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The Happiness Project: Why Pineapplegate makes me sad
CASS DA RE
Editor-in-Chief
“Have you seen that email?” said every other
law student to every other law student, late
last week. Iterations of these questions and
comments evolved over the next 48 hours: Did
you see the follow-up story? Did you hear that
______ picked up the story? [Insert one of the
following: Above the Law, the Globe and Mail,
the National Post, LSUC Twitter, the Osgoode
Library Blog, or Legal Feeds, Huffington Post,
Precedent Magazine as well
as, various social media
outlets as of the time of the
writing of this article.]
ing together as a profession and the need to
reduce the Shark Tank stereotype. Yet, grades
still reign supreme, intra-student sabotage
goes uncombated (see Angie Sheep’s article this
week), and the adversarial system becomes a
way of life instead of a way of work.
Studies since the eighties continually report
that at least 30 to 40 percent of law students
suffer from depression or show some signs of
and fallacies of such a system as a legal mechanism to resolve conflict. Taken out of the context of court, this value system becomes more
problematic still. It encourages us to spare no
one, to take advantage of every weakness, and
expose every error.
Let me be perfectly clear, I am not making
excuses for rude and obnoxious expression
(while recognizing that people are free to
express their opinions, and
some mediums for expression are more appropriate
than others). I am not belittling or trivializing the
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