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Columbia Law students demand passing grades after protests. Blame coddling schools
NY Post ^ | 8/4/24

Posted on 05/12/2024 9:54:29 AM PDT by Eleutheria5

Columbia Law students want their final exams called off … in the name of Palestine.

In a recent letter, the student editors of the Columbia Law Review made a public call for the school to cancel the semester’s remaining exams and “give all students passing grades for their work throughout the semester.”

“We believe that canceling exams would be a proportionate response to the level of distress our peers have been feeling,” the unnamed students wrote in an open letter.

The plea comes after Columbia University, on April 30, authorized the NYPD to clear out trespassers who violently and forcibly took over the school’s Hamilton Hall (and smashed windows and trashed furniture while at it).

And yet these law students describe the police’s action as “violence” that “has irrevocably shaken many” of them and “the majority of our classmates.”

According to the Law Review board, law students have been rendered “unable to focus and highly emotional” due to recent events on campus. And, if the school says they can’t all just pass automatically, the Law Review’s letter asks that exams at least be graded on a pass or fail basis.

These needy kids might sound like the squeaky wheels — but a shocking 74.2% of Columbia Law School Students support pass-or-fail grading this semester. (Since 1994, the school has used an A, B, C, F grading system with “very few” credit/fail courses, according to its academic procedures.)

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To: Clay Moore

dude, your tag is killer !


21 posted on 05/12/2024 11:20:32 AM PDT by A strike (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: Clay Moore

Make sure to assault your fellow students and the professors, bar them from entering, and lock the janitors in the closet. Easy A.


22 posted on 05/12/2024 11:33:29 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Liaison

In Virginia, you can clerk in a law firm for three years and take the Multi-state Bar Exam. Don’t even know if you have to graduate high school. Plenty of prestigious firms in Richmond. In New York, one year of law school and a BA plus four years of clerking.


23 posted on 05/12/2024 11:37:15 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: ConservativeMind

“This is textbook insanity, and it’s from Law students.”

They get juris doctorates, pass the bar exam and the appellate division’s character board, and then they’re lawyers. If you have ever known lawyers beyond “hello” and “pleased t’meetcha,” you would know how utterly in character this mishigas is.


24 posted on 05/12/2024 12:35:40 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Columbia Law students demand

That’s funny no matter who you are they haven’t received their DO YOU KNOW WHO I’AM badge yet.

They are like younger teenagers hire me while I still know everything.


25 posted on 05/12/2024 2:28:16 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Eleutheria5
7 year ago, the UAE's Foreign Minister issued a warning to the West. - Twitter post by Loay Alshareef, April 29, 2024

His words now sound prophetic:

And let me say this in English

so you can understand what I am saying.

[Interviewer: I have translation.]

No, I know you have translation,

but I just want to make sure

you get it right.

There will come a day

that we will see far more

radical extremists and terrorists

coming out of Europe

because of a lack of decsion making,

trying to be politically correct

or assuming that they know

the Middle East, and they know Islam

and they know the others

far better than we do.

And I'm sorry, but that's pure ignorance.


26 posted on 05/12/2024 8:59:36 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: Eleutheria5

They should have been arrested. That would have been the best lesson on the law they would receive at Columbia Law School.


27 posted on 05/15/2024 5:23:20 PM PDT by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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