Associate Dean Brian Shannon will be the guest speaker at the New Mexico State Bar Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee's "Day of Inquiry" on April 2, 2004. The event, hosted by the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee along with the University of New Mexico School of Law and the UNM Alternative Dispute Resolution Student Association, will begin at the University of New Mexico School of Law and continue at the Bernalillo County Courthouse in Albuquerque.

The Texas Tech University College of Education will recognize Dean Walter B. Huffman as their Distinguished Alumnus for 2004 at the Annual Awards Dinner May 4, 2004. This recognition is conferred on individuals who have demonstrated a long-term commitment to the advancement of the education profession. Dr. Sheryl L. Santos, Dean of the College of Education says that Huffman's "many achievements have promoted quality education and have brought recognition and honor to the profession and to Texas Tech University".

The library will operate on a limited schedule during the Spring Break (March 13-21). The Circulation Desk will be staffed and open according to the following schedule :

Saturday-Sunday (March 13-14): closed
Monday-Friday (March 15-19): 7:30am - 5pm
Saturday (March 20): closed
Sunday (March 21): 10am - Midnight

Professor Bryan T. Camp has been invited to present his work-in-progress on the 1846 New York Constitutional Convention at the New York State Historical Society's annual conference in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. for commentary and review by New York historians.

Professor Bryan T. Camp has been engaged by Tax Analysts, Inc., to write a monthly 4,000-word commentary for its flagship publication, Tax Notes. Beginning in April 2004, Professor Camp will write monthly columns on his area of specialization: tax administration. Tax Notes, in both its hard copy weekly form and it's daily online version, is the leading national publication of current administrative, legislative, and judicial actions regarding federal taxation. It reports on all current and proposed legislation, hearings, reform proposals, regulations, cases, and all current events relating to taxation. It is widely read by tax practitioners, tax academics, and government tax policy experts in Congress, in the Treasury Department, and in the Internal Revenue Service, where Professor Camp worked for almost eight years before coming to Texas Tech to teach.

Congratulations to Adie Malone, Austin Jackson, Mark Desnoyer, and Professor Don Hunt for going undefeated on their way to the ABA National Moot Court Team Western Regional Championship in San Francisco, February 27 - 29. Ms. Malone, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Desnoyer and Coach Hunt will now move on to the ABA National Moot Court Team National Championships in Chicago the first week in April.