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The Red and Black
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Phillips with Law School Dean J. Ralph Reaird
Law school symesters
Snitch should aid students, faculty
By PAMELA EVERETT
Htd and Black ('onlribulUig Writer
After several years of extensive plan
ning and proposals, the University Law
School will finally switch over to a
semester system fall quarter
Walter Phillips, associate dean of the
Law School and chairman of the
school’s special semester conversion
committee, said the change would
mean "more efficient use of the
faculty’s time."
The move will put the Law School on
a schedule with 174 other law schools in
the nation already on semester
systems. Only 12 of the country’s major
law schools now remain on quarter
systems
Under the new plan, the law school
will have 14-week fall and spring
semesters, with a 10-day examination
period, and a 7-week half-semester in
the summer, also with a 10-day ex
amination period
The law school’s administrative staff
is currently outlining the courses to be
offered in the fall Phillips said there
would be virtually no change in the
number of hours required for a full load
per academic term.
"In a real way, we have been on a
hybrid semester system encapsulated
in a quarter arrangement." Phillips
said
Under the quarter system, law
students are required to take five or six
three-hour classes. The arrangement
will be the same under the newly in
corporated semester system.
Professors, though, may find their
workloads reduced as a result of the
conversion. Under the present quarter
system, professors teach five courses
per academic year. Under the semester
system, most law professors will teach
four courses per year
"The end product should be a better
understanding in the four (courses)
than the five because of concentra
tion,” Phillips said He said the quality
of instruction would also improve
because professors would be able to
focus more on specialized areas.
Another advantage, Phillips said,
would be more time for student
research. Rather than condense the
amount of material covered during a
short quarter, the material would be
covered more thoroughly in a semester,
he said.
Under the semester system law
students will encounter no major con
flicts in simultaneously taking non-law
graduate courses under the Universi
ty's quarter system, Phillips said
The law school permits students to
take only two courses outside the school
during their entire law school career,
he said.
The semester system should not in
terfere with summer internships, he
said, because most law firms terminate
their summer programs when law
students return to school
"Everything's got to be tight (under
the quarter system)," Phillips said
"Everything’s got to move right along.
It’s next to impossible to have a reading
day or two."
In contrast, the semester system
allows for two reading days and eight
exam days, excluding Sundays.
"This way, exams are not so
telescope, so compact," Phillips said
Former Freedom Rider to speak tonight
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The Athens Chapter of Amnesty Interna
tional wdl host noted civil rights leader John
Lewis tonight at 7 30 at the Unitarian
Universalist Fellowship
Lewis, who was considered one of the "Big
Six" leaders of the Civil Rights Movement
during the 1960s. will discuss "The Current
Status of Civil Rights in the US”
Lewis, an original participant in the Coun
cil on Racial Equality-sponsored Freedom
Ride in 1961, was the first of the Freedom
Riders to suffer violent abuse in Rock Hill,
S C. The Freedom Rides resulted in the
desegregation of public transportation
facilities nationwide
Lewis continued to play a crucial role in
the Civil Rights Movement throughout the
1960s He was elected national chairman of
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Commit
tee in Atlanta in 1963 and held that position
during the SNCC’s most productive and tur
bulent years Lewis organized and led
several dramatic marches for black voting
rights and other civil rights activities, during
which he and his peaceful followers suffered
violent abuse
In 1970 Lewis was selected to direct the
Voter Education Project While working to
implement the Voting Rights Act, he helped
mobilize hundreds of thousands of volunteers
to assist in the registration of an estimated
four million voters in small towns and rural
areas throughout the South
Lewis served as director of Domestic
Operations at ACTION, a federal anti
poverty organization, by presidential ap
pointment from 1977 to I960 During that time
he directed the activities of more than 273.IKM)
volunteers serving in a wide variety of anti
poverty and community service projects
throughout the United Slates. Puerto Rico
and the Virgin Islands
Lewis, an Atlanta City Council member,
has dedicated his life to building a "Beloved
Community" — a world community of peace,
justice and brotherhood
Students receive
plenty of freebies
at UGA healthfair
By (iRECi FREEM AN
lira and Black Stall W riter
Thousands of University
students browsed through
displays and received free
information and health
tests at this year’s annual
“UGA Loves My Body"
health fair
Tuesday's health fair at
Memorial Hall Plaza con
sisted of more than 20 ex
hibits on such topics as con
traception, weight control
and self-medication, along
with free health tests, in
formation, and samples of
health-care products
John Curtis, director of
Student Health Services,
said the event, although
quite festive with balloons
and clowns, was aimed at
educating University
students about many areas
of health care
"It was an idea we had
several years ago to try to
promote wellness and
health education," Curtis
said. “Preventing disease
is better and a lot more
economical than treating
it ”
Students attending the
health fair had the op
portunity to gather in
formation on a wide range
of illnesses and also take
several tests to determine
physical fitness Blood
pressure tests, eye screen
ings and a test to measure
body fat were free.
Nancy MacNair, Univer
sity health educator, said
she was “overwhelmed
with the response " She ad
ded that young people in
general were becoming
much more aware of their
health.
“I think this is a new
thing in our culture We’d
like to pick up on it and
lake advantage of it,” Mac
Nair said.
Curtis added that the
event — co-sponsored by
the University Health Ser
vice, the Student Health
Advisory Council, and the
Student American Phar
maceutical Association —
was a "very good success.”
Connie Turner, a
freshman in the College of
Arts and Sciences, said she
enjoyed the health fair and
agreed that student
response was very good
“People should be aware
of these things. The
samples are really
popular All the people are
going hog wild over the
condoms," she said
“There’s a hell of a
variety."
Studentsprotestingprivate lobbiests
(CPS) — Student leaders
at Fort Hays University are
trying for a first
They want to make Fort
Hays the first public college
to join a private college
student lobbying group
They’ve already with
drawn Fort Hays from the
US Student Association
(USSA), which has over 300
mostly public schools as
members and is the largest
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doesn't want Fort Hays
State
COPUS "is not going to
allow membership of public
institutions, at least not at
this point," said Michael
Holmes, executive director
of COPUS’ Research
Project
"We have a long history of
working for the private
school student, and we do it
effectively precisely
heeallse we work onlv with
change their constitution
and format to allow state
institutions to become
members, " he said
Fort Hays pulled out of
USSA last April because of
its "radical” views and
“farfetched" platforms
"They spend their time
working on grassroots
organization, working on
social and political issues
like abortion and El
Salvador and thev don’t
student lobbying groups," he
added
Faulkner is “terribly
wrong." said USSA head
Janice Fine.
"I feel horrible about
(Fort Hays' withdrawal).
We're losing a good school,
but they are also losing a
valuable ally by not joining
us," she said
"Contrary to what they
say, we have done some
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