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YOLo XXXVII ~ 222 FRIDAY, MAY 13,1977 NO. 10 ·Scont/ol .Voids Treosurers Election; Bollot Security Foilures Uncovered

By HOWARD COHEN By HOWARD COHEN and RICH~RD GRAYSON An independent Justinian in­ Election Results The SBA election for Treas­ cident. This investigation was ves tigation of the invalidated urer between Eric Brown and begun immediately. However, PRESIDENT SBA election for Treasurer has Joe Porcelli ...... 285 Jonah Meer, held May 2 and 3, on Thursday, May 5, Justinian revealed several improprieties Howard ~irola ...... 184 was declared void by the Elec­ was informed that the Election in the administration of the elec­ Michael Swaaley ...... 65 tion Committee on May 3, be­ Committee's sanction for the tion, and also possibly preju­ Laura Held ...... '...... 1 cause of suspected ballot box Justinian investigation was be­ dicial activities by SBA Presi­ VICE PRESIDENT stuffing. The ballot box was ing revoked, and that the Elec­ Chuck Goldman ...... 272 dent Howard Peltz. David Fleisher ...... 208 found to contain 17 alleged tion Committee would ask the It appears that there were Marc Ahasic ...... 1 phony ballots, randomly marked Administration to handle the of­ very la1C precautions in the Stev Keltz ...... 1 for all po itions except for ficial investigation. The Justin­ prll:l;ng and safeguarding of the Ma rc Aron on ...... 1 Treasurer. All 17 ballots were ian was relieved of the investi~ election ballots. The ballot sten­ EVENING VICE PRESIDENT marked for Meer. gation because the committee Richard Mathew ...... 65 cil was prepared by the Elec­ Sam Hagan ...... 42 The suspicious ballots were feared that unjust rumors would tion Committee and given to SECRETARY discovered when the Election spread. The Justinian agreed to Peltz on Friday, April 29. Peltz Todd Silverblalt ...... 220 Committee returned to the SBA the revocation but also stated it then gave the stencil to tJ1e Sherry Carr ...... 173 office Tuesday afternoon to pick would continue an investigation Copy Office on the ninlh floor. Hilary Miner ...... 115 up the box: for the Tuesday of its own. Kathy Nemser ...... 1 The ballots remained in the TREASURER evening voting session. The box Rigged Election? Copy Office over the weekend Eric Brown ...... 147 had been locked and was stored At a meeting of the Election 'until they were picked up on Jonah Meer ...... 137 in the locked ~BA office from Commit.tee held on May 5, many election morning by SBA Vice Marc Aronson ... _...... 23 2 to 4 pm, while members of candidates expre sed their feel­ L eon Wein ...... 2 President Brian Davis. Davis Kim Juhase ...... 1 the Election Committee were in ings about the election. Fleisher, .left the ballots alone on top of Bill Roethel ...... 1 class. who lost the v.p. post by 64 his desk in the SBA office for Madeleine Eppenstein ...... :...... 1 When the Election Committee votes out of 483 votes cast said, p ossibly as lon g as 15 minute Mickey Mouse ...... 1 members stor d the ballot box, "Add together the ballot box .that morning while he went to they placed a new paper on top stuffing and the other illegal the cafeteria. When he returned, going, and how many ballots the polling place in the lobby, of those already marked ballots acts, and a lot of people think .he safeguarded the ballots un­ might be necessary to insure actively discouraging people a t the bottom of the box:. This of this as a rigged election." His til they were picked up by a their candidate's success. from voting for Treasurer can­ was done unintentionally, with suggestion to re-run the entire . ember of the Election Com- On the second day of ballot­ didate Eric Brown. Brown sup­ no eye toward safeguarding the election was answered by Elec­ - mlttee. This was the first time ing the only precautions taken porters feel that this was an ballots. However, when they tion Committeeman Kim Steven since the stencil was given to to safeguard the ballots were unconstitutional, prejudicial ac­ returned for the box at 4 pm, Juhase: "From our objective Peltz, that the ballots were un­ to place all unused ballots in the tion which unfairly hurt they discovered that during the viewpoint, there's no need to der the protection. of the Elec­ ballot box, lock the box, and Brown's chances. They feel that time they were gone, someone re-run the election." The com­ tion Committee. place the box in the locked SBA Peltz's use of his political clout had slipped the additional bal­ missioners felt that the victory After the first day's voting, office. There were at least in such a manner violates at lots into the box. These addi­ margins were substantial enough the ballots were counted and two other people (~BA Presi­ least the spirit, if not the letter, tional ballots were separated in the other races to preclude then locked in an Election Com­ dent Howard Peltz and Vice of the SBA Constitution. from the existing ballots by the the threat of rigged ballots. mittee member's locker. At Mon­ President Brian Davis) besides P eltz desired to see Brown newspaper. The suspected bal­ The t hree commissioners, Ju­ day night's count there were those on the Election Commit­ defeated because of their some­ lots were neatly folded togeth­ hase, Fred Hirsh and Tom Cul­ other people present beside tee, who knew the combination times heated political dispute er, and appeared to be written len named some of the recom­ those on the Election Commit­ to the ballot box lock, and there while serving together on this with the same style and marked mendations that they will make tee. According to an SBA of­ were also about 15 people with year's Executive Board (Brown with the same pen. Th re are to the SBA in light of the pres­ ficial who wishes to remain an­ keys to the SBA office. was first year representative). 17 suspected ballots and accord­ ent election scandal: onymous, he was told the re­ Besides these failures of the However, Peltz refrained from ing to Election Committee rec­ 1) a request thai the Admin­ sult of the first day's vole by Election Committee in running continuing his electioneering af­ ords, there were about 17 more istration give the committee another SBA official, who was the election, there were also ter he was warned by his friends ballots in the box than recorded an accurate list of students. in the SBA office for the ballot some possibly prejudicial activi­ that he was appearing foolish. votes cast. This y ar the committee had counting. This leak gave any­ ties by SBA President Peltz. He now agrees that he was fool­ Before the suspected votes to operate with three different one desiring to know, informa­ During the cour e of the elec­ ish, regrets his actions and were counted, Meer was ahead lists, and they did not. know if tion as to how the election was t;on, Peltz was observed near terms them "stupid." by five votes. Gail Ostriker, who a student was enrolled in the withdrew from the election on day or evening es ion. Monday afternoon, received 37 2) that the SBA rent a voting votes. Because Meer's margin of booth, if the co t is not pro­ Trustees KO Lisle Scholarship Plan victory would have b en so slim, hibitive. In that case, the date By RICHARD GRAYSON interest. Associate Dean Gerald Nelson held a meeting on the fear of other rigged ballots for elections will probably have The BLS Board of Trustees Gilbride opposed this proposal, Thursday, April 28 to which se­ caused the Election Committee to be changed, since they now ha decided not to change the and the board decided to appoint lected faculty, administrators to invalidate that election. How­ conflict with the New York City school's financial aid structure. a committee to look into this and students were invited. Wil­ ever, since the margin of victory school board elections. At its May 10 meeting, the area. bur Levin, the third member of for the other position was sub­ On Friday, May 6, the Elec­ Board voted not to institute Board members Paul Win­ the committee, did not attend. stantial, those results were al­ tion Committee sent a letter Dean Raymond Lisle's proposal dels. Eric Nelson and Wilbur Windels, cautioned at the be­ lowed to stand. A new election to Assistant to the Dean William to replace grants with a combi­ Levin were named to the trus­ ginning, "The board does not for Treasurer was held Monday Holzman, outlining the lection's nation grant and loan. Accord­ tees' committ e. Windels and necessarily want to revise the May 9 and Tuesday, May 10. events. The letter concluded, ing to Associate Dean Gerard financial aid programs." He Eric Brown won the new elec­ " the commis ion resp ctfully re­ Gilbride, chairman of the Schol­ noled that most scholarship tion 147-137. quests that the Adm'inistration ar.hip Committee, there will not are paid for by non- cholarship There were, however, several or Faculty conduct an investiga­ be a BLS loan plan in the for­ recipients because most of ca ndidates who felt that the tion into this incident and take seeable future. Gilbride's com· BLS' scholarship money comes whole election wa "tainted" by appropriate di ciplinary action mittee wa also asked by the from tuition. H e is disturbed the scandal, and that therefore against the individuals that Board to set up specific guide­ that students who must take out the entire election should have were involved in it." lines for future grant awards. loans to p ay tuition end up sub­ been redone. They point to many However. after considering At the April meeting of the sidizing scholarship grants for improprieties in the way the the matter, the Administration board, Dean Raymond Lisle ad­ their classmates. election was run, and to activi­ refu ed to handle the investiga­ vocated a system of 80 per­ Windels al so went on record ties by SBA President Howard tion because it is an internal cent loan and 20 percent to state that BLS does not have Peltz which may have been pre­ SBA m atter. It appears now that grant instead of the pre en a substantial endowment. "We judicial. (See accompanying ar· the official investigation will be 100 percent grant, to those are on a p ay as you go basis." ticle.) conducted by Tom Cullen, who . students who are scholarship In the curren t school year, On Wednesday, May 4, at the is a night student and a mem­ . recipients. Under Li Ie's pro­ there were approximately 180 request of defeated vice presi­ ber of the Election Committee. po a!. students would pay no in­ scholarships given out. accord­ den tial candidate David Flei­ Cullen is also a criminal in- terest for the first four years ing to Gilbride, who is a1 0 sher, the Election Committee re­ vestigator for the Internal Rev­ after they graduate and then Photq by Ken Shiotani chairman of the Scholarship quested Justinian to conduct an enue Service, and has conducted repay. the loan part at 6 percent A:;sociate Dean Gerard Gilbride (Contil1ued on Page 3) official investigation into the in- government investigations.

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Friday, May 13, 1977 I?talge Two JUSTINIAN Letter to the Editor Justinian rigorously than others. In light tem as a means of assuring fair­ Publi. hed u·nder the au&pic:es of the Stuclent. B ar Association Unfair Grading of thi we further presume that ness. Far too much has been professors are assIgned to the left to chance to call this an BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL To the Editor, first year sections in such a equitable system. We have been 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 1120f We wish to bring attention to manner so as to share the bur­ unfairly b urdened with a sta­ the distribution of this year's dens and benefits of Brooklyn's tistical and psychological disad-· Telephone (;l12) 625-2200 Ext. 50 first semester Law Review invi­ voluntary grading system. If vantage. tations among the three first these assignments have been We believe that a vastly b et­ year sections. Of the 20 invita­ Editor-in-Chief ...... Richard Grayson equitable there should be an ter system could be h ad. One tions that were sent out, five even distribution of grade point suggestion would be to award Managing Editor ...... ~.. . . . John Raihak were received by section one, averages among the three first Law Review in vitations after one by section three and four­ year sections. Obviously, some­ Associate Editor ...... Marcia Knigin the first semester to the three teen by section two. We believe thing has gone wrong. sections on a strictly quota b a­ Copy Edit()r ...... Linda Riley that this pattern reveals a gross Law Review invitations are sis. Awarding one third of the inequity both in the way peo­ extended strictly on the basis invitations to each section would Ads Edit()r ...... Paul Harris Forman ple are chosen for the Law Re­ of grade point averages. The be a step toward removing the News Editors ...... Howard Cohen and Rochelle Strahl view and in the way grades fact that section two has re­ discrepancies which plague our are distributed to the first year have received the early benefits present grading system. Photography Edito r ...... Ken Shiotani students. ceived 70 percent of these invi­ Our committee will call on We start with two assump­ STAFF tations clearly show ~ that they Dean Gilbride and Professor tions and one fact. First, inso­ of professor distribution. We Farrell within the next week tlJ. • Marc Aronson, Joy ce Balaban David, Randall S. Ferguson, Lil­ far as· stud~nts when they enter consider it a gross inequity that discuss these grievances and a lian Gewirtz, Stephen Jackel, Kim Steven Juhase, David Leib­ this school are randomly as­ one section has been allowed written report of this meetin" man, Martin Lernel·, Joel Mitofsky, Dale Mark Ross, David Sloan, signed to one of three sections to receive such a disproportion­ will be posted and distributed Manue~ Taitz, Miggie Warms, Michael Weinberger,Debra Wolin. we presume that· these groups ate advantag~ at this point. The to the BLS community. (Editorials express the opinion of the Editorial Board) are of comparable intellectual belief that this enormous dis­ ability. Second, it is a fact COMMITTEE FOR crepancy will be balanced out Copyright ® 1977 by BLS Student Bar Association known to students, faculty and EQUITABLE EVALUATION administration alike that cer­ over the entire y ear points out [Signed by 52 students] tain professors here grade more the essential poverty of this sys- April 28, 1977 .-4 Sad Commenl Last week BLS was rocked by scandal as the SBA elec- . t ·on for Treasurer was invalidated because of suspected h ' Hot box stuffing. Is this the type of thing that should be BLS AIUIn-Author e. pected from future lawyers, judges, and political leaders? NORA LA VORl, LIVING TO­ press friends. For example, pre­ Unfortunately, many "civilians" would probably answer GETHER, MARRIED OR SIN­ marital sex is still a crime in "yes." After all, wasn't it lawyers and political leaders who GLE: YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, sixteen states (fortunately not gave us Watergate? It just so happens that those responsible (PERENNIAL LIBRARY, 255 in New York, but do not go to pages, index, $2.45 papel:back.) a motel in New Jersey if you f or Watergate were also responsible for student government are unmarried). Another sur­ By KIM STEVEN JUHASE election tampering, or "Ratfucking" as they called it, while prising fact is that in New Yor k at USC. One has to wonder whether those who tampered Men and women are living to­ and most other states, a womall with the BLS election will go on to tamper with the demo­ gether with increasing frequen­ is not required to take her hus­ cr atic process on a higher level also. cy. Many of them, because of band's surname. Lavori concludes that for However, everyone of us knows that the majority of some notions of freedom, equal rights or out of disapproval of those couples who have the l a wyers are honest, and that it's just a case of a few rotten traditional social institutions, foresight to plan aheas,. ~ lawyers spoiling the profession. We hope that the perpe­ reject marriage out of hand. Yet range t.heir relationships throUgl\ trator(s) of this crime upon the integrity of BLS and the these people do not realize that, contracts and are willing to put legal profession are caught and brought to, swift justice. like many areas of a person's up a legal fight once in a while, just living together is a good. Only by cracking down hard against those in its ranks who life, a long term living arrange­ ment can have enormous legal idea. But for the great majority co r ~ upt , can the legal profession lose the image of "Shyster." ramifications which may still of people who do not fit into make marriage an attractive op­ that category, "marriage is Phol0 by Marcia Knigin tion. Unfortunately, not even probably a good idea, ultimate­ Une£jua! 0ppoI4unil'j most law students receive ly." with such problems as children, At the Brooklyn Law School of Equal Opportunity, enough legal training to make a It is very rare to come across logical decision on this mat­ mutual • household obligations a book which not only may be some students are more equal than most. We refer to the ter. For this reason, the book and responsibility for birth con­ easily used by laymen b~t fact that the editor and managing editor of the Brooklyn by Nora Lavori (a 1976 BLS trol She suggests that a couple which is also of some practical Law Review receive full scholarships, in addition to re­ graduate), "Living Together, could challenge such decisions value to a lawyer. This volume ceiving academic credit. With the expiration this year of Married or Single: Your Legal because there is no rational is a good source for a lawyer, ground for holding these con­ the police scholarship, the only BLS students getting grants Rights" is required reading with no background in the fi eld, for any couple contemplating tracts illegal. to get a quick summary of the that are not based on need are the two law review editors. any long term arrangement to­ In this book, the reader comes law as of July 1976. Congratula­ Readers will note the letter to the editor on this page gether. across some interesting legal tions to a BLS alumna for a job describing the inequitable choosing of first year students Lavori' · book appears to facts which can be used to im- well done. f or law review. In addition, the Justinian on February 17, cover in general term almost 1977 described one instan£e of alleged favoritsm at the law every possible legal problem a married or unmarried couple review. The cumulative effect of these charges should lead might face as a result of their Recycle Your Garbage ·the faculty, who voted for these scholarships many years living together. She answers a ago, to ask themselves why two students out of 1000 should wide range of questions such By DAVID LEIBMAN tion Coalition, and Citizens for as: "Will an agreement to sup­ a Better New York, to be used b more equal than everyone else. Should you happen to be port your illegitimate child be for environmental programs. enforced?", "What factors strolling past the seemingly de­ Newspaper recycling was should people who are living serted storefronts along the abandoned by the center when together consider in deciding South side of Atlantic Avenue the New York City Department who takes title to real prop­ some Saturday between the of Sanitation announced that it erty?" and "When is it cheaper, would handle collection and pro>­ hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., and in terms of taxes, to be mar­ cessing. For newspaper picku[) suddenly become aware of the ried?" sites and time in your area, call sound of breaking glass, fear What makes the book valuable the Dep artment of Sanitation at not. The mu ic which you hear not only to laymen but to law­ (212) 566-2716. is that of bottles being broken yers and law students i that for r cycling at The Recycling The birth of the center is most of Lavori's legal statements Center. largely due to the efforts of en­ are footnoted to one or more vironmentalist Sherry Koehler Loca ted at 96 Atlantic Avenue, major cases or statute. (Environmental Action Coalition the center is open from 10 a.m. . The author is also not afraid and Citizens for a Better New to 2 p.m. on Saturdays only. A to advise her r eaders that the York). and Center manager sma ll band of volunteers sorts law in a certain field is in flux Susan Dietrich. and they may want to chal­ glass bottles and aluminum cans, which are brought in by Anyone interested in volun­ lenge it in court. This is highly teering should visit the center commendable for a book orien­ environmentally minded local residents. Once sorted. they are at 96 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn ted to laymen. For example, La­ (Sat. 10-2). For further informa­ vori points out that while the picked up by the Environmen­ tal Action Coalition for fUlther tion and the location of other law in most cases will enforce centers, contact The Environ­ agreements between an unmar­ processing and sale. All profi ts from the sale of mental Action Coalition, (212) Photo by Ken Shiol.ni ried couple regarding property New Justinian Managing E ditor Ken S hio tani and E ditor·in-Cbie f rights, few courts will enforce sorted materials are channelled 486-9550 : Room 1130, 156 5th Howie Cohen get ready for their first issue. such an agreement if it deals thwugh the Environmental Ac- Avenue, T. Y ., N.Y. 10011.

https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/justinian/vol1977/iss3/1 2 'riday. May 13. 1971 JU S T I N' I A N et al.: The Justinian Alumnotes: Abraham Pomerantz Dean Lisle R,etires, By MANUEL TAITZ holder's derivative action be­ limitations on the right of a Abraham L. Pomerantz was fore; it was not taught to us at controlling shareholder, who by Reflects on Career; BLS. Out of that came my de­ legal definition was a fiduciary, graduated from Brooklyn Law rivative action against City to take advantage of his fiduci­ By JOHN RASHAK getting through school and pas­ School in 1924 at the age of Bank, Chase Bank and dozens ary position by exacting a prem­ Dean Raymond Lisle's goal ing the bar exam within a rea­ twenty-one. He has testified of others, and the turning of my ium for turning over control to during his tenure as dean, which sonable time." Therefore, min­ before Congressional committees economic tide. On National City the buyer of his controlling ends August 31, has been to orities having lower than aver­ and is a member of several com- Bank, my fee was $90,000 and shares. We were proud of this make BLS a law school of na­ age LSAT's and GPA's would . mittees, including United States ::~er that case came more cas- case because we felt it was a tional prominence. "I determined be admitted to BLS under "al­ subtle but definite breach of ternative criteria," for example, Supreme Court Advisory Com­ in 1973 that nothing was more "Among the more notable cas­ fiduciary duty for the controlling important to the upgrading of where there was some "impres­ mitte on Rules of Practical Pro­ eS/ that I tried was Perlman 'Y. stock holder to take for him­ the school than the quality of sive success under adverse con­ cedure of the Judicial Confer­ Feldman. This case held for the self what was denied to the or­ those admitted. Only 20 % of ditions." The Dean flatly stated ence of the United States. His first time in the history of this dinary minority stock holder." those students admitted in 1970 that "BLS has never discriminat­ . firm is Pomerantz, Levy, Hau­ country, that in certain circum­ Concerning his many litiga­ would be admitted today," ac­ ed against any category of peo­ dek & Block. stances a man who had control tions against advisers of mu­ cording to Lisle. His admissions ple," and in fact, "many good At his first job after gradu­ tual funds, Pomerantz said, "As policy is to select students on minority applicants exist who ating law school, Abraham Pom­ you may know, the set up of a the basis of their LSAT score don't accept admission to BLS." erantz got paid $4.00 a week for mutual fund consists of the fund and their college grade-point Lisle has, however, "been de­ a seven day work week while itself and its investors or share­ average (or GPA). Lisle char­ termined not to have open ad­ at the same time his wife was holders and a so-called man­ acterized today's average BLS missions for minority students, making $30.00 a week. "There agement company (the adviser enrollee in this way: "He would since college is the place for was no relationship between of the fund) which operates the have an LSAT of 630 and a GPA remedial work." Reacting to work and pay. As a matter of fund. This situation resulted in of 3.2-3.3" The Dean added that the platform of one SBA candi­ fact, $4.00 a week in that period pretty much a total abdication "considerable weight" would date for President, Lisle was was a rather grandiose pay. A of the fund's Own management also be given to the institution "shocked to see an allegation number of my friends who grad­ in favor of the management where the GPA was achieved. that there are racist policies at uated with me were working company, which created the Dean Lisle admitted that the BLS." Lisle called these racist for free. I remember ads in the fund and attached itself to the admissions policy at other law allegations "uninformed and Law Journal where there w as fund. This was very profitable schools is sub tantially different, ignorant." the euphemism 'salary second­ for the management company­ with more faculty input, often During his deanship at BLS . ary.' The prospective boss in­ some of the funds we attacked in the form of a "specialized ad­ (1971-1977), Lisle pointed to tended this to mean the pros­ were paying their management missions staff." Lisle spends an many changes. BLS' Law Re­ pective employee wou·ld work companies many millions of dol­ average of three hours per day view in 1973 began to print a for nothing and they did - and lars a year in management or in the spring semester on ad­ fourth annual volume called the the poor devils had to pay their advisory fees. These fees typic­ missions. "Second Circuit Review." Two lunches and . carfare to work. ally consisted of Ih percent of Minority Admissions years later, the Brooklyn Jour­ That was a routine thing rather the total assets of the mutual Lisle hopes, however, that nal of International Law began, than an exception. This was in funds, which ran in some cases the new Dean has "the nec­ with two publications per year. the period before the 1929 Crash over two billion dollars. We at­ cessary staff to delegate re­ "Only 21 other law schools" caa and there were many n10re stu­ tacked many of these manage­ sponsibility," since the present boast of two law reviews, added dents being turned out by the ment companies that were being admissions procedure i "not the Lisle. law schools than there were jobs paid excessively and had a large idt!al system." He stresses, how­ In December 1973, BLS re­ for them." measure of success in reducing eve, that the present admissions' ceived "formal admission" into their fees, which was to our the Association of American Law "The eleven years from 1924 Photo by Marcia Kni9in standards should "remain equal­ great economic advantage as a Schools (AALS), after inspec­ to 1935 were lean, lean, hungry Abraham Pomerantz ly high and equally invulnerable law firm." An article in the in­ tions in the Spring of 1973. years. Then, providentially, to pressures of any kind." There stitutional Investor stated that is a non-functional faculty com­ ut 1934-5, Ferdinand Pecora's of a corporation, in that case Pomerantz recovered for mu­ Background earings before the Senate Sub- Newport Steel Corporation, mittee on admissions. Lisle has tual funds over $5q million. Lisle became Ading Dean on committee on Banking and Cur- cou ld not sell his stock at a taken over all the powers of the November 1, 1971, and was rency gave birth to the S.E.C. premium over the market value Since his graduation 53 years committee. given permanent status in the expo e of the shocking financial of the shares without accounting ago, Pomerantz said, "there has Lisle justifies his one-man ad­ Spring of 1972. He retires on practices which preceded the for that premium to the COI'- been very definitely a pickup in missions procedure on the August 31, 1977, at the age of 1929 crash. I went to Washing- poration and its shareholders. the intellectual level of BLS, grounds that it is "unfair to 66. Lisle's career before 1970 is ton and discovered a great many Prior to that time there was an with the addition of a law re­ subject subordinates to the pres­ distinguished and interesting. He shocking wrongs perpetrated unqualified right of any man, view and a more animated stu­ sures to which I'm immune." was a "member in various ca­ by fiduciaries of America's lar- who, say, had 51 percent or other dent body. From all I have seen, When asked to specify these pacities of the Department of gest companies, in the unin- voting control of a company, to both . by its representatives "pressures," the Dean declined History" at City College follow­ hibited days before there was sell it for any price he wanted; whom we have hired and their to comment. ing his graduation cum laude govemment regulation. That nobody was to say nay. We es­ references to their education, The Dean's present policy on from City College with a B .S. was the beginning of my career. tablished in Perlman v. Feldman there has been a distinct eleva­ n'linority admissions is to "ad­ in Social Science. He obtained I had never heard of a stock- that there were very definite tion in the caliber of the school." mit people who are capable of a law degree from NYU, where he was editor-in-chief of NYU's "Law Quarterly." After serving Trustees Kill Lisle Loan-Grant Plan in the U.S. Naval Reserve dur­ ing four yeal'S of active World (Continued from Pa1(e 1) will it creates among alumni, Scholarship Program. Under glossed over. War II service (1941-45), he was Committee. These grants totaled and because students already this program, NYU "buys" two SBA President Howard Peltz, an adjunct professor at BLS for $167,000, and the average grant have problems paying back their top students from each of the who favors retention of the three years. He taught Sales, was about $900. This compares state and federal loans." 11 federal circuits and gives present scholarship grants, feels and Wills, and a graduate course with approximately $41,000 Prof. John Meehan, faculty each student a full scholarship, that the recipient of a grant in International Law. awarded in the 1966-67 school advisor to the Faculty Loan including room and board. Habl views BLS in a different light year. During this same ten year Fund, agreed with Gilbride and, said, "This [program] is not than a student who receives no During the post-war years of period in which grant money noting the history of his fund, based on need and it helped to financial help. "A scholarship 1948-1970, Lisle was "a Foreign has quadrupled, tuition has said, "The payback history i make NYU a national school." means a moral obligation," said Service officer of the U.S." His gone up almost three times - abysmal." The implication is that BLS Peltz. But Lisle quickly took foreign service career began as from $3000 to $8250 for the three Many of the people at the can use this " bootstrap" ap­ the opposite side by saying, "Ex­ a "political and legal adviser" year day program. April 28 meeting, including Mee­ proach to improve its image perience shows the opposite." to the U.S. representative to the han and Gilbride, reiterated and student body. Paul Windels sided with Lisle. U.N.'s Security Council on the Over $1 Million in Loans that collection problems could "People who receive scholar­ "Indonesian dispute (1948-49)." be formidable if BLS were to Law Review Grants ships don't feel so benevolent Lisle was subsequently stationed Loans approved by BLS initiate the program that Lisle about their institutions This is in Frankfurt, the Hague, War­ through the New York Higher has suggested. According to Mrs. All BLS scholarships are the impression I've gotten over saw, Bonn, and Belgrade in vari­ Education Assistance Corpora­ Rosalind Zuckerman, BLS bLlr­ based on need, with two excep­ the years from people who ous for ign service capacities. tion come to about $800,000 this sal', out of approximately $25,- tions: the police scholarship, run scholarship programs." His last foreign service year. National Direct Student 000 that BLS collected last year which ends this year, and the Peltz replied that this moral post (1965-1970) was Direc­ Loans (NDSL) total $130,000 for in repayment of NDSL loans, scholarships for the editor and obligation includes the hiring of tor for Relations with East­ BLS students in 1976-77. the collection agency retained managing editor of the Brook­ BLS graduates by alumni. Lisle ern Europe, where he direct­ about $3,000 as its fee. Zucker­ lyn Law Review. When the refuted this. "In 1970, a letter Gilbride said that he inves­ ed or participated in every as­ tigated the scholarship programs man noted , however. that the question was asked why the was sent to some 10,000 alumni pect of our relations with ten at other New York State law agent does all the paperwork law review scholarships still ex­ asking them about job offers Eastern European countries. schools. "In all but one case - for the school. But Prof. Robert ist when all other grants are for graduating seniors. Two of­ New York Law School - the Habl pointed out that collec­ based on need, no one had an fers resulted from that mailing." The Dean describes his present scholarship programs are larger tion agencies charge up to 33 answer. Gilbride recalled that Lisle's view is that BLS can job as being the "chief executive than ours." These larger pro­ percent of the amount to be col­ the faculty voted for those increase the financial assistance officer of an independent law grams are at Cornell, Hofstra. lected. grants when Jerome Prince was it gives by instituting a loan/ school, [who] administers every NYU, Columbia, Fordham and dean. But Prof. Joseph Crea grant program. In addition, he phase of operations - academic St. John's. "In all the instan­ "Buy" Students? said he did not recall ever vot­ feels, "BLS should not give a curricular, financial, planning ces." continued Gilbride, "the ing on that proposal. One of grant to anyone who has not and personnel." When asked. schools opposed installment loan Habl forcefully pushed for the students at the meeting was exhausted his potential loans. what his future plans were, Lisle programs because of the · collec­ BLS to institute a program sim­ angry that the matter of these Let them [the students] remem­ emphasized that "my options are tion process involved, the ill- ilar to the YU Root-Tilden law review perquisites was ber us - on a monthly basis." alive."

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Photos and Montage by Ken Shiot a~i Inside the Second Circus Revue By MARCIA MARGOLIN Mark Hallett played Dean Unemployment among recent scene noted the Dean's achieve­ portrayal of him and by the Costume Designer. 2nd Circus Raymond Lisle as Boris K arloff, graduates was a recurring ments at BLS and contrasted suggestions that his memoirs 'Revue and as Prof. J erome L eitner, he theme, perhaps exhibiting the this with the Dean's theory as be titled "The Little Prince." Less than a week before gave a lesson in folding a suit fear of the 3rd year student,; to what might have happened if It wa not only fun for us, who wrote those scenes. Partic­ opening night, April 28, the jacket. Todd Silverblatt gob­ he had gone to Hollywood to but we left a lot of people ~ast and the crew of the 2nd bled at least two banana each ularly enjoyable was the serio­ write for the movies. Dean Cir u Revue voted whether or night as King Kong's son, and comic fina le, with Kenneth Na­ Prince was present at the Fri­ 1a ughing. And for the 3rd year not to cancel the s how. A sub­ smoked endlessly a P rof. G ary gin as Dean Prince and Kim day night show, and appeared students in the group, that's a 't ntial majority favored going Schultze. A the proctor for the Juha e as J udge Glasser. The to be quite amused by Nagin's great way to go. on with the show, and as a re- Torts final, Robin Garfinkle ul!, BLS students a nd faculty evoked images of the little old w t'e able to enjoy a n evening ladies who oversee u s twice a of ong, dance a nd satire. year. The faculty was well-rcp­ The entire show was wrillen re,ented in the audience, and and directed by students, work­ orne of the loudest laughs came ing on a tight time schedule and fr m those p rofessors who were with a very limited budget. being imitated onstage. Superb Many of t he costumes came out performances were given by of the cast's own wardrob . and the whole cast, but of special prop were often created out of not was Bruce L edet'. portray­ materials on hand. ing P·ro!. Richard Farrell. Com­ The scenes in the show de­ ing onstage to J ohnny Ca rson's picted some aspects of the law theme, and wearing clothing chool experience a well a di, that could have belonged to rect satires of BLS. Predictably, Farrell, Leder was a dead ring­ . there were jokes directed at er for FarrelL After seeing the both the incoming and outgo­ '·becanal Search Commitlee" ing administration. Judge 1. cene, Farrell wa heard to Leo Glasser was present open­ comment. "He's a better me ing night and was favorably im­ than I am!" and offered to al­ pressed. At least BLS will soon low Led r to grade the New have a dean with a ense of York Civil Practice final. humor. THE DOCKET PROFESSOR DEBORAH H. SCHE K has announced that there will be a new !'ex exemption in her home on August 1. We'd like to wi h hel'. her husband and their new baby the very be t oE luck. iUSTINIAN thank- Howard Peltz for hi generosity in lending us his photographic equipmen for the past two year. I CLINIC-BLS i' the fir-t la\' chool in the metro area to receive a grant to et up a clinic for the elderly. Student may apply for September place men . See Prof. Gary Schultze. Photos by Ken Shiota"i

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