University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 24, 1989
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Mock trial addresses the problems of minorities attending law school
by Rias Mohamed Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
On the strength of the testimony during the trial, the jury returned with the verdict. The majority student is in agreement that the judge's
However, the verdict was based only on the evidence provided by the consensus that was reality could be different in jurors' minds.
The trial took up most of the proceedings of Minority-in-Law Day at Green Hall on Saturday, an event sponsored by the Black Law Student Association and the University of Texas at Austin Minority Association. All participants in the trial were minorities.
Judge Cordell D. Meeks Jr. of the Wyndgate County District Court played an advocate's role in the academic excellence case. He questioned Reginald Robinson, professor of law, who played the role of a witness.
A 25-member attorney addressed two cases, one on a member's behalf and another on legal excellence. Each case had an advocate.
Robinson said that he had gone to a public school and had earned his undergraduate degree at the University. The myth among minorities is that they should go to a prestigious private school or an institution such as Harvard Law School to achieve academic excellence in the law field, he said.
Robinson is a member of the Order of the Cofi, one of the highest scholar honors bestowed upon a law
Robinson said that any hurdle a minority student faced in law school was not different from that of any other law
student. He also was the editor-in-chief of the KU Law Review.
"The student should have a strong desire to want to complete law school and be organized and disciplined in trying to achieve that goal," Robinson said. "It's a lot of bird work and study."
Robinson answered that it was not necessary for students to get former students' notes or get into study groups to perform well and that students were not graded down at the KU School of Law.
Tuerce Sala, president of the Black Law Student Association and second-year law student from Seattle, said that the purpose of Minority-in-Law Day was to increase community awareness of opportunities in the
Lisa Hardwick, associate attorney at Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City, Mo., played the role of prosecutor.
She asked whether minority students had difficulty getting into good study groups or obtaining previous class notes if they did not know any former students. She also asked whether minority students were graded down.
Other participants besides the jury were Dario Robertson, associate professor of law, Lajuna Counts, judicial clerk in the Missouri Court of Appeals, and Paula Miller, second-year law student from Kansas City, Mo.
Law Enforcement Training Center awaits approval of expansion plan
by Merceda Ares
Although the Board of Regents approved plans Thursday to expand the Kansas Law Enforcement Trainings Center at Dickinson, there may still be delays.
John Wolf, assistant dean of continuing education, said the bill for additional buildings at the center was awaiting Gov. Mike Hayden's signa-
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Wolf said plans for phase one of the project, which have been under way since 1868, had gone to the state for approval three times already.
"It's been signed in previous years," Wolf said. "It's just a matter of accumulating the team and then being accumulating funds. We will have collected suffi
cient funds to pay for the $885,000 phase one project by June 30,1989."
Further plans for the center include additional classrooms, residence halls and dining and kitchen spaces.
Wolf said the center was financed by a $ surcharge on criminal court docket fees for cases heard in district courts.
Financing for the project, which will come from money deposited and collected at the center, must be constructed can begin, Wolf said.
A portion of that surcharge is used or regular operating expenditures, capital improvements and construction.
center, said phase one would entail construction of a gymnasium with locker rooms, exercise rooms and offices.
"There are no tax dollars involved in this project," he said. "What we're getting is state permission to spend the money."
The estimated cost for the entire 75,500 square-foot-project is $4 million. The long-range plan was approved by the Regents in 1988.
Wolf said he was not sure where the money already collected would go if the bill were vetoed.
"The existing law requires money to be collected and deposited in the law and training enforcement fund." The $25 million would allow the money would stay in that fund."
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