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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 23. 1965
Law School to Give Doctorates
Bv Ernie Ballweg
Future graduates of the KU school of law will earn a different degree than that conferred on past graduates.
Included among the action taken at the end of last week by the Kansas Board of Regents was changing of the LLB. (bachelor of law) degree administered by the school to J.D. (jurist doctor).
James K. Logan, dean of the law school, said that the action taken by the regents was at the request of the
KU Enrollment Shows Seven Per Cent Gain
Official spring semester enrollment at KU is 12,643, up 894 or 7.6 per cent over 1964, James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions, reported today.
There are 11,434 registered on the Lawrence campus, a gain of 857, and 1,209 at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, up 37.
More than half the gain is in the freshman class,up 487 to 2,657.
OTHER CLASSES AT Lawrence are: sophomore, 1,909; up 103; juniors, 1,956; down 61; senior and fifthyear, 2,318; up 167; specials and Intensive English Center, 192, up 47; graduate and law, 2,402; up 154.
The proportion of men to women in the University is 1.78 to 1 as compared to 1.86 to 1 a year ago.
This spring one undergraduate in the honors program is enrolled for 28 credit hours and another for 26. Some students would consider this enough for two semesters of fulltime study.
ENROLMENT BY SCHOOLS in the University is: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 5,196, up 565;
Graduate School, 2,474, up 115;
School of Education, 1,295, up 119;
School of Engineering and Architecture, 1,185, up 29; School of Medicine, 911, up 14; School of Fine Arts, 604, down nine; School of Business, 504, down 38; School of Law, 219, up 46; School of Pharmacy, 138, up six; School of Journalism, 121, up 20.
The 21 per cent growth in the School of Law is the greatest among the 10 schools.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Physics Colloquium, 4:30 p.m. Dr Cesare Buceli, U of Pa., 155 Malott.
American Society Class-Intensive Eng-
lance American Foreign Relations. 48M Strong
American Foreign Relations. 48M Strong
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, 7
pledge. Kansas Union. The
Nature of God."
Inquiers Class, 7:30 p.m. Canterbury House, 1116 La.
KU Business Wives. 7:30 p.m., 1007 Massachusetts, Casual Dress.
Christian Science College Organization
7:30 p.m. Danforth Chapel.
A.I.A.A. Meeting, 7:30 p.m. C. J.
Chollasmenos, 200 New Engineering.
University Women's Club-University Newcomers Fashion Show, 8 p.m. Scholarship Style Show—"Americlem Flair." Ballroom, Kansas Union. The Prairie Room in the Union will remain open for the show.
Episcopal Holy Communion, 9:30 p.m. Danforth Chapel.
Wesley Foundation Community Worship
9.15 p.m. Methodist Center, 1314
Iroad
TOMORROW
Catholic Masses. 6:45 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Chapel. Chapel. Confessions before and during mass.
Wesley Foundation Morning Prayer,
7:00 p.m. Methodist Center, 1314
Oread
University Lecture, 4:00 p.m. Prof.
Jerome Jackson U. of Ill. Forum Room,
Kansas Union.
French Club, 4:30 p.m. Le Cœur France-ais se ruire mermaired: le 24 Mars a 4 heures et demie dans la salle du conference du Musee d'Art (Spooner). Mademoiselle Dulade-Chaponte ou une musee de l'art obsolite in 'L'Art français du XVII siecle" sur
Classical Film, 7:00 p.m. "This Strange Passion." Fraser Theater.
Carillon Recital, 7:00 p.m. Albert Gerken.
Timely Topics, 7.00 p.m. St. Lawrence Student Center, "The Emerging Layman" by James J. Donahue, Kansas City, lay theologian.
College Life, 7:15 p.m. Iverson Vermont School to be Chester McCalley, biblical scholar.
Senior Recital. 8:00 p.m. Carol Busch,
soprano. Swartwhout Recital Hall.
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Dantorth Chapel.
law school faculty. He added that the faculty was "quile pleased with the change, which was a more descriptive degree for the amount of work required."
DEAN LOGAN EXPLAINED that in the last 50 years, the amount of work required for a law degree has increased greatly. Students must now have a bachelor's degree before most law schools will even admit them. It is therefore not normal to award a second bachelor's degree for three years of advanced professional work to those who already hold one bachelor's degree.
Dean Logan said that by this action, "KU is merely joining a movement which all progressive law schools are taking. The trend among law schools, especially in the Midwest, has been to change to the J.D. degree."
Certain federal government agencies have demonstrated a marked discrimination, both in salaries and in rank, against holders of the LLB. degree, even though the basic curriculum for both degrees is essentially identical. Dean Logan cited this as another reason for the change.
DEAN LOGAN SAID that there would be no change of the law school curriculum to accommodate the change in degrees.
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Other reasons given for the change by the law school faculty in a resolution to the Board of Regents included the fact that "both the Association of American Law Schools' Committee on Graduate Instruction and the American Bar Association had recommended the adoption of the J.D. degree as the first professional degree in law for those schools which require a bachelor's degree for admission. These two associations are the two accrediting agencies for law schools in the United States."
The resolution added that within the past year all of the law schools in Kansas and Missouri, with whom KU must compete for law students, have adopted the J.D. degree, except Washington University in St. Louis, which is reportedly in the process of changing degrees.
dents who might have gone to schools where the more attractive degree was offered.
DEAN LOGAN SAID that without the change to the J.D. degree, it was conceivable that KU might have lost some of the superior law stu-
Another item included in the resolution by the faculty was the fact that upon learning of the decision of Washburn University, Topeka, to award the J.D. degree, the students of the KU law school circulated petitions requesting the faculty and administration of the KU school of law to adopt the J.D. degree. Virtually every student in law school signed one of these petitions, Dean Logan said.
Don Culp, Bridgetown, Mo., third year law student and president of the Student Bar Association, said, "Everybody is quite happy with the decision to change to the J.D. degree.
"Most students feel that the 90 hour curriculum and thesis which we write more than justify the change to the doctor's degree," he said.
Charles H. Oldfather, professor of law, said, "The change is a beneficial one, as the J.D. degree is more in step with this day and age."
KU Young Republicans Meeting TONIGHT
Forum Room, Kansas Union
7:30
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National Negro Republican Leader
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