Proposal: New building may attract
more students, faculty to law school
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there are too few of them.”
“It helps to have natural light,”
he said. “It would help students'
attitudes because the current
building feels kind of closed in.”
Both Gordon and Moore agree
that the new law school, especial
ly the library, would benefit the
community.
“There are people out in the
community who would rather do
their own law research as well as
practitioners who don't have huge
libraries of their own who can use
our library resources,” said
Moore.
“More books will become ac
cessible,” Moore added. “Be
cause of the lack of space, we
have some in storage now that
can't be used as easily.”
Gordon emphasized communi
ty outreach.
“We would like to have a build
ing that allows us to focus on a
community of learning within
our school and within the Univer
sity as a whole, as well as within
the State of Oregon,” Gordon ex
plained.
“We can achieve that through
more space for conferences, an
improved library and a greater
ability to use technology. We're
not looking to be this tall, impos
ing facade, but more of a building
that you might want to peek in
and look around and be a part of,”
she said.
Both Gordon and Moore agree
that the new building could in
crease the law school's prestige
and attractiveness to prospective
students and faculty.
“The law school administra
tion understands the need to at
tract some really good profes
sors,’’Moore said. “If they come
here and they think that their of
fice is going to be in a closet, it
could affect them.”
“A new law building will also
draw students. There are proba
bly a high percentage of students
who choose other schools over
ours because of the building,”
Moore said.
Furthermore, law student
groups such as the Women's Law
Forum and students who produce
journals such as the Journal of En
vironmental Law, will stand to
benefit from the move.
“Currently these groups do not
have offices in the law school
building or, if they do, they have
inadequate ones. They will get
better space in the new build
ing, "Gordon said.
“I'm glad they are proceeding
with the project even though I
may never take a class there be
cause it's important to look to
ward the future,” Moore said.
“We're doing that by constructing
this new building.”
Applicants: Law students look for
prestigious schools while seeking education
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Katherine A. Jemberg said.
The University’s School of Law has been climbing
the national ranks in the U.S. News and World Re
ports annual “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” In
1995, the magazine listed Oregon 40 out of 177 ac
credited law schools in the United States, which
marked the first time the School of Law broke into the
top 50. It also listed Oregon in its list of top 10 schools
for environmental law. The school slipped back
slightly in 1996, to 52 out of 177.
Megan Larson, a third year law student from Indi
ana, said she did not base her decision to come to Ore
gon on rankings as much as she did on reputation.
Larson had read that “they have a good environ
mental law program and an environmental law con
ference.”
“The [conference is the] only one of its kind, and
it’s put on by students,” Larson said.
Larson said she had also been accepted to the Uni
versity of Arizona and the University of Georgia, but a
student from Oregon called her over the summer to
answer any questions she might have. It was that kind
of personal touch that helped her make the decision
to move to the Northwest.
With fewer students applying to law school, com
petition for the best and brightest students becomes
even tougher. The personal touches Larson men
tioned become instrumental in getting students to at
tend the University of Oregon after they have been ac
cepted.
“We’ve been able to maintain our students because
we do a thorough and energetic job of educating our
applicant pool of how great our law school is,” Jem
bergsaid.
This is getting more difficult as law schools across
the country relax their admission standards in order
to fill their classes.
"There is a domino effect of the most prestigious
law schools offering admission to students who may
not have been admitted in year’s past because fewer
students are applying," Jemberg said.
So a student who has been accepted at the Univer
sity of Oregon and Cornell University, which is
ranked 11th, may go for the school with the more
prestigious ranking. Law students, in particular, are
more sensitive about the prestige factor when choos
ing a school compared to undergraduates, Jemberg
said.
There are a number of reasons fewer students are
applying to law school.
“Careers in technology and science that didn’t exist
10 years ago are skimming off the most intelligent and
able students,” she said.
The amount of realistic information about what
lawyers do has done a lot to dispel the myth that a ca
reer in law is glamourous.
“Their reputation and their ethics as perceived by
the public - people are taking a second look at that,”
Jemberg said. “The cost of a legal education is a road
block for a lot of people who might otherwise be in
terested.”
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