Daily Archives: November 9, 2011

DC Internship Opportunity

Half in Ten: The campaign to cut poverty in half in ten years is looking for bright, highly motivated scholars with strong academic records and an interest and aptitude for public policy and  antipoverty advocacy to apply for our spring internship position. Interns will be directly engaged with antipoverty policy experts on the team and Half in Ten’s coalition partners. Interns with Half in Ten will have the opportunity to assist with research, writing, social media, and other web-based projects. Successful applicants will be able to juggle many different projects, have excellent communication skills, and strong organization and writing skills. A monetary stipend and a transportation subsidy is available for interns. All undergraduate and masters-level students are eligible to apply. Half in Ten is a joint project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the Coalition on Human Needs. This position is in Washington, DC. To apply for this position, visithttp://www.americanprogress.org/aboutus/intern and email kwright@americanprogress.org as soon as possible.

Heaven and Its Discontents: Spiritual Dramas of the Talmud

The Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies invites you for a lecture by Prize-winning novelist Joseph Skibell.

Professor Skibell will discuss his recent work on the tales in the Talmud. Little known and under appreciated, these stories form a second narrative, a grand tragedy, within the legal discourse of the Talmud.

The lecture will be held at Texas Hillel Library on Wednesday, November 16,2011 at Noon.

The public and members of the university community are welcome to attend.  Lunch will be served. Please RSVP by November 9th to galit@mail.utexas.edu

For more details check Here

Law School for Dummies

The Liberal Arts Council will host Law School for Dummies.

On Wednesday Nov. 9 at 7 in UTC 4.132. Sam Riley, Director of Admissions UT Law, Tatem Oldham, pre-law advisor, and Kaplan will be talking about getting and in and what it takes to go to law school.