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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 19

Quote of the Week:“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and

let each new year find you a better man.”-Benjamin Franklin

INSIDE:Letter from the Editor- pg. 2 Bar Review - pg. 3 SBA notes- pg. 6

PISJCInauguration

8:30-10amBannan Lounge

Class Gift ‘09 1stCommittee Mtng

NoonB- TBA

New Year Bar ReviewWET nightclub

9:00 pmBring SCU ID

(free before 11pm)

Law Review Symposium

“Big Business andThe Roberts Court”

Williman Room 8:30-4:30am

MLK DAYNo classes

inauguration day

Reading of MLK Letter

NoonB142

RSVP to socialjustice@scu.edu

Stetson International Environmental

Moot Court

The AdvocateStory Brainstorming

5pmB331

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Gemma Daggs, Presidentgdaggs@scu.edu

Margie Dellegrotti and Daniel Zazueta, VPS (Full-Time)

mdellegrotti@scu.edu, dzazueta@scu.edu

Marina Wiant, VP (Part-Time)mwiant@scu.edu

Chris Rusca, Treasurercrusca@scu.edu

Caitlin Robinett, Print Editorcrobinett@scu.edu

Mercedes Roy, Online Editorjmroy@scu.edu

SBA BOARD

Caitlin E. RobinettSincerely,

have a great week, Santa Clara.

From The Editor:

“But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her,barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window

in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor.She will look in at me with her thin arms extended,

offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.”-William Collins

I am sitting on my couch, watching West Wing, nursing a cold, eat-ing chow mein with my favorite chopsticks, and thinking about how I haven’t really articulated my New Years’ Resolutions. I have a feeling of what I want, but if I don’t define it, I won’t have anything to rely on when I start to falter. Most people think resolutions are pointless, but that’s not true for me. Change is gradual, but constant. New Years is an excuse to mark the changes that have been made and changes that I want to make in my life. To be better this year, I’m going to focus on all the new. The country has a new leader. Our school has a new president. I have new professors and maybe even new mentors. In El Salvador over break, I made new friends, lived new adventures, developed new passions and discovered new truths about myself. Although I gladly leave it behind, 2008 prepared me to be a better woman in the new year. I have never so much appreciated the dawn and will focus on all the good that can come out of one small cup of light.

Welcome back and

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Bar Review

Friday,January 23rd

9:00 PM

WET nightclub

Let’s get wet!

SCU Students Free before 11pmBring your friends

& SCU ID

396 S First StreetSan Jose, CA

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Law Records Notes January 19, 2009

January 21(Wednesday)

On Campus AAMeeting5 pm to 6 pm (Every Weds)Benson Center, Conf Rm 207 A

January 23(Friday)

Last day for 60% tuition refund

January 30(Friday)

Last day for 40% tuition refund

February 6(Friday)

Last day for 20% tuition refundLast day to file pass/no passpetition

February 16(Monday)

Academic and administrativeholiday no classes

February 17(Tuesday)

Administrative Monday: AllMonday classes meet in place ofall Tuesday classes

Last day to sign up for the Pass/No Pass option is Friday, February 6th!

• • • • • • • • • • • •The Grade Status Chart for Fall 2008 is now up on

Claranet ( under Law Records) and on the door outside Law Records.•

This chart will be updated daily as grades are submitted and approved for posting. If there are no

updates it means we haven't received the grades, the grades are being processed or we haven't yet

had a chance to update the chart

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Important Dates

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REMINDER FROM Public Interest and Social Justice Coalition THIS WEEK

Inauguration 2009 Live Telecast and Continental Breakfast Jan. 20, 8:30 to 10 a.m., Bannan Student Lounge

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday Celebration and Inauguration DayJan. 20, Noon to 1 p.m., Bannan 142. Celebrate Dr. King’s birthday with readings from his Letter from Birmingham Jail and readings from Cesar Chavez and the Obama race speech by Professors Margalynne Armstrong, Francisco Jimenez, Ellen Kreitzberg, and Dean Jeanette Leach.Reserve lunch at 551.1720 or socialjustice@scu.edu by noon, Wed., Jan. 14.

THIS WEEK

King Week Part 2: Social Justice Writing Forum: Writing by SCU Law Faculty

Jan. 22, Noon to 1 p.m., Bannan 139 Facilitators include Margalynne Armstrong and Stephanie M. Wildman.

NEXT WEEK

SOCIAL JUSTICE THURSDAY – ESSENTIAL ISSUES

Jan. 29, noon to 1 p.m., Bannan 139.Food will be provided.

Civil Procedure/Constitutional Law - Robert S. Chang, Toward an Asian American Legal Scholarship: Critical Race Theory, Post-Structuralism, and Narrative Space, 81 CAL. L. REV. 1241, 1 ASIAN L.J. 1 (1994).

Facilitator: Deep Gulasekaram

CHTLJSymposium

Shifting Strategies in Patent LawFriday, January 30, 2009

Tech Museum of Innovation8am-5pm

http://chtlj.org

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SBA Notes:

Townhall ForumSBA’s second annual Townhall Forum is scheduled for Thursday February 5th, 2009 from 12-1 p.m. (full- time) and 5-6 p.m.(part-time). The Townhall forum is an event where you can ask the Deans and administration questions and bring up any concerns that you have. Email any SBA board member or representative if you have concerns that you would like addressed.

Facebook FolliesSome students have expressed concern regarding facebook and other social networking sites. The SBA would just like to give a friendly reminder that photos and information posted on these sites are viewable by friends, future-employers, and sometimes the public. We are all representatives of Santa Clara and need to be mindful of such. Please be careful!