"Do I even need to say it?"
Posted on 05/14/2014 5:42:53 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
May 15, 2014 - The Screw Turns at the University of Texas -Dissing impeachment...and then voting for it.
"A Texas politician named Dan Flynn really liked my piece in this publication last month, which was weird, since I called him and his colleagues “crooked,” and accused them of putting on a show trial meant to intimidate a whistleblowing university regent into silence.
But Flynn liked my piece so much that he apparently copied it. He seems to have cut and pasted long passages from this article and two others that I wrote for Watchdog.org, and put them into his own letter, right down to a typo that slipped past this magazine’s usually squinty editors....."
it ain’t what you know it’s who you know ick
UT should be investigated from stem to stern. There is a lot of corruption in that hotbed of Leftist ideology, but then we know that corruption is always a partner of Big Government.
Silly me. And here I thought the reason, at least one of the reasons, a matriculating student for a legal education, would be to gain enough knowledge to pass a particular state's bar exam. I was not aware that one had to actually pass a bar exam in order to be 'qualified' for law school, or so this article implies.
Frankly, if the author were predisposed to expose political cronyism in our college and university system, he might first start with the masters of it, say Harvard, Yale and the like. There, the 'force' is strong. Or if he's lazy, he could investigate any one of a couple dozen HBCU/MIs - same difference.
It doesn't.
The title does.
“Student” is not a typical name for one who actually ‘graduates’ from any college/university. They’re called ‘graduates’. Use of ‘students’ here implies that they are, or were unqualified at some point during their education, even on entering the school. Poor title.
If you can’t matriculate then litigate.
"Do I even need to say it?"
Great work!
I am so sick of the Strauss kabal and am not one bit surprised at the Gallegos/Dim connection.
This needs to go to Breitbart TX for further exposure.
UT needs to be investigated AND have its funds cut so that they can rid it of “studies” majors, ed majors, journalism majors, and other toxic dreck. It also needs to save money by laying off administrators and by giving a salaryectomy to Powers.
UT is a public university and elected public officials are abusing their power...and that's everybody's business.
It may be to you if you are a Texas resident. But I couldn’t care less, personally - that’s up to you to police. This is happening all over this country and we each have our own particular worries to worry about.
Frankly, the fact that another fracking potential lawyer cannot pass a bar exam is a good thing in my opinion. Being a ‘student’ as the article’s title indicates and being a ‘graduate’ are two different things.
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They're going to run Hall trough the court system and bankrupt him in the process. This take no prisoners political payback needs to be exposed. Rightfully, some are looking askance at moving to impeach Wallace Hall for uncovering this - as they know this will be a very public airing of a lot of dirty laundry.
Transparency Committee Looks to UT System to Take Action "After voting that there are grounds to impeach University of Texas System Regent Wallace Hall, members of a legislative committee are making it clear that they are looking to the UT System’s board of regents to address the situation, possibly as soon as when it meets this week. Some members indicated that board action could reduce the need — to the extent that the committee feels there is one — to proceed with the impeachment process.
The House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations, in a 7-1 vote Monday, approved a motion saying that there are reasons to impeach Hall, who has been accused of abusing his authority while investigating the University of Texas at Austin administration. The committee plans to meet again May 21 to discuss drafting articles of impeachment, which it could send to the full Texas House for consideration.
Members of the committee have said they think the UT board’s actions have been lacking, and some said they hope to see a proactive response to the week’s developments when the board meets Wednesday and Thursday. While demands for action were many, specifics were few. But possibilities raised by the committee members included casting a vote of "no confidence" in Hall, pushing for Hall's resignation and tweaking the board's policies so that future regents cannot use investigative tactics similar to what Hall has done.
"We are doing what we can to help remedy this situation, but they have a responsibility as well," state Rep. Carol Alvarado, a Houston Democrat and the committee’s co-chair, said in reference to the UT System board. "They have all been aware of this behavior and, for whatever reason, have not done anything about it."
State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, said, "I would strongly urge and encourage the UT System to resolve this issue, working closely with the University of Texas, to come to some closure before this committee takes a step further.".....[More; WORTH A FULL READ]......
There are two “schools of thought” regarding legal education, two kinds of schools. There are practical schools, which train students for the bar exam and the actual practice of law. Then there are theoretical schools, which stress the Constitution, federal jurisdiction, history of jurisprudence and equity, etc. The theoretical schools seem to produce more thoughtful lawyers, as well as law clerks, judges, and professors. Training for the bar exam is what companies like Bar-Bri are there for.
That being said, the LSAT and other academic indicators exist to measure aptitude for the study and practice of law.
It is offensive that a school would admit well-connected applicants over the well-qualified. But ain’t that America, where on the first day of law school orientation you see a veritable idiot on her cell phone, saying, “mom, they don’t take AMEX!”
Just wow. Took me half way down the article before the so called reporter lets me know that the main culprits are dimorats....surprise surprise.
Interesting article. I’m surprised the politicians didn’t go after the State Bar itself to Change the exam or, at least, some of the results. I’ve come across some real idiots practicing law in AZ who I have trouble believing graduated HS let alone passed a rather rigorous state bar exam (rigorous by reputation anyhow as I’ve, of course, never taken it).
A person of somewhat above average intelligence could study on their own with good resources in the form law books and the internet could pass the bar exam with relative ease.
“A person of somewhat above average intelligence could study on their own with good resources in the form law books and the internet could pass the bar exam with relative ease.”
Is that right? How many times have you taken the Texas Bar Exam? You might be interested to know this most recent exam (February 2014) was the most difficult exam administered by the State in over twenty years. At least that’s what those of us who just passed it were told when we went to Austin to be sworn in by the Texas Supreme Court Justices on Monday. Without any warning the state altered one of the all day sections (it is a three day exam) to make it significantly more difficult. But of course “a person of somewhat above average intelligence” would have known this prior to the exam.
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