[Catspaw]

You know what the net result of this is going to be: nobody at Texas Tech--at least in the biology department, and possibly the entire science department--is going to get a letter of recommendation. If this is pushed, professors are going to refuse to write letters of recommendation en masse because they're afraid of litigation.

[js1138]

If this is pushed, professors are going to refuse to write letters of recommendation en masse because they're afraid of litigation.

I can't say if this will happen, but in my experience, students always have "soul mate" professors that get asked for recommendations. Some professors are just a_holes and write letters based purely on whether they like a person. The whole business reeks of bias and favortism.Having said this, the recommendation should not ever comment on anything except whether the student mastered the course material and avoided committing any obvious felonies.

[balrog666]

You know what the net result of this is going to be: nobody at Texas Tech--at least in the biology department, and possibly the entire science department--is going to get a letter of recommendation. If this is pushed, professors are going to refuse to write letters of recommendation en masse because they're afraid of litigation.

They should start that now and do it until the "investigation" slinks away.