Monday Morning Message 11.7.22 Effort Counts Twice

“As much as talent counts, effort counts twice.” ― Angela Duckworth  

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”  -Nelson Mandela 

This morning’s message is to our students, especially our first year students.

It is all too easy to slow down in November. The days become shorter, the nights become longer.

Whether it is because of the anticipation of the coming holidays and a much-deserved break, or, more likely, from fatigue or burnout after a long semester, November is the month to persevere.  

Monday Morning Message 10.31.22 It's Not Too Late

“As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.” – Maya Angelou 

It’s not too late to support our signature event of the year and to join us at this Friday’s 5th Annual Hall of Fame Celebration at 5:30pm. at the Law School, 1801 Euclid Ave.

Monday Morning Message 10.24.22 All Rise: A Festival of Film & Law

“You can't handle the truth....You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about …. you want me on that wall.” - Colonel Nathan R. Jessup, played by Jack Nicholson, in “A Few Good Men”

This week we are excited to debut our new film festival, All Rise: A Festival of Film and Law, co-sponsored by CSU Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and the CSU School of Film & Media Arts.

Watch this short video: Trailer: All Rise Film Festival  

Monday Morning Message 10.17.22 Carrying the Torch

“Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.” ― George Bernard Shaw

“Words cannot express the gratitude I have for the scholarship you all have so kindly decided to offer me…You all have given me the opportunity to fulfill my destiny and for that I am forever grateful ! My son will one day be able to say that his mother was given a chance despite financial hardship, and this blessing can teach him that if you dream big enough, no obstacle will be big enough.”  -recent 1L Student

Monday Morning Message 10.10.22 Underdogs

“The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.” - Malcolm Gladwell

"My whole career has been one of fighting for the underdog." – Congressman Louis Stokes ‘53

“I am building a fire, and every day I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.” —Mia Hamm, gold-medal soccer player

Monday Morning Message 9.19.22 King Charles III Connection to our "Famous Law School"

“May I say what a great honor it is to have been invited to bepresent here today for the dedication of this new school of law in the company of such distinguished people as Governor Rhodes, and all sorts of others too numerous to mention. Finding myself in this famous law school today brings to mind those close ties which for over three centuries have linked Britain and the United States in so many different ways. Chief among these ties has been ourreverence of the law.” - Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, at the dedication of the new Cleveland State University Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Building, October 20, 1977, 1801 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, Ohio

TEXT OF COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE OUTSIDE OUR MOOT COURT ROOM

Monday Morning Message 9.12.22 Get stronger in your broken places.

“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II in her message to the American people on September 11, 2001

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”  -Ernest Hemingway,  A Farewell to Arms

21 years ago yesterday morning our world changed in an instant. It was one of the saddest, darkest, most horrific days in history.

Monday Morning Message 9.6.22 We Open Front Doors and Let the Future In.

“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.” — Steven Spielberg

“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.” — Maya Angelou

“I am the first person in my family to graduate from college. So I have not had anyone who could really help me with my law school decision. Your encouragement and insights came just at the right time. I hope to “pay it forward” someday when I am a lawyer by mentoring a future law student!” – Admitted Student

We open front doors and let the future in.

Monday Morning Message 8.29.22 My Favorite Week

“Get ready to embark on a wild ride unlike anything you’ve ever experienced, packed with thrills, chills, and probably a few spills. Being a 1L will challenge you like you’ve never been challenged….. The first year of law school will be one of the hardest years of your life. Law school will profoundly alter the way you think, and view and interact with the world around you. Your 1L experience will change who you are, whether you want it to or not.”  Andrew McClurg, 1L of a Ride, A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School

Monday Morning Message 8.22.22 A Message to our First Year Students

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken…If we overrule them, it would damage our republic forever…. We cannot keep drifting apart into two separate tribes with a separate set of facts and separate realities with nothing in common except our hostility towards each other and mistrust for the few national institutions that we all still share….”  - U. S. Senator Mitch McConnell, January 6, 2022