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Columbia allows students to postpone final exams due to Grand Jury decisions
Posted on 12/8/14 at 8:28 pm
Posted on 12/8/14 at 8:28 pm
Ivy League gonna Ivy League
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Columbia University Law School is allowing its students to reschedule their exams if they feel traumatized by the recent grand jury decisions in the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases.
The school’s interim dean, Robert E. Scott, notified students of the option in an email circulated to the student body on Saturday on the eve of the December exam period.
“The grand juries’ determinations to return non-indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases have shaken the faith of some in the integrity of the grand jury system and in the law more generally,” Mr. Scott’s letter said. “For some law students, particularly, though not only, students of color, this chain of events is all the more profound as it threatens to undermine a sense that the law is a fundamental pillar of society designed to protect fairness, due process and equality.”
Posted on 12/8/14 at 8:29 pm to Roger Klarvin
What a generation of sensitive pussies we are raising.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 8:29 pm to Roger Klarvin
quote:Megan Kelly just brutally eviscerated these nitwits
Columbia allows students to postpone final exams due to Grand Jury decisions
Ivy League gonna Ivy League
Posted on 12/8/14 at 8:34 pm to Roger Klarvin
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Columbia University Law School is allowing its students to reschedule their exams
ANYTHING that postpones the creation of more lawyers (even for a few days) gets my support
Posted on 12/8/14 at 8:35 pm to Roger Klarvin
Harvard Law School kids now demanding the same
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We have been visibly distressed and actively engaged throughout this public national crisis. The administration has remained silent.
We led rallies, held vigils, and published an oped. You were silent on this issue. We petitioned the government, served as legal observers, created spaces of solidarity, drafted model legislation, and marched through the streets of Boston and Cambridge. You remained silent on this issue. We spent countless hours leveraging our legal educations, and utilizing our platform and privilege as students of this institution. And all we have heard from the administration is deafening silence.
Your silence denies humanity to the lives lost and minimizes the gravity of the palpable anguish looming over campus. Like many across the country, we are traumatized. Just because this racial terror is systemically reproduced and normalized through repeated fidelity to the so called rule of law, it does not mean the disruption is any less traumatic than a tragic bombing. The fact that you refuse to openly acknowledge this adds to our distress. Your silence is a signal that Harvard Law School is indifferent to the welfare of many of its students.
We can’t breathe.
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Harvard Law School has policies and procedures in place for students experiencing a personal emergency that interferes with an exam or immediate pre-exam preparation. This is more than a personal emergency. This is a national emergency.
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Signed,
Harvard Law School Affinity Group Coalition:
Harvard Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Executive Board
Harvard Black Law Students Association
Harvard Middle Eastern Law Students Association
Harvard Muslim Law Students Association
Harvard Native American Law Students Association
La Alianza
Lambda
Supero
In support:
ACLU
Harvard Law School Chapter Advocates for Human Rights
Harvard Defenders
Harvard Environmental Law Society
Harvard Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice
Harvard Law School Feminist Coalition
Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine
Harvard Law Students for Reproductive Justice
Harvard Law Students for Sustainable Investment
Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project
Harvard Student Representative Board, Executive Officers
National Lawyers Guild
Students for Inclusion
The Harvard Asia Law Society
Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left
This post was edited on 12/8/14 at 8:36 pm
Posted on 12/8/14 at 8:38 pm to Roger Klarvin
If I were interviewing a Columbia law grad for the next three years, I would ask if they got an extension for the Fall 2014 semester exams and, if they did, I would ask them to leave my office.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 8:48 pm to Roger Klarvin
I hope I never have to rely on these people to have my back.
They have zero toughness.
They have zero toughness.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 8:51 pm to Roger Klarvin
good lord, lawyers disrespecting the process??
Posted on 12/8/14 at 9:14 pm to Roger Klarvin
Good stinking grief. What about the other multitudes of tragedies around the world? Can one have his test postponed because children are starving in Africa?
Here is a better one; what if I'm distraught over all the aborted babies?
Here is a better one; what if I'm distraught over all the aborted babies?
Posted on 12/8/14 at 9:56 pm to Roger Klarvin
I mean what in the actual frick. I would shite talk my generation, but once again it's the elder generations (the dean) that let my generation be a bunch of sniveling wimps. Treat them like adults and they might start acting like adults.
This post was edited on 12/8/14 at 9:57 pm
Posted on 12/8/14 at 10:18 pm to Roger Klarvin
Just saw that.. I thought to myself, this MUST be a joke.
Sadly, I was mistaken.
I thought law school was supposed to stress the importance of the judicial system.
Sadly, I was mistaken.
I thought law school was supposed to stress the importance of the judicial system.
Posted on 12/9/14 at 11:49 am to Roger Klarvin
I'm laughing so hard at this stupidity that I can not breathe.
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