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Week of January 21, 2002

   
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   News and Announcements from
   Administrative Offices
   

Dean Harold J. Krent

  • Professor Thomas F. Blackwell.

Assistant Dean Stephen D. Sowle

  • Academic calendar reminder: No classes Monday, January 21.
  • New policy on adding classes.
  • Joke of the week.

Strategies for Excellence: Law as a Profession 2002

  • New speaker bios.
  • Volunteers needed to escort speakers.
  • General breakout session information.

Registrar

  • 3rd year bar applications -- Web only!
  • 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

  • Spring office hours.
  • Summer opportunities for 1Ls.
  • Interviewing skills.
  • Sign up for mock interviews.
  • Updated Midwest Public Interest Law Career conference information.
  • Army JAG Corps seeks 1Ls & 3Ls.
  • Air Force JAG Corps seeks 2Ls & 3Ls.
  • Adoption law summer opportunities for 1Ls & 2Ls.
  • 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

  • Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution certificate program -- room change for January 30 information meeting from C20 to C40.
  • 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/

International Law and Policy Development

  • Informational meeting.
  • Summer study abroad opportunities.

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 sdat4181.

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.

 

  News and Announcements from
  Faculty and Law School Programs
   

2002 Centennial Visitor Lecture

  • Professor Daniel Kahneman of Princeton University to speak Thursday, January 24 on "Psychology as a Science of Policy."

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.
  • 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.

 

   
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  News and Announcements from
  Student Organizations
 

Kent Justice Foundation

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

Labor and Employment Law Society

  • Get vital information about LELS.
  • Join us for our winter extravaganza on Wednesday, January 23.
  • Free food and drinks.

Public Interest Resource Center

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

Women in Law

  • Executive board meeting, Tuesday, January 22.
  • General meeting, Tuesday, January 29.

   
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