February 5, 2021 at 1:10 PM
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Earlier this week, we told you about the mental health issues law students at Columbia Law School were experiencing, and how the law school’s administration was making it worse. That story had a positive result, with the powers-that-be at the law school changing course and making structural adaptations to help relieve the stressors on students. But, as we said at the time, Above the Law was certain CLS wasn’t the only school with this issue brewing. Turns out University of Michigan Law School students are pissed at their administration over the lack of support for mental health issues during the pandemic.
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Students Punished for âVulgarâ Social Media Posts Are Fighting Back
A lawsuit against the University of Tennessee questions when schools can discipline students because of their online speech.
The University of Tennessee said it would expel Kimberly Diei for Instagram and Twitter posts it deemed inappropriate. Credit.Whitten Sabbatini for The New York Times
Feb. 5, 2021
To Kimberly Diei, a pharmacy graduate student at the University of Tennessee, her posts on Twitter and Instagram were well within the bounds of propriety. She was just having fun. âSex positive,â she called them.
Posting under a pseudonym, kimmykasi, she exposed her cleavage in a tight dress and stuck out her tongue. In homage to the rapper Cardi B, one of her idols, she made up some raunchy rap lyrics. By this week, she had gained more than 19,500 Instagram followers and 2,000 on Twitter.
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