Congratulations, Osgoode – we’ve made it yet another year. We’ve survived the supposed 2012 apocalypse, which turned out to be a deadly storm in the form of Hurricane Sandy, the epic fail of iOS6 maps, and an infectious virus commonly known as “Gangnam Style.” We’ve survived 9 York Security Bulletins, 14 issues of the Obiter Dicta, and 1000 missing forks. We’ve survived – just barely – another year of Rob Ford’s comical incompetence as mayor (and sometimes, as a rational human being).
This year, we landed our arguments as successfully as the Curiosity rover did on the surface of Mars. Osgoode won the Gale Cup, the Client Consultation Competition, the Fox Moot, the Great Lakes Mediation Tournament, the Walsh Family Moot, and the Winkler Award for Mediation Advocacy.
On October 14, 2012, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner jumped from 39km above the Earth’s surface at a top speed of 1342km/hr, breaking the sound barrier and a number of world records. What kind of barriers did Osgoode break this year? We’d like to think that Osgoode broke down some gender and sex discrimination barriers with another successful Wendy Babcock Drag Show. Wendy would have graduated alongside many of us this summer. She was an inspiration to many of us and we hope to see her legacy continue.
This year, on March 20, 2013, we celebrated our first International Day of Happiness. It’s easy to forget under the pressures of law school that the pursuit of happiness is a fundamental goal. We hope our own Cass Da Re’s Happiness Project series have helped the Osgoode community achieve that goal over the past two years. Osgoode, you deserve to be happy!
This year, we saw the inauguration of a new Pope, a new Liberal leader, a new Ontarian law school, and a new way to complete LSUC licensing requirements. Time will tell how these changes will take effect.
Now we can only hope that that we’ll Usain Bolt through the exam period.
Thanks for a great year, Osgoode and best wishes for all your future endeavours!
Yours through thick and thin,
Obiter Dicta