A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes

Elie, please don't feed the Section 90 trolls.

No. 1: I don't find your comment funny at all. Have you no respect for human life?

No great loss.

ABAortion

4 -

Once, I was at an abortion clinic and the abortionist had only one arm. I mean, seriously, the abortionist had only one arm! How can the abortionist perform abortions with only one arm?

Seriously, it was ridiculous.

Something similar happened at Illinois about 5 years ago.

I suppose that I should know the answer to this question, but is UNLV Boyd School of Law accredited by the American Bar Association?

BTW - it is "assaulted" not "assualted"

Sally should bare her smooth white ass and let some of her fellow students fuck her in the ass. This would help her forget about law review, which is a much bigger ass fufcking.

Back in the day, my criminal law prof died near the end of the semester. The school brought in another prof to finish the course. But we all took the final on a pass/fail basis. It was no big deal.

But being graded on a pass-fail basis is the new cool thing! Doesn't UNLV want to be like Yale, Harvard, Stanford, etc.?

Making fun of sexual assault does not provide evidence of wit.

The name of the missing professor needs to be posted so all future students can avoid ever taking a class from this person.

If you look at Wild Wild Law - there has been an update ... the professor apparently sent emails out congratulating people who had made law review, so she's out there somewhere...

Is it still sexual assault if the asslobster consented?

14: If she teaches mostly 1L classes (at least CrimLaw and ConLaw from what Wild Wild Law says), you make it sound like students have a choice in the first place.

8, I've heard that this happened at Wisconsin last year as well.

The popcorn you're eating has been pissed in. Film at 11.

Late term partial birth abortion is acceptable to age 14. After that it is definitely murder.

People tell me that the Bible says life starts in the womb. I've looked. It doesn't say that anywhere. Who makes this shit up?

I'd attend Yaroslav the Wise National Law Academy in the Ukraine before I would go to William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV.

William Jefferson Clinton somehow managed to "lose" all the exams from the Admiralty Law class he was teaching at the U. of Ark, but they elected him anyway!

Ahh, the life of a professor. Is there any other professional who is less accountable to those they serve? I'd like to see a doctor get away with the ass-half effort professors routinely put in. Despicable.

21 - People.

this happans all the time.

anybody in law school regardless of their class rank thinking he/she "studied hard" and "desrves" an A is a moron.

I think Bill Clinton also lost exams when he taught in Arkansas.

No 1L can reasonably expect an A in any class.

Secti90nally assaulted.

If her admission to law review depended upon her con law grade she wasn't solidly in the top 10% so the absence of her con law grade does not fall within promisorry estoppel.

If her admission to law review depended upon her con law grade she wasn't solidly in the top 10% so the absence of her con law grade does not fall within promisorry estoppel.

Not surprised... another liberal professor who is unable to live in the real, or even in the academic, world

To quote someone with a bigger chest than elie: that's what you get for waking up in Vegas.

I just sharted.

RE: Bill Clinton losing exams at the University of Arkansas.

However, in that case, IIRC, Clinton chose to offer students grades be believed they earned (based on what I'm not exactly sure) or the option of retaking the exam.

But the really fun part about the story is that one of the students in that class was Susan Webber Wright, who would later become the US District Court Judge presiding over Bill Clinton's Sexual Harassment Suit in 1998

This is actually bullshit. They should have the other faculty members come in and grade the exams. If there is a significant difference in the grading of one person's exam, have that exam looked at again. The school is taking the easy way out, when really it should be setting a higher standard for itself. Take the time and have the exams graded. People are fucking lazy.

28 -

very true.

26 and 28 are right, Sally didn't "deserve" shit.

Actually, she deserves an ice cold reality check -- studying ten hours a day, every day? Really? Do people do that?

John Ensign might have a section 90 claim against CSI for sexually assaulting Sandra.

--not a lawyer.

Giving fake fact patterns while people are studying for the bar = extreme and outrageous.

What's the curve at UNLV? B?

The smart solution would've been to forget the email, give everyone a B, and hope nobody bothers with surveying all their classmates for grades.

21, Jeremiah 1:5, Psalm 139:13. Not saying I agree with them or whatever, but you could at least Google it FFS.

Why no name of the Professor in the article? Are these not facts being posted, of which defamation claims do not make?

It's a sad comment on all of you that not ONE person has mentioned having any concern for the professor. what if something happened to her?

This would never happen at SMU.

not one person is concerned about the professor? we have no idea why she went missing.

This girl has a bad attitude--
corrosive to the specialness that is monkey review.

Make love, not law review--

People tell me that the Bible is the word of god. I've looked. It's just a collection of poorly translated oral traditions of a people too primitive to understand the mechanics of rainfall. Who makes all this shit up?

Well we have a plague of 8 years aka
the Bush Administr.

Now we have a Jesus figure in Obama.

This happens a lot in academia. The Pass/fail grade is some administrator's/administrators' (probably more than one) easy way out. Probably they (the school or University) didn't give the "Missing Prof" a new contract, tenure or something. Get a lawyer (do we need to tell you this on ATL?) . Start legal action against the University and its Law School-- not the professor Just get someone isn't a "I want to be a favored son/daughter" alum of the same law school and who has (1) passed the bar, (2) is reasonably articulate, and (3) not too annoying to the judges in your county who may be alums of UNLV. This one is easy if Sally kept a copy of the syllabus the allegedly "missing prof" handed out during the first week of the course. Better yet, I hope she (or is Sally really Sal) downloaded it from a University-owned electronic and/or internet access vehicle. The syllabus is a form of a contract !!! In addition to course content, topic schedule and assignments, the syllabus should have stated how students were to be graded. The contract in any course is with the University, not the professor. The professor in a legal sense is an authorized agent (for that course) of the University for which they work. The University is bound by that document. Grading mechanisms can only be changed after the start of the contract (i.e. the date you become bound to pay of the course) if both parties agree to the change. -- and it is wise to get any changes, even to a syllabus, in writing.

You will win, however there is a downside. You will never see another A in law school, your recommendations will suck and you will never be able to figure out why.

The Bible Code is REAL. Check it for yourself.

Nice attempt at a play on UNLV's mascot with the "running, rebelling" thing...

...or not. ATL needs better headlines.

My penis is tiny and more crooked than a Chicago politician. But I violated an ATL chick last week.

Sorry for typos
"someone who isn't"
"pay for the course"

Elie, what's the word "assualted" mean?

"Please, Fry! I don't know how to teach. I'm a professor!"

- Prof. Hubert Farnsworth, Mars University

Pass/fail is bogus. They should grade the exams. It would be particularly interesting, if the original prof is unavailable, to have another prof grade it, particularly if the original prof is liberal and the substitute prof is conservative. Those who would write their exams for what they think the prof would want to hear would be screwed.

@24--jealous?

Okay, my first ever post on ATL...

I'm a Boyd "rising 2L", who had the "pleasure" of taking two classes with this professor in my first year, obviously with no choice in the matter. First my section had her for Criminal Law in the fall. Grades from that class were not posted until weeks after the registrar released all other grades. My memory is a little foggy, but classmates say it was "late February" when the CrimLaw grades were finally posted. I don't know if this is accurate, but it was definitely after the start of the spring semester, sometime in February.

She was ill throughout the last school year. When she talked about our grades for CrimLaw, she claimed that they were so late because her illness was severely incapacitating during the winter break. I don't know any details beyond that.

Both day sections of Con Law I were taught by this professor. Therefore, all full-time 1Ls were affected by this situation. Once they realized that our grades were not forthcoming, the administration decided they had to act. I see that at least one comment suggests that they could have just had a replacement prof grade the exams... Really? Can you imagine the uproar / scandal if a random prof graded the exams that were written with this particular prof's "point of view" in mind?

Bottom line: I'm not thrilled that I will never get a grade for ConLaw I, but there was no better option (besides having the original prof actually grade the tests). And there was no part of this situation that was Boyd's fault, except maybe the fact that they had an ill professor teach such an important first-year class.

Cool story bro.

21 - God did. God instructed every word of the bible. The bible says so. Q.E.D.

Cool story, Hansel!

Thanks, Olaf!

Someone explain why Sally's class rank/GPA/journal prospects would be affected. Aren't pass/fail grades GPA-neutral? So like 30 said, if she was depending on an A in Con Law to grade on to law review, she probably wasn't top 10% material anyway.

Look at 57
Get a large group from the Class. Set a meeting with the Dean. Carry a copy of the syllabus and a copies (from a couple of different people) of the most detailed and complete sets of class notes to the Dean. Ask for another professor (preferably one with tenure) to grade the exams. If the course was weak (i.e. not complete in content) I would ask for a redo with a different professor. Why should you spend your time and effort to redo it ? You knew this professor was wacked in February, and you stayed because you thought it would be a slider.

Professor Boyd=Jerry Tarkanian

You would think this school couldn't possibly be better than Northeastern. You would think incorrectly.

Mystal please weigh in: Dunkin or Tim Horton's?

"Someone explain why Sally's class rank/GPA/journal prospects would be affected. Aren't pass/fail grades GPA-neutral?"

You've gotta be the dumbest person on Above the Law, which is quite a feat. Let me put it this way. Fact 1: some people were going to get A's in Con Law. That's just a matter of law school grading. Fact 2: a "P" does not bring affect a GPA, while an A brings up any GPA lower than 4.0.

You can take it from here, I hope.

65: That sounds like a good idea in theory, but it opens up a can of worms. Then, anyone who does worse than they wanted is going to complain about how they wrote the exam the way the original prof wanted it, how the new graders are unfair (students didn't know about them when preparing / taking the exam), etc. In other words, profs focus on different things when teaching classes, grading exams, and having someone else grade the exams might produce a very different spread of grades than if the original prof did so. Yeah, it sucks that everyone might get stuck with a pass-fail grade, but it opens things up to much worse controversy (someone getting a grade they didn't "deserve"), versus effectively nullifying the exam and just giving everyone a pass.

69:

I'm not 64, but I think the bigger point is that Sally might get an A in ConLaw, but she might also get a B-/C+, etc. Yes, there's usually not a huge spread between 1L grades (the person getting all As and A-s is unlikely to get a random C+). However, it happens -- I received all A level grades and one isolated B during 1L.

In other words, Sally can complain as much as she wants, but it's completely speculative and unknown whether ConLaw would have made the difference between getting law review, being ranked in the top 10%, top third, etc. or not. Even if she was fairly solid student in most other classes, there's still a decent-enough chance that she didn't do as well in ConLaw as she might have liked, and receiving a pass instead of ex, a B or B+ helps out her GPA.

69,
"Fact 2: a "P" does not bring affect a GPA, "

I wouldnt be so quick to call out other people as the most dumbest on ATL....

7 just summarized the plot of Twin Peaks, season 1.

Uh... if every full-time 1L had the same professor, as poster 59 said, then it's a wash. Besides, no student at UNLV Law has a reasonable expectation of a lucrative career at a big firm.

Done.

21 - Common sense tells me. No need to look anywhere to figure it out for yourself. I prefer those warm and fuzzy morals that we've all (hopefully) grown up with.

73 -

Someone put a FISH in the PERCOLATOR!

I would suggest that the Prof might have been taking a trip to Argentina -- but then it would be the first time in the history of Las Vegas that someone left that town to do something illicit.

I dont go to UNLV but this type of delay in receiving grades really annoys me. These professors have one of the easiest jobs in the world and all they have to do is prepare to speak infront of a class a few times a week (and presuming they've been teaching for 5, 10, 20+ years they should prob know the material quite well). Their only real deadline is to grade exams and they take weeks if not a month plus to get grades turned in. Its insane.

What happens at UNLV, stays at UNLV.

Don't try to bleed me
Cause I've been there before and I deserve a little more
I belong in the service of the Queen
I belong anywhere but in between
She's been lying, I've been sinking
And I am the Rain King
Hey, I only want the same as anyone
Henderson is waiting for the sun
Oh, it seems night endlessly begins and ends
After all the dreaming I come home again...
When I think of heaven
Deliver me in a black-winged bird
I think of dying
Lay me down in a field of flame and heather
Render up my body into the burning heart of God in the belly of a
black-winged bird

@ 70
Yeah you're right. All I am saying is mobilze your classmates around the battle you want to fight and what is in your (individual members of the group's) best interest. It's ok not to worry about what's fair to those who couldn't pass the course if they face a stiffer exam. This isn't social work school. Well, just make yourself satisfied with the pass/fail and don't fret about it. Sorry, I thought this discussion was about the unfairness of being lumped into a pass/fail grade, where pass means " I'm lucky I got a C " as well as " I really worked my tail off for an A".

Solution -- grade all the exams, but before you share the results, let each student pick whether they want their grade pass/fail. After that, each student must take the results and can't complain.

Solution -- grade all the exams, but before you share the results, let each student pick whether they want their grade pass/fail. After that, each student must take the results and can't complain.

78, like most students, makes the common mistake that the primary job of a professor is classroom teaching.

Life starts in the womb. Sure, there is a heartbeat, so there is a life. But is an acorn with a heartbeat and consciousness somehow a human? Seriously - I don't think this is an easy question for which your mere morals can supply an answer.

81: Yes, the unfairness of lumping everyone together is relevant, but I think the gunners are more concerned that they're not going to get the recognition for doing well, as they think they did (but could easily be wrong about).

Even though the mean / median at UNLV is a B, I bet if you polled the 1L class on how they thought they did on the ConLaw exam, the average would be in the B+ / A- range easily. It's easy to overestimate your performance on an exam, but when that exam is on a curve, everyone, by definition, can't do well. That's true even if the entire 1L class was unusually smart, and on average, got many more raw points than past test-takers have. In other words, yes, it's a crappy situation, but people complaining that they lost their chance at law review or a higher rank are out of line, and could have easily done worse with the ConLaw grade included in their GPA.

Are there two copies of the exams?

Dean White's e-mail says he is not sure if missing prof has finished grading the exams, but will have sub prof grade them.

I would think there is only one copy of the exams -- it Dean White has access to them, he must know that missing prof doesn't have them and isn't going to be finishing grading them.

Unless someone copied all of the exams, which would seem to be unusual.

87: It would be unusual to have an extra set of printouts of the law school exams (assuming they're done via computer and some exam software)? If they're handwritten for some sad and bizarre reason, I agree, but otherwise, I don't think that would be uncommon at all.

At Boyd, most exams are taken on laptops, using ExamSoft. Those can be reprinted by the school without problem. I don't know if the school makes copies of hand-written exam answers.
-59

according to the wild wild law comments the professor is lynne henderson. one commenter wrote: "henderson does this all the time! She taught Crim Law in the Fall 2008 and didn't turn those grades in until late February! I complained to one of the deans about this and was told that Henderson is almost always late but this time was worse than any other. She really should be fired.
JULY 18, 2009 5:52 PM"

84,
78 here,

what would be the primary job of a professor then? Writing scholarly articles to be published in intellectual journals that arent worth a damn in the real world? Or perhaps demonstrating how much smarter they are than the rest of the world every opportunity they get? Please do enlighten me.

I would love to hear what the primary job of a professor is besides teaching the students at the university that pays them with student's tuition dollars. Besides science professors at research institutions, it is my impression that professors are paid to teach first, and write stupid articles in an attempt to get published second.

What a nightmare. I probably studied just as much as the fake student in the hypo and if the grade in any of my 1L classes were switch from what they are now to just a pass, I'd be piss off. Something like that is even worst in this economy, no wonder so many of the single parent students in my class are stressed...

She taught two sections of the same subject this semester and did not grade the exams? Sounds like a pretty easy job.

21 - Where does it say that life begins at birth, or after the first trimester? Based on your analysis life never begins.

partners at quinn randomly go missing all the time. It is no big deal.

quinn stud.

If I pay top dollar to have a boston chick take a dump on my chest from a gaping masshole and all that comes out is an asslobster, do I have a section 90 claim?

If Sally was really aspiring to practice insurance law, this probably saved her life!

Wait a minute . . . WAIT A MINUTE!
Las Vegas has a law school?!
Is it like one of those University of Phoenix kind of law school??

To sum up this thread, if you attend UNLV Law School YOU DON'T DESERVE A GRADE IN CONLAW.

For my money, a stop at the $7.77 buffet table at The Plaza is always in the cards. I don't roll the dice with drinking or driving either. If you booze and cruise, you always lose. Then head over to The Mirage for Howie Mandel's show. He's a real Joker!

Most of these comments are hysterical.

The ones that actually try are nothing short of retarded. Like BARBRI-lecture standard retarded.

69 - go on....

Does UNLV have an actual campus? I thought it was just a statue of Jerry Tarkanian and an Arby's.

This happened with University of Illinois about 6 years ago. Ex-Professor James Taylor--worthless human being--absconded with the Evidence Class exams. The law school just figured it would screw everyone by giving them a pass rather than try to get the exams back or otherwise force the ass-pimple professor to grade them (i.e. withhold final paycheck, etc.). Pathetic.

This happened with University of Illinois about 6 years ago. Ex-Professor James Taylor--worthless human being--absconded with the Evidence Class exams. The law school just figured it would screw everyone by giving them a pass rather than try to get the exams back or otherwise force the ass-pimple professor to grade them (i.e. withhold final paycheck, etc.). Pathetic.

This happened with University of Illinois about 6 years ago. Ex-Professor James Taylor--worthless human being--absconded with the Evidence Class exams. The law school just figured it would screw everyone by giving them a pass rather than try to get the exams back or otherwise force the ass-pimple professor to grade them (i.e. withhold final paycheck, etc.). Pathetic.

Has anything like this happened anywhere else in the last 6 years?

Why, yes -- I believe it happened at the University of Illinois. Why do you ask?

A young attorney told me that he knew of an 1L "legal writing"-type class where the professor was fired with cause at the end of the semester, and all the students were given a Pass.

109, something like that happened at Indiana a few years ago. An LRW instructor quit/was let go at the semester break. But LRW is P/F anyway and everyone passes so it's not really the same thing.

109--those basic writing classes are normally taught by adjuncts were are paid peanuts to pay the class and are not loathe to bail halfway through the semester.

1) How can one class make such a huge impact?

2) Law review is dumb.

There she is:
http://www.law.unlv.edu/faculty/lynne-henderson.html

To clear up some confusion: Yes, Boyd is Accredited. It is ranked number 75. Although it doesn't truly matter unless you are in the top 14, Boyd is an an extremley new school, and considering that the rankings are based in part on the national recognition, it is quite an improvement. Furthermore, its writing program is 3rd in the nation.

Now as far as this professor is concerned, wild wild blah blah forgot to mention that both sections of 1Ls had that teacher. The students' chances of getting on law review were not affected because their GPAs were not affected. It's basically just a bunch of 1Ls whining and complaining (which we should be used to by now)

To clear up some confusion: Yes, Boyd is Accredited. It is ranked number 75. Although it doesn't truly matter unless you are in the top 14, Boyd is an an extremley new school, and considering that the rankings are based in part on the national recognition, it is quite an improvement. Furthermore, its writing program is 3rd in the nation.

Now as far as this professor is concerned, wild wild blah blah forgot to mention that both sections of 1Ls had that teacher. The students' chances of getting on law review were not affected because their GPAs were not affected. It's basically just a bunch of 1Ls whining and complaining (which we should be used to by now)

To clear up some confusion: Yes, Boyd is Accredited. It is ranked number 75. Although it doesn't truly matter unless you are in the top 14, Boyd is an an extremley new school, and considering that the rankings are based in part on the national recognition, it is quite an improvement. Furthermore, its writing program is 3rd in the nation.

Now as far as this professor is concerned, wild wild blah blah forgot to mention that both sections of 1Ls had that teacher. The students' chances of getting on law review were not affected because their GPAs were not affected. It's basically just a bunch of 1Ls whining and complaining (which we should be used to by now)

Fairly irresponsible journalism. Why did you report she had randonly gone missing?