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Dec 17, 2014 10:20:58   #
hondo812 Loc: Massachusetts
 
There's been a few articles in the news lately about Law students at Harvard (and Columbia, Georgetown, etc.) where students en masse have requested/demanded that the exam schedule be changed because they have been traumatized by the events of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. They have organized/attended rallies, die-ins, protests, etc and written letters, published op-eds, etc. All this activity was time away from preparing for their exams and now they are asking/demanding an extension.

Read the articles in the links below and decide....coddled or committed. I know where I stand on this. What say you?

http://www.nationallawjournal.com/home/id=1202679079482/OpEd-Delaying-Exams-Is-Not-a-Request-from-Coddled-Millennials?mcode=1202617074964&curindex=0&slreturn=20141117100613

http://harvardlawcoalition.wordpress.com/

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/12/16/harvard-law-students-disastrous-argument-for-delaying-exams-due-to-emotional-trauma-blows-up/

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/12/10/harvard-law-students-request-delay-exams-amid-post-ferguson-national-emergency/Y57bkeocKzqG65T8vXrMtM/story.html

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Dec 17, 2014 10:48:15   #
skylane5sp Loc: Puyallup, WA
 
Really nothing to be said...



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Dec 17, 2014 11:07:47   #
thom w Loc: San Jose, CA
 
hondo812 wrote:
There's been a few articles in the news lately about Law students at Harvard (and Columbia, Georgetown, etc.) where students en masse have requested/demanded that the exam schedule be changed because they have been traumatized by the events of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. They have organized/attended rallies, die-ins, protests, etc and written letters, published op-eds, etc. All this activity was time away from preparing for their exams and now they are asking/demanding an extension.

Read the articles in the links below and decide....coddled or committed. I know where I stand on this. What say you?

http://www.nationallawjournal.com/home/id=1202679079482/OpEd-Delaying-Exams-Is-Not-a-Request-from-Coddled-Millennials?mcode=1202617074964&curindex=0&slreturn=20141117100613

http://harvardlawcoalition.wordpress.com/

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/12/16/harvard-law-students-disastrous-argument-for-delaying-exams-due-to-emotional-trauma-blows-up/

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/12/10/harvard-law-students-request-delay-exams-amid-post-ferguson-national-emergency/Y57bkeocKzqG65T8vXrMtM/story.html
There's been a few articles in the news lately abo... (show quote)


I'm trying to figure out why I should care.

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Dec 17, 2014 11:19:06   #
NeilL Loc: British-born Canadian
 
thom w wrote:
I'm trying to figure out why I should care.


Well, you, personally, should foot the bill for all costs to the university for dealing with this issue.

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Dec 17, 2014 11:19:39   #
NeilL Loc: British-born Canadian
 
hondo812 wrote:
There's been a few articles in the news lately about Law students at Harvard (and Columbia, Georgetown, etc.) where students en masse have requested/demanded that the exam schedule be changed because they have been traumatized by the events of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. They have organized/attended rallies, die-ins, protests, etc and written letters, published op-eds, etc. All this activity was time away from preparing for their exams and now they are asking/demanding an extension.

Read the articles in the links below and decide....coddled or committed. I know where I stand on this. What say you?

http://www.nationallawjournal.com/home/id=1202679079482/OpEd-Delaying-Exams-Is-Not-a-Request-from-Coddled-Millennials?mcode=1202617074964&curindex=0&slreturn=20141117100613

http://harvardlawcoalition.wordpress.com/

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/12/16/harvard-law-students-disastrous-argument-for-delaying-exams-due-to-emotional-trauma-blows-up/

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/12/10/harvard-law-students-request-delay-exams-amid-post-ferguson-national-emergency/Y57bkeocKzqG65T8vXrMtM/story.html
There's been a few articles in the news lately abo... (show quote)


Fail them all.

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Dec 17, 2014 11:32:16   #
idaholover Loc: Nampa ID
 
hondo812 wrote:
There's been a few articles in the news lately about Law students at Harvard (and Columbia, Georgetown, etc.) where students en masse have requested/demanded that the exam schedule be changed because they have been traumatized by the events of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. They have organized/attended rallies, die-ins, protests, etc and written letters, published op-eds, etc. All this activity was time away from preparing for their exams and now they are asking/demanding an extension.

Read the articles in the links below and decide....coddled or committed. I know where I stand on this. What say you?

http://www.nationallawjournal.com/home/id=1202679079482/OpEd-Delaying-Exams-Is-Not-a-Request-from-Coddled-Millennials?mcode=1202617074964&curindex=0&slreturn=20141117100613

http://harvardlawcoalition.wordpress.com/

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/12/16/harvard-law-students-disastrous-argument-for-delaying-exams-due-to-emotional-trauma-blows-up/

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/12/10/harvard-law-students-request-delay-exams-amid-post-ferguson-national-emergency/Y57bkeocKzqG65T8vXrMtM/story.html
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If that causes emotional trauma what does this do?



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Dec 17, 2014 11:35:56   #
NeilL Loc: British-born Canadian
 
idaholover wrote:
If that causes emotional trauma what does this do?


:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: It says it all. Let's watch all these t*****rs come crawling out from under their rocks.

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Dec 17, 2014 11:40:54   #
idaholover Loc: Nampa ID
 
hondo812 wrote:
There's been a few articles in the news lately about Law students at Harvard (and Columbia, Georgetown, etc.) where students en masse have requested/demanded that the exam schedule be changed because they have been traumatized by the events of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. They have organized/attended rallies, die-ins, protests, etc and written letters, published op-eds, etc. All this activity was time away from preparing for their exams and now they are asking/demanding an extension.

Read the articles in the links below and decide....coddled or committed. I know where I stand on this. What say you?

http://www.nationallawjournal.com/home/id=1202679079482/OpEd-Delaying-Exams-Is-Not-a-Request-from-Coddled-Millennials?mcode=1202617074964&curindex=0&slreturn=20141117100613

http://harvardlawcoalition.wordpress.com/

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/12/16/harvard-law-students-disastrous-argument-for-delaying-exams-due-to-emotional-trauma-blows-up/

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/12/10/harvard-law-students-request-delay-exams-amid-post-ferguson-national-emergency/Y57bkeocKzqG65T8vXrMtM/story.html
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Not only that but Mr. Student Loan Obama is going to forgive their loan debt!

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Dec 17, 2014 11:42:31   #
hondo812 Loc: Massachusetts
 
thom w wrote:
I'm trying to figure out why I should care.


Imagine you've been arrested for a crime and need a lawyer.....and you got one of these "students" after they have graduated. Are they going to be there for your hearing? Or are they going to blow it off because their chakra or chi wasn't quite right that day.

If they were getting a BA in Poetry I'd say no problem. Being a lawyer is a serious job requiring focus and I expect serious people to be doing it and focused on the task at hand. Seems to me these students let events happening far away from them divert their focus. They need to decide if they want to be lawyers first or activists first.

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Dec 17, 2014 11:45:53   #
idaholover Loc: Nampa ID
 
hondo812 wrote:
Imagine you've been arrested for a crime and need a lawyer.....and you got one of these "students" after they have graduated. Are they going to be there for your hearing? Or are they going to blow it off because their chakra or chi wasn't quite right that day.

If they were getting a BA in Poetry I'd say no problem. Being a lawyer is a serious job requiring focus and I expect serious people to be doing it and focused on the task at hand. Seems to me these students let events happening far away from them divert their focus. They need to decide if they want to be lawyers first or activists first.
Imagine you've been arrested for a crime and need ... (show quote)

The same thing happened in journalism. Journalists are not news reporters any more they are political hacks!

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Dec 17, 2014 12:06:18   #
thom w Loc: San Jose, CA
 
idaholover wrote:
If that causes emotional trauma what does this do?


Just when and how did it become either/or

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Dec 17, 2014 12:07:52   #
thom w Loc: San Jose, CA
 
hondo812 wrote:
Imagine you've been arrested for a crime and need a lawyer.....and you got one of these "students" after they have graduated. Are they going to be there for your hearing? Or are they going to blow it off because their chakra or chi wasn't quite right that day.

If they were getting a BA in Poetry I'd say no problem. Being a lawyer is a serious job requiring focus and I expect serious people to be doing it and focused on the task at hand. Seems to me these students let events happening far away from them divert their focus. They need to decide if they want to be lawyers first or activists first.
Imagine you've been arrested for a crime and need ... (show quote)


I'm not going to afford a Harvard lawyer so again why do I care.

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Dec 17, 2014 12:08:52   #
thom w Loc: San Jose, CA
 
idaholover wrote:
Not only that but Mr. Student Loan Obama is going to forgive their loan debt!


I don't think the typical Harvard student really has loan problems.

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Dec 17, 2014 12:10:28   #
thom w Loc: San Jose, CA
 
NeilL wrote:
Well, you, personally, should foot the bill for all costs to the university for dealing with this issue.


Harvard is a private school for the rather well off. I'm fine letting Harvard sort it out.

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Dec 17, 2014 12:10:48   #
NeilL Loc: British-born Canadian
 
thom w wrote:
Just when and how did it become either/or


:roll: :roll: :roll: Dummy! It is NOT either/or, it's if/what. You are not making a choice, you are predicting an outcome.

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