Engineering

Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 05.04.16

* Remember how Villanova won the NCAA men's basketball championship on a crazy buzzer beater? It didn't hurt to have support from the man upstairs or at least from the priest on their bench. Father Rob Hagan is a criminal lawyer turned chaplain for the Villanova men's basketball team. [Coverage Opinions] * The Department of Justice has come to the completely obvious conclusion that North Carolina's potty police bill violates the Civil Right Act, and now millions in federal school funding are in jeopardy. Just what the world needs, a decline in the education of the people that passed HB2. [Charlotte Observer] * An interesting proposal says law schools and engineering programs should share curriculum. But I was assured there'd be no math... [Chronicle of Higher Education] * The West Point debate team may have lost to a team from the Bard Prison Initiative, but they gained a lot in the process. [Washington Post] * Yeah, bar exam results from everywhere have been bad, but these Kansas results are really bad. [Bar Exam Stats] * An illuminating interview with author Anthony Papa, who was granted clemency after serving 12 years for a non-violent drug offense. [Keri Blakinger] * How well do states do when they are in front of the Supreme Court, and which are the most successful? [Empirical SCOTUS]

By Kathryn Rubino
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.12.15

* President Obama recently authorized a study into whether student loan debt should be dischargeable in bankruptcy. For now, any changes made to the bankruptcy code will likely apply only to private loans, so it looks like many law school graduates won't be declaring bankruptcy any time soon. [Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)] * As we've mentioned numerous times in the past, the across-the-board drop in law school applications has inspired some law schools to do crazy things like shortening the length of time it takes to get a degree and lowering tuition. Hmm, more law schools should go crazy. [U.S. News & World Report] * In the wake of much criticism of its plan to eliminate the LSAT for some students to gain admission to Iowa Law, the school's dean offers an explanation: it'll help her school compete to attract students who would otherwise have gone to T14 schools. [The Gazette] * Even though law schools are in trouble, a legislator in Texas is still lobbying the state to subsidize the creation of a new law school in the Rio Grande Valley because he has a "hard time believing there are no jobs for attorneys out there." [Cleburne Times-Review] * If you find that law schools aren't reacting quickly enough to the crisis at hand, there are other options for you out there. While law schools implode as their tuition skyrockets, it seems that those who have fled the law are now trying to become engineers. [Quartz]

By Staci Zaretsky