Civil Clinic Wins Award

The Bolder Bar Association awarded the members of the CU Legal Aid Clinic an award for our pro bono service. Together the six of us amassed a huge amout of legal aid hours. From left to right this is Julia Kneeland, me (Katie Schwalb), James Lyman, Sarah Quicksall, Emela Buljko, Mark Loy, and Professor Norman Aaronson.

The cases I helped with included divorce cases, social security benefits cases, and asylum cases.

Emela and I also won individual awards for outstanding commitment to legal aid clients. This pretty much means that we spent most of our days this semester in the clinic.

Fascinating

The Virginia Tech massacre continues to dominate news coverage in the United States. The U.S. media has yet to pick up on an interesting little tidbit about how the Chinese media reacted to initial reports that the shooter was from China. Danwei has more.

I will love him and hug him and pet him and squeeze him and I will pet him and pet him and I will take him home and call him [insert name here]

Without the family puppy fiend in tow, we went to a breeder to pick out a new lab for Katie's dad. Jenny can still share in the fun if she wants, at least by proxy. To get a sense of what [Insert name here] will look like, here's some photos of his mom and dad.

[Insert name here] goes home to Kansas on May 13th.

Outdoor Kittie

With our departure for China impending, we dropped our cat off with her "grandparents" in Kansas a few weeks ago. Evidently part of the deal was that, by moving to Kansas, Naavah would earn her keep by hunting mice. Step one is learning to prowl outside without getting run over by anything...

The rest of the pics are of the Roenbaugh/Cudney Easter celebration. Enjoy!

Don't be confused

Someone else bought our old domain.

We're In

Peking U., here we come!!

Tariffs on Chinese paper

Today's New York Times has an article on the Unites States' response to Chinese paper subsidies. Perhaps I am the only one, but it seems a little disingenuous for the U.S. to levy tariffs in response to illegal subsidies when we have done the same with cotton subsidies, among other things.