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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not every 1450 is close to the same based on life circumstances.

My guess is no one who has posted on this thread thus far will have a kid admitted to Stanford in the next 5 years. So many people here worry about the policies at these schools for no reason.[/quote]

Well, DS '2026 at a T15 currently will likely apply to Stanford Law (reeeeeeach, he knows) in a few years, so I'm moderately interested in what the university is doing, generally.  Who they're admitting, political winds, campus environment.  to wit, he's keeping his eye on this sort of bullshit involving an undergrad dean and the law school. TLDR: dean doubles down on suppression of 110% protected political speech of invited speaker, sides with hecklers.

Stanford Law School Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Tirien Steinbach had been asked by the Federalist Society to attend the event as an observer and de-escalator. About 30 minutes into his lecture, and after much shouting by the students, Duncan asked for an administrator to address the heckling.  Instead, Steinbach took the floor and told Duncan that she was uncomfortable with his presence and the event, which was “tearing the fabric of the community that I care about apart,” she said in a now-viral video.[/quote]
Sounds about right. The Federalist society threatens these elite law schools that they will ask their members to ban these colleges' students from clerking with them if the school does not let them come and speak at events. Then, the school invites speakers that students do not want to see and pay $100,000 per year to attend a college that doesn't listen to them...and then chaos.[/quote]

The Federalist Society members presumably wanted to hear the talk, no?

And you're making my point - it's worth monitoring how tender and wrapped in bubble wrap a student body is that it is closed off to hearing ideas they disagree with and the ensuing discussion.  That's unappealing, as is admitting successive cohorts who are less capable of doing the typical work (the actual subject of this thread)[/quote]
I don't see why students have to agree with everyone the school brings. No, if I am having to listen to a person who thinks Obergefell should be overturned, as a queer person, I really don't want to hear them out on a good day, let alone have my institution pay to fly them there and give them a mic to spew hateful law. In a similar vein, I don't want a bunch of communist anti-legal activists coming either. For some people, these ideas are actual material losses that could harm them.

Overall, the schools are still providing the forum. Stanford still is inviting conservative judges every single semester onto campus and students are then labelled radicals for protesting people who do harm to their communities. [/quote]

Does stanford ever invite any progressive judges?  Or is it only conservative judges.[/quote]

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