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Academic Enhancement Committee: Student Contacts: Lisa Chiang and Esin Onart ~ chiang@, onart@
The Academic Enhancement Committee meets weekly to review the admissions files of potential Academic Enhancement Program candidates. In making its admissions decisions, the committee considers factors such as membership in ethnic and racial minority groups, financial hardship, English as a second language, and experience with discrimination.
Admissions Committee: Student Contacts: Zeke Carder and Ray Crutchley ~ carder@, rdc@
The Admissions Committee is meeting every Wednesday from 12:00 to 12:30. We will continue this practice until Apr. 21. Every committee member is reviewing files of applicants, and decisions regarding the applicants are being made every week. It is an arduous process, but we all enjoy doing it.
Board of Trustees: Student Contact: Robin Snyder ~ rsnyder@
The Board of Trustees will meet on February 19.
Board of Visitors: Student Contact: Joel Shapiro ~ jshapiro@
The Board of Visitors will hold its spring meeting on Apr. 16 at the law school. If you have input for the board, please contact Joel Shapiro. If you have questions about the agenda or would like to meet the board members, please speak to Pat Kraske.
Building Committee: Student Contact: Alix Gnoske ~ gnoske@
This ad hoc committee was formed to deal solely with building expansion issues and is chaired by Dean Huffman. The Committee looked at five preliminary campus renovation designs by Soderstrom Architects during a recent meeting. If students have specific questions, they are encouraged to get in touch with student contacts on the following subcommittees: Students (Mike Fleming), Library (Amie Wexler), Administrative (Jess Brown), Faculty (Joel Shapiro), Mechanics (Tim Murphy), and Technology (Elon Hasson).
Business Law Committee: Student Contact: Davis Yee ~ dyee@
The Business Law Committee met on Jan. 28 to continue discussion on two matters. The first matter was the business roundtable and its Y2K bug topic. The second matter was adjunct business faculty; the committee welcomes your input on this matter.
Also, Apr. 15 is fast approaching. For the past several years, the law school has participated in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. The VITA program, as directed by Professor Bogdanski, has helped many undergraduate foreign students fill out their federal tax forms. This year, the program may expand to help law students determine the deductibility of interest on their loans. Volunteers are needed; please contact Professor Bogdanski.
Curriculum Committee: Student Contacts: Alex Donahue & Margi Lifsey ~ adonahue@, lifsey@
The committee is continuing to revise the Three-Year Curriculum Plan, which is currently in draft stage. The committee has also considered and approved two externships and two tutorial experiences for the spring semester.
Elections Committee: Student Contact: Laurie Baughman ~ llb@lclark.edu
HEAR YE, HEAR YE! BE A PART OF YOUR STUDENT BAR! ELECTIONS ARE HERE !!
Election schedule:
March 1-12: Self-nomination forms will be available at the T.A. table in the library.
March 17 & 18: Voting tables will be open all day in the student lounge.
March 19: Results will be posted.
All students are welcome; no experience is necessary to run.
Student Services Committee: Student Contact: Alex Donahue ~ adonahue@
The “What The Hell Am I Doing Here?” Forum will be held on Thursday, Feb. 18, in the lounge from noon to 1:15 p.m. Please see the advertisement elsewhere in this issue.
Natural Resources Committee: Student Contacts: Amie Wexler and Alex West ~ wexler@ and west@
The NRC met earlier this semester with members of Environmental Law and discussed content and logistics. We reviewed the publishing schedule, learned about the inner-workings, and went over suggestions for improving production. In order to accommodate the computer program currently used, and still ensure environmentally-sound printing, the law review may be looking for a new publisher.
Professor Dan Rohlf spoke about environmental law clinics at other schools. Twenty-four schools now have these clinics, either as a direct part of their institution or as separate but affiliated entities. Many are run by tenured faculty. We talked about requiring students who wish to take our environmental clinical program to also take the Environmental Litigation Seminar, which is being offered this semester by Gary Kahn. Students could then choose to take the clinic either for one semester or all year.
Finally, we attacked a few glitches in the law school web site. Apparently no student groups are listed on the site, and both Chris Wold and Dan Rohlf are not included as part of the faculty.
Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! Committee: Student Contacts: Brenna Bell and Sabrina Venskus ~ bell@ and venskus@
The RRR Committee is pleased to announce that we have accomplished some major feats so far this year:
· 100% recycled paper in the copy center; all SBA-funded student groups are now required to use recycled paper for printing and copying needs
· two-sided printing default in the computer labs
· new recycling bins, including plastic recycling!
Be on the lookout for more waste-reduction improvements around campus. We intend to accomplish most of the goals we set out to achieve before the year’s end. Thanks for everyone’s support!
Transportation and Safety Committee: Student Contact: Brent Foster ~ bfoster@
The Transportation and Safety Committee drafted the following resolution, which the SBA passed unanimously on Feb. 7.
Whereas the Executive Council of Lewis & Clark College, with the intent of reducing drive-alone commuting, has recently implemented parking fees;
Whereas carpooling is by definition an alternative to drive-alone commuting;
Whereas the Transportation Advisory Group, the Student Bar Association, the Associated Students of Lewis & Clark, the law faculty, and Coalition Advocating Transportation Sensibility have all unanimously recommended free carpooling permits;
Whereas the fee for residential parking permits has been set at exactly one-half that of drive-alone commuter permits;
Because setting carpooling permit fees at a rate exactly one-half that of drive-alone commuter permits represents a fair compromise between providing carpooling permits for free and providing them at the same cost as drive-alone commuter permits;
We, the representatives of the law school student body, resolve to recommend that the Executive Council adopt a schedule that sets fees for carpooling permits at exactly one-half that of drive-alone commuter permits.
We further recommend that, in accordance with this resolution, the current fee of $100 per semester for carpooling permits be reduced to $75 per semester, exactly one-half the current fee of $150 per semester for drive-alone commuter permits, effective Fall 1999.
Calendar of SBA Events this Semester:
Pizza with the Dean: Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1999, noon, Room 4
"What the Hell Am I Doing Here?" Forum: Thursday, Feb. 18, noon, student lounge
Pizza with the Dean: Tuesday, Mar. 9, 1999, 5 p.m., Room 4
Next SBA meeting: Sunday, Mar. 14, 1999, 5 p.m., Room 6
Pizza with the Dean: Tuesday, Apr. 13, 1999, noon, Room 2