News
All articles
Every story published on our website. For print editions back to 1946, see Print.
News
FLYOUT WEEK – RECORD RETURNS NOV. 3RD<br />
There will be no issue on Thursday, October 27th, because it's flyout week at the law school. But the Record will be back the following week -- Thursday, November 3rd. Thanks.
News
opinion <br />
News
Quote of Note<br />
"The average LSAT score at SMU Law School is 155. The average LSAT at Harvard is 170. That's a differential IQ experts routinely refer to as "humongous." Whatever else you think of them, the average Harvard Law School student is very smart. I gather I have just committed a hate crime by saying so.
News
Letters to the Editor<br />
In your most recent edition, Kelly Brown wrote an excellent article entitled 'HLS Classrooms Purgatory For the Claustrophobic', in which the poor conditions of the Harvard Law School classrooms were discussed. The article pointed out that the classrooms are often too small, are poorly designed, poorly equipped, with bad furniture, inadequate climate control, and lousy acoustics and visibility.
News
Legal Writing Curriculum in Need of Revision<br />
As many of you may know, the tireless curriculum folks spent the summer ceaselessly working to morph the moribund and dated First Year Lawyering class into, well, pretty much the same thing except with a longer and more cumbersome acronym. They left no stone unturned, spared no expense, and found no textbook too inane and patronizing.
News
Spirit of Lovecraft Haunts Cambridge, New England<br />
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die" - from The Necronomicon, as quoted in "The Nameless City" by H.P. Lovecraft The approach of Halloween signals a few weeks when the otherwise deviant celebration of horror and the supernatural briefly becomes the socially accepted norm, and indulging one's tastes for ghoulish or morbid entertainment is encouraged.
News
The Null Command<br />
One of the pieces of code that makes satellites work is a 'watchdog timer'. If it isn't told to stay alive, it reboots the satellite after a certain amount of time. Reboots in space are just about as effective as those on earth... that is to say they fix pretty much everything.