USC Law's Snitch Patrol: Episode Two - Page 2 of 6

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.

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By Above The Law

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,