Volume 5 Winter 2011 Number 2 - Charleston Law Review

SCHULZE FINAL.doc1/20/2011 6:14PMCHARLESTON LAW REVIEW [Volume 5one another, thus providing an essential nexus of compassionand shared understanding between two learners. Other ASPmethods have the same impact.For instance, at Capital University Law School, the AcademicSuccess Program spearheads a two-week pre-matriculationprogram designed, in part, to humanize the law schoolenvironment. 252 In addition to sessions on law school skills, theprogram offers a series of sessions ultimately serving to providestudents with a sense of relatedness. 253 First, the ASP runs a“Networking Bingo” collaborative exercise that forces students towork on a skill set—interpersonal relations—mostly ignoredin law school. 254 Not only does this exercise allow students torelate better to a skill they must employ in practice, but it alsoallows students to meet one another in an in-depth way, forgingbonds that will carry them through their challenging years in lawschool. 255Second, the Academic Success Program Director teaches aclass session during the pre-matriculation program on how towrite a proper handwritten thank you note and the benefits ofdoing so. 256 Each student is instructed to bring the name andaddress of someone who helped them get to law school. 257Students write the thank-you note, address it, and the ASP mailsit for them. 258 Students then form working groups; each studenttells the story of the person who helped them get to law schooland why they chose that person to receive their note. 259 Not only252. See E-mail from J. Joseph Bodine, Jr., Dir. & Professor, AcademicSupport Program, Capital Univ. Law Sch., to author (June 25, 2010, 06:07 EST)(on file with author) [hereinafter Bodine E-mail].253. Id.254. Id. This exercise derives from one created by the National Associationfor Law Placement, Inc. (NALP). See What Is NALP?, NALP: ASS’N FOR LEGALCAREER PROFS., http://www.nalp.org/whatisnalp (last visited Oct. 22, 2010)(“NALP is dedicated to facilitating legal career counseling and planning,recruitment and retention, and the professional development of law studentsand lawyers.”).255. See Bodine E-mail, supra note 252.256. Id.257. Id.258. Id.259. Id.328