Archive for August, 2008
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Welcome back 2Ls and 3Ls and congratulations on making it to this most prestigous and elite club known as UC Law students.
The Sports and Entertainment Law Club would like to invite everyone to attend our first meeting of the year Thursday, September 11th at 12:30 in room 204 (trial courtroom). For those of you who are taking Evidence this semester and don’t get out till 12:35, please come as soon as you can after class ends and we will try to wait a few minutes to give you time to get there.
We will be discussing our plans for the school year, the plans for our budget, and having an election for a replacement for treasurer and a SBA representative. We will also be looking at some suggested activities to connect better with the Sports and Entertainment Section of the Cincinnati Bar Association.
While we do have at least one candidate for the position of treasurer, we do welcome others to apply. If you would like to be run treasurer please let me know before Sept 9th. Although we will not impede any first year from running for the position of treasurer, I do think it would be better for a second or third year to hold the position because of the adjusting the first years are going through. Additionally, the position of SBA rep would be a lower time commitment and there will be plenty of opportunities to be involved.
I will send out an agenda Wednesday, September 9th so everyone knows what we are going to discuss. If there are any ideas you would like placed on the agenda please email me and I will add them. We have a ton of great ideas and plans, and will definitely have enough food for everyone this time. So please come out if you are interested.
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Hey yo,
For anyone going to the football game tonight, and even for everyone not, we’ll be firing up the grill around 5pm with free burgers and hot dogs. We’re out of veggie burgers, but of course anyone is welcomed to bring whatever you’d like to throw on the grill: chicken, duck, yeti, whatever your flavor is, we can char it beyond any amount of that flavor.
As for tomorrow, here’s the schedule
5 pm: Welcome Back Happy Hour at Christy’s until the kegs run out. Soda will also be provided.
If you bring an item for Advocates for Children and you get a wristband to go to their happy hour at…
7:30: Happy Hour for Advocates for Children at Mac’s. They are buying the first 100 20oz beers and there will be a limited amount of Free pizza.
After Party for both events is: Arlin’s at Clifton and Ludlow. $1 beers. The Arlin’s specials start right after the Christy’s ones run out, but the first 100 beers at Mac’s are free if you donate to Advocates for Children. So you could easily run this circuit: free beer at Christy’s, free beer at Mac’s, dollar beer at Arlin’s.
Getting from Christy’s or Mac’s to Arlin’s is simple, you can hop on the 17, 18, OR 19 buses right in front of the main entrance to school (by the intersection of Clifton and Straight) for free with your UC ID, and get off at Clifton and Ludlow. Also, program this number into your phones: Yellow Cab - 513.241.2100. Be advised, it takes forever for cabs to get to places.
Any questions? Reply to all! (just kidding).
SBA
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
All,
Attached is the SBA budget recommended by the Budget Committee. This year’s requests were descriptive and much more reasonable than last year’s. No requests for coat racks this time. Thank you. Your efforts made the budgeting easier. But the process of setting an achievable budget was still difficult.
Some statistics:
—$14,400 was available to fund student groups
—29 requests were submitted
—$42,688 was requested
No students chose to attend the budget committee’s three and half hour meeting last Sunday. So to provide transparency the following is a summary of the committee’s process and reasoning:
Each group’s request was individually reviewed and discussed by the full budget committee. As prescribed by the bylaws we considered the following factors:
—Educational value of the programs;
—Number of students in the organization;
—Number of students who will benefit from the programs;
—Benefit of the programs to the law school and the community as a whole;
—Past performance and use of allocated funds by the group;
—Merits of the programs.
As in past years we declined to fund any travel-related expenses, national membership dues, alcohol, or journal subscriptions. These reductions did not bring us close to the $14,400.
We then scrutinized proposed food spending. We reduced the per head food budgets of some groups to bring them in line with the majority of the food budgets, e.g. from $7/head to $3/head. We also struck funding for some meetings altogether when the proposed number of meeting was out of line with the number of meetings the majority of groups proposed. Additionally, no funding was awarded for “executive” meetings, meetings of only four or five members.
Groups not chartered by the SBA were not awarded any funding at this time. These groups may request funding from the contingency fund once the budget is approved. $1,600 of the contingency fund will be available each semester.
These steps got us close the $14,400 so we further reduced all group budgets by ~8%. No group’s funding was reduced below $200.
The full SBA senate will vote up or down on the budget at this Friday’s meeting.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact me or any of the Budget Committee members before Friday’s meeting.
If the attachment did not make it through the listserv it can downloaded or viewed here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=ploAscRwkFkdUPn0b1tltIw
Scott Brenner
Kelly Brandstetter
Lane Blake
Zach McCune
Mohammed Misbah
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
I hope everyone’s first week of real classes is off to a great start!
You may remember mention of the Human Rights Quarterly (better known as HRQ) from the Club Crawl. We’re having an informational meeting for 1Ls who are interested in becoming cite checkers on Thursday, September 4th at 12:15 in room 104. Lunch will be provided.
In case you’re wondering, you don’t need any special skills or interests to become a cite checker; we’ll teach you what you need to know at our training session on September 17th. HRQ provides a great way exposure to a variety of issues (human rights, international law, political science, sociology, etc.). So please stop by, have some lunch, ask questions, and let us know you’re interested!
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me (ganslese@email.uc.edu) or Eric Vang (vangeb@email.uc.edu).
We look forward to seeing you next Thursday!
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Dear Second and Third Year Students,
I’d like to invite those of you who aren’t current members of Student Ambassadors to attend our first meeting of the year and sign up to join or just learn more about the group. Since you’ve all been at the law school for at least a year now, the only “orientation” to the group that new members will need will be a quick overview of the tour procedure and our policies as a group. If you’re new, just see me right after the meeting and we’ll arrange a time to meeting and “orient” you! Also, if you’re new and would like to join the listserve to receive information about upcoming events we need volunteers for, please sign up for the Student Ambassadors TWEN cite.
Welcome back! It was wonderful to see many of you who volunteered this past week to help with orientation activities. Now that we’re all back, I hope the first day went well for everyone!
We will be holding our first meeting of the year next week on Thursday, September 4th from 12:10pm-1pm in room 118. Please arrive as promptly as possible as we have several items of business to tend to…
1. Everyone will be signing up for their office hour for the semester so please BRING YOUR SCHEDULES WITH YOU to the meeting.
2. We will be electing a new VP of the group so come ready with nominations and the democratic spirit (that is “democratic” in the “let’s encourage democracy” sense rather than the liberal “Mandy get off the left-wing high horse you’re always on” sense)
NOTE: I have heard from two people who are interested in the position so PLEASE NOTIFY ME IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN RUNNING and would like to put your name on the list prior to the meeting. We will take nominations from the floor as well.
3. We will be updating our contact information spreadsheet so for those of you who recently moved, make sure you know your new zip code and address
4. We’ll be discussing plans for the year so get excited!!
5. We’ll be asking for a volunteer to visit Hanover University to represent UC law on Thursday, September 25th so check your calendars.
6. We’ll be taking a GROUP PHOTO for potential use on the website so warm up your smiley face!
I look so forward to seeing everyone there. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND PLEASE LET ME KNOW so that I can get your contact information and office hour preference recorded.
Please don’t hesitate to direct any questions or comments to me before the meeting. See you all soon!
Love,
Mandy
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
For all of those interested in joining UC Student Court, our first meeting will be at 12:40 Tuesday, September 2, 2008 in Room 114.
We will be discussing opportunities within the Court to act as a Student Attorney, the cases that will be seen this year, and we will be answering any questions you bring.
Nathaniel Gilkey
Chief Justice
UC Student Court
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
All law students,
This Thursday August 28, 2008 at Mac’s Pizza Pub the Law Democrats are hosting a viewing party to watch Sen. Barack Obama accept the presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. We will meet at Mac’s around 7:30 and the event should last until the end of Obama’s speech (around 10:00). Mac’s is located at 205 West McMillan Street, just a few minutes walk from the law school. Pizza will be provided free of charge along with drink specials of two dollar 20 oz. drafts. Everyone is welcome to join us - you don’t have to be a Law Dem’s member. We hope to see you all there to enjoy this truly historic event with you fellow law students.
Thanks,
Dan O’Brien
Law Democrats President
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Dear All,
We hope that you’ll conclue your first week of classes by joining us at our meeting, this Friday, at 12:30 pm; lunch will be provided. Please find the meeting’s agenda attached. In addition, SBA has secured a networked printer and print release station in the Student Activities Lounge in room 117. If you have questions or problems using the printer, stop by the library for information.
Have a great week,
Gwenn
Download: SBA Meeting Agenda - August 29, 2008
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Hello and welcome back!
PILG will be hosting the used book/study aid sale starting Tuesday from 10-1:45
in Room 307. We have a great selection this year and are selling at rock bottom
prices. Hope to see you there!
Michelle Cheek
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Hey everyone,
Here’s the details on the welcome back events THIS FRIDAY.
Starting at 5:00 there will be free beer and soda at Christy’s on McMillan. Word on the street is everyone’s favorite librarian Don Blair is having a retirement party at Christy’s at the same time. So stop by, mix with some old friends, meet some new ones, and wish Don “Polar” Blair well as he goes on his journey to see the Great Spirit on the Mountain, or repairs to his lair for years of fly fishing, or whatever it is he plans to do.
At Christy’s, if you make a dontation to Advocates for Children’s back to school supplies drive (in supplies or cold, hard $$$) you’ll get a wristband that will get you free beer and pizza at Mac’s that night after Christy’s at an event there sponsored by Advocates for Children.
After that, or if you aren’t able to donate to AFC, SBA will have $1 beer specials at Arlin’s Bar & Restaurant at 307 Ludlow in Clifton the rest of the night. Arlin’s has an awesome deck and surly bartenders. What’s not to love?
It goes without saying, but we’ll say it anyway, NO ONE SHOULD DRINK AND DRIVE. Especially people in law school who might later make money defending people who do. Getting from Christy’s or Mac’s to Arlin’s is simple, you can hop on the 17, 18, OR 19 buses right in front of the main entrance to school (by the intersection of Clifton and Straight) for free with your UC ID, and get off at Clifton and Ludlow. If you drink and drive, Don Blair will cry, and so will your parents. And so will the baby Jesus. Please don’t drink and drive. Drink and bus is encouraged (and fun). Rumor has it not drinking can be fun too, so if that’s your bag, please don’t feel like you aren’t welcomed. These events are mainly put on by SBA so we can mix with old friends and meet new ones (and stalk Don Blair.)
See everyone at the SBA and AFC events on Friday!
p.s. he’s watching you…..
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