OC Wednesday Meeting
What: The Commentator’s Weekly Meeting
Who: You, if you’re at all interested in working at the Commentator
When: On Wednesday, May 3rd at 6:00 PM
Where: The OC Office, EMU Room 319
I have it on good authority that Wednesday is Danimal’s last day of law school, so this post has been appropriately categorized.
Addendum by Michael G.: Thursday is Quattro de Mayo. Two words: El Dorado.
That makes a lot more sense. Don’t know about you, but holding down a full-time job while taking classes wasn’t on my radar anyway. Willamette has specific rules against any kind of job whatsoever.
Thanks again — and cheers.
Also:
I am knurd!
Meet me tomorrow at 9th Street Grill and Barr for 24-oz Mojitos!
Ian: Shhh!
C.G.: It’s my understanding that the ABA requires law students not to work full time during their first year. Maybe Willamette requires something beyond that, as in really really not having a job.
Whatever, it’s all in the self-reporting anyway.
We’re getting away from the more important topic of whether or not Sixth Street will have enough El Dorado glasses for us this time around.
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C.G.: The Con-law specialists at UO are reliably New Deal, anti-federalism, and, at least in the case of Epps, unabashedly biased in favor of flagrant leftism. For all that, however, they get everything right on free expression. (To my mind, at least.)
But honestly, UO only has two Con-law specialists, if you don’t count criminal procedure or fifth amendment takings. It’s solid but under-emphasized.
Riverdale is near there, too, it’s true. But you can totally just go up Boones Ferry from LOHS, take a right at Terwilliger (which I can no longer spell correctly), and end up at L&C. It’s like, seriously, maybe a couple of miles. Used to run it all the time when I was growing up on the rough, needle-covered streets of Lake Oswego.
That school is actually Riverdale High, Tim. Lake O High lies further into the yuppie-clogged heart of darkness that is Lake Oswego.
Danimal — thanks for the insight. What about people with a primary interest in Con-law? I notice neither L&C nor UO focuses on that as much as Willamette, but who the hell wants to live in Salem? Besides, first-year law students at Willamette aren’t even allowed to hold down jobs on the side.
“trying to decide which is less nauseatingly ideological, Lewis & Clark or UO Law.”
Answer: yes!
Actually, speaking strictly for UO Law, it all depends on your focus. UO has an excellent environmental law program (albeit dominated by the nauseatingly ideological left), and a strong business law and entrepeneurship program (dominated by the not-really-ideological right, and LDS). The criminal law professors lean towards defendants, but you can do clinics for either side. The tort law profs leans towards plaintiffs, but bring in defendant’s attorneys to guest-lecture. The IP profs are at least semi-libertarian, and pretty much everyone else is apolitical centrist. Until we get to human rights, where you get into gibbering nuttery about “challenging American exceptionalism,” but you can skip every class and still earn a B+.
Oh, rest assured that any bomb-throwing on my part will be metaphorical in nature and most emphatically not directed at the OC.
I think the average age of the staff has decreased a bit since I fled the country, but we’ve surely been known to hang with 40-year-olds. Anyway, after a properly-celebrated happy hour at Rennie’s we all, regardless of gender, have prostate problems.
Although the “conservative Ted Kaczynski” bit sounds like a perfectly fine idea, provided that the only articles you’re putting in the mail are the written kind.
On second thought, maybe I won’t make the meeting. I’ll just send you guys articles from undisclosed locations — a quixotic, conservative Ted Kaczynski, if you will.
See, I would presumably be the only person at your meeting who worries about life insurance, plus I’m not sure my prostate will make it past happy hour at Rennie’s. The only thing more pathetic than a 40-year old trying to hang with you guys is you guys hanging out with a 40-year old 😉
I’m not sure I’m hip enough (anymore) to identify a suburbanite snob from a crack-dealing thug. They all seem to be dressing the same these days, and listening to the same music, or at least it sounds the same (doesn’t P.J. describe something about metal garbage cans and stairwells? … I’m closer to his age than the age of the average undergrad, by the way, so partying with me might be problematic. Or else boring. In any case, consider yourself warned).
The L&C campus is, admittedly, a very nice place if you have a fondness for walks in the woods, classes in the woods, professors in the woods (metaphysically speaking). Also, I have to admit that I would be living in a target-rich environment, what with all the tree huggers and wannabe Jan Schlichtmans (of course, the purists who go to L&C would rather just skip the whole bourgeois-corporate-lawyer stage of that particular fantasy and just go straight to the anti-capitalist nitwit attorney who is dead broke from spending all his own money fighting the corporate monoliths of the age).
Still, on balance, I’m still leaning toward UO. I would be less likely to draw unwanted attention to myself.
L&C has the advantage of being almost directly behind Lake Oswego High School, though. Haven’t you always wanted to go to law school mere blocks from a high school populated by suburbanite snobs?
I live in Portland, but I will be poking around down in Eugene and I wanted to get an eyes-on look at the law school (trying to decide which is less nauseatingly ideological, Lewis & Clark or UO Law), hopefully this week. In any case, if I can’t make the meeting I’ll stop by when I can and introduce myself.
All that said, I’m on a tight budget so if all else fails, I’ll try and come up with something (an essay? article? rant?) and send it to you to evaluate.
I gotta say, though, that UO already has an edge. Not only have I been a Duck fan most of my life, I don’t think L&C has the equivalent of an OC crowd. Frankly, I can’t see myself getting through law school without someplace I can freely (or at least drunkenly) ridicule the modern American higher-education system.
Most definitely. Come on by, Anon.
This hypothetical person should, by all means, drop by. I’m sure the kids will be glad to see you.
Let’s say someone is pondering going to grad school at UO (but is not currently enrolled), and let’s say they didn’t get their BA from UO because they were getting shot at in some faraway shithole and had to get their degree from say, one of University of Maryland’s 9,000 branch campuses, and let’s also say that this person was not a journalism major but worked as a military journalist for several years … would this OC meeting still be open to him/her?
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