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December 08, 2014
This is stupid! Columbia Law School Is Permitting Students To Postpone Their Final Exams If They Claim “Emotional Impairment” From Brown/Garner Cases
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:
Wild Thing's comment......
This is so stupid and another example of pushing the race card. Too bad no one is teaching these students about our laws and about obeying the laws.
Posted by Wild Thing at December 8, 2014 12:50 AM
Comments
Looking at all these protests across the country, I'm seeing more whites than blacks protesting. I watched a white boy break windows and then put his hands up and walk away.
Posted by: BobF at December 8, 2014 09:26 AM
I'm emotionally impaired also. I emotionally don't give a damn.
Posted by: TomR,armed in Texas at December 8, 2014 01:00 PM
