Contact: Student Records · sturec@loyno.edu · 5048653237
Final Grades Due - Second 6 Week Session
Contact: Student Records · sturec@loyno.edu · 5048653237
Wolf Pack Welcome Orientation Fall Program
Contact: Student Records · sturec@loyno.edu · 5048653237
Mandatory Orientation for New Law Students
Contact: Res Life · reslife@loyno.edu · 5048652445
Location: Designated Residence Hall
First Year student move in only
Contact: Kendra Glazer · kglazer@loyno.edu · 504 861-5554
Location: Law Library
OCI's Aug. 13th-17th
Time: 1 pm to 8:30 pm
Contact: John Blevins · jblevins@loyno.edu
1:00-4:00 pm Orientation Classes; Panel with Current Law Students (day students only)
4:15-5:15 pm Introduction to Administrative Resources II (all students)
5:15-6:00 pm Dinner (all students)
6:00-8:30 pm Orientation Classes; Panel with Current Law Students (evening students only)
Time: 4 pm to 6:30 pm
Contact: Davida Finger
Leadership Convocation for College of Law Student Organization Leaders
Time: 7:30 pm to 9 pm
Contact: Chris McQueen · cjmcquee@loyno.edu · 5048653622
Location: University Sports Complex/ Freret St. Parking Garage, Main Campus
Challenging the Culture of Cruelty: Understanding and Defeating Race and Class Inequity in America
In this speech, drawn from his newest book, Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Jeopardizing the Future of America, Tim Wise examines the ways in which American politics and culture serve to rationalize inequalities on the basis of class and race. From the myth of “rugged individualism” to the racialized attacks on the nation’s poor, American ideology has long served to explain away inequity as a natural outcome of differential talent, effort or cultural attributes. But as Wise shows in this presentation, to believe that the poor and unemployed are to blame for their own plight, or that the rich deserve their positions and wealth is to believe in a pernicious and destructive lie that threatens the very heart of democracy and true equal opportunity. By exploring the way that racism has been central to the development and perpetuation of the nation’s class system, Wise demonstrates the importance of undermining the dominant white racial narrative not solely to fight racism itself, but larger economic and social injustice as well.