University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 10, 1987
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KU law team finishes 2nd at national meet
By CAROLINE REDDICK
Staff writer
A University of Kansas School of Law team finished second in the 1986-87 annual National Moot Court Competition on Jan. 29 in New York City.
Team members Lori Schultz, North Newton third-year law student; Jan Fink, Manhattan third-year law student; and Tanya Treadway, Lawrence third-year law student, qualified for the national competition after winning the November regional competition in St. Louis.
More than 200 teams from more than 160 law schools entered the regionals. The KU team was one of 32 teams that went to the finals.
Moot court is a hypothetical appellate case in which the team members write a lengthy legal brief and argue their case to a panel of judges.
U. S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White was among the panel members who wrote the decision.
William Westerbeke, professor of law and the team's adviser, said that the panel's decision said KU "lost narrowly" to Wake Forest University. The KU team had defeated Wake Forest in the first round of the competition.
Michael Davis, dean of law, said, "Everyone here is very proud of this team. They started with an excellent base and worked extremely hard.
Westerbeke said, "I have watched this team develop over a year, and they have improved more than any I can ever remember. This is a classic team; they attained success the old fashioned way — they earned it."
"Our national most court teams in the last five years have won first place (in 1984), second place and finished in the top 16. When you consider that over 200 teams begin each year from 160 schools that include the finest in the nation, you begin to realize what an accomplishment that is."
Davis added that the KU School of Law is the only one in the world to have won the International Moot Court competition twice in the last ten years.
CBD gains signatures
By a Kansan reporter
Citizens for a Better Downtown, the group circulating petitions in an effort to force a public vote on the proposed downtown mall, announced yesterday that it had collected between 800 to 900 signatures during its first weekend.
The proposed CBD ordinance asks: "Shall the following be adopted? Massachusetts Street and Vermont
Street shall not be closed or vacated from Sixth Street to Eleventh Street." A yes vote would be in favor of the ordinance and against the mall.
The remaining 150 petitions still in circulation will be returned Thursday night to CBD organizers, Pat Kehde and Phil Minkin. Kehde said Sunday that the group hoped to deliver the 2.263 signatures needed to force a referendum to the city clerk on Friday.
Cleveland developers Jacobs, Vusconsi & Jacobs, with the local Town Center Venture Corp., have proposed building an enclosed mall in the 600 block of Massachusetts Street where the Lawrence Post Office now stands.
It is not clear whether such a referendum would be legal, though. Assistant Lawrence City Manager Mike Wilgin said Friday that he wasn't sure and that the issue had been referred to City Attorney Milton Allen Sr.
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THE GREAT WHITE HOPE
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Beach Party Night
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Winner receives a free trip to Daytona Beach from Inter- Campus Programs. You don't have to know how to surf; you only have to know how to fake it. Contestants will be judged on originality, costume, and overall performance.
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