Law School initiates new defender program
A grant of $54,979 has been awarded to the KU School of Law to establish a comprehensive defender program using the facilities of the school in cooperation with the Menninger Foundation in Topeka.
The grant, made by the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, Chicago, Ill., and financed by the Ford Foundation, will be for the 1966-67 school year but the program is expected to continue over a three-year period.
The law school will provide assistance on a statewide basis to court appointed lawyers in defense of indigents accused of crime—an assistance which was unavailable before. The students will help with cases in the federal district court and will aid councils all over Kansas, especially in the rural areas where defense attorneys are assigned by the court. This will be the first project in which a law school aids these rural attorneys.
James K. Logan, Dean of the School of Law, said this demonstration project will assist the Wyandotte County Legal Aid Society in expanding its activities of providing representation to the criminally accused in the Kansas City, Kansas, area. Senior law students will assist court appointed attorneys in the area of preparation for trial, participation at trial, research and investigation.
The grant also aims at establishing a bail bond project in Wyandotte County which will ultimately provide the basis of a statewide bail bond program allowing indigent defendants with substantial ties in the community to be released without bond.
Paul Wilson, professor of law, will be the principal investigator and supervise the program and distribution of funds at the KU law school.
The grant will also provide for other phases besides the legal activities of the students with the Wyandotte Legal Aid Society. With some of the grant money, a new course in criminal procedure and criminal actions will be added to the law school curriculum.
The existing program of providing legal aid to prisoners at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth will be expanded to include the prisoners at the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing. By cooperation with the Menninger School of Psychiatry, a course of Law and Behavioral Science using law students in a juvenile court probation program will provide the basis for a study of an indigent defendant's attitudetoward his defense lawyer and services provided him.
The grant will also provide for a three-year program of institutes at KU to help inform lay magistrates of the developments in criminal law.
General Charles L. Decker, director of the National Defender Project, said, "The program funded at the University of Kansas offers an opportunity to study the value of an exchange between the professional disciplines and improving the attorney-client rapport necessary to provide an indigent person accused of crime with every available safeguard within the administration of criminal justice."
This grant was made available by a Ford Foundation grant of $6 million to the National Legal Aid and Defender Association.
Grants and contracts for sponsored research and associated graduate training projects at KU and its Center for Engineering Science have increased by almost $1.7 million to a total of $7,631,078.
The increase was 28.2 per cent over the previous year's total. The total does not include more than $4.7 million in grants and con-
KU datebook goes on sale
G.I. Bill questions answered
Research draws money to campus
(Editor's Note: Several hundred persons are expected to enroll at KU this fall under a program financed by the GI Bill. Below one of the many questions applicants ask is answered.)
Q. Is it necessary to know definitely what school I will attend before applying under the new GI Bill?
A. Yes, because it must be one on the list of approved training institutions. Furthermore, you should obtain assurance of acceptance to the school of your choice or you will face the delay of submitting another application. Schools are crowded, so you should contact the school of your choice immediately to assure attendance in the fall semester.
The KU datebook, officially known as the K-Book will go on sale today in the Kansas Union at enrollment tables. The book will
also be sold at various points or campus all next week.
Editors of the book this year are Robert Stevens, Junction City
senior; Steve Russell, Topeka senior; and Emery Goad, Junction City junior.
Cost of the book will be 25c.
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In addition to the funds used for research, several grants not included in the figures above have been received for construction of research facilities, in particular a grant of $1,758,000 for facilities at the Lawrence and Kansas City campuses in the field of mental retardation.
During the year the University also made significant additions to its specialized research tools. Two Agena missile computers, worth more than $1 million each when new, were obtained as surplus property. In addition the University obtained another RCA Electron Microscope for use in zoological research, a high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer for use in pharmacy.
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