Entry tags:

Internet Lawyers -- Not Just for Publishers Anymore
A Dartmouth professor has decided to sue her students (with some faculty thrown in) for discrimination. Supposedly, "discrimination" now entails students disagreeing with you. Who knew?

(If you don't want to wade through all that, there are also summaries at Gawker and IvyGate.)

(Read comments) - (Post a new comment)

	mary_mac 2008-05-01 01:06 pm UTC (link)
	You want to try being in that conversation while you're in London, England, with people native to London, Ontario. Makes my head spin. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	frequentmouse 2008-05-02 05:58 pm UTC (link)
	Those of us who live in Washington-the-State basically spend our entirel life in that state. Also? Knowing the overweening pride of Dartmouth-the-college, the fact that some people think of a town in NS first just makes me laugh and laugh. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mary_mac 2008-05-04 01:35 pm UTC (link)
	Why are they so proud of it anyway? I ask as someone from a university generally regarded by its students with the same air as you'd regard your more deranged aged aunts. Y'know, affection tinged with embarrassment and occasional horror... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

frequentmouse
2008-05-04 06:09 pm UTC (link)

Hell if I know. I think it's because they, of all the Ivies, are not liberals or something. I've known people who have instructed Dartmouth students, and someone who played soccer against them (where, in his words, they bring a whole new realm of meaning to the term "ball handling)") but even though I once lived in a cooperative household with three Brandeis alums, I don't know that I could name one person online or in 3D who admits to graduating from Dartmouth.

(Reply to this)(Parent)

(Read comments) -