News Scrapbook 1981-1982

* J Sunday, April 11, 1982/Part 11

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DEAN: Law School Image Boost Continued from First Pare

LOS ANGELES TIMES l 1 19 DeanAims to ChangeCourse ofUSD Law School

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neys m San Otego, Tobm said, not- mg that rapid growth in San Diego County's bar - its membt'rsh1p has roughly quadrupled to 4.000 10 the last 15 years - ha, left "a lot of starving lawyers," Some observers say the proliferation of lawyers has led some to take on cases 10 areas th~y are not competent to handle. The one thing he (Krantz) seems to ht' headin for . . . which I certa10ly am In favor of Is havmg more (school-community) involve- ment," Alex -,Landon, head of De- fenders Inc. and a USD law gradu. ate, sai!f. "I've always been a firm believer that the legal profession should have a kind of intern pro- gram (similar to that of doctors) and he's very much sympathetic to that." Krantz. a University of N bra ka honors graduate, might never have 'He's considered an innovator in the field ofcorrections.' come to USO had thmgs gone dif. ferently at Boston University Fnends and assoc at say Krantz, an "up-and-commg tar" was the faculty's unanimous cho1~e for dean of BU's law chool, but his nomination was blocked by Pres1- dent John R. S1lb r. "It' fair to say that the pre 1dent of Boston University and I had somewhat of a disagreement on the rol of a dean in a law school," Krantz recalled. Silber wanted "close control" over his deans whereas USO President Autho~ Hughes gives his top educators con. s1derable latitude m developing their programs, Krantz said Krantz's wife, Carol Rogoff Hall- strom, is also a lawyer She said Hughes' feeling of "responsibility to the community" struck a respon-

sive _chord_ In Krantz and helped convmce him that San Diego was the place to be. The climate, the university's proximity to MeXico (Krantz also hopes to establish a law center serving both countries) and the local legal community's receptive- ness to new ideas were also part of that decision, Krantz says. Krantz, with owhsh glas es, curly brow~ hair and unassuming man- ner, 1s somewhat reminiscent of comedian Woody Allen - minus a lot of the JOk . lncere and Serlou1 He is mo t often described as bright, energetic, sincere and dead serious about his goals for the Jaw school, "He's very, very thorough _ he doe his homework," observed Municipal Court J•1dge Napolean Jones, a 1971 USO graduate and m_ember of the law school's Board of V1s1tors, who has been involved in d1scu 10ns on the U.S.-MeXico law center. Krantz 1s not without a sense of humor, however. On a wall of his office hangs a framed cartoon of an Irate man leaning over a board- ;.oom table to talk to another man. Krantz, you've been at this think tank four years now. Can you give me some evidence that you've been thinking?" the angry man asks. Part of the thinking Krantz does at USO deals with curriculum changes and the need to beef up af. firmative action efforts. Currently, only five of USO's 50 full-time law teachers are women, and mmor1ties make up only 10% of an enrollment of nearly 1,100. The,re 1s also the problem of what might happen 1f UC San Diego and the California Western School of Law merge, a possibility officials at both schools are considering. Several local educators believe a merger - which would add the Pleaae see DEAN, Pare !i

under an expenenced profess1onal'e guidance. And the law school and the San Diego County district attor- ney's office have launched a fellow- ship program in which prosecutors pohce officials and Judges on sab: baticals teach and conduct research at the univer ty s Center for Criminal Justice Poltcy and Man- agement. Berun by Meeae The center, begun in 1977 by for- mer USD Law Professor (now counselor to the President) Edwin Meese Ill, and a new community law center started by USO and the San Diego County Bar Assn. 1n January are mtegral parts of Krantz's plans for teaching of and analyzing legal issues. La Mesa attorney Dan Tol:im, for- mer county bar assocU1t1on presi. dent. broached the idea of a com- munlty law center 10 the association's newsletter "~at is how we first met," Tobm said. He (Krantz) read my article and called me." The-1 0 developed a concept that could ultimately pro- duce neighborhood "dispute resolution cemers" where people could resolve conflicts outside the courts an alternative to government-funded legal aid erv- 1ces, should that become necessary "I would see,an improved quality of legal services given to the com. munity of San Diego from a vanety of source within the legal com- munity which to this pomt I don't think have b~n suff1c1ently tapped and coordinated," Tobin said. Important Tr1lnlns _"You might see an absence of the kmd of turmoil that ari es annually at the _(county) Board of upervi• sors with respect to 1he criminal defense tssue " Such innovations could also provid both employment and ~uch-needect post-graduate train- mg to young, inexperienced attor-

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preaciles He wa a very notable figure m he cruTJmal law correc- tional field before he came to USO," Clear said. Cleary and others who know Krantz say he brought energy and enthusiasm to the law school that pr mises to provide a catalyst for changes. In the past, Cleary said, t; 'D generally followed a straight path m educatmg students, avoiding ocperimentauon "In a word, the) (law chools) were 1so ted from the lega. com• mumty. he said. •Ive been here 1 over 10 :i,ears and never once did the dean or anyone m authonty (at USO) ever seek to get our staff mvolve m the program." Now, at Krantz's mst1gat1on a Federa, Defenders attorney 1s teaching a new USO course in which law ,;tuderts "di ec " a trial Pie se see DEAN, Page 3

Before commg to USO, Krantz wa a prof r of law at Boston l 111v rs1ty and for eight years the d1r or of the umverslt:> ·s Center r Cnm1,al Justice H al o served a executive d rector of the Ma achusetts Com m1ttee on Law Enforcement and Admm strat1on of Justice, a group that directed proJects a1med at lega. y tern reforms. Krantz, 43. so rved for a year during the Johnson Admm1strat on as staff attorney for a s1m1lar federal comll'ISSIOn He 1s a,mlng high in order to reach hi goals at USb Krantz aid h intend to take th USO law chool to "the forefront of legal education during this decade" and make the legal profess:on m San Diego "a model nationally." "He's sorrewhat of a scholar but one) who practices what he

"He's cons d red an innovator m th field of correction " according to John Cl ary, director of F d ral Def nd rs. federally funded a ency th t repr ents indigent cnmlnal d fendants m f deral

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J Sunday, April II, 1982/Part JI 5

DEAN: Image Boost for Law School Coati • aecl from 31'4 Pare

an average annual rate of 13% "antl that's an unfortunate cycle," Krantz acknowledged. "Tuition is now close to $5,000 a year and next year it will be $5,670." lamented a irst-year USO law student. Although applications are up by 15% for the commg school year, the low cost education a UC law school might provide could hinder USD's efforts to attract students But Krantz pomts out that U$D is sti ll a bargain when compared with other private law schools. Boston

prestigious UC name to Cal West- ern -. poses a threat to USO, until now ~iew~ by many as the best of San Diego s four law schools Krantz's only comment ·on the merger prospect was to say it could Jeopardize USD's quest for a "very hmi_ted amount of research support available for law schools. I think re- gardless which way that issue goes we are going to continue to expand and develop our law school. Natu- rally there are problems." Rising tuition is another problem. USO law school tuition is rising at

Um_vers1ty costs $6,300 a year, ~hile at Stanford University tuition is a whopping $1,920. Darrell Bratton, a long-time USD law professor and a member of the committee that Jed the search for a new dean, said Krantz had just about all of the attributes commit- tee me~bers sought. Outstanding academic credentials were one, but equally 1_mportant was finding "not necessarily someone with a fixed plan (to change the school), but someone who had a vision, an idea of where legal education 15 head- ing."

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LEMON GROVE REVIEW APR l 5 198Z

EVENING TRIBUNE

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USD Orientation for Incoming Students { ollP"' Vl!1ltlni:: Day, an an• nu ,I ruv. of S.0. program for inc-ommg fno;hmrn, 101-al transfer students, and their ,fomllic , has bc(>n ~chedulrd Jor ~aturday, April 17 from 12:30 to 5 p.m. Ar· ·ordlng to Dir ctor of Arlmi . ion. Kathy K~tf'y, rn•n I ly 1,000 pcopre a rf' f'X• pc• t I to atten

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