{"id":2098,"date":"2003-07-01T19:35:42","date_gmt":"2003-07-01T19:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2003\/07\/01\/248\/"},"modified":"2003-07-01T19:35:42","modified_gmt":"2003-07-01T19:35:42","slug":"248","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2098","title":{"rendered":"248"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, we soon to be lawyers have issues with <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.law.com\/servlet\/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket\/Xcelerate\/View&#038;c=LawArticle&#038;cid=1056139906692&#038;t=StudentArticle%22\">sobriety<\/a>, and law schools really do need to do something about it.<br \/>\nThis article cracks me up.  What did they expect.  That the problem would solve itself?  My school is a prime example about how no one cares what happens to the students, including the administration.  The SBA was known more for its social events, not the little meetings we put on that were supposed to be insightful.<br \/>\n&quot;Coming to a pub near you, dollar drinks and free beer till midnight this Friday at Fatsos!&quot;  Dean So and So sure as hell wasn&#8217;t around passing out fliers about the virtues of sobriety (No, he was probably writing his next bullshit speech meant to either to demean the third years or sucker the alumni into another year of his so-called draconian plan of reformation).  Students were there to drown away the stresses of the week.  &quot;Socratic method my ass.  Let me pass in peace and humilate co-counsel for once!&quot;<br \/>\nIsn&#8217;t that what the law school experience is all about?<br \/>\nIn all seriousness, I was bothered by the &#8216;lets get sloshed&#8217; mentality of my classmates, but to each there own.  I couldn&#8217;t blame them for it.  Alcohol was their poison, mine has always been food.  That and should the law schools start instituting policies geared towards helping the students cope with their stress that doesn&#8217;t involve alcohol, I seriously doubt my school would care.  Then again I am now part of the alumni.  Hmmm I can feel the power course through my fingertips.<br \/>\nAh  false illusions of grandeur.  There&#8217;s nothing like it.<br \/>\nLink shamelessly stolen from <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/drinkme.whostolethetarts.com\/archives\/week_2003_06_29-2003_07_05.html#000072%22\">Alice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, we soon to be lawyers have issues with sobriety, and law schools really do need to do something about it. This article cracks me up. What did they expect. That the problem would solve itself? My school is a prime example about how no one cares what happens to the students, including the administration. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}