Law Students

Tele-F*CKED 2008

For those of you tuning in for the first time this fall, here's a brief rundown:

Boalt students have been assured for years that Tele-BEARS registration times (and the concomitant opportunity take that coveted class, or to score an early slot on the wait-list) were randomized to ensure fairness.

Not so. Students discovered last spring that registration times were in fact issued by student ID number -- the lower your ID number, the earlier you registered. Even worse, the earlier you applied to the UC system (even as an undergrad, and even if you didn't attend), the lower your ID number. The result was that some people (like Armen) enjoyed the prized seminars, classes, and professors every single semester at Boalt, while the rest of us get classes like Janitor Law from adjuncts.

We were promised last spring that it would be fixed, and the slots truly would be randomized by this fall. Now, any twelve year-old with ten minutes and an Excel spreadsheet could randomize 800 numbers, but I just wonder. . . ?

If you are a current Boalt student, your Tele-BEARS times are now available at Bear Facts (but not, ironically, at the Tele-BEARS page). Please take this anonymous survey, and please tell your classmates to do the same, as we need several hundred responses to ensure an accurate response. We will know by later this week whether they have fixed the problem, or not.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on October 06, 2008 (boomark / email).