"Great World University" Binghampton Contiues Its Streak of Idiocy

As law school plans are being sensibly scrapped elsewhere, Binghampton University has decided to continue its pursuit of building a law school.

If ignorance is bliss, these guys must live on a natural orgasm-on-crack-level high.

"A law school at Binghamton would be very good academically and affordable, which are two great strengths," said John Appelbaum, pre-law adviser at BU. "I do think there is a need for a legal education that comes at reasonable price — that would be a public law school."

You mean like SUNY-Buffalo, which charges about 55-60k in tuition for in-state residents for a degree that may increase earning power only minimally and decrease other opportunities? You mean that kind of "reasonable" price?

And I'm sure Pace and Touro are "very good academically," too. It doesn't stop them from being completely unnecessary places and inefficient wastes.

"I think Binghamton has taken a number of steps over the past couple of decades not only toward becoming a great regional school but a great world university," said John McNulty, a political science professor at BU. "Providing law degrees is important for this expansion."

Yes, because that's exactly what schools like Princeton and M.I.T. needed to become "great world universit[ies]." And when I think of Binghampton, I think of a "great world university" like Yale, Cambridge, or the University of Tokyo.

[Prof. Jonathan] Krasno said he believes that the state could use more affordable graduate school choices.

"Almost every state has public law schools. I think New York state is way below the national average," he said.

New York state currently has two public law schools: University at Buffalo Law School and CUNY Law School.

That's the standard? Whether you're not as saturated with public law schools as other places? How did these people make it through grad school?

In any event, California has five public law schools. Virginia, Florida, Texas, and Ohio have four. Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Michigan have three. After that, everyone is at 2 or less, so I don't think New York is below the national average. Even if they were, their private schools make up for it. And for the record, many of those public schools (e.g., UC-Irvine, Texas Southern, Wayne State, Northern Illinois, Florida A&M) have no real reason for existence, and are hardly a list you'd want to be associated with.

But there's more garbage Kresno has to spout:

"This is investing in public education, which is an effective way to spend money," he said. "There is also economic development for the city, and it will bring in more students. But more than anything else, turning out lawyers with less of a debt load after three years of public law school, who tend to stay in the state, will be a very good thing."

If we could close down Touro or Pace or Albany and replace it with a public school, that would be true. But it's not, because those places aren't going to close. What will happen is that they'll continue to spit out debt-ridden students while Binghampton adds more debt-ridden students to the pile.

To go to a public school like Binghampton, one would still have to take out 55k+ for tuition (in-state) and would probably need to take out an additional 60k+ for living expenses. Students who go there sans scholarship will regularly carry debt loads north of 100k (excluding undergraduate debts) with little to no increase in earnings potential.

New York is the most saturated state in the union. Can the Binghampton idiots not read that? Somehow, New York doubles the saturation of California, Texas, and Minnesota. That's impressive.

There is no reason for this, and it will bring nothing of value to the Binghampton area compared to the damage of indebtedness and unemployed people who can't find work in their chosen profession, all depressed at burning three years out of their prime.

These people are as bad and delusional as 0Ls who still think they'll go to law school and wind up driving a Mercedes and arguing thrilling trials every day. Either that or they're just dishonest.