Sorry, SMU Law -- You're Just Not 'Brilliant' Enough For Wendy Davis

How insulted will students at this school be when they find out what one of their gubernatorial candidates said about their intelligence?

I’m not saying there aren’t brilliant people at S.M.U. — I’m sure there are. But I really wanted to finish my experience in this extraordinary academic setting that I’d been in.

— Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, explaining in an interview with Robert Draper of the New York Times Magazine why she chose to remain at Harvard Law School for her final year of school, instead of completing her legal education at Southern Methodist University, where she’d be closer to her children.

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