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Approximately 150 Univeristy law school students sat in on last week’s orientation to learn strategies for the 2000-01 year.
jump start helps law students
■An optional orientation for first-year law students quells
fears and prepares future lawyers for academic success
By Kristy Hessman
Oregon Daily Emerald
The sun is shining, the sky is
blue and students are heading
back to school — law school that
is.
About 150 first-year law stu
dents arrived Aug. 15 at the
Knight Law School to take part
in an optional orientation.
The Academic Choice for Ex
cellence (ACE) orientation is a
four-day program that includes
lectures from University law pro
fessors, introduces students to le
gal research and provides strate
gies for a successful first year.
“This orientation focuses on
academic success,” said Richard
Ludwick. assistant dean of stu
dent affairs for the law school.
“The program lasts all year long,
providing review sessions and
practice tests.”
According to Ludwick, this
year's new ACE program turnout,
about 150 students, was huge.
Last year’s orientation program,
like past years, only had about 15
students attend.
“I am already one step ahead
of my two roommates who didn’t
come,” first-year student Jason
Klein said.
Along with helping students
aim for academic success, the
orientation also provides other
benefits for first year students.
“It is helpful and it is also less
ening fears of law school,” said
Denise Espinoza, a first-year stu
dent from Arizona.
Espinoza said she came to Ore
gon because she knows that she
wants to practice law in Oregon.
“It is also nice to know that the
school is [sixth] in the nation for
clerkship,” she said.
The University’s good reputa
tion has been a factor for other
first-year students as well.
Anna Lee, a first year student
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es on academic success.
Richard Ludwick ^ ^
assistant dean of student
affairs, Knight Law School
from San Jose, Calif., said Ore
gon’s high reputation and the ge
ographic location were both fac
tors in her decision to attend.
“I came to Oregon about 20
years ago with an orchestra,” Lee
said. “I just remember it being re
ally green and pretty.”
The intrigue of the Pacific
Northwest also brought others to
Eugene.
. “1 applied at eight other
schools,” said Klein, who is orig
inally from Ohio. “It was really
my last choice but after I re
searched it, it became one of my
top two. After visiting it became
Get your motors
running, head into
the classroom
This year’s entering class conta i ns
approximately 188 students,
meeting the school’s enrollment
goal. Total enrollment is 511.
The breakdown is 54 percent-46
percent male-to-female ratio, with
12 percent minorities.
SOURCE: Office of Communications
my top choice.”
Klein said he hopes to eventu
ally go into either environmental
law or Internet law.
Other students also like the at
mosphere the University offers.
“It is really laidback here,”
said Julie Wilson, a first-year stu
dent from North Carolina.
Wilson said she also hopes to
go into environmental law and
possibly work for the EPA doing
policy writing.
Not all students have come
from out-of-state schools. Conrad
Zubel graduated from the Uni
versity as a business student in
1997.
“I didn’t decide to go straight
to law school,” he said. “My dad
is an attorney and so are my two
uncles, so I was genetically
screwed up from the beginning.”
A mandatory orientation in
which all first-year and transfer
students are required to attend
took place Aug. 14-15.
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