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Corinne Lewis
By Jessica Crawford
Staff Writer
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With four degrees and twenty years of
experience in immigration law, Professor Corinne
Lewis is one of the newest adjuncts at South Texas.
With an impressive resume that includes working
for the United Nations and a second Doctorate
pending (from the London School of Economics),
Professor Lewis has come to South Texas to teach
what she knows best: immigration law.
After receiving her Bachelor degree at
Kalamazoo College in Michigan, Professor Lewis
received her J.D. from Indiana University School of
Law, receiving the Louis B. Calamaras Fellowship
and working an internship for Judge Steckler of the
Obama's Palling Around With Terrorists: Time to Come Clean
By Chris Mathena
Editorial Writer
FiringLine@AimotationOnline.com
Recently, at a fund-raising event in Colorado, Sarah Palin said,
"[Obama] is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect
that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country."
These are not mere accusations, but rather it is an established fact that Obama
had a close association with Bill Ayers, a founding member of the radical
Weather Underground, or "Weathermen."
Ayers, a confessed domestic terrorist, was a founding member of the
"Weathermen," a Vietnam-era domestic terror group that sought to overthrow
the U.S. government and was involved in several bombings, including the
Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol in 1971. Ayers himself, was on the FBI's
Most Wanted List for nearly a dozen terrorist attacks. He was charged for
the 1971 Capital bombing, but charges were dropped in 1974 because of a
technicality: prosecutorial misconduct, including illegal surveillance.
Today, Ayers is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
He has admitted to involvement in the bombings of U.S. governmental
buildings in the early 1970s, but have his viewpoints changed after more
than 35 years? It doesn't appear that they have.
Ayers recently wrote on his blog that he still feels not enough was done
to oppose the Vietnam War. He clarified, "I don't think violent resistance is
necessarily the answer, but I do think opposition and refusal is imperative."
However, in an interview with the New York Times released September 11,
2001, Ayers said, "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough."
He then posed for a photograph to accompany the piece, which showed him
stepping on an American flag.
Obama grew up in the same Chicago neighborhood as Ayers, and the
two have met several times since Obama's 1995 "Friends of Barack Obama"
state Senate campaign. In fact, Obama actually started his 1995 campaign
with a $200 contribution from Ayers and a fundraiser at Ayer's Chicago
home, where the two discussed political strategy (Hmmm... I wonder if a
self-admitted domestic terrorist is really the best person to discuss political
strategy with?).
Ayers and Obama served together on the board of The Woods Fund,
a liberal nonprofit organization, from 1999 to December 11,2001, according
to the Fund's website. Additionally, Obama chaired The Chicago Annenberg
Challenge, or CAC, a left-wing organization previously founded by Ayers.
The CAC failed to accomplish anything in regards to its main objective of
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U.S. District Court of the Southern
District of Indiana. She then began
her íegal career in Tokyo, Japan,
where she served as a foreign legal
consultant and attorney for two law
firms. She was later transferred back
to the United States.
Once she was back in the
United States, Professor Lewis
received her L.L.M., with honors,
from Georgetown University.
During her work in Delaware, she
performed pro bono work for both
the American Civil Liberties Union
and Amnesty International. That's
where she discovered her passion
for volunteer work and has since
narrowed her focus to human rights
and forced migration.
Subsequently, she moved to
Geneva, Switzerland and worked
as a Legal Officer for the United
Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees. She has also worked in
Bangladesh and Brussels. Professor
Lewis's work focused on legal
protection for refugees and the
training of peacekeepers, judges,
and status determination officers.
She has spent her last twelve years in
Brussels where she began working
on her second Doctorate level degree
in international law at the London
School of Economics. She recently
submitted her thesis, which focuses
on the contribution made by the
United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR) to the
development of international refugee
law.
Professor Lewis moved
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Third Year Bar Card Offers
Law Students Opportunity to
Gain Real World Experience
By Yolanda Bevill
Staff Writer
It has often been said that the
study of law and the practice of law
are two entirely different endeavors.
Over the years, law schools have
attempted to merge study and practice
by adding more practical-lawyering
skills courses to the curriculum,
creating pro-bono clinics where law
students get hands-on experience
dealing with low income clients on
real world legal issues and hiring
more adjunct professors that have
extensive experience as practicing
£*££
Vocational Rehab: Returning
Soldiers Seeking New Lives as '
Disabled Veterans
By Paulina Harris
Staff Writer
Most of us have encountered
the cliché of a beggar touting a sign
that reads, "Disabled Vet....Please
Help", and contributed or not to the
spare change fund via a small deposit
into a Styrofoam cup. As the years
of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan
and Iraq continually bring home
a growing number of disabled
soldiers and sailors, millions of
disabled veterans are again seeking
assistance in creating a productive
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