Is this Stupid or What?


OK, so the Boston Globe tells us that a student at Zoo Mass (UMass-Amherst: home of grade inflation, rampant PC, the jihad against the Minuteman mascot as a "racist, sexist white man with a gun", and the lowest academic standards in New England) was so upset with a C grade that he sued, inter alia, the university, the graduate assistant that taught the course, the department head, and the university ombudsman (who had given him advice he did not take: essentially, grow up and get over it). 

His concern: one low grade would keep him from his ambition of, you guessed it, going to law school. 

A judge has banged his gavel and pronounced ixnay on the awsuit-lay, but Brian Marquis is threatening to appeal. 

Then what -- he will hold his breath until he turns blue?

Marquis, by the way, is fifty-one years old. (And he's a paralegal. His career's been on a hell of a trajectory, hasn't it?) 

It apparently hasn't occurred to him how this childish snit of a lawsuit will look to the law schools he wants to attend... then again, given the nature of the law schools' product of late, maybe he's just the kind of infant ambulance chaser they're seeking. 


To add to the otherworldliness of this suit, Marquis is working on bachelors' degrees in UMass's no-heavy-lifting fields of legal studies and sociology. Most of the UMass  liberal arts departments are seething cauldrons of cant and political correctness. They produce scholarship that on rare occasions breaks into the high-school level. For this guy to have had his grade curved to a C, he must have been well behind most of his classmates. 

I see the Mass College of Law (an ABA-unaccredited diploma mill) in his future. 


Posted: Thursday - October 04, 2007 at 06:33 PM          


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