• Meeting with Albanian ambassador to the United States.
• Meeting with counselor for legal affairs of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China.

Assistant Dean Stephen D. Sowle

• Academic calendar Reminder: Classes 4:00 pm and later canceled September 29; all classes canceled September 30.
• Student awards luncheon.
• Courses subject to mandatory curve for elective courses; correction re: Professional Responsibility.

Registrar

• Student Information System Migration:
  Migration period: October 2, 1998 - October 16, 1998.
  Some delays in services expected.

Administration and Finance

• Weekly activities schedule.

Student Services

• City-wide minority law student picnic.
• Secrets of success for law school and beyond.
• Video available - Demystifying the Socratic Method!

Financial Aid

• Warning: System down.
• Office hours.

Career Services

• DEADLINE: Student Careers Committee Applications Due 10/2.
• MUST SEE CSO fall programming: Finding a job in public interest organization; Finding a job in a corporation; Summer study abroad opportunities.
• Networking opportunities.
• Four students win scholarships for marketing plans.
• Job opportunities and other Record handouts.

Information Center

• LIR 4th annual conference on immigration.
• Research guide to impeachment proceedings.
• How to contact the Multimedia Services Department.
• Tutorials on ProQuest.
• Information Center open regular hours on Yom Kippur.

Public Affairs

• Chicago-Kent Names in the News.

Law Offices

• Judicial Externships for Spring 1999 semester.

Center for Law and Computers

• Sunday hours for October.
• Answers to commonly asked questions.
• E-mail stations.
• CLC hours.
• Reminder: Check out the network maintenance schedule for anticipated downtime.

Scholarships

• 1998-99 External Scholarships listing.

Writing Contests

Employment Opportunities

• Professor Michele Baker Richardson (research assistant)
• Professor Peggie Smith (research assistant)

Professor Michele Baker Richardson

• Research assistant opening.

Professor Peggie Smith

• Research assistant opening.

Serving Our Society (SOS)

• National clearinghouse for legal services.
• Tutor/Mentor opportunities.

Program in Environmental and Energy Law

• Event this week:
  9/29 & 10/1-Nancy Tikalsky: "Kenya: Beauty and the
  Beast".

  Upcoming October events:

  10/5-Professor Christopher Stone: "Current Quandaries in

  International Environmental Law".

  10/15-7th Annual PEEL Alumni/Student Reception

  Professor Dan Tarlock: "Clean Water for What and for

  Whom?"

  10/20-PEEL alum Mary Reames, City of Chicago,

  Corporation Counsel's office (Envtl. Div'n).

Special Notices

• Lawyers for the Creative Arts hold new speaker series. Meet an entertainment attorney in a small group setting.
• New law journal at Chicago-Kent?

Amnesty International

• What is Amnesty International?
• Upcoming Events:
  AI National Lawyers Meeting
  Law Students as Human Rights Activists Reception.
  Passing a UN treaty through the City Council of Chicago.

  Taking action.

  Human Rights facts - Did you know...?

Chicago Bar Association

• The Chicago Bar Association All School Reception is Thursday October 8 from 4-6pm at the CBA building.
• Reminder: YLS Volunteer Fair & Social Hour 10/6.

Christian Legal Society

• Join us for bible study on Tuesday at noon.

Criminal Justice Society

Environmental Law Society

• Event this week:
  9/29 & 10/1-Nancy Tikalsky: "Kenya: Beauty and the
  Beast".

  Upcoming October events:

  10/5-Professor Christopher Stone: "Current Quandaries in

  International Environmental Law".

  10/20-PEEL Alum Mary Reames, City of Chicago,

  Corporation Counsel's office (Envtl. Div'n).

Illinois State Bar Association

• "Alternative Careers in Law" speaker program. All students invited!
• Chicago-area "Networking Social/Mixer" in mid-October. Mingle with members of the Young Lawyers Division.
• ISBA law student membership. . .JOIN TODAY! Applications on Concourse.

Kent Justice Foundation

• Auction committees.
• Next meeting - pizza & pop.

Women in Law

• Autumn Welcome/Mentorship reception Oct. 1!
• Speaker panel 10/14: Domestic Violence.
• "What Every First-Year Female Law Student Should Know."
• How you can help "stamp" out breast cancer.
• Reminder: Don't forget to pay your '98-'99 dues!