Law Schools delaying exams because of “trauma"

[Anonymous]

You needed this to realize law students at Columbia and other top law schools are snowflakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look I'm as conservative as they come but there has to be more going on here than simply a display of end stage liberalism? Please someone explain. Whats the reality behind this. If this is what our best and brightest have to offer, we really are doomed...

Sure. You are a black law student at a top university like Harvard. You are busting your ass convinced that if you keep working hard, success is around the corner. Then a series of events happens that convinces you that no matter what you do, the world still views you as inferior. Specifically, the legal system you are striving so hard to enter is letting you down. It could make any young adult despondent.

If "the world still views you as inferior," how did you get into Harvard Law School?

[Anonymous]

Good lord. I was in law school during 9/11. Classes were canceled for a day or two and then it was back to business. This postponement is absolutely ridiculous. The deans should tell the students to piss off and sit their a$$es in the chair for the exams.

[Anonymous]

If I were an alumnus of one of these schools, I would be contacting the president and complaining about this decision, especially if I regularly donated to the university. It just makes the university look bad. Grooming law school students who can’t deal with “trauma.” How ironic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look I'm as conservative as they come but there has to be more going on here than simply a display of end stage liberalism? Please someone explain. Whats the reality behind this. If this is what our best and brightest have to offer, we really are doomed...

I'm pretty liberal and I don't get it either. It seems like there must be something missing -- was a student at Columbia injured at a protest?

[Anonymous]

Oh my. As a Georgetown law grad I am disturbed and I really hope they do not allow this. Any kid requesting this is pathetic and does not deserve to be a lawyer.

[Anonymous]

Ha. They sound like lawyers in the making to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good lord. I was in law school during 9/11. Classes were canceled for a day or two and then it was back to business. This postponement is absolutely ridiculous. The deans should tell the students to piss off and sit their a$$es in the chair for the exams.

Me too and I had job interviews two days later that were not canceled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look I'm as conservative as they come but there has to be more going on here than simply a display of end stage liberalism? Please someone explain. Whats the reality behind this. If this is what our best and brightest have to offer, we really are doomed...

Sure. You are a black law student at a top university like Harvard. You are busting your ass convinced that if you keep working hard, success is around the corner. Then a series of events happens that convinces you that no matter what you do, the world still views you as inferior. Specifically, the legal system you are striving so hard to enter is letting you down. It could make any young adult despondent.

Alright… why no despondence over black on black drug and gangland violence killing thousands every year? Why no despondence of the ethnic cleansing of thousands of black babies through abortion every year? Despondence is reserved for a thug who died while attacking a police officer and a man who died because the police obeyed the order of a black female police sergeant to comply with the Mayor’s war on black-market loosies??

It’s your naiveté (or ignorance??) which encourages and cultivates ‘despondence’ among our youth. Even then, so what if you are despondent?? I’m despondent over a great many things but I get up every day despite marital woes, health woes, economic woe, depression woes and go to work and provide for my family.

I was hoping to hear this lunacy at Columbia is an anomaly but your statement worries me it’s the norm. Imagine such ‘despondence’ in 1861, blacks would still be slaves; 1941… we’d be speaking German or Japanese, those of us lucky enough to survive the camps that is. Imagine this despondence 1960; we’d be speaking Russian comrade, those of us lucky enough not to be at the Gulag…

My worst fears about liberalism have been confirmed… and to imagine once upon a time I voted for John Kerry… never again, never again!

[Anonymous]

Interesting that is this the reason cited. I actually heard that at a number of law schools (including my alma mater), the students asked for delays so that they could participate in the protests, not because of some trauma.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that is this the reason cited. I actually heard that at a number of law schools (including my alma mater), the students asked for delays so that they could participate in the protests, not because of some trauma.

Here is a link to the letter by the Columbia School dean. It is clearly due to “trauma.”

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/12/not-a-parody.php

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good lord. I was in law school during 9/11. Classes were canceled for a day or two and then it was back to business. This postponement is absolutely ridiculous. The deans should tell the students to piss off and sit their a$$es in the chair for the exams.

Me too and I had job interviews two days later that were not canceled.

^^Thank you for this! This is exactly what I was thinking.

Asking for this is not the way to make a statement.

[Anonymous]

I know at Berkeley they have had to close campus early a few days to keep the chaos down. Perhaps it had more to do with logistics in reality than trauma.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the ones who are looting are thugs, and the ones who are distraught are weaklings. Is there any appropriate reaction in your mind, other than applause?

Some thugs wear suits and charge by the hour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know at Berkeley they have had to close campus early a few days to keep the chaos down. Perhaps it had more to do with logistics in reality than trauma.

Read the letter from the dean. It was because of trauma.

- The law school has a policy and set of procedures for students who experience trauma during exam period. In accordance with these procedures and policy, students who feel that their performance on examinations will be sufficiently impaired due to the effects of these recent events may petition Dean Alice Rigas to have an examination rescheduled.