VIRGINIA LAW WEEKLY 2017, 2018, & 2019 ABA Law Student Division Best Newspaper Award-Winner A Look Advice on How to Crush 1L.............................................2 Learn About the Head Peer Advisors.............................2 Inside: The Debate over Lowering Tuition.................................3 Virginia Law Review’s New Masthead..........................6 Wednesday, 26 August 2020 The Newspaper of the University of Virginia School of Law Since 1948 Volume 73, Number 1 Welcome around north Letter Dean Goluboff grounds Thumbs up to from the social distancing. ANG has gone Editor Welcomes Class of 2023 without physical touch since ’86 and is glad Christina Luk ’21 Shared Challenges Bond Us to see the practice has fi- Editor-in-Chief nally caught on. Hello and thank you for Thumbs down picking up the Virginia Law to people who Weekly! We are the Law don’t cover their School’s one and only student nose with their newspaper and you are in for masks. Put that huge thing a treat. Inside these pages away, Squidward. You can you will find the heart and take it out when a 747 jet soul of the UVA Law commu- needs to make an emergen- nity. As Editor-in-Chief, it’s cy landing. my privilege to introduce you to what we’re all about and to Thumbs up to entice you into our ranks. the reduced pres- Now, in years past, wel- ence of students come letters have tended to at the Law School be pretty upbeat and funny— this semester. That means but nothing about this year there’ll be more pizza, has been ordinary. I mean, Take It Away, and Bellair we started the year with leftover lunches for ANG, an entire continent on fire, right? and no one really expected it to ramp up from there. Thumbs down COVID-19 has forced us all to not having online, impacted our com- Dandelion this munities, and tested our re- Photo Courtesy of virginia.edu year. ANG invites silience, kindness, and care Risa L. Goluboff ‘00 to help you begin to take ad- varied, as yet unknown ca- students to submit footage for each other. The events of Dean of UVA Law vantage of those opportunities reers that you will each make of their wild, off-grounds this summer unfolded like and to find your way around your own. parties in violation of Uni- a slow-motion fever dream. To say that we begin this the Law School. I mean that You will spend hours each versity public health guide- Disease, death, police brutal- school year at a challenging in the literal sense: Note, for week with your new class- lines to ANG because ANG ity, protests, and, of course, moment is an understatement. example, that there are two mates, over screens and oth- still needs blackmail mate- the ever-ramping up elec- The unprecedented COVID-19 Caplin Reading Rooms—the erwise. Take advantage of rial for those gunners who tion. We are buckling in for global pandemic continues, one in the Library and the one opportunities to connect and decide to run for public of- the second half of an already and it has ushered in an eco- off Scott Commons—as well as engage with each other. As I fice someday. crazy year. nomic crisis unprecedented both a Caplin Pavilion and a said during orientation, the What an incredible time to in its own right. We are in the Caplin Auditorium. (Mortimer legal profession is dedicated Thumbs up to attend law school. So much middle of a national reckoning Caplin ’40 was an alumnus, a to testing ideas with argument Chick-fil-A open- has changed. A look around with racial injustice. A hotly member of the faculty, and a and persuasion. Lawyers both ing in Barracks the Law School reveals a dif- contested election fast ap- loyal and generous donor.) ask difficult questions and Road. Now, ANG ferent space. There are stick- proaches. I mean it in a figurative must hear difficult answers. It doesn’t have to feign an ers on the floors and tables, As we navigate these chal- sense as well. Our world-class is not always easy to speak so interest in Fed Soc to curb cameras and plexiglass have lenges together, this year will faculty is dedicated to initiat- that others can listen or listen ANG’s hate-chicken crav- been installed in every class- certainly differ from any that ing you into the mysteries of even when the message is hard ing. room, and a thousand hand has come before. In your first the law and bringing their in- to hear. It may be even harder sanitizing stations litter week of classes, you have al- novative research into their to do those things this year, Thumbs side- the halls. Folks are wearing ready seen many ways in which instruction as they do so. Out- when we are coping with a new ways to the week- masks (or they had better that is the case. You wear side of the classroom, fellow normal that feels anything but, day HOOS Health be!) and many of us are on- masks, take some or all of your students, faculty, and staff of- engaging in important and Check reminders. What if line this semester. courses online, keep your dis- fer countless ways for you to difficult conversations about ANG only experiences CO- The start of the year brings tance from one another, and connect with each other and race, and witnessing and par- VID symptoms on week- everything rushing back—the watch your professors through dive into our community, both ticipating in that most central ends? excitement, the nostalgia, the Plexiglass. You monitor your virtually and in small groups. of our democratic institutions: burning curiosity of whether health and worry about both We are here to help you navi- voting. Thumbs down the snack office will still pro- your own health and that of gate the intellectual challenges I am confident that we are to the stimulus vide snacks. Old and new stu- others. You are being asked ahead of you and identify the up to the task. We are a com- check rules. ANG dents alike, we’re grappling to fulfill obligations to each aspects of the law and law munity that cares deeply about has not filed taxes with social isolation, miss- other and this community that school—areas of study, service each other and makes dialogue since ANG’s ill-fated sum- ing people closest to us, and no class before you has had to projects, political causes, stu- across difference a hallmark. mer associateship at Dew- deciding on the next stage in contemplate. dent organizations, extracur- We come from different races, ey, Cheatham, and Howe our legal career. We’re all try- So much remains the same, ricular activities, research op- religions, nationalities, eth- PLLC in 1983, so ANG was ing to figure things out. Now however. This is your first year portunities, career paths—that nicities, and cultural and so- ineligible for any of that is the time for community, of law school, and that means give you a sense of purpose cioeconomic backgrounds. We sweet, sweet taxpayer- solidarity, and laughter. Now it is the start of an exciting in- and belonging and enable you have had different life experi- funded cheddar. is the time for optimism—to tellectual, personal, and pro- to thrive. We are here to help ences and live different identi- say that we will meet each fessional journey for each of you find your path and to sup- ties. We hold different beliefs, Thumbs down new challenge with grace and you. That is, as it always is, a port you at every step along it. attitudes, and interests, and to passcode re- perseverance. That we are all joy to behold. It will not always be easy, for subscribe to a wide range of quirements for here because we were called This year will transform the reasons made (in)famous political views. We each have Zoom class ses- to something outside of us. you, as the first year of law in popular culture and mythol- our own unique hopes and sions. How is ANG sup- We at the Law Weekly are school always transforms 1L ogy: required classes and cold dreams. We bridge these dif- posed to flash Professional called to “community.” When students. The opportunities calls, oral arguments and jour- ferences with a shared com- Responsibility if ANG our back is up against a wall, before you—both during your nal tryouts and job searches. mitment to this community, doesn’t have access to the our first impulse is to put pen time here and in the careers But it will no doubt be reward- a shared aspiration that our class Canvas page? to paper (fingers to keyboard) that will follow—are almost ing. This year will prepare you differences serve as a source limitless. Our faculty, adminis- not only for the rest of law WELCOME 1Ls page 2 EDITOR page 2 trators, 2Ls, and 3Ls are eager school, but for the amazing, 2 Columns VIRGINIA LAW WEEKLY Wednesday, 26 August 2020 WELCOME 1Ls EDITOR a week, twelve editions per se- mester, and we welcome new Get to Know the continued from page 1 continued from page 1 members throughout the year from every class. Historically, of humility and strength, em- and write. My goal for the pa- we met in Slaughter Hall 279 Head Peer Advisors! pathy and intellectual stimula- per is to build our community, to edit articles, listen to tunes, tion. The community of trust celebrate our triumphs, dis- and eat free Domino’s pizza.