're proud of legal system. Women are dis- marital property or income is good concepts of self-worth in make a difference, and the who you are." aovering ways to win difficult actually treated as belonging to a hostile environment and on major resource. At the end of the keynote ad- battles in the courtroom and to both spouses and very little networking with other minority/ LawRevue Highlights Recapped for No-shows by Susan Clerc playing herself as the Dean as Jay Lippman and Dave Brown the Law School faculty would couldn't - they were all at the The hundreds of you who did Lady, an overzealous disciple did their full repertoire of fac be dean for 15 m inutes. Sensi l ralf. Fortunately, the producer, not pack the Tralfamadore Cafe who applies the Word of the ulty impressions: "Ah know, ah tive issues were not avoided; it Robin Miller, scattered them on Sunday, April 5 for Law Dean as fervently as Torque know, people make fun of my was revealed that Al Katz's ten throughout the program, sepa Revue missed a good show. mada appliecj the rack. Those South Buffalo accent, but that's ure has been revoked (for fa il rated by a good mix of bands, You missed the chance to see who bear the Scarlet I want to n9t the isha here. Awl r9ht, awl ure to dress stylishly) and that comedy, and piano players. Lou Del Cotto flee from the awe know "Is it really Wade who raht, Miss Fitzgibbons, then Del Cotto was arrested for tax You missed a rendition of some combination of George makes you do it, Marjorie, or is Melanie." fraud (it was purely' academic "You Can't Do That" by a group Villegas and a quick spotlight. it by any chanca ... Satan?" You missed the Dermatones, research). called Ex Paste Facto (Forrest Villegas, along with Randy You missed David Cohen and an a cappella group (more of a You missed Paul Karp, sever Strauss, Tim Howe, and Fred Fahs, hosted the show and took Andy Winston. Go to AV and crowd actually) from the Medi al times, and Kate Barth even Goodman) that would have every possible opportunity to watch the tape for these guys; cal School, turning a Billy Joel more, playing guitars and sing made Jim Schoenfeld turn introduce Del Cotto as " my doc mere words cannot capture the song into a timeless student re ing. In fact, if you w eren 't at Law green w ith envy. tor.. .doctor Louie Goombaz." spontaneity and freshness of frain about having not been in Revue, you probably didn't see This year's show, w hile main After the fifth or sixth time, their act. It's hard to say if it was class "For the Longest Time." a guitar all day long. You ta ining the Law Revue trad ition Del Cotto fled to the ba r, fol the song or Cohen's tie that pro You missed Lippm an and Eric of ru nning long, was w ell lowed all the way by the spot voked laughter as they sang Ch ester doing a jurisprudential paced and had few lulls, and the light; rather like a cockroach "Strange," but it's a sure bet version of Abbott and Costello. quality of the performances, caught in the sudden gfore of Patsy Cline would be proud. "Who's the plaintiff? That's both individually and as a the kitchen light. By the end of The biggest disappointment of right." whole, was higher than last the evening, the spotlight the show was that the calls for You missed the important year. began searching him out as an encore went unfilled be news, reported by Fahs and Dave The only things that would soon as Villegas hit the stage. cause they didn't know any Rychlik, that in accordance with have improved this year's pro In a small way, it made up for more songs. 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Prepare with Confidence IN THE BUFFALO AREA rCALL (716) 837-8022 CALL TOLL FREE 800-343-9188 · 800-223-1782 Page sixteen The Opinion April 22, 1987 Reproductive Technologies • ■ • ■ • • • • • • continued from page 13 plantation occurs nor the costs can make the process of preg and in all circumstances, today on motherhood has been going are passed over in the empha of the pregnancy, which is often nancy gestation a great deal mothers are portrayed as being , on since the beginning of the sis on nurturing "a child from more closely monitored than a more certain, and that we antagonistic to the best in country," she pointed out. The your own body." regular pregnancy, and is there would benefit if we could." terests of their babies. The rise first laws of the country were Demographics may explain fore more expensive. However, that is not an as of the language of fetal abuse concerned with indenture and this emphasis, said Omnlade. If One little publicized fact is sumption that should go un is one manifestation of this "what happens to the fetus out you look at the world popula that many of these procedures analyzed, concluded Hubbard. image. Today the protective of a slave mother." The mother tion, you see that whites are a are still in the experimental While pregnancy is more and figures are the doctors, the could not claim maternal pro racial minority, though they sta~e but they are not treated more the focus of social and lawyers, the state. tection for a baby born to a control the resources of the as experimental "protocols" or medical attention, "mother However, Rothman asserted, slave mother, but rather, the world. It is the fear of the racial studies. People therefore have hood is in cultural turmoil," "I don't think there's been any baby became the property of patriarchy, said OmnJade, that to pay for these procedures said Barbara Katz Rothman of real change in maternal.:p.r_otec the slave owner. Even now, said if they do not reproduce, there even though they are still sub the City University of New York. tiveness. I don't think we've Omnlade, "continuation of ra will be no one "to pass on the ject to all the uncertainty of an The overall pattern is that gotten any worse about looking cial patriarchy is one of the very reins of power to." experimental medical under babies and children, or some out for our babies. I just think pronounced themes in repro Omnlade's final analysis of taking. babies and some children are we're not trusted anymore." ductive technology." the phenomenon of reproduc Class and race bia·s are evi becoming increasingly pre The availability of alternative The "racial urgency to repro tive technology is the conflict dent in the development of cious, while motherhood is be reproductive technologies has duce," Omnlade's second level between biological reproduc these procedures not only be coming increasingly less pre highlighted the emphasis on of analysis, is in conflict with tion and social reproduction. cause of their expense but also cious and is being devalued," the "seed" which is the thing this message of racial patriar "Racial patriarchy has placed in analyzing who they are being she said. that is seen as precious. Incuba chy. Every people has trained biological reproduction of developed for. While ~infertility Standards of "work" are tion can take place in any envi and socialized the women of white children at the top of the is higher among lower class being applied to motherhood, ronment, in any womb. On the the culture "that reproduction list and placed social reproduc people and people of color be which is being conceptualized macro level, said Rothman, this is of great urgency," said tion of black children at the bot cause of where they work and as a production process, said focus on the seed is racism. Omnlade. For women of color tom." live," said Hubbard, "the Rothman. There is now a price Only certain seeds are being de in this society, this creates a This is graphically demon technology is clearly being de tag affixed to pregnancy. Preg veloped through these technol competing agenda. On the one strated when you look at the veloped for upper and middle nant women are being advised ogies. On the micro level this is hand, the message from your way the resources are allo class people." to adhere to "work protocols" a process of genetic screening. people is to reproduce, but on cated. There is a tremendous Pr~natal testing is also be - no smoking, no drinking, Barbara Omnlade, from the the other hand, the racial patri amount of money going into coming more prevalent. Ultra proper diet, medical screening, City College Center for Worker archy is not enabling you to the development of technolo sound imaging, maternal and etc. In terms of the child, this Education, expanded on the ra take care of your child. gies that are going to be used fetal blood tests, and sampling orientation leads to the "com cial analysis of the sudden Omnlade also finds that there by one segment of society, of fetal cells and cells from the modification of the fetus," said urgency to develop "mecnani is an "urgency about the bio while bJack children are literally embryonic fluid are some ofthe Rothman. Genetic scree11ing cal, artificial, or other-than logical that is irrational when starving in our country. "The new procedures. Questions are and counseling set the stand usual ways of having children." we consider that nurturance underdevelopment of the black raised about which populations ards of quality control, and She finds that it is one of the can take place in many different working class is directly tied in are benefiting from these pre wroi'rgful life statutes are equiv ways "men with power orga forms." There are thousands of with artificial technological re natal screens and what the test alent to products liabilities ac nize the society to function in needy children that must be production of the white middle i,g priorities are. Hubbard tions. ways in which women and peo cared for and yet these chilriren class," asserted Omnlade. asked whether it makes sense One result is that mothers are ple of color are put in their place to test for neural tube defects, increasingly not trusted. In the within the hierarchy." Luzier ...... • • • • continued from page 12 which, though it is a relatively current ideology of mother Omnlade analyzes reproduc One last kudo. Robin Miller, Ultimately, every student is rare phenomenon is now a re hood, "selfish has replaced tive technology on three levels. the Social Committee Chair, responsible for our problems quired procedure in California, selfless," said Rothman. It is first the expression of the has been invaluable. Whatever and their solutions. The SBA when there are many "more Whereas 30 years ago popular continuation and expansion of success we had socially this executives and directors can pressing health concerns." imagery depicted mothers pro racial patriarchy, said Omnlade. year, we owe to her. only be leaders if there are "We are acting as though we tecting their babies .?t all costs "A general and genuine attack We did have our weak points people to lead. One person can too. The future Board should truly make a difference if they get the entire year organized have initiative and persever and started early. Also, some ence. Working together we can one might be designated as substantially improve our col UB Law tudent Publicity Chairperson. He/she lective condition. When we do would be responsible for "get not contribute, we have no one 0 With Proper I.D. (21 &Over} ting the word out" on all SBA to blame but ourselves. Q Q~p---->- . 0 ~ related events. With some or Thanks for the opportunity to ganization, the position could serve you. Take care and keep April 22, 1987 The Opinion Page seventeen EARLY: E~ROLLME~I DISCOU~J ATTENTION:_CLASSES OF 1987, 1988 & 1989 SAVE $100. When you register early for BAR/BRI's 1987, 1988 or 1989 New Yqrk, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire or Maine Bar Review. You get materials-NOW. And the nation's largest and most successful bar review course and you save $100 off the current price. 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Jay Kennigsberg Eric Snyder Alicia Lacappruccia Larry Spiccasi Derek Akiwumi Ben Bruce Jay Lippman Sam Spiritos Arlyn Goldberg Tony Parlato Dave Platt Bonnie Mettica Dave Quinn Dan Schwartz Rick Resnick Kevin Comstock Charlie Favata Page eighteen The Opinion April 22, 1987 Pontiff Visits City of Good Neighbors Pope arrives at Buffalo Int'/ Airport. Expressing his gratitude as he and his luggage arrive simultaneously. Pope prepares his sea legs for the Miss Buffalo. Baseball aficionado J.P.// gives his benediction to new stadium. After a whirlwind tour his holiness ... surveys a Queen City panorama. Do You Need A Miracle Fast? If you need a change of luck . in your life right away, we will help you. I Tl>t1 my1toty1ng cron •• actually 1111.0 . with Call our I"'SINM4 "°" ...... from Illa ·-world fa,,,_ I Spring .: itt Lourdn Franc•• that haa bHn ••· MIRACLE I 1pon11ble fo, a multttuci. - I of u1on11111ng curea. 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Both brary has become the spiritual the possession offurtrader Les- and Duwight (currently law pro- relocation to Buffalo. call for a daily regime of malted home to dissidents, critical ter D. Beevarwakker. The fessors at Stanford University) scotch, Canadian beer and Fudd legal creationists and disgrun- Shroud was bartered for a began spouting Critical Legal Devotees claim that the rucker's hamburgers. Also the tied Canadian natjonalists. The "RamboH survival knife (chest Theory in Canadian accents. Shroud has provided several words "authentic," "communi UB Law Library is the home of oil not included). Months later, The speaking in CLS tongues miracles since its relocation in ty" and "centro-anarchism" the controversial Shroud of it resurfaced in an Elks Lodge continued for four days and the Law Library. Among these: must be chanted thrice daily. Fraser. The Shroud is a blue in Moscow, Idaho where it was three nights. The "healing" ofthe Law School The controversy stems from sweat shirt believed to have used as a bar rag. Some scien- The "miracle" spread roof, the return of phone ser the prophesies contained in been worn frequently by zany tists have theorized that the through the small Mississippi vice to the SBA offices and the each document. The Blue Book critical legal pundit David constant saturation of beer and town and was the hot topic at conversion of the Family Law of Revelations states that the Fraser. liquor may have formed the the 34th Annual Convocation of D's and F's to S's. Law Review office will be smote Devotees believe that the image on the Shroud. The sat- Southern Interim Deans of The Shroud devotees have down by heavy floods in the Shroud depicts the image of uration has made carbon dating Northern Law Schools arid Pig split into two factions. One spring of 1988. The Basement Fraser being crucified on the impossible. Roast. The Shroud's potential group insists that the Shroud Scrolls have been interpreted !O scales of justice. They also The Shroud was believed to wc1s recognized by UB Law must be worshiped according read that Law Review will sur- claim that the Shroud has been have been destoyed in a grease School Dean Wade Newhouse. to the Blue Book of Revelations. vive the swarm of locusts that the source of several miracles fire that swept through the Newhouse convinced Thelma The Blue Book was stolen from will reduce the faculty lounge and revelations. Critics dismiss Moscow lodge several years Jean that the Shroud's true DalHousie University in Halifax to rubble, but that the entire the Shroud as a hoax and claim ago. An Independent trucker, home was University of Buffalo (where Fraser taught until com Law School will be leveled in that the image on the shirt was Jimmy Earl "Bubba" Bacon, Law School (where Fraser is ing to Buffalo). the fall of 1988 by hot winds that formed by a Molson beer stain. bought the Shroud from the currently teaching). will blow out of the Federalist The events surrounding the owner of the Frostbite Falls, . Coincidentally, Thelma also The other faction insists on Society's office. ' discovery of the Shroud's Minnesota truck stop, Big Ed's received a twenty year season's the implementation of the miraculous properties have Hash and Mash for Cash. pass to the University of Missis- "Basement Scrolls." The scrolls Professor Fraser, who was re been categorized by some as Jimmy Earl bought the-Shroud sippi's home football games, were discovered by Head Libra cently named The Canadian "bizarre," and by others as "the as a toaster cover for his girl front row seats to Wrestle- rian Ellen Gibson. They are be Critical Legal Messiah by both most important religious and friend Thelma Jean Anger of Mania 3 and an autographed lieved to be written by Fraser factions of Shroud devotees, is legal find since The Ten Com- Harper Vally, Mississippi. hubcap from stock car racing himself. on "retreat" in Dubrovnik, mandments (not the movie Harper Valley was the site of great Richard Petty. Newhouse Although the documents are Yugoslavia, and could not be ... the tablets)." the first of the Shroud's alleged steadfastly denies any connec- the subject of heated debate reached for comment. Sample Pleads: "Anything but Nebraska!!!" by Fifi Trixibelle thought it odd that the presi the Samples' house when the Doty talking with his head in a Hochstetter, but several people UB President Steven Sample dent of such a large institution phone rang," said Greiner. garbage can. have reported seeing Domino's has retreated to the upper as UB would cancel appoint "Steve answered it and "Steve tried to give me the Pizza deliverymen dressed as reaches of Hochstetter Hall in a ments and take time away from laughed and told us it was phone so I could hear it, but he evangelists in the vicinity of move which he hopes will alert his presidential duties in order [Transportation Director) Ed couldn't pull it away from his Sample's prayer tower, and the University to the potential to watch The 700 Club. ear. It was like someone crazy maintenance crews have con dangers of not having enough His secretary reports that glued it," stated a wide-eyed fessed to smuggling Big Macs money to get Division I sports. copies ofthe Jehovah's Witnes Greiner. That, apparently, was in to the President. Silence is shrouding Sam ses publication, "Watchtower" when Sample knew this was Sources close to Sample say ple's ascent to the top of and various other religious not an ordinary telephone call. that he has alerted the owners Hochstetter Hall, but-the Presi magazines and newsletters "When Steve hung up the of nearby Batavia Downs to his dent has apparently promised have been coming to Sample's phone," Greiner continued, "he plight and is counting on fiod to stay there until enough office with increasing fre just looked at us and said, 'That ing some God-fearing soul with money is raised for UB to go to quency. was God.' Of course, none of enough money to keep Sample Divison I. Friends and under University Pmvost William us believed him, except Mrs. out of Nebraska. lings of Sample have stated that "Wild Bill" Greiner confirms Sample, but Steve ignored us While Sample is somewhat he referred to his retreat as a these reports and states that he and kept saying 'He'll send me heartened by the flow of in "prayer vigil." was with Sample in his home back to Nebraska if I don't raise come from the recent appear Sources on the fifth floor of when Sample was finally per the money.' He looked really ance of the image of Christ (see Capen Hall, where Central Ad suaded to take some drastic ac scared. That was when he de related story on p. 2), he plans ministrative offices of the Uni tion to upgrade UB sports, and cided to go up into Hochstetter. on staying in the tower "until versity are located, report that the circumstances, according to Evangelist disguised ;;JS pizza He wanted to be near God.'' we go to Division I or until Hell Sample had not been acting like Greiner, were remarkable. deliveryman approaches pray Sample promised to fast and freezes over. I'm not going back himself in recent weeks. Many "We were playing bridge at er tower. pray while in seclusion in to Nebraska." The ~econd coming of Ken Joyce. Many doubted his long "sabbatical" would ever end, "l'v, Nsv,r S,111 but now the moment believers have waited for is nigh - Anything Liks It.:; \ spiritual and tax reform is at hand. Ken Joyce, master taxman, was sighted among the PTL faithful. ..,.. just Ilk• JIIU art bllng blta•d wltll IIIW homll, lltttlr jllba, gnater The long-absent tax pundit claimed that his grades, as laclffl•, bitter llalth and ,._ ol eagerly awaited as his appearance, were turned in years milld. Whit God II .ing tor llhtrs, Ht wYI do tor you! ,. ago but that the gold tablets on which they were en YOUR LETTER TO REV. WANG scribed have vanished. COULD CHANGE YOUR ~!f.fil. , 'r Mark •• "X" ~ ,ac~ prayer ne,41 □ OVERCOME MONEY TROUBLES O RECEIVE MONEY OUE ME 0 BETTER HEALTH O PAY OFF DEBTS □ HAPPIER MARRIAGE O LOVING COMPANION □ BETTER JOB □ PEACE OF MlND □ MR . □~ AGE □ MISS------,,,-- ~ AOORE$S------,,--- CLIP OVT AND MAil TO: "8t4 WII Previ4,' ' lltlllsll 22:1 ~e This scriptural bracelet ol good fortune. happiness and success is . waiting to be rushed to you! Thih prayer blessed bracelet will mean something to you. When it arrives: place 11 on your arm and feel assured your life will improve! Enclose 111st $1.25 tor post- age and handling. Thank you! NAG-87 Like McArthur & Caesar. . . I have returned. Blackacre .... ■ • ■ • • • • ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ continued from page I "This project has been plagued deur simulations such as turn • The Kinsman case, in med the river, flooding land may be men in deer suits. by problems," said Douglas. ing water into wine. which a barge slipped its moor along the banks, will be turned • The Hall of Temporary "The architects can't add rooms Some attractions will be spe ings, careened wildly down the into a flume ride. Deans, immortalizing the men to the blueprints fast enough. cifically geared to Western New . raging, mighty Buffalo Creek, • The Charles P. Ewing Rifle who have filled the top post at On top of that, the Schlegel York and the University of Buf crashed into several boats, Range: Participants will aim at UB in audio-animatronics, the robot keeps turning out to look falo: pulled down a bridge and dam- figures that may be deer, or .system pioneered by Disney. like Orville Redenbacher." Page twenty The Opinion April 22, 1987