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."
The real world is so unfair :)
Aw. 🎻
Snowflakes and Cotton Balls are having a hard time concentrating on the Tater Swuft studies. ROTFL!!!
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Posted on 5/3/2024, 5:23:55 AM by SJackson
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?
Poor babies.
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!
They’re not even ready to be ADULTS!
Snort.
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.
Sure glad they're not in the U.S.A.'s military.
These poosies think of themselves as the future leaders of America.
If they’re “irrevocably shaken”, it won’t matter if classes/exams are canx - press on.
From storming the beaches at Normandy to this in just 80 years.
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?
Expel them all.
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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.
These people are 60s re-enactors.
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