The Grinch who stole legislation (a sequel).

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THE GRINCH WHO STOLE LEGISLATION (A SEQUEL) Every Prof up in Chenville loved Statutes a LOT, But the students who lived South of Chenville did NOT. Now don't ask me why, no one quite knows the reason, But the kids hated Statutes, and rose up in legion, It could be that first-years are just too up-tight, It could be their heads just aren't screwed on quite right, But the most likely the reason they hate it so much, Is they just don't know better--their skulls full of muse It seemed every year the profs tried something new, To teach legal process to a new first-year crew, But whatever they did, whether first term or second, It turned out confusing, the students all reckoned. "What is it you're trying to instill in us, Chen? "Just where is the 'there there' in Legislation? "Your dazzle-ing paradigms makes our brains hurts, "We can't sort it out; and there ain't no Gilberts!" The profs found the students' harsh words most confounding, Amazing! Revolting! Disgusting! Astounding! "They're telling us how we should teach them, those fools! "Don't they know that professors must run the law schools?!" But the students in Chenville wouldn't do what they oughta, And took out their anger with an annual slaughter, The profs up in Chenville just could never recover, When teaching reviews for the course made them suffer. But then Chen got an idea. An awful idea. Jim Chen got a wonderful, awful idea. It could be that students could learn legal process, Without its own course--so let's just cut our losses! In fact, a neat way we could stop their kavetchin, Would be to...