I discussed here and here the shouting down at Stanford Law School of a conservative US Circuit Judge, Kyle Duncan, and the ostensible abetting of that thuggish behavior by a high-ranking member of the School’s administration, Associate Dean Tirien Steinbach. Dean Steinbach added an especially nice touch by giving Judge Duncan a six-minute lecture on the “real harm” he was inflicting on students by, among other things, trying to talk to them. Although the Dean of the Law School and the President of the University have apologized to the Judge, not a single person at Stanford has apologized to the Federalist Society, which invited him to speak, or — most importantly — to the students who came in good faith to the auditorium but who were unable to hear the speaker because of the continuous and sometimes vulgar shouting and heckling. And as of this writing, no discipline has been handed out to (or, really, even very strongly hinted at) either Steinbach or the Brownshirt “students.”
Another high-ranking member of the School’s administration, Acting Dean of Students Jeanne Merino, has, however, delivered a message to Stanford’s students. In sum, it’s this: We’ll help you find a shrink so you can talk about your feelings.
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