I must be talking too much about Bush in class. On my first exam, a very good student 
stated that three kinds of civil discovery are interrogatories, physical exams and despotism.

----- Original Message -----
From: Mary-Kathryn Zachary <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:24 am
Subject: Re: Students and perceptions
To: [log in to unmask]

> There are clearly some student processing problems.
> 
> I asked my students a series of short answer, ethics and law-based 
> questions 
> related to Elliott Spitzer's situation on their last test.  One 
> student 
> wrote:
> 
> "Well, the first thing he did wrong was hiring a protestant."
> 
> Mary-Kathryn
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Miller, Carol J" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:49 PM
> Subject: Students and perceptions
> 
> 
> > We worry that students are not grasping legal reasoning abilities.
> > Perhaps the perception problem is even greater than we first 
> imagined.>
> > A student asks special permission to take my Thursday unit exam 
> (which> takes the entire class period) on a different day because 
> she has three
> > exams on Thursday.  Then I get this e-mail from the student:
> >
> > Professor Miller,
> >
> > Sorry to bother you again, but if I am not taking the exam until 
> Friday> should I come to class on Thursday at the usual class time?
> >
> > student
> >
> >
> > -- 
> >
> >
> > 
>