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Tuesday, May 10, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Legal eagles own world victory
By PEGGY SPENCER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A silver trophy, somewhat tarnished, is a temporary fixture in the School of Law offices. Two weeks ago, the University of Kansas team won the 1977 Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition in which he brought the trophy to KU for the first time.
"It was a great experience. We had a good time," Kathleen Kauffman, Lakeville, Minn., first year law student, said recently. Bill Melton, Shawnee third year law student, said the team was a tightly knit group.
"I'm FAIRLY COMPETITIVE," he said, "I want to be on a winning team. With the people we had trying out for the team this season, I was confident that Members of the team agreed that the
Members of the team agreed that the experience had been educational.
John Murphy, associate dean of the law school, said the students learned to research a problem in depth, to prepare legal briefs and to think fast while speaking.
Kauffman said the experience gave the group a chance to apply the principles of a leadership approach.
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MURPHY SAID THE students received
In October the hypothetical problem, which dealt with nuclear proliferation. After researching the various points of law involved in the question, the students prepared two 25-page briefs and worked on ways to present their oral arguments.
Melton said the students received two hours credit for working on the competition, although he said he thought they spent more time on the course than required for a regular two-hour course.
After remaining in Lawrence to work on the project over semester break, the team met again to discuss the plan.
The KU team then competed against nine other American regional winners in the semifinals in San Francisco, where they defeated the UCLA team. Wayne State and Loyola of Los Angeles
IN THE FINAL ROUND, which pitted the U.S. winner against the foreign division winner, KU beat the University of Toronto, Canada, the defending champion.
Murphy said that this was the first time a law school had won the final competition.
Winning teams in the past have included Cambridge of England, the University of Texas, the University of West Virginia and the University of Michigan.
Murphy said that this year, 100 American law schools competed with 30 law schools
David Jeans, Independence, Mo., second year law student and first place oral argument winner, said the crucial difference between a judge answered questions from a panel of judges.
"Canada skirted the questions," he said.
"They didn't answer them."
HOWEVER, JEANNS SAID the team from Canada wasn't as accustomed to heavy questioning as KU. In the foreign division, because of language barriers and the lack of English, it is more difficult for the judges to ask questions as the students speak, he said.
Murphy said that before the finals the KU team lost the coin loss and its choice of sides
Kauffman said the issue involved a dispute between two hypothetical countries, Spain and France.
Pandora was an exporter of sensitive nuclear fuel to the nuclearly underdeveloped Shangri-La. Pandora wanted to safeguard a anadeguard account on all of Shangri-La's nuclear material so that if a bomb went not unnoticed,
The question also involved several nuclear proliferation treaties. The two countries decided to have the International Court of Justice settle the dispute.
JEANS, ALSO A member of KU's 1970
National Intercollegiate Debate championship team, said the KU team wanted to argue the case for Shangri-La because they felt arguments on its side were stronger. But he said the team was equally prepared for Pandora, the exporting country.
Kaufman said that on the day between the semifinal and final competition, the team went to the Stanford University Law School to research Canada's main arguments.
Jeans said that although the trip to Stanford was educational, they didn't learn any new information on Canada's arguments.
KAUFMAN SAID THE advantage to the extra research was that the students knew that if they would have been asked probing questions, they would have had answers. That after the research trip, they had confidence in the depth of their arguments.
Murphy said that the team was able to answer all questions asked.
"Nobody embarrassed the team," he said. "They knew the material."
Murphy said that no team had ever won the competition two years in a row. If KU should win again next year, he said, the Murphy will find a permanent home at KU.
Music and art camp is ready to go again
About 1,000 junior and senior high school students will attend the Midwestern Music and Art Camp here this summer to par- ticipate in a jazz speech, journalism and astronomy classes.
The five camp divisions are operated separately.
Music camps will be June 16-24 for junior high students. Senior high students will attend music camp June 28-July 23. About 300 students are expected for each session, according to Tom Stidham, assistant director of the camp.
A NEW PROGRAM, called the Midwestern Music Festival, will allow some senior high students to attend the music camp for both sessions. About 30 students will participate in the festival program, Stidham said.
Guest conductors and performers will include Col. Arnold Gabriel, director of the U.S. Air Force Band; Russell Wiley, founder of the Midwestern Music and Art Department of Her Majesty Dunn, former director of her Majesty's Royal Marine Band in England.
Music students will pursue their interests in a variety of areas, including band, orchestra, chorus, jazz and private lessons. Stidham said the campus might have some performances in which students are holding all performances in the University Theatre or in Swarthout Recital Hall.
ABOUT 125 JUNIOR high and 150 senior high school students are expected for the art division, Richard Branham, chairman of the department of design, said. The art camp will operate concurrently with the music camp.
The students will study drawing, painting, sculpture, industrial design, graphics and other subjects taught by KU faculty members. In one of the most popular classes students make their own eight-figure animated movies, Bramham said.
The journalism camp will be camp 12-17 and June 19 July 1. Students will work to improve writing and editing for publication. Photography also will be taught during the
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About 70 students will attend the journalism camp, Dana Lebenged, assistant director.
first session. A camp newspaper will be published at the end of each session.
THE SPEECH AND BANDLE camp will focus on debate, but classes on extemporaneous, persuasive and informative speaking will be held, Donn Parson, director of forensics, said. Speech camp will be June 19 July 2 and July 10-13. Students will research the national high school speech contest and prepare a comprehensive medical care. An eight-hour tournament will be held at the end of each session.
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About 120 students are expected at the speech camp this summer, Parson said.
Astronomy camp will give students a chance to study the stars, John Davidson, director of the astronomy division, said. It will be June 26-July 9.
Students will follow a slightly altered schedule, stay up late at night to observe stars through telescopes, and睡觉 late in the morning. Afternoons will be spent on laboratory exercises and attending lectures.
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