Sunday, October 7

George Mason, author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights (precursor of the Bill of Rights), died on this day in 1792. Mason also happens to be the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather of Paris Hilton. No joke.

Birthdays today include Desmond Tutu, Oliver North, John Cougar Mellencamp, Yo-yo Ma, and Radiohead's Thom Yorke.

 

Monday, October 8

Welcome prospective students! Admissions is hosting an Open House today starting at 9:00 a.m.

12:00 noon, Room 200 - Join the Public Interest Coalition for a pizza lunch to learn about future PIC events including: Bruce Friedman Community Service Day (October 27); November tour of the NH State Prison; annual PIC auction (March 20); and PIC fellowships.

Taking a brief respite from recruiting, both Katie McDonald and Barbara Wilson will be in the Admissions Office together for the first time in weeks. Will they recognize one another?

On this day in 1869, New Hampshire's Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States, died in Concord, N.H., at age 64. An alcoholic, Pierce succumbed to cirrhosis of the liver -- "chronic inflammation of the stomach, attended with dropsical effusion of the abdomen" in the words of the day. Read his obituary.

It's Columbus Day! School's open, of course.

 

Tuesday, October 9

5:30 p.m., Rich Room - Greg Lukianoff, President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) will talk about the conflict between speech and conduct codes at centers of higher learning and a student's right to free speech. Pizza and drinks will be served. Presented by the Pierce Law chapter of the American Constitution Society.

The dynamic duo of Denise Presby and Lynn Froleiks will recruit for Pierce Law at UNH's Graduate and Professional School Fair.

David Souter of New Hampshire was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court on this day in 1990. 

 

Wednesday, October 10

Learn about Externships. 12:00 noon in the Rich Room. Professor Ellen Musinsky will present an overview of the program and students will talk about their experience while on externship. Lunch will be served!

7:00 p.m. Professor Emeritus Richard A. Hesse will present a program on free speech at the Derry Public Library.

Katie McDonald returns to the Midwest to attend the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Law Fair. Meanwhile, Barbara Wilson visits Colby College in Waterville, Maine to attend their law fair. 

It's World Mental Health Day.

 

Thursday, October 11

Be loud. Be proud. Talk about it. It's National Coming Out Day.

12:00 noon, Room 203 - Scholar in Residence Stanley Kowalski will speak about golden rice in a presentation entitled "Intellectual Property and the Global Public Interest: Challenges and Opportunities." RSVP to the Social Justice Institute for lunch.

Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and Bowdoin College in Brunswick host law fairs.  Barbara Wilson will represent Pierce Law Center. Denise Presby recruits in Waltham, MA at Brandeis University's Graduate and Professional Schools Fair.

 

Friday, October 12

Dean John D. Hutson, Associate Dean Susan Richey and Assistant Dean for Student Services Fran Canning will meet with student organization leaders at 12:00 noon in room 201. The discussion will focus on making sure the school's students organizations are getting what they need to be successful and to talk about ways the administration can help further their missions.

 

Saturday, October 13

What will you do to clean up the world this weekend? When 35 million volunteers around the planet take part in the annual United Nations-backed “Clean Up the World Weekend” today and Sunday, their activities will for the first time also break into cyberspace with photos and videos posted onto Google Maps, giving a global platform to every local initiative.

 

Also...

Don't forget the Mid-Autumn Festival! 6:00 p.m. in the Jury Box tonight (Friday 10/5). Free Chinese food, Chinese tea, Chinese moon cakes, and nonalcoholic drinks. Some traditional souvenirs will be given out as rewards. Every member of the Pierce Law Community is welcome!

Sunny Mulligan reports the latest New Hampshire bar results: For the July 2007 bar we had an 83% passage rate... 36 students sat, 30 passed, 6 failed. Overall in New Hampshire, 139 sat, 113 passed, 26 failed" for an overall state pass rate for this bar of 81%.

 

Got news for Next Week @ Pierce Law, October 14th to 20th? Send your events and notices to jmccrory@piercelaw.edu no later than 3 p.m. on Thursday. NW@PL is produced by the Pierce Law Communications Office and distributed to faculty, staff, and students towards the end of each week.