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Food Drive: The 1L Class is collecting food and non-perishables for the holidays to address a critical shortage in supplies at the New Hampshire Food Bank. The crisis has worsened in recent weeks with inventory at an all time low, and food coming in at a slow pace. The most urgently-needed items include:

• Protein items such as canned tuna or chicken and canned stews and pasta
• Peanut butter
• 100% juice boxes (no glass please)
• Canned fruits in light syrup, applesauce
• Canned vegetables, tomatoes and tomato sauce
• Soups
• Healthy cereals
• Pasta, rice
• Dry beans

Please help by placing items in the box in front of Jan's desk from 9 AM- 5PM. The drive will run through December 1st.

Winter Clothing Drive: To aid the Interfaith Refugee Resettlement Program, the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) is collecting winter clothing. There is a collection box in the Lobby opposite Jan’s desk. The drive will accept donations through November 30th.

 

Sunday, November 18

Professor Mitchell Simon is in Georgia attending the 2007 workshop of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism. Professor Simon was selected as one of twenty 2007 Fellows by the Institute.

 

Monday, November 19

The International Intellectual Property Organization (IIPO) hosts its first "Brown Bag" Lunch Seminar. Gerardo J. Guillen MIP '07 will speak on "Intellectual Property in Central America." Room 200 from 12:10 - 1pm. Lunch will be served. Sponsored by the SBA and the Graduate Programs Office.

PAD holds open meeting from noon until 1:00pm in the Rich Room. This meeting aims to generate interest in PAD and recruit new students for our initiation that will take place after Thanksgiving. Food will be provided. PAD is the largest legal fraternity and membership benefits include access to law study systems, The Princeton Review, student loan consolidation, Brooks Brothers discounts, a health insurance program, GEICO Auto Insurance, Budget Truck rentals, and more.

 

Tuesday, November 20

Today is the anniversary of Mexico's 1910 Revolution. 

If he were alive, today would be the 82nd birthday of Robert F. Kennedy, the 64th Attorney General of the United States and younger brother of President John F. Kennedy.

The Nuremburg Trials, in which the International Military Tribunal tried 24 of the most important captured leaders of Nazi Germany, began on this day in 1945.

 

Wednesday, November 21

Today is both World Television Day and World Hello Day, each of which encourage peace through cultural exchange and communication. Possibly no one could personify this combination better than the peaceful accordionist, bandleader and North Dakota icon Lawrence Welk, who supported World Hello Day wholeheartedly, noting that his years on television gave him dozens of opportunities to greet people each day.

 

Thursday, November 22

Give happy thanks! Today is Thanksgiving, always held the fourth Thursday in November.

The first Presidential proclamation of the holiday was in 1789 after Elias Boudinot, member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts, moved that a day of Thanksgiving be held "to thank God for giving the American people the opportunity to create a Constitution to preserve their hard won freedoms."

Pierce Law will be closed today and Friday for Thanksgiving.

 

Friday, November 23

Pierce Law is closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Saturday, November 24

On the Origin of Species, in which Charles Darwin explained his theory of evolution by "natural selection," was published on this day in 1859.  

  

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