Law school postpones finals due to Garner/Brown decision
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Columbia Law School is allowing students to postpone their final exams this month if they feel unnerved by the recent grand jury decisions not to indict police officers in the deaths of unarmed black men.
The policy was announced by the school’s interim dean, Robert E. Scott, in an email on Saturday to the school community. A small number of students have received postponements, a Columbia spokeswoman, Elizabeth Schmalz, said on Monday, though she declined to say how many.
In his email, Mr. Scott wrote that following existing policies for “trauma during exam period,” students who felt their performance could suffer because of the decisions in the Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island cases could request a delay.
“The grand juries’ determinations to return nonindictments 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,” he wrote. “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.”
I heard about this on GagaDaily and it is ri-di-cu-lous. I suspect the students are exploiting these deaths to get extra study time, which is horrid.
Law students at Columbia are not three-year-olds. A couple of completely unrelated deaths, some hundreds of miles away, should not cause "trauma". Did these students also get time off after ISIS released their beheading videos? Do they get time off for the Ebola scare? If they're that emotionally fragile it's a wonder they got into Columbia at all.
It's a crazy world we live in, stay safe out there.
