Boalt Hall, No More!

UC Berkeley has a law school that until recently was called "Boalt Hall School of Law." Boalt (according to wikipedia) was an engineer in the army who went to the University of Heidelberg, Germany to study mining, which is probably the reason why a law school in California is named after him. (Ok, he was also a lawyer and a judge, but thats all his wiki page says, and i'm too lazy to read his official obituary).

Unfortunately UC Berkeley is changing their name this year. After an exhaustive campaign, $25,000, and years of sitting in a room thinking of a new name, a public relations firm, who accepted that $25,000, renamed the school ....and I quote:

"UC Berkeley School of Law"

I have officially changed my goal in life to working for a firm, scratch that,... starting my own bueiness specializing in name-changing. Would someone please pay me $30,000 to rename things. I always wanted to rename the Empire State Building as "New York State Big Building." I always thought that "Georgetown University Law Center" was too complicated, I wonder if they'll pay me to rename it Georgetown University Law School. That oughtta be worth at least a couple of grand.

Oh well, maybe next time Berkeley will ask newly tenured Prof. John Yoo to write a memo about it. (Ok, nerdy/bad joke I know)

[Disclaimer: I have uploaded this picture that I found on the internet purely for its satirical value. I do not necessarily support its viewpoint, and I hope that my posting it is not viewed as support for any type of political message that may lie within it]
P.S. When you add things like that disclaimer, that's how you know you've finished your first year of law school...only 2 more to go!!!!