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USC Law School to play host to national law review conference BY ADAM BEAM THE GAMECOCK The USC Law School received a morale booster when it was selected last month to hold the 2005 National Conference of Law Reviews. The announcement was made March 29 during this year’s confer & ence in Seattle. When Bob Hillman withdrew his name from consideration for the dean of the Law School last week, many stu dents were frustrated that the school was unable to attract a candidate in two years of searching. But Brian Heilman, incoming man aging editor of the South Carolina Law Review, said the news about the con ference should encourage USC’s law students. “I think this really speaks highly of the students at the Law School,” Heilman said. “They really want to see us as one of the top schools in the country, and I think that is the com mitment of the administration as well as the commitment of the faculty.” Delegates at this year’s conference chose USC .over the John Marshall Law School in Chicago. The confer ence will be held in March 2005 in Charleston because of its tourist and historical attractions. More than 145 law reviews and journals from across the United States and Canada attend the confer ence every year to discuss the orga nizational, editorial and financial is sues common to student-edited legal publications. Eli Poliakoff, the incoming editor in-chief of the South Carolina Law Review, made a PowerPoint presenta tion to several hundred delegates at this year’s conference. Heilman, along i— r with incoming publications and Web page editor Michael Fletcher, helped Poliakoff in researching the presenta tion. “We had to sell USC, we had to sell the School of Law and we had to sell South Carolina,” Poliakoff said. “To us, that was an easy choice.” Heilman said being the only law school in the state was in its favor. “We have a great relationship with the (South Carolina) state bar and the local bars as well as with the South Carolina legal community in, gener al,” Heilman said. “That is different from other states, where there might be six or seven law schools and the re lationship or the bonds aren’t quite as strong.” Heilman said he expects the con ference to draw South Carolina attor neys who have graduated from the USC Law School to make the 2005 meeting a “first-rate conference.” The South Carolina Law Review is published four times a year and con tains articles by lawyers, professors and judges from South Carolina and across the nation. As of 2004, the South Carolina Law Review’s will have been in existence for 55 years. Mikell Harper, the current editor in-chief of the South Carolina Law Review, said the conference is also a good opportunity to attract promising lawyers to South Carolina. “It is a big deal. I think that these conferences generally have about 400 students attending,” he said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Photo by johnny haynes/the gamecock Eli Poliakoff, incoming editor in chief of the South Carolina Law Review, speaks to members of its editorial board at a meeting yesterday at the Law School to plan this year’s stories. Admissions CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Denise Wellman at the USC Visitor Center said the number of prospec tive students coming here for campus tours has also been on the rise in recent years. While the center has noticed only a slight in crease in tours so far this year, Wellman said April almost always brings the most prospective stu dents to campus and that this week and next week might be the busiest for the cente.r this year. January and February of this year each brought more than 800 prospec tive students for campus tours. “There is no one that provides the level of in dividual attention that we do in the country,” Wellman said. She said the individual attention includes allowing prospective students to attend classes, talk to current students and pro fessors, and eat in the dining halls. Wellman estimated that the university’s Web site receives as many as 15,000 hits per week from prospective students. Wellman said she thinks much of the in creased interest in USC has come from the cam pus growth and such ad ditions as the Carolina Center and Greek Village. “Campus growth, even though it’s a little messy, is important for visitors to see,” she said. She said increased na tional attention in re cent years given to USC’s sports teams and nationally-ranked pro grams such as University 101 have made the university more recognizable to high school students in all parts of the country. Sorensen has offered a plan'that would reduce the size of the incoming freshman class from 3,500 to 3,300 during the next few years. While he works with the Board of Trustees.on the feasibil ity and logistics of the plan, Davis said the change could affect the admissions office’s workload by making the university more selec tive and making the se lection process more te dious. “The good thing is that the technology has supported our efforts with more students ap plying online,” Davis said. “Certainly, if this many students had ap plied years ago, we would have needed a much bigger staff to physically enter all of that data into our files.” Sorensen said all of USC’s regional campus es also reported increas es in applications com pared with applications received by March of last year. Comments on this story? 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