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Congratulations, 1L. You've decided to take the Summer Public Interest Funding and volunteer your services this summer. Not only do you get to help with the SPIF Auction, which is one of the highlights of the spring semester, you're going to help others without going broke.
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Minus a handful of public interest employers, (none of whom provide interviewees with chocolate covered pretzels, damn them) I didn't do OCI. While this appeared to be a good idea while everyone else was dressing up in suits and trudging to the Charles three times a day, it seemed markedly less like a good idea when I realized this meant spending fly-out week at home, bonding with my roommate's cat.
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Evidence Brewer ** The only word that can really be used to describe this class is slow. Glacial, in fact. The reading, not exactly ample, is never covered in its entirety, entire classes are spent or two cases and Prof. Brewer specializes in passing around handouts and then reading them out loud to the class.
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A German friend calls it a new racism rampant in Northern Europe. "It" is the obsession with dating or being intimate with black men. Its origins could lie in the images of black men coming out of America - the sports hero, the hard-core rapper, the super-macho street thug, which together have created a tough-man image that could easily be appealing to a significant share of women.
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Recently, the President and his allies succeeded in passing a bill that drives a stake through the heart of one of America's most important civil rights, habeas corpus. Habeas corpus is the power of an individual to challenge his or her detention in court.
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Your correspondent was recruited by the Record staff (who are all either idealistic 2Ls not doing OCI or 3Ls) to discuss 2L interviewing and the acquisition from various firms of an eclectic collection of Starbucks gift cards, card decks, pens, highlighters, pen-highlighter combinations, a pen with a built-in sticky note dispenser, and, of course, pink putty (thanks Linklaters).
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Let's face it: traditional slasher flicks are not for everyone. But even those of us who get slightly queasy at the sight of blood like to be terrified from time to time. So for the discerning cowards amongst us, here is a selection of fine spine-tinglers.
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After you've tired yourself out on slasher flicks, go ahead and rent one of these clunkers. Rage at how terrible they are, laugh at the idea that they were made in the first place, or be frightened by the fact that between them, they grossed over $548 million.
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Though Halloween has come and gone, it's still that slightly creepy time of year. This weekend, treat yourself to one of these horror classics if you've never seen them before. Plus, it gets dark at 4pm these days, so there's plenty of nighttime in which to nestle in and get scared out of your wits.
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As Halloween came this year if felt a lot like the years gone by - the golden days of his youth, when tadpole Kermit would swim from Lilly pad to Lilly pad trick or treating. This year, however, he dressed up as a ghost and went from city to city getting firm offers.
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You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be printed in... OVERHEARD IN THE HARK A few students talking about the change to Daylight Savings Time and how it takes an adjustment: Guy: "The change doesn't bother me, 'cause I was BORN during Daylight Savings Time.
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On Tuesday, October 31, David Seibel, co-founder and President of Insight Partners, a Boston-based conflict management company, spoke to a crowd of approximately 60 students in Hauser Hall on the topic: "Insight from Iraq: Notes from Baghdad." Seibel spent 10 days in Baghdad in late March 2006 conducing training sessions on negotiation, effective communication and mediation skills to newly elected members of Iraq's parliament.