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."
These idiots are becoming insufferable. I say implement 2 year mandatory military service for all males aged 18-20. Let ‘em complain to the DI about being “irrevocably shaken”. Yeah, that’ll work, MAGGOT!
Sergeant Steiner: “And I will show you where the Iron Crosses grow.”
Awwwww...Why not grab your sit-upon, go to your safe space and sing “Kumbaya” until you are no longer triggered?
Life isn’t safe, kind , or at all concerned about your feelings. College should have taught you that. But if it hasn’t, don’t worry, life WILL educate you.
Tellme,. mister / mizz future attorney: What do you think your first employer will change their entire practice just to make you feel better? You won’t be working there long.
Why bother? No one will hire this crop of law students anyway.
These cry babies should all be suspended if they rioted and anyone here on a student visa deported. End of story!
Unfortunately, basic training is not even close to where it used to be, and quite frankly, where it needs to be. Yelling derogatory, disparaging things (man I miss that), in someone’s face is not acceptable anymore. Military is too far gone to instill personal responsibility, confidence and comradery.
Poor widdle daisies need to grab their binky, a lollipop, some playdoh, a coloring book with some crayons and find them a safe space to utilize the above.
No exam, grade of “Incomplete”. That means zero credits toward graduation/degree. And, no refund of tuition, lab fees, housing costs, &c.
What about the actual, physical trauma suffered by the Jewish students? That is of no concern? Are they demanding finals be cancelled?
The poor little snowflakes.
Singapore has the right idea...nothing a little caning can’t cure.
distress? I got a great laugh out of it when the terrorists were arrested! Now get to studying for your exams!
In 2020, several colleges canceled exams due to the emotional trauma suffered by blacks in the wake of George Floyd's death.
We are not a serious country.
I assume that admitting women into the military has a lot to do with that.
Trauma? Puleeze! If you are attending classes, like you are supposed to, then you won’t have a problem.
the drama never ends.
So, Columbia Law grads can’t take the pressure, eh?
Wait until they experience the pressure provided by someone screwed by their “silly made up law” governed by penumbras, laughable history, and the logic of a first-grader. That kind of pressure will hopefully produce very real pain for them. “Nothing destroys more respect for the law then experiencing the work of an Ivy-League Law grad.”
Translation = We can’t pass the Bar Exam. (Never let a crisis go to waste)
I guess that means they don't take the bar exam. Just go practice law.
Columbia is a top law school. These students are the judiciary thirty years from now.
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