University of Texas School of Law - Peregrinus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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2 ANNUAL PAGE KEETON LAW WEEK Legal Community Celebrates 23rd, Annual Law Week In 1953, the University of Texas School of Law first observed Law Day, a day to create a deeper understanding and respect for the legal profession as a whole. What once was a day to remember has now become a memorable week and one of the most symbolic and enduring traditions at the Law School. The Student Bar Association expanded Law Day to Law Week in 1969 and dedicated it to Dean W. Page Keeton. Always active on the teaching staff. Page Keeton applied the same motto to which he adhered as a teacher to his services as Dean: Enter Without Knocking. Still a member of the Law School faculty. Dean Keeton's open door policy persists. Whether assisting students in understanding the law's intricacies or simply planning witty Socratic dialogue, Page Keeton continues to be a delight and inspiration to all who would endeavor to meet the challenges of the law. Each year the students of the Law-School dedicate Law Week to a respected alumnus or a special friend of the Law School. This year, Law-Week was dedicated to Mrs. Anna Maria Saldana, for her tireless dedication to her duties as the Law-School's financial aid counselor. Very few students who have matriculated at Townes Hall during her years have not, in some manner, benefited from Mrs. Saldana's efforts. Despite the rising costs of a legal education and the ever increasing difficulties in locating funds to attend Law School, a student at the University of Texas School of Law-need never despair. Mrs. Saldana will, almost always, help the student find a way. 'The events of Law Week change to some degree every year, but the backbone traditions endure: As 1 sault and Flattery, Race Judicata, ■ Spring Fling, Dean Keeton's Bar- 1] becue, the Jesse Dean Oliver Emergency Student Loan Fund 1 Auction. Moot Court Competi-fl lions. Distinguished Lectures and the T. J. Gibson Law Week Awards Ceremony. This year was perhaps more special than previous years. The war in the Persian Gulf had the undivided attention of the entire , nation. Citizens nationwide were starving for information on every aspect of the war; none i more so than the University of Texas School of Law community. In response to these needs, the Law Week Committee and Dean Mark Yudof sponsored a panel discussion on the Gulf War during Law Week. Several distinguished speakers attended and enlightened the community with their unique perspectives. Never changing, of course, is the ultimate opportunity afforded by Law Week: the chance to socialize with professors, present and future members of the Bar as well as a chance to laugh with and toast fellow students. Law Week

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— Continued from page 13 at 1'exas can get a job and double their salary immediately. Asa result, we’ve been raided by other institutions, and I'm finding it difficult to get people to come and interview because of our low salaries. It is a serious problem and concern I have with relation to the future. Almost 50% of the leadership of American law libraries are people who received their training here at Texas, and that includes the directors of Harvard, Berkeley and Stanford. (X Were does UT rank in pay? A.' We rank about 109 or so, out of 175, in professional pay. In support help we rank about 149. And yet we are still the fifth largest academic law library in the country. (2 W here do you see the library going in si e? A: The ones ahead of us are Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Michigan. Those are schools that started 100 years ahead of us, so its dubious that we would pass them. We might surpass Michigan someday, but they have a very healthy and much better budget than us. But 1 don’t think, in terms of numbers, we’ll ever catch up with the others. However, in the numbers of contemporary materials and such that we’re acquiring today, we’re equal to or better than Harvard, Columbia or Yale. We have faculty who have done research or taught at Harvard that have said our collection is better than the Harvard collection, and that there were materials they were shocked Harvard didn’t even have that we have. And that goes for the faculty we've had at Oxford or Cambridge, and the leading institutions from all around the world. Tarlton Law Library — 15

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