2008 Woodie Awards
POEM: A view from the garden
If you learn the loneliness of gardens
before the age of ten, you can
go back to a memory of your father
holding his newspaper open.
He is indoors, and you are behind him,
but you feel close - you are close
to him. With only a clear window pane
between the two of you,
you try to read the stories off your
father's paper, but the fine size
of the print keeps you
from details.…
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Pringles presents Pope Verizon
The recent television coverage of "Conclave 2005: Where There's Smoke..." inspired Catholics around the world to become re-energized about the Church. Following last year's investigative study, "Catholics Replace Spiritual Voidwith Reality Television," (Journal of Papal Affairs and Dehydrated Meat Products, Vol.…
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Three years down...
melinda mclellan
The entry in my diary for September 3, 2002 is entitled "one day down, three years to go." For better or worse, over the course of my time here at Harvard, I faithfully recorded my thoughts and feelings, successes and failures, interviews and associateships, bar reviews and hangovers, travels, troubles, and triumphs.…
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Done complaining
I've spent a lot of time complaining in these pages. In late September, I complained about the disparities between the way our school seems to treat insiders with ethical problems and the way we guard the gates of this place against cheaters to begin with.…
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From those left behind
The school year comes to an end, and the 3Ls go to new beginnings. That jerk graduation is going to abscond with some friends of mine. As a 1L, I knew few 3Ls, but this year I'm losing a number of people I've known for well over a year. Come June, they'll venture to the four corners of the earth with their shiny new crimson degrees, never to return except for the few who make their first loan payments and come back asking about the exchange and return policies on graduate school education.…
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I am transsexual
I am transsexual.
When I say that my time in law school has been more transformative than I ever could have imagined, I'm talking literally, as in female to male.
I feel a bit awkward sharing my personal life in a public forum, but I think it's for the best.…
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Into the sunset
Writing a newspaper column is about the most self-indulgent activity there is. Well, actually, the second-most. The most indulgent is writing a farewell column. It carries with it two self-important implications: (1) you think people actually read your column and are keenly anticipating your final thoughts; and (2) you think you have such ponderous concluding words that the entire world has to hear them as your send-off.…
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Derby & Juleps
On Saturday, May 7, many of us will be stressing about our second week of finals. In order to soothe your frazzled nerves, this writer prescribes a two-minute study break. Not just any brief study break mind you, but "the fastest two minutes in sports." HLS students, I call on you to celebrate the 131st running of the Kentucky Derby in style - a mint julep in one hand and your Con Law outline in the other.…
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Diversity on the Law Review
In 2002-03, women faculty composed 34.2% of all law school faculty. [Association of American Law Schools] In 2002-03, minority faculty composed 14.8% of all law school faculty. [Association of American Law Schools] Of the 80 professors (tenured and non-tenured) currently at Harvard Law School, 11 are white tenured women, 4 are black tenured men, 1 is an Asian-American tenured man, and 1 is a black tenured woman.…
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One L no more
As the end of this academic year looms, it seemed like now was the perfect time to reflect back upon the lessons learned during the course of my first year at Harvard Law School. There is no doubt that I leave this prestigious institution a wiser and more mature individual, and after only one year no less.…
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