Columbia law let's students postpone finals...

because of their “trauma” over the Eric Garner and Michael Brown grand jury decisions.

http://nypost.com/2014/12/08/columbia-law-postpones-finals-over-grand-jury-trauma/


What??? If you're going to Columbia and so distraught over this, I feel like you probably aren't cut out to be a lawyer.

Just point and laugh at the hyper pc crowd that lives their life in constant paralysis.

And we wonder why these pussy kids grow up and fail in the real world.

To look at it another way, if you successfully argue that the death of a man unrelated to you, no matter how disturbing, is enough to cause you undue hardship to the point that you cannot be prepared for your finals...

Well hell, maybe you SHOULD be a lawyer.

I'm going to use this approach w/my boss

MSU students get therapy dogs in library for finals.

That's right. Therapy dogs.

Rocinante wrote:To look at it another way, if you successfully argue that the death of a man unrelated to you, no matter how disturbing, is enough to cause you undue hardship to the point that you cannot be prepared for your finals...

Well hell, maybe you SHOULD be a lawyer.

If they got out of finals sure.

But postponing due to mental weakness is pathetic

Illinois Law checking in. We sure as hell aren't getting our finals postponed. Then again everyone knows that Columbia students are sheltered pussies. You would never see this BS at Harvard or UChicago.

Literally unless there is a 9/11 or Pearl Harbor level event, no personally unrelated news event should be able to postpone finals. We study some horrific shit in law school, and it takes a certain amount of mental toughness that these Columbia "scholars" clearly lack.

If you were hiring and a Columbia grad was a finalist, and you found out they postponed their test due to this, would that not impact your opinion of them?
Hell, how can it not affect your opinion of Columbia in general?

Chief Sparty wrote:Illinois Law checking in. We sure as hell aren't getting our finals postponed. Then again everyone knows that Columbia students are sheltered pussies. You would never see this BS at Harvard or UChicago.

Literally unless there is a 9/11 or Pearl Harbor level event, no personally unrelated news event should be able to postpone finals. We study some horrific shit in law school, and it takes a certain amount of mental toughness that these Columbia "scholars" clearly lack.

I was in LS during 9/11, and the school did not slow down at all. I myself did, however, as I was glued to the TV and didn't want to miss a second. Much tougher to miss class in LS than undergrad.

Heat Miser wrote:MSU students get therapy dogs in library for finals.

That's right. Therapy dogs.

That actually pretty cool...of course, again, MSU does it better.