Category: General Announcements

A.L.i.C.E. Program – Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, and Evaluate

As you may know, our UA Police Department has adopted the A.L.i.C.E. program teaching proactive measures to be taken when faced with an assailant entering a building or classroom.

A.L.i.C.E. stands for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, and Evacuate.  This nationally-renowned training was developed following examination of school shootings, such as the one that occurred at Colombine . . . and closer to our community we consider Appalachian School of Law, Case Western Reserve University and now Chardon.

UAPD will be here to deliver A.L.i.C.E. training sessions, as follows:

LAW STUDENTS (lunch hour)
Monday, March 26 – Noon to 1:00 – Law Student Lunchroom

LAW STUDENTS (dinner hour)
Wednesday, March 28 – 5:30 – 6:30 – Law Student Lunchroom

The faculty and staff went through this training yesterday and we highly recommend that all of you take part!  Come dressed ready to participate, there is an opportunity for interaction.

In the meantime, please view the brief intro training video prior to our in-service training session.  See:  http://www.uakron.edu/safety/police/services/training.dot.

I want to invite you to a special event.  Unless your class schedule conflicts with this event, you shouldn’t miss it.

Dr. Larry Snider is visiting my Trial Advocacy I class tomorrow — Friday March 23rd beginning at 9:00 in Law-151.  The class is scheduled from 9:00 AM until noon but we will likely meet for two hours.  Feel free to invite your friends.

Dr. Snider is Professor of Music and Director of Percussion Studies at The University of Akron and is Principal Percussionist with the Akron Symphony Orchestra.  He has built a strong percussion program at Akron and his former students consistently achieve professional success as performers and educators throughout the world.  The percussion program’s most visible and widely acclaimed component is The University of Akron Steel Drum Band.  That’s right — steel drums in Akron!  How did that happen?

Steel drums were first created less than 100 years ago in colonial Trinidad as the people of that country struggled for independence.  Steel drum music was the music of the people and became the source of great conflict.  Authorities seized and destroyed the hand-hammered pans but the Trinidadians immediately rebuilt them.  Steel drum music is now a source of community pride, national identity, and economic development.  Dr. Snider brought steel drums from the tropical Caribbean to the often frigid northeast Ohio in 1980 by creating the University of Akron Steel Drum Band.

WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH TRIAL LAWYERS?  DR. SNIDER TEACHES PERFORMANCE AND HE HAS VALUABLE LESSONS FOR US.  This is a rare opportunity to see a charismatic and tremendously talented artist share his gifts.

I hope to see you there.

Professor Cole

To learn more about Dr. Snider, visit http://www3.uakron.edu/music/faculty/assets/snider.html.

To learn about Hammer on Steel, a PBS documentary about the development of steel drums and their unlikely journey to Akron, Ohio, visit https://www.uakron.edu/artscollege/hammer-on-steel.dot?host_id=1.

We are privileged to have Judge R. Guy Cole Jr. visiting us as our Jurist in Residence from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. During his stay here from March 29 through March 30, 2012, Judge Cole will be visiting several classes and meeting with students. Please welcome him when you see him. We want him to be impressed with our School and everyone he meets.

Judge Cole was nominated for his current position by President Clinton on June 29, 1995. He was confirmed by the Senate on December 22, 1995 and took his commission on December 26, 1995. Judge Cole graduated from Yale Law School with his JD degree in 1975. He has been in private practice, worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a Bankruptcy Court Judge from 1987 through 1993.

There will be a continental breakfast on Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 8 AM in the atrium. All members of the law school community are invited and we hope you will come to meet Judge Cole.