TJ's Double Play

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Apparently, there is a show called American Idol where people sing and then get yelled at and one of the songwriting contestants is a UVA Law alum.  No idea how this ties into the show, but here's an interview with Will Hopkins (c/o '86).

American Idol's Will Hopkins (WSJ Law Blog) 

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Tarot card reader with no shoes: Are you wandering around because you're looking for something interesting to read?

Law student: No, I have plenty of uninteresting things to read. 

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Thanks to a poorly designed bracket the UVA law blogosphere has a new member.  As punishment for failing to win his bracket a 2L was forced to start a blog.  Amazingly, he's taken to it like a 1L to law puns with nearly forty posts this month.  It's mostly random links to funny stuff with a few law anecdotes sprinkled in, such as how much it sucks when someone sharing their iTunes library at the library leaves.  Not sure if it's going to keep going, but at least he had an answer to the question we asked in our first post.

Crap Brackets 

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Not sure how we missed this, but apparently at a Federalist Society lunch with Antonin Scalia, Mike Stark brutally attacked and beat the septuagenarian justice while screaming, "The constitution lives!"

Or not.  He did ask him about Bore v. Gush and got the same answer that made headlines a few weeks later.  

Then he blogged about it. 

HuffPost Blogger Scoops 60 Minutes (HuffPost, with audio from interview) 

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Lest the previous list of the top five things better at Darden has actually got you taking practice GMATs in your kitchen, it seems only fair to shine some light on why so many smart and talented people would forego free coffee for Examples & Explanations. I therefore present for your approval: the top ten things better at the law school.

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The HRSP Cornhole Tournament finishes up this afternoon and promises, well, we'll let the Commish give you all the details:

Huseby/Hitsky vs. Halbert/Theiss 

A little back-story:

Huseby and Hitsky looked to be a formidable contender in this year's Pong for Pila tournament.  But in the second round they ran up against darkhorses Halbert and Theiss.  After an extremely competitive first game, won by Halbert/Theiss in overtime, Huseby/Hitsky fell apart and were smoked in game 2.  Halbert and Theiss then celebrated by smoking victory cigars--prompting Huseby to comment, "I wish it was more socially acceptable to get into fights." 

Halbert and Theiss went on to win Pong for Pila.  They now seek to complete an unprecedented double, and assert their party-game dominance by holding both the Beer Pong and Cornhole crowns at the same time.  The only thing standing in their way is a Huseby/Hitsky team bent on revenge . . .

The weather on Thursday should be beautiful, and the Commish will be asking the SBA officers to get the keg out there nice and early.  Come on out, grab a beer and a seat on the grassy knoll, forget about finals for a while, and watch some championship-level cornhole . . .

Thanks to everyone for playing this spring...hopefully next year's HRSP group will be as enthusiastic about this sport as I am, and we can renew the competition in the fall . . .

 

Sincerely,

The Commish

 

HRSP Spring Cornhole Tournament Championship

Thursday, April 24, 2008, 3:30PM

Spies Garden

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Beer, cornhole and socially acceptable fighting.  What more could you want? 

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We tend to think B Schools are cooler than law schools because they all have their own names.  Our favorite JD/MBA catalogues the ways in which Darden beats the law school's little heiney.

So it's exam time, and maybe you're staying late the libs, the fishbowl, or just rocking the books at home. Do you ever have a moment where you think you hear laughing? Yeah, laughing. Or, like, the sing-song sounds of spring? The playful twitter of youth let loose to frolic in the sun?

Well I'm here to tell you that you're not hallucinating. Those sounds are coming from Darden, where exams are basically a joke. Even though first-years take five, four- to six-hour exams in five straight days, most students just punch them out in two hours and go golfing. Exams are like pre-vacation vacation. As long as your notes spreadsheet is good to go, you can't get worse than a B (the mean grade at Darden). There's a saying for the hard courses: "Draw a [decision] tree, get a B."

But you know what? Darden's awesome exams didn't even make the top five things that are better at Darden.  Click on to read my list in case exams have you reconsidering this whole "law" thing.

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BW&V once quipped, there's nothing funny about six-figures of debt, but if you think about it, seven-figures of debt would be hilarious. 

That's what we're thinking as we browsed Above the Law's recent survey on associate debt.  It's truly scary to think that 10 percent of the class of 2000 still has more than 100k in student debt.  It's also worrisome that not even half of that class are debt free.  So, go freak yourself out. 

Got (Huge) Debt? (AtL)  

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