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Comment of the Day: “Ethics Quiz: The Case of the Fake But Accurate Social Security Card”

A thoughtful take on the fake Social Security card hypothetical, and related issues. Continue reading

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Young, Gullible, Lazy, Unimaginative and Unbelievable: I Wonder Why This Lawyer Has Trouble Finding A Job?

An unemployed lawyer claims to be one of the “99%”. I am dubious. Continue reading

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What Your Boss Shouldn’t Ask You To Do

Your boss says you have to play pinball 30 minutes a day. Do you? Continue reading

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The Status of Dismissed Gay Troops: An Ethics Test For The GOP

Despite the biases of their supporters, Republicans have an ethical and a patriotic duty to support Smith’s proposal. The only reasons for doing otherwise are mean-spiritedness, bigotry, and cynical pandering to the worst instincts of their constituency. Continue reading

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Comment of the Day: “College: the Worst Consumer Scam of All?”

“Student achievement has been falling so fast, it is ridiculous. I can see the difference year to year. Students aren’t required to study much, are not challenged, and are taught to ‘think’ by people who believe the word ‘think’ means ‘repeat everything I say’.” Continue reading

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College: the Worst Consumer Scam of All?

It can be expected that colleges will dispute the study. No one, however, who has watched Jay Leno interview clueless and apparently shameless college students who can’t answer questions one would expect a fourth grader to know, or who has, as I have, encountered dozens of recent graduates of elite schools whose analytical, writing, and rhetorical skills are negligible, will be inclined to doubt Prof. Arum’s conclusions. Continue reading

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Accountability Follies: The B.C. Law Student’s Unethical Lament

An anonymous Boston College Law School student, soon to graduate, has requested a refund of his tuition  because he is unemployed and sees no legal job in his immediate future.  On a B.C. student website, he has posted an “open … Continue reading

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Ethics Field Trip: People, Planes, Prosthetics and Problems

More than twelve hours spent in four airports and planes prompted these observations about the ethics pf travelers and those who make their journeys a living hell: Continue reading

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Web Hoaxes: Would You Trust This Lawyer?

Like many frauds and charlatans in an undemanding culture, Evans has succeeded in being accepted by the media as a serious critic of a genuine problem, using lies as an attention-getting strategy. (Wouldn’t you think the Wall Street Journal and U.S.A. Today would be reluctant to highlight an advocate for “law school transparency” who has not been transparent about her own identity or career status?) Continue reading

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The Trouble With Teachers Unions

The teachers unions’ desperate screams of outrage and blatant effort to use economic extortion to suppress proof of its members’ failings are proof that the Times has struck a nerve that needs to be struck. We can only hope that the citizens of Los Angeles back the paper and stand up to the union, for the sake of Los Angeles students and the integrity of journalism. Continue reading

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