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Monday Morning Message 12.5.2016
“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” -Cynthia Ozick, American writer
From time to time, I’ll share some of the inspiring notes that come my way recognizing the tremendous work of our students, staff, faculty, and alumni.
Professor Candice Hoke
Monday Morning Message 11.28.2016
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident”. - Arthur Schopenhauer
"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have." - Emile Chartier
One of my major goals is to further foster a culture in our C|M|Law community where everyone is empowered to have a voice and a stake in our future. Where we value continuous trust, innovation, and creativity. That’s why we’ve initiated this weekly Monday Morning Message; our twice-a-month newsletter; the new twice-a-month “Dine with the Dean” sessions with students; and “pop-up” dialogues on timely issues such as the presidential election.
Monday Morning Message 11.21.2016
“ We have to remember that we’re actually all on one team… We’re not Democrats first, we’re not Republicans first, we are Americans first. We’re patriots first….we all go forward with a presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens….” -President Barack Obama, November 9, 2016
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Last week a full classroom of our students, staff, and faculty shared their thoughts about the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. The thoughtful, respectful, and uplifting dialogue prompted me to share some thoughts about C|M|LAW and what I’m thankful for during this week of Thanksgiving.
Monday Morning Message 11.14.2016
“This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled, but there are moments when we can … reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that’s what I mean by ‘Hallelujah.'” – Leonard Cohen (SNL's Kate McKinnon Sings Hallelujah)
Monday Morning Message 11.7.2016
“Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.” –President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Monday Morning Message 10.31.2016
In 1980, Justice Lloyd Brown, Hon. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, and Judge Ronald B. Adrine '73 met in the chambers of Judge Brown to discuss the formation of an African American Bar Association. Soon after, in the Hollenden House Hotel coffee shop, Lillian Greene, James Hardiman '68, Gerald Jackson, and Adrine met to plan what would be an historic meeting.
Monday Morning Message 10.24.2016
"[I]t's our game; that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game; it has the snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere; it belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly as our Constitution's laws; is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."
- Walt Whitman
"Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated American family, the powerful sense of home, the freedom from time's constraints, and the great gift of accumulated memory than does our National Pastime."
- Ken Burns
Monday Morning Message 10.17.2016
On October 31,1963 while on a routine beat through downtown Cleveland, Detective Martin McFadden noticed three men
Monday Morning Message 10.10.2016
Last week I wrote about Kenneth Ricci '86 receiving the Cleveland- Marshall Distinguished Alumni Award.This morning I want to highlight another distinguished alumnus who also was honored at the recent CSU Distinguished Alumni Awards ceremony - Judge Annette Butler '70. Judge Annette Garner Butler received th
Monday Morning Message 9.26.2016
Tonight at 9pm is the first Presidential Debate. This Presidential Super Bowl is expected to top the previous debate audience record of 80.6 million TV viewers set in 1980 for the debate between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. Fifty-six years ago today, Senator John F.