2 VIRGINIA LAW WEEKLY, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1970 DICTA Cite as "Van Clief, VIRGINIA LAW WEEKLY, DICTA, Vol. XXIII, No. 5 (1970)" 7 C/wr/ofCst,/le, / Y/flid,he 6dOrd IMue (Continued from Page 1) frdmurd/ foo/bd/ lln17ds suffered d humi/hhg defea o/ecl bernds of ihee nw innumerable problems of financial, mechanical, and person- MM// nr/llodhall/edmn1t fr TWELVE nel adjustment - even to the extent of closing their busi- CONSECUTIVE YEARS! nesses. Naturally, they practically always feel at first that the legislation is unnecessary, discriminatory and serves no AI /6/,cowevet- c&clrd kAue did I /lec'St VIRGINIA LAW WEEKLY score 6houchdown - ike £cfi/egkly Iedm, real purpose. these diametrically opposed positions stem a num- MANAGING BOARD I ilk/cgIhe Firs a/ lP/es crer, /efi IMe From RICHARD A. MCKITTRICK Pdy/MO9 Ic/, dnod FOUR DOJANS tATER ber of arguments, both pro and con. Further, the affected Editor iaurd l/e SCOR(D A TO'CHDOWN!/ parties attempt to engage in delaying tactics, while the THOMAS M. BOYD WILLIAM P. BOSWELL Associate Edtor Managing Editor proponents will call for even more haste. The chief patron RODHAMT. DELK JR. X C6.Dick 1HOwrd, d5//MV~o of a bill of this type is immediately caught in a giant vise Business Manager emlye' es a Io,w Proessor c-i V lV. LameShoo/, Acs heem of rhetoric-some fact and some fiction, mostly opinion. EDITORIAL BOARD Se /EFcYkyoieV b9,RbC/s The legislative process is fortunately so constructed that all E ditor RICHARD A . M CKITTRICK ........................................................................................ M//N Tpr/ r 5 / of this can be sorted out, generally through public hearings W. R OGERA DAM S ........................................................................................ C opy E ditor A NITA J. BALY........................................................................................ A rticles E ditor A//oeerU/is ,/ice dzsdeve/f /, and legislative committee study. Bills can then be amended W ILLIAM P. BOSWELL ........................................................................M anaging Editor &Asns--epq, ele still provide THOMAS H . BOTTINI........................................................................ Production Editor to achieve the necessary ecological result and THOM AS M . BOYD ................................................................................ A ssociate Editor for an orderly consideration of the opponents' point of view. T. HEYWARDCARTER JR . .. .. .. ... .. .. ... .. ... .. .. DICTA Editor PETERR . PETTIT ........................................................................................ S ports E ditor For TWELVECONSECUT/IEYEARS The new statutes required to preserve our balances are RONALDD . CASTILLE.................................................................................... N ew s E ditor JAMES R. WRENN JR..................................................... Humor and Layout Editor lucy hs ofleresu to hol/hMe too/h/ so just that-totally new statutes in every way. In many in- PETER V . LACOUTURE................................................................................ P hotographer Cl.he,/re n coI/U k/k ,I2,'FAt/WI/ELVE stances, in order to gain the ends required, a complete turn- ARTHURH . HORW ITZ ............................................................................. A lum ni Editor (Co)j OACsmrl'T/ I'CARS Cdr,/ve',7 Ace/as around of standard practices by citizens, corporations, and Published weekly on Fridays except during the holidays and examination aKreec/ rtl&Ike healI,&, FAnr TVELE1F local governments is required. This is not easily accomp- periods, for twenty-five issues each year in the interests of the Law School CONSCCUT/VE YEhRS cthyaes jdrked community of the University of Virginia. i he/11ad di Me les6%econdl lished, but it must be accomplished. It is, indeed, a difficult Any article appearing herein may be reproduced provided that credit is the legislator. given to both the VIROINIALAW WEEKLYand the author of the article, problem that faces except the DICTA articles for which written permission is required. Perhaps it would be germane at this point to cite a few Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Charlottesville, Virginia. Subscription rates, $6.00 per year. Single copy twenty-five cents. Subscriptions general examples. Many of the things now determined to be automatically renewed unless cancelled. Address all business communicatisns danger to our environment have, in the past, to the Business Manager. Subscribers are requested to inform the Circulation of extreme Manager of change of address at least three weeks in advance to insure Letters To The Editor greatly benefited mankind-certainly not only economically prompt delivery. Business and editorial offices, Clark Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22901. but in the standards of quality agricultural production, of BLACK STUDENTS RESPOND health in the use of certain sprays where diseases were spread THE REYNOLDS COMPANY - CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA Dear Editor: by insects, and in general, in providing the high standard of living which the American citizen is accustomed to enjoying. Alumni Support.. Your editorial of October 9, 1970 which addressed itself to the A hypothetical but, too often a very real problem, which resolution endorsing the hiring of Black professors is an inaccurate, is hard to overcome is the small manufacturing plant located of us here at the Law School probably experience a Most retrogressive, uninformed, ill-reasoned voicing of liberal ideology or a river which is polluting this par- Association on a mountain stream neutral reaction when the Law School Alumni actually undergirded by prejudiced attitudes. It is an insult to every ticular stream and the rivers into which it flows. The manu- is mentioned. We have some vague notion that we will be- competent Black lawyer, to every Black alumnus of The Virginia facturing plant is small; it has been in business for many come alumni ourselves, but there is an initial tendency to Law School, and to those Black law students presently enrolled here. years, and the community has grown around this one plant. equate all alumni associations with the undergraduate Its harm lies in its actual phrasings, in its unsound and racist basis The plant presently is competing with the large conglomer- variety, replete with football games, homecoming and the and in its stereotyped implications. So imbued is the article with ates. It is not economically feasible for this particular plant like. insidious implications of Black inferiority, and false assumptions of to mend its ways overnight, although an order has come It is true that Law Day is a homecoming of a sort, but "conscientious progressivism" here at The Virginia Law School that from the appropriate agency saying it must do so. The this is only one of the more visible of alumni activities. Other it is impossible to respond to all of it. However, as Black law stu- alternative is that the plant will have to close if it cannot activities are far more important in terms of impact. The dents we feel compelled to answer some of the statements now. be sold to a conglomerate. If the plant closes, the dependent Alumni Association at the Law School is uniquely a profes- The LAW WEEKLY falsely accuses those who promulgated the community becomes a depressed area, with even more prob- sional body. Graduates have a tremendous interest in the resolution of apparently overlooking or intentionally ignoring the lems; families are dislocated, the tax base shrinks, and havoc quality of the legal education offered by the Law School: efforts of the faculty in regard to hiring Black professors. With a is created. methods of instruction, available courses and admissions are little research prior to editorializing, the editors would have found The question arises-should a loophole be built into a bill of continuing concern. Individual alumni also provide ser- that we merely were using the "proper channels" for expressing for such an emergency? The answer is, probably not, as vices to the Law School. An example of this is the series of our concern to the faculty. The Law Council is the elected, repre- loopholes are frequently exploited rather than used as a last seminars on practice in various cities offered by alumni who sentative body of the law students-thus, should endorse and convey ditch measure, as originally intended, and the damage done work there and are members of the area placement commit- to the faculty issues which concern the law students. We commend to environment often has irreversible effects. tees. the Law Council and the faculty committee for taking a positive step In recent months a great deal of attention has been given The other important source of alumni support is of course forward by endorsing and accepting the resolution. We are appalled to the dumping of mercury in the waters of our country, financial. This occurs primarily from two sources, the Associ- that the LAW WEEKLY, after recognizing the need for Black law creating a multitude of problems, the most important of ation, and, more significantly, the Law School Foundation. professors, erroneously suggested that there are no Black lawyers which is the contamination of fish which are caught either The importance of this type of support cannot be overem- qualified to teach at Virginia. by commercial fishermen or sportsmen. This practice is so phasized. It permits the Law School to maintain its high It has never been suggested, by