{"id":10551,"date":"2010-06-21T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=10551"},"modified":"2010-06-21T20:55:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T01:55:41","slug":"memories-of-sensenbrenner-hall-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2010\/06\/memories-of-sensenbrenner-hall-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories of Sensenbrenner Hall (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As the Law School community prepares to leave our current home\u00a0and move into a\u00a0new facility, it seems appropriate to pause and recall some of the memorable events that have taken place in Sensenbrenner Hall over the years.\u00a0 Professor Jack Kircher shares the first of what we hope will be many faculty memories\u00a0recounting the\u00a0various\u00a0classroom surprises, distinguished visitors, and construction oddities associated with our present surroundings.\u00a0 These memories\u00a0will ensure that Sensenbrenner Hall lives on forever in our hearts.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

My first memory\u00a0of Sensenbrenner Hall\u00a0goes back to my time as a\u00a01L.\u00a0 At that time,\u00a0the library occupied all of the third floor, the second floor had two large classrooms and a moot court room,\u00a0the first floor had two large classrooms, and the administrative offices (Dean, etc.) occupied the space now used by Admissions.\u00a0 During the\u00a02d semester of my first year, we were in our Contracts class during the early afternoon in a second floor classroom that occupied all of the east side of that floor (now Rooms 204 and 210). It must have been Springtime, as I remember that the windows in the room were open (they opened\u00a0back then).\u00a0 Unbeknownst to us, Marquette University had just announced that the school\u00a0would no longer play\u00a0varsity football beginning the following fall.\u00a0 As we sat there in class, discussing some arcane Contracts issue, we slowly began\u00a0to hear the chant “we want football” coming from the west.\u00a0 The chant grew louder and louder.\u00a0 It turns out that\u00a0the students were marching on O’Hara Hall next door.\u00a0 The noise grew so loud that our professor, Calvin Corman, abruptly called off the class.\u00a0 Professor Corman\u00a0was a somewhat\u00a0timid man, and many of us\u00a0thought that he cancelled class because he\u00a0feared for his own safety.<\/p>\n

My second memory of Sensenbrenner Hall\u00a0is from the time that the more recent addition to Sensenbrenner was opened.\u00a0 I was a member of the faculty by then.\u00a0 Prior to the new addition,\u00a0there was no elevator in the building and there was no atrium.\u00a0 After teaching my first class of the semester in Rm. 239, I began to walk down the atrium stairs from the second floor to the first floor on the way\u00a0to my office.\u00a0\u00a0During\u00a0my walk I discovered that the elevator shaft overhung the\u00a0north side of the stairway.\u00a0 If one was walking down the stairs,\u00a0and was over six feet tall, his or\u00a0her head\u00a0could easily come into contact with the shaft.\u00a0\u00a0 Instead of going to my office, I immediately went to see Dean\u00a0Boden.\u00a0 I\u00a0announced to him that the atrium, in my opinion, contained a clear violation of Wisconsin’s “Safe Place Statute” [Wis. Stat. sec.101.11(1)]. That statute\u00a0requires every owner of a public building or place of employment to make sure that the location is\u00a0as safe as its nature permits. The statute\u00a0has been held to impose\u00a0a higher duty than mere reasonable care.\u00a0 Warnings won’t suffice and changes must be made to the structure if they are possible.\u00a0 Following my visit to Dean Boden, the contractor returned\u00a0to the building and the elevator shaft was reshaped near the stairway.\u00a0 Problem solved.\u00a0 Statute followed.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Do you have a special memory of Sensenbrenner Hall?\u00a0 What will you remember the most about the building or an event that took place within its walls?\u00a0 Share your memories as a comment to this post or as a message on the Marquette University Law School Facebook page: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MarquetteLaw<\/a>\u00a0.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the Law School community prepares to leave our current home\u00a0and move into a\u00a0new facility, it seems appropriate to pause and recall some of the memorable events that have taken place in Sensenbrenner Hall over the years.\u00a0 Professor Jack Kircher shares the first of what we hope will be many faculty memories\u00a0recounting the\u00a0various\u00a0classroom surprises, distinguished 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