Samuel D. Thurman: Interview in the Utopian

The College of Law is moving more and more to the practical, problem-solving approach in legal studies, according to Dean Samuel Thurman. Students prepare problems to be presented and analyzed in class and also are encouraged to contribute to the community in any way possible-through clinical programs, student aid to Community Action Program and indigents- by involvement courses which are supervised by professional lawyers. There is active participation in the Student Bar Association also, indicative of the extremely high competitive nature of students who know that six hundred ^ of a thousand applicants are denied admission to the college. Dean Thurman said that he couldn't think of any standards by which Law could be compared to any of the other colleges in the University, that there was no ranking system for doing so that he knew of. If one judges by the faculty, however, one could say that the law school is as high or higher in academic experience as any college on the campus-it includes, among others, a former Dean of the Philadelphia Law School.