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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1976)
Courts, judge want improved law education By MARTHA BLISS Of the Emerald “Law Schools Warned of Acrimonious Tension”' headlines a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Evidently, bar associations and courts throughout the nation are pressuring law schools for improved legal education. Developments in Indiana and New York cause the schools the greatest concern. In New York, a committee appointed by Irving Kaufman, chief judge of the U S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, proposed that lawyers wishing to practice in the circuit's federal distnct courts must have studied five subjects: trial advocacy, evidence, civil procedure, criminal procedure and professional responsibility. Known as the “Clare proposal," this recommendation would affect law students throughout the nation since the Second Circuit includes New York City, a popular place for lawyers. In Indiana, the supreme court recently adopted a rule concerning state bar examination eligibility Beginning Jan. 1, 1977, anyone wishing to take the Indiana bar examination will have to take specific courses that add up to about two-thirds of the course work of the normal student's legal education. These developments during the past year have caused uproars in law schools throughout the nation. What is their effect on the University’s law school? Is it suffering the alleged "acrimonious tension?" Since the developments do not specifically involve the state of Oregon, the law school is relatively removed from the problems. How ever, concern still persists, since New York and Indiana—like all states—are potential practice fields for any law graduate. Law School Dean Chapin Clark finds the two developments troublesome." In correlation with law professors throughout the nation, he argues against the Clare proposal primarily on financial grounds. The main sore point lies in the trial advocacy course requirement. This class, which teaches the student how to operate in a court room, is one of the most expensive courses a law school can offer because it requires such a small student/teacher ratio. Although al most every law school offers it, most can accommodate only a limited number of students in tnal advocacy Oregon can handle about 40 students a semester in its trial advo cacy courses on its present budget On the national level, law schools are grossly underfunded, Clark remarks. "Thus, we can offer very few small-sized classes like Trial Advocacy. Small class size is supposedly a basic charactenstic of graduate level education. We just don t have the finances.” Clark points out that adequate funding would provide for the smal ler class size, a lower student/teacher ratio and active student participa tion necessary for courses like trial advocacy. He adds that if bar associations and courts require such expensive courses like trial advo cacy, they should help provide the necessary funds. The Indiana rule is even more troublesome than the Clare prop osal, according to Dark. He remarks that the law student's curnculum should not be so "specific and set" as the new rule makes it. Clark agrees that the courses required for the Indiana bar examina tion are valuable. However, he feels that the student's knowledge of the subject matter is the important thing, not course enrollment. ' Just because a student takes a course doesn't qualify him on (on the subject)," Clark explains. "He should be able to obtain the required subject matter any way he chooses, in or out of law schools." Unlike Indiana, Oregon sets no prerequisite courses for its bar examination. The Oregon Bar Association merely informs its applicants of the 18 subjects covered on the examination Compared to Indiana s required curriculum for two-thirds of the student s legal education, Oregon sets a specific schedule for only one-third (the first year). Killer gets death sentence NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) — Erwin Charles Simants, convicted earlier this month in the shooting deaths of six members of a Sutherland family, was sentenced Thursday to die in the electric chair. Lincoln County District Court Judge Hugh Stuart ordered Sim ants to be executed at 11 a.m., Wednesday, April 21, at the Neb raska Penal Complex in Lincoln. Simants was convicted by a seven-woman, five-man jury on Jan. 17 on six counts of first degree murder while in the com mission, or attempted commis sion of sexual assault. Simants confessed to murder ing six members of the Henry Kel lie family, three of them children, 12 hours after he shot them at point-blank range in their Suther land, Neb., home last Oct. 18. Immediately after sentencing, Stuart set 10 a.m. Monday for a Oregon Daily Emerald hearing on a defense motion for a new trial. Under Nebraska law, the impos ition of the death penalty is subject to automatic review by the State Supreme Court. BENEFIT DANCE FREE CHILD CARE will, be "PnotMoeD COUNTRY * MARTIAN 'C CUjOuJuxM^j^ e@M Eugene, Oregon I 4 JL/ 4 - i^*id^wtuuuUAJ& ’ y [ ' 5^-— fl.rvd ,L>''Co1rv. Page 3 Members of the Tri Balia Bounca juggling fraternity practice their skills during a club meeting^Thefraternity was formed by dorm residents. Jugglers form fraternity By BYRON ACOHIDO Of the Emerald There are fraternities for scho lars, for journalists and for male college students with a partiality to beer. And now, there is a fraternity for jugglers. Several enterprising dormitory residents, recognizing the fact that “people in the dorms need something to hold them together," have formed a dub for jugglers. They ve named their group Tri Balia Bounca and their motto, in scribed on the back of their club shirts, is "It Takes Balls To Jug gle." Matt Ervin, a resident of Cas well dormitory, has been juggling for about a year. He introduced his roommate, Peter Thacker, to the art of tossing three or more balls into the air at the same time. From there other floor residents showed interest and the club formed naturally. “Between jugglers there's sort of a fraternal feeling," Thacker contends. “It's something you can bullshit about in the cafeteria. “Our meetings usually consist of three balls and a person," he says. According to members, Tri Balia Bounca gives them some thing in common to do, allows them to mock "frat rats," and af fords them a cheap form of recrea tion. 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