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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.)

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chibikaijuu
2008-05-01 09:21 pm UTC (link)

Oh God, that is so damn awkward. Especially when you already know the other people who tend to be involved in the discussions (this is more of a high school experience for me - English class, turns out a bunch of your friends are in it, you all sit together, and suddenly you end up sort of running the class because no one else will offer an opinion without being basically shoved by the teacher. And they all hate you for it). I also have a problem in my current English class, not so much that no one else will speak up, because they do, and we've had some good discussions, but because a) it's a composition class and b) our texts are popular science books, on topics which I know something about and neither (most of) the rest of the class nor the professor knows much. Sometimes I have to literally clamp my hands over my mouth to stop myself from pissing people off by picking apart everything that scientifically wrong with an argument.

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