Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
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Have something if you want your article published in the Vanderbilt Law Review.
Black law students protest unusual exclusion
The T-shirts expressed the problem in simple, black-and-white terms: ''0%.''
As students who have been admitted to this fall's class at Vanderbilt University Law School visited the campus yesterday, a group of current African-American students drew attention to a strange --and
not so black-and-white --disparity.
While about 13% of the law school's students are black, none of those students has been selected for at least the past two years to work on any of the schoo
l
9;s three student-run law journals, including the most prestigious, the Vanderbilt Law Review. T
he numbers weren't much higher in previous years.
The reasons for the black students' exclusion are mysterious. The journals, which publish scholarly articles on legal issues, add about 90 students each year based on grades and writing samples. Judges don't know whose writing they're reading, and administrators say outside experts have found that there's no racial bias in the writing assignment. Professors grade their students' work ''blindly'' as well.
Kyonzte Hughes, a third-year student from Hammond, La., and president of Vanderbilt's Black Law Students Association, says some black students do very well academically, while some
journal participants from other racial and ethnic groups don't.
But it's the school's black population that has been coming up empty on one of the best extracurricular experience
s a
law student
can have.
''Vanderbilt has one of the largest populations of black law students,'' said Damon Brown, a black third-year student fro
m Los Angeles who led yesterday's protest, though he said he did not apply to work on any of the journals because of a death in his family two years ago.
''There's a misconception that black students are here and having access to all these things when they're not,'' said Brown, president of the school's Thurgood Marshall Legal Activist Society. ''A lot of us came here thinking the door was wide open.''
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Amazing, isn't it. When judged blindly, negroes are still sucking hind tit. Who would have thunk it.
T.N.B.
Have something if you want your article published in the Vanderbilt Law Review.
Black law students protest unusual exclusion
The T-shirts expressed the problem in simple, black-and-white terms: ''0%.''
As students who have been admitted to this fall's class at Vanderbilt University Law School visited the campus yesterday, a group of current African-American students drew attention to a strange --and
not so black-and-white --disparity.
While about 13% of the law school's students are black, none of those students has been selected for at least the past two years to work on any of the schoo
l
9;s three student-run law journals, including the most prestigious, the Vanderbilt Law Review. T
he numbers weren't much higher in previous years.
The reasons for the black students' exclusion are mysterious. The journals, which publish scholarly articles on legal issues, add about 90 students each year based on grades and writing samples. Judges don't know whose writing they're reading, and administrators say outside experts have found that there's no racial bias in the writing assignment. Professors grade their students' work ''blindly'' as well.
Kyonzte Hughes, a third-year student from Hammond, La., and president of Vanderbilt's Black Law Students Association, says some black students do very well academically, while some
journal participants from other racial and ethnic groups don't.
But it's the school's black population that has been coming up empty on one of the best extracurricular experience
s a
law student
can have.
''Vanderbilt has one of the largest populations of black law students,'' said Damon Brown, a black third-year student fro
m Los Angeles who led yesterday's protest, though he said he did not apply to work on any of the journals because of a death in his family two years ago.
''There's a misconception that black students are here and having access to all these things when they're not,'' said Brown, president of the school's Thurgood Marshall Legal Activist Society. ''A lot of us came here thinking the door was wide open.''
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Amazing, isn't it. When judged blindly, negroes are still sucking hind tit. Who would have thunk it.
T.N.B.
