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Show Brigham Young University Looks Forward To New Law School By Rex Lee Dean of Brigham Young ual contribution which each member of the faculty can make, but University Law School ' Something exciting is happening also the potential contribution of in Utah! A new law school is be- each individual as a member of the ' team. Accordingly, balance among ing created at BYU. To be named after the greatest faculty members is important, inlawyer in the history of The Church cluding age, background and exof Jesus Christ of Latter-Da- y perience, law schools attended, and the fields of interest and expertise. J. Law Reuben Clark Saints, School will receive its first class Admission Standards in the fall of 1973. Applications for Our student recruitment efforts admission will be available in Sep- will be concentrated, at least in the tember of 1972. beginning, on those undergraduate The program for legal education institutions where there appears to at the new school will accommo- be the greatest student interest in date a total, three-yestudent the J. Reuben Clark Law School. body of 500. During the first aca- Admission standards will be based demic year, 1973-7only first year primarily on undergraduate grades and law school admission test students will be admitted. The second first year class will be admitted scores, with additional weight bethe following year, and by the third ing given in certain cases to other the school will be at factors, such as the difficulty of year, 1975-7full strength. applicants undergraduate course of study, the trend of his grades, Building Library The most important elements of demonstrated character and leadera strong law school are its faculty, ship qualities, etc. Both conceptually and also phyits student body, and its library. We are therefore placing primary sically, a law school is built around its library. One of my first tasks emphasis upon recruiting an outstanding faculty and student body, was to employ a librarian, Mr. and building a library which will David Lloyd, a recent graduate of the University of Utah Law School make possible the pursuit of learning and scholarship at the highest who has had four years experience working in the University of Utah level Law Library. Under his direction, will full time faculty The total e of twenty-fivconsist members, and with die assistance of an initial d of staff consisting of one other law with approximately libe added to number that during graduate and four professional each of the first three years of the brarians, the library is now being school's- - existence. These faculty assembled, catalogued, and shelved. Other personnel will be added as members will be drawn from exthe and teachers school law library grows. For its initial perienced twelve-mont- h whose period, the law lipractitioners outstanding will benefit from the conacademic records and teaching capbrary Mr. Roy Mer-sksultative services of abilities make them particularly of the University of Texas, well qualified to teach law. Law Tarlton Library. By the time Hie assembly of an outstanding Law School receives its first the faculty presents challenges not only in of class the fall 1973, the library individfrom the standpoint of the will have approximately 50,000 volumes. The permanent building is designed to accommodate a library of 200,000 volumes, and has been so designed that it can be expanded in the future to accommodate an U.S.-Japa- n even larger law library. According to present estimates, the 200,000 volume plateau should be reached 5 within about years. WASHINGTON (UPI)- -A leading Flexibility In Teaching China scholar has predicted that Plans for a modem new building relations would to house the Law School have now continue to deteriorate as the United reached the advanced architectural States moves to improve relations stages, and it is our hope that construction will begin by the end of with China. this year. Designed to permit comA. Doak Barnett, a senior fellow at plete flexibility in teaching ap- the Brookings Institution in J. Rex Lee Dean, Brigham Young University College of Law 6, r roach, utilizing both small seminar rooms and a variety of sizes and types of classrooms, the building will be one of the finest in the country. Among the distinguishing characteristics of the building are the number, size, and seating configurations of the classrooms, and the number of individual student seating carrels. These individual carrels 420 in total will in effect provide an individual office for about 85 of the student body. The new building will be dedicated and ready for occupancy by the time the second class is admitted in the fall of 1974. During its first year, the Law School will be housed in a rented facility, the St. Francis School, located about three blocks south of the Brigham Young University Campus. the Under any circumstance, creation of something new and significant is a fascinating experience. The creation of the new Law School is especially exciting because it offers an opportunity for participation by members of the Utah Bar. one-thir- . y, China Authority Fears Deterioration -- 12-1- Kleindienst Orders Hijack Cases Spurred continue to show originality and effort in continuing our relations with China. We should try to open up various subjects with them including basic arms control and - WASHINGTON (ACCN) Acting Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst disarmament issues." Barnett said he was "cautiously optimistic on the future of U.S.-Chi- na relations. He said, however, he thought "we can expect deteriorating relations with Japan over this. I think we should give high priority to repairing various grievances. We cant allow a U.S.-Jap- an split to occur. announced today he has asked the 93 U.S. Attorneys to notify the Department of Justice if aircraft hijacking cases or related offenses such as bomb and extortion threats are not brought to trial in 60 days. Citing the Departments policy of ' vigorous prosecution of aircraft hijackers and related offenders, Kleindienst also called attention to Nixons March 9 statement that he has "mobilized all appropriate security forces and resources of the Federal Government to meet the recent "vicious extortion plots against American . well-adapt- voluntarily spent six months in prison as an ostensible inmate. His experience and conclusions are relevant to prison systems everywhere. These articles were made available through the Swedish Information Service.) I found the in(ACCN) in the prisoners' volvement representative councils to be a particularly positive experience. First, the opportunity for the prisoner to have his desires expressed through his own, elected representatives as a counterbalance to a bureaucratic, authoritarian system allowed him to function as within a trade union. Even more important for those elected was the responsibility of speaking for their fellow convicts before the prison chief or other authorities. In this way many inmate representatives and their voters were spurred into thinking and acting out of a solidarity similar to what they will experience in the society outside the prison walls. I have seen ruthless gangsters become gentle counselors as elected representatives. But also the traditional demands from prisoners should now be heeded. Newspapers, TV and radio should be accessible in all free time. Mail censorship is ripe for abolition, to the benefit of family ties. The same wages should be paid to the prisoners as would be paid on the regular labor market the prisoner must be given a chance to take the responsibility for the support of his family and be induced to save for the day when he is released. Oc- certificates, vestigations, the best use of your cash? "Profits an earned through the uie, not the ownership of assets." 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Otherwise I would decrease the number of prison sentences in my s or perhaps court to half of the present figure. However, within reasonable limits I already try to employ a definite differentiation in the use of prison sentence, between professional three-quarter- criminals - full-fledg- ed or prospective on the one hand, and occasional offenders on the other, with long prison sentences for the former early in their careers and suspended sentences for the latter, even in the case of repeated of-fenses. Courts should let petty thieves run free they do not become professional criminals just because psychiatric reports from in- Child in prison the confrontation between such material and the prisoners own statements sometimes caused me to appreciate the prisoners talent for deception, but more often to realize the need for a more intensive search for key information about the prisoners social background as well as about the prisoner himself. Misunderstood and persecuted by a prisoner in a society, many in his cell conversation private would nonetheless understand the crime and punishment situation. A ' to mutual commitment rehabilitation by the judge and the convict opens roads to a new and sense of responin convict himself. He the sibility ff'ial-orientati- on can be enticed into showing involvement in the choice of punishment instead of fearful, repressed subjugation to the authority of the court. The fact that the defendant might lack will power and suffer from other handicaps should not prevent the court from making an attempt to plan the penalty and the future in cooperation with the defendant. !n ttye process a sense of brotherhood can grow between the judge and tue defendant, which I believe is also of value to the defendant. Subculture Important The personal case study should, to a higher degree than presently, take into consideration the defendants social environment. The presence of a subculture should cause caution in the judgment of the court. Even if formally speaking a crime has been committed, the ethics of the delinquent may be such that punish- ment can be replaced with a simple explanation of the rules of society, A discussion in court about education or job training, or about a change of occupation or apartment, may mobilize hidden powers to change a poor environment. In cases involving the conversion of fines to imprisonment due to default of payment, I have often seen a new interest in the defendant to do better, had only the judge shown understanding of the difficulties involved and assisted in establishing a definite plan of payment. where cupational ed Welfare Committees and Temperance Boards etc. During my stay . making anti-hijacki- ng En-La- av appropriate, must take place during Civil Service Plans the prison term, and not after release. 2 Computer Seminars New Laws Take Effect Reforms in the Swedish penal law, For Lawyers, Lawmen passed during the 1960s, are now being employed in judicial practice WASHINGTON (ACCN)-T- wo with consequences for both the judge seminar programs on the use of and the convicted. computers by legal personnel in the debate about general In government and law enforcement as opposed to individual will be sponsored by the U.S. Civil prevention prevention there is as of Jan. 1, 1965, ice Commission this year. the nzw element of this law: "In the choice of punishment the court, with due consideration of what is necessary to maintain general law and order, shall pay particular attention to the fact that the punish- ment should further the convicts adaptation to society. This means that the legislators have emphasized individual prevention. In practice, the general prevention point of view is the more important in cases involving, for instance, narcotics, drunken driving and tax evasion, as well as. with repeated offenders and occasional offenders in crimes of larceny. Are you Individual prevention gives the judge a more complicated system of sanctions with a greater variety of President The panel was moderated by Robert Keatley of the Wall Street airlines. In telegrams sent to the U.S. Journal. Also speaking to the editors was Prof. Paul T. K. Lin, director of Attorneys, Kleindienst directed the Center for East Asian Studies at them to meet with supervisory McGill University in Montreal, Prof. personnel of the Federal Aviation Robert A. Scalapino of the Administration, the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, and U.S. Customs University of California at Berkeley, and Marshall Green, assistant in their districts. These meetings would be consecretary of state for Far Eastern with cerned affairs. procedures, and aircraft and airport Scalapino said Chinas prime security matters as they might i, has asserted relate to investigation and minister, Chou that in our new relationship there prosecution of hijacking, bomb can be and there need be no aban- extortion threats and related ofdonment of principles and no fenses, the telegrams said. desertion of allies by the United Coordination would include States. Hie acid test of this doctrine contacts with air transportation will be our willingness to maintain security officers and airline industry our military protection against security subcommittees in the U.S. external threats and our economic Attorneys' districts, Kleindienst interaction with the people of said. Taiwan if events should unfold in After such meetings the Justice such a fashion as to cause this state Department should be advised of to evolve toward legal as well as de "accomplishments attained and facto independence. difficulties encountered, he said. Karl-Gust- prepare himself for this post, 4, Washington, discussed China's foreign relations policies with a group of other panelists during the second day, April 20, of a three-da- y convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE). Barnett said: "I think we should they prison. But once they have served time they are more susceptible to release into crime. A prison term places them outside the circle of the members of society and gives them a sense of kinship with the clientele of the prison which can be fatal. Here it is necessary that the lower courts apply some pressure in order to create increased differentiation in higher courts. Need Personal Data For its decision the court needs more personal data. Swedish law offers good opportunities to obtain such material, both written and oral; personal case studies, doctors Lindeloew Chief Judge, Skaene, Sweden (Second of Three Parts) By (On being appointed last year as Chief Judge of a district court in southern Sweden, the author, to ar U.S.-Japane- se Individualized Treatment Key to Prison Sentencin(! are not sent to n I L i is USlIUlS ni bldCK lYI ... , rrOlUlQ . uUllty F0UCI oldYlflC OAKLAND (UPI) Two Black Muslims were found guilty, April 20, of killing another Muslim in a feud within the sect. They were also convicted of atwife of the tempting to murder-thslain Muslim. Found guilty by a jury of six men and six women, including four Blacks, were Harlan L. Washington, 35, and Savoy J. Hale, 24, both of San e Francisco. They were charged with the murder of Levi Bradfield, 29, and an Br,dfleld' SS ' Urs. Bradfield identified the two men during the trial before Superior Judge John sparrow. she said last January 24, Washington and Hale came to their home in East Oakland and were greeted by her saying "Hello, Brother Washington and Brother Hale. Mrs. Bradfield said she then heard shots and her husband fell fatally wounded with two bullets. |