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Vol. 15, Issue 2 The Caveat Lector The “When Should I Start Making My CANs” Edition “Well okay, pressing on then.” - Ron C.C. Cuming Managing Editors Table of Contents Christine Miller Janelle White Letter From the Editors………………………………………………………………………………………...3 Message from the Treasurer…………………………………………………………………………………4 Editorial Board Tava Burton Dear Sue…………….……………………………………………………………………………………………….5 Shivaun Eberle LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH: Fall Formal……………………………………………………………..6 Connor Ferguson Important Dates…………………………………………………………………………………………………..7 Darin Gette Erik Heuck Why Are 3Ls So Damn Great?..........................................................................................7 Matthew Scott Law Remix of R. Kelly - Ignition (Remix)…………………………………………………………………8 Emily Sutherland Another Message from the Legal Follies Board……………………………………………………..8 Mission Statement Match the Facebook Status to the Law Student…………………………………………………….9 The Caveat Lector exists to Parents in Law: What Being a Parent in Law School Has Taught Me…………………….10 be redundant. It also exists to Places to Cry……………………………………………………………………………………………………..12 publish and make available information and creative Is USask Law Losing its “Friendly” Moniker?................................................................13 works from law students for Some Memes…………………………………………………………………………………………………….14 law students, all while Between Fern & Ficus: Sit-Downs at Salamander Palace……………………………………..16 maintaining a standard of journalistic integrity. Well, So you think you want to transfer schools (or maybe do an exchange)………………….19 maybe not integrity, but On the Cover something close. 3L Reps and unofficial fish police Adam MacNeil & Kaitlin Ward Disclaimer The Editors of The Caveat Lector, in their infinite The wisdom, do not necessarily endorse or condone the opinions included herein. The articles reflect the views of Caveat your peers. Take it up with them. Lector Email Articles can be submitted for consideration to [email protected] Address Vol 15 Caveat Lector c/o College of Law Issue 1 15 Campus Drive The Caveat Lector | Volume 15, Issue 3 The Caveat Lector INSIDE THIS ISSUE Managing Editors Christine & Janelle sharing an intimate moment, as editors do Letter from the Editors by Christine Miller (3L) & Janelle White (3L) Hello again friends! The days are growing shorter and November is also that beautiful time nights in the library longer. Everyone is of the year where the second issue of beginning to feel mid-semester anxiety the Caveat Lector comes along to and Adam MacNeil continues to drink comfort you like hot cocoa. PG. 10 way too many nights a week. The weather is getting colder and the 3L Michael Marschal & temperature control at the College is We hope this second issue can other parents in law fill us still f***ed. provide you with an entertaining break in on what their offspring in your studies. If anything, we hope taught them for the Caveat to serve as a reminder Needless to say, November has that law school (and life) are about so hit us! much more than just studying for finals. Finals have their way of creeping up on us and pushing down the Remember, you will survive! Christmas spirit that has been trying to rise up. It is hard to find time to start your Christmas shopping when Let us amuse your worries away with you haven't even started that major this issue's collection of delightful paper. distractions. PG. 16 Get to know 1L Gabe But fear not, sweet readers! With undying love, Simons in a tell-all Christine & Janelle interview! The Caveat Lector | Volume 15, Issue 4 Message from the Treasurer by Darin Gette (2L) Upon first taking up the prestigious idiosyncratic corporate structure. Despite the clarity of reasoning post of Treasurer of the esteemed These include but are not limited used to discover the true nature of Caveat Lector… to: the handling of settlement the role of treasurer, the managing payments to the never-ending editors of the Caveat strongly I immediately knew that procession of plaintiffs in actions of disagreed with my evaluation and accepting such a highly defamation against the Caveat, sought fit to issue a signed and coveted position would managing the personal finances sealed declaration asserting that inevitably result not only in and serving as power of attorney there was in fact no such treasure the fame and glory I had so for all members of the Caveat’s and that my etymological research editorial board, and acting as the was faulty. In private, they further greatly desired, but also in my primary holder of several Cayman insisted that my time be better being tasked with a Island and Swiss bank accounts allocated administering our prodigious and daunting used to expatriate the Caveat’s offshore accounts and pushing responsibility. liquidity through supra-legal through settlements with allegedly means. defamed litigants, rather than As one can imagine, organizing the pursuing a non-existent treasure. financial affairs of a large news Needless to say, the position However, I was astute enough to consortium solely responsible for of Treasurer is as thoroughly understand that they were simply delivering the hard-hitting facts and deman di n g as i t i s acting in accordance with an meme-based humour to a distinguished. elaborate non - disclosure demographic as quick-witted and agreement and could not, under discerning as the students of the However, executing all the myriad any circumstances, discuss the College of Law is an arduous and of bureaucratic tasks that form the treasure. often laborious undertaking. In basis of my official role as addition to the standard duties of Treasurer only amounts to a small Through a series of winks and balancing accounting records, fraction of the time I devote to this nudges, I made it clear that I keeping receipts, and managing position. By far the most onerous understood that their denial both inward and outward cash flow, and time-consuming duty involved there are also various in my honourable role is one that of the treasure was simply in supplementary obligations that few people are aware of, and yet it keeping with their N.D.A., and arise due to the Caveat’s is given in the title itself: Treasurer. their continuous assertions of Having done extensive research on “why are you nudging me?”, the root of the word treasurer prior “what is wrong with your to being appointed to this position, and concluding based on such eye?”, and “seriously dude, research that the word treasurer is there’s no hidden treasure”, nothing more than the word w e r e c l e a r l y j u s t treasure with an “r” attached, and inconspicuous methods of knowing that “r” is merely short telling me that I ought to form for “Arrrrgh”, a common devote myself solely to colloquialism popular among pirate protecting the treasure at all -identified persons… costs. it became clear that my primary duty as treasurer was However, given that I was not able to protect the treasure from to decipher though winks and nudges alone where the treasure cutthroat and swashbuckling might be kept, or even if the other pirates whose aim is to members of the editorial board discover and capture it for knew of its exact whereabouts, Darin (2L) looking for treasure their own benefit. (Continued on next page) The Caveat Lector | Volume 15, Issue 5 I am left, for the time being, in members, travelling to the Caribbean search of the very treasure I am with thousands of non-consecutive Dear Sue obliged to protect. unmarked bills in hollowed out law text books under an assumed Dear Sue, And this has been how I have identity, etc. But none of these I’m a 1L and keen on doing well in so far spent the vast majority banal, clerical duties can make up school. How do I go about this when of my time in the position of for the feeling of loss at being unable there are just so many things going Treasurer, trying to use my to fulfill my highest duty as protector on? immense logical reasoning and keeper of the treasure. Wanna Pardy skills to track down this illusive Until I find the treasure and treasure trove. ensure its safety from the Hi Wanna, pirates whose sole purpose in My first course of action was to look School is only one part to the law around the Law Building for a large life is to steal it for their own equation. Networking will also come trunk bursting with all manner of enrichment, I will consider in useful, coupled with half-decent precious jewels and gold and silver myself a complete failure in my grades. It’s all about balance. CANs, coins. When this turned up nothing, I as you know now, are extremely role as Treasurer. helpful in first year. Get the big inquired with the library circulation I will not simply give up and leave the picture and know distinguishing desk to see if anything matching the case details. Taking time off and trunk’s description had been placed treasure to be found by those who aim to profit from it, but rather will letting loose is also a good way to in the lost and found, but to no avail. reset and get re-focused. The law I then decided that if I could not find scour every corner of the College of school environment is quite all- the treasure itself, I could at least Law endlessly until the treasure is encompassing if you let it find the accompanying hand-drawn within my safe-keeping, where it overwhelm you, so remember to map with an obligatory “X” marking shall thereafter forever remain. take some time with your non-law the location of the treasure. friends and family (if you like them In conclusion, if you have any of course). Going to every party can Again, I found nothing.