"We are as shocked and mortified as you must be by these photographs," interim dean Michael Gerber wrote in an email Friday to students, faculty and staff. "When the school gave its permission to do the shoot, the school was assured that the photos would be in good taste. They are not."Many issues could be explored with this, such as "Why the Sam Houston hell would a legitimate law school kick students out of their library for a clothing shoot, even if the pictures weren't racy?"
But since I think that answer is self-evident (for the brain-dead: it wouldn't) and has been adequately explained elsewhere, I'll point out another quirk:
This is the exact same library that received an absurdly-silly plaque as a class gift just this year.
Do you think there's any connection between the two? Originally, I criticized this plaque for quoting a pop-culture movie from 15 years ago instead of, say, someone remotely relevant to the law. And, of course, there's the obvious dirty pun pointed out in the picture above.
But what if, in contrast, someone on the class gift committee knew of the shoot and picked a purposefully-racy quote to "respond" to the fact their sanctorum of a library was being whored out to smut peddlers? I know the odds are overwhelmingly against it, but wouldn't that be something? And by "something," I mean a major win for subversive reactions to law school administrators exploiting everything within reach.