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Headlines for the Week of October 29, 2007
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| Office
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- Dean’s Roundtable featuring Peter J. Birnbaum '83.
- Inauguration agenda and shuttle bus schedule.
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| Special Announcement from IIT |
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- Where will you be for inauguration?
- Transportation & parking for October 30 ceremony.
- After the ceremony: Fall Festivities!
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| Student Services |
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- Academic calendar reminder: Day classes canceled October 30.
- November 6 and 7: ASP workshop on preparing for and taking exams.
- Fall 2007 final exams:
- Exam schedule.
- October 31 to November 14: Exam conflict/reschedule requests.
- October 31 to November 14: Exam method registration.
- Availability of professors' old exams.
- November 5: Deadline for change of division requests.
- CALI award certificates for 2006-07.
- Intensive Trial Advocacy: Seats still available for January 2008 session.
- Spring 2008 preliminary schedule.
- Joke of the week.
- Poem of the week.
- Office hours.
- October 30: Office closed for President Anderson's inauguration.
- Changing division requests: October 22 to November 5.
- Fall 2007 final exam conflicts/reschedule requests: October 31 to November 14 by 5 p.m.
- December 6: Deadline for revoking pass-fail.
- October 30: Office closed for President Anderson's inauguration.
- Perkins Loan promissory notes.
- Fall disbursement schedule.
- Loan disbursement process, step by step.
- October 30: Office closed for President Anderson's inauguration.
- Chicago-Kent Alumni Policymakers Forum.
- 1L mandatory resume workshop: New date added!
- Out-of-state job search.
- Presidential Management Fellows.
- Summer internships at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois.
- Midwest Public Interest Law Career Conference.
- November 16: Diversity Networking Reception.
- Take a Break speaker series:
- November 27: Sole Practitioners.
- December 5: Alumni Awards Luncheon. Students welcome!
- Commencement information:
- 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.
- Law Offices In-House Clinic applications are now available.
- Spring 2008 semester: Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers (CLAIM).
- Spring 2008 semester: Resurrection Health Care.
- Spring 2008 semester: Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company.
- Spring 2008 semester: Litigation technology externship.
- Spring 2008 semester: Intellectual property (IP) legal externship opportunity.
- Spring 2008 semester: U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Division of Enforcement.
- Spring 2008 semester: Office of the Illinois Attorney General.
- Spring 2008 externship: Internal Revenue Service, Office of Chief Counsel.
- Summer 2008 semester: Externships with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois.
- For a description of all clinical programs, please visit the Law Offices home page at: www.kentlaw.edu/academics/clinic.
- November 1: Midwest U.S. China Association Quarterly Meeting and Reception, 2 to 4 p.m. (speakers), 4 to 6 p.m. (reception), 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:
- Epstein Becker & Green PC Health Care and Life Sciences Law Writing Competiton.
- Trandafir International Business Writing Competition.
- American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Student Writing Competition.
- American Constitution Society for Law and Policy National Student Writing Competition.
- ASCAP Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition.
- Center for Global Trade & Development Student Essay 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 sdat5149.
- 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: Industry Profiles.
- General library policies.
- Free CALI lessons available to law students.
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| Faculty |
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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.
- Research assistants wanted.
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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.
- October 30: No Human Resources hours at the Downtown Campus.
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| Student
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Student Organizations:
Click here for the template
to use for creating Record announcement pages. More information is available on the
About the Record page.
- 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 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 31: Celebrate Halloween with treats from the ELS bake sale from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Spak.
- Beach cleanup photos.
- November 7: KJF fourth annual wine event.
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