News Briefs

Law school closed to public June-August

The law school will be closed to the public from June until mid-August for extensive renovation work in Gambrell Hall, according to law school Dean Howard Hunter. All faculty and staff of the school are being moved to other locations.

The office of the dean and the staff of the law library will move into the partially completed Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library, which is scheduled to open in August. Only faculty and staff of the law school will have access to MacMillan, said Hunter.

Faculty and staff may be contacted by phone using the same numbers currently listed. Reference and circulation numbers for the law library, however, will not be in operation. Mail delivery to the school will be maintained. The school's career services and law journal offices, located adjacent to Gambrell Hall, will remain open.

For those doing legal research, the law library's electronic reference desk will remain open through its World Wide Web (WWW) site on the Internet. A wide range of materials is available to external users at "http://www.law. emory.edu/".

The new five-story, 60,000-square-foot MacMillan Law Library, under construction on the north side of Gambrell Hall, will more than double the space available for library materials and will contain state-of-the-art electronic legal research facilities.

Arrests made in student robberies

The Emory Police along with DeKalb County Police made two arrests last month in the case of two Emory students robbed on campus in April.

Hugh Howard, a lieutenant in the Emory Police Department, said the arrests were made on May 5 and May 22, and that a third arrest is possible.

The two students were robbed at gunpoint at about 3 a.m. April 21 on Pierce Drive as they were walking to their residence hall. Howard said the two cases are now pending in the DeKalb court system. "We feel like we've got a good case," he said. "The two suspects were found in possession of some of the property taken in the robbery."

Editorials welcomed

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Letters from the University community are also welcome. They may be edited for clarity and length. Submissions may be sent to Emory Report, 741 Gatewood Road, faxed to 727-0646, or e-mailed to nspitle@emory.edu.