The LAST thing WV needs is more lawyers. The purpose of a state university is to turn out people trained for the jobs that exist in the state it serves. In WV that is all levels of health care, business, teaching, technology, and engineering. Not law.
In fact, the glut of lawyers in WV, and most rural states and rural parts of states, is so large that the better move would be to close the WVU law school. The private school system would provide plenty of lawyers for the state.
My anti-WVU credentials, long time readers will know, are among the best here, but the real facts are that the number of WVU graduates and the number of WVU Law graduates in the legislature today is less than any time since WWII. Remember with over 65% of its students being from other states, WVU really doesn't even have that many alumni in WV.
Its not that. As the saying goes, if the shirt say Marshall, they went to Marshall, if the shirt says WVU, they went to Wal-Mart. The most ardent WVU backers, in politics as in sports, never went to any college.
That is why, as I always say, what is good for WVU is bad for WV, and v-v. Be it sports losses, Thugens' drunken escapades, Gee's racist rants, Manchin's academic fraud, whatever is in the news and negative about WVU, helps the state. A state with a state university well funded and actually doing its job, like most states have, isn't last in everything.
