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Headlines for the Week of October 22, 2007
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| Office
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- Dean’s Roundtable featuring Peter J. Birnbaum '83.
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| Special Announcement from IIT |
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- Getting to Inauguration: Campus shuttle schedule and parking details for October 30.
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| Student Services |
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- November 5: Deadline for change of division requests.
- Dean’s Roundtable featuring Peter J. Birnbaum '83.
- Illinois bar exam: Informational sessions.
- October 23: Flu shots.
- October 22: Performance of "Arson and Lace."
- Adjunct Professor Marshall Harman: Lifetime achievement award.
- October 24: Women's Bar Association of Illinois symposium.
- Joke of the week.
- Poem of the week.
- Office hours.
- FERPA rights and notification of access to educational records.
- Perkins Loan promissory notes.
- Fall disbursement schedule.
- Loan disbursement process, step by step.
- Chicago-Kent Alumni Policymakers Forum.
- Meet the Small/Mid-Size Firms Night.
- 1L orientation to Career Services and mandatory resume workshop.
- November 16: Diversity Networking Reception.
- Take a Break speaker series:
- October 23: Big Firm versus Small Firm - Note room change.
- November 27: Sole Practitioners.
- October composite photo information.
- Commencement information update:
- Fall 2007 graduates.
- Spring 2008 graduates.
- October 31: New application deadline for Nordic Law Club Scholarship.
- Join us in the fight against breast cancer during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
- Pumpkin Candy Contest.
- Come in and check out our bargain books.
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| Academics
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- Paid public interest opportunities, bilingual position added: Advice Desk.
- Spring 2008 semester: U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Division of Enforcement.
- Spring 2008 semester: Litigation technology externship.
- Spring 2008 externship: Intellectual property (IP) legal externship opportunity.
- Spring 2008 semester: Office of the Illinois Attorney General.
- Spring 2008 externship: Internal Revenue Service, Office of Chief Counsel.
- Spring 2008 semester: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
- For a description of all clinical programs, please visit the Law Offices home page at: www.kentlaw.edu/academics/clinic.
- October 22: Intercultural Communication Networking Program, 4:30 to 5 p.m. in the 10th floor event room.
- November 1: Midwest U.S. China Association Quarterly Meeting and Reception, 2 to 4 p.m. in the 10th floor event room.
- ISBA to publish papers from four Chicago-Kent LL.M. students.
- Check out the OILP fall newsletter!
- New entries this week:
- College of Labor and Employment Lawyers 2008 Writing Competition.
- American Indian Law Review Writing Competition.
- Public Justice Foundation Roscoe Hogan Environmental Essay Contest.
- American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers Writing Competition.
- Grammy Foundation Entertainment Law Initiative Writing Competition.
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| Computing
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- Duplex printing is available in labs 900 and 700.
- CLC Help Desk ticket tracking system.
- Print accounting system on KENTNET.
- Print account balances were reset on July 23.
- Account termination.
- Free e-mail available to Chicago-Kent alumni at alum.iit.edu.
- CLC Policy: 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 sdat5145.
- 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
- Be on the alert!
- LL.M. Lexis and Westlaw passwords.
- Fall semester library hours.
- Featured resource: Google Maps.
- General library policies.
- Free CALI lessons available to law students.
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| Institutes
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- November 23: Deadline for February/July 2008 examinees to apply for an American Bar Association-BarBri Scholarship.
- December 1: Deadline to apply for the ABA Division for Public Services 2007-08 clerkship.
- Self-Help Web Center at the Daley Center seeks volunteers.
- Public interest certificate program letters of intent available.
- November 30: Second annual Nanopolicy Conference - "Faces of Risk: Nanopolicy and the Agenda for Safety and Society."
- Research associates wanted.
- Chicago-Kent's Institute for Law and the Humanities paper.
- 2007-08 Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition in Employment and Labor Law.
- College of Labor and Employment Lawyers 2008 Writing Competition.
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| Administrative
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- Weekly activities schedule.
- Fall 2007 building and library hours, effective August 20.
- Fall 2007 student hiring and employment requirements.
- Discount parking for DTC faculty, staff and students: Fall 2007 semester.
- Downtown Campus safety tips.
- Shuttle bus schedule.
- DTC Bursar’s Office hours.
- Administration and Finance office hours.
- Online room reservation form.
- Upcoming programs in CLE.
- Record templates available for students and administrators.
- Tuesday afternoon Human Resources office hours now held in room 654.
- Human Resources schedule online.
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| Student
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Student Organizations:
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to use for creating Record announcement pages. More information is available on the
About the Record page.
- Law Enforcement and Organized Crime.
- Speaker presentation at DePaul University College of Law.
- Needed: Members interested in writing.
- October 31: "From Poverty to Prosperity: A National Strategy to Cut Poverty in Half,"
Professor Peter Edelman, Georgetown University Law Center, 3 p.m.
- November 16: Professor Sheldon Nahmod's Supreme Court Review, noon.
- November 28: "Appellate Litigation in the States" panel, featuring Chicago-Kent faculty alum Michael Scodro, solicitor general of Illinois, 3 p.m.
- October 24: General body meeting.
- October edition: Get the first full issue of the year!
- Psst... You don't need your coupon for Salad Creations.
- Publicize your student organization events!
- Fall 2007 publication deadlines.
- Join The Commentator.
- October 23: IP Scholars Debate - "Trademark Use," noon to 1:15 p.m. in room 570.
- October 25: Student and Professor Social, 5 to 7 p.m. at Dylan's Bar and Restaurant.
- November 7: KJF fourth annual wine event.
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