Vol. 15, Issue 4 The Caveat Lector The Bittersweet Goodbye Edition “I don’t hate it. I just don’t like it at all and it’s terrible.” - Michael Scott Managing Editors Table of Contents Christine Miller Janelle White Letter From the Editors ..……………………………………………………………………………………...3 Editorial Board A Presidential Farewell ..……...………………………………………………………………………………4 Tava Burton The Class of 2019 share some of their sweetest memories from Law School………...4 Shivaun Eberle It’s the Little Things.…………………………………………………………………………………………….5 Connor Ferguson If Law Events were Cocktails ..……………….……………………………………………………………..5 Darin Gette Erik Heuck Farewell Ladies’ Kickline ..……………………………………………….…………………………………..6 Matthew Scott A Full Spread of Memes ...................................................................................................8 Emily Sutherland Court Room 2: Inside the Head of a Mooter ..………….……………………………………….…10 Nikki Brar Ekroop Sekhon A Simple Solution to Save Our College Library from the Hoard of Unwashed SNAILs that Threaten its Integrity ……………………...………………………………………………………….11 Mission Statement Cocktails at Salamander Palace .……………………………………………………………………….12 The Caveat Lector exists to be A Love Letter to the Lawbrary ..………….……………………………………………………………….14 redundant. It also exists to publish and make available Queen Musical Horoscopes for 2019 ..…..…………………………………………………………..15 information and creative works Toast to the 1Ls ..…………………..………………………………………………………………………….16 from law students for law Toast to the 3Ls ..…………………………...….……………………………………………………………..17 students, all while maintaining a standard of journalistic Class of 2019 Superlatives .………………………………………………………………………..…….18 integrity. Well, maybe not integrity, but something close. On the Cover Disclaimer The Class of 2019 The Editors of The Caveat Lector, in their infinite wisdom, do not necessarily endorse or The condone the opinions included herein. The articles reflect the views of your peers. Take it up with them. Caveat Email Articles can be submitted for Lector consideration to [email protected] Address Caveat Lector c/o College of Law Vol 15 15 Campus Drive Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A6 Issue 4 The Caveat Lector | Volume 15, Issue 4 3 The Caveat Lector INSIDE THIS ISSUE Managing Editors Christine & Janelle doing some PR with the Legal Follies hosts. Letter from the Editors by Christine Miller (3L) & Janelle White (3L) Dear Readers, It is with great pleasure and great sadness sharing. And, in our humble opinion, life is that we present to you the final issue of much happier when you listen to your peers The Caveat Lector for the 2018-19 school and support them. year. Second, try not to spend your time telling Not only are we leaving the Caveat behind, yourself, “I’ll be less stressed out when...”, PG. 9 we are departing from the College of Law or “things will get better when…”, “I’ll have forever. It is profound how 3 years can be a life again when…”. Life is happening now What you really came so fleeting, yet contain what seems like a and we hope you remember to live in the here for: memes by Cass. lifetime of memories, words, feelings, moment and enjoy your time here, even We know our readers are fears, realizations, growth. amongst the pressures and the stress. more skimmers than any- We note that what we’ve retained from law And third, always read The Caveat Lector to thing. school has precious little to do with the remind you of the power of perspective and actual law. Instead, there are a few the momentousness of moments. valuable lessons we feel qualified to pass on to you, if you will humour us. We’ve poured every last ounce of love and pleasant remembrance into this final issue. First, we’d like to acknowledge the We filled the blank pages and it felt like we wonderful way that law school highlights were drawing from the very well of our own perspective and personality. We’ve learned experience and emotion. We feel sadly but that every new perspective deepens our sweetly empty, like we’ve spent a day in the understanding of the world around us and hot sun or regurgitated a term’s-worth of helps us to formulate our own ideas and knowledge on an exam and can now return identities. home for a nap. PG. 12 The people we have met in our brief time Please join us as we reflect back on our Impress guests, future here are incredible, talented and wise in so time together. It has been an absolute employers, and potential many different ways. Embrace your privilege facilitating the publication of this love interests with four individuality and remember that just prestigious periodical. lavish cocktail recipes, because someone is better than you at reviewed by Matt Scott Love eternal, something does not mean they are better and Erik Heuck. than you. We all have something to bring to Christine & Janelle the table; we all have a perspective worth The Caveat Lector | Volume 15, Issue 4 4 A Presidential Farewell The Class of 2019 share some of their sweetest by Brett Maerz (3L) memories from Law School I’m sitting here trying to figure out school will be your 100% finals this what to type. April. Hunker down, study hard and Breaking the Martini v Martini rec- trust in yourself that you know the ord, holding it and enjoying all the material. I also hope your first year fame and glory it brought for two years, then having it broken in 3L, How do you say goodbye to a of law school was everything you resulting in all of the heat being chapter of your life? Your college? wanted it to be and more. taken off of me before starting Your classmates? Serving as your articles.—Anonymous president this year has been very challenging but even more The atmosphere in our college is The first year curling tournament rewarding. I have learned so much unlike any other law college in the when our “Button Chops” cos- from all of you. country. We are incredibly tumes won the best costume fortunate to go to school here. We prize! Even though our team actu- earn the title of ‘friendliest law ally got dead last in the tourna- It is my sincerest hope that I did school’ for a reason – the number ment itself.—Amanda Kimpinski you and the college proud. of academic, athletic, social and club events we host, and the Being in law school, while at times camaraderie and support between is hectic and stressful, will always I would like to thank this year’s LSA the years compares to no other. be one of the most fun time peri- Council for their hard work and ods of my life. Highlights for me include: playing trombone with commitment to their positions. A The Dissent, Challenge Cup, Law special thank you goes to my Continue to hold each other and Games, Man Calendar photo executive team – Abbie, Colleen, the LSA accountable to this title. shoots, and seeing our talent at Niki, Steph, Christine, Aly, Connor Legal Follies, while ending the and Matt. Without your time and night by being on stage with the crowd. But above all, grabbing the dedication, we wouldn’t have had With that, it’s been a pleasure. See fish and running for dear life will the year we did. Thank you, thank ya in the real world, always be my favourite memory. you, thank you. All the best to my fellow class- Brett mates! “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take and I’m al- ways down for shots.” - Bryden When I walk out of these doors one Wudrich last time, I have faith that the legacy of USask Law will continue on through the high caliber of Crayon Bomb.—Michael Marschal students left behind. Trying to have a discussion with Prof. Newman on current geopolit- Class of 2020 – you’re so incredibly ical issues while drunk at the law close to finishing 2HELL, and that’s formal.—Anonymous an accomplishment in and of itself. Soon you too will be skipping Trying to keep a straight face classes and dragging your feet until while practicing oral submissions the last possible moment, just as (for first year moot) in front of my any 3L should. newly moustached husband during Movember. I think the ridiculous- ness of that moment, combined with the total terror of a first-time Class of 2021 – mad props to your moot, cemented a life-long friend- class for consistently coming out to Your 2018-19 LSA Executive engaging in ship with my moot partner.— social and sporting events (and some self-gratification. We’re not going Anonymous to name them all. You either know them winning most of them). The last already or you don’t care. step of your official welcome to law The Caveat Lector | Volume 15, Issue 4 5 It’s the Little Things If Law Events were Cocktails by Madison Kowalchuk (3L) by Bryden Wudrich (3L) My favourite memory of law school It will always be that feeling, Hello, I’m Bryden. You might is not confined to one moment, but crammed into the library, waiting know me as the original fish instead is a multitude of moments - those last two minutes before we thief (really trying to keep that those small, “non-event” memories got the “go-ahead” to start our legacy alive), that guy that sort law school unknowingly gave us exams. It will be the corresponding of looks like Simon, or the per- son that had a cocktail compe- every day. The memories from the relief and indescribable sense of tition that one time. Given times we sat in the library or in community upon completion, that these three labels, I decided to class, where nothing particularly we made it through yet another take an intimate look at law special was going on, and yet class, only slightly maimed. The events by comparing them to everything particularly special was ability to walk into any social cocktails.