Important Record Announcement

• This issue is the last weekly Record issue of the academic year.
• New Record headline contact is Tom Shipley. Send all Record submissions to record@kentlaw.edu

Dean Henry H. Perritt, Jr.

• Prof. Bart Brown's presentation.
• The Alumnae/i Luncheon.
• Tasha Kincade -- new arrival and maternity leave.

Assistant Dean Stephen D. Sowle

• Academic calendar reminder.
• Spring 1999 final exams.
• Fall 1999 registration.
  • Add/drop day.
  • After add/drop day.
  • Immigration Law & Policy.
  • International law courses.
• Fall 1999 initial reading assignments.
• Dean's certificate for the Illinois Bar exam.
• Bar exams in other jurisdictions.
• Survey of student attitudes.
• Good luck!

Registrar

• Confirmation of registration.
• Priority add/drop.
• Program changes after add/drop days.
• Pass/fail elections for spring 1999 courses.
• Exams on computers.

Administration and Finance

• COMMUNITY ALERT -- Important information from the Chicago Police Department.
• Weekly activities schedule.

Student Services

• Good luck on finals!
• Orientation volunteers needed.

Financial Aid

• Student survey.
• Exit interviews.
• Bar loans.
• Summer 1999 financial aid.
• 1999-2000 financial aid.
• Office hours.

Career Services

• Congratulations graduates! Please come pick up your alumnae/i ID.
• '99 grads: Open house raffle winners announced.
• Win scholarship by participating in a client development seminar this summer.
• Classes of '00 and '01 and LL.M.'s: Prepare now for fall on-campus interviews.
• Job fairs: Sign up now for the Minnesota Minority Recruitment Conference and the BLSA Midwest Minority Recruitment Conference.
• Career Services is converting to new a new computer system.
  • NOTE about job postings.
• Good news from 1998 graduate employment statistics.
• CSO seeking student worker for 10-20 hours/week.
• CSO summer hours to begin May 3.
• Job opportunities and other Record handouts:
  • Internships/Clerkships
  • Fellowships
  • Judicial clerkships
  • Miscellaneous

Admissions

• Advocates update: Volunteers needed for the May Dean's Program on Saturday, May 8.
• Office of Admissions hours.

Information Center

• New library system update.
• Exam hours.
• Pre-summer hours.
• Summer hours.
• Final exam period reminders.
• Summer LEXIS and Westlaw passwords.
• New copy card system.
• eLOISe tutorial.
• NOTICE from Media Services on proper use of LCD projectors.
  • If you need to use a LCD projector, please take note of the proper shut-down intructions on the projector.
  • Please do not unplug or shut off WITHOUT properly shutting them down FIRST.

Law Offices

• For a description of all clinical programs, please visit the Law Offices home page at: www.kentlaw.edu/academics/clinic/

Center for Law and Computers

• Taking your exam on computer? XMN8R tutorial available.
• Chicago-Kent's year 2000 Web site.
• New virus detection software.
• The student directory is now available online.
• Student printing deadlines.
• Answers to some of the most commonly asked questions.
• Network maintenance schedule.

Scholarships

• Congratulations to Jamie McDole '99, recipient of the 1999 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione Scholarship.
• 1998-99 external scholarships.

Continuing Legal Education

• ATTENTION-- All students interested in federal taxation.
• Upcoming programs in 1999.

Office of Development

• 13th annual Scholarship Appreciation Luncheon.
  • Videos of student speeches.

Writing Contests

• No new entries this week.

Employment Opportunities

• Legal writing teaching assistant applications.
• Student worker position available in Career Services.
• Summer job opportunity in the Office of International Law and Policy Development.

From Professor Richard Warner

• Research assistant wanted for "Building Business on the Web" project.

From Professor Suzanne Ehrenberg

• Legal writing and teaching assistant applications.

From Professor Jeffrey Sherman

• Professor Sherman seeks research assistant.

LEXIS-NEXIS

• Shepard's.
• REMINDER on free outlines.

Westlaw

International Law and Policy Development

• Three new seminars in international law offered next semester.
• New exchange program offered with a law school in Buenos Aires.
• Summer job opportunity in the Office of International Law and Policy Development.

Program in Intellectual Property Law

• Chicago-Kent students reach semi-finals of the national Giles Sutherland Rich Moot Court Competition.
• Participate in the IP Program.

Amnesty International

• Elections of the 1999-2000 executive board.

Chicago Bar Associaton

• Pizza party for blood drive participants on May 4!
• Free seminar on buying or selling a home on May 10.
• 6th annual Dining-Out for Life Event: Battle AIDS by going out to lunch or dinner on May 13.
• Upcoming YLS events and committee meetings:
  • Friday, May 21: Alternative dispute resolution.
  • Thursday, May 27: Legal rights of lesbians and gay men.
  • Thursday, May 27: Career assistance committee.

Computer Law Association

• See the new links on the Sample Justice Web Collaboratory page.

Environmental Law Society

• 1999-2000 ELS board.
• Thank you to everyone who participated in the Earth Week events and the Spring Street Clean-up.
• Bake sale-- tentatively Monday, May 4. Contact aantonio@kentlaw.edu if you'd like to help.

Health Law Society

• End-of-the-year announcements.

Illinois State Bar Association

• Check out the ISBA Web site with links to over 80 Chicago law firms.
• Let us know what speakers YOU want to see next semester. E-mail us!
• Join the ISBA now for only $10 and get the summer publications free!

International Law Society

• Elections will be held on Wednesday, April 28! If you are interested in running for an office, please attend one of the meetings.

Justinian Society

• Note on upcoming elections.

Kent Association of Trial Lawyers of America

• Mock trial participants needed.
• Elections for executive board.

Kent Justice Foundation

• Fellowship applications now available.
• Elections for executive board.
• Raffle!

Labor and Employment Law Society

• Updated outlines!!!
• Please vote by May 3.

Law Review

• Any person who missed the informational meetings about the summer "write-on competition" should contact Julie Burger at jburger@kentlaw.edu.

Moot Court Honor Society

• MCHS team takes second place.
• MCHS team is quarter-finalist in the nation.
• MCHS team is semi-finalist in Illinois.
• Congratulations to the 1999-2000 executive board.

Muslim Law Students Association

• Speaker event.
• Kosova awareness.
• Chicago area events.

Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity

• 1999-2000 election notice.
• Class outlines.
• Resume review.
• Happy hour?
• Not a member yet?

Women in Law

• 1999-2000 WIL executive board announced!
• Two lucky students awarded summer fellowships!
• 3L Sita Balthazar-Thomas awarded 1st annual Esther Rothstein Award!