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New kid on the block

Anne Pappas, the new law school’s founding administrator, says Kamloops is an excellent location, noting British Columbia needed another law school. “B.C. per capita — population wise — having only two law schools is under-servicing the province. The community exposure is going to be very different from UVic or UBC and I think it’s going to lend a really good balance,” she adds. In the town of about 80,000, according to Statistics Canada’s latest count in 2006, dean Chris Axworthy hopes to increase the number of graduates who stay to work in Kamloops and other small communities in B.C. “We really need to give students the idea that there’s another option than a big law firm to consider,” he says. TRU will need to ensure students learn the skills they need to practise in a smaller community, he explains. As part of his long-term plan, he hopes to encourage lawyers in smaller regions to mentor students so they can see what life is like in those areas. Most of the students who have been accepted into the program’s first year are from British Columbia, mainly from the Lower Mainland, says Axworthy. Initially, TRU was not in a position to advertise the law school as it had to get approvals from the provincial government and the legal profession, he adds, so there really weren’t any recruitment efforts. However, in the years to come Axworthy plans to visit colleges and universities outside of the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island to attract students from a wider range of communities. To help them bring in those students, Axworthy says the law school needs to develop a curriculum that will assist students in going back to their communities to practise. “We have to ensure our students make that transition from law school to private practice as smoothly and as effectively as possible.” In reaching out to those communities, Axworthy also hopes to connect with First Nations.

UVic writing students reveal green job cutbacks - Public Eye Online

In Apri 2008, Gordon Campbell personally launched a $3 million government initiative to give young people "the chance to be ambassadors for our climate's future." But, seven months later, as University of Victoria professional writing students Nicole Garcia and Evan Pivnick exclusively discovered, the funding for that so-called Youth Climate Leadership Alliance was cut. The Tyee has published the results of their investigation today, one of several undertaken by students this past semester as part of the writing department's advanced journalism course.

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