Law school schedules open house for prospective students
The Auburn Hills campus of Western Michigan University Cooley Law School will host an open house for prospective students and their guests on Thursday, March 10.
The open house will include a discussion with staff and students, information about academic programs and scholarships, and campus tours.
The event “will allow anyone interested in a career in law to have an opportunity to learn about the education process involved,” said Joan Vestrand, associate dean at WMU-Cooley’s Auburn Hills campus. “This will be a very casual introduction into learning how a law degree can help individuals achieve personal and professional goals.”
The open house will take place from 4 to 7 p.m. at the WMU-Cooley Auburn Hills campus, 2630 Featherstone Rd.
For additional information, including sign up information, visit wmich.edu/law.
Court stays out of student’s suspension over rap song
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is staying out of an interesting free speech debate about the power of school officials to discipline students for things they write or say away from school.
The justices on Monday left in place the suspension of a Mississippi high school student who posted a rap song online that criticized two coaches over allegations they behaved inappropriately toward female students.
Student Taylor Bell recorded the song at a professional studio over winter break and then posted it on his Facebook page in February 2011.
Bell sued after Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Mississippi, suspended him for seven days. Lower courts upheld the suspension, saying it made no difference where Bell made and distributed the song.
The case is Bell v. Itawamba School Board, 15-666.
Report: Officers shoot blacks, mentally ill disproportionately
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Los Angeles police officers fire at suspects, their targets are disproportionately black or mentally ill, according to the most comprehensive data on the use of force ever compiled by the department and released to the public Tuesday.
Of the 223 people shot at by Los Angeles police between 2011 and 2015, 77 were black, according to the report. That means 35 percent of those shot at by police were black, while blacks make up just 9 percent of the city’s population.
Meanwhile the number of mentally ill people shot by police increased from five in 2014 to 14 last year.
The 14 mentally ill people represent 37 percent of all the people shot by Los Angeles police in 2015, according to the report, which the police department presented to the city’s police commission, a civilian oversight panel.
The report emphasizes that “a vast majority of police interactions with the public do not involve use of force.”
In 2015, for example, officers used force 1,924 times among more than 1.5 million contacts with members of the public, or 0.13 percent of the time, according to the report.
Police Chief Charlie Beck told the commission that he hopes the report informs discourse about police use of force.
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