University Daily Kansan
Thursday, August 23, 1973
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Law School Plans New Building
Martin Dickinson Jr., dean of the School of Law, says that the school is making plans to expand it.
Dickinson said that the Board of Regents had approved $40,000 to be spent on the designing of the new law school building. Dickinson said the school hoped the building would be ready for occupancy by the fall semester of 1977. The approximate cost of the building is going to be $5 million, but no site has been decided on at this date.
The new building will provide better library facilities and will be able to increase enrollment by approximately 150 students, Dickinson said.
Dickinson also said that Philip Kissam would join the law school staff as a professor and be appointed to the Law School and spent five years in legal work. A portion of that legal work
Biochemistry Gets $19,100 From NSF
The University of Kansas department of biochemistry has received $11,100 from the National Science Foundation to purchase equipment to improve undergraduate instruction.
The grant made to KU is part of a $1.6-million Undergraduate Instructional Scientific Equipment Program being funded by the U.S. Department. The equipment program is one of several of the foundation's activities designed to help colleges and universities improve the quality of undergraduate science education, updating courses and teaching laboratories.
Robert Hersh, chairman and professor of biochemistry, is the project director. He said the grant would be used to improve the biochemistry courses so they would stimulate the student's interest in experimental aspects of biochemistry, to apply the scientific method to problem solving in biology and biochemistry, to provide instruction on practical instrumentation in modern instrumentation and awareness of instrument limitations and to involve the student in experimentation, both direct and investigative.
A committee of faculty members in the department of biochemistry has studied possible course and instruction improvement. The final application was submitted by a committee headed by Marjorie Newmark.
Prof Writes Article In Names Journal
was with the Health Services Program in New York City.
Karl Rosen, professor of classics and linguistics, has just published an article in the latest issue of Names, the Journal of the American Name Society.
The article, "Community Names from Personal Names in Kansas: Post Offices," deals with one aspect of the history of settlement in Kansas.
There were 1,107 applicants to the law school for the fall semester, said Dickinson, and out of the group 170 will be accepted, which is an increase of 25 students over last semester. Of the 170 students accepted, 85 to 90 per-cent will be Kansas residents.
of applications and the number of schools. In the United States there are approximately 150 law schools; last year 125,000 people applied for admission.
Dickinson said that admission into law school was difficult because of the number
Dickinson said that the law profession was more appealing today because of the "store front" firms and service to the community. People are beginning to realize that there is more to law than Perry Mason and corporate structures, he said.
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