Fridav.May 2.1980
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Age no problem for law dean
By JON BLONGEWICZ Staff Reporter
University Daily Kansan
Appearances can be deceptive.
Michael Davis, University general counsel and professor of law, looks too young to be the dean of the School of Law. He is a graduate student when he will succeed Martin Dickinson.
"After I was named dean, the dean of the School of Journalism asked me if I was too young to be dean. 'Davis,' 37, said. "I did not know how to be a dean," he said. "So he was to be named to this job since the 1930's."
Although his age shouldn't be a problem, David admits that he still has a lot to learn about being dean.
"The nature of the job is essentially different," he said. The administrative assistant worked for a group that I have observed it at an outside and as an insider, is one I have a lot to learn from.
DAVIS HAS done his observing at KU since 1971 as a faculty member and since 1974 in the dual role of faculty member and general counsel.
Before coming to KU, Davis was a legislative assistant at Stokes Stakes, Washington, and a law firm for Washington law firm. Davis is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School.
Davis now moves into the deanship of what he considers a relatively problem-free law school.
'This law school has fewer problems than other law schools. That is attributed to the preceding faculties and deans, particularly Dean Dickinson,' he said.
"Salaries of lawyers are escalating rapidly, more rapidly than general salary increases at the university," Davis said. Davis said although it was not clear what he would do about the necessary to make sure the Board of Regents and the Legislature recognize the problem
THE PROBLEMS that he will have to deal with are tied closely to the problems of the rest of the University and its funding, he said.
"If the university gets no new positions it is difficult to give the law school new
positions," he said. "We're certainly not at a crisis point, but we are at a point where certain light shields should be observed."
ONE THING that has not been a problem in the recent past has been recruiting of students. KU regularly turns down hundreds of applicants.
But, according to Davis, the law school was less than a quarter of the next four or five years, especially for the best students. He said there already was a keen competition for good minority status.
And once KU gets the law students, Davis said, it is the school's obligation to see that the student gets a job after graduation.
And Davis wants to provide those services at KU for a few years.
"Any law school who says 'we'll admit you and teach you and then you are on your own,' is not providing all of its services," he said.
"The average life of deans is three years nationwide. I would hope to beat that," he said.
And, of course, he is still young.
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The University Symphony Orchestra will team with the combined KU choruses for an afternoon of music by Beethoven at 3:30 Sunday in Hoch Auditorium.
Orchestra, choirs to perform Beethoven
The longest of Beethoven's symphonies, the Ninth Symphony was the first composition performed by Schiller. The musical text was taken from Schiller's "tobie toJa" - a poem about universal nature.
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which premiered in 1834, has not been performed at KU since 1970. Leon Burke III, St. Louis doctoral candidate, will conduct the nine.
The symphony's first three movements are orchestral, and the final movement features a chorus and four soloists: Moll
It works well in performance with the Ninth Symphony because of its brief length, Ralston said.
The Fantasin was regarded as a precursor to a larger work, and is similar thermatically to the Ninth Symphony, acclaimed James Ralston, director of choral ensembles.
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"In its day, it was judged unplayable," Burke said. "Everyone said it was impossible to perform. They allowed six players even as late as Richard Wagner's time."
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