Power line : Not a Parody
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.
So a law school is training students to examine legal decisions based on emotions rather than reason. This explains a lot. The school is even allowing students to petition for postponing their exams if they feel too traumatized.
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.
@brithume Someone traumatized by decisions he believes are unjust should not be in law school. Adverse rulings are all in a day’s work.
— GregEsq (@GregEsq) December 7, 2014
@brithume Wow now I really want a Columbia Law School graduate representing me during a stressful courtroom experience.
— Яob (@robx_d) December 7, 2014
Columbia LawSchool Permitting Students 2 Postpone Final Exams If They Claim “Emotional Impairment” Frm Brown/Garner.. http://t.co/8BC9zCvozp
— ??I am 1 of #TheMighty200 ?????Beth (@10thAmendment) December 7, 2014
@10thAmendment i'm sorry but it seems we're raising a generation of fragile weanies. This is a reason to get out of exams???
— Mark Barger (@markabarger) December 7, 2014
#AcademicDeclineAndFall. Columbia Law School let students postpone exams because of "trauma" of grand jury decisions. http://t.co/wLJn9O5vtt
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) December 7, 2014
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@BillKristol If these folks feel this is "trauma" what happens when something real happens to them directly in life? A society of wimps…..
— A.J. Brookmyer (@ajbrooky68) December 7, 2014
Sooo Lame! Columbia Law School Is Permitting Students To Postpone Final Exams If They Claim “Emotional Impairment”..http://t.co/YFthtXNEp7
— Curtis Hebert ✝️ (@CurtisHebert) December 7, 2014
Nuts-
Columbia Law School students emotionally impaired by non-indictments in Michael Brown & Eric Garner cases can postpone their exams.— @[email protected] (@ScrewedbyState) December 7, 2014
Nuts, indeed.
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