While much of the Law School population passes its days without a care in the world, one portion of the student body has been fighting a silent but tragic battle. Every week, nearly a dozen gunners raise their hands to ask and answer questions in their classes, only for the professor to call on some A- schmuck in the back row.
“Being passed over by a professor is an incredibly traumatic and, frankly, dangerous experience for a young gunner,” said Trai Hardson, elected representative for the UVA Law Gunner Coalition. “Having a lackadaisical classmate be picked to answer a question over them can shake their very foundation. It destroys their sense of self-importance and can even make them realize that not being the center of attention isn’t that bad, in extreme cases. It’s a real problem for the community.”
When asked about the possible causes for the snubs, the Coalition rejects the long-held theory that professors are tired of hearing from them and want to answer someone else’s poorly conceived hypo for a change. Instead, they posit that they are beginning to blend in with the plebs…