Rockin' Relief at Taylor's Pub raised $675 for Haiti - look for the Rebels For Haiti at April 17th Maker's Market at the Lyric Oxford

Support local artists on the courthouse lawn tomorrow, Saturday March 27th, Oxford, Mississippi's Oxford Artist's Guild ~ Art and All That Jazz 9am - 5pm

ROCKIN' RELIEF BENEFIT FOR HAITI - Wednesday Night, March 24th at Taylor's Pub on the Oxford square

For $5 on Wednesday night, March 24th at Taylor's Pub in Oxford, Mississippi, you can make a difference in Haiti. Please stop by the ROCKIN' RELIEF BENEFIT for Haiti, tomorrow night and help us improve the living conditions for people in need.

ROCKIN' RELIEF Benefit for Haiti
BE A REBEL. GIVE A DAMN.
Wednesday, March 24th
Taylor's Pub, 6pm - Midnight
$5 at the door

There is an awesome Haiti Benefit Party happening TOMORROW, Wednesday March 24th, 6pm at Taylor's Pub on the Oxford square - 1101 East Jackson Avenue, Oxford, MS 38655 (662) 234-2155 ‎


Line up of musicians + screening of Ole Miss grad student's documentary about Haiti:


6:00pm - Jay Lang
6:30pm - Clip from Haiti documentary by Rachel Smith, "MINUSTAH vole kabrit"
7:00pm - Tyler Kieth
7:45pm - The Reviews
8:15pm - Cadillac Funk
9:15pm - Silas Reed N' the Books
10:30pm - Burnside Exploration


Local Pizza (c/o Funky's), Haitian Prize Raffle (donated by Square Books, Oxford Wine and Liquor, Taylor's Pub, etc.), T-Shirts for sale ($20) and goodies from the Oxford Maker's Market!


Proceeds from this benefit are earmarked for the construction cost of 3 toilets and 3 showers outside of the LAMP Clinic in Cite Soleil. Total construction cost: $11,500... LAMP is a 501-3c Non-Profit. http://www.lampforhaiti.org/. For more details please contact Rebels for Haiti - rebelsforhaiti@gmail.com

Tom's Shoes/Hope for Africa Barefoot Walk, TOMORROW Tuesday, March 23.

TOMS SHOES Party on Campus! This info from the Associated Student Body of the Universtiy of Mississippi:

As part of the celebration of the inauguration of Chancellor Dan Jones, many student groups will be sponsoring days of service in honor of Chancellor Jones. The theme for the inauguration is Transformation through Service. Thus, throughout the next two weeks, we will show how students are transforming lives on the local, state, national, and global level.


Our first event is the Tom's Shoes/Hope for Africa Barefoot Walk, which will be held Tuesday, March 23.


TOMS Shoes and Hope for Africa present the Barefoot Walk. This Tuesday, starting at 3 PM in the union plaza, participants will have the opportunity to come decorate a TOMS/HFA T-Shirt (the first 100 people get a T-Shirt for free!) while listening to some great acoustic performances.


We'll start the walk around campus at 4:45. The forecast looks good, but we'll be there rain or shine! If you want to walk in socks, you'll be asked to make a $3 donation, and for shoes, $5. Of course, we encourage everyone to go barefoot to experience a life without shoes firsthand and to help spread awareness of the impact a simple pair of shoes can bring to a child's life.


For more information about TOMS visit http://www.toms.com/
For more information about Hope for Africa visit http://www.hopeforafrica.info/


Sign up sheets are located in the ASB office now, and they will also be available the day of the event.
Thanks, and we can't wait to see you Tuesday.


Steve Stringer
Hope for Africa, President
Toran Dean
Tom's Shoes, Campus Representative
Associated Student Body

TOMS Shoes are so great. If you want to buy a pair, our Marimekko shop on the square sells them. Click here to view their website.

Marimekko Oxford
403 South Lamar Blvd.
Oxford, MS 38655
800.926.2701

Happy Spring Break, Ole Miss! 2 Major Events When You Return...

First major event after spring break - Rockin' Relief Benefit for Haiti - Wednesday, March 24th, 6-midnight at Taylor's Pub on the Oxford square - see flyer below.  Pre-order t-shirts here.

Second major event - the Oxford Artist's Guild will have their Spring Show - ART AND ALL THAT JAZZ - on the courthouse lawn in the center of the Oxford square, Saturday, MARCH 27TH, 9am - 5pm.  Stop by to sample some local art and spread the word!  Support your community members and the local art scene of Oxford, Mississippi!

There are currently 38 guild members signed up for this show - it's going to be huge! 

Live long and prosper ... and may the dialogue continue ...

It was such fun last week to meet the Chinese students who travelled to Oxford, Mississippi for the US - China Student Space Law Symposium 2010 at Ole Miss.  I loved photographing the students at the various parties and I know from their many thank you emails that they had a fabulous time here during their brief visit.  They were all so dear as to invite everyone they met to come visit them in China.  Professor Gabrynowicz said, as she described our participation in this symposium, "We've all made the world just a teeny-tiny bit better."

Here's to the hope for continued dialogue with our Chinese friends, in all matters of the world, for the planet Earth and in space.  (Cue the final frontier soundtrack - these are the voyages of the starship Enterprise...)

This is, indeed, a very interesting time for space law, with the problems of man-made space debris, satellite imaging, and the militarization of space coming into focus as truly serious issues.  It was even more interesting that the news of the Chinese space station was revealed to the U.S. media during the symposium.

China plans to launch an 8.5 ton military space station, Tiangong-1, in late 2010.

Photo Credit: TV Grab - image televised during a national Chinese New Year broadcast.

To learn more about the topics discussed during the US - China Student Space Law Symposium 2010 at Ole Miss, read these blog posts from Res Communis,  the University of Mississippi School of Law's blog on the legal aspects of human activities using aerospace technologies:

U.S. – China Student Space Law Symposium: Welcome

U.S. – China Student Space Law Symposium: China and Non-weaponization of Outer Space

U.S. – China Student Space Law Symposium: Enlightened State Interest – A Legal Framework for Protecting the “Common Interest of All Mankind” from a Hardinian Tragedy

U.S. – China Student Space Law Symposium: Prospects of Chinese Space Tourism and Proposals for Its Legislation

U.S. – China Student Space Law Symposium: The March of Science – Fourth Amendment Implications of Remote Sensing in Criminal Law

U.S. – China Student Space Law Symposium: Criminal Jurisdiction in the International Space Station

U.S. – China Student Space Law Symposium: Studies on Legal System of Chinese Satellite Communication

U.S. – China Student Space Law Symposium: Some Issues on International Remote Sensing Law

U.S. – China Student Space Law Symposium: An Insurer’s Dilemma for Insuring Commercial Human Space Flight

U.S. – China Student Space Law Symposium: Legal Issues on Militarization in Outer Space and Space Debris

The University of Mississippi - Space law in spotlight

From the Clarion Ledger -February 28, 2010

OLE MISS
Space law in spotlight
 OXFORD - With China joining Russia and the United States as the only nations that have sent humans into space, international legal issues continue to emerge.

 Scholars from two of those nations are slated to address some of the issues - security, satellite communications, insurance, environmental monitoring, space debris and even space tourism - Wednesday at the University of Mississippi as part of the U.S.-China Student Space Law Research Symposium.

 Sponsored by the National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law at the UM School of Law, the symposium enables students from Ole Miss, the Beijing Institute of Technology School of Law and the Harbin Institute of Technology School of Law to have open discussions regarding the issues.

 The overall goal is to bring together students from the U.S. and China to share their research experiences while at the same time help foster relations between the two nations, said Joanne Gabrynowicz, the center's director.

 The symposium is set for 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the law school's Moot Courtroom II. To help bridge the two cultures, UM law students have volunteered to serve as ambassadors to their Chinese counterparts. The Chinese students will be on campus all week.

 Law students from China and Ole Miss participated in competitions in order to attend the symposium. The dean of the Harbin Institute of Technology School of Law and the deputy dean of the Beijing Institute of Technology School of Law are also among the participants.

 For three years, Gabrynowicz has served as a guest lecturer at both the participating Chinese institutions, which helped lead to the collaboration of the symposium.
 For more information, visit spacelaw.olemiss.edu.

Farewell to our new friends - dinner and song at the home of Prof. Gabrynowicz

The Wealth of the Double Fish - Pie and Reb Ale with our new friends...