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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Dec. 5, 1963
Green Hall Traditions Include Cane-Carrying, Girl-Watching
By Richard Flood
Green Hall, the home of the men with the canes, is not the Kansas School for the Blind. Although someone once said, "And the blind shall lead the blind," these future lawyers can still perceive basic shapes.
The cane is a tradition of third-year law students at KU.
This is evident as a pretty girl walks by.
The girl-watching is a tradition of all KU law students.
SEVENTY-NINE members of the entering class include fraternity presidents, a former KU student body president, an executive director of People-to-People, a newspaper reporter, and the president of the National Collegiate Young Republicans.
A large percentage of the first year students attended KU. But there are also graduates from Stanford, Notre Dame, Yale and Washington and Lee Universities and National Taiwan University.
Despite the many bird-watchers on the steps of Green Hall, the wings of many of the law students have been clipped. Over one-half of the first year students are married and one of these is a woman.
According to Dean James K. Logan, the first year students are the "best yet" to enter the law school and he intends to make them the "best educated."
KU'S LAW SCHOOL boasts increasing enrollment, private support up nearly ten times that of last year, and placement opportunities at an all time high.
In spite of having an enrollment of 166, law students publish "The University of Kansas Law Review" four times a year and several other publications.
To sharpen the minds of these students requires professors of outstanding ability, Dean Logan said. An examination of the professional
activities of the faculty would require a paper several times the length of this article.
To mention a few, Professor Paul Wilson has been named editor of the "American Criminal Law Quarterly." The publication is compiled jointly by the University of Kansas and the Criminal Law Section of the American Bar Association.
DURING 1962-63 a cooperative arrangement with the Meninger Foundation was formed to exchange ideas on the common problems of law and psychiatry.
As part of the exchange, several doctors from Menninger's gave lectures at the law school. KU professors traveled to Topeka to instruct student psychiatrist in the overlap of law and psychiatry in the non-criminal area.
The relationship between the institutions will continue in the future with the hope of establishing a KU Law School-Menninger Foundation Institute,financed by a foundation grant, to support research on common problem areas.
THE REPUTATION of a law school depends upon the professors and the recognition they achieve in their fields. Dean Logan said in his dean's report, "it seems clear that the University of Kansas will develop national prominence in at least two fields: criminal law and family law. The reasons for this are:
"First, no institution at present has developed national pre-eminence in more than a single aspect of each of these fields.
"Second, we have the natural advantage of student interest because many will be practicing in these areas, unlike the students in some famous law schools.
"Third, we are located in close proximity to the Meninger Foundation and its psychiatric and social work experts, and to the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth and the state penitentiary at Lan-
sing, each a valuable research source.
"FOURTH, Kansas is a state which has shown a willingness to improve its laws in these areas, and to conduct some experimentation. This state has recently established a presentencing diagnostic center, for persons convicted of crimes, and it is currently considering major revisions of both the criminal codes and family law.
"Finally, and not least, is the presence on the law faculty of two aggressive and brilliant men, Professors Hopson and Wilson, who have made family law and criminal law, respectively, their major fields."
Thus, the future training of these 166 students is more than the conception gained on the steps of Green Hall. It involves the insight gained in a vigorous and forward moving law school.
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