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Week of April 5, 2010
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Law Week Activities. The Student Bar Association has a great line-up of events for Law Week, starting on Monday, April 5, with Dean Krent's annual State of the Law School Address and culminating on Saturday, April 10, with the Barrister's Ball. Click here for a list of all the events and more details.

Summer 2010 Class Schedule and Registration. The Summer 2010 Schedule of Classes and Registration Bulletin will be available outside the third floor cafeteria and through the Student Portal page on Monday, April 5.

Registration for Summer classes will take place from Thursday, April 8 through Wednesday, April 14. You may register at any time during that period. To register beginning on April 8, go to the Student Portal page and click on the Online Registration link (under "Registration & grades"). You can use any computer with Internet access, either inside or outside the Law School.

After the end of the registration period, the registration requests will be processed according to each student's registration priority. In other words, registration will not be conducted on a first-come, first-served basis; as long as you register during the designated period, you will have an equal chance of being admitted to a class as other students within your registration priority group. Evening Division students have priority over Day Division students for Summer registration. Within divisions, registration priority is based on anticipated graduation date, with the earliest graduation date having the highest priority.

To learn what classes you have been admitted into, you must check the Online Registration site on or after Monday, April 19. Registering for a class during the initial registration period is no guarantee that you will be admitted to the class -- you must check the web site on or after Monday, April 19 to learn what classes you have been admitted to.

Spring 2010 Final Exams.

•Exam Schedule. The final exam schedule for the current semester is available here. You will be notified of the classroom assignments for your exams prior to the start of exam period.

•Exam Conflict/Reschedule Requests: March 31 - April 9. The Student Handbook requires that you take your final exams at the times scheduled unless you have an exam conflict (as defined below), or you have a "serious illness or other extraordinary or compelling reason" beyond your control. If you have an exam conflict or believe you have other reasons justifying the rescheduling of an exam, please complete the Final Exam Reschedule form. To complete the form, log into your Webmail account, click on the Web for Students icon, and navigate to the Final Exam Reschedule form. The form will be available beginning Wednesday, March 31; the deadline for submitting an exam reschedule request is Friday, April 9, at 5:00 pm. If your request is approved, you will be notified later this semester of the rescheduled date, time, and location of your exam.

Under current policy, a student is deemed to have an "exam conflict" if the student has two exams at the same time, or has two or more exams within 24 hours (e.g., exams at 8:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., or at 6:00 p.m. and 1:15 the following afternoon). A conflict does not exist if two exams are scheduled exactly 24 hours apart (e.g., exams at 8:30 a.m. one morning and 8:30 a.m. the next morning).

•Exams Method Registration: March 31 - April 9. Students have three choices for taking most exams: hand writing the exam, taking the exam on their own laptop computer, or taking the exam on a lab computer. Some professors do not permit one or more of these options (e.g., some require all students to hand write the exam).

Assuming your professor has authorized you to take the exam on computer, we will assume you are taking the exam on your own laptop. You need to register your exam-taking method only if you wish to hand-write the exam, or take it on a lab computer (subject to space availability). Please check with your professor if you are uncertain whether computer use will be permitted for your exam.

If you wish to register to take an exam by hand or on a lab comuter, log into your Webmail account, click on the Web for Students icon, and navigate to the Exam Method Registration form. The form will be available beginning Wednesday, March 31; the deadline for submitting an exam method request is Friday, April 9, at 5:00 pm.

Notice about SofTest: Students taking exams on laptop must download and install the SofTest exam-taking program. You will receive information from the Computer Center about when and how to do this. Even though you do not need to submit an Exam Method Registration form to use your laptop for exams, you do need to download and install SofTest.

Notice About Borrowing Laptops from the Computer Center: The Computer Center has a limited supply of laptop computers reserved for use in emergency situations that arise during exam period. The Computer Center's laptops may be used (subject to availability) if your computer has problems immediately before or during an exam, as long as the problem is not due to your failing to properly configure or register your laptop to run the SofTest program. Because of limited supply, the Computer Center's laptops are not available for general loaning purposes during exam period, including to students who do not own a laptop or are Mac users. However, if you have exceptional circumstances that you believe justify borrowing a laptop for an exam, please contact Dean Sowle to discuss your situation.

Notice to Hand Writers: Students who are hand writing an exam will be placed in the same room used by laptop users for that exam. Hand writers will not be put in a separate room.

•Availability of Professors' Old Exams. Many professors make their old exams available for students to review. Exams after 1992 are available online by going to http://library.kentlaw.edu/Courses/index.htm and clicking on the Exam Database link in the lefthand menu. Exams dating from 1992 and before are bound in volumes available in the 10th floor reading room in the Library.

Program in Environmental and Energy Law: Informational Meeting.
The Program In Environmental and Energy Law is hosting a meeting on Tuesday, April 13, at 12:00 noon in Room 270.  This meeting is important for students who are or may be seeking the Certificate in Environmental and Energy Law, from first-year students to student graduating in May; and for any students who are planning to take environmental and energy law courses , participate in environmental externships, and/or participate in the Environmental Law Clinic. The meeting will give important information about these activities and also provide an opportunity for students to interact with professors who teach in the program. Pizza and beverages will be served. For more information about the meeting or the program, contact Prof. Keith Harley at kharley@kentlaw.edu.

Bar Exam Preparation Courses. For information on bar exam preparation courses, click here.

Joke of the Week.
Did you hear about the sheep herder who got fired? He kept falling asleep during inventory. (Thanks to Jennifer Rexroat for this week's joke.)

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