Universal Justice

This academic year we have decided to suspend the Jamaica field study due to a decrease in available resources to support the field study. This year, UJ will still be holding its winter field study to Nicaragua and its spring field study to the Dominican Republic. Kali Peterson will be leading the Nicaragua trip, and David Levy and Joanna Zdanys will be leading the Dominican Republic trip. This year, we received more applications than ever, all of whom were extremely qualified. Unfortunately, this year we were only able to take seven participants on each trip.

Last Friday night, UJ members put on the third annual PIRC Ball. This year’s theme was Prohibition. It was an incredibly successful, enjoyable event and had a great turn-out from the student body.

UJ’s next event will be a post-1L Long Memo party on Monday November 21st at Bar Nine on Ninth Ave. between 53rd and 54th.

Thank you to all those who came out last night to Lincoln Park to support UJ’s mission. We had a very successful evening and enjoyed meeting the new 1Ls at Fordham Law.

Moving forward, we are gearing up towards our next November fundraiser event (on 11/11/11), a massive party hosted by the PIRC student groups. It’s going to be one of the biggest events of the year, with food and beverages furnished by local supporters.

Last, if you are applying for a UJ field study, informal interviews will be held over the next two weeks. More information to come via email.

If you are interested in participating in a UJ field study either to Nicaragua over winter break or Jamaica or the Dominican Republic over spring break (or if you have an idea for a new field study), please fill out the application and send it to fordhamuj@gmail.com by Thursday September 29th.

UJ 2011-2012 Application

This Thursday UJ will be having its first fundraiser Bar Night at Lincoln Park. $5 donation gives you happy hour specials all night. $3 Bud Light, $4 well drinks. 7:30pm to close

UJ will be holding two information sessions in the next two weeks to share with the Fordham community what it is UJ does. At the meetings we’ll give a background of UJ, share our field study experiences, screen some of the documentary we shot while on our Dominican Republic field study last spring, and answer any questions.

Meetings:
Thursday, Sept. 15, 12:30pm in Room 303
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 5:00pm, Room TBA

We also have a few fundraiser events coming up in the fall semester, to be posted soon.