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University o! Oregon Eugene, Oregon An independent newspaper Volume 9/. Issue 16 MONDAY, AUGUST 21.1995 INDEX Editorial ? News 3 Sports 9 Rhythm & Reviews 12 Classifieds 12 Crossword 13 SPORTS The minor leagues ran be a lough place to be. but il'\ there a here the dreams begin lor today s aspiring baseball plover \ 5# I Visiting lawprofessor Dennis Greene hii\ both decrees and doo wop to his credit vj"' Dean Chuck O' Kelley {relieves there 's ‘always something happening' at the lass schoid WEATHER The *\eutlu r .should continue to lu sunns throughout the u eek ss ith hn;hs m the h>ss to mnl St Is A new rule at the law school requires even entering student to hire a pot table < < tmputet By Sherry Rainey Assocsi/u f Mot Computers are ,i wav of life for most college students They use them for typ ing term papers, creating designs for architei tore, analyzing accounts for business, composing songs for mush . and much, much more. Low school students use computers for word processing and endless hours of on-line research. So the School of l aw at the University responded to the call of the 2 1st Century. As of fall term 1995, the 182 first-year law school students will he required to own a computer. INSIDE The law school has added some features to make room for all the additional computers Page 5 "Most students are excited to learn the technology and get a law education too,” said Katherine Jernberg. director of admissions for the law school. "We’ve gotten nothing but positive feedbat k The portable computer recommended by the law school is a Macintosh PowerBook 520. which includes 12 megabytes of RAM, a 240-megabyte hard drive, an SCSI port, built-in Ethernet capability and more, available through the Microcomputer Purchase Plan at the Com pitting Center for 52.250 But more than half of the students are buying the Macintosh PowerBook 520c for $450 more, which im ludes u Dual Scan color display instead of it. level gray-st ale display. The dean of the law school. Chuck O’Kelley. was the main person who guid ed the computer ret omrnendation into a requirement. "The policy was primarily spearhead •ASTON CUNMM.•KAMI WHAT COMPUTER SHOULD I GET? The University or Oregon School of taw recommends the following Macintosh computers for all incoming students SYSTEM RAM HARD DRIVE DISPLAY PRICE" Power Boot* 520 1? Megabytes 240 Megabytes Gray Scate (RAW) $2,250 PowwBoofc 5?0c 1? Megabytes 340 Megabytes Cotor $2,700 •Prcoe me l*vuxl oti Mudw* rain# M irw UO Cwipuong C*nt*w Macintosh Power Books such as this on« (above) are recom mended tor both writing and research at the University School ot Law. ed by (he dean. and about a year in the making." lernberg said "We made the recommendation a requirement ' the said, ‘to the Ipeini me.nl) will consider the computer part of 'Books and Supplies ' It's the only way we could get financial aid to cover the cost of the computer " "If a person has exceeded their finan cial aid limit," she said, "then they can obtain an attractive loan package from Apple fur a computer The law school is not requiring name specific technology, lernberg said, because most systems can be made to work with the software used at the lavs school A student can use the University's Internet hookups whether he or she has a Mat intosh or an IBM cum patihle Hut Apple nave the University the tiest deals, so the law school is able to offer a discount computer package through the Computing (enter "We received some funding from Apple," jernberg said, '‘including grant money, technical support, some free equipment and a great loan program fur students No enforcement of the requirement has been established yet. said the law school's new director of technology. Mitch Davis "A student could get by without a < om puter, but it would lie a lot harder,” Davis saui "It's highly re< ommended to buy Turn to COMPUTERS Page f> Bulging at seams, school to expand ■ PROJECT: The $18 4 million remodeling effort will odd classrooms and more library space By Marcelone Edwards Ask* tiPM !•:v t?r\ day. Simon Thompson gets out lus handcart nnd lios ,ind makes a trip ,ii ross (niiipiis from tin* University I, a vs Library to the Knight Library lie is in ( barge of retrieving <i few of the 50,000 law hooks stored there for students who request them. These books fiave been stm k in storage for several years beiau.se the existing Law Library is pist too small to house them all, resulting ill a daily retrieval system that is less than i onveniont. "Patrons i anno) browse the physical pieces.” Thompson said Students must fill out a slip and wait about 24 hours for the order to be filled Toward the end of the term, Thompson said, he averages about 15 requests a day Hut he may not have to make the trip for inui h longer. The University is planning on expansion of the law school designed to make the class rooms and die library easier to Use The S 18.4 million University law school remodeling protect would nearly double lint sire of the 82,000 square foot building by expanding the library and adding additional classrooms, seminar rooms and administer live offtt es When originally built in Turn to PROJECT. Pago / First-year enrollment at law school up 16 percent from 1994 ■ ADMISSIONS: Official says the school’s rising reputation may have caused the increase By David Thorn t cUMt-m-chutl All those nastv lawyer jokes notwith standing. the legal profession seems to he enjoying a surge in popularity — al least at the University School of Law, where first-year enrollment has jumped 16 per cent over last fall. Katherine Jem berg, the law school's dirts u»r of admissions, said that 1H2 now students will make up the school's first - year class, up from ISO-155 in a typical year. J«rnl>erg credits a couple of factors with triggering the increase “The fact that we've gone from H7th to 52nd to 40th in the US News rankings is lust phenomenal.” she said “The rank of your law st hooi f. vary important for vour career, so people usually go to the highest-ranked law school to which they're accepted. ' “For Oregon to be higher ranked," she Haiti, "means u better pool of applicants and mom [maple clamoring to get in Wo i an Iw more solet tlvo and wo can count on a more solid entering class." (ernlmrg said tin* law school's dramatic rise in tin* survey was prohahlv more the result of greater publicity and more aggres sive marketing than because the school had changed much in recent years "Peo ple weren't aware of how good our faculty was," she said "But now they're starting to bear about Oregon.” Turn to ADMISSIONS. Page 4 THE DEMOGRAPHICS A took at the University of Oregon School of Law s class of 1998 ■ rotal students 182 ■ Women 44% ■ Minorities 20 % ■ Oregonians 38 % ■ Average age 27 SOURCE Law Softool Orfcre at Admauioft* I Ml MAID
