Law School is bursting at seams
The founding of a distinguished professorship in law, an increase in law faculty salaries, the highest enrollment in history, and the priority of a new law school building in University building plans caused the KU Law School Dean James K. Logan to call this past year "the greatest ever."
In the annual Law School Dean's Report, published in a recent issue of the Kansas Law Review, Logan says "the establishment of the first endowed professorship in the history of the school will help attract and hold a professor of great ability and reputation at KU."
The professorship was made possible by a gift of $100,000 from five members of the families of the late John H. Kane, alumnus of the law school class of 1899, and John M. Kane, an alumnus of the KU engineering school.
TO BOOST the school's holding power for other faculty members, a $50 student fee hike, supported by student opinion, has been used to increase the salaries of faculty members
"With this increase and the distinguished professorship, we are now relatively competitive with any law school, perhaps for the first time in the history of the University," he emphasized.
With a fall enrollment of 295 regular students, and 10 undergraduate students despite new enrollment limiting procedures, the school has reached its capacity and exceeded the numbers it can handle comfortably, Dean Logan pointed out.
A NEW LAW school building has been designated as a principal objective of the University's Centennial Fund Drive, Logan said. The sum of $750,000 will be sought to build the structure. This amount will make KU eligible for an additional $755,000 in federal matching funds under the Higher Education Facilities Act, thus bringing the total budget to $1,125,000.
"Enrollment pressure is on for a number of reasons," Logan said. "Most important is the increasing
importance of law in the nation due to high government interest in providing legal services to the poor, and the possible development of more emphasis on group legal services of all sorts.
"Students will also be returning from the Armed Forces with rights to educational benefits under the Cold War G.I. Bill," he said. "Within two years the surge of post World War II births will greatly increase the number of students reaching law school age. Interest in law as a career is also increasing greatly with national enrollments in law schools boosted by 8 per cent a year since 1961."
KU IS considered the fastest rising law school in the nation by individuals prominent in legal education, Logan added.
He praised the faculty which either authored or co-authored four books, and published thirty-
three other articles一a busy schedule for only 15 faculty members who were also involved in major committees and special projects for the University, the Association of American Law Schools, the American Bar Association, and the Kansas State Bar Association, to name only a few.
Logan announced that $124,685.75 in private support aided the law school in 1965-66; praised the establishment of an annual $500 scholarship by the Schowalter Foundation of Newton, to be known as the Schowalter Foundation World Peace Through Law Scholarship; announced the hiring of three professors who joined the faculty this fall; and praised a student project to provide legal assistance to inmates of the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, a project financed
by the Metzenbaum Human Relations Fund of the Jewish Community Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
OILY AMERICA
TULSA, Okla—(UPI)—Of the 50 states, 32 produced oil or gas or both in 1965.
According to the Independent Petroleum Association of America, the 18 non-producing states included Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Georgia, Hawaii, North and South Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
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Daily Kansan
Monday, December 5, 1966
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