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University Daily Kansan Thursday. April 15. 1265
Counsel Right Topic of Law Day
Final arrangements are nearly complete for the KU Law Day which will be held Saturday, according to Don Culp, Bridgetown, Mo., third year law student and president of the KU Student Bar Association.
The Law Day, an annual event. will feature an address by Maj. Gen. Charles L. Decker, who will
talk on "Right to Counsel." Culp said the law students were quite pleased to have such a man as Gen. Decker, who is a leading public figure within the law profession.
and Defender Program. Culp said this was a $4.5 million project.
DECKER IS the former judge advocate and chief legal officer of the U.S. Army, according to Culp. He retired from this position to become director of the National Legal Aid
Decker was a KU student from 1923-25. He received his B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy in 1931, and his LL.B. from Georgetown University. He later taught law at West Point from 1936-39.
Last Chance Tomorrow To Enter Book Contest
Undergraduates with a collection of not less than 35 or more than 60 books have until Friday to enter the ninth annual Taylor Book Collection Competition.
One hundred dollars will be awarded to the student who has compiled the best collection of books in a certain field.
The contest is designed to honor the student who has spent time in gathering a small library of his own to meet his needs.
A SECOND PLACE prize of $50 is also offered. The winners will be announced Tuesday.
The directors of the contest for this year are Terrence Williams of the Special Collections Department and John Knightly, Watson Library Circulation Department.
Knightly emphasized that the collections need not be large or expensive to win. The judges will be primarily interested in the entrants intentions for which the personal library was collected.
Judges for this year's contest are Stuart Levine, assistant professor of English and editor of a magazine entitled "American Studies"; Lawrence DiPietro, the new public librarian at Topeka, and Miss Alexandra Mason, head of the department of special collections at Watson Library.
Also occurring on Law Day will be the final round of the James Barclay Smith Moot Court competition, at 10 a.m. in the Green Hall courtroom. The Moot Court competition is open to all second year law students. Two man teams will argue hypothetical cases to a three judge court. The Moot Court competition is a national contest and the winning team will represent KU in the regional contest to be held in St. Louis next fall.
MOOT COURT judges for the finals will be John Fontron, Kansas Supreme Court associate justice; Arthur J. Stanley, federal court judge; and Harry G. Miller, district court judge of Wyandotte County.
EACH CONTESTANT must submit a bibliography of their collection and a statement of not more than 400 words on the purpose in making the collection, including some references to the circumstances under which the collection was made.
ists will be asked to bring their collections to the library for final judging.
The first place winner will automatically compete for the Amy Loveland $1,000 National Award which is sponsored by the Book-of-the-Month Club, The Saturday Review and the Women's National Book Association.
The Taylor Book Award is sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, a Kansas City, Mo., book collector.
About 250 people are expected to attend the evening activities of Law Day which will be held in the Holiday Inn.
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After preliminary judging, which will be made on the basis of the bibliography and statement, final-
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