Saturday, August 21, 2004
Not A Good Sign
First reading assignments came out just over two weeks ago and I got my books two weeks from this coming Monday. I have four classes on Monday and have yet to finish any of the readings for any of those classes. I need Starbucks.
An Unexpected Souvenir From Cambridge
There's mold on my wallet. Apparently from my misadventure with the river Cam. So now I need a new wallet. Do any of my metrosexual readers care to make an affordable suggestion?
Not That I Have A Chance In Hell
But I'll give it the ol' college try anyway.
August 20, 2004
Dear Continuing Southwestern Student,
Tryouts for the Interscholastic Trial Advocacy Honors Program (ITAP) will be held at the beginning of the school year. If you intend to try out, please note the following dates and times and qualifications:
Tryouts are open to all continuing students who are in good academic standing and are either enrolled in or have completed Evidence. Moot Court members are not eligible for ITAP. Please see the Southwestern Student Handbook for additional information.
If you have interest in competing in the tryouts this fall, you must attend a mandatory informational meeting. This meeting will be held on Monday, August 30, at 12:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. in room BW 370 of the Bullocks Wilshire Building.
A problem will be distributed during this meeting. The problem is a closed-universe problem. However, some helpful materials on trial advocacy will be included in your packet to assist you in your tryouts.
The sign-up sheet for the tryouts will be distributed at the informational meeting. Competitors must sign up for a competition time in order to try out.
The selection process will consist of two rounds of mock trial setting and a final interview. After Round 1, a list will be posted of those invited to compete in Round 2. Finalists chosen from Round 2 will be invited to interview for a position on the team.
Round 1 of the tryouts will be held on September 7, 8 and 9 (Tuesday-Thursday)
Round 2 of the tryouts will be held on September 20, 21 and 22 (Monday-Wednesday)
Interviews will be held for finalists on September 28, 29 and 30 (Tuesday-Thursday)
If you intend to compete, please note the dates above for calendaring purposes. Please contact the ITAP office if you have any questions. We are located in the Westmoreland Building, Room W238, and can be reached at (213) 738-6848. You can also contact Seth Mitchell via email at seth_mitchell@hotmail.com
Thank you very much and we look forward to seeing you when school begins!
Good Luck,
The 2004-2005 ITAP Board
APALSA's Pre-Fall Picnic
Not a great turnout. Not a good turnout. Not much of a turnout at all. The turnout was similar to last year's. Hopefully, the attendance at the first general meeting is also similar to last year's.
Reason #1 For Why Ellisen Should Clerk For One Of The Supremes
It's not every day a SWLAW student can say he knows someone clerking for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Heh, The Judge Goes By The Name Of Dick
Richard A. Posner - yes, that Posner - will be guest blogging over here. I wonder what the judge's blogging style will be like. Is he going to be posting up pics of hot women or perhaps of men? Maybe he'll post up his results to an interent quiz or two, or post about his love of a certain fowl... complain about his neighbors... a movie review... law school advice...? Whatever he posts it's certain to be good shit.
Friday, August 20, 2004
Me In Some Odd Years?
The bacchanals I found so distressing were supposed to be fun because they were expensive - spending a lot of money to forget about their jobs is just what lawyers do - it's a kind of reflex, not anyone's fault, instinctual. By the time they become partners, these same people seem extraordinarily greedy to most people - but it's really not as much greed as habit, like the way I might have absently reached for a doughnut while busy with school in days before.
A Pair Of Posts At Blawg Wisdom
The first is for those who want to write better and the second contains links that may interest those about to go through OCIP.
Not Quite "Guns Or Butter"
Someone wittier than me - perhaps ES, Dylan, Soupie, Wings & Vodka, or anyone else in the blogosphere for that matter - should really be handling this news story.
A group supporting natural breasts staged a small street protest in Hollywood on Wednesday against a U.S. military policy offering free breast implants to female soldiers.
The group, led by porn star and former California gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey, said the military should spend its money on "bullets, not boobs."
It follows recent news stories about the military offering free plastic surgery, including breast enhancements, to soldiers and their families so military doctors can practice their skills.
The protest was organized by porn impresario Mark Kulkis, president of Kick Ass Pictures, the company for whom Carey stars.
Kulkis' porno films come with a promise that none of his female stars have breast implants
He and Carey presented a $500 check to Jennifer Zandstra of Commerce, Texas, who was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army two weeks ago and answered a Kick Ass announcement seeking military women opposed to breast implants.
"Thank you for coming up here and thank you most of all for keeping your real breasts," Kulkis told Zandstra.
Just So That Everyone Knows
Brian got an externship with a federal bankruptcy judge for this fall. He now has to drop his computer law class. Ryan took it well and Macy will understand after she kills him.
Thursday, August 19, 2004
Lazy Post
Too lazy to post anything of my own and besides you people should be spending your time reading the better blogs out there. ES breaks down her typical day as a 1L. Mr. Poon has an excerpt of a Posner decision that I'll have to ask Brian about. JCA is experiencing a silliness that I probably won't be since I'm skipping out on the OCIP this year. Matt Homann has great advice for new and soon-to-be lawyers. Soupie has a list of girls that would stretch a calendar past May. Dylan has me rethinking about my whole cataloguing of English women and my self-imposed banishment from Cambridge - scroll to pic 6 of 12. Naked sums up why I tend to buy new books.
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Last Post Of The Day
The vestige of Fido's youth can now be fully restored.
A Brazilian vet is offering plastic surgery and botox injections for pampered pets.
Edgard Brito, from Rio de Janeiro, offers wrinkle surgery, ear correction and even face lifts for dogs.
He told Las Ultimas Noticias: "Beauty is something desirable.
"We all like to talk to someone who looks good. It is the same for dogs."
Prices for treatment start at £20.
Stat Of The Day
I was asked today how popular this blog is, the answer is not very. My fifteen minutes began when JD2B linked to me and those minutes seem to be ticking to an end. The numbers will probably stop tumbling down by the beginning of next week. Anyway, here's a graph,
Orientation II
APALSA had over 60 1Ls sign up today. A good number I suppose. The hope is that we can get at least half of those to show up at APALSA's Pre-Fall Picnic. A bit ambitious but I remain hopeful. Don't let anyone say I'm not an optimist.
First impression of the incoming class is that it's much better looking than the one that came in last year. Of course, last year's incoming class included myself so the chances of this year's incoming class being better looking was a given.
First impression of the incoming class is that it's much better looking than the one that came in last year. Of course, last year's incoming class included myself so the chances of this year's incoming class being better looking was a given.
Orientation
I'll be representing the "P" in APALSA today at the SBA Faire during today's orientation at SW.
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Last Post Of The Day
Supreme Court Justices Bobbleheads here, here and here. I want one of each of course.(link via How Appealing)
Better Watch What You Say
Got ganged up on tonight by a trio of Bruin-haters. Think of the following as karma.
At least one member of the top-ranked Southern California football team is under investigation for sexual assault, the Los Angeles Police Department said Tuesday.
"[Tuesday] the rape special section of LAPD's robbery division began conducting an investigation into the allegation of a sexual assault that may involve a member or members of the USC football team," Reyes said.
Look Who's Trying To Invade My Space
Jimmy Orr, the White House's Internet guru, wants the White House Web site to get bloggier.
"We're trying to make it more bloggish," he says in an interview. "People need to see that we're on the site and we're listening to what they have to say."
Blogs -- short for Web logs -- are all the rage these days. And while some people use them for such things as chronicling their sex lives, they have more significantly emerged as a potent vehicle for news and views on the Internet.
A while back, Orr was his own guest on "Ask the White House" One questioner raised the topic of blogging. And it turns out Orr's a fan.
"Bloggers are very instrumental. They are important. They can lead the news. And they've been underestimated," he wrote.
"Here's what the bloggers do. They notice something in the news or something they've observed that maybe the 'traditional' media hasn't covered or isn't spending much time on. But they think it is significant. So, they give the story a second life (or first). And they talk about it. And others talk about it. Before you know it, it is leading the news."
SI's Pac-10 Projections Up
While UCLA may be projected to finish seventh there is some really good news, UCLA is expected to win a few conference games and USC is expected to lose one conference game. Could SI be projecting that loss to come on Dec. 4? I don't hear SI's experts saying no.
This Would Never Happen At Chez Soller
Preferential treatment given to Owen Wilson but not to Jennifer Love Hewitt. (link via the man whose angry letter started it all)
Last Post Of The Day
UTK Law School had their orientation today. A pair of photos here. Looks like they have better looking girls than SW but that isn't saying much.
Monday, August 16, 2004
The Top Ten Party Schools
The annual "Best 357 Colleges" survey, conducted since 1992, is based on responses from more than 110,000 students at campuses around the country. The review has no affiliation with Princeton University.Last year's #1 dropped eight places.
The "party school" category is based on questions focusing on the amount of alcohol and drug consumption, the amount of time students spend studying, and the popularity of fraternities and sororities.
The Princeton Review's report ranked Albany seventh in the use of hard liquor and marijuana, ninth in beer drinking and first in "students (almost) never study."
1) State University of New York at Albany
2) Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
3) University of Wisconsin-Madison
4) West Virginia University, Morgantown
5) Ohio University, Athens
6) Florida State University, Tallahassee
7) University of Texas-Austin
8) University of Georgia, Athens
9) University of Colorado
10) University of Mississippi
Sunday, August 15, 2004
Operation For Third Hairiest Man
When I read that headline my inquisitive mind quickly wondered, "Who the fuck are the two hairier men?" So I kept on reading.
The third hairiest man in the world is recovering from surgery to unblock his ears.The first two sentences explained a lot but not my first and most burning question. The next two sentences were even less helpful.
Yu Zhenhuan, 26, from China, suffers from atavism and was born with thick hair covering 96% of his body.
He feared his career as a rock star was over after losing a third of his hearing, reports the Daily Mirror.All that did was left me questioning whether his rock star status came about because of his music or his freak appearance.
But, after doctors in Shanghai removed hair from his external auditory canals, he said: "It's no big deal. I can handle it."
Yu was named hairiest man in the Guinness Book of Records in 2002.Finally, the answer to my question. Satisfied, I then thought, well if the twins have two percent more body hair and their ears aren't clogged with hair, then there has to be some other orifice that's blocked right?
But last year Mexican acrobats Larry and Danny Gomez were recognised as hairier. The twins, 19, have 98 per cent covering.
Canucks Preserve Only Reason To Practice In Canada
Link from How Appealing:
Members of the Canadian Bar Association on Sunday voted against forbidding lawyers to have sex with clients.I'm sure Jordan is happy with this decision.
The Bar Association's annual conference in Winnipeg debated two separate resolutions.
The first would have imposed a total ban on sexual relations between lawyers and clients.
The other, more moderate, proposal, would have prohibited lawyers from having affairs with "vulnerable" clients, such as those involved in immigration, criminal and family law disputes.
The organization, which represents 38,000 Canadian lawyers, conducted a heated and passionate debate on the issue.
In the end, both motions were defeated. Lawyers at the conference said that sex with vulnerable clients was already prohibited under general rules about acting in a client's best interests, and acting objectively.
For Those In Section R Or Taking The Con Law Seminar
The abstract to Prof. Horwitz's Grutter's First Amendment.
A Discovery
Another blogger is about to join law school. His announcement that the school is going to be Southwestern University School of Law is here.
I Hate The Internet
Maybe hate is too strong a word - it's not like if I saw the internet dying by the side of road I wouldn't stop to help out - but is anyone else pissed off that they can't get on the internet without seeing Olympic results before actually seeing the tape-delayed action on tv? A big reason, at least for me anyway, to watch sport is the unpredicatable nature of sport. We watch because we don't really know what's going to happen - unless it's UCLA vs. USC (I'm more than willing to bet that the Bruins will take this year's football game as I did last year) - right? Anyway, how hard can it be to just have the link say "Olympic Coverage" or "400 IM results" rather than "Phelps wins first gold in 400 IM"?
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