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Are These The Worst Law School Facilities In The World?

The Feng Shui of failure.

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One would certainly hope this is as bad as it gets. Replacing the mahogany tables and modern-wired conference rooms (or crazy Holodecks), Charleston School of Law went the other way. In the words of South Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s Phillip Bantz, the office, “resembles a post-apocalyptic set from ‘The Walking Dead,'” which is probably a metaphor for the state of the school.

Remember that leaked video of Charleston’s Board telling staffers that the school was in shambles? Well, that was shot in this building, and at the time they described it as a new acquisition and explained that they’d hoped to fill the building with students but for Infilaw’s decision to withdraw from the sale of the school. Based on the state of the facilities, maybe CSOL students have a new reason to be grateful that Infilaw pulled out.

Because this sums up the state of the building right now.

(Check out more pictures at South Carolina Lawyers Weekly.)

Never mind the “Walking Dead” stuff, the “garbage can positioned beneath a leak in the ceiling” shot is the better metaphor for the school. According to the Bantz article:

[Charleston law spokesman Andy] Brack added that the school is working with a “noted architect” to renovate the space and the “second floor will not look like this when school opens next month.” He did not name the architect.

Spoiler alert: it’s not I.M. Pei. Indeed, Matt Kelly, president of the school’s Student Bar Association, is on the ground there and doesn’t see any construction crews tackling the major renovation project.

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As of right now, this dingy pit houses career services, student affairs, human resources, and IT staffers for CSOL, all offices that… kind of should be in a dreary locale at Charleston. Career Services? This is the proper setting to tell students about the school’s 49.3 percent employment score. Student Affairs? What better place to tell students to pay out of pocket for the impromptu student-funded graduation event thrown together after the school’s millionaire owners refused to kick in for it. Human Resources? The office is as “right-sized” as the faculty. IT Staffers? Well, I’m just assuming none of the computers work. The symbolism of this story is so deep it feels like a Bergman film.

But hey, it might have a Starbucks when it’s all said and done, so there’s that.

Office Space [South Carolina Lawyers Weekly]

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