Andrew Franklin Young died tragically on March 19, 2009. In the weeks that followed, his classmates, friends, and family members contributed money to the University of Louisville School of Law to honor his memory. The class of 2009 dedicated the traditional class gift to Andrew's memory.
The Law School will maintain the Andrew Franklin Young Memorial Fund in honor of our friend and classmate. We will use money donated in Andrew's memory for the benefit of students of the Law School. The annual award for best paper by a graduating senior will be named the Andrew Franklin Young Memorial Writing Award. While he was still alive, Andrew was selected the writer of the best paper by a member of the class of 2009. In future years, the winner of the Andrew Franklin Young Memorial Writing Award will be awarded prize money, as financial circumstances permit, from the Andrew Franklin Young Memorial Fund.
As we continue to clean up after this week's flood, we want to take time out to thank everyone for your hard work under difficult circumstances.
This is the most significant damage our campus ever has sustained, and it will take some time to get back to normal.
It is difficult to believe the destructive power of water and how much damage can happen in a very short time.
Some of you had to evacuate your buildings — some even by rescue boats — and streets flooded with several feet of water.
Water entered many buildings around the north and east sides of Belknap Campus. Some still are closed while we clean the mud and remaining water from floors and other surfaces and remove water-soaked carpets, ruined wallboard and baseboard. At the Health Sciences Center the School of Public Health and Information Sciences was hardest hit with a foot or more of water in its basement.
Still, despite the daunting task ahead of us, we are making progress.
Physical Plant again is doing an amazing job restoring buildings and grounds in our third weather emergency in less than a year's time.
A lot of you have been on campus this week helping to clean up flood damage and move displaced offices to new locations – all while doing your normal jobs of helping students prepare for the coming semester.
You are doing a great job and doing it with a great "can-do" attitude. We have accomplished a lot in a short time and appreciate your dedication.
We also are encouraged by the number of people who have called to offer help and who have said they are keeping us in their thoughts. We appreciate their support in these difficult days.
The flood affected more than UofL buildings and property. We realize that many of you suffered losses at your homes. We are in the process of organizing an internal effort to help our campus family. You’ll hear more details about this next week.
Again, we thank all of you for everything you bring to UofL. The work and attitude you've shown over the last four days reminds us why we love this university.
The Law School will be open on Friday, August 7. All faculty and staff should report according to the normal schedule.
Some basement areas, especially in the library, may remain inaccessible. Please observe posted signs regarding access.
The University of Louisville's flood update page includes the official list of closed buildings (.pdf file) and this inspiring video. Thanks to the heroic efforts of the University's cleanup crews, virtually all buildings have been pumped dry. The entire Law School community joins me in thanking the University of Louisville workers who have labored tirelessly to bring our campus back from Tuesday's storm.
Professor Andy Kleinschmidt of Ohio State University Extension, also known as @akleinschmidt on Twitter, has honored me in a way that is as flattering as it is unusual. During a recent #foodchat session on Twitter (which alternates with the related #agchat series), I remarked: "Q7: I try to describe agriculture as applied environmental protection, just as agricultural economics is now 'applied economics.' #foodchat"
The idea for this shirt came from Jim Chen, Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Louisville, during a live Twitter discussion. Dean Chen’s (known as @chenx064 on Twitter) original quote was “I try to describe agriculture as applied environmental protection, just as agricultural economics is now applied economics.” I’ve known that agricultural economics is described as applied economics and also applied agricultural economics, so that was not new to me. BUT I had never heard agriculture referred to as ‘applied environmental protection.’ Brilliant! I thought the saying should be made into a shirt, and with Dean Chen’s blessing I made the shirt via Zazzle. . . .
This shirt is all-organic cotton. I spend 99% of my time working with conventional agriculture, so I specifically chose organic in an effort to support other choices in farming. In my view all farming is good, just different approaches. . . . The shirt is made in the USA by American Apparel. I’ve also added ‘via @chenx064 on Twitter’ to give Dean Chen appropriate credit and for you to show how ‘hip’ you are knowing about Twitter.
Our law school ranked 98th of 184 programs — not out of 100, as Miller claimed. Our 2008 entering class had a median LSAT score of 156, equivalent to an SAT score of 1120, and an average undergraduate GPA of 3.45. This puts us closer to the top 50 percent, rather than the bottom 5 percent as Miller claims.
Along with the rest of the University of Louisville community, I thank Provost Willihnganz for her valiant — and correct — defense of our university.
What gulfs between him and the seraphim!
Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him
Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades?
What the long reaches of the peaks of song,
The rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose?
In this summer of disquiet, of economic uncertainty and instability, we may yet redeem this season if we transform poetry into motion and song into resolve. From fields of lawyerly prose, let us greet the long reaches of the peaks of song, the rife of dawn, the reddening of the rose.
