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Anarchy if Court Declines Law Day Speaker Warns
The U.S. Supreme Court must retain final jurisdiction if there is to be supreme law in the United States, a U.S. district court judge said here Saturday night.
John W. Oliver, judge of the Western District Court of Missouri, speaking at the annual Law Day dinner in the Kansas Union, said anarchy will follow if the Constitution is not protected.
JUDGE OLIVER called the 175 year-old constitutional form of government in the United States an experiment.
The judge, who lives in Kansas City, Mo., discussed the conflict between state and federal powers in connection with the Constitution's "supremacy clauses," which sets forth the Constitution as the supreme law of the land.
"No branch of government and no institution under the Constitution has sustained more continuous attack or reached its present position after more vigorous opposition than the Supreme Court." Judge Oliver said.
BUT, THE DISTRICT court judge added, the Supreme Court has withstood this criticism in a remarkable manner, the Court usually emerging from the criticism in a favorable position.
James K. Logan, dean of the KU Law School mentioned several new plans in his "State of the Law School Address." Dean Logan said plans are being made for a senior thesis, a proposed change in the
graduation requirements and a change in the Law School's grading system.
Another plan calls for the establishment of a Master of Comparative Law degree for foreign students who earn their L.L.B. degree here,
--make it, he added.
THE DINNER was the final event in the Law Day program. Earlier in the day, a moot court session was held in the courtroom of Green Hall.
Winners of the James Barclay Smith Moot Court Competition are Tom Triplett, St. Joseph, Mo., first place; Harry Craig, Lawrence, second, and Ed Collister, Lawrence, third. All are second-year students who will compete in national moot court competition next fall.
Aubrey C. Linville and Robert R. Crawford, both of Salina, received the Order of the Coif, an award given to two men selected from the ten 10 per cent of the class.
Linville, a mid-term graduate, also received the C. C. Stewart $100 award and the Lawyers Title Insurance Corp. of Richmond, Va., $100 award.
CRAWFORD ALSO received a third place prize in Law Review case note competition.
Other awards presented at the dinner were:
Petefish and Postma $100 scholarships — Robert J. Lewis, Atwood and Jerry G. Elliott, Lawrence.
William L. Burdick $75 prize given to the outstanding first-year students for 1961-62 — Lewis and David E. Engdahl. Mission.
Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition $250 award — Stephen M. Blaes. Wichita third-year student.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN Mineral Law Foundation $200 scholarship Robert L. Driscoll, Lawrence.
Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity $250 scholarships — Stephen M. Blaes, Lawrence third-year student, and Gerald T. Elliott, Geneva, Ill., third-year student.
Law Review awards for outstanding case notes — David Mills, Arkansas City third-year student; Richard Gilbert, Los Angeles, a former student; Michael T. Mills, McPherson mid-year graduate.
Law Review case comment awards C. Jepson Garland, Wellington, a 1962 graduate; Driscoll, and Lynn L. Anderson, Atwood second-year student.
ADIE HAYER $150 award for an El Dorado High School graduate in law or medicine — Ralph M. Metcalf, El Dorado first-year student. Sophia Lauterbach $500 fellowship for Thomas County residents in graduate work — Leon E. Roulier, Colby second-year student.
Other general scholarships — George D. Blackwood, Springfield Mo., first-year student; Allen J. Fanning, Shawnee Mission first-year; Terry L. Bullock, Wilsey second-year; Edward M. Boyle, Shawnee Mission first-year; James L. Crabtree, Ranson first-year; Thomas C. Clark, Kansas City second-year; Robert E. Williams, Canton, Ill., second-year; Charles A. Chartier, Clyde third-year; Kenneth Graham, McIntyre, Livonia, Mich., third-year, and Blaes, Discoll, David Mills, Crawford, Engdahl, Linville and Jerry Elliott.
Russian Education Fails To Impress British Scholar
Prof. Wren, medieval literature scholar from Oxford University, said Russian education rides mainly on the strength of tradition and patriotism.
Education in Russia is rigidly disciplined and time-consuming, but not very impressive, according to Charles L. Wren, a visiting professor from England who spoke at the Faculty Club dinner yesterday.
Prof. Wren visited Russia a few years ago. He said the academies were the best educational institutions in Russia.
"All high quality research work is done in these institutions."
The Russian universities didn't impress Wren quite as much. "The universities are really doing very much the same as junior colleges in America, but in five years instead of two," he said.
The curriculum in Russian universities is all the same, the professor said.
Five years is required to obtain the first degree, the first four being mainly a study of the major and minor compulsory sciences. Two of these years are often merely high school work. Prof. Wren said.
At the end of the five years the Russian student gets his diploma, and if he is selected for academy work he will go in as an aspirant for the "candidate."
A "candidate" is comparable to a Ph.D. from a lesser American university and usually takes from three to six years to attain. Very few
In the fifth year, the student writes a dissertation of his own choice.
He said the student is sent to wherever a shortage is. There he stays for at least three years.
"Clearly the idea of the search for truth or the development of personality could not flourish," the professor said. "Still, much flexibility an spontaneity exists among these students."
Prof. Wren said there is some coeducation in Russia. He said many times men and women share the same overcrowded halls, but not rooms, of course.
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He said Russian graduate study includes quite a bit of literature, including American works. The
main problem, the professor said, is too much limitation on what the students can read and it is hard for them to get a clear picture of many literary greats.
American influence is steadily rising in the Russian universities, especially in Moscow, he said.
"The Russian students, like any others, tend to show adolescence and one form is being ultra-American."
The word "education" to the Russians means "shaping of the minds," which, he said, is based on the belief that human nature can be manipulated.
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Monday. April 22.1963
A KU woman has been transferred to St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City as the result of an automobile accident about 12:15 Saturday on the Lakeview Road about five miles northwest of Lawrence.
Two other persons were hospitalized in Watkins Hospital, and another was treated and released.
The four were hit by a car driven by John K. Letton, Pittsburg senior.
Accident Victim Taken to K.C.
TRANSFERRED TO St. Luke's was Cindy Heinz, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore. She suffered a fractured thigh.
Dinner, Honors Night Planned for Women
The Associated Women Students' annual observation of All Women's Day will begin April 24 with an exchange dinner among organized women's living groups.
Hospitalized were: Nancy Dodge, Salina junior, fractured ankle, and
The activities will continue through the evening of April 29 Honors Night—when the outstanding women on campus will be honored for their contributions to women's activities.
The exchange dinner will be during the regular dinner hours of each living group.
Foreign women students participating in People-to-People and members of the People-to-People Big Sister program also have been invited.
Jim Hubbard, Cedar Vale junior, fracture of left leg and concussion. Treated and released was Keith Hibbard, Kansas ity, Mo., sophomore, ankle injury.
UNDERSHERIFF Rex Johnson said the four were in a group of 10 to 12 students who were standing on the road near their car. The Letton car came around the curve and hit the students and the parked vehicle.
Damage to Letton's car was estimated at $225, and to the parked car, $100. No arrests have been made.
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About 15 minutes earlier, a car driven by Arthur M. Lucas, Leavenworth freshman, missed the same curve and left the road and overturned. Lucas and his passenger, Charlene Edmundson, 434 St., suffered bruises but did not require treatment.
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