A school built not to last

Re “Law students caught off guard,” April 21

To think that I ever decided to move out of my L.A. element, to relocate beyond the Orange Curtain to enroll at Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa — an institution of learning where the building’s walls seemed as thin and delicate as balsa wood — where I once accidentally got my foot stuck through one of the classroom walls.

The school always lacked permanency, as it always looked and felt like a makeshift temporary pop-up establishment, never quite permanently cemented into the ground. I often analogized my former law school to a mobile home. I suppose all they have to do now is roll it all away, once and for all.

I should add, the moment I heard it was closing, I said to myself, in the words of Bette Davis, “What a dump!” Gregory Diamond

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