Man, you're pretty uninformed.sublime wrote:Irvine had a ton of money (they offered full rides to the entire first class), great facilities, a "superstar professor" as a dean, and is well respected academically in other fields, which certainly helps. These are all things Indiana Tech does not have.
Indiana Tech's law building is new and state-of-the-art. With 70,000 square feet for only 22 entering students (almost 3,200 square feet per capita), the school will no doubt begin its existence among elite company in the cooley law school rankings.
Furthermore, renowned scholar of hip hop law andré douglas pond cummings is a dean at Tech. Ergo, Tech has a superstar professor -- with four uncapitalized names -- as a dean. Feel free to visit this website for confirmation:
andré douglas pond cummings wrote:Welcome to the official website of Professor andré douglas pond cummings. Within, you will find links and connections to all of the activities engaged by this dynamic scholar. This greetings/introduction page will serve to showcase the latest insights and work of Professor cummings as he seeks to challenge the status quo and work toward equality and social justice. According to renowned public intellectual Dr. Cornel West, Professor cummings scholarly "reputation goes far beyond . . . the nation, and is heard in every corner of the globe, wrestling with legacies of legal thinking on one hand and popular culture on the other."
Some excerpts from the works of this renowned scholar:
andré douglas pond cummings, [i]Thug Life: Hip-Hop’s Curious Relationship with Criminal Justice[/i], 50 Santa Clara L. Rev. 515, 525 (2010) wrote:"At bottom, as hip hop has become the voice of a generation, and recognizing the sizeable global footprint that hip hop has created, two things seem clear: first, as the hip hop generation grows up, some of its members will become future leaders, including legislators, educators, lawyers, scholars and philosophers; and second, these leaders and educators will bring with them into their leadership roles the images, lessons and stark critiques that accompany all authentic members of this generation. As hip hop is truly impacting an emerging generation of leaders and scholars, then society should pay very close attention to the messages and lessons that hip hop has taught and continues to teach its generation."
andré douglas pond cummings, [i]A Furious Kinship: Critical Race Theory and the Hip Hop Nation[/i], 48 U. Louisville Law Rev. 499 (2010) wrote:"Richard Delgado shares a potent kinship with Ice Cube and the 'dangerous' hip-hop group N.W.A. When Professor Delgado published The Imperial Scholar, its impact was a literary shot across the bow of the traditional legal academy in its aggressive repudiation of entrenched white male civil rights legal scholarship. Like a hand grenade launched into the upper reaches of the ivory tower, Delgado authored a fiery critique that condemned famed civil rights scholars for their own racism and failure to garner, appreciate, or represent the views of the very oppressed minority groups on whose behalf these scholars purported to advocate.”
“Kimberlé Crenshaw and Queen Latifah, both powerful African American women, descended upon the legal academy and the hip-hop community like bolts of lightning—intense, powerful, and fierce.”
“Professor Neil Gotanda and hip-hop superstar Tupac Shakur share a genuine kinship wherein both men released enormously important and groundbreaking pieces in the 1990s....Professor Gotanda and Tupac are best situated in similarity as eloquent flamethrowers. The flames of CRT and hip hop had been lighted, imaginations across the world had been sparked, and Gotanda and Tupac fueled their respective movements by seizing their genres and delivering astonishing messages to the primed masses.”
“Just as Professor Butler seems poised to accept the torch from Derrick Bell and other CRT pioneers, Talib Kweli appears to have accepted the socially conscious hip-hop torch from socially conscious hip-hop pioneers Chuck D and KRS-One.”
“Just as Professor Carbado seems poised to share the torch with Professors Gotanda, Delgado, Harris, and other CRT pioneers, hip-hop superstar Common appears to have accepted the socially conscious hip-hop torch from Ice Cube and Tupac Shakur. Pushing forward a progressive political message for the next generation of hip-hop aficionados, Professor Carbado, as a next-generation CRT scholar, shares much with Common.”
"As Professor Perry stands ready to accept the torch from Kimberlé Crenshaw and other notable female CRT founders, hip-hop icon Lauryn Hill burst upon the twenty-first century hip-hop scene full of political and social relevance."
