In light of the grand jury decisions regarding the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, Columbia Law School agreed last week to delay final exams. The school took into consideration a letter from the Coalition of Concerned Students of Color, which argued that its members “have struggled to compartmentalize our trauma as we sit and make fruitless attempts to focus on exam preparations.”
Most schools are going ahead with finals as scheduled, although some professors are using their personal discretion. One “typical liberal Berkeley professor” offered an extension on an essay to any of her students who were “teargassed, batoned or shot with rubber bullets” during the previous night’s riots rather than in their dorms writing their essays.
Kudos, then, to this Oberlin professor who answered a student’s lengthy plea to delay a final exam with one word: No.
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/544937507075653632
@lachlan My favorite part is the time stamp. He responded in 1 minute (or less).
— Trip Armour (@TripArmour) December 16, 2014
https://twitter.com/SouthernKeeks/status/544958946025291776
https://twitter.com/WrightBrunoS/status/544960037664616448
@lachlan Professor of Laconic Communications? Good for him.
— Publius (@The_Frisco_Kid) December 16, 2014
Hero. RT @lachlan: An Oberlin freshman asked her professor to delay exams http://t.co/OKH6IN5TD6 Here's his reply: http://t.co/o9GsEAkD0C
— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) December 16, 2014
Oberlin in Ohio?
I've been there….did the corn fields & cow pastures contribute to her stress over the rulings?
— NahBabyNah (@NahBabyNah) December 16, 2014
https://twitter.com/goutami14/status/544952262951727105
@lachlan @JSwiftTWS The professor was challenging Calvin Coolidge for shortest answer to a request. Nicely played.
— Kenneth McAndrew (@kmac23va) December 16, 2014
@UrbanAchievr Rooting for Professor Taney to post a copy of her flunked exam https://t.co/6T1HqbtgKq
— DC Dude (@DCDude1776) December 16, 2014
@UrbanAchievr @TXCupCake @lachlan I used to get in trouble for refusing to coddle students – it teaches dependency & laziness.
— Middlepeople – David (@dmc2et) December 16, 2014
@lachlan She links to the Daily Caller, which is the second best part of that exchange.
— Chris Moody (@moody) December 16, 2014
@UrbanAchievr @redsteeze @lachlan I like how she cites the Daily Caller story mocking Columbia's postponement.
— Anthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) December 16, 2014
@lachlan Nice. FYI, I knew this couldn't have been a regular Oberlin tenured radical. Visiting math prof. http://t.co/QnsKg11QG2
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) December 16, 2014
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/544952197017239552
@lachlan More likely, the infamous Oberlin womb chairs ==> http://t.co/r1LOWXYNXl pic.twitter.com/BRI1rw4ZVQ
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) December 16, 2014
https://twitter.com/teufelhunden44/status/544961109849939969
It was a very generous request. The student, “a white, middle-class person,” was asking for the delay not on her own behalf but on behalf of students of color who “have to focus on their survival and are expected to put energy into finals.”
Perhaps the professor should have offered to help redistribute some of her class GPA to "classmates of color" as repirations… @lachlan
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) December 16, 2014
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