Sunday, March 16

Many students, faculty and staff are going to see Avenue Q at the Colonial Theater in Boston. We have chartered a bus and will be singing Muppet songs all the way to the theater.

 

Monday, March 17

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Admissions Open House for prospective students. 

Adjunct Professor Dan Crean is in Phoenix, Arizona today and tomorrow for the Spring Conference of the Association of Governmental Risk Pools. He will be speaking on "Subrogation and Governmental Risk Pools" today and on "Public Employee Privacy, Speech, and Blogging" tomorrow.

Cyberpunk writer William Gibson is 60 today. 

 

Tuesday, March 18

Forty years ago today, the US unlinked the dollar from the Gold Standard.

 

Wednesday, March 19

Professor Karl Jorda gives a talk on "Patent/Trade Secret Complementariness: An Unsuspected Synergy" at the meeting of the Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association in Pittsburgh, PA.

 

Thursday, March 20

Annual PIC Auction: doors open at 5:00! Come one, come all for fun, for bidding, for cool auction items donated by friends who support Pierce Law fellowships for public interest work! See www.piercelaw.edu/auction for more information.

Spring is here! Really! Tell someone a story about a dream -- it's World Storytelling Day.

 

Friday, March 21

We're betting Professor Grimes will have something ready for the occasion of World Poetry Day. It is also the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

 

Saturday, March 22

Wash your hands for public health: Did you know 2008 is the International Year of Sanitation? Today is World Water Day, an observation seeking to accelerate progress for 2.6 billion people world wide who are without proper sanitation facilities.

 

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