Jack Brown ‘23
Staff Editor
In an increasingly polarized world, Common Law Grounds has found a primal activity to bring the Law School community back together. Having spent years fruitlessly trying to bring both sides together with excellently catered discussion events, Common Law Grounds has found great success fostering across-the-political-spectrum interactions through a brazenly partisan fight club.
Realizing that coming to a consensus was far less appealing to the masses of law students who can only get serotonin from dunking on their partisan opposites, these fight clubs have become a massive success. Explicitly politically motivated violence is the only way to bring people together in the age of social media.[1]
The format is rather simple: on the first full moon of each month, the membership of ACS, NLG, and the UVA Law Republicans all gather under the sketchy tunnel you need to go through to get to Ivy with their chosen fighters.[2]Then, after a rendition of the Ukrainian national anthem meant to inspire unity between all of the parties, the night’s fights begin.
Pictured: An Actual Image of the Fight Club Representative from Section A
What follows is a brutal three-way brawl, with the NLG representative always being the wild card because, in their own words, “both sides represent the same corporate interests.”[3] Often times these fights are based on famous past GroupMe debates. Themed nights around Chick-fil-A, the mask mandates, and if the people who chanted about hanging the Vice President of the United States for not subverting democracy are at all reprehensible are just a sampling of the wonderful themes so far.
While the events are already highly regarded, the Common Law Grounds board believes that this is just the start of the club’s eventual ascendency to the top of the Law School club hierarchy. Its upcoming black tie crossover event “Brawling Darden in Spies Garden” has tickets starting at one and a half PILA grants. Less politically focused than its other fight nights, Common Law Grounds hopes that the resentment law students have for the business school will be enough to get a large turnout.
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