Adjusting to life in law school can be a monumental task. The quicker you adjust, the better your experience will be. That goes the same whether you are straight out of undergrad or, like myself, spent years working in another field before matriculating. Those first classes were filled with so many unknown terms, and not just legal terms. What were …
MUST WE KEEP SECRETS? Constitution Day: The 1st Amendment, whistleblowers, and surveillance of newsrooms
Beginning in June, newspaper and online coverage of Edward Snowden’s leaks of National Security Agency documents exposed multiple layers of government spying on Americans. The NSA documents, published by the Guardian in Britain, the Washington Post, and others, revealed that the U.S. government: Hoards our phone call records, supposedly to catch terrorists, then uses those records to decide who is …
On Bike to Work Day, uphill battle tests endurance for sake of environment
KU Law Communications Coordinator Sarah Shebek on Bike to Work Day, before and after her uphill commute. The hill stretched ahead of me, taunting me with every painful push of the pedals. A relentless trickle of sweat dripped into my eyes, and I gasped for air as though I was racing through the French Alps. I’d only been on the …
Moving to Lawrence? 3L offers 5 secrets to success
“Where should I live?” is one of the most common questions prospective students ask me. I’m settled in my sunny, happy, 105-year-old Victorian house now, but before I started classes at KU Law, I was at the helm of a 26-foot moving truck for 1,704 miles. I’m familiar with the nervous-anxious-panicky feeling of moving to an unknown city in an …
Student uses spring break to conquer Mount Kilimanjaro
Like a lot of students, Sarah Schmidt, 3L, went south for spring break, but she skipped lounging on the beach and climbed one of the world’s tallest mountains instead. “One of my best friends, a fourth-year med student at KU, was doing an international rotation in South Africa,” she said. “I had decided to fly down and join her after …
Rural & Solo Program takes students on Salina road trip
A new program designed to ensure that KU Law graduates help fulfill the legal needs of the entire state of Kansas hit the road this month with a visit to Salina. The Rural & Solo Program conducted its first student visit on April 13. Steven Brown, L’79, of Brown & Vogel Chartered, generously hosted a group of KU Law students …