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Post by stargatebabe on May 6, 2024 7:38:00 GMT -6
Columbia law students want school to cancel finals, pass all students because they’re ‘irrevocably shaken’ after protest breakupThe student editors at the Columbia Law Review want administrators to cancel the law school’s exams and pass all its students after cops cleared out an anti-Israel encampment last week — claiming in a letter that the police action left the student body “irrevocably shaken.”
The letter — penned right after the NYPD dismantled protesters’ tent city Tuesday night and evicted them from nearby Hamilton Hall — also said the school should at least let students receive a simple pass/fail grade because they’re just so upset.
“The violence we witnessed last night has irrevocably shaken many of us on the Review,” the editors whined in the letter, published by Above The Law.
“We know this to be the same for a majority of our classmates,” the editors continued.
“Videos have circulated of police clad in riot gear mocking and brutalizing our students. The events of last night left us, and many of our peers, unable to focus and highly emotional during this tumultuous time.”
The letter added that the confrontation followed “growing distress” students have felt for months “as the humanitarian crisis abroad continues to unfold, and as the blatant antisemitism, Islamophobia and racism on campus have escalated.”
“We believe that canceling exams would be a proportionate response to the level of distress our peers have been feeling,” the editors said.
“In the alternative, making courses mandatory pass/fail would be the next most equitable solution.”Read more, including the letter @ www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/columbia-law-students-want-school-to-cancel-finals-pass-all-students-because-they-re-irrevocably-shaken-after-protest-breakup/ar-BB1lRKmM
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Post by Billy John Davy on May 6, 2024 7:52:41 GMT -6
they should all fail.
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Post by JDCJJ on May 6, 2024 8:05:18 GMT -6
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Post by stargatebabe on May 6, 2024 8:07:47 GMT -6
I just want that class list published so everyone can see who did, or didn't, take their finals in law school! |
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Post by stargatebabe on May 6, 2024 8:08:47 GMT -6
Columbia caved to the inmates and they are now running the nut house! |
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Post by gotscha on May 6, 2024 8:09:19 GMT -6
I'm going to guess it's not the top quartile of the class making this request. If you have so much free time that you can protest for weeks, your field of study is obviously not academically rigorous. Better for them to fail now than waste even more money on an overpriced education from an overvalued institution. I hope anyone who hires from Columbia sees this and reconsiders the value of Ivy League graduates.
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Post by stargatebabe on May 6, 2024 8:26:12 GMT -6
I'm going to guess it's not the top quartile of the class making this request. If you have so much free time that you can protest for weeks, your field of study is obviously not academically rigorous. Better for them to fail now than waste even more money on an overpriced education from an overvalued institution. I hope anyone who hires from Columbia sees this and reconsiders the value of Ivy League graduates. Don't they have to be in the upper quartile to be on the Law Review? |
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Post by oedipustex on May 6, 2024 8:46:08 GMT -6
If they truly believed in their cause, they would gladly accept the consequences of their actions. Instead, they're a collection of pussy liberal activists and cosplay revolutionary students. The Columbia leadership should give them all a worthy life lesson by letting them experience consequences for their actions. But one must remember that Columbia is led by pussy liberals.
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Post by gotscha on May 6, 2024 8:49:57 GMT -6
I'm going to guess it's not the top quartile of the class making this request. If you have so much free time that you can protest for weeks, your field of study is obviously not academically rigorous. Better for them to fail now than waste even more money on an overpriced education from an overvalued institution. I hope anyone who hires from Columbia sees this and reconsiders the value of Ivy League graduates. Don't they have to be in the upper quartile to be on the Law Review? I wasn't referring to the Law Review specifically. I was referring to the classes for which they're attempting to skip final exams. Unless they have fewer than 4 students, there is always a top quartile. |
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Post by stargatebabe on May 6, 2024 9:11:15 GMT -6
Don't they have to be in the upper quartile to be on the Law Review? I wasn't referring to the Law Review specifically. I was referring to the classes for which they're attempting to skip final exams. Unless they have fewer than 4 students, there is always a top quartile. The Law Review made the request, which is why I asked |
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Post by stargatebabe on May 6, 2024 9:13:09 GMT -6
If they truly believed in their cause, they would gladly accept the consequences of their actions. Instead, they're a collection of pussy liberal activists and cosplay revolutionary students. The Columbia leadership should give them all a worthy life lesson by letting them experience consequences for their actions. But one must remember that Columbia is led by pussy liberals. Think about who you are talking about - this is the class of participation trophies, safe spaces, etc. I do agree about Columbia leadership but it's looking like there isn't any leadership! |
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Post by Billy John Davy on May 6, 2024 12:00:00 GMT -6
13 Federal Judges Say They Will No Longer Hire Law Clerks From Columbia University, Citing ‘Virulent Spread of Antisemitism’ and ‘Explosion of Student Disruptions’ 3 federal judges said Monday that they would no longer hire law clerks from Columbia College or Columbia Law School after the university allowed an encampment on its lawn to spiral into a destructive occupation of a campus building. The judges cited the "explosion of student disruptions" and the "virulent spread of antisemitism" at Columbia, which has now canceled its main graduation ceremony because of the unrest. Led by Fifth Circuit appellate judges James Ho and Elizabeth Branch, who spearheaded a clerkship boycott of Yale Law School in 2022 and Stanford Law School in 2023, as well as by Matthew Solomson on the U.S Court of Federal Claims, the judges wrote in a letter to Columbia president Minouche Shafik that they would no longer hire "anyone who joins the Columbia University community—whether as undergraduates or as law students—beginning with the entering class of 2024." "Freedom of speech protects protest, not trespass, and certainly not acts or threats of violence or terrorism," the judges wrote. "It has become clear that Columbia applies double standards when it comes to free speech and student misconduct." The letter’s signatories include Alan Albright, a district judge who hears a fourth of the nation’s patent cases; Stephen Vaden, a former general counsel at the Department of Agriculture who now sits on the United States Court of International Trade; and Matthew Kacsmaryk, the district judge who suspended approval of the abortion drug mifepristone in a controversial ruling last year. Others are well-known district judges appointed by former president Donald Trump. |
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Post by stargatebabe on May 6, 2024 16:58:25 GMT -6
13 Federal Judges Say They Will No Longer Hire Law Clerks From Columbia University, Citing ‘Virulent Spread of Antisemitism’ and ‘Explosion of Student Disruptions’ 3 federal judges said Monday that they would no longer hire law clerks from Columbia College or Columbia Law School after the university allowed an encampment on its lawn to spiral into a destructive occupation of a campus building. The judges cited the "explosion of student disruptions" and the "virulent spread of antisemitism" at Columbia, which has now canceled its main graduation ceremony because of the unrest. Led by Fifth Circuit appellate judges James Ho and Elizabeth Branch, who spearheaded a clerkship boycott of Yale Law School in 2022 and Stanford Law School in 2023, as well as by Matthew Solomson on the U.S Court of Federal Claims, the judges wrote in a letter to Columbia president Minouche Shafik that they would no longer hire "anyone who joins the Columbia University community—whether as undergraduates or as law students—beginning with the entering class of 2024." "Freedom of speech protects protest, not trespass, and certainly not acts or threats of violence or terrorism," the judges wrote. "It has become clear that Columbia applies double standards when it comes to free speech and student misconduct." The letter’s signatories include Alan Albright, a district judge who hears a fourth of the nation’s patent cases; Stephen Vaden, a former general counsel at the Department of Agriculture who now sits on the United States Court of International Trade; and Matthew Kacsmaryk, the district judge who suspended approval of the abortion drug mifepristone in a controversial ruling last year. Others are well-known district judges appointed by former president Donald Trump.GOOD! Love it, LOVE IT! |
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