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 Eben has suggested a few times that there be a mass student movement to stand up and change the law school. I am interested. In all seriousness, why not?
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Here is what I propose. Sign your name on this wiki entry if you would also be interested. I imagine that after a week there will be zero signatures on this. And then I will just delete this wiki entry and pretend like it never happened. But it would be interesting if a bunch of people added their names, and we were then compelled to actually put some wild plan into action.
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Here is what I propose. Sign your name on this wiki entry in the list below if you would also be interested.
 
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There are no set goals at this point. Just an initial evaluation of interest.
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There are no set goals at this point. Just an initial evaluation of interest. There is a discussion below about what goals to pursue.

My own goals are the following, but you do not need to agree with any of them to sign: (1) lower tuition if possible (and I am nearly 100% sure it is possible), (2) move to some kind of pass/fail system, (3) be honest with the student body and especially admitted students and potential applicants that Columbia may not be an easy ticket to a $160,000 job anymore. Potential students especially need honest information in order to make a decision of whether or not to apply to Columbia; a good start would be to update the employment statistics on the website that still reflect the numbers from the class of 2008.

Current Names
Nona Farahnik
Devin McDougall?
Jessica Cohen
Christopher Crisman-Cox

Goal Suggestions
(of course edit if I have mischaracterized anything)
Nona - move to a high pass/pass/fail grading basis
Devin - assembling signatures for a petition to withdraw from US New and World Report rankings
Jessica - possibly haggling about tuition; wants to see a line-item asset/liability sheet for the Law School
Chris - (1) lower tuition significantly if at all possible, (2) move to a pass/fail grading system, (3) provide honest information about career prospects

Also: Below, Nona mentions that any movement will require class-wide 1L participation as well as 2L/3L participation. I agree; such participation would be required for the administration to take us seriously. I think this wiki is the best start, though. If we get significant support from this class, then we can move on to attempts to attract support from the rest of the class and from 2Ls and 3Ls.

 -- ChristopherCrismanCox - 10 Mar 2010

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