Bedbugs in the Ivory Tower? Critters Come to Columbia
First Cadwalader. Then Cravath.
Now, Columbia. From a CLS source:
You’ve got to throw some more shame on the bedbug issue! According to the housing people, six Columbia Law School summer associates who are living in Lenfest Hall (the law school housing building) have brought Cravath bedbugs home, and the building’s infested!They hired a “scientist” to run around with a bedbug-trained sniffing dog to root out the infestation; the building’s supposed to be crawling with them. WTF?
How can a firm like Cravath not be on top of something like this? Now I’ve got to be worried about catching cooties…
Look, punk: those are Cravath bed bugs. They’re too good for you. Count yourself lucky that they’ve decided to grace your crappy dorm with their presence.
If you stop your whining, and ask nicely, they might do the Cravath walk. Up and down your back.
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Lenfest was a crappy place to live even before the bedbugs. Move out at your first opportunity. And throw away all your possessions when you do, because the bedbugs can come with you if you bring bedding, clothing, etc.
Everyone knows that the DPW and SC bedbugs are just as good as the Cravath bedbugs.
A lot of CLS students have STDs too. It's a pretty crappy school.
CravaTTTh.
You should do a story about law school housing. I've heard things about NYU's dorm, Chicago's New Graduate and other dorms, UVa's pleasure palace . . . .
CLS deserves bedbugs they have a crappy building (the law school, not the dorms), they treat the military like poop, and they're two-faced liars.
Oh, and David Schizer is a stinker. There I said it all.
Yale Law School has no student housing.
YLS students live up in the clouds, from which they descend each day to attend class.
CLS v. NYU housing is no contest.
Columbia: 200 year old slumlord run buildings with rats and termites and 1' by 1' rooms. In Harlem.
NYU: Brand new, spacious dorms in the village.
Winner: NYU
3:59--do you know what TTT means?
4:02: This is credited. The bright cloud floats around New Haven and can be seen from as far as twenty miles away.
I think the winner of the CCN contest is Chicago, since Regents is more spacious and cheaper than anything NYU threw at me. (I won't even mention CLS.)
4:01 - throw some love to (the beautiful $hithole that is) Michigan's Laq Quad.
4:03: Lenfest was constructed in 2003. I'm not saying it's not crappy, but get your facts as to the crapptitude straight.
4:07 = TTT.
4:07 of course 3:59 knows what ttt is. i was thinking the same as i read it. this epidemic from cravath probably has to do with associates sharing an office for the first 3 years. truth is after three years everybody gets the hell out of there
Other way around. The bedbugs came /from/ CLS. Someone is trying to deflect shame away from themselves.
Bring me Solo and the wookie. They will pay for this outrage.
Bedbugs have been at Cravath since March:
http://www.abovethelaw.com/2008/03/cravaths_achilles_heel_bedbugs.php
I just read the article about the "Cravath walk" = creepy.
Your source is an annoying twit.
Is the "Cravath walk" like a "walk of shame"
obviously this would never happen in Chicago
New York's bedbug infestation is getting out of hand. It's getting so I'll try to schedule meetings for Boston or DC just to avoid having to stay in a NYC hotel and worry about the critters.
4:01, UVA doesn't have law dorms
The Cravath walk story is creepy indeed. But I don't buy it. How do they manage to get the front of the funeral closed off with velvet ropes until they can make their grand entrance? Doesn't the family get to sit at the front?
4:38 - "Doesn't the family get to sit at the front?"
Cravath IS "the family."
The real family obviously consented to the arrangement.
Obvious horrible gag:
Lenfest Hall? More like Infest Hall!
/ rimshot
Maybe, 4:46, but the article states that the cravath walk is done at EVERY funeral of a cravath partner. I just don't believe that every single partner's family would consent to having his funeral turned into a statement about cravath's mighty cock.
NYC has bedbugs bad. That's why we got a RoyalPedic.
4:10
I love the quad like I love that semi that hit my dog when I was 9.
I never had to pick up poop again!
4:07: I believe 4:03 was referencing the age of the school.
And lenfest isn't the only student housing for law students. Many are in the craptastic Grad Student housing. Rats galore.
4:55, considering that any given deceased in question chose to stay at Cravath long enough to be an established partner, he or she was probably supportive of the tradition, and his or her family therefore should be as well, by proxy. Maybe it's even in the will. Perhaps the firm pays for a lavish funeral.
Look, am I the only one who thinks the Cravath "walk" is a little classy?
The firm makes a great show to make sure a large number of members show up and pay imminent respect for the dead. And they do it in a highly visible way, making sure the room knows he was cared about by his colleagues.
What would be trashy is if no one showed up, or only a token wreath were sent. Any funeral you've ever been to---if the workplace pals don't make a show, the employer looks cold-hearted.
True, true. A life-long cravath partner's reaction to having all his co-workers march into his funeral would not be the same as my reaction to having all my co-workers march into my funeral ("get the eff out!!")
4:35 - But it does have pleasure palaces.
How many would be shocked to find out that the partner they work for had a double life, Schwartz-style?
I don't even think I'd be surprised.
UVA has bedbugs and cockroaches but they all have popped collars so its not so bad.
4:02 -- Re New Haven housing, I wouldn't use "heavenly" to refer to Lawrence Street or the rest of the grad student ghetto. Walking 1.6 miles to campus in February = not good times. No wonder we stayed home and watched Springer and Sensenbrenner so much.
Signed, YLS-er turned West-Coaster.
Is NYU a top school?
NYU law dorms are awesome. Rooftop terraces. Surrounded by bars, restaurants, and hot women. UVA - not so much. Except if you love slave owning Thomas Jefferson and polo shirts.
The Cravath "walk", to quote 4:55, is a gratuitous display of the firms "mighty cock". There should be a middle ground between nobody showing up, and the entire partnership making such a statement. That being said, seeing it in person is probably pretty badass.
I wish I worked at a place that had a "walk." I'd trade the free ramen for it.
Free Ramen? You work at CWT, don' you?
Lenfest is a ripoff. The regular grad student apartments are good as NYC goes.
The rooms in NYU's buildings are closets and cost more than some of CLS' best housing.
4:55 - they have no family. cravath is their entire life.
LenfesTTT is overrated. If people were smart, they would get regular Columbia housing--subsidized, good size living space, some have fireplaces and studies etc for around $1000 a month.
5:17... no, in fact your reaction and that of the long-time Cravath partner would be exactly the same at your respective funerals. You'd just lie there, taking it all in stride.
6:10 - Ha, no. LA-based.
Cravath partners do not take orders from the grim reaper ... they tell death what to do.
Columbia 2Ls will be sporting shaved heads this recruiting season.
Attention Cravath partners: That's NOT what was meant when you were called, well, you know.
8:02--I don't get it
sounds like columbia students are so prestige-obsessed that even when they have something like bedbugs, they have to make sure people know that it's cravath bedbugs. sheesh.
and to the guy who said chicago was the winner out of ccn... is ccn even a thing any more? maybe it is, if ccn = columbia, cal, nyu.
you guys are idiots, the columbia people brought bedbugs to cravath, not the other way around.
Cravath simply using Columbia as an emergency toilet and receptacle for refuse.
I'm sorry for the people there now. I lived there 3 yrs and never saw a single bug or roach. Not the cheapest option at CLS, but still a decent value by NYC standards. I'd choose it again if not for the soul-destroying cravath bugs.
better get used to it I guess. bedbugs were eliminated in north america by the liberal application of DDT, weren't they?
Bedbugs are back at Cadwalader, I hear. Someone should look into this.
@ 15: Gibson Dunn has a lot of clerks every year. The current group of clerks has at least three people just from GDC-DC.