Fordham Law School FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History The Advocate Student Publications 12-17-1971 The Advocate The Advocate, Fordham Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/student_the_advocate Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation The Advocate, Fordham Law School, "The Advocate" (1971). The Advocate. Book 31. http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/student_the_advocate/31 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Publications at FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Advocate by an authorized administrator of FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact [email protected]. , Advocate Wins Release of Five-Year Plan On Friday, November 22, Anthony ·J. Siano, acting in of the labors of a 14-man' cOJpmission, acting under SBA 'consonance with efforts channelled through the good offices sponsorship, is a forward-looking, progressive, comprehen­ of The Advocate, released to the student body the text of sive document detailing proposed future growth of the Law the proposed Five-Year-Plan. The Plan, which was the result School. (For Highlights of the Plan, see Page 4) vocate The Student Newspaper 01 Fordham University School 01 Law Vol. IV - No.4 NEW YORK, N. Y. December 17, 1971 - Byrn: Ahortions Sti",..an M@,..orial Are Illegal Pris@ Announc@d By GLEN WALKER By ALLEN P. KAREN Second-year evening students at Fordham's School of Professor Robert M. BYrn, a Law have established an annual award in memory of Andrew long time foe of the right of wo­ M. Stillman, whose 96.78 scholastic average in 1970-71 is be­ .men to have abortions, is currently lieved to be the highest of any law student in Fordham history. In October, Mr. Stillman was a central figure in a test case stricken with a paralytic disease in problems of poverty, and he which challenges the constitu­ of the spinal cord. He died Nov. spoke of spending time after grad­ tionality of liberal abortion laws. 10 in Montefiore Hospital in the uation in a neighborhood law cen­ Bronx. He was 24 years old. Prof. Byrn, a Catholic who is FATHER MICHAEL P. WALSJI, ter. A month before his death he forty years old, is the Chair­ S.J., the President of Fordham The Andrew M. · Stillinan Me­ told a friend that constitutional man of the Metropolitan Right-to­ University, will visit the Law morial Award was announced by law fascinated him and he was Section 2E classmates on Dec. 7. Life Committee, an umbrella or­ School tomorrow, Friday, Decem­ considering specialization in that ber 17. He will be appearing in It will take the form of an annual field. ganization that coordinates the book award presented to the top­ the Moot Court Room at 4:30 P.M., With all his dedication, Mr. activities of the various anti-abor­ ranking first year stUdent in Ford­ under the auspices of the Law Stillman found time for other in­ Professor Robert Byrn ham's evening law school. The tion groups in the metropolitan Forum. terests. He was an avid sports fan, area. Prof. Byrn told the Advocate award fund will be administered attending basketball or hockey by Fordham. that this lawsuit is one of the have a fundamental right to life games regularly. He had an un­ anti-abortion actions that are be­ and to equal protection of the law. Schwartz Resigns Fund begun usual memory for. sports statistics, ing prosecuted by the New York Prof. Byrn rejected the right and he enjoyed listening to NBC Defense and Education FUnd for of the mothers to privacy, &elf­ From Law Forum John J. Keohane, class presi­ sportscaster Bill Mazer and catch­ the Unborn, the legal arm of the determination and equal protec­ On November 17, Michael A. dent, and David M. Trager, a close ing him in errors. He was active anti-abortion forces. Though he is tion of the law, and asserted that Schwartz, Chairman of the Law friend of Mr. Stillman, head the also in the North East Reform Catholic and ' unmarried, he said his right to demand that the fetus collection for the fund. They Forum, the Law School's speakers' Democratic Club in the Bronx, and he is not representing any par­ be allowed to live is superior. said tax-deductible contributions he assisted in the campaign of bureau, tendered his resignation, ticular religious viewpoint, but is Asked whether he would support should be made payable to the Assemblyman Anthony J. stella taking a civic position which has a change in the law that would effective December 7. Dan Keen- Fordham University School of Law (86-AD). broad-based support from all seg­ reduce the period permissible for aghan, the Deputy Chairman, an­ (Andrew M. Stillman Memorial ments of society. abortion from twenty-four to nounced that he had joined Mr. Award). Contributions are being An avid reader sixteen or twelve weeks, Prof. accepted at the law school ad-:­ Schwartz in resigning from the Mr. Stillman made 'it a point to Wins one, Loses one Byrn said he would not. He s~d ministration office and the SBA read at least one book a week The initial step of the current that the right to life attaches upon Law Forum. " office_ that was unrelated to the ' law, action took place in Queens Su­ conception and any compromise in A matter of honor "Andy was an extraordinary and during the summer-he took a preme Court two weeks ago, where the law would be an admission student and an extraordinary per­ Mr_ Schwartz, who is a mem­ speed-reading course so that ' he Prof. Byrn was appointed guar­ . that abortion is permissible for a son," Mr. Trager said. "His death could read more. He and Sheila dian ad litem of all human fetuses ' specified period, such position be­ ber of Section 3-A and is the was a shOck for all of us, and the Krilov, a graduate student in math in the fourth through the twenty­ ing antithetical to his views. Business Manager of The Ad­ id~a for a memorial seemed to at the University of Pennsylvania, fourth week of gestation that Prof. Byrn said that he would vocate, indicated that his resigna­ come spontaneously." had planned to announce their might be aborted in the municipal only permit an abortion where it tion was a matter of personal engagement soon. hospitals. is necessary to save the life of the honor. "I cannot continue to in­ Hard work~r Thomas J . Ford, Prof. Byrn's mother. He admitted to being supersti­ Mr_ Stillman was born Sept. 4, attorney, characterized the class vite distinguished speakers to ad­ tious, but he called it "being care­ 1947, the son of Morris and Rose action as one which has as its dress empty rows in the Moot ful." A friend recalled that be­ Stillman. He attended Bronx High goal the preservation of lives of cau,se Mr. Stillman had eaten pan­ SBA ·Notes Court Room" he said, alluding to School of Science and the City unborn infants who are "voice­ cakes and worn beige pants at the At an SBA meeting held on the poor attendance at Law Forum College of New York, where he less, voteless and friendless." • functions. Speakers this year, in­ time of a successful midterm ex­ Dec. 13 the body considered a was graduated in June 1969 with Prof. Byrn lost a round to the am, he decided not to risk a change cluding Senator Jacob Javits, Con­ a degree in mechanical engineer­ forces that support the right of proposal -to change our grading to at final exam time. He wore the gressman Edward Koch, and Is­ ing. He worked briefly for the women opt for abortion, when, one with broader categories (Le., same beige pants. And when some­ to raeli Ambassador General Yitzhak Butndy Corp_, a Connecticut firm, on Dec. 7, his motion to enjoin Rabin, have addressed sparse one offered him a sandwich, he High Pass, Pass Fail) and soundly before jOining Aetna Life and all abortions in municipal hospi­ gatherings of students, though the declined. "Today's pancake day," defeated it. Also rejected was a Casualty Inc. in January as a tals until the case is decided, was events were widely publicized_ he said. constitutional amendment that structural engineer. denied by Supreme Court Judge It was reported that the Law Friends say gOodbye Frances X . Smith. The suit, which would have permitted el~ven Forum program is in no admin­ Law study~ was a turning point is the first major test of the con­ Board of Governor Delegates to istrative jeopardy, as speakers for him. He told friends it was "Andy had a sense of humor stitutionality of New York's abor­ mandate an SBA Board of Gov­ have been programmed through like discovering a new world. and compassion," said one mem­ From a rarely distinguished aca­ tion law, is opposed by lawyers ernors meeting upon tendering of the duration of the academic year. ber of a study group to which Mr. Joseph Pandolfi, of Section 3-A, demic record in college, he quickly Stillman Nov. 12 at the Hirsch for the state attorney general and a petition to that effect. city ~orporation counsel as well Co,..Chairman of the Law Forum, emerged as the top student in all spend hours trying' to help some­ as by attorneys representing vari- will assume the position vacated of his law courses. In his first one understand a difficult concept.