OK, Stop It, Cornell Law School

We’ve had a lot of fun, Cornell. Really, we have. When your 1Ls have public meltdowns, we all get a healthy laugh out of it. And when someone swipes your RBG lunchbag, we enjoy posting your inevitably fruitless efforts to get it back. But there’s a point where things go too far.

Now, we aren’t sure you’ve crossed that line, but we’re starting to get a few middling “mini-meltdowns” and now we’ve got a tipster who thinks the reason is a conscious effort to get picked up in these pages:

[T]he email listserv is being bombarded with emails about food and lost items. The emails are written in an omg-I-am-so-funny-please-someone-send-it-to-abovethelaw way. Please stop giving these attention whores the attention they desperately needed. It’s getting annoying.

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Wow, what a stick-in-the-mud. But still, if this is really going on, know that we’ve been tipped off to this. If you’ve got a creative writing bug and want the ATL seal of approval, stay tuned because — no details yet — we’ll be holding a short creative writing competition early next year. In the meantime, don’t make up tales of purloined pastrami to try and game the system. Not just because it’s dishonest, but because most of these efforts are kind of lame.

Our complainer has one final thought:

I assume you might post this email. It’s ok, but make it your last.

Nice try, but it’s absolutely not going to be the last time Cornell legitimately earns its way into ATL. And is it just me, or is this more than a little suspicious? Maybe this complaining student is about to be outed for filming porn in the Cornell library and is hoping we’ll be so skeptical of Cornell tips that we won’t write about it. Well, if somebody were ever to try something that crazy, we’d still report it.