Dean Harold J. Krent

• Associate Deans.

Assistant Dean Stephen D. Sowle

• Welcome back!
• Academic calendar reminder: No classes Monday, January 21.
• New policy on adding classes.
• Spring 2002 initial reading assignments.
• Spring 2002 classroom assignments.
• Spring 2002 schedule changes.
• Spring 2002 Trial Advocacy section assignments.
• Spring 2002 final exams.
• Bar registration for first-year students.
• July 2002 Illinois bar applications.
• Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE).
• Joke of the week.

Strategies for Excellence: Law as a Profession 2002

• Updated speakers list.
• Volunteers needed to escorts speakers.
• Evening students: Do you need a vegetarian or kosher meal?
• Schedule of events.

Registrar

• Welcome back!
• REMINDER: New policy for registration.
• Filing deadline -- application for graduation.
• Filing deadline -- pass/fail election.

Administration and Finance

• Weekly activities schedule.
• Spring 2002 semester building/library hours.
• Discounted parking rates for students.
• Downtown Campus safety tips.
• Shuttle bus schedule.
• Administration and Finance office hours.
• Reserving a room at the Downtown Campus.

Financial Aid

• Exit interviews.

Career Services

• Welcome back!
• Spring office hours.
• Upcoming programs.
• Air Force JAG Corps seeks 2Ls and 3Ls.
• Midwest Public Interest Law Career Conference deadline approaching.
• Mock interviews for international LL.M. students.
• American Bar Association section of Antitrust Law Racial & Ethnic Minority Judicial externship program.
• Year 2002 Penny Severns Illinois Women in Government Conference & Scholarship award program.

Admissions

• Join the Chicago-Kent Advocates!
• Admissions office hours.

Library

• Library hours for spring semester.
• Reference hours for spring semester.
• Document Center hours for spring semester.
• New LEXIS-NEXIS and Westlaw printers.
• Resource of the week.
• Consideration for others in the library.
• New interlibrary loan policy.
• Study room policy.
• Library cell phone policy.
• Library food and drink policy.
• Please guard your valuables!

Law Offices

• Orientation meeting for spring 2002 in-house clinics.
• Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution program (LADR) -- information meetings.
• Justice Web Collaboratory (JWC) externship.
• Refugee Law externship program.
• First Defense Legal Aid (FDLA) clinic.
• New Web site for Low Income Taxpayer Clinic.
• 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

• Welcome back!
• Printing accounts reset December 28, 2001.
• Fall printing account balances are due.
• "Web for Students" and how to access grades online.
• A note about the new LEXIS-NEXIS and Westlaw lab printers.
• ck.kentlaw.edu Web server no longer in service.
• Virus scanning instructions.
• Latest McAfee DAT file is sdat4180.

Scholarships

• New scholarship awards listed.

Writing Contests

• New entries this week.

Continuing Legal Education

• Upcoming 2002 programs!
• Student volunteer opportunities.

Special Notices

Human Resources schedule online.

Center for Information Technology and Law

• ATTENTION: 2Ls, 3Ls and 4Ls, an exciting opportunity you don't want to miss!

LEXIS-NEXIS

• Free LEXIS-NEXIS printing in computer labs 700, 760 & 900.
• LEXIS-NEXIS table day -- Wednesday, January 16, from 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
• Rewards of Working Smarter is back and even better!

Westlaw

• Westlaw printers are now installed in all of the labs.
• Join Westlaw Rewards and win.
• Westlaw Rewards instant winner list.

Kent Justice Foundation

• Welcome back.
• It's auction time.
• Bake sale.
• Summer internship opportunities.

Public Interest Resource Center

• We do the work for you!
• New volunteer opportunities.
• Public Interest law.