PROFESSOR LEVINSON’S INITIAL EMAIL TO CLASS (after administration contacted him about issues with his teaching):
Dear Students:
I have been directed — pursuant to University policy — to conduct the Business For Lawyers course in a manner such that there is NO RISK of ANY POSSIBILITY that ANY STUDENT will ever be offended TO ANY EXTENT by ANYTHING I say or do. (It doesn’t matter if 99 students really like what we’re doing — if what we’re doing RISKS causing any offense to 1 student out of a hundred — or even one student out of a hundred thousand, for that matter) it violates University Policy.
In order to fully comply with the University’s completely reasonable policy, our class will have to change somewhat:
- Please read pages 91 – 125 of your text and bring the book to class. (You’ll need it during all future classes).
- Please be prepared to be called on during EVERY class — virtually all of the classroom discussion will, necessarily, have to come from you.
- There will not be any further slide presentations, guests, videos or music.
- We will confine ourselves to discussion of material covered in the text, there will not be any “extraneous” material such as discussions or observations about current events, since I cannot be certain when discussion of such material MIGHT create a risk of offending some freakishly hyper-sensitive individual.
I’m completely serious about this: these requirements are for YOUR protection. I apologize for any inconvenience this causes anyone, but I’m certain it’s for the best. I think we can all agree that it would be completely unacceptable to do ANYTHING non-traditional, if there’s the SLIGHTEST chance of it offending anyone, regardless of how anomalous their sensitivity might be.
Sincerely,
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