Well done, though it sounds like the bus driver should get at least as much credit, and perhaps more. Thanks to InstaPundit for the pointer. (I’m pretty sure that the “Give Them an ‘A’” introduction in the InstaPundit post refers to our giving them A for their actions, and not the professor’s giving them an A for their lifesaving but extracurricular behavior; the latter would pretty clearly be inappropriate.)
drunkdriver says:
One of the students used a cell phone to call security, but security declined to send a patrol car over to drive the judge to his vehicle, Kloch said.
But shouldn’t security’s antennae have gone up when told the man was medically unable to walk, and gotten an ambulance- you know, the kind of thing security professionals are supposed to think of?
September 29, 2009, 10:26 amdearieme says:
“Compassionate”? Not cut out for the top of the legal profession, then?
September 29, 2009, 10:31 amdearieme says:
Unless they proved the contrary by billing him?
September 29, 2009, 10:32 amPatHMV says:
Oh, who really cares if he gives them an A in the course. They helped save his life. If they’re really bad students, that will be amply reflected in their other grades, so the risk of rewarding students in this manner for really unusual actions is hardly going to put their future clients at risk.
September 29, 2009, 10:44 amMike says:
How do you even objectively grade the students who saved your life? You’re going to be way too biased. May as well give them each an “A.”
September 29, 2009, 10:51 amHouston Lawyer says:
It wouldn’t hurt you in an interview to say that your highest grade was in this judge’s class because you literally saved his life.
September 29, 2009, 11:03 amJohn Jenkins says:
As a general rule, anyone who saves my life during a semester in which said person is a student of mine gets an “A.” I will put that on the syllabus.
September 29, 2009, 11:38 amTatil says:
I don’t get it. It seems the bus driver was the one who did a better job.
September 29, 2009, 12:03 pmCJColucci says:
If only the stricken professor had been teaching the “no duty to rescue” cases in Torts. Would he then give them F’s?
September 29, 2009, 12:09 pmPatHMV says:
CJColucci… I think that would be up the replacement the school sends in for the late, unrescued professor.
Tatil, no question the bus driver showed fine judgment. But I note it’s entirely possible that by the time the students got him there, he was looking worse than he did to begin with, so it may have been easier for the bus driver to see the true state of the professor’s condition.
September 29, 2009, 12:15 pmgeorge weiss says:
Houston lawyer wins the thread
September 29, 2009, 1:39 pmChrisTS says:
I wonder if that might inspire a less – ah – decent sort of student to conspire to put one’s life in danger in order to be the rescuer.
September 29, 2009, 3:09 pmJohn Jenkins says:
You made the mistake of conflating “security professionals” and the security department on campus.
September 29, 2009, 3:21 pmJunkYardLawDog says:
Didn’t these students just do what normal people are supposed to do in such a situation? I don’t really see it as all that extraordinary.
Says the “Dog”
September 29, 2009, 6:31 pmneurodoc says:
Reminds me of something that happened 30 or so years ago at an alma mater of mine, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Abe Lilienthal, a renowned epidemiologist, was lecturing to a large class of health care professionals, when he experienced a cardiac arrest. The students promptly started CPR and successfully resuscitated him, then summonsed help. He was no doubt a nice enough person before then, but afterwards he always made a point of expressing his appreciation of students. (Ironically, while Hygiene is directly across the street from the hospital, there were a great number of steeps to negotiate and getting Dr. Lilienthal across the street to the hospital was more difficult to transport him than it would have been had he arrested outside on the sidewalk. Of course, if he had arrested on the street, there wouldn’t have been that huge pool of trained personnel at the ready to respond.)
There were probably close to 100 in the introductory epidemiology course, which I recall as among the best, if not the best, taught course in all my years of school. I don’t know how many A’s were given out and whether those who performed the CPR or otherwise helped got extra credit for their efforts.
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