Category Archives: U.Miami

The Dean of Students office is a ticket distribution center for the Univision Democratic Forum to take place on Sunday evening, September 9. As many of you are aware, this will be an exciting opportunity to see the Democratic Candidates here at the BankUnited Center located on the Coral Gables Campus.

In accordance with the University of Miami set forth below, our office will distribute tickets to UM Students only on Wednesday, August 29 and Thursday, August 30 from 9:00am through 4:00pm. Each student is entitled to one ticket and must present a Cane Card.

On Friday morning, August 31, remaining tickets will begin to be distributed to UM faculty and staff at 9:00am.

I doubt there will be tickets left on Friday, but in any case I teach 8-9:30 am, so I won't get one.

I wonder if I should ask for a press pass?

I need a research assistant. And so, no doubt, do several other faculty members. Some faculty members will hire their own; others, especially new and visiting faculty, may prefer a clearinghouse approach. As I am now the “Director of Faculty Development” I have appointed myself the coordinator of this process for those faculty who prefer to work through an intermediary. If you are a 2L, 3L or LLM student and would like to work for a professor this year, please send me your application.

Different professors will want different skill sets, so don't be shy. Some may have special application requirements but I think most would be happy with a copy of your resume, an unofficial transcript (for 2Ls and 3Ls), and a short writing sample. Personally, I prefer a NON-legal writing sample if you have one, but most of the colleagues will want something legal if you have it, so include both if you can.

Your cover letter should include the number of hours you would most like to work (the range is usually 10-20 hours per week, with most clustering in the low part of that range, but there's a lot of variation), and the legal subjects that most interest you (to help match you with professors in those areas).

I'm particularly interested in students with Linux and HTML experience, although that's not a requirement for me and won't be of interest to many colleagues, so don't let the absence of those stop you.

You can email me the application bundle, or you can drop it off to Ms. Rosalia Lliraldi, who sits outside Rm. 382 in the library.

‘Canes to leave the Orange Bowl. No tradition is safe!

August 21, 2007

To the University Community:

We have an extraordinary history and tradition at the Orange Bowl: The players running through the smoke tunnel. “Touchdown Tommy” and his cannon. The Ring of Honor. An incredible winning streak of 58 consecutive home wins. And three of our five national championships were won on that field. I love the Orange Bowl-we all do!

As many of you are aware, the University has been working closely with the City of Miami to assess the feasibility of making much-needed renovations to the Orange Bowl. It has long been our goal to have a first-class football stadium.

The City of Miami has been a wonderful partner with us at the Orange Bowl for many years, and they understand how hard we have wrestled with a very difficult decision. Mayor Manny Diaz has been heroic in his efforts to meet our future needs. After much thought, analysis, and discussions with many, many of our trustees, faculty, staff, students, alumni, and fans, we have concluded that we must move our football games to a better facility. The more than $200 million in renovations that the city has proposed would only provide basic and mostly infrastructural upgrades. A part of those funds are not in hand and may or may not be determined until after the proposed construction would be well underway. Overall, the renovations clearly would not address the long-term needs of our athletes and our fans.

The Orange Bowl chapter of our history-in which we can all take great pride-will never close, and we are confident that the legacy of Miami Hurricanes football will live on and thrive as we move to a new location. After an assessment of all options available to us, we have decided reluctantly and painfully to move to Dolphin Stadium for the 2008 season.

Dolphin Stadium is one of the premier football stadiums in the country. At our new home, our student-athletes will have the opportunity to compete in a first-class facility that plays host to the NFL‘s Miami Dolphins, the FedEx Orange Bowl, BCS National Championship Game, and that has been the site of recent and upcoming Super Bowls.

Our fans will experience outstanding amenities including one of the world’s largest plasma TV displays, high-definition video boards, club seating and suites, chairbacks on every stadium seat, approximately 14,000 parking spaces, and a large variety of concessions and restaurants.

The end zones will be redone so that our shared home will reflect both Miami teams’ pride. The Dolphins are actively pursuing a corporate sponsor so that by 2010 the stadium will have a neutral name.

I want to assure all members of our University community-students, faculty, staff, alumni, trustees, donors, friends-and the tens of thousands of fans who regularly cheer us on, that we looked exhaustively into every aspect of the choices in front of us, and that your needs figured prominently in our final decision. The quality of your experience at our games is of the utmost importance to us.

As always, we would like to hear from you. Please contact us at an e-mail address we have established for your comments: umfootball@miami.edu. If you have any further questions, please go to the Official Athletic Department Web site at hurricanesports.com or call 1-800-GO-CANES.

Thank you, and Go ‘Canes!

Sincerely,

Donna E. Shalala

Office of the President
P.O. Box 248006 Coral Gables, Florida 33124-4600
305-284-5155 Fax 305-284-3768

As someone who has yet to attend a Hurricanes football game, I don’t feel this very strongly.

But I know a lot of people who will.

Oh what fun.

University of Miami Police, in conjunction with the City of Coral Gables Police Department, will hold an all-day training exercise on the northeast section of UM's Coral Gables campus from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, July 28. The exercise will involve mock explosions, helicopters, SWAT teams, and multiple response teams from most local municipalities, which are expected to send teams to participate. In addition, Doctors Hospital will participate in the exercise by offering simulated on-site medical assistance to actors posing as victims.

Access to Mahoney/Pearson Residential College will be limited to authorized personnel only on the day of the mock exercise. If you must be on campus in the vicinity of this mock exercise-which will take place between Stanford Drive and Granada Boulevard and from Ponce de Leon Boulevard to Campo Sano Avenue-please display your 'Cane Card. If you must enter this area, you will be asked to furnish UM-issued identification.

I don't blog most donations to the law school — this isn't a PR blog — but these guys are longtime supporters of the local NPR station and it feels like I've heard their sponsorship announcement a million times on morning radio. It's nice to learn they are our alumni and that they remember us fondly and that they are supporting our students.

University of Miami School of Law Alumni Support Scholarships for Students: University of Miami alumni Jay Shapiro and Robert Weissler presented the School of Law with a generous gift for an endowed scholarship recently. Shapiro and Weissler are shareholders at the Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson Endowed Scholarship Fund.” Each scholarship will be provided to a rising second year and third year student based on merit and financial need on an annual basis.

The scholarships will be named the “Jay B. Shapiro/Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson Endowed Scholarship Fund” and the “Robert I. Weissler/Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson Endowed Scholarship Fund.” Each scholarship will be provided to a rising second year and third year student based on merit and financial need on an annual basis.

“I'm very pleased to be able to give something back to the UM Law School, to which I owe a large part of my professional success,” stated Shapiro. “It is important for all UM law alumni to support the law school in its efforts to attract and retain the highest caliber students.”

“Our firm's many graduates of UM Law School exemplify the exceptional quality and creativity in the legal work that is afforded to our clients,” said Weissler. “I am committed to support and financially provide for the success of future graduates of the Law School.”

Messrs Shapiro and Weissler, we thank you.