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Headlines for the Week of September 29, 2008 |
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| Office
of the Dean
- October 2: Dean's Roundtable featuring Michael Skalka, Class of 1977.
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| Student Services |
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- Academic calendar reminder: No classes September 29, 4 p.m. and later, and no classes September 30.
- Fire drills.
- Joke of the week.
- Poem of the week.
- Enrollment verifications: New procedure.
- Replacement ID cards.
- Office hours.
- Weekly staff meeting.
- October 4: Family and Friends Day.
- Insurance information.
- Lactation/milk expression room available.
- How to get a replacement U-Pass.
- Other programming.
- Don't forget to accept your awards.
- Attention: Bank of America borrowers.
- Disbursement process step-by-step.
- October 1: Presidential Management Fellowship Program.
- October 16 to 19: 2008 National Latina/o Law Student Association Conference & Career Fair.
- October 16 to 18: Advancing the Consensus: 60 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Conference at Emory School of Law in Atlanta.
- November 6 to 7: 18th annual National Institute on ERISA Litigation.
- Commencement information:
- Fall 2008 graduates.
- Spring 2009 graduates.
- Composite photo sittings.
- Chicago-Kent is now LinkedIn!
- Apply now for the South Suburban Bar Association Scholarship. The deadline is September 30.
- Rock the Vote t-shirts.
- Shop for the Cure: National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
- Greeting card sale.
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| Academics
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- Spring 2009 semester: Intellectual Property (IP) Legal Externship for IP Certificate participants.
- Spring 2009 semester: Corporate Law Externship.
- Judicial externships: Spring 2009 semester information.
- For a description of all clinical programs, please visit the Law Offices home page at: www.kentlaw.edu/academics/clinic.
- October 2 to 4: ILSA Fall Conference "Understanding Genocide: Prevention, Prosecution and Progress" at Vermont Law School.
- October 4: Human rights event at DePaul University.
- November 7: Former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour speaking at Chicago Humanities Festival.
- New LL.M. administrative memo for week five.
- Concentration option for Special Program LL.M. students.
- Women's rights fellowship opportunities at Georgetown Law for international and domestic lawyers.
- IIT Thanksgiving Dinner Program.
- English Conversation Program at IIT.
- European Commission launches new guide to studying in Europe.
- New entries this week:
- William J. Pierce Uniform State Laws Writing Contest.
- American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers Writing Competition.
- Theodore Tannenwald Jr. Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship Writing Competition.
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| Computing
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- Library fall hours.
- Become a fan of the library: Find us on Facebook!
- Improved lighting in the library.
- A reminder about security in the library!
- Featured resource: United Nations Treaty Collection.
- General library policies.
- Free CALI lessons available to law students.
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| Faculty |
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| Institutes
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- Student associate needed for Self-Help Web Center!
- Student associate needed for the Center for Access to Justice & Technology!
- Submit letter of intent for the Certificate in Public Interest Law.
- Institute for Law and the Humanities paper prize.
- Research assistants needed.
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| Administrative
Offices/General |
- Weekly activities schedule.
- Fall semester building and library hours, effective August 18.
- Fall 2008 student hiring procedures.
- Discount parking: DTC faculty, staff and students for fall 2008.
- Downtown Campus safety tips.
- Shuttle bus schedule.
- DTC Bursar's Office hours.
- Administration and Finance office hours.
- Online room reservation form.
- Join the Chicago-Kent Advocates.
- Admissions office hours.
- November 14: Illinois Public Sector Labor Relations Law Conference.
- Public Affairs offers assistance in posting student organization Record announcements for the beginning of the fall term.
- Record templates available for students and administrators.
- Human Resources hours at the Downtown Campus.
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| Student
Organizations |
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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.
NOTE: Each student organization will be responsible for posting its own announcements beginning with the October 13 issue of the Record. Information about training sessions has been sent to student organization presidents. Through the October 6 Record issue, announcements from those student organizations not posting their own Record pages will be collected together on one page. (Follow the links below to organization announcements.)
- October 5: October SBA meeting, 5 p.m. in room 305.
- SBA President Office Hour: Wednesdays, 5 p.m. in room C88.
- October 1: HLLSA's fourth annual Judges' Night, 5:30 p.m. in the 10th floor event room.
- If you are interested in joining IPLS, there are membership forms on the IPLS bulletin board on the Concourse.
- October 1: General meeting, 3 p.m.
- October 1: First meeting for new student organization, 5 p.m., second floor of the Spak.
- October 3: Phi Alpha Delta boat cruise, 8:30 p.m. to midnight. Everyone's invited!
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