I am constantly amazed at the ignorance and stupidity manifested at this law school. This Acevedo girl is complaining that Professor Bainbridge “capitalizes on the fact that he is a UCLA law professor,” which shows how out-of-touch with reality she is. UCLA capitalizes on the fact that he’s a professor here. In fact, he was close to leaving last year for a higher-ranked law school, and the school is lucky that he stayed. We benefit from his stellar reputation in the legal community. Also, this Harris girl is worried about diversity issues…in a business associations class? I’ve taken his class, and I can’t understand how anyone could even manufacture a “diversity” issue when you’re talking about shareholder derivative suits and partnership law. Finally, I’m even more confused at why some student from NYU would be concerned with how Bainbridge can “objectively grade with that viewpoint.” It’s pretty simple. It’s blind grading, and it’s a multiple choice test. You could be a member of the KKK and administer his final exam.

It truly is disheartening that students have nothing better to do than look for this kind of drama. Not too long ago there was a professor that declined an offer at this school because he was concerned with all the racial hypersensitivity at this school. There are plenty of stories of something being misconstrued, and then all the various student organizations rally to demand justice. Please do this school a favor and stop worrying manufacturing drama, and do something more productive with your time.

I’m a little surprised, and quite a bit relieved, that Dean Moran took the reasonable position she did. Whatever her personal opinions about Professor Bainbridge’s comments, she understands that his blog posts were also his personal opinions that didn’t reflect the opinions of the law school or college. It would be a completely different matter if Bainbridge made the comment in class, when he has a captive audience of tuition-paying students, and where the administration should rightly expect his discretion with such colorful, if not crass, language.

As for Professor Bainbridge, I would not for a second question his impartiality or fairness in the classroom. He was always a respectful listener and always made himself available immediately after class, and during scheduled and unscheduled office hours. He had a great sense of humor (which is not easy to inject into a Corporations class) and he never, ever used it at the expense of his students — more often than not, he made himself the butt of his jokes. Sure, as someone who is on the complete opposite end of the political spectrum compared to Professor Bainbridge, I often and passionately disagree with his political philosophy. But, these are the reactions from being a faithful reader of his blog, not from anything he said in class. Professor Bainbridge took great care to separate his personal, political philosophies from his well-reasoned thoughts and policies on business law.

As someone whose parents came from a “third-world shithole”, I couldn’t help but cringe at the professor’s comments when I read them. They were unfortunate and maybe unprofessional, but I think Professor Bainbridge has adequately acknowledged that. In the end, I sincerely hope that students don’t avoid taking his classes because of these comments. Not only will they miss out learning from a very well-regarded scholar, and devoted teacher, of cutting-edge business law, but they might also miss out on scoring an objectively graded A like this student did.

The law school is diverse. I don’t know what Harris is talking about.

The brainwashed politically correct exploiters are coming out of the woodwork. Bainbridge merely exercised his freedom of speech, complaining about service poorly rendered. Bainbridge did not even mention a specific state or nationality by name, merely conveying that the employee handling his call is not qualified for the job. Acting high and mighty pretending that poor service does not annoy you is hypocritical liberal idiocy. There is nothing wrong with criticizing the performance of a service employee who is not qualified to fulfill the duties his job requires. A “third world shithole” isn’t even a geographic designation. We might refer to Detroit or South Central LA as such. Opportunists hoping to advance themselves and their agenda through this perfectly legal expression of free speech are harmful to America.

Its too bad Bainbridge found it necessary to apologize. These so-called student diversity groups aren’t worth it, especially in light of the fact that “diversity” is code for fewer (and fewer) white people. And they know it.

I second Eifelheim, but wonder why you think Watchmen (no “The”) doesn’t belong on the list? Given the influence heavy that comics have had on fantasy for the past thirty years, and the force that Watchmen had on comics, it seems much more viable candidate than much that is on the list.
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Jack