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Weeks of September 25, 2006
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Academic Calendar Reminder. Due to a religious holiday, all classes are canceled on Monday, October 2.

Family and Friends Day.
Please join us for the Family and Friends Day program on Saturday, September 30, from 9:00 am to 12:45 pm. The program is intended to give spouses, partners, parents, children, and other important people in students' lives the opportunity to visit the Law School and get a taste of what their loved ones are experiencing as law students. The program will include mini-classes taught by me, Prof. Brill, and Prof. Piatt, as well as a mock trial demonstration featuring members of our award-winning Trial Team. If you would like to attend, please complete the response form (click here) no later than September 26. If you have any questions, please contact me (ssowle@kentlaw.edu).

ASP Program on Time Management. The Academic Support Program will present the second of four Fall workshops on Monday, September 25, 5:00-5:50 pm, in Rm. 590. This workshop will focus on time management skills for law students. It will be led by Erica Berg, a staff psychologist with the IIT Counseling Center. Although the program is mainly aimed at first-year students, all students are welcome to attend. For information on the remaining Fall workshops, visit the ASP Record page.

Guantanamo National Teach-In. On Thursday, October 5, law schools, colleges, and universities across the country will participate in a teach-in examining the legal issues raised by the detentions at Guantanamo Bay. All faculty, students, and staff are invited to participate in the teach-in, which will include several sessions broadcast nationally over the Internet as well as local panels hosted here at Chicago-Kent. Local speakers will include Dean Harold J. Krent and Professors Henry H. Perritt, Jr., Sheldon Nahmod, Bartram Brown, and Mark Rosen. Chicago-Kent co-sponsors of the event include: The American Constitution Society, the Chicago-Kent Law Review, APALSA, the National Lawyers Guild, the Kent Justice Foundation, the Military Law Society, the International Law Society, the Chicago-Kent Lambdas, and the Justinian Society.

The program will run from 9:00am-5:00pm. From 9:00am-3:00pm, the program will be held in Rm. 580, and from 3:00pm on, it will be held in Rm. 590. You are welcome to attend all of it, or as much of it as fits into your schedule. You do not need to RSVP for the program. For more information on both the broadcast sessions and the local panels, click here. For details about the national program, including background information about the detentions, program speakers, and other participating schools, go to http://law.shu.edu/guantanamoteachin.

Joke of the Week. "My boyfriend is a personal trainer who takes diet very seriously. He told me, 'You need to go on the Caveman Diet: protein and fats. There were no fat cavemen.' Yeah? What about Fred Flintstone?" (Maura Kennedy)

Poem of the Week. This week's poem is "Chemin de Fer," by Elizabeth Bishop.
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