tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945843206427351559.post2363271718348463057..comments2024-01-25T14:51:13.377-05:00Comments on Gamso - For the Defense: You Can't Make Me Learn - And You Shouldn't Even TryJeff Gamsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09869425697771419546noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945843206427351559.post-6087613960373730222011-02-26T10:48:43.335-05:002011-02-26T10:48:43.335-05:00I will admit that while in Law School there were c...I will admit that while in Law School there were certain professors that I thought were overly harsh for no good reason. However, I never felt that I was entitled to any different experience than my predecessors. <br /><br />I always believed that the "rite of passage" theory of law school applied, and never felt that I, or anyone else, had a right to change the manner in which classes were run or grades were determined. It was what it was. <br /><br />These students ought to just roll their eyes at professors they know are overly demanding and play the game.Charles Morrisonhttp://www.morrisonandnicholson.com/ohiolawblog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945843206427351559.post-74224274488211132222011-02-24T00:00:31.777-05:002011-02-24T00:00:31.777-05:00I must confess that I cringed when I saw this stud...I must confess that I cringed when I saw this student's video and Bill of Rights. Not because it is so silly, but because I was just like her back in the day. I disseminated a typo-ridden underground newspaper called The Dissent, where I demanded open admission on law review (not realizing how easy it actually is to get published in tomes that no one reads so long as you have 200 footnotes), insisted on a mid-term so that students could assess their progress (not realizing, until I studied for the bar exam, how there's a simple formula to issue-spotting on a law school exam), criticizing the "cruel and inhuman" Socratic method (yes, I confess, I called it that) and even bemoaning how I was forced to compromise my ethics when I had to take a side in moot court that I didn't agree with (little did I know how little my personal opinion of anyone's conduct or viewpoint would matter when I became their lawyer). At the time, it all seemed so important but looking back, I don't know what I was thinking!<br />People do grow up, and while it may take longer these days, I think many of these young people will come around.Carolyn Elefanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06807562306902727317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945843206427351559.post-37110377294641398602011-02-23T22:09:33.940-05:002011-02-23T22:09:33.940-05:00Write a brief, 1200 to 1500 pages...
This "S...Write a brief, 1200 to 1500 pages...<br /><br />This "Student Bill of Rights" looks more like high school work than the best efforts of a college graduate, but then I'm not a law student nor a lawyer. Still, I think what might have motivated something like this are unreasonable demands by law professors who have tenure and who, in any case, do not report to anyone who might be remotely interested in customer satisfaction, which is what student complaints really are.<br /><br />I remember the protests from the old days, the long hair and the sit-ins. If you wore your hair below your ears you didn't dare walk through Ottawa Hills; you'd risk a beating. Old men would spit on you, cops would drive past your home real slow, staring at the house. Your telephone would behave oddly, with loud clicks and mysterious voltage abnormalities when the handset was off hook. Sending a few voltage spikes down the line would clear the trouble for a while.<br /><br />I also remember that I was paying good money to attend those classes at college, and I really and truly did not give a tinker's damn about some stupid protester's idea of a worth while activity, blocking my access to class. Oh well.Mad Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06190137186843630543noreply@blogger.com