High School Drama--Now with More Entrance Exams

Last week was Spring Break (called "Reading Week" in the cheery world of law school). On the Friday before Break, we get an email from the faculty warning us that there has been a serious breach of ethics: people have lied about their word count. So, everyone has to send in electronic copies of their papers to be counted. No prob. But as I prepare to send mine off, I check the word count and notice a six word discrepancy. Six words. These words could have been missed any number of ways, through the final edit, faulty counting, including the heading.
I send a copy of the document to my professor, explaining the six word issue and asking for her advice. I assumed I would be told that the administration was not looking for six words, that I was not the target of the investigation. But instead I got a nasty email back saying I was under investigation and would know more in two weeks. Two Fucking Weeks! I was livid, and scared and confused and ashamed and it ruined my reading break. I mean, I worked (there is no way not to work during Spring Break when you're a first year slave...I mean student) but I was constantly distracted by this unfolding academic issue.
Ten days later I get back to school and find out that that I am in the clear. They are not looking for six word discrepancies but something much more...word on the street (yes, the street) is that some people had huge discrepancies in word count. Like, two hundred words. And as I walked around the school today, I saw many frantic students counting words with professors.
Look, I know that honesty and integrity is vital to the legal profession. And I understand that instructions need to be followed. I get it. Absolutely. What I am asking for as a student is a little more respect. A little less lecture. A little less scare tactics. I get the feeling my law school does not like its law students very much. There have been many, many echoes of this since the school year began, but still I hoped I was wrong. Some students have called our faculty and administion out for terrorizing us. That is a bit strong.
But I do feel held hostage to the whims of this administration: I feel that students are given no voice (we have had some rogue law school publications--pretty awful--crop up this year but I'm beginning to feel like starting one myself. Perhaps it is the lack of outlet given to students that makes some react so explosively?)
The issue is settled for now and we all march on towards exams. Yet, I know I feel very differently about my school than I did my first day of class. Perhaps the admnistration feels the same about us. Who knows? One thing for certain is that everything is different now.