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Harvard law students who are too “traumatized” to take their final exams on time aren’t getting full sympathy from the dean of students, the Daily Caller reports.

Ellen Cosgrove wrote back to the students who demanded the school let them “reschedule their exams in good faith and at their own discretion between the period of December 20th and January 15th” because of their mental state following the non-indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases.

It boils down to, we’ll do anything but reschedule exams.

Cosgrove told student activists:

• The law school will provide “a space for reflection and support” during exams
• A specialist will “lead a discussion on how best to concentrate on exams when you are experiencing strong emotions that interfere with your ability to focus”
• Students can get one-on-one counseling from the university’s counseling services and the campus chaplains (don’t worry, “they do not proselytize”)
• They can come to Cosgrove’s office to “discuss ways we can support your specific needs during the exam period”

Students were pissed at Cosgrove’s blowoff:

Based on the gravity of this event, we believe a process other than asking individual students to go through the time­-consuming and incredibly stressful process of explaining their individual trauma [should be implemented]. Unless you act now, you will allow the systematic under performance of a great many students of color and allies on this campus on their exams.

Students of color at Georgetown’s law school made similar demands, using the “I can’t breathe” rallying cry from the Eric Garner protests. No word from that school on how it will respond, the Daily Caller said.

This follows on Columbia Law School’s caving in to students demanding postponed exams, and the law school’s student senate offering to get students out of the traumatic task of making the requests themselves.

Read the Daily Caller story.

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