Disgruntled T14 Students Take To Twitter To Protest Law School's Name Change

Penn Carey Law students refuse to take this sitting down.

onNovember 15, 2019 at 2:41 PMNovember 15, 2019 at 2:40 PM

Hey @BillGates do you have a spare $126 million? If so, we could be the “William H. Gates Definitely Did Not Go Here But Who Cares He’s Rich School of Law”. Think about it.

— Penn Law lol (@PennLawSchool) November 14, 2019

(Upon changing the school’s name to the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School after a $125 million donation from the W.P. Carey Foundation, the Twitter account @PennLaw was abandoned, and disgruntled students quickly stepped in and began tweeting. The account was then suspended, and @PennLawSchool was created, and continues to tweet out amusing parody content.)

(Thousands of students and alumni have signed a petition asking that the school maintain its Penn Law branding. Click here if you’d like to add your name.)

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