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New law school facility
Law school prepares to enter the year 2000
A PROPOSAL FOR THE NEW LAW SCHOOL
IB WHERE: East 15
Avenue and Agate
Street
B WHEN:
Construction is
expected to begin next
summer with a target
completion date of
Januatyl999.
B THE FACILITY: The
new building will have
more classrooms and
flexible study and
lllptfng space.lt will
: double the law library
space, making it
possible to store the
library's entire
{? collection, one-third of
^ which is now stored
elsewhere on campus,
B THE SIZE: The new
facility is slated to have
approximately 120,000
" square feet compared
to the current
B THE COST; Most of
■the $25 million center *
-jte being paid for with
private funds, including
a recent $10 million gift
from Phil Knight.
Sourw: UO School of law
blueprint on the
right represents a
proposal. Faculty and
students are urged to
provide feedback and
suggestions on the
expansion.
East 15 Avenue
By Carl Yeh
Freelance Reporter
After living in a cramped apartment for a
long time, one appreciates the spaciousness
of a new house.
That is probably what it will feel like
when students, faculty and staff of the cur
rent law school move into the proposed
new law school building to be constructed
on Agate Street across from Hayward Field.
The new building is slated to have ap
proximately 120,000 square feet as opposed
to the old building’s 78,000 square feet.
The projected completion date is January,
1999, in time for spring term of 1999.
There were many reasons to build a new
facility.
“We needed new classrooms, a library
expansion, and additional faculty and ad
ministrative space,” the School of Law’s
Associate Dean of Students Jane Gordon
said. Gordon was assigned to oversee the
new building project.
“However, one main focus is to make a
building with a community feel, reaching
out to the University and people who use us
as a resource,” Gordon said.
The project is currently in planning
stages.
“The stage that we're in now is to design
the footprint of the building which is how
the building will fit on the block as well as
where the various parts of the school's pro
gram will fit within the building,” Gordon
said. In addition, those designing the build
ing are gathering suggestions from current
students and faculty for the new building's
design.
One problem that was noted was the lack
of conference rooms in the current building.
“While there is room for faculty and stu
dents to gather in their own rooms, there
aren’t any rooms where they can both get to
gether,” Gordon said.
Sid Moore, a second-year law school stu
dent, agreed that students and faculty had
no place to congregate at the current law
school.
Moore also noted that in the current
building, “the windows are too small, and
Turn to PROPOSAL, Page 9
■ PROPOSAL:
The new facility
will include more
classrooms, a
larger library,
community
meeting spaces
and is scheduled
to be completed
in January of
1999
fifi
I’m glad they ’re
proceeding with
the project...
It’s important
to look toward
the future.
We ’re doing
that by
constructing
this new
building.”
— Sid Moore
second-year
law school student
-99
UO only law school
with admissions up
By Tiffany Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
The University’s School of Law is the
only law school in the country to have an
increase in the number of people applying
for admission, according to University
News Bureau reports.
The number of students applying for ad
mission to law schools nationwide has de
clined 22 percent over the last two years, at
11 percent each year. Universities in the
Northwest have seen a 14.7 percent decline.
That percentage would be higher if it were
not for the University’s three percent in
crease in applicants, which gave a slight
boost to the region, Director of Admissions
Turn to APPLICANTS, Page 9
THE NUMBERS
Preliminary figures
on the the entering
class of 1996
■ STUDENTS:
about 160
■ WOMEN:
approximately 55
percent of the
class
■ MINORITIES:
about 15 percent
of the class
■ APPLICAT
IONS: There was
a three percent
increase at the
UO
Source: UO
School of Law
New assistant dean of student affairs named
■ LAW SCHOOL: Jocelyn Dyer will
assist students with program planning
and financial aid when she begins
work this fall
By Steven Asbury
Ec/itor-in-Chief
Jocelyn Dyer has been named the new
assistant dean of student affairs for the
University’s School of Law.
Dyer begins work this fall and will take
on some of the responsibilities of current
Associate Dean Jane Gordon, who will
spend her time overseeing the design and
construction of the new law school.
Dyer will assist law students with pro
gram planning and financial aid. Some of
her other duties include helping with in
ternational exchange programs, working
with student organizations and acting as
the director of the academic support pro
gram.
“There are outstanding students here,”
Dyer said. “They’re creative with a lot of
energy.”
Dyer graduated with high honors from
George Washington University in 1993 and
has practiced law at Gibson, Dunn and
Crutcher in Washington D.C.
Working pro-bono, Dyer recently coordi
nated a donation to Howard University
Law School for their clinical law program
to provide free legal assistance to people in
the District of Columbia.
“I’m very excited about this opportunity
and working with the students.... [The law
school] is very conducive to a good legal ed
ucation,” she said. “There’s a great inter
play between students and the faculty.”
DYER