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You may think there’d be enough abuses of state power transpiring every single day for law students not to have to make them up, but then you’d be underestimating how eager the privileged are in this country to gain the highly-prized status of victim.
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Bill| 5.9.11 @ 2:24PM
Some years ago, the entire senior class of the U.S. Air Force Academy, which has an honor system that is similar to the U.Va. Law School, was found to have cheated en masse with regard to some final exam or other.
Now, we have been told for many, many years that honor and the honor system is absolutely essential in order that our military leaders be properly trained.
In the USAFA instance, the honor code (which also a "one strike and you're out" system) was ignored in order to permit the class to graduate. The rationale was that without these cheaters being commissioned and donning the uniforms of U.S. Air Force officers, our nation would suffer a loss of pilots and other essential personnel.
As one who attended to military schools, both with strict honor codes (I saw one cadet expelled for cheating two weeks before his scheduled graduation date for an honor violation), that incident convinced me that the United States government is only interested in honor when it is expedient. That is, a true sense of honor does not appeal to our leaders.
Bill| 5.9.11 @ 2:26PM
"two" military schools, not "to" military schools.
I'm not surprised that a law school would have a very elastic interpretation of their honor code. I'm also a law school graduate, and I'm well aware of how much the cynicism about lawyers and their commitment to honesty is justified.
Flee| 5.9.11 @ 3:13PM
I suspect they will let this student graduate rather than enforce their honor code. He should fit right in with a legal profession that seems to place making it far above any lofty regard for the law. Our lawyer-in-chief would likely be first in line to congratulate the student for coming forward to admit his lies. Maybe the UVA cops were acting stupidly...no wait thats another story.
Pete| 5.9.11 @ 3:17PM
As a black graduate of top law school, this guy can count on the Obama treatment in life and he knows it. He just wanted to manufacture an "authentic" experience to justify the benefits he is about the receive. Perhaps he should have a few books ghost written for him.
Hugh Dempsey| 5.9.11 @ 3:31PM
How can there be any police misconduct to highlight, if he has to make up an event rather than report true misconduct?
LarryK| 5.9.11 @ 8:18PM
Isn't that called "Fiction"?