Obiter Dicta Issue 4 - October 15, 2013 | Page 3

page 3 news L&L update DYLAN MCGUINTY Contributor Dear Osgoode students, I am pleased to give you my first progress report since being humbled by the trust you placed in me by electing me as your Legal and Lit President. Pub Nights L&L hosted our first Pub Night on Wednesday, September 18. Thanks to Zorn, we teamed up with ILP to host a fundraiser to help raise a few bucks for future ILP endeavours. We are also pleased to introduce a selection of new items for our JCR nights, including sandwiches from Blumont Bistro; Thornbury Ciders; and rotating draft choices. We will also soon be offering tall cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon. rounding mental health. Melanie Bank Goela, Osgoode’s first Student Success and Wellness Counsellor, provides support when pressures become difficult. Send her an email at mgoela@ osgoode.yorku.ca. For the second year in a row, Legal and Lit and our effervescent Equity Officer, Ebony Rose, are supporting the Mental Health Law Students’ Association and Melanie Banka Goela in organizing Osgoode’s second annual Mental Health Awareness Week. We are excited at the progress we are making and are aiming to strike a balance between wellness and de-stressor events while examining the complex dimensions around mental health. Pineapple Express Apparently, Osgoode has some of the country’s bestfed starving law students – or at least Webmaster and Bar GET OUT YOUR PLAID SHIRTS AND DRY YOUR that is what Manager JEANS ON HIGH: PBR IS COMING TO THE JCR. one might I would like to welcome have conAlicia Landry, our new L&L webmaster. With cluded after reading Jessica White’s scathing her expertise and diligence, L&L’s website conreprimand of J.D. students. This kicked off an tent will be managed and protected. exciting whodunit at Osgoode as well as a proI would also like to congratulate Zorn for pineapple movement, which unfolded in our hallowed halls and in the national press. But, as returning as JCR Bar manager. We are pleased that he has come back to make the JCR a lively I put it to John Tory on his Live Drive radio show, this event highlights the old fashioned communal space for all of us to enjoy. With value of respect – towards letter-writers and Zorn’s help, we are actively seeking Osgoode towards those to whom we implore for peace clubs and organizations to share in good times and quiet in the classroom. Needless to say, and showcase Osgoode students’ artistic talent and cultural expression by pairing up with us Ms. White’s letter used indelicate language and made questionable value judgments; but she had for our JCR nights. If you have an event idea a strong arguable case for the importance of you would like to share, or have a secret talent using discretion while eating in class. you would like to showcase, please contact Zorn at [email protected]. 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