Do you notice what is missing in this picture of the spectacular view from a study area in our Law Library? Students! Tom Inkel, our new Director of Communications, snapped this picture last Friday afternoon after finals ended. It is so strange to experience the shift from the constant study of finals to the deserted Law Library!
However, the students did not clear out immediately when finals ended last Friday. Instead, about 160 of the 200 students stood in a long line (pictured above) to pick up a packet of information for the Journal Write-On Competition. It is a tradition, albeit a somewhat cruel tradition, for the incoming Managing Editor of the Pepperdine Law Review to hand out the packets immediately following the last 1L final of the semester. So, students are rewarded with an opportunity to complete yet another writing assignment in the hopes of being selected as a staff member on one of Pepperdine’s four student-run journals.
But even the handing out of the write-on packets cannot damper the excitement of finishing the first year of law school. Pictures and Facebook posts and parties all commemorate a major accomplishment. Our 1Ls are no longer 1Ls — they are “rising 2Ls” and off to gain valuable legal experience over the course of the summer!
Yours,
Al Sturgeon
Dean of Students
Pepperdine Law Family & Friends 