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'. The Autumn Gargoyle was at •the printers and beyond recall at •

• the time Dean George Bunn an- •, nounced his intention to resign as •

Dean to return to teaching. The• search for a new Dean is just •t getting organized, and it will be t

sometime before concrete prog-tress can be reported. Professor •t Abner Brodie has been appointed

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chairman of the Search and Screen •Committee. •

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HEAR IT FROM THE DEAN

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dean Resigns .......... 2

Hear it from the Dean 2

Development of Skills 5

George R. Currie 7

Facing the Future. 8

Visitors ...... 10

1974 Admissions 17

Plea from the Students 18

THE GARGOYLEBulletin of the University of Wisconsinlaw School, published quarterly.Vol. 6, No.2 Winter, 1974

Ruth B. Doyle, editor

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Most of what I have said recent-ly about the School has been incomplaint. My complaint has usu-ally been that the School has beengiven insufficient funds to do itsjob. The media gave top billing tothat reason for my resignation asDean. As a result, what probablycame through to most of you waswhat was wrong with the School.With an accreditation re-inspectionteam coming soon, you willprobably hear more about whatis wrong.

I would like now to say a littleabout what is right with educationin your School. The 1972 accredi-tation report itself said that. theSchool remained "one of the coun-try's strongest law schools, distin-guished particularly for its . . .continued achievement in interdis-ciplinary research and teaching,concerned with the interaction oflaw with society." The faculty, thereport said, was "imaginative, in-novative, alert to the need tore-vitalize legal education" thoughlargely smothered by the large in-flux of students without consequentincrease in the number of teachers.The 1972 team found of particularinterest "the experimental driveamong many faculty members todevelop more interesting and moreeffectivemethods of teaching."

Dean James White, ABA's Spe-cial Consultant on legal education,was just here at the invitation ofthe University's Central Adminis-tration. He announced the decisionof the officers of the ABA's Sectionon Legal Education to re-inspectthis law school. Their reasons in-cluded, he said, the fact that Wis-consin ranks almost at the bottomof Big-l0 law schools in funding.However, he told a committeecreated by Central Administrationto consider Wisconsin's need fora third law school that yourSchool remained "very outstand-ing"-that its reputation as the"most inn ov a ti v e" in teachingtechniques among Big-l0 schoolscontinued.

What has that innovation pro-duced for our students? We havenot revolutionized the curriculumor overwhelmed it with "practiceskills" and "clinical programs" assome fear. Nor, on the other hand,do we teach only "theory" and"principles" as others complain.We try to do all of these thingsin moderation, and a good dealmore.

There continues to be a generalconsensus on most of the first yearcore curriculum. We still teach pro-cedure, contracts, property, tortsand criminal law. But a numberof other things have changed.

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DEVELOPMENT OF SKILLSPresent-day students share with

members of the practicing bar anurgent .desire to begin the develop-ment of lawyering skills while theyare still in the Law School. Legaleducation from its very beginninghas wrestled with this problem.Many students have sought outpart-time jobs in law firms andgovernment agencies as one wayof being exposed to negotiating,

*Trial Advocacy

A course in Trial Advocacy to"lay the sound foundation for thecontinuing Iear n i n g process incourt room skills" under the direc-tion of Professor Stuart Gullicksonhas had an enrollment of 37 dur-ing the fall semester of 1974-75."Our primary objective," ProfessorGullickson says in his statementto the students, "is to train you inthe single skill of examining wit-nesses. This skill is used by almostall lawyers, and in almost all fo-rums-not just by trial lawyers,and not just in jury trials. Witnessexamination is important to law-yers in private practice, govern-ment, and industry ... the corner-stone of lawyers' skills in a hear-ing before a court, administrativeagency or legislative committee... " Secondary objectives of thecourse include, among many, thetechniques of introducing exhibits,making offers of proof, and quali-fying expert witnesses.

Forty-five practicing lawyershave served with Professor Gul-lickson as the Faculty of the courseduring the first semester. In theearly stages of the course, a teach-ing team of lawyers have demon-strated direct ex a m in a tio nandcross examination, as well as serv-ing as witnesses and judges. Inter-pretations of the process used isprovided to the class, and the teamof practitioners explained thetechniques used and answeredquestions.

The second po r t i0 n of thecourse, the class d i v ide d intogroups of four students and onetrial lawyer, provides an opportu-

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d raft i n g, interviewing, arguingand examining witnesses. Therapidly developing clinicalprogram is another.

The courses in Trial Advocacyand the General Practice offer athird approach, widely approvedbecause of the carefully controlledand supervised opportunities theyoffer to deal with the very practicalproblems confronting new lawyers.

* *nity for students to practice witnessexamination, by themselves serv-ing as witness, lawyers, and judge.

Lawyers who participated in thecourse are:

Douglas Klingberg WausauRichard Weber WausauAdrian Schoone RacineJames Heft RacineRobert Ruth BeloitJerome Elliott BeloitJohn W. Roethe, Jr. EdgertonByron Crowns Wisconsin RapidsSuzanne Kitto JanesvilleWilliam Reilly WaukeshaRaymond Colwin Fond du LacFrancis Bannen Wisconsin DellsClark Dempsey WhitewaterKenneth McCormick, Jr. MadisonBradley Armstrong MadisonJohn Koeppel MadisonRichard Lent MadisonDonald McCallum MadisonSverre Tinglum MadisonJack Daley MadisonEarl Munson MadisonDonald Eisenberg MadisonFrank Coyne MadisonHenry Field, Jr. MadisonJohn Winner MadisonCarroll Metzner MadisonWalter Thurow MadisonRaymond Schrank MadisonJohn Moore MadisonBradway Liddle MadisonRobert Studt MadisonDennis Robertson MadisonGilbert Church MilwaukeeMichael Tarnoff MilwaukeeRobert Lerner MilwaukeeHarry Peck MilwaukeeEdward Dudek MilwaukeeJames Murphy MilwaukeeAlvin Stack MilwaukeeLarry Hammond Milwaukee

A Lawyer Looks at the GeneralPractice Course from Inside

George Steil, of Campbell, Bren-nan, Steil and Ryan, Janesville,has taught in the General PracticeCourse for one week every yearsince 1969. When the decision wasmade to offer the Course in twosemesters, necessitating the addi-tion of a Co-Director for each, itwas natural that he should be in-vited to accept the post during thefirst semester. J. Richard Long,Beloit, will bee 0 m e Co-Directorduring the second semester.

Mr. Steil's d u t ies, generally,were to share Professor Gullick-son's work. He participated intraining the teaching teams, devel-opment of curriculum, planningdemonstrations, teaching and su-pervising the evaluation of the stu-dents' daily written exercises.

The Faculty, he reports, was ofvery high quality. For the mostpart, visiting lawyers taught in theareas of practice where their pro-fessional proficiencies lay.

The students, generally, areplanning on private practice. Theyimpressed him as highly motivatedand eager. For many it is theirfirst chance to observe lawyers attheir work; the coffee break con-versations, he reports, provide anopportunity for informal contactswhen questions arise and areanswered.

Efforts are made to include con-sideration of the ethical problemsinvolved in all aspects of practiceincluded in the Course. The needfor sound business managementin law firms is also emphasized.Stress is placed on the drafting ofdocuments to make them compre-hensible to clients as well as toother lawyers.

"The students are eager and re-sponsive," he noted. "The financialsacrifice made by lawyer-teachersis often mentioned by the students."He concluded, "the lawyers cometo know students, and studentscome to know lawyers-. "

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Real Estate Closings, Leases,Wills and Informal Administration- Preparing the Defense of a

October 7-11 Criminal Case-January 13-17Mr. Tray ton L. Lathrop Madison Ms. Gilda B. Shellow MilwaukeeMr. John K. Callahan Monroe Mr. Thomas P. Doherty Milwaukeel\1r.Donald A. Losby Eau Claire Mr. William F. Donovan BeloitMr. Neil Hobbs Fond du Lac Mr. David J. Cannon Milwaukee

Preparation of Civil Cases for Trial-April 7-11

Mr. Kenan J. Kersten MilwaukeeMr. Howard A. Davis MilwaukeeMr. Mac A. McKichan, Sr. PlattevilleMr. Robert J. Ruth Beloit

Preparation and Trial of Civil Cases-April 14-18

Mr. William E. Johnson MadisonMr. Gerald J. Bloch MilwaukeeMr. Leonard L. Loeb Milwaukee

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Corporations-February 3-7

Mr. Roy C. LaBudde MilwaukeeMr. Paul L. Witkin SuperiorMr. Robert C. Lovejoy JanesvilleMr. Robert A. Bachman Appleton

Debtor-Creditor Proceedings-

January 20-24

Mr. Donald D. Johnson MadisonMr. Edward E. Hales RacineMr. Sidney Sodos MilwaukeeMr. Joseph D. Becker LaCrosse

George Steil

Law OfficeManagement-November 20-22

Municipal Proceedings-November 18-19

Ms. Vel R. Phillips MilwaukeeMr. Peter R. Dohr MadisonMr. James F. Clark MadisonMr. -Iames F. Spohn Madison

Mr. Robert E. Tehan, Jr. MilwaukeeMr. Robert Oberbillig Des MoinesMrs. Virginia W. Sperry JeffersonMr. Myron E. LaRowe Reedsburg

Divorce-November 11-15Mr. Leo H. Hansen BeloitMs. Agnes Loizeaux MarinetteMr. Andrew R. Reneau MilwaukeeMr. Robert P. Goodman Racine

Probating Estates-February 10-14Ms. Dorothy Nelson Topel MarinetteMr. Robert R. Lehman MadisonMr. Franklin L. Nehs Appleton

Preparation of a Civil Case for Trial- Real Estate Transactions-October 21-25 February 24-28

Mr. Herman J. Glinski Stevens Point Mr. Robert R. Henzl RacineMr. Thomas D. Bell New Richmond Mr. Gerald W. Jaeckle BeloitMr. James R. Clark Milwaukee Mr. Theodore B. Hertel, Jr. MilwaukeeMr. John C. Mitby Madison Mr. John H. Short Fort Atkinson

Preparation and Trial of a Civil Case- Divorce Cases-March 3-7October 28-November 1 Mr. David L. Walther Milwaukee

Mr. Harold Witkin Superior Mr. Malcolm Gissen Richland CenterMr. James E. Garvey Eau Claire Mr. Clarence R. Parrish MilwaukeeMr. Ted M. Warshafsky Milwaukee Ms. Joan F. Kessler MilwaukeeMr. Duane L. Arena Racine Real Estate Closings, Leases, Wills

and Informal Administration-March 17-21

Mr. David Y. Collins. BeloitMr. Rodney O. Kittelsen MonroeMr. John L. O'Brien Eagle River

Municipal Proceedings-March 24-25

Mr. Milo G. Flaten, Jr. MadisonMr. William T. Schmid MilwaukeeMr. Henry B. Buslee Fond du LacMr. William L. Seymour Elkhorn

Law OfficeManagement-March 26-27

Mr. John W. Stevens WausauMr. Gerald J. Berres BeloitMr. Irvin B. Charne MilwaukeeMr. John D. Varda Madison

RacineLancasterMadisonJefferson

MilwaukeeMilwaukeeMadisonMadison

September 3-6

Mr. Roy D. StewartMr. Patrick KinneyMr. Harry V. HillMr. Deane C. D'Aoust

Probate-September 23-27

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Debtor-Creditor Proceedings-

Corporations-September 9-13

Mr. Gordon R. Smith, Jr. MilwaukeeMr. James R. Cripe JanesvilleMr. Gilbert F. Barnard DarlingtonMr. G. Lane Ware Wausau

Real Estate Transactions-September-October 4

Mr. W. Dale Phillips MilwaukeeMr. Arthur C. Benkert MonroeMr. Joseph F. Preloznik MadisonMr. Jerry E. McAdow Madison

Mr. Leonard V. BradyMr. Paul MoskowitzMr. Harry N. LoebMr. Robert D. Martin

Mr. John O. Olson Lake GenevaMr. Percy L. Julian, Jr. MadisonMr. Jack W. Van Metre MadisonMr. Franklyn M. Gimbel Milwaukee

Preparing the Defense of aCriminal Case-August 26-30

To Mr. Steil, the most hearten-ing result of the Course is foundin the improvement of students'work from the beginning to theend of the semester. Each year,this has been so-it provides theultimate justification for the course.

As in other years, four practic-ing lawyers serve as faculty ineach week of the course:

GEORGE R. CURRIE

THE FOUR LIVES OF

It's no wonder that many ablepeople desiring flexible, influential,varied and interesting careershave turned to the Law. There aresome remarkable models for themto observe.

George Currie

All of these occupations havedeveloped since 1970, the year inwhich Professor Currie retired. Hehad been a Faculty member onlytwo and a half years. He taughtlarge classes in Corporations, Evi-dence and Civil Procedure II, andalso seminars on appellate prac-tice. Even as a professor, his tal-ents of judgment were put to work.He served as Chairman of theMayor's Commission on the Mif-flin Street disorders, with thecharge of determining the facts ofthe 3 days turmoil, and recom-mending police procedures to dealwith similar situations in the fu-ture. He was the first Chairman ofthe Legal Education OpportunitiesCommittee. He worked, he recalls,three or four hours to prepare foreach class hour, but always foundit enjoyable.

He came to the Faculty after 16years and 4 months on theSupreme Court of Wisconsin.Appointed in 1951, by GovernorWalter Kohler, Jr., his Sheboyganfriend, he was elected to the Courtin 1957 without opposition for theterm expiring January 1, 1968,and defeated for re-election in1967. He was made Chief Justicein 1964. He has fond memories ofhis days as a Justice, though thework was hard. During the firstnine years of his tenure, there wereno law clerks. The law clerks, herecalls, permitted a greater depthof research and a sounder basisfor judgment.

During 1973, Judge Currie de-voted 91 full days to his judicialwork as a reserve judge and ex-pects his total for 1974 to at leastequal that of 1973. This work isoften spread part-time over manydays, as he attempts to confine hisdecision writing to mornings. Hisjudicial specialty is the review ofthe decisions of many state agen-cies: the Department of Industry,Labor and Human Relations(formerly the Industrial Commis-sion), the Public Service Commis-sion, the Department of Health andSocial Services, the Bureau of Per-sonnel, Wisconsin Tax AppealsCommission and others. Appealsfrom agency rulings are heard inthe Circuit Court of Dane County,where he is situated.

For eight months in 1972 andearly 1973, he served as Chair-man of the Governor's Commis-sion on Real Estate Transactions,an examination of the state's pro-cedure in the acquisition, sale andleasing of property. It was theUniversity's acquisition of LowellHall, widely reported in thepapers, that probably led to theinvestigation. The Com m iss ionfound no dishonesty, but did rec-ommend changes in the proceduresused.

Mr. Currie serves as the perma-nent arbitrator between the Fire-fighters Union and the City ofMadison, dealing with grievanceswhich arise under the negotiatedagreement. On a case by casebasis, he is appointed by the stateDepartment of Administration andthe Wisconsin State EmployersUnion as arbitrator of disputesunder the negotiated agreement be-tween the State and the Union.Grievances have to do with claimsfor overtime pay, letters of repri-mand, injuries by inmates in thestate institutions, etc. In 1974 hehas heard six of these arbitrationcases and two additional oneshave been scheduled for later inNovember.

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For example, there's George R.Currie-lawyer in general practice,Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice,Professor, dahlia grower of greatrenown, arbitrator, trial judge, allaround citizen. All in one lifetime,too.

Since his retirement in June,1970 from his position as profes-sor of Law, he has had at leastthree concurrent careers. He start-ed out as a Reserve Judge, sittingin various circuits, chiefly in DaneCounty, where the presiding judgehad a congested calendar or wasunable to sit. In 1971, he was ap-pointed by the federal Offlce ofEconomic Opportunity to partici-pate in an evaluation of the Cali-fornia Rural Legal Assistance Pro-gram. Governor Ronald Reaganhad vetoed the program's appro-priations after an investigation byhis staff. Judge Currie sat withformer Chief Justice Williamsonof Maine, and Justice Robert Lee,a member of the Supreme Courtof Colorado. The opinion of thethree commissioners was directedto the Director of OED. The studytook about four weeks and pro-duced the decision that the chargesleveled by the Governor's inves-tigators "were unfounded. On thecontrary, the Agency was laudedby the visiting judges.

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Currie, continued

fACING THE fUTURE

The future is still bright forGeorge Currie.

It was a large and diverse prac-tice, and much of his time was de-voted to labor relations, on themanagement side. Although he de-veloped deep roots in Sheboyganand an active involvement inmany community affairs, he didnot mind moving to Madison, asthe future looked bright and theprospects good.

All of this began, of course, withgraduation from the Law Schoolin 1925, where he was one of theearly editors-in-chief of the LawReview, a member of Coif, the1970 recipient of the Law AlumniAssociation's Distinguished Alum-ni award. Shortly before gradua-tion he borrowed a Model T Fordand went looking for work. Hisfuture awaited him in Sheboygan,where he became associated withBowler and Bowler, later beingmade a partner in the firm, AfterMr. E. R. Bowler died in 1937,Mr. Currie formed a partnershipwith Fulton H. Leberman, also agraduate of the Law School, whichpartnership continued until the lat-ter's death in 1941. Thereafter, hejoined the partnership of which hewas a member when appointed tothe court, the firm name then beingBuchen, Currie, Federer, Groteand Hesslink. The senior partner,Gustav Buchen, was a long-timestate Senator, the father of PhilipBuchen, President Ford's partnerin Grand Rapids and confidantin the White House.

The percentage of graduateswho have stayed in Wisconsin,in various occupations, is morethan 60%, about the same as 1973and 1972. This may be, at leastpartially, the result of the LawSchool's marked reduction in thenumber of non-residents admittedto the Law School. Probably, theprivilege of Bar admission (with-out examination) on the motion ofthe Dean was a decisive factor forsome graduates.

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Noone knows, for example,how many jobs are presentlyavailable. Keeping track of themobile young people is very dif-ficult, many of them do not keepin touch with the Law School afterthey leave. Some recent graduatesmay not be looking for positionsimmediately; some limit theirsearches to certain limited areasof the law; others may be awaitingbar admission in other states;some are awaiting placement incertain communities. Some mayjust forget to let the Law SchoolPlacement Office know where theyare.

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All of these placements, includ-ing those who have non-law em-ployment (13 have reported) aresimilar to the graduates of 1973and 1972.

Legal Services-8 in Wisconsinand 9 outside the state. Thirty-twomembers of the class have acceptedpositions in businesses, includingbanks and insurance companiesamon~ 0 the r s . Twenty-three ofthese are in Wisconsin. Six recentgraduates are serving this year asclerks to federal and state SupremeCourt judges. Eight graduates areserving their deferred active dutyin the military.

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The Class of 1974 included 44graduates at mid-year (December,1973), 254 graduates in May and20 graduates in August. Of these42 are women. Although, accord-ing to Mary Staley, the number ofpositions available appeared to beabout the same as in other recentyears, the increase in the numberof graduates has tightened the jobmarket, and created keen competi-tion for the jobs.

As the Gargoyle goes to press,about 73 of the 318 graduates(about 28%) have not yet notifledthe Placement Office whether andwhere they have located employ-ment.

Of the 270 graduates aboutwhom there is recent information,143 (about 53%) have acceptedpositions in private practice, 108located in Wisconsin and 34 out-side the state. Of these 19 are es-tablishing themselves as sole prac-titioners or partners of other recentgraduates. Fifty students havegovernment positions, 17 in thefederal service, 28 in state and lo-cal government, some of them asassistant district attorneys and as-sistant city attorneys. Seventeenrecent graduates have joined agen-cies which have become known as

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The people of the United States-and of much of the rest of theworld, too - are examining withcare the vital signs of the economy,eager to find some indication ofthe future.

One of the signs is the job mar-ket for the young professionals.And, as with other economic indi-cators, reading it is so difficultthat even the experts have troublemaking predictions.

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Facing, continued

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prehension about the future inLaw, as there is in almost allother professions, Mrs. Staley re-ports that the interviewing hasbrought to Madison about thesame number of recruitors as lastyear and the year before. Mostthird year students realizing theuncertainties are actively explor-ing the world outside. They areusing the Placement Officeextensively, and looking around agreat deal on their own. Recentgraduates are using the PlacementServices for re-location,

No one in the Law School cansay accurately what the futureholds. Ap p licants to the LawSchool who are seeking job securi-ty not available in the teachingprofession, for example, should beaware that in the next three or fouryears many changes are in pros-pect, but whether the changes willexpand the opportunities or con-tract' them is something which nosensible expert can predict.

X MARKS THE SPOTON YOUR CALENDAR-THE DAY OF THE LAW

SCHOOL SPRING PROGRAM-

-ARGUMENTS, PROGRAMS, AWARDS-

SATURDAY, MARCH 22

LUNCHEON REUNIONS:1920, 1925, 1930, 1935,1940,1945,1950, 1955,

1960, 1965, 1970

DETAILSWILL FOLLOW

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Placement Board

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VISITORS AT THE LAW SCHOOLTWICE IN 1974

The annual alumni visitation of the Law School took place onNovember 15 and 16. Members of the WLAA Board of Directorsand Board of Visitors were invited, as well as a number of othermembers of the Bar. As in other years, visitors attended classes onFriday morning, and had lunch with students selected by the StudentBar Association, the Black American Law Students Association, theAssociation of Women Law Students and other groups.

The annual gripe session (now called "Open Forum") was held inthe early afternoon, followed by group discussions on the improve-ments in legal education and student placement problems.

Dinner with the Faculty closed the day.

On Saturday morning, November 16, there was an early morningmeeting of all who participated to draft a preliminary report. TheWLAA Board of Directors and Board of Visitors had a businessmeeting at 10:00 a.m., and the' Board of Visitors met at lunch toframe recommendations.

Following is the long-delayed report of the most recent visitation,held on February 8 and 9, 1974:

Visitors • November, 1974 • included (left to right) Miss Dorothy Walker, Professor Sam Mermin,William Rosenbaum, Professor Stephen Cohen, Spencer Kimball, Corwin Guell, Mac McKic:han

(lower right corner)

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REPORTOFBOARD Of VISITORS

AfTER VISIT OffEBRUARY, 1974

Chancellor H. Edwin YoungUniversity of WisconsinMadison, Wisconsin

Dean George BunnUniversity of Wisconsin

Law SchoolMadison, Wisconsin

Re: Report of Board of VisitorsUniversity of Wisconsin Law

School-1974 Visit

Gentlemen:

The Board of Visitors of theUniversity of Wisconsin LawSchool visited the School on Feb-ruary 8 and 9, 1974. In additionto the Board of Visitors, membersof the Wisconsin Law Alumni As-sociation, members of the judiciaryfrom Dane county, lawyer mem-bers of the Board of Regents, andlawyer members of the legislaturewere invited to attend; and a num-ber of past and present membersof the University of WisconsinLaw School faculty als 0 werepresent.

Visitation started with an or-ganizational and briefing meetingconducted by Dean Bunn. Repre-sentative cI ass visitations weresuggested by the Dean; however,members of the Board of Visitorswere free to attend any classesthey wished to visit. Ten classeswere visited by one or more of theBoard of Visitors.

In addition to class visitations,the Visitors divided into groupsto discuss with students subjectswhich the morning briefing andorientation section concluded wereparticularly relevant to the currentproblems of the Law School. Thethree subjects for discussion were:

1. The Law School's response

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to the demand for legal education:quantity and quality. Law Schoolcrowding, expansion or contrac-tion; the Lockhart accreditationreport; the budget, and the repu-tation of the School. Reports ofadmissions committee and curricu-lum reports.

2. The Legal Education Oppor-tunities Program (LEO).

3. Women in the Law Schooland in the profession.

On Friday afternoon, February8, a session was conducted in oneof the large classrooms, in whichboth faculty members and studentswere invited to air any grievancesor make any suggestions in re-spect to the School. This sessionwas conducted by the Chairmanof the Board of Visitors.

GENERAL IJ\J1PRESSIONS

It was the general impression ofthe Visitors that, despite seriousbudgetary problems, the quality ofeducation remained surprisinglyhigh and that students attendingthe University of Wisconsin LawSchool continue to receive a supe-rior legal education, albeit undercircumstances that make the con-tinued availability of quality edu-cation doubtful in the near future.

The Visitors were particularlyimpressed with the qua l it Y ofteaching in the cl ass e s visited.There was unanimous approval ofthe great teaching skill evidencedby new members of the faculty.The Visitors concluded that, de-spite the budgetary deficienciesthat have prevented the recruit-ment of an adequate number ofnew law teachers, the quality ofthose recently hired fully accordedwith the highest traditions of theLaw School's history.

It was apparent to the Visitorsthat some classes were so largethat little of the give and takenecessary to the education of lawstudents could take place. Only inthe smaller classes-and there werefew of these-was there an oppor-tunity for student participation.

The Law School's Response toIncreased Demand for

Legal Education

The most obvious response tothe increased demand for legaleducation has been to increase thesize of the student body. The LawSchool, which was designed for amaximum of 750 students, at thetime of the Board of Visitors' meet-ing had 938 students enrolled.This enrollment has been accom-plished without a proportionate in-crease in the financial resourcesavailable. Accordingly, the LawSchool is attempting to educatemany more students in the identi-cal building and with only aslightly increased faculty. This hasresulted in having Law Schoolclasses with as many as 190 stu-dents, a number far above theoptimum figure for law schooleducation. The increase in thenumber of applicants has also re-sulted in ever increasing academicand test standards required foradmission.

In 1973, there were 2300 appli-cants for admission to the fresh-man class. In 1974, the numberwas approximately 1900. Whilethe number of applicants has de-creased slightly, the credentials ofthose applying are higher thanever. This leads to the belief thatthe demand for legal educationis just as .great, but that there isgreater self-selection as the ex-cessively high admission require-ments become generally known.

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Based upon the standards ofthe Law School 10 years ago,almost all of the recent applicantswould be admissable. Because ofthe limited student places avail-able, the admission requirementshave, however, become higher.The median LSAT score of the1973 class was approximately650, and the grade point average3.5. At the time of the Board ofVisitors' meeting, it was the inten-tion of the faculty to improve thestudent-faculty ratio to a small de-gree by limiting the first year classto approximately 280 students ascontrasted with some 330 whowere admitted in 1972. Of the 280students to be admitted, approxi-mately 55 would be nonresidentsof Wisconsin. The Law School fac-ulty estimated that at least 350Wisconsin students with outstand-ing academic records and whoall predictors indicated would behighly successful law studentswould be deprived of legal educa-tion in their own publicly sup-ported law schooL

The Law School faculty hasbeen caught between the Scylla ofincreasing demand for admissionby well qualified students and theCharybdis of being financially un-able to supply the quality of legaleducation for which the Universityof Wisconsin Law School has re-ceived national and internationalrecognition.

This dilemma and the necessari-ly unsuccessful efforts of the LawSchool faculty to satisfy these com-peting interests were reflected inthe report of the American BarAssociation's law school accredi-tation committee. That committeepointed out three serious deficien-cies in the Law SchooL The com-mittee's survey showed that thestudent-faculty ratio of 28 to 1 isfar above the recommended mini-mum of 20 to 1 and is even moreout of line when compared to theoptimum. Significantly, it is farhigher than the student-faculty ra-tio of 18 to 1 that existed at theLaw School as recently as 1968.

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Another serious deficiency is thesalaries paid to members of thefaculty. The Lockhart report con-cluded:

"The salaries are dangerouslyuncompetitive when considerationis given to the law schools withwhich Wisconsin must compete forfaculty. Its salaries are $3,000 to$6,000 too low to be competitive. "

A third serious deficiency point-ed out by the A.B.A. report wasthe inadequacy of the Law Schoollibrary. Since the time of that re-port, considerable progress hasbeen made to improve the librarycollection, but it is the impressionof the Board of Visitors that thephysical facilities available forstudent study-the number of sit-down places in a library environ-ment-have not been increasedand remain grossly inadequate.

The Board of Visitors endorsesthe faculty's attempt to secure ade-quate financing. Underfinancing isat the heart of the Law School'sproblems. It is the cause of theinadequate size of the faculty andis the cause of the deplorably lowfaculty salaries.

Despite the critical need for ad-ditional faculty members-13 newpositions were recommended as aminimum by the Lockhart report-only 5 new faculty positionscould be filled under the limitsof the University imposed budget.While the Visitors were impressedwith the high quality of new lawteachers who had been recruitedin recent years, outstanding youngfaculty members have left Wiscon-sin once they have establishedtheir reputation here, and wereunable to receive salaries com-mensurate with their nationallyrecognized abilities. There is greatdanger that the Wisconsin LawSchool will keep few, if any, of theoutstanding young faculty mem-bers that have been recentlyrecruited. While the beauties ofMadison and the traditions of aca-demic freedom at Wisconsin willcontinue to attract young scholarsand teachers, man lives by breadas well as by beauty and tradition.

Figures presented to the Boardof Visitors show that the per stu-dent support in terms of fundsfrom the University is the lowest ofany Big Ten law school. The LawSchool is grossly underfinancedalso when compared to othergraduate schools in the Univer-sity. In 1972, the amount budg-eted per law student was $1,150,for a medical student $7,626, forthe average graduate department$3,130 per student. The 1973-74budget increased that amount to$1,308 per law student and to$9,820 per medical student. Thesupport to other graduate schoolsremained about the same.

Under these straitened financialconditions, Wisconsin cannot con-tinue to give quality law schooltraining even by the most tradi-tional methods. In addition, thebudget makes no allowance forthe important and now universallyrecognized need for clinical edu-cation. The University of Wiscon-sin Law School has traditionallybeen recognized for its responsive-ness to the sociological needs ofthe community and state. Numer-ous new opportunities are avail-able to law schools which are infinancial position to take advan-tage of these opportunities.Through federally funded pro-grams, internships are availableto law students in prosecutors' of-fices and as law clerks for trialjudges. It is recognized that theseprograms are of great academicand p rae tic a I importance. TheLaw School, however, cannot giveacademic credit for most of theseprograms, because they do nothave the necessary faculty super-vision to make sure that eachintern in each program is receiv-ing training with a high academiccontent. Far less than an optimumadvantage has been taken of newand important programs that areavailable to law schools which aresufficiently funded. If there wereadequate faculty supervision

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available in the various internshipand student practice programs,much important academic workcould be done outside the confinesof the Law School, and even withthe present excessive enrollment,the rabbit warren atmosphere ofthe Law School could be-to adegree at least-ameliorated.

The Board of Visitors realizesthat there is a movement by theWisconsin Bar Association for there-certification of lawyers-that ina rapidly changing society thetheories stu die d and skills ac-quired in law school, except as tobasic principles, become, to a con-siderable degree, outmoded. Tra-ditionally, the Law School hasfelt, in accord with the "WisconsinIdea," that it, as a branch of theUniversity, had a particular re-sponsibility toward the bar andthe practice of law. The LawSchool ideally should be the centerfrom which lawyer re-certificationand re-training programs could beaccomplished. As things standnow and in the foreseeable future,only very limited assistance, ifany, can be given to the practicingbar by the Law School faculty.

While the Board of Visitors rec-ognizes that legal education is pri-marily an academic discipline andthe greater portion of it must beaccomplished through classroomwork, nevertheless students whograduate are afforded the diplomaprivilege and are legally entitledto practice law from the date ofgraduation. Yet, except for a fewhighly successful practice courses,which only a limited number ofstudents can attend, Wisconsin lawstudents receive little exposure topractice situations. Wisconsin lawstudents may hang up their shin-gles although they are woefully de-ficient in fundamental legal skills.They lack intensive training in le-gal writing and draftsmanship.Training in advocacy is almostentirely limited to volunteer pro-

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grams; and the fundamentals oflaw office practice and interview-ing and counselling clients areonly beginning to receive the con-sideration that they deserve.

The Law School has respondedto the need for additional facultyby using a large number of prac-titioners in selected courses whichdeal primarily with practice andprocedure and oral a d v 0 ca cy .The Board of Visitors encouragesand approves of this interchangebetween the faculty and the prac-ticing bar. Law practitioners areuniquely able to bring reality tothe academic study of law andassist materially in the teaching oflegal skills. Yet, each member ofthe Board of Visitors, while ap-proving of such part-time faculty,recognizes that no part-time teach-er can devote to his work in theLaw School the same undividedattention that is expected of a regu-lar member of .the faculty. Whilewe believe that this interchangeshould be encouraged irrespectiveof the financial ability of theSchool, it should not be used as acrutch to avoid the hiring of neces-sary full-time faculty. The practiceprogram, though well conceived,directed, and organized, is insuf-ficiently staffed to provide across-the-board skills t r a in i n g thatshould be given to each studentaccorded the right to practice lawupon graduation.

The University Administrationrefuses to r ecog n i ze that thereshould be a differential in salariespaid to teachers in the Law Schoolwho are members of the bar, ascompared to faculty members whoare not members of practicing pro-fessions. The Board of Visitors,on the other hand, recognizes thatthe legal abilities required to be alaw teacher must be at least ashigh as those that are required tobe a leading member of the prac-ticing profession. Yet, their incomeis far lower. The problem is recog-nized by the University Adminis-tration in respect to the MedicalSchool faculty, and they receivesalaries substantially in excess of

faculty members who are notmembers of the traditional prac-ticing professions. It should alsobe pointed out that accreditationstandards penalize law schools inwhich the. faculty supplements itsincome by private practice. In theMedical School, private practice,however, is encouraged. TheBoard of Visitors believes that thesame salary recognition shouldbe given to lawyers who are pro-fessors of law as is accorded toprofessors of medicine who arelicensed physicians.

The Law School faculty hasmade various responses in aneffort to alleviate its current prob-lems. The fundamental need, how-ever, is simply a matter of money.The Dean and Faculty have re-sponded to that need by a reason-able request for increased fundingfrom the University Administra-tion and the Board of Regents.The Board of Visitors endorsesthis request.

Another response to the demandfor legal education has been to re-duce the size of the first year classin order that the Law School mayto some degree accommodate itsenrollment to budget rea 1i tie s .This, to some extent, has been ac-complished, but we believe, to thedetriment of the people of Wiscon-sin. Literally hundreds of exceed-ingly well qualified Wisconsin stu-dents have been deprived of anopportunity for legal education.Many of these rejected studentsadmittedly would be outstandinglawyers. The reduction in enroll-ment has been largely accomplish-ed by increasing the standard ofacademic qualifications. This hasresulted in a highly elitist studentbody. While studies have shownthat there is a high correlationbetween academic ability and suc-cess in the practice of law, hun-dreds of Wisconsin students areturned away who have gilt-edgedacademic qualifications. It is high-ly doubtful that the excessivelyhigh qualifications now requiredfor admission will contribute toaverage citizens' needs for goodlegal representation in the citiesand small towns of Wisconsin.

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The Board of Visitors disap-proves of the excessively highstandards that are now requiredfor admission to Law School, butit acknowledges that no bettersolution to the problem than thatoffered by present faculty practiceshas been offered.

Until the summer of 1974 a pre-admission program was offered tostudents with marginal qualifica-tions. Those students who showedsubstantial promise in represent-ative courses were admitted to theLaw School. The program wasdropped because of the excessivelyhigh sacrifices-in terms of timeand money by students-when atbest only about two-thirds of thepre-admission students could final-ly be admitted. The Visitors, how-ever, regret that this "safety valve"program, which at least gave mar-ginal students another opportunityto qualify, was abandoned. Itshould be noted that "marginal,"as used in this context, refers onlyto the fact that they were near thebottom of the group, all of whomhad met very high standards. Interms of traditional admittancestandards, they were highlyqualified.

The Law School faculty has,however, innovatively respondedto this problem by recommendinga second law school in the Stateof Wisconsin, a law school withthe same high teaching standardsthat have been traditional atMadison. An additional schoolwould make possible the admis-sion to Law School, both at Madi-son and at another location, ofwell qualified students now deniedadmission. Law School educationis extremely inexpensive for thetaxpayers of the State of Wiscon-sin, and another law school couldbe established with little financialimpact upon the citizens. TheBoard of Visitors has given itsapproval to a second law school,

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and a committee of lawyers, citi-zens, and faculty organized by theChancellor of the University hasrecommended that a second lawschool be started. A committeeformed by the Central Administra-tion has, however, by a dividedvote, withheld its approval. Webelieve that additional facilities forlegal education are required inWisconsin. This possible solutionto the admissions problem-a sec-ond law school-should receiverenewed consideration.

The faculty has rejected a tri-mester program. There is also littleenthusiasm for a night law school.A trimester program would requirea considerable increase in facultypositions, and the night law schoolwould probably be inappropriateexcept as a part of a second lawschool in a location other thanMadison.

We believe that the Law Schoolfaculty, by and large, has respond-ed responsibly to increasing de-mands for legal education. Theirresponse, however, could not solvethe basic problems. These can onlybe alleviated by adequate fundingof the Law School and an aug-mentation of physical facilities inMadison or elsewhere.

Open Forum

In recent years it has been tradi-tional for the Board of Visitorsto meet in an open forum withstudent and faculty members. Anhour and a half was devoted tothat meeting in the 1974 visitation.The session was billed and noticedin advance as a "gripe session."We believe this is a misnomer,and in the future we suggest tothe faculty that it be billed merelyas an "open forum," in which theremay be a free interchange of ideasbetween the Visitors on one handand the students and faculty onthe other.

The emphasis at the 1974 ses-sion was not upon gripes or com-plaints but upon the need for theplanning of law school activitiesand the seeking of information inrespect to the future of the school.It should be pointed out that thegeneral tenor of the meeting wasfar different than it had been inthe past. During the period ofcampus unrest, there appeared tobe a considerable amount of fault-finding over relatively trivial is-sues. The students in this sessionaddressed themselves to the sameserious concerns shared by theVisitors. The r e were commentsand questions about the recent lawschool accreditation rep 0 r t , thesize of the faculty, the need forphysical expansion of the lawbuilding, the problems of librarysecurity, and the need for speciali-zation in the law. There was alsoa dis cu s s ion of discriminationagainst women in the practice oflaw.

There were specific criticisms di-rected to the inadequate responseof the University Administrationand the State government to theneeds of the Law School.

One comment not brought outelsewhere was the need for moreadministrative assistance in theLaw School for the Dean. DeanBunn acknowledged in the Boardof Visitors' meeting that there wasa lack of administrative assistancein the Dean's office and that, as aconsequence, much of the routineadministrative work was handledby full-time faculty and this re-duced the ability of the facultyto do necessary teaching and re-search. He acknowledged that, be-cause ostensibly full-time teacherswere spending a co n s id erableamount of time on administrativework, the student-faculty ratio waseven more aggravated than thestatistics would indicate. On theother hand, Dean Bunn indicatedthat it would be a mistake to havea large administrative staff thatwas removed from the problemsof the faculty and the students. Heagreed with the Wisconsin LawSchool's tradition of having ad-ministrators come from the aca-

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demic ranks and returning to aca-demic work after a term in whichthey perf 0 r m ed administrativeduties.

As a matter of p ri 0 r ity, theDean indicated that the fundsshould be allocated to the academ-ic faculty before there should beany increment in the strictlyadministrative staff. The Visitorsagreed with Dean Bunn's theories,but they felt that additional fundsare needed now to provide addi-tional administrative support andthat additional academic positionsshould be created with the specificpurpose of taking into considera-tion the problems that arise whenadministrative responsibilities aregiven to faculty personnel. Facultypeople involved in administrativeduties should be substantially re-lieved of their teaching duties andthe faculty-student ratio shouldbe adjusted to reflect the true re-lationship-i.e., if academics areto be used as administrators, someadditional faculty must be provid-ed to reasonably staff the admin-istrative and traditional teachingfunctions.

Legal Education OpportunitiesProgram

The LEO, the Legal EducationOpportunities Program, was oneof the areas of major concern tothe Board of Visitors. The Boardof Visitors is satisfied that thisprogram has become a substantialsuccess and has made it possiblefor a larger number of studentsfrom minority groups to enter lawschool and to successfully completethe program for a J.D. degree. Asa consequence of this program,minority enrollments in the LawSchool have increased. It wassuggested that the program beaugmented by greater scholarshipfunds where possible, particularlyin the second and third years, sinceadequate funding is generally onlyin the first year.

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The Board of Visitors endorsesthe LEO program and urgesgreater funding, the recruiting ofadditional faculty members fromminority groups where feasible,and the establishment of specificallocations to the LEO programin future fund-raising efforts.

It was interesting to note thatLEO students, although particu-larly concerned with the problemsres u It in g from their origin inminority g r 0ups, expressed thesame concerns about the qualityof the Law School that wereexpressed by students generally.Their concern was not merely fortheir status in the School but forthe University of Wisconsin LawSchool in its totality.

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Women in the Law Schooland the Legal Profession

Another major area exploredby the Visitors was the problemof women in the Law School andin the legal profession. The womenstudents pre sen t at the meetingcomplained that too few womenhad been hired to teach full timein the Law School. They felt thatthe ratio of women to men in thefaculty should bear some relation-ship to the proportion of men towomen in the student body. Theycalled to the attention of the Visi-tors that by that standard thenumber of male members of thefaculty is excessively high. Theyalso expressed the feeling that thefaculty should pay more attentionto the opinions of the women stu-dents in the hiring of women facul-ty members. They believe particu-larly that they should be permittedto attend the final hiring meeting,so that their recommendation canbe considered by the persons actu-ally doing the hiring.

A major complaint of womenstudents stems from the fact that

many of them either have smallchildren or must work during thelaw school term. Present rules re-quire that a first year student takeat least 15 credits, and in additiona first year student has no choiceof the class sections to be attended.This, the women students pointout, does not allow sufficient flexi-bility to allow them to care forsmall children. They have recom-mended a reduction in the numberof credits required of first yearstudents and the opportunity totake a required course at a timethat is most compatible with theirobligations as mothers or as stu-dents who are required to workoutside of school. There was alsosome interest expressed in a full-time Madison night law schoolwhich would make it possible forstudents who work, and particu-larly the mothers of small children,to attend school in the evening.Some of the same students alsourged that there be a day carecenter in conjunction with the lawschool. While a day care centerwould appear to be infeasible un-less it were an all-University pro-ject, the Visitors support an effortto give additional flexibility toclass schedules. Present rules alsorequire that law school be com-pleted within five years. This insome instances imposes an exces-sively onerous burden on studentswith non-academic responsibilities.Further study should be made ofthis problem and the desirabilityof the five-year rule.

One serious complaint made bylaw students was the continued useof Wisconsin Law School place-ment services by firms, businessand legal, which indicated thatthey would not consider hiring awoman. They urged that a condi-tion of using the University ofWisconsin placement services bethat no prospective employerrefuse to hire a student on theground of sex. The Board ofVisitors recommends that it bemade clear to prospective employ-ers that hiring should not be madeon the basis of sex and that theplacement services of the LawSchool be afforded to only thoseemployers who were to abide bythat principle.

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It was also brought to the atten-tion of the Visitors that a numberof the faculty members, includingpart-time faculty members fromthe practicing bar, were insensitiveto the problems of women, and itwas felt that some effort should bemade to sensitize faculty membersto these real concerns of womenlaw students.

In respect to sexist remarks bythe faculty, the Board of Visitorsrecognizes that probably the mostthat can be hop ed for is anincreased sensitivity and a con-sciousness of the problem by thosewho are teaching in the LawSchool. There was no evidence ofany conscious sex discriminationby any faculty member either fullor part time. It is the hope of theBoard of Visitors that mutual edu-cation of the faculty and students,one by the other, will reduce bothoversensltivity and undersensitlvi-ty. The Law School has adopteda strong position to encouragequalified women students to attendthe school, and the problems thatnow exist, we believe, are tempo-rary. Although the concern ofwomen students is legitimate andits cause must be eliminated, thisis a matter that we hope time andpropinquity will cure.

CONCLUSIONS

There is an explosion of legalactivity nationwide. It seems astrange and inexplicable misallo-cation of the University's resourcesto starve one of its most distin-guished schools at the time of theState and Nation's greatest needfor legal services.

The Law School, under the cir-cumstances, is surprisingly good,but under these circumstances itcannot long survive as an institu-tion in which either the Universityor the people of the State can takepride. It is only because the Schoolwas far ahead of most others be-fore the present enrollment-finan-cial dilemma that it is not now farbehind. It retains a faded respect-ability, but its claim to nationaldistinction grows more tenuouseach year.

The School is well administeredand staffed by a distinguished butunderpaid faculty spread too thin-ly to discharge the pedagogical,research, and administrative du-ties required in a law school thatlays claim to excellence.

N. S. Heffernan

The deficiencies in the LawSchool are the result of policiesexternal to the School itself. Theystem from the failure of the Uni-versity to give adequate supportto public legal education.

Board of VisitorsUniversity of WisconsinLaw School

N. S. Heffernan, Chairman

In conclusion, the Visitors canonly reiterate the obvious - forgood reason or bad the UniversityLaw School has been systematical-ly starved of adequate funding.The g en esis of these financialproblems may well lie with theState government, but the factsshow that the Law School hasbeen shortchanged of its fair shareof University funding. While pridein our own profession adds vehe-mence to our position, the fact isthat the continued high quality ofthe University of Wisconsin LawSchool is fundamental to the po-litical health of the State and topersonal lib e r tie s of Wisconsincitizens. The traditions that havemade the University of Wisconsingreat-"sifting and winnowing" forthe truth and "Academic Freedom"-are essentially concepts that havefound expression in the disciplineof law.

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The future is bright for the class of 1975, with their friends: Pro-fessor George Young, Dean Bunn, Chancellor Young, PresidentWeaver

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The efforts to enlarge the studentbody probably did not producethe sudden change, for there seemsto be a relentless, mysterious andcomplex tidal movement, with in-fluence far beyond that of a lawschool committee, which for thetime being, at least, is tipping alarge mass of young p eo p Ietoward training in the law.

Can you believe it? During thefifties and the beginning of thesixties, the Law School enrollmentdropped steadily, from 759 in1950 to 462 in 1960. An ad hoccommittee of the Fa cu It y wasformed to develop recommenda-tions for ways of increasing theenrollment. The shortage of law-yers was acute. "We need not be-labor the question of whether thereis a sufficient number of law stu-dents today; the number is on thelevel of 1926, although there hasbeen a population increase of 60per cent," the Committee stated.Recruitment teams of Fa cu It ymembers visited college campusesboth within Wisconsin and outside.

Private liberal arts colleges anduniversities in Wisconsin contrib-uted 19 graduates to this year'sentering class, the largest groupsfrom Marquette (5) and St.Norbert's (7).

The remainder of the groupcame from about 75 different col-leges and universities, located anover the country. The small groupof non-residents claim twenty-threestates and two foreign countriesas home.

The entering class includes stu-dents of many backgrounds, agesand sizes. Individually, they havemany interests, as well as diversepurposes for studying law. Thereis a student who until recently wasan investment banker, and therecently retired mayor of Ripon(aged 22) is a member of the firstyear class.

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Seventeen students in the firstyear class are participants in theLegal Ed u cat ion OpportunitiesProgram, 14 of them residents ofWisconsin, 3 non-residents.

Ninety-six members of the firstyear class are females, bringingthe total now enrolled to 239,more than 27% of the fun-timeenrollment.

Only one student was admittedwithout a bachelor's degree, repre-senting a marked decrease since1970, when 26 members of thefirst year class were admitted with-out bachelors' degrees.

Nineteen transfer students wereadmitted, many of them late in thesummer, when it became clear thata number of the applicants offeredearly acceptances chose, at the lastminute, to go elsewhere.

The transfers come from 13 dif-ferent law schools in many partsof the country.

One hundred seven of the mem-bers of the Class of '77 havebachelors' degrees from the Uni-versity of Wisconsin-Madison, andforty-four are graduates of theother campuses of the merged Uni-versity. Of these, 14 are from theU.W.-Milwaukee.***

For the last three years, theWisconsin Law School has madea careful effort to reduce the en-rollment in the Law School to asize more compatible with the bud-get, the size of the Faculty and thelimitations of the physical plant.The effort has resulted in a reduc-tion of the total enrollment by ap-proximately 100 students in 1972,1973 and 1974, and in fact 857have been enrolled.

The n u mbe r of applications(1805), completed and considered,rose only slightly in 1974 over1973. Resident applicants number-ed 876; non-residents 929. Of the269 new students who arrived inlate August, 220 are residents ofWisconsin, while 49 are non-residents. Median grade point av-erages also remained about thesame (between 3.4 and 3.5), andthe median score on the LawSchool Admission Test is downslightly. Homecoming Balloons

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PLEA FROM THE STUDENTSDear Law School Alumnus:

This is a plea bargain. The pleais from UW law students for youto join us in urging GovernorLucey to support the additionalLaw School funding recommendedby the Board of Regents in its bi-ennial budget request. The bargainis better legal education for us andbetter lawyers for Wisconsin.

The Regent proposal sent to theGovernor cans for a $217,000 an-nual increase in the Law Schoolbudget to provide advanced train-ing opportunities in selected subjectareas so that law students maybegin to specialize. Possible areasof specialization are criminal law,taxation and business law, estateplanning, labor law and litigation.The money will also be used to re-duce the high student-faculty ratioso that there can be more individ-ual and small-group training oflaw students, particularly in legalpractice skills including legal writ-ing, trial preparation and advoca-cy and law office techniques ofclient interviewing and counseling.

* * The purpose of all this is toproduce more than textbook at-torneys. In recent years, becauseof insufficient funding to meet thedemands of increased enrollments,the Law School has been unableto provide students with adequateskills training and supervisedclinical experience. This is espe-cially serious in Wisconsin where,under the diploma privilege, lawstudents are admitted to the Barand represent themselves toprospective clients as qua l ifi edattorneys immediately upongraduation.

We turn to you as a group ofpeople who share our concern forimproved legal education in Wis-consin. Please join us in expressingthat concern to Governor Luceyby writing a letter today askinghim to support the Regent-request-ed funds for the Law School.

Sincerely,

Mark BradleySBA Law School BudgetCommittee

Mark Bradley

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