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Pearly Whites

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Want a white smile? Looking for a holiday gift?

One of the Harvard dental student groups is selling discounted Oral-B Power Toothbrushes and Crest Whitestrips Professional! As this is a fundraiser, we were able to get very reduced prices from the company. SALE ENDS NOV. 24.

To purchase using Google checkout visit: http://www.oralhealthacrossnations.com/buy-toothbrush-or-whitestrips.html

1) Oral-B Professional Care SmartSeries 5000 Power Toothbrush

Amazon price: $119.81

Our price: $67

One of the best models on the market, this toothbrush promotes healthy gums and removes plaque effectively. It comes with a wireless SmartGuide brushing timer and 5 different modes.

2) Crest Whitestrips Supreme Professional Whitening

MSRP: Not available in stores

Our price: $42

Unlike Whitestrips purchased in stores, the Crest Whitestrips Supremse is the professional strength system that can be purchased in dental offices – it has 80% more effective results.

SALE ENDS NOV. 24. Items will be available for pickup only from the Cambridge and Longwood areas in early Dec. We do not ship items. All items are for personal use only. RESALE IS PROHIBITED.

To purchase using Google checkout visit: http://www.oralhealthacrossnations.com/buy-toothbrush-or-whitestrips.html

Email info@oralhealthacrossnations.com with questions.

Apply for the Hauser Center for Nonprofits SAB

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The Harvard Graduate Council received the following e-mail about the opportunity for all Harvard graduate students to apply to the Student Advisory Board of the Hauser Center for Nonprofits.

As this is a position that runs from January 2010-January 2011, students who will graduate in June 2010 are not eligible to apply (with the exception of students at HGSE in a one-year masters program who may serve from Jan thru June 2010). More info can be found below and also here: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/hauser/students/studentadvisorycommittee/index.html

Green Living Update

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Living the Green Life
5 ways to make an environmental impact at HLS, from your Green Living Rep-at-Large:
  • Tone Your Backside! Langdell now offers double-sided printing, so select the double sided option (details here) before you print to save money and cut paper waste.
  • Watcha Gonna Do With All That Junk?  Recycle it! HLS has single-stream recycling, so toss all your paper, plastics #1-7, and cans into any recycling bin.  But don’t recycle styrofoam, plastic bags, or food.  Need more info?  Check here.
  • BYO Mug! Bring a reusable mug to get any hot drink at a reduced price from the Hark.
  • Compost Your Leftovers! Leave leftover food, napkins, tea bags, and wooden coffee stirrers on your plate at the Hark dish drop for easy composting.
Finally, please contact Myra Blake with any questions, concerns, or complaints at mblake@jd11.law.harvard.edu.
Thank you for keeping Harvard sustainable!

Academic Advising

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We’ve heard from a lot of students lately that would like to see a different academic advising program in place here at HLS.  Obviously, this is an issue of great importance and the administration is willing to talk with us about it, but before we get too involved in the conversation, we’d first like to hear from you.  What would you like to see in an academic advising program at HLS?  What do you like about what is in place now?  Please leave your comments below, or if you’d like them to be more private, send an email to studentgov@law.harvard.edu.

Weekly Comment Box – Updated

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NEW to Student Government (new! how exciting!): our weekly comment box. Of course you can always email us with concerns ( studentgov at law.harvard.edu) but if there’s little things around campus that need fixing but don’t need a whole email (aka: this bathroom door is busted, this printer isn’t working etc) feel free to quickly post it here, too, if it’s easier for you.

MPRE Ride Share

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Hello 3Ls and LLMs,
This messages is for those of you taking the MPRE this coming weekend.

It was brought to our attention that many of you may have to travel long distances, and/or to places that are not well served by public transportation to get to your test location.

In the hopes that we could make the process a little easier for you, we compiled a simple spreadsheet to help you coordinate transportation amongst yourselves. Please feel free to use the following spreadsheet to either search for a ride to your test location or offer up any free spots you might have in your vehicle.

Please let us know if you have any questions.  Best of luck on the exam!

Harvard Law School Association Facebook Group

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The Harvard Law School Association has set up a Facebook group! Current students are welcome and encouraged to join. Link is below:

http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=hlsa&init=quick#/pages/Harvard-Law-School-Association-HLSA/146575881880?ref=ss

Your Student Government At Work

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A quick look at our recent accomplishments:

  • Student Government Pub Nights: very popular weekly happy hours for students, with free beer and wine (starting this year on Thursday, Oct. 1!)
  • Faculty-Student Lunch Program: every year, we arrange for students to have free lunches with distinguished HLS professors.
  • Organize and distribute Unofficial Course Evaluations each semester.
  • Solicited, collected, and presented student feedback regarding the grade change to Dean Kagan.
  • Solicited, collected, and presented student feedback regarding the switch to the Early Interview Program to Office of Career Services.
  • Formed and headed a student committee to meet with President Faust on the new dean search.
  • Changed news@law in order to allow students to plan their weeks more conveniently.
  • Convinced administration to buy toasters for the 2008-2009 free Monday morning bagel breakfasts.
  • Obtained Splenda, strawberry cream cheese, and Heinz ketchup in the Hark.
  • Worked with Restaurant Associates to respond to vegetarian students’ needs, including increased quantity of vegetarian sushi and better vegetarian labeling.
  • Increased quantity of sweat towels at the Hemenway gym.
  • Successfully advocated to see the Hark re-open from 2:30-5:00 to serve students’ needs in 2009.
  • Distributed bags filled with candy and faculty advice to the 1Ls when they received their grades.
  • Created a database of 3Ls willing to give 2Ls advice on applying to law firms.
  • Dodgeball tournament (co-sponsored with HL Central and the intramural sports).
  • Approved of many new students groups in 2008-2009.

Cross-Registration Feedback Wanted

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As many of you know, Harvard has been working hard to unify the different schools within the university. (This is the reason for the changes in the academic calendar this year). In order to help the administration with this goal, we would love to hear how your experiences have been with cross-registration. Please be as specific as possible so we can try to streamline the process (aka what elements have and have not worked for you).

Thanks!

Reading Buddies

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Join Reading Buddies/Lectores y Amiguitos Today!

The Reading Buddies Program pairs HGSE students, staff and other Harvard affiliated volunteers with second graders at the Amigos Elementary School, a dual language immersion school in Cambridge. During weeks when the second grade student group is instructed in English, Reading Buddy Volunteers read aloud and share conversation with students on designated Thursdays listed below from 12:05 to 12:45 pm.

Reading Buddy volunteers learn how reading aloud promotes literacy in a training session led by Amigos School educators and CSV staff. Several other activities are a part of the program such as events around the holidays and a year-end picnic for students and volunteers.

Lectores y Amiguitos, the partner program to Reading Buddies, is a Spanish language volunteer program in which fluent Spanish speakers from HGSE and the Harvard community read to second graders at the Amigos Elementary School. Volunteers read aloud and share conversation in Spanish with students approximately every Thursday from 12:05 – 12:45 pm.

There are four different ways in which you can volunteer your time: If you would like to sign up for the Reading Buddies Program, there are two different groups that each read to their student every other week. You are free to sign up for one or both of those groups.
For the Lectores y Amiguitos Program, there is one group that reads to their students each week.
Because the program focuses on the one-to-one interaction of the student and the reader, we do ask that you make a commitment to read to your student on each day that your group is scheduled. To view the schedule for each group, visit the Reading Buddies website.
Additionally, if you feel like you cannot commit to reading each week or every other week, you can also sign up to become an on-call substitute reader.

To sign up for the Reading Buddies/Lectores y Amiguitos Program, please view the sign up sheet.

To learn more about these programs, contact the Office of Student Affairs at 617-495-8035 or Reading_Buddies@gse.harvard.edu.

Another Way to Go Green

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Is your room looking a little. . .  inorganic? Spruce it up!

Come to the…
Plant Sale

Parlor Room
Phillips Brooks House
Harvard Yard


All proceeds will benefit the Phillips Brooks House Association,
a non-profit public service program
run by Harvard Undergraduates.

Plants provided by
Brattle Square Florist.

Friday, Sept 4       during Open House (2-5pm)
Saturday, Sept 5                 10am – 6pm
Sunday, Sept 6                   11am – 6pm
Monday, Sept 7                   11am – 6pm
Tuesday, Sept 8                    9am – 7pm
Wednesday, Sept 9               9am – 5pm

Harvard P-Cards Accepted!

Some things we are working on but haven’t resolved yet…

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In response to your requests, here are some things we are working on, but haven’t yet been able to make happen.  Any input is welcome.

  • Duplex printing.  In an effort to make HLS more eco-friendly, we have been pushing to get all printers to be set to default to duplex printing.  The complication, aside from just communicating what this would entail to all students, is that not all printers currently have duplex capabilities and upgrading the printers in this economy is likely to be difficult.
  • Textbook requirements.  Right now there is no easy way to find out what books are required for your classes.  In most cases you have to physically go to the Coop to find out.  This should change.  The challenge is creating a technical system that can convey this info and/or getting faculty to consistently list this info in their course descriptions.
  • Administrative Updates.  We’re looking for a better way to get Administrative Updates to students.  Right now, to read the administrative updates you have to either check myHLS or subscribe to the RSS feed.  Neither is very hard, but it would be great if it was even easier.  The challenge is figuring out how to get this info to students without overwhelming and watering down the usefulness of things like news @ law.

That’s it for now.  But we’ll keep working to find more to work on for you.

Brian

Letter from President Faust re: Policing Efforts

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The following is a letter recently sent out from Drew Faust about the improved policing efforts througout Harvard.

-Marissa

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Dear Students,
I write to inform you that the special committee I appointed in August 2008 to consider how best to assure the strongest possible relations between the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and Harvard’s highly diverse community has now reported its findings to Provost Steven Hyman and Executive Vice President Ed Forst.
I encourage you to read the report, posted at http://www.news.harvard.edu/press/pressdoc/090424_hupd_report.pdf. The independent six-person panel, ably led by attorney Ralph Martin, determined that while the HUPD has enjoyed a well-earned reputation for responsiveness and restraint, work remains to be done by both the HUPD and the broader Harvard community to achieve the shared goal of a welcoming, safe, and open environment.  After consulting widely with the Harvard community and investigating both “best practices” in community policing generally and the specific policing policies of two similarly situated peer universities, the committee devised a series of recommendations and principles, both structural and policy-related.
I have asked Provost Hyman and Executive Vice President Forst to review each recommendation in the coming weeks to determine which can and should be implemented.  It is my objective to initiate a comprehensive response to this report by the beginning of the 2009-2010 academic year.
In the meantime, however, I wish to endorse the general themes that underpin the specific proposals.  Policing a university campus situated in an urban area poses unique and complex challenges.  In achieving this mission, HUPD officers must constantly balance the need to protect members of the Harvard community with the importance of maintaining an open campus.  Only through improved communication between the HUPD and the members of the Harvard community, through mutual respect, and through a willingness to acknowledge and carry out our own individual obligations can we as a University accomplish the goal of creating a campus that is safe and welcoming for all students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
I also wish to thank all the members of the committee for their dedicated and diligent work.  I value this group’s independent insight and believe this report will help guide the University’s efforts to build a more cooperative and complementary relationship between the HUPD and other members of the Harvard community.
Please feel free to share this letter with interested others.
Sincerely,
Drew Gilpin Faust

Visiting Committee Feedback

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Last week we sent out the following email seeking feedback for the Visiting Committee.  We’re still looking for more feedback.  See the email below for details.

Hello fellow students,
As you may have seen in a previous email from Catherine Claypoole, the Visiting Committee will be coming to HLS on March 5 and 6.  The Visiting Committee reports directly to the Harvard University Board of Overseers, and this yearly visit is a great way for students to share their thoughts, ideas, and concerns about the state of HLS.  If you have an opinion about what the school is doing well, what more they can do, or what you would like to see changed, these are the people to share those thoughts with.
We highly encourage you to share your thoughts about the current state of HLS with the Visiting Committee.  Representative of the Student Government will, of course, be meeting with the Visiting Committee, and we want to be sure we have as much information from you – the students – as possible to bring to that meeting.
Please email us at studentgov@law.harvard.edu with any thoughts or concerns you may have.  We will be compiling the comments anonymously and presenting the compiled document to the Visiting Committee in March.
The Committee is especially interested in hearing any thoughts you have on next year’s early interview program and early fly out week, but any other comments you have would also be welcomed.  Some other possible significant areas of interest could be the new grading system, the status of the HLS faculty under the Obama administration, the curriculum in general, any opinions about Restaurant Associates, or anything else that affects your life here at HLS.
If, for whatever reason, you don’t want the Student Government to compile your comments anonymously, you are certainly still welcome to email the Committee directly at viscom@law.harvard.edu.
This is a great chance to ensure that your voice is heard.  We hope you will take maximum advantage of it.  Please try to get your feedback to us as soon as possible so that we can include as much of it as possible in a packet being sent to the Committee on 2/24.
Thank you for your time.  We look forward to hearing from you.
Your Student Government
(Comments are disabled for this post.  If you have feedback please email it to us at  studentgov at law.harvard.edu.)
Brian

A Few Random Things We’re Working On

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Every week we hear from several students about concerns they have or changes they would like to see that would make their lives better.  At any given time, we’re working on several of these small(er) projects.  Here’s a sampling of what we’re working on now.  Be sure to let us know if there’s something we can be doing for you!

- Working to see that Hemenway doesn’t run out of sweat towels quite so easily, especially during those peak exercise times.

- Working to get exercise mats at Hemenway for the use of a prospective HLS grappling club.

- Working on improving/increasing the laundry facilities in the North dorm building.

- Getting a rug out in front of Lewis to avoid slipping on the abundance of ice and marble.  UPDATE: We hear there is a rug out there now.  Is that so?

- As a long term project, working on getting the tunnel lights on motion sensors rather than standard switches.  A move that would both help the environment and avoid those late night, dark tunnel walks during finals time.

Bear in mind, this is not all that we have going on.  So, if you’ve expressed a concern to us but don’t see it here, don’t worry… we’re getting to it.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts on the above projects or anything else that is on your mind.

Brian

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