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kaylarudbek) wrote2005-06-06 11:30 pm
kaylarudbek) wrote2005-06-06 11:30 pm
To the younger Barbri students at the library
If I wanted to study where I could and would overhear cell phones ringing and/or conversations in low tones, I would be sitting outside in the sunlight AND NOT IN THE LAW LIBRARY. I sincerely hope that you chatterers will be among the one out of three (or higher percentage, depending on which statistics you look at) who fail the California Bar.
Since most current undergraduates and law students appear to have been either brought up in a barn or raised by wolves, I have formulated a few rules.
If I ever wind up as a law professor:
1) I will adopt the sensible rule of my ADR professor, and make it a policy that I as the professor answer any cell phone that rings in my classroom while I am lecturing. When I do so, I shall say, "This is Professor Rudbek at the X Law School. Who are you, and precisely why are you calling my student during my lecture?" Upon receiving an answer, I shall then hand the phone back to my student, and allow them to slink out red-faced.
2) If students insist on talking while I am talking, I shall stop my lecture and insist that they either ask the question before the entire class, or leave.
3) If I ask a student (or students) to leave due to inappropriate conduct, I shall insist that they apologize to the entire class before I allow them back into my lectures. I will also count any class that I ask a student to leave as an unexcused absence against that student.
4) If I am fortunate enough, I will attempt to put into my tenure contract a proviso that I reserve the right to throw objects at inattentive/chattering students (erasers, chalk, day-glo orange paint balloons,...ah, to have a desktop trebuchet....) without any tort liability attaching to me or to the law school. (Of course, if my employer is slow enough to actually swallow this proviso without objection, I may want to rethink working there...)
Brought to you by stress from lazy graders, the Board of Bar Examiners, BarBRI, and librarians who don't enforce the library policies.
Since most current undergraduates and law students appear to have been either brought up in a barn or raised by wolves, I have formulated a few rules.
If I ever wind up as a law professor:
1) I will adopt the sensible rule of my ADR professor, and make it a policy that I as the professor answer any cell phone that rings in my classroom while I am lecturing. When I do so, I shall say, "This is Professor Rudbek at the X Law School. Who are you, and precisely why are you calling my student during my lecture?" Upon receiving an answer, I shall then hand the phone back to my student, and allow them to slink out red-faced.
2) If students insist on talking while I am talking, I shall stop my lecture and insist that they either ask the question before the entire class, or leave.
3) If I ask a student (or students) to leave due to inappropriate conduct, I shall insist that they apologize to the entire class before I allow them back into my lectures. I will also count any class that I ask a student to leave as an unexcused absence against that student.
4) If I am fortunate enough, I will attempt to put into my tenure contract a proviso that I reserve the right to throw objects at inattentive/chattering students (erasers, chalk, day-glo orange paint balloons,...ah, to have a desktop trebuchet....) without any tort liability attaching to me or to the law school. (Of course, if my employer is slow enough to actually swallow this proviso without objection, I may want to rethink working there...)
Brought to you by stress from lazy graders, the Board of Bar Examiners, BarBRI, and librarians who don't enforce the library policies.
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How about using one of those paintball guns? Alternatively, I'm told that you can get the balls to break if you have a good sling-shot. ;-)
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