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Yale, Harvard and UC Berkeley law schools withdraw from US News rankings – The Guardian US
Both law schools say US News & World Report’s annual rankings are in conflict with commitments to diversity and affordability
In the most dramatic rebuke of the US News & World Report’s colleges and universities rankings to date, Yale and Harvard announced on Wednesday they will stop participating in the magazine’s law school rankings, citing frustrations with the list’s methodology.
“The US News rankings are profoundly flawed – they disincentivize programs that support public interest careers, champion need-based aid and welcome working-class students into the profession,” Heather Gerkin, dean of Yale Law School, wrote in a statement on Wednesday. “We have reached a point where the rankings process is undermining the core commitments of the legal profession.”
In his statement, John Manning, dean of Harvard Law School, said: “It has become impossible to reconcile our principles and commitments with the methodology and incentives the US News rankings reflect.”
The US News rankings, used by prospective students, parents and employers looking to determine the quality of schools, has already been under heavy scrutiny this year, with some questioning the legitimacy of the list.
On Thursday, the law school at the University of California, Berkeley, joined the law programs at Harvard and Yale in pulling out of the rankings over concerns that they punish efforts to attract students from a broad range of backgrounds.
Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky wrote in a letter published online Thursday that there was no benefit to participating in the rankings that outweighs the costs.
In February, a Columbia professor accused the university of submitting inaccurate data to the magazine in order to boost its placement on the list. Columbia admitted to the errors and said it would not submit data to the rankings for the year. After using their own calculations, in part using federal data, US News ranked Columbia as 18th – a dramatic drop down from second in the previous year.
The magazine has been releasing an annual list of the best law schools since 1990, using selectivity, school resources and employment outcomes, among other things, to compile the list. Yale has consistently ranked as the top law school since the list debuted, while Harvard has been in the top five. Law schools submit data to US News & World Report for its rankings.
Gerkin, who noted that the magazine is for-profit, said that law school deans have made repeated calls for US News to change their methodology, but the magazine still “applies a misguided formula that discourages law schools from doing what is best for legal education”.
The rankings, Gerkin argues, have discouraged law schools from providing support for students who are seeking public interest careers. Students who have received public interest fellowships from the school or are pursuing other graduate degrees are “effectively classified as unemployed” and negatively affect a school’s ranking. US News also does not calculate the existence of loan forgiveness programs that target individuals who work in public interest jobs – working for the government or non-profit organizations – when calculating how much debt students graduate with.
“That backward approach discourages law schools throughout the country from supporting students who dream of a service career,” she said.
Because of its emphasis on selectivity, specifically the LSAT and GPA scores of admitted students, schools are incentivized to turn away promising students who may not have had the resources to participate in test prep courses, Gerkin said. Schools instead are encouraged to compete for top-scoring students with merit-based aids that do not target those who need financial aid most.
Manning echoed this sentiment in his own statement, which was released shortly after Gerkin’s.
“Though [Harvard and Yale] have each resisted the pull toward so-called merit aid, it has become increasingly prevalent, absorbing scarce resources that could be allocated more directly on the basis of need,” he wrote.
Manning also noted that while calculating the amount of debt students of a law school hold can be helpful, instead of giving more financial aid, schools can admit more students who do not need aid in the first place to lower the appearance of how much debt their students hold.
In response to the announcement of both schools, Eric Gertier, CEO of US News, told CNN that the magazine will “continue to fulfill our journalistic mission of ensuring that students can rely on the best and most accurate information in making [a] decision”.
“As part of our mission, we must continue to ensure that law schools are held accountable for the education they will provide to these students and that mission does not change with this recent announcement,” he said.
It is unclear whether other law schools are considering following Harvard and Yale’s lead. Stanford Law School, current ranked No 2, told Reuters that the school is giving “careful thought” to the matter.
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What time is Floyd Mayweather vs. John Gotti III today? Schedule, main card start time for 2023 exhibition boxing fight – Sporting News
Floyd Mayweather once again steps inside the ring to compete in an exhibition fight. This time, he faces someone with legit combat sports experience and a last name nobody will ever forget. Mayweather faces John Gotti III, the grandson of infamous gangster John Gotti, on June 11.
The fight is inside the FLA Live Arena in Florida and airs on the Zeus Network.
Gotti turned pro in 2017. Winning five in a row to start his MMA career, Gotti lost his last fight in 2020 against Nick Alley. The 30-year-old has since competed in boxing bouts, winning two contests in the past eight months.
Calling this fight a “pinch-me moment,” Gotti has nothing but respect for Mayweather. However, he will not let his fandom get in the way of what he needs to do.
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“I’ve been following him since I was eight years old,” Gotti said via Boxing Scene. “This was my idol. This was a guy I did school projects on. It was a guy I looked up to. The fact that I’m in a position to stand across the ring from Floyd is a tremendous honor. But make no mistake, June 11, I’m bringing bad intentions to that man. I don’t care if it’s an exhibition or not. You signed to fight me, there’s no quarter. It’s kill or be killed.”
This is the latest exhibition for Mayweather, who retired in 2017 at 50-0. In 2018 he teamed with RIZIN and beat young kickboxing star Tenshin Nasukawa via TKO. Mayweather fought Logan Paul and former training partner Don Moore in non-scored bouts. He beat Mikuru Asakura and YouTuber Deji in 2022 via TKO. In February, Mayweather went the distance against MMA fighter Aaron Chalmers.
Here is all you need to know regarding Mayweather vs. Gotti, from the time, channel, and card.
Mayweather vs. Gotti begins at 6:30 p.m ET | 3:30 p.m. PT. Ringwalks are scheduled for 10 p.m. ET | 7 p.m. PT, depending on how long the undercard fights last.
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Floyd Mayweather vs. John Gotti III can be streamed on Zeus Network.
Fans in the U.S. can pre-order the fight for $15.99. They can also sign up for the network at the annual rate of $59.99 per year. In the U.K., the pre-order price is about £13, $21 in Canada, and $23 in Australia.
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Daniel Yanofsky is a combat sports editor at The Sporting News.
Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club 2 comic brings back the character played by Jared Leto in the movie for an unexpected, but critical role.
Angel Face, played by Jared Leto in the Fight Club film adaptation, makes a surprise return in Chuck Palahniuk's comic book sequel to his original Fight Club novel – coming back with both revenge, and, oddly enough, love on his mind, following the vicious beating he received from the Narrator a decade earlier.
Fight Club 2 – by Chuck Palahniuk, Cameron Stewart, Dave Stewart, and Nate Piekos of Blambot – features the son of the Narrator and Marla Singer being kidnapped, with a returning Tyler Durden being the prime suspect, compelling the Narrator to reintegrate himself into Fight Club. In the closing pages of the series' fourth issue, the permanently-scarred Angel Face reappears.
In a brutal display that directly mirrors the original, Angel Face administers a brutal beating to the Narrator. He ends up knocking the Narrator into unconsciousness, which triggers Tyler Durden to awaken in his place at the start of Issue #5. Angel Face knows what's happened immediately, and subsequently is horrified as Tyler mercilessly returns the meeting. It is not until a few issues later, in Fight Club 2 #9, that it is revealed Tyler has been having an affair with Angel Face for quite some time. The Narrator discovers this only when he's awake, rather than Tyler, at a moment Angel Face kisses him.
As the Narrator's therapist says, on the same page as the reveal, ""a sociopath will sleep with anyone to gain her allegiance … or his." The re-emergence of Angel Face gives readers a glimpse of exactly how being a Fight Club member for so many years has worn on Angel Face's body. Aside from the distorted face the Narrator gave him ten years prior, he is littered with scabs, scars, and bruises from decades of sparring. It's clear that Angel Face has clung on completely to the ideas that Tyler put in his head years prior, whether it is because he's a true devotee, or he has nothing else.
Angel Face is depicted as not only unflinchingly loyal to Tyler Durden's ideals, but to the man himself. It remains ambiguous in the text whether Tyler returns Angel Face's feelings, or the extent to which he can feel at all. Angel Face is in love with Tyler – for Tyler, a physical relationship may just be a way to retain Angel Face's loyalty, to continue holding power over him. In this way, it is reminiscent of how the Narrator describes Tyler's relationship with Marla in the opening pages of the original book. "This is about property as in ownership. Without Marla, Tyler would have nothing."
Tyler's connection to Angel Face may not run as deep as with Marla in Fight Club, but Angel Face is still a useful vessel for him, one that someone as possessive as Tyler isn't willing to give up so easily. On the chance that Angel Face may have harbored these feelings in the original Fight Club, it also re-contextualizes their previous dynamic. It certainly offers a new explanation as to why Angel Face stays a follower of Project Mayhem/Fight Club for a decade after the Narrator beat him up. Most certainly, it further complicates Fight Club's iconic twisted love triangle of Marla, Tyler, and the Narrator.
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Joe Anthony Myrick (or JAM) is a comics writer who specializes in, of course, covering the big figureheads of the industry (Marvel and DC), as well as lesser-known indy parties and some personal favorites like BOOM! Studios.
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