Headlines for the Week of May 7, 2007

Assistant Dean Steve Sowle  » 

• Spring 2007 final exams:
  
  • Exam schedule.
    
  • Exam emergencies.
  • Cell phones during exams.
    
  • Consulting laptops during exams.
    
  • Access to computer labs during exams.
    
  • Availability of professors' old exams.
• Notice to graduating seniors:
  • E-mail and network accounts.
    
  • Clearing out lockers.
    
• Summer 2007 term information:
  • Classroom assignments.
    
  • Initial reading assignments.
    
• Fall 2007 registration.
  
• Fall 2007 initial reading assignments and course materials.
  
• Adjunct Professor Marshall Hartman: Recent activities and achievements.
  
• Joke of the week.
  
• Poem of the week.

Registrar  »

• Office hours.
• Spring 2007 exams:
  • Read period.
  • Exam schedule.
• Fall 2007 registration.
• Summer 2007 registration.

Financial Aid  »

• Spring 2007 financial aid deadlines.
• Summer award information.

Student Services  »

• Study breaks: Free food!
  
• U-Pass activation period.

Career Services  »

• IMPACT Career Fair for Law Students and Lawyers with Disabilities.
  

Student Announcements from Alumni Relations  »

• Commencement updates.
• 2007 class gift update.

Scholarships  »

• No new scholarships.

IIT Center for Law and Business Bookstore »

• Register for the Bright Future sweepstakes.

Law Offices/Clinic/Externships  »

• Summer In-House Clinic: Orientation information.
• Summer 2007 externship: City of Chicago, Department of Consumer Services.
• Fall 2007 externship: City of Chicago, Department of Consumer Services.
• Summer 2007 externship: Office of the State's Attorney, DuPage County.
• Fall 2007 externship: Office of the State's Attorney, DuPage County.
• Summer 2007 externship: Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago).
• Fall 2007 externship: Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago).
• Summer 2007 externships in family law: Cook County Domestic Relations Court.
• Fall 2007 externships in family law: Cook County Domestic Relations Court.
• Fall 2007 externship: City of Chicago Law Department's Building and Land Use Litigation Division.
• Fall 2007 externship: Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers (CLAIM).
• Fall 2007 externship: Workers' Compensation Litigation Unit, Civil Division, Cook County State's Attorney's Office.
• Fall 2007 externship: U.S. Department of Justice - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives.
• Fall 2007 externship: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
• Fall 2007 externship: Resurrection Health Care.
• Summer 2007 externship: Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers (CLAIM).
• Summer 2007 externship: Resurrection Health Care.
• For a description of all clinical programs, please visit the Law Offices home page at: www.kentlaw.edu/academics/clinic.

Legal Research and Writing Program  »

• SmithAmundsen Excellence in Legal Writing Award (for first-year Chicago-Kent students).

International Law and Policy -- Assistant Dean Lydia Lazar  »

• Land Expropriation in Kenya: Speaker on May 10 at noon.
• Exam information for LL.M. and exchange students.
• Graduation information for LL.M. and exchange students.
• May 20: Graduation party for LL.M. students, 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Venus.
• “Sustainability and Democracy.”
• Chicago-Kent semester study abroad programs.
• China exchange - fall semester 2007.
• Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law: Call for papers.
• Rotary World Peace Fellowships.

Writing competitions  »

• No new entries this week.

Center for Law and Computers  »

• SofTest registration and downloads for spring 2007 final exams began on Monday, April 23.
• CLC debuts a new Help Desk ticket tracking system.
• Windows Vista and Office 2007 information.
• Print accounting system on KENTNET.
• Free e-mail available to Chicago-Kent alumni at alum.iit.edu.
• How to transfer your existing Chicago-Kent e-mail to your new alumni account.
• CLC Policies: Students are required to show C-K photo ID card for loaner computer equipment.
• Computer acceptable use policy.
• Windows Update.
• Remove unnecessary files on network.
• CLC monthly network maintenance schedule.
• Latest McAfee DAT file is sdat5023.
• CLC contact information and office hours.
• Office of Technology Services at the main campus: Dell computer purchases.
• http://ots.iit.edu/computer equipment/purchase.php

Library  »

• Restricted access to the library: Bring your ID.
• Exam library hours.
• Spring library hours.
• Guard your valuables.
• IM reference service.
• General library policies.
• Featured resource: TradeStats Express.

LexisNexis  »

• Get student-prepared outlines for your classes.
• Submit your own outline to the LexisNexis Outline Bank.
• Tip of the week.
• LexisNexis representative contact information.

Center for Access to Justice and Technology  »

• Employment opportunity: CAJT seeks manager.
• Public interest certificate program letters of intent available.
• Students interested in the Public Interest Certificate should register for Public Interest Law & Policy in the fall.
• Self-Help Web Center at the Daley Center seeks volunteers.

Institute for Law, Science and Technology  »

• May 21: Who Owns Your Body? Legal and Social Issues in Michael Crichton’s NEXT.

Institute for Law and the Humanities  »

• Chicago-Kent's Institute for Law and the Humanities paper.