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SAPLA ANNUAL MEETING
October 30-November 1, 2003
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
To Pre-Law Advisors in
Florida,
Arkansas, Louisiana,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky,
Tennessee, and Virginia (SAPLA Country):
If you have not done so, it is time to make your plans to be at the Southern
Association of Pre-Law Advisors Conference at Duke University, October
30-November 1. The pre-registration sheet is
available and you need to make your reservations at the Millennium hotel
where most of the meetings and the Law School Fair will be held. The meeting
will be hosted by Duke University Law School. The SAPLA special rates at the
Millennium will be good until Sept. 29; prices may rise after that. The
meeting rates are available from three days before until three days after the
meeting.
If you are representing an organization or institution and wish to ship some
materials for the conference or Friday Law Fair, the Millennium will receive
them up to one week prior to the meeting . They should be shipped to the hotel:
Millennium Hotel-Durham
Att: Banquet Manager
For: SAPLA/G. Wilson
October 29-Nov. 1, 2003
2800 Campus Walk Avenue
Durham,
NC 27705
Celebrating the 20 years of SAPLA work, and also focusing on the significance of
changes in Affirmative Action policies, the program is meant to be especially
worthwhile and important this year. There will be an opening luncheon and
meeting for new Pre-Law Advisors on Thursday. There will also be sessions on
LSAT Prep, new developments in financing law school, advice from admissions
officers, the impact of the new attitudes toward Affirmative Action, and models
for Pre-Law Advising.
There will be a report from and opportunity for discussion with representatives
of the Law School Admission Council. They will describe the emerging trends in
the applicant pool and the changes being considered for the LSAT.
In addition there will be opportunity for pre-law advisors to meet the Law
School Admissions Officers so that you can help your students get into the
schools where they belong. We need friendships between advisors and Admission
Officers if we are to understand the schools well enough to help our students
reach the best. Many law schools will be there. We have scheduled this SAPLA
meeting to coincide with the fall trips that many law schools make to the
Carolinas. It helps to know the representatives of the schools. There will be
door prizes at the Saturday business meeting for those most active in the Law
School Fair.
For those of you interested in the organization of SAPLA, the organization will
be updating its constitution and discussing plans for the national meeting of
regional associations of pre-law advisors in 2004..
This all means good food, worthwhile learning, and networking for your
institution. A tentative schedule of the program is attached. If you would
like to be on one of the panels, either because you appreciate participating or
because funding is easier when your institution is recognized on the
professional program, please contact immediately Program Chair Nyota Tucker at
tucker@asurams.edu or myself. Each advisor, new or experienced, has
insights and lessons that will help others.
Share this information with your Chair or Dean and please make plans to attend
and participate in this professional conference. We want to make good pre-law
advising available to more young people by helping advisors to become better and
better informed.
If you have questions, please contact me.
Howell Smith
SAPLA President
P.O. Box 7806
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC 27109
(336) 758-5502
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