Editors of Columbia Law Review Urge School to Cancel Exams Due to Trauma of Having Police on Campus
“Many are unwell at this time and cannot study or concentrate while their peers are being hauled to jail.”
This is hilarious. You can’t blame them for trying, right?
NEW: The student editors of the Columbia Law Review have issued a statement urging the law school to cancel exams in the wake of the police operation that cleared the university's encampment, saying the "violence" has left them "irrevocably shaken" and "unable to focus."🧵 pic.twitter.com/BOD87x5mwM
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) May 2, 2024
From the Washington Free Beacon:
‘Irrevocably Shaken’: Editors of Columbia Law Review Demand Cancellation of Exams, Citing Trauma Caused by Police Presence on Campus
The student editors of the Columbia Law Review issued a statement on Wednesday urging Columbia Law School to cancel exams in the wake of the police operation that cleared the university’s unauthorized encampment, saying the “violence” had left them “irrevocably shaken” and “unable to focus.”
The statement, which represents the majority opinion of the editorial board and was endorsed by five other law journals, including the Columbia Human Rights Law Review & A Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual, accused the police of “brutalizing” students—though no major injuries have been reported—and claimed that canceling exams was a “proportionate response” to the “distress our peers have been feeling.”
“The current exam policy raises concerns around equity and academic integrity,” the statement said. “Many are unwell at this time and cannot study or concentrate while their peers are being hauled to jail.”
The statement also accuses members of a “white supremacist, neo-fascist hate group” of “storming” campus—an apparent reference to a pro-Israel rally organized by Christian Zionists, including the evangelical musician Sean Feucht, who gathered outside of Columbia’s gates on April 25 for hymns and prayer.
“We do not think it is inconsistent with being a leading voice in legal academia and legal scholarship to prioritize students’ health and safety,” the statement said.
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police are the step fathers to the welfare state kids that ,,thanks to the lefty agenda,,
dont know who the f their fathers are
They have trauma ? The mindless Hamas fan club and friends ? I just met a young man who survived the Nova massacre but lost his 2 close friends. He went into an army reserve unit 6 weeks after it happened and has been deployed ever since. Now that’s real trauma; not taking an exam at your elitest dumbo school ( no doubt on post colonial viewpoints of Marxist stupid rantings ) after your cry baby friends are arrested for one night and promptly released with no consequences (accept having the Squad as their new fan club).
How are these children going to handle the trauma of having armed, uniformed police testify against their client in court?
Exactly.
“cannot study or concentrate while their peers are being hauled to jail.”
That there’s some snowflake-level PTSD.
Never thought I’d be nostalgic over the draft.
How are these children going to handle the trauma of having armed, uniformed police break down their door at 6 a.m.? How are they going to handle it when they find out their photo was taken years earlier and the law firm where they want to work sees them breaking into Hamilton Hall.
I believe that having police come in and arrest people who are disrupting everything is emotional. I don’t believe for a second that it raises to the level of trauma.
This is just an excuse to get a free day. Tell them to shut up and go to class!
This is a typical snowflake response-flunk them all!
I think they should cancel the exams
give everyone an incomplete and
let them retake the class …
and if your one who didn’t participate
in this silly reindeer game you
can explain to the rest of the malcontents how their behavior
has negatively effected your life
with a 2×4 ….
The administration should tell them to pull up their diapers and start studying for their exams. Anyone who doesn’t take the exams gets zeros, and if they were set for graduation, they won’t graduate.
Hard to believe. Columbia’s law students. What kind of adults are these? Spineless slugs who cheer on the Hamas attacks of October 7th on other people, but whine at the “trauma” of having fellow idealogues arrested. They walk among us unnoticed, as long as they keep their mouths shut. They vote. They are the end pf civilization – certainly of America as we knew her.
They are wannabe lawyers…of course, they think they can play advocate and negotiator for university governance.
They vote n sometimes breed
Another aspect that reveals the character of those at the CLR who are behind this statement . . . .
Note that they weren’t willing to put their names on it — probably because they realized that no law firm is going to want to hire people whose instinct is to cry and fold when confronted with a stressful situation. (For my fellow lawyers out there: would you trust any such people to handle matters for your clients? I know I would not.)
But what’s even more revealing is that if you go to the masthead tab on the Columbia Law Review website (which would identify who is on the editorial board), it now returns a 404 “file not found” error message. So apparently not only were these folks unwilling to sign their manifesto, they also have taken down the public listing of the editors who voted to issue this drivel.
What’s worse is that this little maneuver was not only cowardly, it was just plain stupid. It’s not like anyone can’t find out who they are with the slightest bit of looking:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240331121733/https://columbialawreview.org/columbia-law-review/
Bottom line: Not only are these people immature snowflakes and cowards, they’re also idiots. Any law firm that hires them does so at their peril. (If you are an attorney subject to Texas law who wants to assign them to handle matters for a client, under Burrows v. Arce I daresay you have a legal duty to disclose their background and unsuitability to the client.)
Something else this sorry episode demonstrates . . . .
For generations, being a member (or better, an editor) of a flagship law review at a Tier 1 law school used to be the gold standard for identifying the cream of the crop of a year’s law students. Indeed, it was considered a prerequisite for getting a coveted federal appellate clerkship or a place in some biglaw firms.
As this incident plainly evidences, wokeness has devalued that currency like a Zimbabwean dollar. Being an editor of a such law journals now is just another badge of wokeness.
Membership is no longer primarily “grade on” (i.e., top 3% of 1L class gets invitations). At all T1 schools I know of, it’s now typically 100% from a writing competition . . . which increasingly have been politicized to make sure they can identify and exclude any icky unwoke, Federalist Society types. And at some schools, they have reserved percentages of membership slots (and sometimes even editorial positions) for “diversity” students (sometimes selected by a committee of professors), notwithstanding that such practices almost certainly violate antidiscrimination laws.
The good news is that federal judges (and many law firms) are now well aware of this fact, and have developed alternative rubrics for identifying talent.
“Irrevocably shaken” (not stirred)? Does that they’ll never recover (or be vocable) again? Not who I want for my lawyer.
If this is trauma to them, wait until they have to generate billable hours by putting together municipal bond deals or commercial real estate deals under tight deadlines or whatever. They think they are all going to be warriors for justice but good luck paying the bills as a public defender.
What a bunch of sissies!