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Phi Alpha Delta will be having a meeting this Friday at 1:10 in W-206 to elect a new Marshal. If you are interested in the position please email Dianna at dms119@zips.uakron.edu. You will be asked to give a brief statement to our members on why you would be a good officer. Voting will take place on Friday by the members present at the meeting.
Additionally we will be talking about spring semester events and our trip to bi-annual convention this summer.
GUN FREE ZONES: ARE GUN LAWS MAKING OUR CAMPUSES MORE DANGEROUS?
Join the Federalist Society January 26th at 12:30 in Room L-151. Free Lunch provided by Old Carolina Barbeque Company.
The speaker is John Lott, author of “More Guns, Less Crime.” Commentary will be provided by Professor Aynes.
John R. Lott, Jr is an economist who has held research and/or teaching positions at the University of Chicago, Yale, Stanford, UCLA, Wharton, and Rice, and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission from 1988 to 1989. Lott has published over 100 articles in academic journals. He has authored six books including More Guns, Less Crime, Freedomnomics, The Bias Against Guns, and Are Predatory Commitments Credible? He has two other books forthcoming. He is a contributor and a weekly columnist for FoxNews.com. Lott’s Opinion pieces have appeared in several publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, USA Today, and the Chicago Tribune, and has appeared on television programs including ABC and NBC National Evening News broadcasts, Fox News, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and the Today Show. He received his PhD in economics from UCLA. He has testified numerous times in front of both chambers of Congress and in front of many state legislatures.
The 2012 Midwest BLSA Convention will be held in Columbus, OH, on February 15th-19th, 2012. For a general list of activities and registration information, please visit www.nblsa.org/mwblsaconvention.
The alumni reception will be sponsored and hosted by Ohio State University Moritz College of Law on Friday, February 17, 2012, from 7:30-9:30 pm. It will be located at the OSU Barrister Club, 25 W. 11th Avenue (located across 11th Avenue from Drinko Hall and above Panera Bread), Columbus, OH, 43210. This reception will be a great opportunity for current law students to expand their network and connect with NBLSA alums.
For more information, contact Evangeline White, NBLSA Midwest Director of Alumni Affairs and Development, at midwest.alumniaffairs@gmail.com.
If you or your organization is still wanting to donate an item to this year’s Annual Public Interest Auction, please let Melissa Marino know by January 23. If you are donating an actual item (i.e. basket, jewelry, tickets, ect.), please have the item taken to the Law School Clinic or make arrangements to give it to Melissa by January 27. Any questions can be addressed to: marino87.m@gmail.com Also, the Auction is Saturday February 4 at 6:00 in the Union and tickets go on sale January 30.
The Asian-Latino Law Students Association (ALLSA) will hold its first meeting of the semester on Thursday, January 19 at 12:30pm in W-214. All are welcome. Food will be served.