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VOLUME 10. NUMBER 4 A MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS MARCH 1993 ·New York Law School Hosts The Wagner Moot Court Competition
by Michael Wood '93 Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. May a the 70th Congress as United States Senator from New York Law School's Moot Court Asso union supporteI utilize speech which contains New York. ciation hosted the seventeenth annual Wagner derogatory racial characterizations to urge fel Robert F. Wagner is best know for his Moot Court Competition from March 18 to 21 low workers to support a union organizing drive? sponsorship of the Wagner-Connory Act (the at the school. The competition was a roaring The second issue reviewed the constitutionality National Labor Relations Act) which legitimiz.ed success. Thirty schoo1s fielded teams for the of the Sewell Mfg. doctrine following the Su and enforced collective bargaining. Styled as pre-eminent national labor Jaw moot court com preme Court's R.A. V. v. City of St. Paul decision. labor's "Magna Carta", the National Labor petition. Memphis State won the competition, The Sewell doctrine regulates inflammatory ra Relations Act was intended to stabilize indus followed by Brooklyn Law School, the Univer cial appeals in union elections, but is the Sewell trial labor relations in the United States. To sity of Texas and Wake Forest. Michael Puchades doctrine an unconstitutional abridgment of free gether with the Social Security Act this legisla of Florida State University won top oralist speech? tion helped create the people oriented political honors and Brooklyn Law School provided the The final round of the competition was program known as the New Deal. best brief. judged by a distinguished bench which included The Moot Court Association hosted a ban The 1993 Wagner competition, Jalopy a majority of the National Labor Relations Board. quet for competitors on Friday night at the Motor Cars, Inc., v. National Labor Relations National Labor Relations Board Chairman James Morgan Williams restaurant, on Broadway. Over Board and United Motor Workers Local 333, M. Stephens, Board Members Mary Miller 150 people attended the banquet. As the host was based on a fact pattern written by James Cracraft, Dennis M. Devaney and Chief Counsel school, NYLS did not compete in the contest. Gillespie, NYLS '93. The bench brief was written Harold Datz judged the finalists. In addition to hpsting the Wagner compe by Chris Mills, Jacklyn Bartlett and I. Bryce tition, the Moot Court teams have competed in Moses. They were advised by Professor Gerald The Wagiier Competition was established twelve competitions this school year. The NYLS Lebovits. The fact pattern was based on a com to honor the memory of the late Robert F. Wagner, Moot Court Association's success has brought bination of issues raised in several recent cases. Sr., a New York Law School graduate. Robert F. national attention to the appellate advocacy The first issue juxtaposed the consider Wagner pursued a career in public service. After skills of New Yorlc Law School students. ations of Title 7 of the National Labor Relations service in the state assembly, he was elected to New Security Procedures Will Help Safeguard New Student Center Opens Students and Facilities
As part of the new security procedures, Free Lunch Offered designed to protect students and staff, all mem bers of the New York Law School community Students who have faithfully awaited the and warren of student offices into a tall, skylight will be expected to display their school identi opening of the new Student Center and the new lit open space. New hi-tech dining furniture fication cards at all times while on the school student cafeteria were rewarded with a free compliments the new food service and kitchen property. Students may pick up card holders at lunch or complimentary dinner on Monday, area. Although tp.e furniture for the security the security station. Students without the iden March 22. The student cafeteria, which had been station has not yet ~n installed., it is expected tification cards will be required to sign in to temporarily relocated to the Faculty Dining to arrive shortly. receive a temporary pass Room is now open on the first floor of the Construction changes can be seen from the According to a memo from dean Jane P. Student Center. front of the building. The Student Center is to be Helm, the use of the identification cards, to The food service in the new Student Cen one of two main entrances to the NYLS complex. gether with other security enhancements, are ter will be provided by the familiar workers Red brick once filled the bays between the cast being utilised to provide improved security. who have been cooking and serving in the Fac iron columns of the old loft building. The brick Among the other enhancements are the instal ulty Dining Room, but the new kitchen and was removed to make space for floor-to-ceiling lation of closed circuit television cameras which service facilities will allow quicker service. glass walls. An air-lock entrance provides for will be monitored from the new security sta The construction project has converted student comfort while relaxing in the new Stu tion/receptionist console at the entrance to the the old student lounge with its lowered ceiling dent Center. new Student Center. The Best Kept Secret at New York Law School
See Page 12 2 The New York Law School Reporter Blacks in the Civil War (A Tribute to Black History Month)
Although most people probably know thal In January 1863, Massachusetts was the With the beginning of the Civil War, many slavery wasoneon the main reasons for the Civil first state asked and permitted to raise a black sla 'Iles in the South left their masters and headed War, few people probably know that Blacks not regiment. But, Massachusetts was unable to north or to Union camps. During the war, over only fought in the Civil War, but may have raise a black regiment from its own black popu 200,000 slaves reached Union camps. These determined itsoutcome.1 Blacks, especially those lation. As such, Blacks had to be recruited from Blacks were valuable not only because they did who were slaves, were generally the only group other states. Frederick Douglass' two sons, the drudge work in the camp, but more imPQr that welcomed the war. For Blacks believed that Charles and Lewis, were the first Blacks from tantly, because of their knowledge of the South's out of this war they would gel their freedom, New York Stale to enlist. Eventually, Massa waterways and land configurations, the South's citizenship, and civil and political rights. Thus, chusetts had two black regiments (the 54th and strengths and weaknesses, the South's troops' Blacks fought not only for their country, butalso 55th). By the end of the Civil War, much honor positions, numbers, and conditions, and other for their freedom and rights. was bestowed on the 54th.3 vital information. During the war, over 500,000 Blacks played vital roles in both the Con Civilian and southern Blacks also helped slaves escaped to the North where they worked federate and Union warefforts. Without slaves, the Union win the war. Both Robert Smalls and as laborers, teamsters, cooks, carpenters, nurses, the Confederacy would not have held out as William Tillman stole Confederate ships. Harriet scouts, spies, and numerous other jobs. Al long as they did. Without Blacks, the Union Tubman worked as a nurse and also helped though capture meant being enslaved, tortured, probably would not have won the war. Union prisoners of war get back to lhe North. and even death, many Blacks returned to the Many Blacks travelled to the South to elicit South to help free and guide prisoners of war A. Blacks in the North slaves there to defeat the Confederacy. Blacks back to the North. also smuggled much information to the North. OnJuly17, 1862,Congresspassed twoacts Blacks in the North supported the war providing for the enlistment of Blacks as sol from its start to finish. At first, Blacks were not B. Blacks in the South diers. The Confiscation Act allowed the Presi allowed to fight in the Union forces. Instead, dent to use as many Blacks as he needed to win they raised money and encouraged public sup Although the South did not allow Blacks to the war and the Militia Act repealed an 1792 law port for the war. When Blacks were finally fight, because it thought that Blacks were infe barring "Coloreds" assoldiers. The Union passed allowed to fight, they were given the hardest rior and did not trust them with arms, it did these laws only because they were losing more kind of camp work, the poorest equipment, the force Blacks to help their side. Approximately men than were enlisting. worst medical care, less pay, longer enlistment four million slaves were forced to build fortifi On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proc periods, and had little chance of becoming a cations and trenches, work in field hospitals, lamation was issued. This law freed all slaves commissioned officer. When captured, they and supply the South with food, clothing, and (approximately 3,120,000) in the territories still were tortured, enslaved, and even killed. Yet, as war materials. The only time that Blacks fought in rebellion on that date.2 Although it did not a group, Blacks fought with more courage and for the Sou.th was during the heat of a battle automatically free any slaves (approximately desire than any other group. when the Confederate troops needed men des 800,000) in the Union states or territories, it did On the morning of April 12, 1861, the perately, but this was very rare. Most Blacks in provide that Union slave owners would receive Confederate Army attacked Fort Sumter, a U.S. theConfederateArmycampswishedthatUnion $300 for each adult slave set free. Government fort in South Carolina. On April forces would overrun them or would leak vital The Emancipation Proclamation also gave 15, 1861, thedayafter FortSumterfell,President information to black spies from the North. Blacks the right to serve in the Union military. Lincoln asked for volunteers to fight in the Blacks were the biggest reason why the When Blacks were first allowed to fight, many Union Army. Although Blacks were one of the South was able to hold out for so long. With did not want to because they had found employ first to volunteer, they were turned down. In Blacks performing so much work, Confederate ment in the North, they were discriminated New York City, Philadelphia, and Detroit, Blacks soldiers were freed up to fight the war. On against in the Union military, and when cap formed clubs and held drilling and target prac January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipa tured, they were not treated asprisoners of war. tice, but these clubs were quickly broken up by tion Proclamation, thus freeing all slaves in the On May 22, 1863, the War Department estab police. In South Carolina and Kansas black Confederate states. This law greatly affected the lished a special bureau to speed up and increase volunteerregimentswereformed,buttheywere Confederacy's ability to fight. It resulted in the the enlistment of Blacks. On June 15, 1864, disbanded by governmental order. Confederacy having to take soldiers from the Congress granted equal pay to black soldiers. battlefront to do jobs previously done by slaves. Cont. on Page 15 INYfST IN Yaun fUTURf A. lneurance A. Networking Opportunities A Help Bulldlng Your Career A Publlcatlona to Help You Study tor the Bar Exam
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The New York Law School Reporter THE NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL 1991-1992 EXECunVE EDITORIAL BoARD Rupi Badwal Editor in Chief REPORTER
Dear Fellow Students, Michael Wood Managing Editor The Reporter would like to extend a personal invitation for you to join our staff. We welcome editorials, new, cartoons, photos and artwork. We encourage short articles and feature Ronnie Gonzalez James P. Horan stories. We also print short fiction works. Arts & Entertainment Editor News Editor The Reporter is an open organization. Students join by writing articles, creating cartoons, selling advertising or per forming layout duties. Work on the Reporter involves learning Jackie George Fernando Cruz mastery of computers, laser printers, color scanners and other Photography Editor Computer Editor hardware. We also leam the short cuts involved in the use of software; WordPerfec~ Word for Windows, Aldus Pagemaker, Cheryl Williams Lisa Chin and Aldus Photo Styler. Working together we develop editing Copy Editor Health, Science & Technology and layout skills. We work together in an atmosphere of Editor friendly and constructive criticism as we hone our writing skills. Most of the work of producing the Reporter is low key, but we do learn to work together under pressure to meet publication schedules. Stop by our office and talk with the staff.
Joseph Brennan Joseph Conway Seamus Murphy Michael Simone In the past issue, the REPORTER pub Columnists lished an article about the extemship seminar at NYLS. Mistakenly, one of the students, Howard Stone, was incorrectly Katerina Antos, Otis Damslet, Elizabeth Kaye, Tom Mavis, Kenneth Shuster, Pete Wagner, referred to as Harold Stone. The RE Delvis Valdes, PORTER apologizes for any inconve Staff nience caused by this error. . A few days late... some Valentine's Day messages will appear in the next Reporter due to scheduling problems...
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ter the acquittal of Lemrik Nelson vented. snowstorm. Instead, Americans the Jewish Law Student organiza When Israeli Olympic Ath viewed the IslamicFundamentalist When El Sayyid Nosair was tion on campus planned a meeting letes were slaughtered in Munich, problem as a Jewish problem, sat acquitted of the assassination of that never materialized. Later a it was a Jewish problem. As Israeli back and did nothing. Rabbi Meir I NEW YORK LAW SOIOOL 1993 YEARBOOK PHI ALPHA DELTA NOTICE!!!!! The Yearbook Staff announces that there is stilJ time to pur chase your NfiW••sENSATIONAL••FABULOUS,..1993 NEW BLOOD DRIVE YORK LAW SCHOOL YEARBOOK!!!! WHERE: PLEASE RESERVE YOUR COPY IMMEDIATLY. IN FACULTY DINING ROOM AT THE LOW PRICE OF ~.00 WHEN: All students are encouraged to order a yearbook this year. Our Yearbook photographers will be circulating around the school MONDAY, MARCH 29 to make sure that all students from both the day and evening 12:3o-6:30 PM sections are included in the yearbook. HOW: You will find color photos of the graduation ceremony and BY CONTACTING MAUREEN DELGADO, greater inclusion of the faculty and first, second, third, and fourth year students. Don't delay. Send or bring your order form and SIGNING UP UN THE STUDENT LOUNGE, . checks made out to the NYLS 1993 Yearbook to the Office of ORCONTACTINGANYONEATTHE Student Services, Attention: Sally Harding, or see the Yearbook PHI ALPHA DELTA staff in the basement of "C" building of the new Student Center. OFFICE Seniors: A reminder to send in your selections of one photo with street clothing and one photo with cap and gown to the Photographer. The photo with street clothing will be the picture placed with your class. The cap and gown photo will be placed in your half-page section. Your half-page may include 1-200 words of -BE SMART- your thoughts or no thoughts. If you do not wish to write anything, you may desire to put in information about what extra-rurricular -DO YOUR PART- activities, club activities, special organizations, programs, etc. WORK WITH PHI ALPHA DELTA TO SAVE which you may have been active in during your years at The New LIVES Yori< Law School. If you would like to wor1< on the staff, please leave a message DONATE BLOOD in Delvis Valdes, Mike Wood, or Jackie George's mailfolders. We need some energetic and hardwor1 MARCH1993 The New York Law School Reporter 5 Tips for the Computer Novice I1 By Rupi S. Badwal t94 1I What is DOS' and how does it differ from WINDOWS1? is fast enough for most people's applications such as word processing or basic spreadsheets. A 486SX is only required when you expect to run microprocessor DOS (disk operating system) is thesoftware(diskette) required Lo run any intensive applications such as graphic de.5ign programmes, extensive spreadsheets, personal computer (pc). DOS tells the computer how to perform certain etc, although a DX machine comes with a math coprocessor required for CAD commands. The majority ofpc's have DOS {unless equipped with OS(l.l or Dr. progarnme.5 and is beneficial in large spreadsheets. Dos4). Ifyou don't know how much RAM your system has, an easy to check it is WINDOWS softwareallows users to operate with a WYSIWIG (what you to watch how high the numbers go when you first boot up (tum on) your computer. see is what you get) display, also known as the GUI (graphical user interface). The number will most likely be 1024 (1 meg RAM), 2048 (2 meg RAM), or 4096 WINDOWS is more user friendly because the programmes arc accessible by (4 mcgRAM). Ifyour computer only has I megRAMand you want to upgrade, double-clicking on a descriptive icon with a mouse. WINDOWS is primarily depending on the type of memory chips you have (look at the specifications in used in conjunction with a pointing device such as a mouse or trackball. Contrary your system manual) and the number of open memory slots, the price to upgrade to popular belief (at least at NYLS) WINDOWS is not an operating system. 1t from 1mcgRAMto4 meg RAM is approximately $140.00. But, before you relies on DOS as its platform and cannot run without it. consider upgrading, you should consider whether you really need to run Generally WINDOWS is much easier to use than DOS applications WlNDOWS. Although WINDOWS is much easier to use there are several (soflwareapplicationsare programmes) bccauseeverylhing is at your finger tips, drawbacks. and the applications are more intuitive. However, in order to run WINDOWS WINDOWS applications run slower than DOS software, you need to have the proper hardware (the right type of computer). WINDOWS slows down print speed WINDOWSitselfwillrunona286microprocessorandrequireslmeg(megabyte) WINDOWS applications take up more hard drive spar..e than DOS of RAM (random access memory). RAM is memory used by the computer only applications ie. WP for DOS occupies 6 meg of hard disk space while while the power is on. Unlike a hard drive, itdoesnotstoreany infonnation once WordPerfect for WINDOWS occupies 9 meg of hard disk space. If you the computer is turned off. have a 40 meg hard drive, you have already occupied 1/3 of your hard With I meg of RAM WINDOWS will run, but applications designed for disk space. (1.5 meg for DOS, 5 meg forWINDOWS,and9 meg for WP) WINDOWS will not. If you want to run applications for WINDOWS, you need So, now you have some basics about the software. Now here are some tips at least 2 meg of RAM (4 meg of RAM is sugge.5ted to run WordPerfec~· for you can use to speed things up on your computer as well as help avoid confusing WINDOWS). If you have a choice, try to run WINDOWS on a 386 so you can the computer or yourself. utilize the memory management feature.5 built into WINDOWS. WINDOWS One thing every user should strive for is basic housekeeping. In other runs labouriously slow on a 286 such as mine. The difference between the words, keep your hard disk clean of useless files because they occupy precious microprocessors is extremely complex. Suffice to say a 386SX running at20mhz hard disk space Think of your hard drive as a file cabinet. For example, if you have WordPerfect on your system, you should make a subdirectory to store your work. This way, if you decide to delete some files because you need hard disk space, all you have to do is go to the subdirectory and delete the unnecessary files. Another thing to avoid is savi~g files on the root directory. The root directory MUDVILLE 9 is the C:> prompt; a DOS subdirectory looks like C:\DOS>. The root directory has the capability to store up to 512 subdirectories and files. lfyou store all your WordPerfect files on the root directory you may run into some hard disk trouble. SPORTS BAR Creating a subdirectory is simple. 126 CHAMBERS STREET EXAMPLE: Creating a subdirectory for WordPerfect for DOS: At your C:> prompt, (note a backslash is used, not a regular slash. NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10007 type md/WP5 l/WOR.K Work is the name of the subdirectory in our example, although you can name it anything (BETWEEN CHURCH AND W. BROAD you want up to a maximumof8characters, WAY) with no spaces) Creating a subdirectory for WordPerfect for WINDOWS: 6 TV'S--PINBALL--POOL- Go to the file manager and click on the WordPerfect directory (WPWIN) Click on FILE from the top menu and scroll down to create directory ... A DARTS dialog box will appear. Type in the name of your subdirectory and click on OK. Another way to clean up your hard disk is with the use of a utility programme such as PCTOOLS6 by Central Point Software. Although the latest version is 8.0 for DOS, every version from 6.0 has a disk mapping utility where WE FEATURE. the programme will look at your hard disk and produce a map ofall the occupied spaces. When the spaces are far apart, you run the file compression utility and \ ·N ·G the programme moves all the information to the front of the disk. This speeds ~ -- - tr up your hard disk access because the computer no longer has to search the entire drive for infonnation since all of the information is sent to the front of the disk. If •111•111 ---·------Jn Lerms of our analogy, in a file cabinet, your files may be disorganized; move everything to the front and organize it and you can quickly find the information ~ you seek. WORD PERFECT TIPS 15 DIFFERENT FLAVORS WORDPERFECT FOR DOS VERSION 5.1 OF WINGS, RIBS & As some of you may know, WordPerfect will probably release WordPerfect 6.0 by the middle ofthe summer. But, fornow, hereare some tips fornovice users CHICKEN of WordPerfect. 10% DISCOUNT ON FOOD WITH NAVIGATION STUDENT ID [CfRL)[->] and (CI'RL](<-]: moves the cursor to the first 964-WING--WE DELIVER 11 AM--9 PM letter of eac;h word to either the left or the right conLonp.6 6 The New York Law School Reporter Computer Tips Cont... several options such as Enhanced, of contents, or to adjust your line WP, choose MENU bar remains [HOME][<-): moves the cursor to Equations, Fastkeys etc. Move the spacing. To access Reveal Codes you visible and type Y. Then, to allow the beginning of the line highlight bar to Fast.keys and use the can use the [ALT][F3] combination, or access to the MENU, go to the Use ALT keys to access Menu option edit option at the bottom of the screen. [END) :movesthecursortotheend [Fll) if you have a 101 AT style and type Y. Press [ENTER] and You will then see a list ofkey sequences of the line keyboard. then press [F7]. When you return to with thecorrespondingfunction. Select the screen the menu bar should be the function (ie. italics) and use the REVEALCODES-thesecodes MENU visible. saveoptionatthebottomofyourscreen. show how the text is formatted. For You will then be prompted for a name. example, when you bold text, the WordPerfect has a built in KEYBOARD MACROS Type in italics. Next you are prompted codes show: menu accessible through the lALT] for a key sequence. For example, you [Bold on] Criminal key. In order to do this, you must canuserALTJ[I]. Nowexitthisscreen. Prosecutions [Bold off] first go into setup [SHIFT] [Fl]. WP allows users to italicize, double underline, use SMAIL CAPS as When you get back to the screen with Choose the Display option. The the different keyboard layouts, move Reveal codes are especially following screen has several op well as 50 or more other shortcut key sequences. To do this, you must go into thehighlightbartolheEnhancedlayout helpful when you have to do hanging tions. lf you want the MENU to keyboard. Select the retrieve option indents, mark footnotes, create a table remain visible while you work in setup [SHIFT][Fl] and choose Keyboard layout. You should have from the· bottom of the screen. It will prompt you for a name. Type in italics. Then, at the next prompt, type in [ALT][I]. Make sure the enhanced keyboard layout is highlighted and use the select option at the bouom of the screen. Then, press [F7] and try out your new italics macro by pressing [ALTJ[l]. MASS MAILINGS MADE This year, another bar review course has put out EASY a_poster ind~cing students who have already WordPerfect (for WINDOWS and DOS) allows users to create signed up with other bar review courses to documents with a corresponding data switch programs. file to do a mail merge. This is helpful when you send resumes to dozens of lawfirms. Let'swalkthroughasimple BAR/BR.I refuses to play this game. example: First, your primary file is the We be~eve that students are mature enough to boilerplate document. We will use a simple cover letter. Next, your enroll ma course. Ifthey believe they made a secondary file is the mai Iing address of mistake, they are mature enough to change each firm you want to apply to. courses. Creating you primary file ••. First you have to decide on what you want to call your fields. Fields are Ifa student signs up with BAR/BR.I or with any the data you want to extract from your ~ther bar review course, that student's objective data file. We will use the following fields: firm, address, city, state, zip, 11 to pass the bar exam. And our obligation as and partner. See fig. 1. attorneys is to help them with that objective, 1. Toplacethesefieldsintoyour document, press [SHIFf]{F9] and and not to destroy their confidence in themselves select the Merge Codes option. and in their course. 2. Then select the (Fields} option and type in the name of your field. i.e. fmn,addressetc. 3. Then use the insert We '!"'ill not undermine students' confidence in function to place the field in your theu course by playing on their insecurities. document. If the field is not where you want it placed you can change its After all, we're attorneys. And we intend to help location later. you become attorneys, too. Creating your secondary file ... Your secondary file must also contain your field names. 4. To create your data file, type [SHIFT)[F9] and select the merge codes BAR REVIEW options. Select the [Field Names] options and type in all of the field (212) 719-0200 names you want to use in the order you want to fill them and select the {End 0 Record} option. Where professional responsibility is 5. Typeinyourdata,onefield 99 more thanjust a course. ™ at a time. After each field is typed in, select the {End Field} option. When you have completed one data file, select the {End Record} option and press [ENTER]. cont. on page 10 MARCH1993 The New York Law School Reporter 7 GATOR ONE CARD WILL MAKE CAMPUS CASHLESS der a minute," Willis said. "it was a universities are developing similar ''We could have gone with an matter of logistics, of taking a pic ID's to the Gator One Card, the UF existing system, but none really fit ture and putting text to it, and a card is the most advanced. The the University of florida," White GAINESVILLE, Fla. (CPS) computer is capable of doing those card's magnetic strip has three said. "Scooter and his friends de Students at the University of things. It actually ended tracks, one each for debits, access veloped a system generic enough to Florida won't need to carry cash up elimi nating lines because the cards work and student information, and it is work with all other systems on and a myriad of identification the only university card that used campus." cards whe the Gator One Card is so fast." White said that while other all the tracks. fully implemented on campus. The card, which was designed by a former student body president, works like an ATM card. Students can now put money into an on campus account and use the card to pay for a meal anywhere on cam pus, buy snacks and sodas from vending machines and pay for foot ·IT ball and homecoming tickets. It can also be used at the library to check out books or open doors to the computer lab to authorized stu dents. When the system is fully op TO PIEPER erational in two years, it will make cash nearly obsolete on campus. Students are charged $5 for the. card, officials said. 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What Is The Best Feature Of NYLS?_ A SUCCESS STORY Safety:______The opening of the new Student Center is just the most recent accomplishment in Photo copy machines: ______New York Law School's program of re What Is The Worst Feature Of NYLS?_ newal. The renewal program has demon Computers: ______strated dramatic results over the past four years. In Spring, 1990, the new Mendik Li Is there any person, department or WestLaw Access______brary opened. For the first time in years, all organization at NYLS which des erves the New York Law School book collections re cognition for achie vements? Why? Lexis: ------were available in one location. Also for the first time, the new library building included WestLaw and Lexis computer rooms and Cl.ASSES: two personal computer rooms for student use. Scheduling: ______In Spring, 1991, the LeFrak Moot Court Room opened. 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The site of many award pre any bias/incidents during you r NYLS edu· sentations, panel discussions and parties, in cat io n ? everyday use this giant two story open space also serves as a quiet study room. The resto Yes No Subjects For Which Credits Should Be ration of the room, which once housed a Changed:______portion of the library collections, included Please describe any bias problem the rebuilding of the beautiful glass chande you think exists at NYLS. including racial lntern/Externships:______liers and the installation of new recessed incidents or sexual harassment: ceiling lightmg. - --- Skills Courses:______Student organizations moved into the new club offices in the basement of "C" Professors:______buildino at the end of 1992. CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: "WHAT SHOULD BE DONE TO Journals: IMPROVE NEW YORK LAW ------SCHOOL?" What do you think of the following fa- Moot Court:______cilities or functions at NYLS? 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Second hurdle - Explain why help the school to better assist In a pool of seven, only three re spent hundreds of dollars on mail I was not offered a jobe at the end of graduating students making the ceived offers. I was not one of them. ings. the summer associate program. A transition from student to practic So I followed the next com I got over a dozen interviews. few firms called me back for a sec ing attorney. mon rumor amongst law students - This is when I learned to jump ond and a third interview but I Here is my story. At the age of do a big mail campaign. If you want hurdles. That is, the kind of hurdles never received an offer. 31, [ graduated from college magna to compete you need the perfect that come up during an interview. cum laude. Since I was a teenager, I dreamed of becoming a lawyer. When NYLS accepted my applica tion for the Fall of 1989, I was thriJled; my family was thrilled. I was to be the first lawyer in my family. We knew it would be bard. We knew it would be costly and we knew I would need help caring for my seven-year-old son. Yet, with family support and a bundle of LAL loans, we were prepared for the three year haul. However, we were not prepared for life after gradua tion; the fourth yell(, failing the bar and unemployment. " Let's face it - without admis sion to the bar, a JD degree is noth ing but an expensive piece of paper - a reminder that the dream is still a dream. As a first year law student, I despised third year students who constantly criticized NYLS, blam ing their inability to compete in the job market on students coming out of higher ranking law schools. At the time, I dismissed such pessi mistic views because I was full of first year enthusiasm. Then came the posting of first year grades. The moment when the beast rears its ugly head - the "C" area of law training CUR VE. It wraps around your throat, silencing you for the remain fall associates training der of the three years in law school. Some call it the "humbling effect;" FAST TRACK training -.· ...... a form of academic "hazing" if you will. All I could think was, what did I do wrong? I attended all my law school training 20 f . ···.. . classes and read the thousands of pages assigned. I did exactly what law school training J01 wo!Xed for me in college and earned honors! It can't be my writing be cause I earned a "B+" in legal writ ing. I knew I had given that first year my best efforts. Some stu dents said, first year grades were indicative of a student's perfor mance throughout law school. I Fast 'J:;.ackN. lt"s An I (!:rtant didn't believe this. I shook it off. By second year I was firmly rooted alongside the other .. C" stu Step In~ur Legal eer. dents in the garden of grades. Never Fast Track"' classes are available March 29 through April 24. seeing the light. I found comfort in Register by calling 1-800-222-8714 after February IS. the saying, .. D" equals JD. I scrambled with the rest of the herci. I landed a summer associate posi LEXIS· NEXISe tion with a medium siz.ed firm. Now I could breath because the rumor was that if you secwed a Summer MARCH 1993 cont. on next page The New York. Law School Reporter 13 Best Kept Secret cont... NYLS friends, who graduated for a municipal court for no pay. I ments, and more rejection letters. consolidating, forbearance, ahead of me, had their own bar war also worked for a solo practitioner Another rumor bas recently sur Post- graduate counseling - stories and their problems with the part-time, until he could no longer faced. Don't accept non-legal work assign counselors the job market. Still, I didn't loose faith afford to pay me. I watched my because then you are doomed. graduates know, or confidence. THAT WAS TIIEIR family hang-in there, hopeful things You'll never break back into the law Post-graduate internships STORY> It was not going to be would break for me as soon as the field. until you pass the bar mine. During my last semester, I bar results arrived. My parents have lost that and find employment. asked a friend on law review to I did not pass the bar. I got a hopeful expression on their faces. I tutor me in test taking techniques. passing score on my MBE, but can't blame them. They bargained You may read this article and It helped. I finally received an "A," missed passing my essays by one for three years not four. They did argue that NYLS already provides some .. B's" and only one "C." But point. Again, my writing skills. not know the realities of seeking a career services, panel discussions it was too late. The same writing that earned me law degree in the '90's. How could on networking and financial aid By the third year the bar exam "C's" in law school. This was not they? I only just found out myself. "exit interviews." IT IS CLEARLY rumors were circulating every the kind of writing I did in legal Now, we all feel cheated. NOT ENOUGH! Today, there are where -You have to sit for two bars, writing class, where you have weeks I began by stating this article too many issues to be adequately New Yorlc and another state. You to write and rewrite a paper. I'm is not meant to criticize NYLS. My addressed in current NYLS pro might as well sit for two because talking about the writing required intentions are to alert the school grams, no matter how sincere the you'll never find time to do it later. on an exam - you have SO minutes and students of the need to provide school's intentions. The legal field In order to compete for a job in the per question to write your answer. a course for students that will ad is so severely depressed that no tri-state area, you need to be admit This became the third hurdle in an dress the issues they face after student can afford to face on an ted to New York and New Jersey. interview - Explain why you have graduation. It should be a required interview any of the hurdles that I No one suggested that sitting not been admitted to the bar. course for all NYLS students. have described above. for two bars might be an unrealistic It is now March 1993. A good Among the issues the course sho~d There are many other NYLS approach for a "C" student. Espe friend of mine, who graduated from address: graduates like myself. I have seen cially, when you consider that the NYLS in 1991, passed the bar on her their faces and talked with them. New York Bar tests on up to 24 second try. Recent! y, she took a job Unemployment after law The ones that have passed the bar subjects, while the New Jersey Bar with a medium-sized firm - 18 school, are finding their "C" averages keep .tests in six areas. MONTHS AFfER GRADUATION! A job campaign that works them out of the running when it Graduation day came with all As for me, I have now taken in the '90's, comes to job offers. Those still its glory and bar review class met as two bar review courses, sat for the Approaches to taking the trying to pass the bar feel as I do, scheduled that same evening. By July and February bar exams and it bar, two bars, they have not been adequately pre the middle of July, I was a test has been four years since I began to Deciding which bar review pared to write well under exam taking machine. I left the bar exam pursue this dream of becoming a course to take, conditions. confident I passed. While I waited lawyer. Each day my mailbox is Failing the bar - strategies NYLS has an obligation to as for the bar results, I sent out an bombarded with letters from law for the second time, sist each and every student in mak other hundred resumes. I worked loan creditors bounding me for pay- Managing law school loans, ing the transition from Jaw school to working attorney. Summer Living in · · New York City v You can live in the heart of hJstoric Greenwich Village this satmmtt. 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I OOUINtf ( AlriU>'riOil I L.!-~~-..:f':::'!:!.~~-=------~ ·.·. · ' . .. ., . ...,., ._...... _ ,, __ ..., ___ 14 The New Yorlc Law School Reporter The Lexis Scavenger Hunt WEATHERING THE STORM IN THE Welcome to the wide world of the The Scavenger Hunt: LEGAL Lexis database. Leaming to use Lexis is much like getting to understand the New 1. Courts: MARKETPLACE: York subway system: very confusing at A. A famous attorney (who also wrote a STRATEGIES first, but the user soon learns the shortcuts book) represented New Yorlc Law School in a to beat surface traffic. For the novice com 1978 case. 1) Who was that attorney? 2) Who was FOR SUCCESS puter user, like the new subway passenger, his opponent in lhe case? 3) What is the citation? knowledge comes from experience. Of 4) What was the action in the case? course, like the subway, the Lexis user B. In 1907, New York Law School and City Bar "Lawyers in Transition" must have a destination in mind. Brooklyn Law School petitioned the New York Program Offers Court of Appeals. What did they ask? As law students, we have almost free Updated, Practical Help access to one of the largest and best orga C. Paul Maddaus was involved in a law nii.ed databases outside of the intelligence suit with NYLS. l) In what year did this take community. Of course, that changes im place? 2) In what year did this take place? 3) P • mediately after graduation. (There's no What was lhe cause of the suit? 4) What was lhe What: such thing as a free lunch!) The database amount of money? 5) What was the outcome? access which was free for three or four D. Several actions reported in the Lexis A daylong series of lectures and work years is now only available at a serious database involve the complaint of "Susan M. ". shops offering updated, practical help for price. The original action was what type of proceed lawyers facing career changes. Topics will Attorneys who have utiliz.ed the da ing? include: tabases as students and know their way E. One action involving NYLS revolves through the virtual neighborhoods of com around the utilization of a "sin.king fund". What -networking and interviewing techniques puter aided legal research have a tremen is the caption of the action? -designing effective resumes and marketing dous advantage over attorneys who have F. Justice Cohalan wrote an opinion in not been exposed to Lexis (or Westlaw). answer to a petition by the New York Law cam~ -startegies for struc.turing a job search Some observers think that attorneys who School trustees. l) What question did he an ~ 6sues for attonreys with 15+ years are not computer literate may be unem swer? 2) What year did this take place? newly atinitted attorneys and ployable in just four or five years. G. Nancy Erickson filed a suit against NYLS. etperience, of Unfortunately, the administration of What was the reason she filed suit? attorneys oolor New York Law School doesn't currently -government opportunities -alternative careers think that the use of computer aided legal 2. Property: research (CALR) databases is a proper A. New York Law School owns several -starting your own finn -using academic subject for law students. There pieces of property. One piece of property was the special resources of the are no mandatory CALR classes which purchased for 7 .S million dollars. 1) What are the Association's library carry credit. (Although the Advauced Le street addresses of that property? 2) What do gal Research class does cover Lexis and students calJ that piece of property? WestLaw research.) B. New York Law School owns a piece of Who: However, assistance is available for property which is not contiguous with the main Opening Remarks: students who wish to learn CALR on their law school campus. Where is it? own. Any student may pick up the Lexis or John D. Feerick, President WestLaw program packages from the Li Remember: Print out your research. Cor The Association of the Bar of the City of brary. Either program is easily installed on rectly cite the cases. Tum them in to the locked New York practically any computer with a modem. wooden box in the Reporter office, or to a Re Macintosh, MS-DOS, and Windows ver porter editor. sions of the software are available. Both Good LucJ MARCH 1993 The New York Law School Reporter 15 Blacks in Civil War cont... By 1864, because of what Blacks had done fort, Sergeant James H. Harris, and Private Wil ironclad C.S.S. TENNESSEE attacked them. for the Union forces, the South began to realiz.e liam H. Barnes. The fourth was Private James While bringing gunpowder to the gun deck a that it would be to their advantage to draft Gardiner, of the 36tb, who rushed ahead of his shell exploded near Lawson, badly wounding Blacks. On January 2, 1864, the Army of Tennes brigade, shot a rebel officer, and then kept on him, killing three Landsmen, and knocking the see asked for permission to use Blacks as sol fighting with only his bayonet and hands. other one out. For two hours,Lawson refused diers. But before they could, those Blacks would Five Blacks earned the Medal of Honor in treatment for his wounds and continued sup have to be freed. On March 13, 1865, with a battle near Cincinnati, Ohio. On September 29, plying the gun deck with gunpowder until the serious losses everywhere, resources depleting, 1864, Sergeant Major Milton M. Holland, First TENNESSEE's commander, Captain J.D. and the South on the verge of defeat and in Sergeant James H. Bronson, First Sergeant Rob Johnston, surrendered. desperate need of soldiers, President Davis ert Pinn, and First Sergeant Powhatan Beaty Landsman Aaron Anderson became the signed the Negro Soldier Law. This law autho earned their medals for gallantry and meritori fourth Black to earn the Navy Medal of Honor rized the enlistment of 300,000 Blacks as sol ously leading their unit through the day's bloody when he was awarded it for carrying out his diers. Under this law, a Black was still a slave struggles. Two days later, Corporal Miles James duties courageously in the face of devastating unless both his master and state freed him. A earned his Medal of Honor for courage as he fire. On March 17, 1865, the U.S.S. WYAN few companies of black soldiers were orga held his ground and inflicted heavy damage on DOTTE sustained much damage when it was nized. but before they saw any action the war the enemy, while resisting aid for his mutilated fired upon by shore batteries near Mattox Creek, ended. left arm. North Carolina. Landsman Aaron Anderson, In October, 1864, four Blacks earned the although fifty years old and shells landing all C. Blacks Awarded the Medal of Honor Medal of Honor when the 4th, 5th, and 6th U.S. around him, single-handily loaded and fired an Colored Troops attacked Chaffin's Farm, Vir unmanned gun. Eventually, the Confederates During the Civil War, Blacks served this ginia. Sergeant Alfred B. Hilton, of Company H, retreated and the WYANDOTTE was saved. country faithfully, gallantly, and heroically. In Maryland's 4th U.S. Colored Troops, while car the face of danger they stood their ground better rying one flag, took another flag from a dying D. DATES than most, thus earning the respect and praise of Sergeant and kept advancing until be was December 20, 1860 -- South Carolina seceded their commanders, observers, and the Confed crippled by a shot through his legs. Though from the Union. erates. It was said that Blacks were heroic and bleeding badly he held the flags until someone January 1861 -- Mississippi (1/9), Florida (1/10), that no troop could be more determined or came to get them. Sergeant Major Christian A. Alabama (1/11), Georgia (1/19), and Louisiana daring. Blacks comprised approximately 25% of Fleetwood and Private Charles Veal earned their (1126) seceded from the Union. the Union Navy and approximately I 0 % of all medals for courage and intrepidity when they February t, 1861 -- Texas seceded from the Union. Union forces. Altogether 209.511 Blacks fought took command after all the commissioned offic February 4, 1861 - The Confederate States of in the Union forces and another 200,000 served ers were killed and led the remaining men to America was organized. Although Kentucky in support roles. Of these, 38, 178 were killed in victory. First Sergeant Alexander Kelly. of Com and Missouri did not secede from the Union, 499 military engagements, includmg 39 major pany F, 6th U.S. Colored Troops, earned bis they did send representatives to the Confeder battles. In recognition of their valor, sixteen medal when he savoo the regimental flag after ate Congress and were represented on the Con federate flag. Blacks earned the Congressional Medal of Honor the color-bearer was killed. April 10, 1861 -- Robert Smalls, Union Navy and four Blacks earned the Navy Medal of Pilot, while watching preparalloos for the attack Honor. Navy Medal of Honor on Fort Sumter said ~this, boys, as the dawn of freedom for our race". Congressional ~fedal of Honor Robert Blake became the first Black to earn April 12, 1861 - Fort Sumter (South Carolina) was attacked by the Confederacy. the Navy Medal of Honor when he was awarded April 15, 1861 - Black volunteers were turned Sergeant William H. Camey, of Company it for gallantry, extraordinary heroism, and in down by the Union Army. C, S4th Massachusetts Colored Infantry. was the trepidity at the risk of his own life. On December April 17, 1861 -- Virginia seceded from the first Black in the Civil War to earn the Medal of 25, 1863, the U.S.S. MARBLEHEAD, a gunboat, Union. Honor. On July 18, 1863, the Union forces was fired on by shore batteries near Legarev1Ue, April 21, 1861 - Clara Barton and five black females gave aid to wounded Union soldiers attacked Fort Wagner and Carney's regiment South Carolina. Blake, the ship's steward, was near Baltimore, Maryland. was fired upon. Sergeant John Wall, the color going to his quarters when be found the May 1861 -- Arkansas (5/6), Tennessee (5/8), bearer, was killed. Carney grabbed the flag powderboy dead on the deck, killed by a shell. and North Carolina (5/20) seceded from the before it hit the ground and kept advancing. By Blake not only took over the powderboy's job of Union. the time he had gotten to the fort, be was all delivering the gunpowder boxes to the gun May 24, 1861 - General B. F. Butler refused to alone. After half hour, reinforcements reached return three escaped slaves as they were .. con an loaders, but he also kept the gun loaders' morale traband of war... him and be entered the fort, but they were up. May 26, 1861 - General George B. McClellan, beaten back and he was forced to retreat. Al Seaman Joachim Pease became the second Ohio Department, issued orders to suppress though be was shot three times before he reached Black to earn the Navy Medal of Honor when he any black attempt at insurrection. safety, he never let the flag touch the ground: was awarded it for coolness, good conduct, and May 31, 1861 -- Black mass meeting offered to On June 30, 1864, he was discharged from the raise an army of 50,000 men and women to serve qualities even higher than courage and forti as nurses. infantry because of the disability caused by tude. Pease, of Long Island, New York, was a July 21, 1861 - Union forces were routed at Bull these wounds. gun loader on the U.S.S. KEARSARGE, com Run, the first major battle of the war. Sergeant Major Thomas Hawkins, of manded by Captain John S. Winslow, when it September 25, 1861 - The Secretary of the Navy Pennsylvania's 6th U.S. Colored Troops, earned met the Confederate vessel C.S.S. ALABAMA5 authorized the enlistment of Blacks. his Medal of Honor for gallantry in rescuing the Spring 1862 - A black volunteer Union regiment on June 19, 1864, just off Cherbourg, France. was formed under abolitionist General David regimental flag on July 21, 1864, during the Deep When shells exploded near him, wounding him Hunter. It was disbanded three months later by Bottom engagement. and killing or wounding the three men helping governmental order. Sergeant Decatur Dorsey, of Maryland's him, he continued to fire on the ALABAMA March 6, 1862 - President Lincoln recommended 39th U.S. Colored Troops, earned his Medal of until it sunk. t? Congress gradual compensated emancipa Honor on July 30, 1864, for saving the flag. After tion. Landsman John G. Lawson became the April 4, 1862 - U.S. Senate passed bill abolishing the assault by white Union troops bad failed third Black to earn the Navy Medal of Honor slavery in the District of Columbia. against the Confederates at Petersburg, Dorsey, when he was awarded it for steadfastly continu May 13, 1862 - Robert Smalls, sailed an armed the flag-bearer, led the black troops to the only ing his duties of serving the guns and for risking Confederate steamer, PLANTER, out of Charles Union success of the battle that day. death above and beyond the call of duty. Lawson, ton, South Carolina and presented it to the U.S. Navy. In 1863, he became the first Black to On September 29, 1864, four Blacks earned of Pennsylvania, served aboard the U.S.S. HART become a captain in the U.S. Navy. He would the Medal of Honor for bravery and daring in FORD under Rear Admiral David G. Farragut. later serve as a Republican Congressman from the assault on the Confederate fortification at On August S, 1864, while the HARTFORD led a South Carolina (1882 - 1887). New Market Heights, Virginia. Three were fourteen vessel Union fleet into Mobile Bay near July 17, 1862 - The first regular black troops ofllrdirWfffof.iJ'ffx~ Alabama it was fired upon by Forts Gaines and were enlisted at Leavenworth, Kansas under fmnel.le\\fdetms&bJlml· General Jim Lane. They saw action twice against geant Edward Ratcliff, first person to enter the Morgan. Shortly thereafter, the Confederate Cont. on Page 18 16 The New Yorlc Law School Reporter I CCJVIVIENTARY Putting Our Best Foot Forward: Faking Diversity at the Expense of Style II Michael Simone '93 II Dear Beloved Readers: I am nor sonal and common goals as citiz.ens ested in attending NYLS (Come on On the other hand, even I like ajournalist. Jamalawsrudent- that (making a decent living so we don't - it can't be that hard to imagine). to believe that the NYLS adminis is something between a real human have to eat pasta with Ragu every Wouldn't you assume that the stu tration is fairly intelligent. They being and a lawyer. I have not checked night) presents great challenges. dents watching the trial were NYLS usually act with a purpose in mind. thefactsofthis article. Between myjob, Of course, the Dean's mes students. Not realizing that this I can think of another reason why my internship, and my studies I bare(y sage is much more positive. He was a picture of bored high school this horrendous.. picture got into the have enough time to look for post presents NYLS as an established, if students on a field trip, you might application booklet. [ call it the graduate work. I refuse to waste my not prestigious, law school with its think that these students don't look "instant diversity theory." I rest time trying to get the truth about this sights set on educating the bright, very interested in their thrill packed my theory on what I perceive as a photograph out ofthe administration. ethical lawyers of the future. By the NYLS education. How exciting can shrinking of the minority popula If my assumptions about this photo end of his message, I got caught up classes at NYLS be when one stu tion since I became a NYLS stu graph are wrong, write an editorial in in his enthusiasm. I wanted to at- dent is passed out cold, two need to dent. Without this picture, the ap- response. plication contains pic I find this photo tures of only two black graph very amusing. students. This heavily What! You don't rec ethnic picture may have ognize the humor? Let been placed in the book me explain where I let to attract minority first saw it and maybe students. you will share my Marketing NYLS amusement. Duh to a minority students New York Law School is a not a bad idea. En (NYLS) puts together couraging diversity is a 28 page infonnation a beneficial policy as we booklet each year de strive for equality in signed to give pro our society, as long as spective students a this policy does not taste of what NYLS is override recognition of like. This booklet con individual achieve tains information on ments. However, this the faculty, a few fa picture does not pro mous alumni, the Le motes diversity. This gal Writing Program picture does encourage and other course re bigotry and discrimina quirements, and as the tion. It presents a bad grand finale - an ap image of minorities. plication to NYLS. They look very unin Usually, the booklet has a picture of tend the school he described. Then support their heads with their arms, terested. In fact, none of them even a NYLS building on the front cover, I remembered - I am about to another may be asleep or maybe be bothered to bring books to class. In and pictures of attractive NYLS stu graduate from the place. just can't bear to watch, and a girl in contrast, the white students are por dents inside. This year, taking a cue Unsurprisingly, the application the bottom row is gasping for oxy- trayed as being highly intelligent. from the Clinton administration, does not gen? The woman at the podium looks as somebody decided that it was time contain a This if she is giving a persuasive argu for a change. warranty picture is ment, and the guy sitting at the This year the booklet's front (You will How exciting can classes at just plain desk is diligently reviewing bis cover contains two vague, out-of be com NYLS be when one student awful. It notes. context quotes from Dean pletely is passed out cold, two does not Okay, everyone can now re Wellington's message to prospec satisfied promote member that these are only high tive students. On a stark white with your need to support their heads NY LS as school students. All students should background the large black type legal edu with their arms, another an excit be angered by this photograph. shouts "'[t]hose of you who apply to cation or may be asleep or maybe he ing, inno More than anything, it demon law school this year do so in a time y o u r vative oa strates that the law school still thinks of significant change...... In this con- money just can't bear to watch, sis of it operates in a seller's market. They text, to contemplate the fulfillment back!!!). and a girl in the bottom learning. don't have to work that bard to of our personal and common goals The Laziness promote the school. They can paste as citizens presents great chal amazing row is gasping for oxygen? is perhaps together some bad publicity, change lenges ... " I hope the first question photo the best the logo, sit back and watch atten prospective 1Ls ask is, "what does graph that explana dance increase next year anyway. this mean?" I will gladly answer occupies tion for its Minority students should be espe their question. It means that at a this page can be found inside the presence in the application booklet. cially angered because the school time of significant change booklet. It is a scene familiar to Some administrator thought an would rather take a picture of high (downsizing of law firms, govern most students. It is the final trial of other classroom shot was needed school kids to encourage minority ment hiring freezes, and Harvard a Trial Advocacy class. But, for a and this was the only picture avail enrollment than t.ake the time to go graduates taking all the good pub moment, forget what you know. able. to the individual classes and take lic interest jobs) fulfilling our per- Imagine you are a student inter- pictures of minority students. MARCH 1993 The New York Law School Reporter 17 Welcome to New York Law School!!! Meet Professor Mariana J. Hogan I1 By Jackie George '93 1l Professor Mariana J. Hogan niques including videotaped simu cacy Clinics, Professor Hogan Professor Hogan also taught is the Assistant to the Director of lations to develop lawyering skills. taught a twelve-credit hour full trial advocacy and evidence courses the New York Law School Professor Hogan also taught a year live client clinic entitled "Child at the Wayne State Law School in Extemship Program. Since six-credit hour course entitled Support Enforcement Clinic." In Detroit, Michigan. These courses fall, 1992, Professor Hogan has "Criminal Trial Advocacy." She this clinic, she supervised second involved simulated trials and hear been a welcome addition to the trained students in all aspects of and third year students who filed ings which were videotaped with New York Law School faculty. criminal trial advocacy using simu- and handled child support, cus- live critiques. She received her J.D. from 1 a - tody, Professor Hogan served as a Georgetown University Law Cen tions visi Staff Attorney for the Federal De ter located in Washington, D. C., i n t a - fender Services Unit of the Legal and her undergraduate degree which ti.on, Aid Society in the Eastern District with high honors in American His st u - and of New York and for the Legal Aid tory from Brown University, dent pa- Society's Criminal Defense Divi Rhode Island. She came to us a d - ter- sion during 1979 through 1984. with an incredible amount of both v er - nify Not only has Professor Hogan teaching and work experience. saries pe- served in the above capacities, she Prior to teaching in the NYLS paired - t i - has also been a participant in the Extemship Program, Professor a s tions National Institute for Trial Advo Hogan taught a twelve-credit full pros i n cacy Teacher Training Program in ·year live client clinic entitled e cu - the Berkeley, California, the Legal Aid "Criminal Justice Clinic" at Pace t o r s Bmt Society's Criminal Defense Divi University School of Law. She a n d Fam- sion Trial Advocacy Program in supervised twelve third-year law d e - i 1 y New York, New York, and in train students who represented defen- fense am ing programs for the Appellate Di dants in the Bronx Criminal Court coun Pro- vision - First Department - Assigned and assisted Bronx Legal Aid at- s e 1 . fes- Counsel Panel. tomeys in the preparation and As a so r Welcome to our school, Pro trial of felony matters in the Bronx team, H:gn fessor Mariana Hogan! Those of us Supreme Court. The supervision t h e y cre who have had the opportunity to involved appearing in court with hulled ated have you as a teacher, have found students, frequent individual con- felony the that those skills you bring to us and ferences, and conducting a weekly cases cur experiences you share with us have "rounds" seminar to review cases. from the filing of the complaint riculum which also included a semi been invaluable to our law school She also created the curriculum through the trial. nar on family law and an advocacy experience and will greatly benefit for and conducted weekly skills Before teaching the Criminal program which culminated into a us as we enter the legal environ seminars using a variety of tech- Justice and Criminal Trial Advo- mock paternity trial. ment. COMPUTER BOOK WORKS 25 WARREN ST. 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December 31, 1864 -- Landsman Anderson awarded the Navy guarded was preserved in the Mas January 26, 1863 - The War Depart John G. Lawson and Seaman John Medal of Honor. sachusetts State House (the state ment authorized Massachusetts Joachim Pease awarded the Navy August 27, 1865 - South Carolina capital)- governor to recruit black troops. Medal of Honor. abolished slavery. The C.S.S. ALABAMA was The 54th Massachusetts Volunteers February 5, 1865 -- Martin R. November 8, 1865 -- Sergeant the best known and most feared of was the first black regiment in the Delaney became the first Black to Decatur Dorsey awarded the Medal the Confederate cruisers. It had North. become a major in the U.S. Army. of Honor. captured 64 ships in her career as a March 10, 1863 - Two black infan March 3, 1865 - Congress passed a December 18, 1865 - Congress raider. try regiments, 1st and 2nd South bill giving freedom to wives and passed the 13th Amendment which, Carolina, captured and occupied children of black soldiers. on ratification, abolished slavery in BIBLIOGRAPHY Jacksonville, Florida. March 13, 1865 - Congress estab the United States. May 1, 1863 -- Confederate Con lished the Freedman's Bureau to February 8, 1870 -- Sergeant Major Bern Anderson, By Sea and gress passed resolutions which help the emancipated slaves. Thomas Hawkins awarded the By River: The Naval History of the branded black troops and their April 6, 1865 -- First Sergeant Medal of Honor. Civil War, 199-209, 233-247 (Da white officers criminals. Thus upon Powhatan Beaty, Private William February 18, 1874 - Sergeant James Capo Press 1962). capture, white officers were put to H. Barnes, First Sergeant James H. H. Harris awarded the Medal of Raebel C. Kranz, The Bio death and black soldiers were dealt Bronson, Sergeant Major Christian Honor. graphical Dictionary of Black with according to the laws of the A. Fleetwood, Sergeant Alfred B. May 23, 1900-Sergeant William H. Americans, 26-27, 40-42, 135-136, state in which they were captured. Hilton, Sergeant Major Alexander Carney awarded the Medal of 189 (Facts On File, Inc. 1992). July 9, 1863 - Eight black regiments Kelly, First Sergeant Milton M. Honor. Irvin H. Lee, Negro Medal of played an important role in the siege Holland, First Sergeant Robert Pinn, Honor Men, 19-50 (Dodd, Mead of Port Hudson which, with the fall First Sergeant Edward Ratcliff, and ENDNOTES and Company 1967). of Vicksburg, gave the Union con Private Charles Veal were all Agnes McCarthy and trol of the Mississippi River and cut awarded the Medal of Honor. 1 Until the cultural elitists in Lawrence Reddick, Worth Fighting the Confederacy in half. April 9, 1865 -- General Lee surren Hollywood made the movie For, 3-76 (Doubleday and Com July 18, 1863 -The S4th Massachu dered at Appomattox Court House "Glory" in 1989, few people prob pany, Inc. 1965). setts Volunteers made a charge on (except for scattered fighting in ably realiz.ed that Blacks fought in James M. McPherson, The Fort Wagner in Charleston Harbor, North and South Carolina, Texas, the Civil War. Negro's Civil War, 3-244 (Pantheon South Carolina. and on the high seas, Lee's surren 2 In theory, it freed all (and Books 1965). April 12, 1864 - Battle of Fort Pil der, for all practical purposes, ended only) slaves in Alabama, Arkansas, Benjamin Quarles and Leslie low and the massacre of black troops the Civil War). Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mis H. Tishel, Jr., The Negro American, after its surrender. April 14, 1865 - John Wilkes Booth sissippi, North Carolina, South 215-250 (William Morrow and Com April 16, 1864 - Landsman assassinated President Lincoln. Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. In pany 1967). Robert Blake awarded the Navy May 13, 1865 -- Two white regi reality, primarily because the Con Irving J. Sloan, The American Medal of Honor. ments and a black regiment, the federate states did not recognize it, Negro, 20-23 (Oceana Publishing, June 28, 1864 -- Fugitive slave laws 62nd U.S. Colored Troops,_ fought it freed very few slaves. The Thir Inc. 1965). repealed. the last action of the Civil War at teenth Amendment (1865) freed the T. Harry Williams, The Union July 7, 1864 - Maryland constitu White's Ranch, Texas. Sergeant vast majority of slaves. Sundered, 94-153 (Time, Inc. 1963). tion amended to abolish slavery. Update WANT A LIGHT LUNCH THE REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS OR NO LUNCH AGENDA FROM A MULTICULTURAL PER COME TO SPECTIVE Panel Discussion Co-Hosted by The Latina Roundtable for Health and Reproductive Rights & NYS-NARAL (New York State National Abortion Rights Action Lague) • Aoortioo Access-Who Bas the Right to Choose? •National Healthcare-What's In It For Women? SPORTS BAK •New Reproductive Technologies-Uses and Abuses (Depo Provera, Norplint, RU486) •Pr-osecutioo of Pregnant Women-"Fetal Abuse" Cases 57 MURRAY STREET •Teen Perspective on Reproductive Rights and Health MARCH 1993 () .. The New York Law School Reporter 19 OPINIO/\T An answer to Mr. Simone: Americans Made The Right Choice Irr:I==D=al=e==Ta=rz=i=a=•9=4=:::il J One can only guess al the President Clinton's decision; he to follow his orders is absurd. These aren't other issues that need action, thoughts that go through Mr. thought of all the lost dreams and people in charge of the military but this problem was one of the Simone's head. It's been a while potential that is sometimes de were spoiled for twelve years by easiest to dispose of. since I have read a pohtical com stroyed by unplanned pregnancies. being allowed to do as they wished As a point that President mentary that was so off base. It's [wonder what would happen if Mr. and they got just about everything Clinton has neglected the other rather obvious that Mr. Simone is Simone's twelve year old daughter they wanted, including two ridicu problems that face this country, look not a Clinton supporter or voter. was pregnant. Would it be right to lous invasions to "protect the inter at a plan to deal with the deficit. First many liberals were EX expect that child to be suddenly est of this country." The compro While the plan is not flawless, it is TREMELY elated when the gag rule thrust into adulthood with the re mise he got was decent, but the the first major solution towards try was lifted from Title X funds. The sponsibility of parenting. People reality is that homosexuals will ing to limit the growth of the deficit gag rule was the ultimate invasion should be entitled to do with as eventually be allowed to defend and national rlp~•. The Republi of privacy that limited the poor to they wish when it comes to their their country as they have done m cans in ...,.,. . for twelve years never full disclosure of medical informa bodies and well being, this is the the past, without having to bide even addressed the deficit, other tion when consulting a doctor while premise behind being pro-choice their true self. The real question than trying to point the finger at the the rich and privileged continued and pro-Ii fe. Also, sometimes here is what about women in com Democrats. It's kind of strange to to get full information and access to people make mistakes and should bat, they are ready and willing to see that a real plan managed to get abortion. The characterization that be entitled to get a second chance serve, it takes time to break down devised in a number of weeks by no radical liberals will not be happy and have a full range of opportuni all the discrimination in the mili other than the Democrats. until abortion is free to all is absurd. ties available to them, this is a re tary. If one were to look at charac There are many individuals. curring theme in our society. It To describe this as, "a foot ter of all the political candidates both conservative and radical, who shouldn't be limited to those who note to past governmental discrimi one should not forget to look at the count themselves as being pro can afford it. nation" does little more than qualify character and choices of the other choice and pro-life. There are no The President's handling of this as a major concern for many administrations and corporations competing values when a person homosexuals in the military was Amencans. Anyone who sees our of the other candidates. Neither take a pro-choice and pro-Ii fe stance. not as bad as Mr. Simone has por national government as being al Bush nor Perot could choose a de It is a position that takes into ac trayed it to be. The real floundering lowed to continue with blatant dis cent candidate for vice-president count the reality of the problems we that went on was that many of the crimination after the advances this that would inspire the confidence have in this country regarding old men in charge of the military country has gone through in the of the people if the President died unplanned pregnancies. The real refused to come to grips with the past 30 plus years is simply out of and these people took office. Also, problem with abortion in this coun reality that anyone can and should touch. The people in this country judging from their track record of try is the lack of cheap, easy. and be a soldier in the military. The value individualism as the basis of opposing people with divergent effective contraception and sex edu trick that the President was trying judgment, not gro~ stereotyping. view-points and havins no toler cation. Until it becomes available to use was to obtain enough public What Mr. Simone has done by mini ance of people with different values the large numbers of abortions will pressure to cause many of those mizing the importance of the end of and ideals, there was little to like continue to be performed. It is not backwards people in charge of the all discrimination by the federal about both Perot and Bush. Clinton something that is going to go away military to change there minds with government as an unimportant is bas shown that he can unite this by making it illegal or difficult to out a fight, and it did not work. To sue is similar to saying that the civil country in this time of need, and his get. The fact that fetuses cannot say that he was Commander in Chief rights movement was a waste of. character has lead him to follow speak or vote had nothing do with and should have ordered his men time. This is not to say that there this path. Student Protesters Burn State Flag of the media, the flag went up in "There was a deliberate at Black and white students alike By Biola Odenewu, flames. tempt by the media as well as the said they felt the flag was racist and The Signal More than 500 police officers, political structure to undermine our should not be flown above the pub Gi!orgia State University helicopters, and secret service efforts," Philpot said. "They know lic buildings. agents were stationed around and that we had the potential to get The students also said they above the Capitol. One Atlanta numbers; that's why they went to did not support reverting back to police officer, who wished to re such lengths to try to undermine the pre-1956 flag. Student leaders, ATLANTA - (CPS) - More than main anonymous, said the strong our efforts."' who propose an entirely new flag 300 students from Atlanta-area uni police prsence was because they While Miller was not present design, saw the pre-1956 flag as versities marched to the Capitol did not want a repeat of the riots at the rally, be sent a letter to the symbolizing and honoring the Con building and burned the state flag that followed the Rodney King ver students in an attempt to discour federacy. to protest a symbol of the Confed dict in Los Angeles last May. age them from burning the flag. "We shall not have the facist eracy embla:zoned upon it. "The bad eggs might want to "It would insult many Geor flag of 1956 reformed back to the The students assembled at cause trouble, that's why we had gians just as the current flag insults racist flag of pre-1956," said Morris Brown College for the rally staff up so we would be well pre you," Miller said. "[f you burn the Lawrence Jeffries, leader of Stu to support Gov. Zell Miller. who is pared for the worst-case scenario," flag at the Capitol, you will ally dents for Afrikan American em leading the movement to remove the officer said. yourself with those who want to fly powerment. the stars and crossed bars symbol However, the student turn it over the Capitol forever." In a second march on the Capi of the Confederacy from the Geor out was considerably lower than The student leaders disagreed tol on Feb. 22, about 75 flag protest gia flag. expected by both the police and with Miller, saying that burning the ers were joined by Fulton County Despite Miller's pleas not to student organizers. flag would send a visible message Commissioner Martin King ill, son burn the flag, the students set it on Lawrence Philpot, one of the of their strong opposition. of slain civil rights leader Martin fire. Amid chants of "burn, baby, organizers of the rally, said they The flag also was put through Luther King Jr., and Fulton County bum" from the crowd of mostly had been expecting between 3,000 a mock trial, and it was found guilty Commissioner Ralph David blacks, a few whites and members and 5,000 protesters, but only about of being a symbol of oppression. Abernathy III, son of civil rights 300 to 500 showed up. leader Ralph David Abernathy Jr. 1993 BOOKS ARE IN! BOOK DISTRIBUTION ,, BEGINS: WEDNESDAY MARCH 24th REMEMBER: You Must Present Your Book Distribution Card and Return Any Old Books to Receive New Ones. CLASS oF 1993 PLEASE NaTE: ~-- MARCH 24th WILL BE THE· LAST DAY TO SECURE 1'HE $1245 TUITION. AFTER THAT .·.· DATE THE TUITION WILL BE .·· ·::~i~·:·: ... $1345 UNTIL 4/22. TIIEREAFTER ...... ····· FULL TUITION: $1395! . BAR REVIEW