Fordham Law School FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History The Advocate Student Publications 9-29-1972 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" (1972). The Advocate. Book 39. http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/student_the_advocate/39 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]. vocate The Student Newspaper 01 Fordham University School 01 Law VOL. V, No.2 NEW YORK, N. Y. September 29, 1972 FORDHAM'S NEW FACE New Placement Director, 8 Faculty Members, Assistant,Qean By BRUCEKASSON~.-~ . In its continuing effort to become a. "top ten" law school, Fordham has hired a n~w : otd assistant Dean, a new placement director, ~nd eight new faculty membeI:s. The move represents a twenty five percent increase in the faculty thereby permitting a sixty percent increase in the number of elective courses given. Among the new staff is a Fulbright Scholar, a Rhodes Dean Hanlon "Ms. Leslie Goldman Prof. Sharpe .scholar, an outstanding graduate, a teaching Fellow, a summa cum laude graduate, and a President of the Law Student Association. Match this with impressive teaching credentials (Brooklyn Law School, Albany Law School, Cornell Law School, University of Georgia Law School, University of Washington Law School, and even a teacher in the New York City School System) and add extensive professional experience (a Federal Assistant District Attorney, a research assistant to a " New York Supreme Court Justice, a member of the Peace Corps, and associations with some of the most prestigious law firms in the country) and the result is a - giant step towards excellence in legal education. latter in Prof. Chiang Prof. Birnbaum Prof. Fitzpatrick The effect of the hiring bears a Law, graduating the direct relationship to the 1960. He originally joined the presence of such courses as Civil "faculty here in 1963, holding the Advocacy, Collective Bar­ position of Director of Ad- gaining, Corporate Finance, , missions. Three' years later he Current Problems in Litigation, moved to the office of Assistant Dean. The next transition again Law and Medicine, Income Taxation of Estates, Trusts, and occurred some three years later but the locale had changed­ Partnerships, Land Use, Land Assistant Dean and Associate Financing, N.L.R.B. Procedures, Professor at Hofstra-Law School. New York Criminal Procedure, The Hofstra duration was only to Public Employment Law, Public last-you've guessed it-three School Law, Roman Law, Sen­ years as Dean Hanlon in '72 has tencing and Corrections, Tax returned to his previous post at Exempt Organizations, Tax our law school. He has informed Prof. Humbach Shelters, being open to students Prof. Buell The Advocate that he's delighted . at registration. to be back at. a "great law" school." Dean Hanlon Dean Robert M. Hanlon at­ Prof. Sharpe Dean's Open Letter tended Xavier High, Fordham undergrad and then Fordham Donald Sharpe, an expert in Federal income, .gift and estate, One year ago the Fordham Law was dUe largely to his efforts. again, the Law School had the essential element-indeed the and corporate taxation has ac­ School curriculum offered thirty- Another new face in the Law extreme good fortune to discover essential element-of a sound cepted a teaching position at five elective courses; this year School is that of Miss Leslie that Professor Lucille Buell, legal education. Fordham Law School. Professor there are over sixty elective Goldman, the Director of formerly of the Cornell Law In summary, the Law School is Sharpe is a former Professor of courses. One year ago at this Placement. The success or Faculty, and a graduate of our on a firm steady course. The Law' at Albany Law School, and time "there were nineteen full- failure of any law school can be own school, was available" and average !.SAT score of the en­ time teachers on the faculty; this " measured by the quality of the" eager to teach the course on tering class is in excess of 630 and <Continued on page 3) year there are twenty-five. These positio,ns obtained by its , Legal Writing. Starting this year, the average cumulative college two statistics, the tip of the graduates. I have every con­ therefore, no student will record score is in excess of 3.2. ON THE INSIDE iceberg,' reflect the marked fidence that Miss Goldman will graduate from the Fordham1.aw With the transition to a heavily growth of the Law School in the make a significant contribution School without having drafted a elective curriculum and the EDITORIALS 2 past year. Add to these statistics to the Law School as ·Placement variety of legal documents, in­ massive infusion of new blood the fact that we selected an en- Director. cluding a memorandum of law, into the faculty, we may expect tering class of 360 from about Although the Law School now all of which will be subject to the the inevitable administrative KUTNER'S 4,000 applications, and it is ap- offers its students a full panoply critical eye of Professor Buell. contretemps to occur during the RAMBLINGS __ parent that the Law School is of electives, the first-year I am also proud to announce next year. However, given the alive and well. curriculum retains the hard core that the first issue of the For­ talent of our ~ntering class, and ROBBINS REVIEWS-2 With this growth there is the of knowledge that everyone, who dham Urban Law Journal has the accomplishments of our inevitable strain upon our ad- :vvould call himself a lawyer, must. been published and that it is a upper classmen, I believe that we " NEW FACULTY_3, 4 ministrative staff. We are for- 'possess. The keystone of the first­ professional job which has won will have an academically tunate that Dean Robert M. year curriculum, in my praise from the Bench and Bar bountiful year whi<;h will find Hanlon has returned to For: judgment, must be the course on alike. Between the Fordham Law Fordham Law School in an even PLACEMEN· dham-after a lapse of three Legal Writing; and, to do an Review and the Urban Law stronger position in September DIRECTOR 4 years-to resume his position as effective job in this area, it is Journal, the Law School now 1973, than in September 1972. Assistant Dean. The dispatch essential that there be a full-time offers a large'number of students INTRAMURAL with which the registration law professor whose sole function the opportunity to do individual Jost'Ph M. McLaughlin process was completed this year is teaching that course. Here research and writing, an Dean FOOTBALL 4 . Page 2-THE ADVOC~TE-September 29, 1972 The Advocate Ramblings The student newspap~ of Fordham University School of Law ==========by Harry Kutner, Jr.,== \ Although personally saddened, them-playing, flag raising and " precinct of the manpower needed Editor-in-Chief many people were hot really waving, opening and closing to cover the footposts; the PBA • HARRY KUTNERJR. shocked by what happened in ceremonies among other things for refusing to allow "the Com­ Executive Editor .................................. Bruce Kasson Munich. JFK, RFK, Dr. King, pointedly demonstrate just what missioner to apply the men at key Managing Editors ................................ Alan Michigan skyjackings, mass murders, and the Olympics actually is: an crime periods and for continually ................................. Bruce Kasson the general pervasion of crime in international political showcase bargaining solely for their own Associate Editor .. ; ............................ Matthew Lupoli the City area have now so for nations trying to establish pockets and forgetting that they News Editor .............. " ................... James Martorano desensitized them that these their own physical supremacy. are the ultimate in "public Copy Editor .................... : ............... John R. LaCava people now take an "Oh" attitude What real connection "does - servants. " Where has the "maQ on Photo Editor ... : ................................ Bob Fiedelman toward events which would have playing an anthem' and raising a the beat" gone in N.Y.C.? The Arts Editor .... : ..................... ........ .. ... Bill Robbins enraged them only a few years flag have to the bestowal of an precinct commander for the Business Manager '............. ............ ; ..... John R. LaCava ago ... What happened to athletic medal? ... if Matthews Columbia U. area has admitted George McGovern's image as the and Collett had "meant a protest, being able to fill only 8 of 64 last word in honesty and con­ either racial or just against the footposts. The only time stancy of opposition to the nationalism rampant at the XX we ever see a policeman 'FREEDOM Vietnam War? Maybe we should Olympiad, they did it halfway standing in N.Y.C. is in front of ask Tom Eagleton and Pierre and didn't show sufficient sub­ an embassy. In many sections it Salinger. George is a "politician" sequent courage to say so. Yet, if has gotten almost too dangerous FOR OUR PRESS no matter how much he tries to they mean t no protest, why not an to walk. The police and courts deny it ... Nixon still has apology? ... everyone knows of must shoulder equal respon­ The SBA Board-of Governors last year recognized the desirability of "Tricky Dick" image courtesy of the basketball "rape". But it sibility for it. What N.Y.C. needs an independent budget for The Advocate. A supporting resolution was Watergate, ITT, and GAO cam­ shouldn't" have been that close along with more conscientious passed after realizing the muzzling potential the SBA leadership could paign aUdits.