BATTLE
It’s all in the family
Brandon McLemore and Justin Wilcox are
fighting for the starting safety position u 'bile
following in thefootsteps of older brothers
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SPORTS
A
Running again
Damon Griffin returns from last
year’s disappointing thumb
injury1 to lead thus year’s team
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K WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 19.1998
TODAY
This is thefirst day
of classesfor law
school students
and the last year
in Grayson Hall.
WEATHER
Today
Partly cloudy
I ligh 80. Low 44.
Thursday
Mostly
High 79. Low 51.
Law Center will open next year
We move will occur in May
instead of January because
of the break 's time restraints
By Amy Goidhammer
Oregon Daily Emerald
The University of Oregon School of
Law has postponed its move into the new
building by fourmonths. School officials
say the delay will be good for the students
in the long run.
The construction on the new building,
which began in June 1997, has stayed es
sentially on budget and is expected to be
completed by February or March 1999,
said Jane Gordon, associate dean of the
University’s School of Law. "We are go
ing to move after our Final exams, which
are mid-May 1999," she said.
Some had hoped that the School of
Law would be occupying the Knight Law
Center, located on 15th Avenue and
Agate Street, by winter break. However,
Gordon said, moving that early was
somewhat impractical.
"Moving over a month an entire law li
brary, networking phones and every
body’s offices is unrealistic and unfair to
the students," she said. "We're really hap
py we are going to be doing it in mid
May."
Gordon said she hopes some things
will be able to move in early, such as law
library books that are kept off-site.
According to the Office of Communi
cations, the new facility’s law library will
be double the size of the current one,
making it feasible to house the entire law
collection in one building.
As well as the expanded library, the
138,000-square-foot facility will have
more classrooms, conference rooms and
study rooms.
"These are very important for the way
law students work," Gordon said. "They
go to class and talk and listen, but it is
very important for them to have a place
to have discussion groups, go through the
cases and really challenge themselves."
In conjunction with the classrooms,
the new facility will include three semi
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PETER BREADEN/Emerald
Construction continues on the School of Law's Knight Law Center, which will he
ready for the school's staff to move in when summer begins in mid-May.
Law school
to receive
renovation
Grayson Hall will be used by
University Computing and the
College of Arts and Sciences
By Leanne Nelms
Associate Editor
Immediately after the law school moves
into the new William W, Knight Law Cen
ter in May 1999, an extensive renovation of
Grayson Hall is slated to begin.
University planning associate Fred
Tepfer said the start date is set for May 15.
"We’ll have the bids in hand and the
contracts ready to go. If they aren't out by
then, we’ll bulldoze them out,” Tepfer
joked.
Currently, plans call for the building to
be turned into a mix of classroom space,
faculty and departmental offices, and com
puter support and lab areas. Most of the
classrooms and faculty offices will retain
those functions, but areas such as the law
library will be completely remodeled.
According to University Planning’s pro
ject description, classrooms on the first
floor will receive minor refurbishment, but
the remainder of the space will be exten
sively altered for use by University Com
puting.
“What we call our ‘public face’ is going
to go over there,” said Lynn Buffing of Uni
versity Computing. The space will house
the documents room, consulting, the help
desk, electronics repair and “some public
terminals so people can check their e-mail
without logging on in a lab.”
Because a public drop-in lab is greatly
needed on the northwest side of campus,
the original plans contained one, but Buff
ing stressed that it is very much in flux,
mostly due to funding concerns.
If everything does work out, though,
“we’re leaning toward a lab that is an open
lab, but also instructional — kind of like
Klamath is now,” she said.
The second floor will contain mostly
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Dean Strickland discusses Native American law
By Peter Breaden
Oregon Daily Emerald
Rennard Strickland, who is of Osage and
Cherokee heritage, is described as a stu
dent-oriented administrator, his wide range
of expertise and experience being matched
only by his many interests.
In a recent interview with the Oregon
Daily Emerald, Strickland described how
his own involvement in Native American
arts and law resembles the University
School of Law’s activism in the Eugene
community.
Q According to your 12-page resume,
you recently finished your 35th book,
“Tonto’s Revenge.” Is it true that you have
16 writing works, of one kind or another,
in progress?
That’s probably true, (chuckling)
Q Where is it all leading?
A; I may be one of those very fortunate
j people in that the things that I like to do
avocationally are also things that really re
late to what I do professionally. I don’t play
golf. Not that there’s anything wrong with
playing golf. I like to watch movies and I
write about film. I like art, particularly In
dian art, and I collect that. So, an awful lot
of what 1 do that is fun are things that fit
into the things that I do, like writing books
or articles.
QSo, when you decided to become an
academic, writing opened those doors
for you?
A | Right. I wrote my very first book while I
! was at law school. I just liked law
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LAURA GOSS/Emerald
Law School Dean
Retmard Strick
land, ivho is in his
second year as the
law school dean,
stands on the
lawn east of
Grayson Hall