School of Law
announces new dean
The School of Law announced Friday that evidence and jurisprudence law Professor Laird Kirkpatrick will become dean of the school when Dean Renard Strickland steps down in August.
Kirkpatrick previously served as an interim dean in 1980, and currently teaches jurisprudence courses at the law school. He will officially become dean Aug. 1.
Kirkpatrick is co-author of “Evidence Under the Rules,” a popular text in American law schools, and author of a leading Oregon treatise on legal evidence. He also co-authored a five-volume treatise on federal evidence that has found its way into federal court citations and U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
He recently returned from a two-year appointment in Washington, D.C., where he served as counsel to the head of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Kirkpatrick was born in Minneapolis, Minn., earned his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Harvard University in 1965, and his Juris Doctor degree from the University in 1968.
This term, Kirkpatrick has also been a visiting professor at the University of California Hastings College of Law in San Francisco.
— Jeremy Lang
Vistor to discuss University’s
diversity recommendations
Western Michigan University President Elson S. Floyd will visit the University on Monday to discuss his report on diversity programs at the University in an open forum from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in 100 Willamette.
Floyd, recently named to the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities by President George W. Bush, visited the University July 7 through 9 and Oct. 19 through 23, 2001, to review the University’s diversity programs and compiled his findings in a report that praises the administration’s diversity initiatives and commitment to promote a welcoming campus environment.
Floyd will make a number of recommendations to the University, including clarifying the role of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, developing a communication plan to respond to a number of diversity reports submitted by various student and faculty groups during the past several years, and redefining the mission of the Center on Diversity and Community.
Copies of the report are available at http://provost.uoregon.edu.
— Katie Ellis
SAPP class to target
men’s health
Questions about male nutrition, exercise, drugs, sex and emotional health don’t have to go unanswered.
During spring term, a Men’s Health Class is being offered through the Substance Abuse Prevention Program. The course will examine why college women in general take better care of their health than their male peers, as well as exploring men’s socialization in a cultural context.
The class, SAPP 410, will be led by instructors Jon Davies from the University Counseling Center and Annie Dochnahl of the University Health Center. The two-credit class will be offered from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursdays in 105 Esslinger.
— Lisa Toth
New voting regulations
clear up ‘chad’ dilemma
In response to the 2000 ballot controversy during the presidential election, Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury released a directive establishing statewide standards for counting “hanging chad.”
The 2002 Vote-by-Mail Directive states that ballot workers should count a hanging chad as a valid vote if it has four, three or two corners detached from the ballot. It also states that ballot counters should examine ballots for voter intent when one corner of a chad is clearly separated from the ballot or the chad is pushed in.
A chad is the section of a punch card ballot removed to indicate a vote.
The directive also states that the county elections office must notify voters if their ballots arrive after 8 p.m. on election night and are therefore not counted.
Bradbury said the Vote-by-Mail Directive is part of a larger effort to provide Oregonians with a better elections system.
The secretary of state’s office oversees elections conducted in each county by county clerks. Approximately one-third of Oregon voters use punch cards, according to the secretary of state’s office.
— Marty Toohey
