Congratulations to the 2012 Jenkins Competitors

The Jenkins Honors Moot Court Competition is an appellate moot court competition for Marquette law students. Students are invited to participate based on their performance in the fall Appellate Writing and Advocacy course at the Law School.

Congratulations to the participants in the 2012 Jenkins Honors Moot Court Competition: 

  • Joseph Birdsall
  • Bailey Briggs
  • Clayton Britnell
  • Nicole Cameli
  • Mark Darnieder
  • Dana Gilman
  • Kristina Gordon
  • Steven Gruber
  • Nickolas Hagman
  • Anne Halverson
  • Matthew Hanson
  • Nicholas Hermann
  • Gabriel Houghton
  • Nathan Imfeld
  • Adam Koenings
  • Jenna Leslie
  • Jenna McConnell
  • Sarah McNutt
  • Matteo Reginato
  • Patrick Ritter
  • Brett Schnepper
  • Max Stephenson
  • Ariane Strombom
  • Megan Zabkowicz
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Holiday Reading List

Exams are over, and we have a few weeks before classes resume. I belong to a book club, and we recently voted in our books for the following year. I’m planning to get a head start on some of those books over the holidays. Here are the books at the top of my current reading list. What are some books you’re looking forward to reading?

1. Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacey Schiff. Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. This biography is a great book to read before or after you visit the Milwaukee Public Museum’s current exhibition, Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt. The exhibition features 150 pieces and will be in Milwaukee until April.

2. State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett. This novel is about a researcher who travels to the Amazon jungle in search of a colleague.

3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot. This is the true story of Henrietta Lacks, a poor African-American tobacco farmer. Her cancer cells were taken without her knowledge and used in numerous medical research studies.

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Why Dive?

As the temperatures drop at this time of year in Wisconsin, my thoughts turn to diving in the Caribbean.

Scuba diving is my family’s hobby, and we have dived (and snorkeled) throughout the Caribbean. I have seen almost anything imaginable on dives except for sharks. I know (and actually hope) they are there, swimming at the edge of the reef, but I haven’t been fortunate to see one yet.

My favorite animal to spot is a ray. The eagle rays look like birds soaring through the water. Once I came close to a barracuda. In my excitement I forgot to back away and had to be pulled back. Another time our boat came upon a pod of dolphins that jumped and raced with the boat.

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