http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/20...parody.php

Quote:Columbia Law School is permitting students claiming to be impaired due to the emotional impact of recent non-indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner matters to postpone taking their final exams. Here is the text of a message from interim dean Robert Scott to the law school community:


The grand juries’ determinations to return non-indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases have shaken the faith of some in the integrity of the grand jury system and in the law more generally. For some law students, particularly, though not only, students of color, this chain of events is all the more profound as it threatens to undermine a sense that the law is a fundamental pillar of society designed to protect fairness, due process and equality.

For these reasons, after consultation with students in the law school and with colleagues on the law faculty and in the administration, I am taking the following steps to assure our responsiveness and involvement in this particular moment:

- In recognition of the traumatic effects these events have had on some of the members of our community, Dean Greenberg-Kobrin and Yadira Ramos-Herbert, Director, Academic Counseling, have arranged to have Dr. Shirley Matthews, a trauma specialist, hold sessions next Monday and Wednesday for anyone interested in participating to discuss the trauma that recent events may have caused .

- Several members of the faculty have agreed to schedule special office hours next week to be available for students who would like support and/or would like to talk about the implications of the Brown and Garner non-indictments. These office hours will include:

Conrad Johnson – Monday, 12:00 – 2:00, Room 833
Olati Johnson – Monday, 12:00 – 4:00, Room 630
Susan Sturm – Wednesday, 2:15 – 3:15, Room 617
Katherine Franke – Monday, 1:00 – 3:00, Thursday, 9:00 – 11:00, Room 637

- I support the idea of an open community dialogue to discuss the concerns of students in the wake of recent events, and to share diverse and collective notions of injustice that these cases raise. I will encourage all members of our community to attend.

- The law school has a policy and set of procedures for students who experience trauma during exam period. In accordance with these procedures and policy, students who feel that their performance on examinations will be sufficiently impaired due to the effects of these recent events may petition Dean Alice Rigas to have an examination rescheduled.

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Quote:Columbia Law School is permitting students claiming to be impaired due to the emotional impact of recent non-indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner matters to postpone taking their final exams.

This is a total joke, but I would claim to be emotionally damaged just for a few extra days of studying 100/100 times.

Wonder if I can use this to get a few extra days of vacation for christmas?

What's the boss? I can't? Because I live in the real world?

Well, damn. I tried.

Quote:Columbia Law School is permitting students claiming to be impaired due to the emotional impact of recent non-indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner matters to postpone taking their final exams.

I am sure this is progress, according to many.

Why are colleges not preparing people for the real world? The world isn't going to stop for you every time something bad happens.

Oh poor, poor babies. Of course they need this delay otherwise it'll jeopardize their psyches.

I think it's ridiculous, especially considering that law school finals are mostly take home and open book.

Good job, Columbia. Prep those kids for the real world, there ya go! I don't even get to take the day off when roads are iced over down here... Clearly this law school is making a ton of future real world tit bags.

And the hysteria expands

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Once again I refuse to be associated with this particular generation. I demand the line be moved to 1983 so I can be a Gen Xer.

(12-09-2014 03:07 PM)BucFyre Wrote:  Once again I refuse to be associated with this particular generation. I demand the line be moved to 1983 so I can be a Gen Xer.

No worries, that's just when it started. They were far and few between back then...

Torch,

Just a heads up. I didn't realize until now that you had posted this topic on the WWE until after I did so on the main page of the spin room. I tried to delete the post but I am not authorized to do so. I don't want you to think I am taking your material and trying to claim it as mine.

(12-09-2014 03:07 PM)BucFyre Wrote:  Once again I refuse to be associated with this particular generation. I demand the line be moved to 1983 so I can be a Gen Xer.

Yeah, I kind of feel the same...but then again I don't really care if many people my age are morons and childish. It is what it is.

(12-09-2014 09:37 PM)BEARCATDALE Wrote:  Torch,

Just a heads up. I didn't realize until now that you had posted this topic on the WWE until after I did so on the main page of the spin room. I tried to delete the post but I am not authorized to do so. I don't want you to think I am taking your material and trying to claim it as mine.

No worries.

Even for the academic world, that is some crazy sh*t.

I ran this story by my buddy who jsut graduated law school, his words "Yeah, they're emotionally distraught because they probably didn't do jack for the semester and are so far behind they'll argue anything for more time."

(12-09-2014 03:07 PM)BucFyre Wrote:  Once again I refuse to be associated with this particular generation. I demand the line be moved to 1983 so I can be a Gen Xer.

Don't ever wish to be older.

Take care of yourself and do your best, don't worry about what your generation is doing. The idiots will be weeded out.

(12-11-2014 09:16 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(12-09-2014 03:07 PM)BucFyre Wrote:  Once again I refuse to be associated with this particular generation. I demand the line be moved to 1983 so I can be a Gen Xer.

Don't ever wish to be older.

Take care of yourself and do your best, don't worry about what your generation is doing. The idiots will be weeded out.

Just don't follow the crowd, be your own man. I was born and reared in the barrio and I came out okay because I didn't follow anyone.

This is great.