Notre Dame Law School NDLScholarship About the Law School Law School History Fall 2003 Irish Law 2003: An Insider's Guide to Notre Dame Law School Notre Dame Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/about_ndls Part of the History Commons, and the Law Commons Recommended Citation Notre Dame Law School, "Irish Law 2003: An Insider's Guide to Notre Dame Law School" (2003). About the Law School. Paper 10. http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/about_ndls/10 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School History at NDLScholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in About the Law School by an authorized administrator of NDLScholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. To the Notre Dame Law School Class of 2006: Welcome to Notre Dame Law School! We are pleased to be among the first students to welcome you to our community. If you are anything like we were just a few years ago, you probably have plenty of questions about law school, Notre Dame and South Bend. We hope that this guide will give you answers to many of your questions and gives a window into what life at Notre Dame is like. This is an insider’s guide because it was written entirely by students. A group of volunteers have put in some long hours collecting information and reflecting on our experiences at Notre Dame in an effort to publish this guide. We think we’ve compiled a lot of information that will make your transition to law school at Notre Dame easier, and your first months on campus more fun. Even though this is not meant to be a comprehensive guide to everything you need to know to get through law school, we think that it may be a pretty good place to start. This is the second edition of this publication, so it is our hope that we have improved on last year’s effort and that you will be able to reap the benefits of that. So whether you are trying to figure out where to live next year, what is the best way to get to South Bend, where to find a good Italian restaurant, or what law students do on the weekend, this guide should answer many of your questions. More importantly, we think this guide should answer questions about what life at Notre Dame Law School is like. We have both come to treasure our experiences at NDLS. The professors, students, and staff of this law school are unique—their warmth, friendship and flair has made studying law at Notre Dame fun. We hope that our enthusiasm, and that of other students, will be apparent throughout this guide. Although we know that you have already been inundated with information from the Law School and from the University, we hope that this guide will be valuable both as you consider coming to Notre Dame and after you start classes in August. Once again, welcome. Enjoy the remaining months before you begin law school, and we look forward to seeing you in August. Best wishes, Eric Nedell Becky D’Arcy Class of 2004 Class of 2004 CONTRIBUTORS Class of 2003 Class of 2004 David Daftary Katie Bryan Jane Dall Geoff Ciereck Casey Dick Adam Greenwood Maria Hrvatin Brian Josias Brian Mastee Ken Kleppel Nancy Midden John Linzer Erik Olson Chad McTighe Bryan Wise Jim Murray John Patelli Jocelyn Penner Daniel Rah Theresa Urbanic Tony Wagner Tina Zurcher Class of 2005 Kathleen Eich Courtney Eschbach Brady Fritz Sarah Fuhrman Erin Gallagher Matthew Grantham Elizabeth Gray Caroline Hoenk Anson Rhodes Joyce Sioson Jaclyn Villano Irish Law 2003 TABLE OF CONTENTS A Different Kind of Lawyer _______________________________________________ 1 Community ____________________________________________________________ 3 A Catholic Law School __________________________________________________ 5 1L ___________________________________________________________________ 7 Read Thousands of Pages and Still Be Home by Six _______________________________ 7 Life Outside the Law School __________________________________________________ 8 Procrastination—It Can Work In Law School Too _______________________________ 9 2L __________________________________________________________________ 12 South Bend stinks—or does it? _______________________________________________ 12 Yes, it can get busier than first year ___________________________________________ 12 Fit over Rankings ______________________________________________________ 13 Faculty ______________________________________________________________ 14 Students’ Comments on Faculty ______________________________________________ 14 First Year Professors & Courses _____________________________________________ 15 List of Faculty _____________________________________________________________ 20 Undergraduate Schools Represented ______________________________________ 23 Before Classes Start & Orientation ________________________________________ 26 First Day – Studying & Surviving _________________________________________ 29 Football Weekend _____________________________________________________ 32 Airlines & Airports _____________________________________________________ 34 Athletics _____________________________________________________________ 36 Banks & Banking ______________________________________________________ 38 Area Banks _______________________________________________________________ 38 Campus ATM’s ___________________________________________________________ 39 Bars _________________________________________________________________ 41 Bowling ______________________________________________________________ 45 Bikes ________________________________________________________________ 46 Bike Shops ________________________________________________________________ 46 Mountain Biking & Trails ___________________________________________________ 46 Buses & Trains ________________________________________________________ 48 Career Services ________________________________________________________ 49 An Insider’s Guide to Notre Dame Law School i Community Service ____________________________________________________ 50 Computers____________________________________________________________ 58 Copies _______________________________________________________________ 60 Golf _________________________________________________________________ 61 Indiana Courses ___________________________________________________________ 61 Michigan Courses __________________________________________________________ 63 Groceries_____________________________________________________________ 65 Housing _____________________________________________________________ 66 GETTING STARTED ______________________________________________________ 66 ON-CAMPUS HOUSING ___________________________________________________ 67 OFF-CAMPUS HOUSING __________________________________________________ 70 ROOMS/APARTMENTS IN HOUSES & HOUSES _____________________________ 89 MAP ____________________________________________________________________ 89 Intramurals___________________________________________________________ 90 The Irish Café ________________________________________________________ 91 Journals & Law Review _________________________________________________ 92 Restaurants ___________________________________________________________ 94 American _________________________________________________________________ 94 Asian Food _______________________________________________________________ 95 Bakeries & Breakfast _______________________________________________________ 97 Coffeehouses ______________________________________________________________ 97 Desserts __________________________________________________________________ 98 Fine Dining _______________________________________________________________ 98 Greek ___________________________________________________________________ 100 Italian __________________________________________________________________ 100 Late-Nite ________________________________________________________________ 102 Mexican _________________________________________________________________ 102 Pizza – Dine In ___________________________________________________________ 103 Pizza – Delivery __________________________________________________________ 103 Road Trips __________________________________________________________ 104 Chicago _________________________________________________________________ 104 Indianapolis _____________________________________________________________ 106 Michigan City ____________________________________________________________ 107 South Bend __________________________________________________________ 109 ii Irish Law 2003 College Football Hall of Fame _______________________________________________ 109 Morris Performing Arts Center _____________________________________________ 109 Potawatomi Zoo __________________________________________________________ 109 South Bend Regional Museum of Art _________________________________________ 109 South Bend Silverhawks ___________________________________________________ 109 Studebaker Museum ______________________________________________________ 109 Student Services ______________________________________________________ 110 Student Organizations _________________________________________________ 111 Worship_____________________________________________________________ 117 Worship at the Law School _________________________________________________ 117 Catholic _________________________________________________________________ 117 Islamic __________________________________________________________________ 119 Jewish __________________________________________________________________ 119 Latter Day Saints _________________________________________________________