Friday, April 30, 2010

Where did all the undergrads go?


Oh that's right, they graduated..


Thankfully they sent their families.


Otherwise, what would I do with all my finals rage?


You are pushing a stroller, gtfo.


You are taking a picture of the reference desk, gtfo.


Your daughter was bouncing a ball in the reading room, gtfo.


I know the reading room is one of "America's Favorite Buildings" and all. But seriously, it is finals week. The reading room is not a tourist spot. GTFO.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

We're Famous!

So, I was in a coffee shop this morning and seated next to a couple of extremely loud undergrads who also happen to enjoy the reading room (surprise). Anyways, the topic of the Arizona immigration law comes up, and one girl says to the other, "Did you see that law school reading room blog about it?...It was, like, funny and informative." Damn right.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

thank you lsss..

...for making me a hypocrite.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

b-students in our territory



Hey B-School Guys,

If we can't use your gym, any part of it, at any time of the year, you CERTAINLY can't use the law student side of the law school reading room. Especially not to have your constant, annoying, quite-audible conversations with your feet up on the table. And yes, we can hear you talking about us. And yes, you look extremely silly dancing around in your chair.

So don't go around insulting us when you get politely escorted out. GTFO.

An Unfortunate Goodbye

Dear undergrad b-school boys:

We are sorry you got kicked out of the law school section of the RR. Apart from being members of the school that enforces this rule, we sadly had nothing to do with your particular removal. (In fact, I'm pretty sure your bright pink "Ross Business School" course packets were kind of a give away for the monitor walking around.) As you were leaving though, you gave us the most gracious parting response and we just wanted to thank you.

But the next time you decide to call a random law student a "bitch" for no other reason than that she is a woman and she happens to be sitting near you, have the decency to say it to her face. We'd ask for an apology, but we'd prefer you just don't come back.

if you're a sick undergrad and leaving tissues on the table....

stay on the undergrad side......

THANKS!!!!!


Three undergrads cross a velvet rope

They look around. See a law student get up. Settle upon the total three seats he has vacated. WHAT DO? Moral to have them removed?

Thank you

To the 1L who just shot down that undergrad who walked right by the velvet rope and then had the audacity to ask you to move your coat from a chair, I thank you. That girl is a menace - a repeat offender who takes up multiple spaces with her calculator and graphing paper and power point notes. She needed to be stopped. Thanks for stepping up.

The Reading Room is Arizona and You are the Undocumented

We the Law School Militia exercise the right, pursuant to Article IV Section 4 of the Constitution, to protect our Reading Room from undergrad invasions.

Those who desire to enter the land of plentiful table space will be required to present proper papers:
- Law School ID
- Transcripts and FAFSA records
- Knowledge of case law English

We reserve the right to search and question those who we reasonably suspect to have crossed the velvet rope border illegally. Reasonableness is defined as the ordinary law student standard. Suspicious status will be determined by, but is not limited to, books, fraternity/sorority gear, attire and shoes.

If we have probable cause to believe you are in violation of these requirements, you will be removable.

gtfo.


[GTFO-undergrads is a joke, but SB1070 is not. Here is a list of 5 actions you can take immediately to voice your opposition to the law, including signing this Petition. Read ongoing commentary at Immigration Law Prof Blog]

illiteracy

Exhibit 1.


Exhibit 2.


Can't read so good today.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

IF you can read.

There is a not-so-subtle velvet rope. There is a big red sign. Hell, there are lots of small yellow signs, two to each table. There is even half of a reading room that is not reserved for law students. Yet there's still a boy with a calculator sitting across from me picking his nose. A young girl next to him eating her snacks with a nifty sorority bumper sticker on her laptop.

GTFO. GTFO. GTFO.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

You're lucky your boyfriend is cute.

Look, bitch, when you sit next to your boyfriend, point at my laptop and whisper to him, I can tell what you're talking about. You're lucky the boyfriend is cute, because otherwise that shiny white Mac would be covered in red blemishes. Now shut the fuck up or get the fuck out, because people are trying work.

You are not a note pad

If you still think your forearm is an appropriate place to take notes, write to-do lists, or doodle... gtfo.

Monday, April 19, 2010

dukes of HAZARD!

The RR is not the set of Dukes of Hazzard. If you're wearing cutoffs and cowboy boots, GTFO.

(sorry, no picture. It's probably for the best though, because it's borderline nsfw- and certainly nsfrr)

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Expelliarmus!

If you are reading Harry Potter in the RR, I'm honestly surprised no one has already walked over and physically thrown you out. But seriously, gtfo.

And really? The Chamber of Secrets? You could at least pick a good one...

(I am only sorry I do not have photographic evidence of this particular gem.)

No sex in the champagne room....

...and no room in the reading room as of 9pm Sunday.

undergrads GTFO.

On a related note I saw some undergrads in the subs. I was leaving but I was still offended.

evening rants from the rr..

if all your books are smaller than an ipad, gtfo.


if your studying requires use of colored pencils, gtfo.


if you are watching cartoons in mandarin, gtfo.

seriously?!

i just got shushed and glared at by a girl with a tri-delt sorority sticker on her laptop...IN THE LAW SCHOOL SNACK ROOM.

okay, no really.

i did NOT know that undergrads are entitled to the silence of the law school's snack room to stare at glossy pages of color pictures and 16-pt font.

GTFO!!!

oh snap!

If your preferred greeting with your bros ends in a snap, GTFO of the rr.

powerpoint

If you can study for your final by going through your packet of PowerPoint slide handouts, you don't belong here. Your physio book with large full-color diagrams of the digestive system isn't helping you, either. gtfo!

(Accounting for Lawyer's Prof D uses Word for his handouts before printing them old-school onto projector transparency sheets.)

You had Comic Sans on the cover of your psychology textbook

If what you're reading can be spoiled by "he dies at the end", you don't need to be studying in the Reading Room.

If you have less than 200 pages of material for your final, you don't need to be studying in the Reading Room.

If you cannot legally drink, you don't need to be studying in the Reading Room.

If you don't understand how to manage multiple books/notebooks/etc. in such a way that I don't have to stick my elbow in the middle of the past participle page of your German textbook in order to use my keyboard, you don't need to be studying in the Reading Room.

And perhaps most importantly, if you are reading something normally assigned to a high school English class, you don't need to be motherfucking studying in the motherfucking Reading Room.

Who do you think you're fooling?

Last year I was in the law student section of the extremely crowded Reading Room, after it had been cordoned off. To my surprise, there was a group of 4 students with calculators and math textbooks at my table with me. Each of them had a volume of the Federal Tax Regulations from the 1980s opened and to the side of their work. Apparently they thought this was the best way to fool people into thinking they were law students. The only time I saw them use those books was as pillows.

Real law students need to use this space. You don't belong here, so GTFO!

entitlement

I pull a chair from another table and sit down between a guy studying sec reg and a girl reading something bio-related. I turn to the girl and politely ask if I can plug in my laptop, and she looks down, and says I can't because the outlet is directly under where she is sitting. Sorry.

wtf? Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics, gtfo.

get the f*** out of the reading room

it is 2:40pm on a sunday afternoon a week before finals. why can't i find a seat in the reading room?

you are looking at graphs. gtfo.


there are pictures in your textbook. gtfo.


your cell phone has pink jewels on it. gtfo.


you are not studying french law. gtfo.


periodic table? really? gtfo.


the only frat that matters here is phid. gtfo.


seriously? you are disgrace to penguins fans everywhere. gtfo.


you brought a chair from a clinic room. i am going to smash your calculator into your face.