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Project: Plans may be done by spring
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1971. the building was designed
with a fifth floor over the library,
but because of budget rou
st mints that floor had to !>>• cut,
making the building too small
from the start —- a problem that
has only gotten worse as the
field of low has expanded.
"A lot of what we now think
of as legal education didn't
exist in the 1970s." said Chuck
O'Kelley dean of the law
school.
Additional classroom space
is part of the plan because the
school currently has only one
seminar room appropriate for
classes of around 20. The rest
of tlif classrooms are designed
for large groups. Current class
rooms were constructed with
the speaking platform at the
bottom and rows of desks rising
in tiers away from the profes
sor This style of architecture
simply doesn't work, he said,
because they interfere with
interaction and learning
We need more level space,
more classrooms where stu
dents can work collectively,
and more smaller spaces," he
saiil The si bool only has five
classrooms nod needs at least
15. In- said
Another reason to expand is
(hi? iiH k of room for tr< hnologv
expansion in the building. he
said. Thorn is no room for com
puters in tin* i lussroom. and
tiio taiilos are too small for lap
lop computers and Inioks
The law sc boo! has been
working on the remodel idea
since May 1994. when it was
determined that about 45,000
square feet needed to be added
to keep up with cotnparoblo
law schools
O'Kelley said he hopes to
have plans for the addition
completed by spring so they
can start "a whole lot of fund
raising." The first phase will
cost around $9 4 million.
The 1995 Legislature passed
a bill that allows the University
to sell $4.7 million in general
revenue bonds for the first part
of tlie props t and private dona
tions will make up the rest
The Portland architecture
firm of Yost. Crube and Hall
has been hired to develop a
sc hem,ili> design for the pro
ject, including suggestions for
ways to phase its const met ion
over stt\ eral \iMrv The school
pit kod the pro jet i art hitei t. in
part, bet ansa of his use and
emphasis on natural light in his
other designs, O belles said
"The law si hool is often the
first building people see on
campus,'' he said. The new
design may incorporate a court
yard and will mirror the
st hool s focus on remaining
open and accessible to the stu
dents and the University com
munity "The current building
is a barrier" to that goat, he
saul
' It's exciting because we're
poised at a new era." be said
"Our print book (inventory)
will probably decrease and
we'll tie i re.iting a more flexible
space to accommodate the next
generation of law
"This is a really good time to
lie doing this because there are
so many changes in technolo
gy (Vbellev said
The law school administra
tors received an offer from a
company that would allow
them to purchase law books on
CD-ROM for about St00. Fhe
books would cost about
$10,000 on paper
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