The deal is.. get cash, change name. Students are questioning the approach so the law school takes down parody twitter accounts in response.
The Daily Pennsylvanian reports..
When the news broke that Penn’s law school would be renamed, the Carey Law School was quick to ditch its old Twitter handle of @PennLaw. Perhaps a little too quick.
A law student at Penn swiftly claimed the original @PennLaw Twitter handle and turned it into a parody account. In response, Penn administrators reported the account last week to Twitter, which later suspended that account and various others run by law students, including @CareyLRev and @CareyLawAdmiss.
Carey Law spokesperson Steven Barnes confirmed a law student took the @PennLaw handle after the school switched over to @careylawupenn.
“At the outset we did not know that students were holding these Penn Law and Carey Law accounts, and had we, we would have proceeded very differently,” Barnes said.
“We regret the confusion this has caused and are updating our policies and practices to avoid any such situations in the future,” he added.
Before it was deleted, one of the tweets by the @PennLaw account was, “$125 million? @tesswilkry’s seltzer budget just went through the roof! #pennlaw,” referring to Tess Wilkinson-Ryan, the Carey Law deputy dean for academic affairs.
@CareyLRev is a parody of @PennLRev, the official account for the Penn Law Review, while @CareyLawAdmiss mocks @PennLawAdmiss, the official account for Penn Law Admissions. Despite Penn’s efforts to quash the profiles, multiple parody accounts still exist, such as @CareyLawReview and @PennLawSchool.
Carey Law is considering changing back to Penn Law, administrators announced on Nov. 11. More than 3,000 students and alumni have signed a petition demanding the law school change its short-form name from “Carey Law” back to “Penn Law,” stating that employers will not recognize the new name and that “Carey Law” is not as prestigious as “Penn Law.”
Source: https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/11/penn-carey-law-twitter-parody-accounts
