Posted on 11/09/2022 3:01:54 PM PST by naturalman1975
Law students at the University of Sydney will be required to complete a new assessment after a student complained the current one, which used her name, mocked her political views.
Freya Leach, 19, is a member of the Conservative club and the Young Liberals.
She said her second-year criminal law cohorts were given a fictional scenario as part of an end of semester test in which a character – a uni student named “Freya” – murders one of her left-leaning peers. The namesake character also deliberately infects a sexual partner with HIV.
Ms Leach requested an apology from the university, claiming the law school was “incompetent at best, malicious at worst”.
Students were told via their online portal that the take home paper had been withdrawn and apologised to those who had “dedicated a substantial amount of time” to working on the existing assessment, according to The Australian.
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Another character made up for the test was “Daniel”, who tells another student named “Adam” to “f**k off you woke pr**k”.
“Unfortunately for Adam, however, he has not realised that a sporty-looking Mercedes car is approaching rapidly from the right. By a total coincidence, the car is driven by Daniel’s friend, Freya,” the scenario read.
“(Adam) is clipped by Freya’s car one metre from the centre of the road. He falls, smashes his head on the ground and dies instantly. As Freya speeds away from the scene, she hears her phone beep. It is a text message from Daniel, which reads simply ‘Great job ;-) One less illiberal liberal!!!!’”
The scenario adds that the character Freya has unprotected sex with Daniel without mentioning she has HIV.
She then gets into a fight with another woman before being thrown out of a window to her death.
The students were asked to assess the criminal liability of the characters in the question.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Also note - the Liberal Party of Australia is Australia's major conservative party - so there is nothing particularly strange or inconsistent about Freya being in the university's Conservative club and the Young Liberals (the youth branch of the Liberal Party).
Too bad lefties dominate academia.
“Coincidence”, not sure of an Aussie slang term for BS. Based on casual observation, Freya is not exactly a common name Down Under.
19 year old in second year of law school?
An old fashioned “race-horse” law exam.
WONDERFUL meme!
In Australia, most university students go straight from secondary school (final year age 17 or 18) directly into their intended field of study at 18 or 19, so 19 is quite normal for a second-year law student.
It’s possible to complete secondary school, years 7-12, and obtain entry into Uni whilst still being 17. She would have enrolled in a first year combo degree e.g Business/Law etc, as you can no longer do a straight Law degree without being a graduate. Sydney University is like most Universities in the West, dominated by leftists of all stripes
beat me to the punch
That reads like an Adam Schiff Hollyweird script.
Obviously pushing the propaganda portraying conservatives as violent/irrational and conservative women as hypocrites/loose.
I recall hearing about a criminal law exam years ago at UCLA where a hispanic professor seeded her hypotheticals with inverted stereotypes in the facts, like a black kung fu master as one of the characters, and an asian boxer as another, just to see which students crossed them up. Obviously when you have a classroom of students cranked on caffeine and/or ritalin trying to address legal issues in a 2-3 page hypothetical under enormous time pressure, it's not exactly astounding that over half the class will mix up facts at least a little bit.
After the grading the exams this professor circulated a statement about how appalled she was that so many people "revealed" their prejudices by referring to the asian guy as a martial artist or other such atrocities. Many students suspected that those who spotted more legal issues than others nonetheless received a poor grade if they hit one of these stereotype snares.
These incidents demonstrate how badly our academic institutions need to be purged of socialists who refuse to separate their practical duties from their fetid revolution.
Read later.
I get it. It’s not really law school but students who plan to be lawyers.
They’re still taking undergraduate classes at the same time as jr law school classes.
Thanks.
Kind of.
They are generally doing two undergraduate degrees at the same time - at the Unversity of Sydney, where she is, the choices are:
Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws
Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Laws
Bachelor of Economics/Bachelor of Laws
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)/Bachelor of Laws
Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Laws
The Bachelor of Laws (LLB) is considered an undergraduate degree as well. Until quite recently, it could be taken by itself - most Australian lawyers have a four-year undergraduate LLB as their qualification, and technically speaking that is still enough to enter the profession. Now, it’s becoming more common for it to have to be taken as one half of a double degree course but there are still universities that have it as a single standalone course and you graduate with the academic qualification to be a lawyer four years after you leave high school.
The American model (and that is how we often refer to it here) of students doing a fairly general undergraduate degree and then doing postgrad specialisation is becoming more common here, but it really isn’t how our system has historically been designed.
Mocked? Sounds like “defamed” to me!
Yeah. UK and I guess Australia have been different.
I think there are some programs here somewhat similar.
It just sounds odd here to say someone without a bachelor degree or in law is a law student.
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