Fordham Law School FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History The Advocate Student Publications 10-6-1978 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" (1978). The Advocate. Book 84. http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/student_the_advocate/84 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]. Vol. X No.1 October 6, 1978 Blue Cross·Group Plan Dropped After Mix-up not conform to the new Blue by Warren Graham Cross Policy . The Student News'paper of Fordham l!aw Schooi The Student Bar Associa­ The situation became public tion has eliminated its Blue la~t spring, when one of the Cross Group Coverage Plan twelve students not covered by following a filing mix-up last the plan put in a claim for year which could have exposed medical expenses. It was then ' Five Added to Faculty the SBA to liability for un­ that the mix-up was by Jack Hughes satisfied claims. discovered. A iotal of five new pro­ According to Peter Altieri, Subsequently, the SM, at fessors have been added to the SBA treasurer, the problem one of its last meetings of last faculty at Fordham Law this arose last fall when Blue year and without knowledge fall, including two associate Cross, without informing the of the student's identity, passed professors, two visiting pro­ SBA, changed its enrollment a resolution saying that the fessors, and one adjunct pro­ policy .to require that all SBA would reimburse the fes§or in the evening division. ' enrollment . take place during student if Blue Cross failed to The two new full-time the months of September and honor the policy. associates are Professors October. According to both Altieri Maria L. Marcus, who will Without ~nowledge of the and the student involved, Blue teach Criminal Law, Federal new requirement, last year's Cross later relented and reim­ Courts and Advanced Pro­ SBA .treasurer, Jim DeWindt, bursed the student for the cedure, and Andrew Sims, accepted applications and claim. The remaining students who will teach Constitutiohal Maria L. Marcus Andrew Sims premiums, twelve of which did were also given coverage after Law and Remedies. it was pointed out to Blue Marcus, a graduate ·of Yale Cross that the SBA had not Law School, comes to Ford­ FLS Lands in ]op Ten been notified of the change in ham after having spent two procedures. years as an adjunct professor The result, according to at NYU Law School. In Two National Polls Altieri, is that the SBA has She is also a "former assis­ decided to eliminate the plan, tant attorney general for the Fordham Law School is the cent. Yale headed the list with that we can only accept so which offered a savings of ap­ state of New York, having run fifth hardest law school in the an 8.75 percent admission many students in any given proximately 535 per year to that office's litigation bureau. country to gain admission to, rate, followed by Harvard year," Moore was quoted as students, rather than face the Marcus said that she had according to a recent survey by with 10.41 percent, Columbia saying, "but other schools risk of extensive liability been "doing a little bit of the National Law Journal. with 15 percent, and Stanford have the same problem. I just should the problem again teaching and a lot of litiga­ The report, which appeared with 15.86 percent. can't really understand it." arise. tion" in her dual capacity with in the first regular edition of Ranking after Fordham on Nonetheless, the Law Jour­ Fordham students will not the Attorney General's office the new legal weekly, noted the list er" h well-known na/ noted that "the aDli>unt of .Pc w~nt i'WJanct mot'"r­ and NYU,.md that she "simp­ that for the 1978 entering law schools as the University competition for each place in tion together, saId Altten, ly felt" that she would like to class, only Yale, Harvard, of Virginia, the University of the entering class paralleled because the SBA will continue reverse her priorities. Columbia, and Stanford law Chicago, New York University the school's usual standing to offer applications for Blue Andrew Sims, Fordham's . schools were more difficult to and Cornell University . among law schools." Cross coverage on an in­ other new full-time faculty get into than Fordham. Interviewed for the Law Fordham also rated highly dividual and family basis. member, comes to- the school According to the survey, on­ Journal article, Dean William in another survey released Fordham University's own by way of a clerkship with ly 650 students were accepted Moore was at a loss to explain , recently-the 1978 Salary medical plans are also Chief Judge Charles D. Breitel to Fordham out of a total of Fordham's showing in the Survey conducted by Juris available, he added, but in­ of the New York Court of Ap- 3,961 applicants, resulting in poll. Doctor magazine of its terested students must sign up . Continued on 4 an admIssion rate of 16.41 per- "I Know we have in mind readers. Continued on Page 3 for this plan py October 15. Legal Aid Debuts at Fordham byJack Hughes imately 400 lawyers who Community Law Offices in spend part of their time do­ East Harlem exist to fulfill In conjunction with the ing work in Harlem. that responsibility." New York Legal Aid Society, But the full-time staff and Last year, about 2000 a group of Fordham Law volunteer part-timers are not clients, individuals and com­ students have formed a new, enough to cover all of the munity organizations, used organization, the Fordham organization's requirements, the law organization's ser­ U:gal Aid Society, to expose and law school students wh0 vices in matters ranging from students to the practical are willing to volunteer their uncontested divorces to aspects of a legal services time are needed. criminal defense to com­ plicated housing transactions program. "The need for a larger to saving apartment houses The Legal Aid Society has staff has opened the doors that might have otherwise been operating its Communi­ for law students to work with ty Law Offices in East have been lost to abandon­ and contribute to the Harlem for 10 years, but this community as well as gain ment. Since its beginning, over is the first chance Fordham practical experience," said students will have to par­ 1500 lawyers have par­ Bruce Gitlin, the second-year ticipate in the program. tic~paied in the program. Fordham student who Located at 106th Street One estimate of the value of initiated the program by and 3rd Avenue, the mem­ the organization's private contacting the organization. bers of the group work with .contribution is $1 million. Fordham Law students at work at the Community Law Office in economically disadvantaged Gitlin explained that he For students who would ,' East Harlem last week. members of the community felt that students should have like to volunteer-any stu­ to help them resolve their the opportunity to work with dent may participate- there housing cases. Once trained, Harper, who is the faculty legal problems. _ the Legal Aid Society while is an eight hour per week the student becomes the sole liason with the school's ad­ Currently, the organiza­ they are still in school. commitment for at least a representative of the client at ministration, is looking to tion is staffed by six full-tim\! "Providing free legal ser­ semester. the hearings and works with become a forum for discus­ lawyers and 16 support peo­ vices to people who are Gitlin explained that the the client until the case is set­ sion of legal issues and ple, some of whom are social . unable to pay for lawyers is student is assigned an at­ tled. speakers. workers and community con­ an inescapable responsibility torney and is taught to repre­ In addition to the work in Students interest in par­ sultants. In 'addition, about of the legal profession," said sent clients in one of a wide East Harlem, the' Legal Aid .ticipating in the program 50 New York law firms sup­ Gitlin. "The Legal Aid range of proceedings in­ Society at Fordham in con­ may contact Gitlin, a ply and remunerate approx- Society at Fordham and the cluding welfare hearings and junction with Professor member'of section 2A. 'age 2 The Advocate October 6, 1978 J . Wormser Arguments IE Pushed -Back by Stephan Kallas cording to Burke, and students formance in an in-school com­ Editor·in·Chief Bill Ruane In a departure from may sign up either as a two­ petition, demonstrated writing ability, or a particular Photo Editor Suzy Marquard previous years, the Moot Col­ man team or individually. Sports Editor Dick Prentice urt Board has announced that In addition to the intra­ knowledge of the subject mat­ ter involved." Staff Marshall Donat the oral arguments in the l. school Wormser and Mulligan Upcoming competitions in­ Warren Graham Maurice Wormser Moot Court competitions and for those Jack Hughes Competition will be held dur­ who strive for' inter-school clude: S'teve Kallas ing the first two weeks in competition, the Moot Court • The Jessup Competition, in which a team of students Ted Neustadt January.