GRAPEVINE Week of

August 22, 2005 The

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August Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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Public Interest and Social Justice Law

Welcome Day Bannan 135

12:10–1:00pm

Intellectual Property

Association (IPA) General

Meeting Bannan 139

12:00–1:00pm

The Next Justice: The

Supreme Court Nominee and Confirmation

Process Bannan 142

12:00—1:00pm

Women and Law and SBA

BBQ Alumni BBQ

Pit 5:00—7:00pm

Law & Entrepaneur-

ship Organization Event (LEO)

A&S Bldg Room 133

2:00—3:30pm

Club Day Alameda Lawn 12:00–1:00pm 5:00–6:00pm

Computer and High Tech

Law Journal BBQ

Alumni BBQ Pit

5:00—7:00pm

Calendar of Events

CLUB DAY IS AUGUST 24!

12-1pm & 5-6pm

Submissions, News, Comments, and Criticisms: scugrapevine@gmail.com Need to get in touch with your SBA? See Page 2.

Quote Of The Week Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.

- Benjamin Franklin

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http://scu.edu/law/resources/year_in_life.html SBA needs six students to share their law

school experience with online visitors through-out the year. For more information, visit our current Year in the Life web page, or e-mail

scugrapevine@gmail.com

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available online!

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The

Online: www.scu.edu/law/resources/grapevine.html

Week of August 22, 2005

The Grapevine is published weekly by the Student Bar Association for the Santa Clara School of Law students, faculty, administration, and community. The Grapevine strives to be an accessible resource for SBA infor-mation, campus activity, and student life. Please send event informa-tion, article submissions and advertisements to: scugrapevine@gmail.com by Fridays at 8:00 a.m.. Submissions may be altered or edited to fit layout space constraints.

Copyright © 2005-2006 SCU SBA

From the President Roy Stanley, 3L

Hello once again every-one. A special thanks goes out to Melissa Miller and VooDoo Lounge for the spectacular party they threw for us on Thursday. Everyone I have talked to agreed that a good time was had by all. Last week we had our first president’s meeting where the SBA and our student club and organizations presi-dents came together to discuss our goals for the upcoming year. The 4 goals of the SBA and Student organizations as a whole will be to 1) ad-vance our local and na-tional reputation ; 2) Streamline and organize communication and in-teraction among stu-dents ;3) Assist in the career and professional development of our stu-dent body; 4) Strengthen the network between students and SCU alumni. Throughout the year our campus organi-zations will host numer-ous events that are aligned with the above mentioned goals. At SCU, one of our greatest resources is our diverse collection of student or-ganizations, which give students an opportunity to build networks throughout our local and national legal commu-nity. At the ABA meeting in Chicago one of the meetings I attending was a round table for SBA presidents, at that meet-ing I realized how unique our student organiza-tions and SBA truly are. In comparison our SBA budget of $100,000 is

roughly 5X the amount given to other SBA’s. Therefore many of the extracurricular opportu-nities available at SCU are unheard of at other schools. Here at SCU students have a unique opportunity to make a name for ourselves in the legal community. There-fore it is important that we as students stay in-volved and active in our student organizations. Remember club day is this Wednesday; this is your opportunity to explore our campus or-ganizations. Also at Club Day we will have our signups for SBA rep-resentatives and for our SBA Administrative com-mittees, those commit-tees are Finance, Social, and Law Career Services. The SBA representatives serve as our student congress which assists the SBA executive board in a wide variety of our functions and responsi-bilities. The finance committee serves to as-sist the SBA in making decisions in our student club budgetary process. The social committee helps to plan all of our social events during the year. The LCS student council which I men-tioned last week will serve to specifically ad-dress the needs of stu-dents in regards to Law Career Services. Come out on Wednesday sign up and get involved…. See you in the Hallways, Roy R. Stanley SBA President

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Top Ten Hints That You May Be An SCU Law Student: (not all from personal experience)

“Heard in Bannan” — Student Submissions Page Send article contributions, letters to the editor, top fives, personals, and classified to scugrapevine@gmail.com.

The Grapevine strives to provide an accessible weekly publication for students to express themselves. “I disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it” - Voltaire

Welcome back to all the beautiful people that chose to attend Santa Clara! For some the summers have been short, busy, or maybe even expensive, but it’s good to see we all made it back to school. For some of you, the journey is almost over, for most there is still a ways to go. Although law school can be a long and drawn out battle, I hope that we all have a chance to laugh at ourselves a little, and at life in general. As a wise and sage 3L, I will try and bring a little levity to life at law school during the year. If you have any humorous sugges-tions, you may contact me by e-mail at dbrown@scu.edu. Cheers Mates, Devin Brown

10. You’ve attempted to pick up a 1L with outlines. 9. You’ve bs’d your way through being on call, when you didn’t even read. 8. You’ve spent an entire class period talking on instant messenger. 7. You’ve blown over $10K studying abroad. 6. You’ve told someone that they are precluded from asking you out by res judicata.

5. You’ve been hot tubbin’ at the Villas. 4. You’ve hooked up with a classmate at a bar review. 3. You’ve left your credit card overnight at the Hut. 2. You’ve gained 30 lbs. from eating Stuft Pizza at lunch meetings. 1. You have lost all touch with reality!!

- Devin Brown

Photos from the Beginning of the Year Party

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Law & Entrepreneurship Organization Event: Interview with Ann Winblad, Venture Capital Investor

--------------------------------------------------------------- In this session, David Smith, author of the book Zero-to-IPO, will interview venture investor Ann Winblad. Ann will also answer questions from the audience. This event is open, and free, to all SCU students. Please email me at drsmith@scu.edu if you plan on attending so that we have an idea of the numbers and we can prepare the badges, refresh-ments, etc. Ann Winblad is the co-founding Partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, a lead-ing venture capital firm focused on software investing and manages over $1 billion in cumu-lative capital. Since Hummer Winblad Venture Partners’ inception in 1989 the firm has launched over 90 new software companies. Ann has over 25 years of experience in the software industry as a successful software entrepreneur, strategy advisor, technical author and venture capitalist. Her background and experience have been chronicled in many national business and trade publications. Ann has a BA in Mathematics and in Business Administration. She has an MA in Education with a focus in International Economics from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. Ann also has an honorary Doctorate of Law degree from the University of St. Thomas. Ann served and serves as a Director of numerous start-up and public companies. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Uni-versity of St. Thomas and serves as an advisor to many entrepreneurial organizations.

Format & Schedule:

1.30 p.m. Coffee & registration. 2.00 p.m. Interview 3.00 p.m. Open forum Q&A—audience questions. 3.30 p.m. Wrap up.

Date & Time: Tuesday, August 23rd - 2.00 to 3:30pm (doors open - 1.30pm)

Event Venue: Arts & Science Bldg (804), Room 133, Santa Clara University

SCU Event Information

Intellectual Property Association

Club Day Wednesday, August 24th

12-1 p.m. and 5-6 p.m. Alameda Mall

(all clubs will be there, Westlaw, Lexis, SBA)

Sign up to be a class representative for SBA!

SBA rep elections are 8/30, 8/31, and 9/1

Sign up for SBA Financial and

Social Committees!

Sign-up sheet available in Bannan on 8/22 and 8/23. The last day to sign up is Club Day!

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Women & Law and SBA Welcome Back BBQ

The SBA and Women & Law are co-sponsoring a Welcome Back BBQ. It will be next Friday, August 26th from 5-7 pm in the Alumni BBQ Pit (on the edge of the baseball practice field near the Levy Center (see map)). Every student is welcome to attend for free food, drink and fun! Women & Law is selling tank tops and sweatshirts at Club Day on August 24th. They're really cute, so come check them out! The tanks are $15 and the sweatshirts are $30.

SCU Event Information

Computer and High Technology Law Journal BBQ!

Everyone is invited! (1Ls, 2Ls, Candidates, and Friends meet and mingle with the Editors of CHTLJ!) When – Wednesday, August 24 Where – The Alumni Park BBQ Pit (see map) Time – 5-7pm

Intellectual Property Association

Annual BBQ Tuesday, August 30, 5-6pm

All students interested in intellectual property are invited to attend the IPA BBQ to learn about the club and meet its members. We'll be serving hot dogs, hamburgers, veggie burgers, and soft drinks. The BBQ is at the Alumni BBQ pit, labeled ‘Alumni Park’ in the map . Get there by walking from the parking structure.

Intellectual Property Association

General Meeting Tuesday, August 23rd 12-1 · Bannan 139

Student can sign up to be members of the IPA at this meeting and gather all kinds of great information about IPA elections, events in the upcoming semester and other perks that that the IPA has to offer you. The IPA will provide pizza for lunch but please bring your own drink.

ALUMNI BBQ PIT LOCATION

Bisexual Gay & Lesbian Advocates (BGLAd)

First General Meeting!

Date: Monday, August 29th Time: 12:10pm – 1:00pm Place: Bannan Rm. 139

Lunch provided!

We welcome all law students and faculty to BGLAd events and look forward to meeting you.

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SCU Event Information

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