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It all started with a picnic...
Pique-nique: XVIIᵉ siècle. Composé de pique, forme conjuguée de piquer, et de nique, au sens de «petite chose sans valeur»
First plans for the DHS Student Forum pre-conference events took place during the northern-hemisphere winter of 2020-21 under strict lockdown rules. Siting together to eat and enjoy each other's company under the sun still is one of the most desirable events on the horizon of the forum; but, at that particular juncture, it could not have sounded more appealing. At the apex of social distancing, everything about picnics had a magical aura about it: chatter, spontaneity, communality, warmth, fresh air, the closeness that a blanket on a fine patch of grass imposes on the bodies, the simplicity of contributing something modest to a memorable day. What else could one hope for?
Design historians could certainly make a feast out of all things picnic related. The initial plans invited reflections on picnic waste and the environment; garden and leisure furniture; cookery and recipe books; memorable literary picnics; local histories of picnicking; staged picnics and activism; picnic family photographs; the past and the future of eating together; effects of the pandemic on outdoors activities. Mingling was to be expected, and the dress code called for comfy. Furthermore, the event was named the anti-banquet picnic: our metaphorical gathering was to be relaxed and airy, albeit digitally mediated.
As all experienced picnickers would expect, as soon as a CfP (Call for Picnic) is unleashed, the event takes a life of its own. The pre-conference programme turned out to be a two days camping trip! Thanks to an enthusiastic organising committee and to the continuous support of the society's chair, Claire O'Mahony, the Design History Society is hosting three events free and open to everyone as a warm up to the DHS 2021 Annual Conference:
Oral histories of researching — community building workshop
Dear penpal... meet and greet — community building session
Recording & Inventing — image-making workshop
These three events aim to further enrich the pre-conference activities (such as the DHS Publishing Workshops). A combination of hands-on and community building workshops will provide participants with a space for exchange outside of the boundaries of academic-speak. The sessions were carefully curated to bring together researchers who will be attending the conference and anyone curious about design history.
The events respond to the conference's theme, Memory Full? Reimagining the relations between design and history, by exploring the playful, yet critical, motto forget-full? An invitation to reflect on practices that produce erasure, ostracism, forgetfulness. This is the first DHS conference to take place since the start of the pandemic, but also the first to follow the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Darnella Frazier, seventeen years old at the time, captured this brutal moment in a 10 minutes film viewed by millions of people around the world. It sparked a wave of protests that clearly informed the urgency to foreground, also in the field of Design History, practices of disremembrance that underlie violence against black and other minoritised communities (read the DHS's solidarity statement). Like the Black Lives Matter movement, other events were very much part of the conversations while the forget-full? series was being planned: the farmers' strikes in Delhi; the blast in Beirut; the toppling of the Colston statue in Bristol; the stark economic inequalities deepened by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic—affecting women in particular.
Students have shown extraordinary resilience since the start of the pandemic in all corners of the world, and it was no different among students interested in design history. For many of us, June to August 2020 were not only the pandemic's summer, but the summer of the widely attended seminar modernity + coloniality offered online by Ahmed Ansari to introduce design students to the work of non-white, non-anglo-european, scholars and activists on the history and hegemony of the modern world-system. The interest shown in Ansari's course, in the midst of so much uncertainty (but perhaps precisely as a result of it), was remarkable. Initiatives driven by similar discussions sprang elsewhere: notably, the pluriversal design book club and the design and oppression network; both online and with direct engagement of students.
In the Design History Society, students' commitment to keep debate going throughout the pandemic was also felt: exceptionally quickly, students more immediately involved with the society (recent awardees and essay prize winners, the DHS ambassadors and student representative) devised a programme of bimonthly encounters to learn first-hand about student-led projects such as the Design in Quarantine archive, founded by Anna Talley and Fleur Elkerton; or Denise Lai's collaboration with the Malaysian Design Archive on the Wawasan 2020 project. The series of events also included a debate on what design history is, with Andrea Foffa and Alex J Tood; a discussion about design historians' uses of social media, with Gael Welstead, Jenna Allsopp and Artun Özgüner; and a round of lightning-talks about the role of practice in design historical research, with Jennifer McHugh.
With the forget-full? series, the DHS Student Forum moves ever closer to the issues that first sparked its formation: how to collectively respond, as design historians, to unprecedent global crises? How can we lend historical context to the challenges faced by designers working to stop climate catastrophe, poverty, police violence, racism, digital colonialism? The DHS 2021 Annual Conference Memory Full? promises an impressive round of discussions. I hope the pre-conference programme will contribute to stirring these most pressing debates.
In an act of heartfelt generosity and in acknowledgement of the community-building role of the student forum, the convenors of the conference, Monica Gaspar and Meret Ernst, offered us the opportunity to curate a keynote speaker for the DHS 2021 Annual Conference. As a student representative, my determination in this process was to guarantee ample consultation and direct involvement of all the forum's participants. A shortlist was presented to the convenors, from which they decided, I am thrilled to say, for Ahmed Ansari—I am sure his intervention will be very much appreciated by the forum and hope all conference's attendees will enjoy it.
Welcome everyone, the grounds are now open!
— DHS Student Representative
The Trouble with Mr Bean, Act 2 (1992). Source: Mr Bean Official, 2009. YouTube
Days and Nights in the Forest (1969). Source: Samuel Wigley, 2017. The 12 best picnics on film. British Film Institute
[1] Blowing up the Pic-Nic's, or, Harlequin Quixote Attacking the Puppets (1802). Source: Alexander Lee, 2019. The History of the Picnic. History Today[2] Poster for No Picnic, a Crafts Council exhibition (1998). Cited in Sandino and Lees-Maffei 2004. Dangerous Liaisons: Relationships between design, craft and art. In Journal of Design History 17(3) 207-220. Source: No Picnic, 1998. Crafts Council Collections Online
[3] "Le 14 Juillet, un pique-nique géant s'organise le long de la Méridienne de Paris. 1000 Km de families, de voisins, d'amis qui «sandwichent» ensemble dans vingt départements Français!" (2000). Source: En avant: Bulletin hebdomadaire de l'Armée du Salut, 2000. Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France
[1] "Campaigners staged a peaceful protest at a Southampton bank to demand action over climate change" (2019). Source: Tom Orde, 2019. Picnic protest at Barclays over bank's investments. Southern Daily Echo
[2] Picnic in Sutton Forest, New South Wales, Australia (1900). Source: Martin Hogue, 2018. An Illustrated History of the Picnic Table. Places Journal
[3] Un pique-nique en famille, Bois de Boulogne, Paris (1921). Source: Agence Rol. Agence photographique, 1921. Gallica, Bibliothèque nationle de France
A Picnick in the Woods of New England (Jerome P. Thompson, 1855) [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]. Source: Martin Hogue, 2018. An Illustrated History of the Picnic Table. Places Journal
"Sadly we're fighting a losing battle in the parks today. Literally hundreds of people sitting having pizza, beers, wines" (2020). Source: Hackney Police, 2020. Twitter
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Overview 2-3
Since enrolling its first class in 1865, The George Washington University Law School has produced some of the finest minds across the spectrum of legal scholarship.
That tradition continues today, as GW Law graduates use the knowledge and skills they gain here to influence the critical legal conversations of our times. The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools. The law school is located on the GW campus in the downtown neighborhood familiarly known as Foggy Bottom.
His goal was to educate future generations of civil servants and thereby forge a national identity based on "principles friendly to republican government and to the true and genuine liberties of mankind." He left in his will 50 shares of stock in the Potowmack Canal Company for the endowment of a university "to which the youth of fortune and talents from all parts thereof might be sent for the completion of their Education in all the branches of polite literature-in arts and Sciences-in acquiring knowledge in the principles of Politics & good Government."
Student-Faculty Ratio 4
Admission Criteria 5
LSAT GPA
25th-75th Percentile 159-166 3.35-3.80
Median 165 3.70
The above LSAT and GPA data pertain to the 2016 entering class.
Director of admissions Sophia Sim
Application deadline March 1
Law School Admissions details based on 2016 data.
Admission Statistics 6
Approximate number of applications 6943
Number accepted 2702
Percentage accepted 38.9%
The above admission details are based on 2016 data.
Law School Cost 7
Full-Time JD Part-Time JD
Books and Supplies $1,740 $1,300
Personal $3,200 $3,200
Room and Board $20,200 $20,200
Transportation $2,240 $2,240
Tuition and Fees $58,520 $43,260*
*Part-time JD students currently pay tuition at the 2017-2018 per-credit hour rate of $2,060.
Class Ranking and Grades 8-9
Letter grades are given with numerical equivalents as follows:
A+ 4.33
A- 3.66
B+ 3.33
B- 2.66
C+ 2.33
C- 1.66
D 1.0
Credit toward the J.D. degree is given for all grades between D and A+ (inclusive). A J.D. candidate who receives a grade of F or No Credit (NC) in a required course must retake that course from the same or a different instructor. Any student who retakes a required course and receives a grade of F or NC will be excluded from further study and may not graduate unless the student petitions for and receives the permission of the Academic Scholarship Committee. A J.D. candidate who receives a grade of F or NC in a non-required course may retake the course once, from the same or a different instructor. All failing and NC grades remain on the record. The cumulative average of a student includes all grades earned in courses evaluated on a letter-grade basis and taken at the Law School while a candidate for the degree.
The majority of courses are graded on a letter-grade basis, but for some courses (primarily those that are clinical or skills-oriented), the grade of Credit (CR) or No Credit (NC) is given or the following grading scale is used: Honors (H), Pass (P), Low Pass (LP), and No Credit (NC). For Honors, a student must do work of excellent quality, and no more than 25 percent of the class may earn this grade. For courses graded on a Credit/No Credit (CR/NC) or Honors, Pass, Low Pass, or No Credit (H/P/LP/NC) basis, NC is given for work that would receive a grade below C- were evaluation to be made using the letter grade scale.
A student who has been excused from taking a regularly scheduled examination or has been granted an extension of the deadline for a research paper is given the grade of I, Incomplete. (See Failure to Take an Examination, and Deadlines for Courses Graded on the Basis of Methods of Evaluation Other than In-Class Examinations, below.)
In the event of any inconsistency between statements by a course instructor or in an individual course syllabus, the deadlines, rules, and statements set forth in this Bulletin will govern.
No grade may be changed by an instructor after it has been posted or disclosed to a student unless there has been an arithmetic or administrative error that has been certified in writing as such by the instructor. A student has the right of faculty peer review of complaints of "prejudiced or capricious academic evaluation" under the regulations outlined in The George Washington University Guide to Students' Rights and Responsibilities. To initiate such a review, the student must submit a letter and supporting documentation to the dean of students office by the last day of classes of the semester following the semester or summer session in which the grade for an examination, paper, or other work product was awarded. The student has the burden of making a prima facie case, with appropriate documentation, that the grade was prejudiced or capricious. Mere disagreement with the grade is not a sufficient basis for initiating a faculty peer review.
The Grade-Point Average
Academic achievement is computed in terms of the grade-point average, obtained by dividing the number of quality points by the number of credit hours for which the student has registered, both based on his or her record in this University.
The grade-point average is computed as follows: A+, 4.33; A, 4.0; A-, 3.66; B+, 3.33; B, 3.0; B-, 2.66; C+, 2.33; C, 2.0; C-, 1.66; D+, 1.3; D, 1.0; D-, .7; F, 0, for each credit hour for which the student has registered as a degree-seeking student. Although credit value for a course in which a grade of F is earned appears on the transcript for the purpose of calculating the grade-point average, no academic credit is awarded. In the case of a student who is allowed to repeat a course, the first grade received remains on the student's record and is included in the grade-point average. Courses marked AU, CR, I, IPG, P, NP, R, W, or Z are not considered in determining the average, except courses marked with an I, which will be considered when a final grade is recorded. With the exception of Consortium courses, grades in courses taken at other institutions are not considered in computing the grade-point average.
Academic Recognition
Students of The George Washington University Law School are not supplied with individual class rankings. However, in lieu of specific rankings, students' relative academic accomplishments are represented through two scholar designations.
Students in the top 1% to 15% of the class (based on cumulative GPA at the end of each semester) are designated "George Washington Scholars," and students in the top 16% to 35% of the class (based on cumulative GPA at the end of each semester) are designated "Thurgood Marshall Scholars."
Grade Representation Policy
There is no requirement that grades be included on student resumes. Students who wish to represent grades on their resumes, however, must do so in one or more of the following ways. These three formats are the only acceptable means of grade representation on a resume.
The distinction of "George Washington Scholar" is bestowed upon those students whose cumulative grade-point average at the end of any semester places them among the top 1% to 15% of their class. The distinction of "Thurgood Marshall Scholar" is bestowed upon those students, excluding those designated George Washington Scholars, whose cumulative grade-point average at the end of the semester places them among the top 16% to 35% of their class;
Grade Normalization (Curve)10
MINIMUM GRADE REQUIRED TO ATTAIN (Based on May 2015 graduating class)
Top 10% 714
Top 25% 3.582
Median GPA 3.362
Minimum grade required for graduation 1.667
Honors 11
Honor Criteria
Order of the Coif The Order of the Coif, a national legal honor society, aims "to foster a spirit of careful study and to mark in a fitting manner those who have attained a high grade of scholarship." The George Washington University chapter was established in 1926. Members are elected each year from the highest-ranking 10 percent of the graduating Juris Doctor candidates.
Highest Honors The degree of Juris Doctor "With Highest Honors" is awarded to those students, not exceeding three percent of the graduating class, who have obtained the highest cumulative averages of at least 3.67.
High Honors The degree of Juris Doctor "With High Honors" is awarded to those students with the highest cumulative averages of 3.33 or better. The number of students receiving degrees "With High Honors," when added to the total number of students receiving degrees "With Highest Honors," may not exceed 10 percent of the graduating class.
Honors The degree of Juris Doctor "With Honors" is awarded to those students with the highest cumulative averages of 3.0 or better. The number of students receiving degrees "With Honors," when added to the total number of students receiving degrees "With High Honors" and "With Highest Honors," may not exceed 40 percent of the graduating class.
NAME OF AWARD BASIS OF AWARD
Finnegan Prize in IP Best publishable article in IP Law
George Washington Scholar Top 1% to 15% of class each semester
Thurgood Marshall Scholar Top 16% to 35% of class each semester
American Bankruptcy Institute Award Excellence in debtor/creditor law
ABA Bureau of Nat'l Affairs Awards Excellence in various areas of the law
Henry R. Berger Award Excellence in tort law
Phi Delta Phi Award Excellence in Professional Responsibility
Joel B. Rosenthal Commercial Law Excellence in Commercial Law
Richard L. Teberg Award Highest proficiency in securities law
Patricia A. Tobin Gov't Procurement Excellence in government contracts
Jennie Hassler Walburn Award Excellence in Civil Procedure
Imogen Williford Constitutional Law Excellence in constitution law
Chris Bartok Mem'l Award in Patent Excellence in patent law
Peter D. Rosenberg Prize Excellence in patent and IP law
Ogden W. Fields Graduate Award Highest proficiency in labor law
Lauren E. Seibel Memorial Award Excellence in labor and employment law
Michael J. Avenatti Award Excellence in pre-trial and trial advocacy
Jacob Burns Award Winning team in Van Vleck competition
Cohen & Cohen Mock Trial Award Winning team in Cohen & Cohen Competition
Judge Albert H. Grenadier Award Jessup Int'l Moot Court Competition
Manuel and Ana Maria Benitez Clinical excellence in Immigration Law
Community Legal Clinics Volunteer Service Excellence in volunteering
John F. Evans Achievement in Crim. Div. of Court Program
Richard C. Lewis Jr. Memorial Award Work in clinics, humanity, and compassion
Journals 13
The George Washington Law Review (Law Review), founded in 1931, is a student-published scholarly journal that examines legal issues of national significance. The Law Review publishes six issues a year and also publishes material on its online companion publication, Arguendo. Each issue typically contains scholarly articles, essays, and student notes. The Law Review also devotes one issue to the annual Law Review Symposium and one issue to the Annual Review of Administrative Law. The Law Review is staffed and run by GW Law JD students selected as a result of their academic achievements and their performance on the annual writing competition. LLM students are not eligible to participate.
The George Washington International Law Review, founded in 1966, is a student-published journal that presents articles and essays on public and private international financial development, comparative law, and public international law. The International Law Review is published quarterly. Additionally, the International Law Review annually publishes the Guide to International Legal Research. The Guide is an authoritative and comprehensive reference tool organized by geographic regions and substantive areas of international law. The International Law Review is staffed and run by GW Law JD students selected as a result of their academic achievements and their performance on the annual writing competition. LLM students are invited to become contributing members of the Guide by submitting their resume and a personal statement to the Editor-in-Chief at the beginning of the academic year. LLM student participation is voluntary and not for academic credit.
The American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal (AIPLA QJ), founded in 1972 and residing at GW Law since 1994, is the joint publication of the AIPLA, one of the largest private bars of intellectual property attorneys in the world, and the George Washington University Law School. The AIPLA QJ is published four times per year and is dedicated to presenting materials relating to intellectual property matters. With a readership of over 17,000 attorneys and IP professionals, AIPLA QJ is a leading journal for intellectual property and technology. Membership is open to GW Law JD students who are selected as a result of their academic achievements and their performance on the annual writing competition. LLM students with a background in either technology or IP related fields may participate as a Contributor to the AIPLA QJ. LLM students interested in applying must submit a resume, legal writing sample, and brief cover letter explaining their interest in the journal and why they will be a valuable addition to the journal to the Student Editor-in-Chief by the last day of Add/Drop for the fall semester. LLM student participation is voluntary and not for academic credit.
The Federal Circuit Bar Journal (FCBJ), as the official journal for the Federal Circuit Bar Association and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), is charged with providing meaningful, insightful and timely coverage of issues within the court's purview. The FCBJ is a national quarterly publication that carries a subscriber base of over three thousand judges, professors, attorneys, and law students. Membership is open to GW Law JD students who are selected as a result of their academic achievements and their performance on the annual writing competition. LLM students may participate on the FCBJ as advisors to students during the student notes writing process. Interested LLM students may contact the Managing Editor for information. LLM student participation is voluntary and not for academic credit.
The Federal Communications Law Journal (FCLJ) is the official journal of the Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA), the leading organization for communications lawyers and other professionals. In conjunction with the FCBA, the George Washington Law School publishes the FCLJ three times a year and features articles on a range of domestic and international issues in communications law by practitioners, Commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission, policymakers, and professors, as well as book reviews and student notes. The FCLJ is edited and managed by GW Law JD students selected as a result of their academic achievements and their performance on the annual writing competition. LLM students are not eligible to participate.
International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC), founded in 2007 by Oxford University Press, is published online by Oxford University Press (OUP) and provides commentary on domestic judicial decisions involving international law issues from around the world. GW Law JD students are the exclusive rapporteurs for the United States and are joined by more than 70 professional rapporteurs from other countries. Rapporteurs identify and propose the cases, then write scholarly commentaries (akin to case notes) on the cases accepted for inclusion in the database. ILDC rapporteurs write about cases concerning international business law, family law, privileges and immunities, treaty law, environmental law, criminal law, foreign investment, human rights, humanitarian law, and all other subject areas of international law. OUP publishes ILDC's work as part of the Oxford Reports on International Law, which has a subscribership composed of international law professors, attorneys, judges, and other scholars. Membership is open to GW Law JD students who are selected based on their performance in the annual writing competition, academic achievements, and interest in international law. Applicants must have taken international law, and preferably other related courses, while completing their JD. ILDC also welcomes applications from U.S. LLM students who have an interest and background in international law. Foreign LL.M students with a strong understanding of their home country's domestic judicial system and an interest in international law are encouraged to submit applications to serve as a rapporteur for their home country. Applications can be submitted through ILDC, but foreign LLM students would work directly with OUP during their tenure at GW Law. LLM student participation is voluntary and not for academic credit.
The Public Contract Law Journal (PCLJ), produced jointly by the George Washington University Law School and the Section of Public Contract Law of the American Bar Association, is the premier journal read by practitioners in the field of government procurement law. The PCLJ is published quarterly and is edited and managed by JD students, selected as a result of their academic achievements and their performance on the annual writing competition, and LLM students enrolled in the program for Government Procurement Law. LLM students must participate in the annual ABA Section of Public Contract Law writing competition, or, at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief and faculty advisors, submit a writing sample related to public contract law. LLM student participation is voluntary and not for academic credit.
George Washington Journal of Energy and Environmental Law (JEEL) is produced in collaboration with the Environmental Law Institute and is published three times each year. JEEL focuses on legal issues related to next-generation energy production and distribution and on environmental and climate law issues related to the production of energy. Membership is open to GW Law JD students who are selected as a result of their academic achievements and their performance on the annual writing competition. LLM students may participate on JEEL. LLM students must submit a resume, writing sample, and a statement of interest to the Editor-in-Chief to be considered for membership. LLM student participation is voluntary and not for academic credit.
Moot Court 14
National Veterans Law Moot Court Competition
The National Veterans Law Moot Court Competition is the only veterans law competition in the United States. It is sponsored by the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims Bar Association, and the George Washington University Law School. Round are held at GW Law and the US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
The National Veterans Law Moot Court Competition accepts up to two teams of two students from each ABA-approved law school that participates.
National Security Law Moot Court Competition
The National Security Law Moot Court Competition is hosted by the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. Contestants argue cutting edge national security issues before a distinguished panel of recognized experts in the field. Judges on the final panel have included federal appeals court and district court judges, former directors of the CIA and FBI, a former Solicitor General of the United States, and a former Acting Attorney General of the United States.
The National Security Law Moot Court Competition accepts two teams of two students from each ABA-approved law school that participates.
Clinical Programs 15
The Jacob Burns Community Legal Clinics were founded in 1971, and were dedicated in 1991 to acknowledge the generous support of Jacob Burns (LLB '24, Hon. LLC '70). A longtime trustee of the University, Burns (1902-1993) was renowned as a lawyer, artist, and philanthropist. GW Law is proud to honor this significant contribution to the "uplifting and maintenance of the legal profession," and his fearless advocacy of the principle of "equal justice under the law."
The Jacob Burns Community Legal Clinics vary considerably in purpose, duration, requirements, and duties. Despite their diversity, all the clinics create an exciting and supportive educational environment in which law students are provided the opportunity to develop lawyering skills and to gain insights into law and the legal profession while providing vital legal services to people who need them. The Jacob Burns Community Legal Clinics operate under the direction of Associate Dean Phyllis Goldfarb, The Jacob Burns Foundation Professor of Clinical Law.
Criminal Appeals and Post-Conviction Services
Family Justice Litigation Clinic
Law Students in Court
Public Justice Advocacy Clinic
Vaccine Injury Litigation Clinic
Domestic Violence Project
Health Rights Law Clinic
International Human Rights Clinic
Prisoner & Reentry Clinic
Small Business & Community Economic Development Clinic
Placement Facts 16
Starting Salaries (2015 Graduates Employed Full-Time)
Private sector (25th-75th percentile) $138,750 - $160,000
Median in the private sector $160,000
Median in public service $60,000
Graduates known to be employed at graduation 58.9%
Graduates known to be employed ten months after graduation 76.6%
Areas of Legal Practice
Graduates Employed In Percentage
Law Firms 51.2%
Business and Industry 12.1%
Government 18.8%
Judicial Clerkships 7.4%
Public Interest Organizations 9.5%
Academia 1%
Unknown 0%
Externships/Internships 17
The George Washington University Law School Field Placement Program provides students with the opportunity to work closely with judges or practicing lawyers as legal externs in governmental, public interest and private non-profit organizations while earning academic credit. The program is designed to enhance the educational experience of its students through exposure to the actual practice of law.
The primary educational objectives of the program are to provide students with the opportunity to gain experience in different substantive areas of law and legal process; to develop legal research, writing, interviewing, counseling and investigative skills; to deal with issues of professional responsibility in a real practice setting; and to engage in reflective lawyering.
Each student is supervised by a member of the law school faculty and is enrolled in a required co-requisite course. The student's externship experience also includes regular communication and feedback from an attorney field supervisor who is assigned to that student. On-site attorney supervision and instructional guidance through the law school's faculty combine to offer students a unique opportunity to gain practical experience and continue to build upon their law school education.
Student Organizations 18
Student Bar Association (SBA)
American Constitution Society
Antitrust Law Association
Art Law and Entertainment Society
Asian/Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA)
Black Law Student Association (BLSA)
Christian Legal Society
Corporate and Business Law Society (CBLS)
Criminal Law Society
Cyberlaw Students Association (CYLSA)
East Asian Law Society (EALS)
Education Law & Advocacy Network (ELAN)
Entertainment and Sports Law Association (ESPLA)
Environmental Law Association (ELA)
Equal Justice Foundation (EJF)
Evening Law Student Association (ELSA)
Family Law Society
The Federalist Society
The Feminist Forum
Government Contracts Students Association (GCSA)
Gulf Recovery Network (GRN)
GW Law Running Club
GW Law Softball Club
Hispanic Law Student Association (HLSA)
Human Rights Law Society (HRLS)
If/When/How (Law Students for Reproductive Justice)
Immigration Law Association (ILA)
International Law Society (ILS)
The Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP)
J. Reuben Clark Law Society
Jewish Law Student Association (JLSA)
Lambda Law
Law Association for Women (LAW)
Law Revue
Military Law Society
Muslim Law Students Association (MLSA)
National Security Law Association (NSLA)
Native American Law Student Association (NALSA)
Phi Alpha Delta (PAD)
Phi Delta Phi (PDP)
Political Law Society
Promissory Notes (PN)
Society of European Law Students (SELS)
South Asian Law Student Association (SALSA)
Space Law Society (SLS)
Street Law
Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF)
Student Health Law Association (SHLA)
Student Intellectual Property Law Association (SIPLA)
Tax Law Society (TLS)
Vintners & Brewers Legal Society
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Crews from Spalding and Donington attended the blaze at Beck Bank in Gosberton Clough at around 5.30pm on Thursday, January 24.
An agricultural building was on fire and residents in the area could see smoke billowing across the road.
According to fire officials there was 100 per cent fire damage to the building, although there were no livestock inside.
The building was being used for storage only.
One resident said: "Looks like there's been an incident on Beck Bank. I can see smoke on the road and police and fire engines on the scene.
"Hope whoever is involved is OK."
Crews extinguished the blaze using two main jets and three hose reel jets.


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§710 MacMahon, partisan of the Tricolor, checked the restoration of the monarchy in White (4) (1873.11.21): VI-53.
The great Celtic Prelate being suspect to the King,
By night with rapidity shall go out of the reign:
For the fertile duke in favor of his great King, of Britain,
Byzantium in Cyprus and Tunis unsuspected.
(Le grand Prelat Celtique à Roy suspect,
De nuict par cours sortira hors du regne:
Par duc fertille à son grand Roy, Bretaigne,
Bisance à Cipres & Tunes insuspect.)
NOTES: Prelat (prelate): A principal person of a Church or a State, prelat (prelature and preture, too) being in Latin « prælatus, being brought forward.» ((Torné-Chavigny, 1861, p.52; Vignois, 1910, p.356). The usages in the Prophecies of Nostradamus in an ecclesiastical sense: VI-93 and X-56); in a political one: VI-31, VI-53, VI-86 bis, VIII-93 bis and IX-15; and in a common sense of forward: III-41, IX-21 bis, IX-87 and X-47.
The great Celtic Prelate: « The Count of Chambord, the great Frenchman » (Vignois, id.), Celtique meaning in most cases French (15 among 18 usages of the words Celte, Celtique are for France, Français, français)..
The King: = The President of the French Republic MacMahon (Vignois, id.).
The great Celtic Prelate being suspect to the King: « The Count of Chambord, the great Frenchman, having appeared in person against the vote and become by his presence suspect to MacMahon…» (Vignois, id.). « MacMahon, originally legitimist, having served the two revolutionary monarchies, and lived as a military foreign to the politics, was disposed to conduct himself as parliamentary chief of State…» (Seignobos, 1921b, p.361) « … Chambord saw in the adhesion to his principle the renunciation of the parliamentary regime… » (Seignobos, id., p.367).
By night: In secret.
To go out of the reign: To go out of the French territory and of the French government.
By night with rapidity shall go out of the reign: « The Count of Chambord, uneasy, arrived secretly in France, hoping to restore the kingdom by means of a personal agreement with the President of the Republic. He stayed hidden at Versailles in the house of his faithful of Vanssay during twelve days (November 9-21); the secret, kept by twenty persons, was known neither to the Assembly nor to the police. The Prince expected to appear suddenly in the Assembly on MacMahon's arm, and make recognize himself as king in the transport of enthusiasm. He sent his confident to MacMahon. MacMahon replied that his honor forbade him to enter secret conferences; the Assembly had wanted to restore the monarchy, but since the letter of the Prince, it judged its return impossible; this situation imposed on him new obligations he refused to betray. Chambord was grieved by this refusal which deprived him of all means of taking action... [which made Chambord leave France on November 21.]» (Seignobos, id., p.376).
The fertile duke in favor of his great King: = Mars (§708, VI-35) = the Duke of Broglie: « MacMahon [his great King], originally legitimist, having served the two revolutionary monarchies, and lived as a military foreign to the politics, was disposed to conduct himself as parliamentary chief of State. But, timid and modest, he felt himself ignorant, and left his ministers to manage the affairs. The power passed to the chief of the coalition [of all the parties of the Right], the Duke of Broglie, an Orleanist who had refused to join the Empire. He had on the conservative majority a personal influence, by his speech, which, though handicapped by a harsh and nasal voice, was, under the academic forms, biting, disdainful, very strong in attack -, still more by his talents of parliamentary tactician, skilful in the negotiations in lobby among the allies and in the maneuvers in session against his adversaries. Nominated vice-President of the Council, he instantly formed a ministry with Orleanists, two Legitimists and a minister of the Empire, Magne (for the Finances).» (Seignobos, 1921b, p.361).
His great King, of Britain: « MacMahon, Marie-Edme-Emile-Maurice, born in Sully (Saône-et-Loire), July 13th 1808, was by his father of Irish origin, and descended by his mother of the dukes of Caraman who had their cradle near Saint-Félix, 14 km distant from Villefranche (Haute-Saône).» (Vignois, id., p.357; cf. Torné-Chavigny, 1862, p.116, note (a)).
The great Celtic Prelate by night with rapidity shall go out of the reign: for [= because of ] the fertile duke: « The Orleanist chiefs could not want the return of a king accustomed to see in them his adversaries, irresistibly disposed to keep them off the power and prefer his legitimist partisans to them. They kept to the parliamentary regime and to the Tricolor, and could not but dread a Prince avowedly devoted to the personal government and to the white standard. The duke of Broglie, president of the Council, and Buffet, president of the Assembly, appealed to their functions to keep off… In case of the failure, the Orleanist chiefs had their solution ready, the prolongation of the powers of the Marshal MacMahon, under a provisory regime which should reserve their future.» (Seignobos, 1921b, p.366).
Byzantium in Cyprus and Tunis unsuspected: The royal power the Count of Chambord expected to obtain in restoring the kingdom was like that of the sovereign sieged in Constantinople ruling Cyprus and Tunis in 1873 among the others, where he was not to be suspected.
« I am the indispensable pilot, the only one capable of conducting the vessel into the port, because I have mission and authority for that.» (Chambord's manifesto of July 6th 1871. Seignobos, id., p.320).
« My personality is nothing; my principle is all. France shall see the end of her trials when she will understand it… and when God has resolved to save a people, He sees to it that the scepter of justice is given nothing but in the hands sufficiently firm to carry it.» (Letter dated 27th, disclosed 29th October 1873. Seignobos, id., p.374).
« The public, ill-informed about the sentiments of the Count of Chambord, understood that he refused to return to France to reign, for fear of resistances or of complications with Germany. His confidents have energetically protested against this interpretation. The king wished to reign; but, convinced sincerely of the intervention of God in the government of the peoples, he thinks himself missioned to raise the royal authority, which the Providence reserved only for him, ' indispensable pilot ', and he could feel himself provided with the force to accomplish it only when he returned in France with his integral right and the standard, emblem of his right.» (Seignobos, id., p.375).
« The Deputies, friends of the well-being, who formed the minority, cried out: " We are then in Turkey ! "» (Vignois, id. p.356).
§717 Prince imperial checked; Amnesty of the Communards (1879): V-97.
§716 Prince imperial dead; Switzerland in religious conflict (1847-1890): IV-9.
§715 Resignation of President MacMahon (1879.1.30): IV-72.
§714 The foundation of the Basilica of Montmartre (1873-1919): IX-87.
§713 The republican rise in Europe (1870-1890): VI-44.
§711 MacMahon, partisan of the Tricolor, checked the restoration of the monarchy in White (5) (1873.11.21): IX-15.
§709 MacMahon, partisan of the Tricolor, checked the restoration of the monarchy in White (3) (1873.11.21): X-57.


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#ifndef QFILESYSTEMMODEL_H
#define QFILESYSTEMMODEL_H

#include <QtCore/qabstractitemmodel.h>
#include <QtCore/qpair.h>
#include <QtCore/qdir.h>
#include <QtGui/qicon.h>
#include <QtCore/qdiriterator.h>

QT_BEGIN_HEADER

QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE

QT_MODULE(Gui)

#ifndef QT_NO_FILESYSTEMMODEL

class ExtendedInformation;
class QFileSystemModelPrivate;
class QFileIconProvider;

class Q_GUI_EXPORT QFileSystemModel : public QAbstractItemModel
{
    Q_OBJECT
    Q_PROPERTY(bool resolveSymlinks READ resolveSymlinks WRITE setResolveSymlinks)
    Q_PROPERTY(bool readOnly READ isReadOnly WRITE setReadOnly)
    Q_PROPERTY(bool nameFilterDisables READ nameFilterDisables WRITE setNameFilterDisables)

Q_SIGNALS:
    void rootPathChanged(const QString &newPath);
    void fileRenamed(const QString &path, const QString &oldName, const QString &newName);
    void directoryLoaded(const QString &path);

public:
    enum Roles {
        FileIconRole = Qt::DecorationRole,
        FilePathRole = Qt::UserRole + 1,
        FileNameRole = Qt::UserRole + 2,
        FilePermissions = Qt::UserRole + 3
    };

    explicit QFileSystemModel(QObject *parent = 0);
    ~QFileSystemModel();

    QModelIndex index(int row, int column, const QModelIndex &parent = QModelIndex()) const;
    QModelIndex index(const QString &path, int column = 0) const;
    QModelIndex parent(const QModelIndex &child) const;
    bool hasChildren(const QModelIndex &parent = QModelIndex()) const;
    bool canFetchMore(const QModelIndex &parent) const;
    void fetchMore(const QModelIndex &parent);

    int rowCount(const QModelIndex &parent = QModelIndex()) const;
    int columnCount(const QModelIndex &parent = QModelIndex()) const;

    QVariant myComputer(int role = Qt::DisplayRole) const;
    QVariant data(const QModelIndex &index, int role = Qt::DisplayRole) const;
    bool setData(const QModelIndex &index, const QVariant &value, int role = Qt::EditRole);

    QVariant headerData(int section, Qt::Orientation orientation, int role = Qt::DisplayRole) const;

    Qt::ItemFlags flags(const QModelIndex &index) const;

    void sort(int column, Qt::SortOrder order = Qt::AscendingOrder);

    QStringList mimeTypes() const;
    QMimeData *mimeData(const QModelIndexList &indexes) const;
    bool dropMimeData(const QMimeData *data, Qt::DropAction action,
                      int row, int column, const QModelIndex &parent);
    Qt::DropActions supportedDropActions() const;

    // QFileSystemModel specific API
    QModelIndex setRootPath(const QString &path);
    QString rootPath() const;
    QDir rootDirectory() const;

    void setIconProvider(QFileIconProvider *provider);
    QFileIconProvider *iconProvider() const;

    void setFilter(QDir::Filters filters);
    QDir::Filters filter() const;

    void setResolveSymlinks(bool enable);
    bool resolveSymlinks() const;

    void setReadOnly(bool enable);
    bool isReadOnly() const;

    void setNameFilterDisables(bool enable);
    bool nameFilterDisables() const;

    void setNameFilters(const QStringList &filters);
    QStringList nameFilters() const;

    QString filePath(const QModelIndex &index) const;
    bool isDir(const QModelIndex &index) const;
    qint64 size(const QModelIndex &index) const;
    QString type(const QModelIndex &index) const;
    QDateTime lastModified(const QModelIndex &index) const;

    QModelIndex mkdir(const QModelIndex &parent, const QString &name);
    bool rmdir(const QModelIndex &index) const; // ### Qt5: should not be const
    inline QString fileName(const QModelIndex &index) const;
    inline QIcon fileIcon(const QModelIndex &index) const;
    QFile::Permissions permissions(const QModelIndex &index) const;
    inline QFileInfo fileInfo(const QModelIndex &index) const;
    bool remove(const QModelIndex &index) const;

protected:
    QFileSystemModel(QFileSystemModelPrivate &, QObject *parent = 0);
    void timerEvent(QTimerEvent *event);
    bool event(QEvent *event);

private:
    Q_DECLARE_PRIVATE(QFileSystemModel)
    Q_DISABLE_COPY(QFileSystemModel)

    Q_PRIVATE_SLOT(d_func(), void _q_directoryChanged(const QString &directory, const QStringList &list))
    Q_PRIVATE_SLOT(d_func(), void _q_performDelayedSort())
    Q_PRIVATE_SLOT(d_func(), void _q_fileSystemChanged(const QString &path, const QList<QPair<QString, QFileInfo> > &))
    Q_PRIVATE_SLOT(d_func(), void _q_resolvedName(const QString &fileName, const QString &resolvedName))

    friend class QFileDialogPrivate;
};

inline QString QFileSystemModel::fileName(const QModelIndex &aindex) const
{ return aindex.data(Qt::DisplayRole).toString(); }
inline QIcon QFileSystemModel::fileIcon(const QModelIndex &aindex) const
{ return qvariant_cast<QIcon>(aindex.data(Qt::DecorationRole)); }
inline QFileInfo QFileSystemModel::fileInfo(const QModelIndex &aindex) const
{ return QFileInfo(filePath(aindex)); }

#endif // QT_NO_FILESYSTEMMODEL

QT_END_NAMESPACE

QT_END_HEADER

#endif // QFILESYSTEMMODEL_H

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'Law & Order: SVU' Bringing Back 2 Characters We Haven't Seen in a While
By Daniel S. Levine - December 1, 2021 04:00 am EST
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is bringing back more characters fans have not seen in a long time during the show's 23rd season. Sons of Anarchy star Donal Logue will make his return as Lt. Declan Murphy in the same episode Ari'el Stachel comes back as Sgt. Hasim Khaldun. The special episode will air in January 2022, reports TVLine.
Murphy was a major character during Seasons 15, 16, and 17 before disappearing from the show. It turns out that since he left, he was working on an undercover assignment. He comes back just in time to assist Capt. Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and the rest of the SVU team on a series of hate crimes throughout New York City that appear to be coordinated. Murphy previously filled in for Benson when William Lewis (Pablo Schreiber) was making life a nightmare for everyone during Season 15. He is also the father of Det. Amanda Rollins' (Kelli Giddish) older daughter, Jesse.
(Photo: Craig Blankenhorn/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
Khaldun is a more recent character, having been introduced during the Season 21 episode "I Deserve Some Loving Too." He worked closely with Rollins as her romantic partner during an undercover mission and seemed to be developing a real interest in her. His most recent appearance was in the April episode "Welcome to the Pedo Motel." Rollins is now in a relationship with A.D.A. Dominic Carisi (Peter Scanavino), after years of will-they, won't-they moments.
Before we see the return of Logue and Stachel though, SVU has a major mess to clean up. The show will return after a short winter break on Thursday, Dec. 9 with a two-hour crossover with Law & Order: Organized Crime. In the first half, Benson clashes with Rafael Barba (Raul Esparza), who agreed to defend Richard Wheatley (Dylan McDermott) in Wheatley's trial for the murder of Det. Elliot Stabler's (Christopher Meloni) wife Kathy. In the Organized Crime half of the crossover, Elliot asks Benson to help find his son Eli (Nicky Torchia), who has gone missing.
The Organized Crime hour is called "The Christmas Episode," and follows the Organized Crime Control Bureau's successful takedown of the Albanian mob. "It will be a very Law & Order Christmas," Organized Crime showrunner Ilene Chaiken teased in an interview with TVLine. While this doesn't mean the episode suddenly introduces Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to the Law & Order universe, Chaiken added, "I'll just say: I hope we don't ruin Christmas for you for all time."
NBC has another Law & Order Christmas present for fans. The network recently confirmed that Anthony Anderson will return as Det. Kevin Bernard in the upcoming 21st season of Law & Order. Hugh Dancy was also cast as a new assistant district attorney. Burn Notice star Jeffrey Donovan was previously cast in the revival, which is scheduled to premiere on Feb. 24.
Paramount+ Renews 3 Major Shows
Gaspard Ulliel, 'Moon Knight' Star and French Actor, Dead at 37


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Q: BIGQUERY - bq load could not parse Recently I started to work with BigQuery in my company. We use AWS Redshift database, so I made an UNLOAD to S3 with PIPE as field delimiter, after I sent to GCS with gsutil.
So I started to load into BQ, but in some tables this doesn't work. See the log:
bq load
--project_id=movile-di
--field_delimiter="|"
--schema=mte.json
--allow_quoted_newlines=true
--allow_jagged_rows=true
--ignore_unknown_values=true
--max_bad_records=100
corp.mte_201301

gs://movile-di/telecom/atlas/dynamic/2013/01/mte/* Waiting on
> bqjob_r333c660745fe8874_00000156c36e9a5e_1 ... (0s) Current status:
> DONE

BigQuery error in load operation: Error processing job
> 'movile-di:bqjob_r333c660745fe8874_00000156c36e9a5e_1': Too many
> errors encountered. Failure details:
> - gs://movile-di/telecom/atlas/dynamic/2013/01/mte/mte.csv.0000.gz: Could
not parse '2500","key":"MOV_PK_MOVILE_ATLASSENDMESSAGE"}' as int
> for field billing_share_content_partner_share (position 17) starting
> at location 1596

> - gs://movile-di/telecom/atlas/dynamic/2013/01/mte/mte.csv.0000.gz: Could
not parse '100001","key":"MOV_PK_MOVILE_ATLASSENDMESSAGE"}' as
> int for field billing_share_content_partner_share (position 17)
> starting at location 2060

> - gs://movile-di/telecom/atlas/dynamic/2013/01/mte/mte.csv.0000.gz: Could
not parse '-","key":"MOV_PK_MOVILE_ATLASSENDMESSAGE"}' as int
> for field billing_share_content_partner_share (position 17) starting
> at location 2929

> - gs://movile-di/telecom/atlas/dynamic/2013/01/mte/mte.csv.0000.gz: Could
not parse '-","key":"MOV_PK_MOVILE_ATLASSENDMESSAGE"}' as int
> for field billing_share_content_partner_share (position 17) starting
> at location 4413

> - gs://movile-di/telecom/atlas/dynamic/2013/01/mte/mte.csv.0000.gz: Could
not parse '-","key":"MOV_PK_MOVILE_ATLASSENDMESSAGE"}' as int
> for field billing_share_content_partner_share (position 17) starting
> at location 5289

In this table I have an field as JSON. I guess that bq load doesn't understand the field_delimiter and gave me an error.
Could anybody help me? I tried everything that I know, but still doesn't work.

A: Try loading your file(s) as if it is CSV with just one field
For this you should pick field delimiter such that it is for sure not present anywhere else in file
After load is done you have power of BigQuery (Legacy or Standard SQL Mode) to parse it the way you need within BigQuery. Of course it can depend on your actual schema – but in many cases it helped!
Take a look at JSON functions and UDF for Legacy SQL and Scalar UDF for Standard SQL as those are most useful "tools" for parsing in such cases

A: I was intrigued to try and replicate your issue, I don't have AWS but figured I'd just try a round trip in BigQuery:
First I create a table with a json data type:
create or replace table pmo.TableWithJson(UserKey INT64, Client JSON) as
select 111 as UserKey, JSON '{"ClientKey": 10, "Name": "Tesla", "Address" : "Alameda"}' as Client
union all
select 112 as UserKey, JSON '{"ClientKey": 11, "Name": "JLL", "Address" : "Sydney"}' as Client
union all
select 113 as UserKey, JSON '{"ClientKey": 12, "Name": "Prosper", "Address" : "SF"}'  as Client;

Next I exported that file a zipped file in GCS bucket:
bq extract --compression=GZIP --destination_format=CSV --field_delimiter="|" --print_header=true pmo.TableWithJson gs://bucket/pmo/FileWithJson.csv.gzip

File looks like this:
UserKey|Client
111|"{""Address"":""Alameda"",""ClientKey"":10,""Name"":""Tesla""}"
112|"{""Address"":""Sydney"",""ClientKey"":11,""Name"":""JLL""}"
113|"{""Address"":""SF"",""ClientKey"":12,""Name"":""Prosper""}"

I then defined a schema file:
[ {"name": "UserKey", "type": "INTEGER"},
  {"name": "Client", "type": "JSON"}
]

I then imported the file to a new table:
bq load --replace --source_format=CSV --skip_leading_rows=1 --field_delimiter="|" pmo.NewTableWithJson gs://bucket/pmo/FileWithJson.csv.gzip ./FileSchema.json

The new table looks exactly like the original one.
Compare the above to what you have... at a guess i would say that your json is formatted differently to above or your schema definition isn't defined correctly. Would be a pain to have to load all the rows into a single column and then parse them.

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A handsome psychotherapist. His lonely wife. And in his home office ceiling, a vent ...
You'd listen too, wouldn't you? (You know you would.)
Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are head over heels, and excited to say good-bye to New York City and start a life together in Sam's sleepy hometown upstate. Or, it turns out, a life where Annie spends most of her time alone while Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his downstairs office, tending to the egos of his (mostly female) clientele. Little does Sam know that through a vent in his ceiling, every word of his sessions can be heard from the room upstairs. The pharmacist's wife, contemplating a divorce. The well-known painter whose boyfriend doesn't satisfy her in bed. Who could resist listening? Everything is fine until the French girl in the green mini Cooper shows up, and Sam decides to go to work and not come home, throwing a wrench into Sam and Annie's happily ever after.
Showcasing Molloy's deft ability to subvert norms and culminating in the kind of stunning twist that is becoming her trademark, Goodnight Beautiful is a thrilling tale of domestic suspense that not only questions assumptions but defies expectations.


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The Bachelorette's Rachel Lindsay Is Ready to Leave the Franchise If Changes Aren't Made: 'We Still Don't Have the Diversity This Show Needs'
By Dave Nemetz / June 8 2020, 3:01 PM PDT
The Bachelor to Revisit Iconic Franchise Moments in Retrospective ABC Series
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Former Bachelorette star Rachel Lindsay is making headlines for declaring she'll quit the franchise if it doesn't address its lack of diversity — and now she's explaining her stance.
In a blog post on her personal website on Monday, Lindsay — who vied for Nick Viall's heart on Season 21 of The Bachelor before becoming the first African American Bachelorette in franchise history — began by saying being on The Bachelor "was a fun and fulfilling experience" and that she agreed to be the Bachelorette because "I wanted to be a trailblazer in this franchise to diversify the lead role." But nearly four years later, she says, "we still don't have the diversity that this show needs, and that our audience deserves." (TVLine has reached out to ABC for a response to Lindsay's comments.)
She added that on The Bachelor, "people of color become placeholders as the token person of color to add some flavor" to their seasons, and she also took herself to task for not speaking up enough: "I have not been loud enough on the deep-rooted, 18-year systemic problems in this franchise… I have come to the conclusion that if changes are not made on the inside and outside of the franchise, I will dissociate myself from it."
Lindsay calls on the franchise to "cast leads that are truly interested in dating outside of their race," take action to rectify the lack of diversity, hire more diverse producers "to make your contestants of color feel more comfortable," stop creating "problematic storylines" for people of color and make a statement acknowledging the franchise's systemic racism. To back up that last charge, Lindsay cites a number of quotes from producers and executives, including Bachelor creator Mike Fleiss admitting that the lower ratings for Lindsay's Bachelorette season "revealed something about our fans."
After pointing out that if the NFL can apologize for past mistakes, "the Bachelor franchise can most certainly follow suit," Lindsay concluded by saying the upcoming best-of series The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever! "will weekly highlight the very thing that is wrong with this franchise."
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