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‘Irrevocably Shaken’: Editors of Columbia Law Review Demand Cancellation of Exams, Citing Trauma Caused by Police Presence on Campus Editors say the ‘violence’ has left them upset and ‘unable to focus’
WFB ^ | 4.2.24 | Aaron Sibarium

Posted on 05/03/2024 7:22:03 AM PDT by conservative98

The student editors of the Columbia Law Review issued a statement on Wednesday urging Columbia Law School to cancel exams in the wake of the police operation that cleared the university’s unauthorized encampment, saying the "violence" had left them "irrevocably shaken" and "unable to focus."

The statement, which represents the majority opinion of the editorial board and was endorsed by five other law journals, including the Columbia Human Rights Law Review & A Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual, accused the police of "brutalizing" students—though no major injuries have been reported—and claimed that canceling exams was a "proportionate response" to the "distress our peers have been feeling."

"The current exam policy raises concerns around equity and academic integrity," the statement said. "Many are unwell at this time and cannot study or concentrate while their peers are being hauled to jail."

The statement also accuses members of a "white supremacist, neo-fascist hate group" of "storming" campus—an apparent reference to a pro-Israel rally organized by Christian Zionists, including the evangelical musician Sean Feucht, who gathered outside of Columbia’s gates on April 25 for hymns and prayer.

"We do not think it is inconsistent with being a leading voice in legal academia and legal scholarship to prioritize students’ health and safety," the statement said.

Columbia Law School told the Washington Free Beacon it had no plans to cancel exams, which it said would be administered "through the conclusion of the exam period."

The law review’s editor in chief is Alexandria Iraheta Sousa, a second-year law student who has worked for numerous progressive nonprofits, including a dark money group, Demand Justice, that advocates court packing. She did not respond to a request for comment.

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If the law school won’t cancel exams, the editors say it should at least make all courses pass/fail—a move that would make it impossible to differentiate between those who ace their tests and those who barely pass them.

"Instituting an optional Pass/Fail policy is not really optional when employers will see that some students have grades and others do not," the statement argues. "[T]his leaves room for the introduction of extreme bias into the hiring process."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: alexandriasousa; antiamerican; antiisrael; columbia; columbialaw; columbialawschool; domesticterrorists; enemieslist; enemycombatants; hamas; lawschool; prohamas; terrorists; universities
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To: conservative98
So the trauma of the police presence on campus has left them upset and unable able to fu*kus.

The real world is so unfair :)

41 posted on 05/03/2024 8:08:52 AM PDT by hflynn
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To: conservative98
Every courthouse and every courtroom that I have ever entered has armed members of law enforcement. How will these snowflakes ever practice their chosen profession?
42 posted on 05/03/2024 8:13:48 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: conservative98

Aw. 🎻


43 posted on 05/03/2024 8:14:25 AM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: conservative98

Snowflakes and Cotton Balls are having a hard time concentrating on the Tater Swuft studies. ROTFL!!!


44 posted on 05/03/2024 8:15:48 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Weird how the invading hordes of illegal foreign deadbeats didn't start until FJB took the throne.)
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To: conservative98

The-Neo-Nazi-Left: https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-neo-nazi-left/

The Neo-Nazi Left-It’s time to call the enemy by its true name

https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-neo-nazi-left/

Frontpagemagazine ^ | May 3, 2024 | David Horowitz and Daniel Greenfield
Posted on 5/3/2024, 5:23:55 AM by SJackson


45 posted on 05/03/2024 8:16:51 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ((“Surrender often means wisely accommodating to what is beyond our control!” — Sylvia Boorstein.))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Didn’t a young Amy Carter drop out of her first college after spending too much time hanging around with protestors instead of going to classes?


46 posted on 05/03/2024 8:19:29 AM PDT by desertsolitaire (Doomed to be Cassandra-like?)
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To: conservative98

Poor babies.


47 posted on 05/03/2024 8:19:33 AM PDT by systemjim (Lifetime Lover of Music)
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To: conservative98

obviously far far too immature to be on a college campus, they should be dismissed for issuing such a stupid statement

we hire and pay the police to maintain public safety and access to public roads, highways, buildings, facilities

kick the big-mouthed baby bums out!


48 posted on 05/03/2024 8:21:07 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Yo-Yo

They’re not even ready to be ADULTS!


49 posted on 05/03/2024 8:33:18 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: conservative98

Snort.


50 posted on 05/03/2024 8:42:33 AM PDT by yldstrk ( )
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To: ClearCase_guy

We have WAY too many lawyers as it is. Just expell them and let them move on to honest work in the real world. We need brick layers, iron workers and the like anyway.


51 posted on 05/03/2024 8:49:21 AM PDT by wjr123 (NPR)
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To: conservative98
saying the "violence" had left them "irrevocably shaken" and "unable to focus."

Sure glad they're not in the U.S.A.'s military.

52 posted on 05/03/2024 8:50:06 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: conservative98

These poosies think of themselves as the future leaders of America.


53 posted on 05/03/2024 8:53:40 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: wjr123
We have WAY too many lawyers as it is. Just expell them and let them move on to honest work in the real world. We need brick layers, iron workers and the like anyway.


54 posted on 05/03/2024 8:53:57 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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To: conservative98

If they’re “irrevocably shaken”, it won’t matter if classes/exams are canx - press on.


55 posted on 05/03/2024 9:06:07 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: conservative98

From storming the beaches at Normandy to this in just 80 years.


56 posted on 05/03/2024 9:11:55 AM PDT by Dave911
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To: teeman8r

Cancel exams, auto pass the bar exam, oh, and forgive all those loans for tuition. Did I leave anything out?
How about block letters on the golf team?


57 posted on 05/03/2024 9:27:26 AM PDT by KC_for_Freedom (retired aerospace engineer and CSP who also taught)
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To: conservative98

Expel them all.

L


58 posted on 05/03/2024 9:31:00 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: conservative98

First, democrats are democrats no matter what level they are. They create a problem and then blame someone else and want special treatment.

Second, any law firm that hires a Columbia law school graduate is an idiot and gets what it deserves.


59 posted on 05/03/2024 9:58:37 AM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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To: conservative98

These people are 60s re-enactors.


60 posted on 05/03/2024 10:01:36 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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