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*
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