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...change had been made in the hopes of attracting higher quality attorneys by reducing the number of students needing instruction, a CSLS spokesman said last night. CSLS's budget--which is funded by the OEO--has not been...
Practicing in Jail. After the OEO grant expired in 1969, an energetic new dean, Brian Brockway, now 37, kept the school on its new tack. Instead of OEO stipends, the students earned course credits for their services to the poor. "There's more to a legal education than just knowing how to operate within the system," says Brockway. "A good lawyer should know the methods by which the system can be changed...
Writing for the July-August issue of Social Policy, Gans lists more than a dozen economic, social and political uses of poverty. One of the most important is the job market that it creates for penologists, criminologists, social workers, public health workers, crusading journalists and OEO paraprofessionals. In other words, Gans suggests, many people who are presumably fighting poverty actually profit from it. Besides, the poor "support medical innovation" as patients in teaching and research hospitals, and they constitute "a labor pool that is willing-or, rather, unable to be unwilling-to perform dirty work at low cost." Poor people...
...satisfaction. But what was the response of the Justice Department? In effect, 'No comment.' And at the lower levels, a series of hysterical (two meanings intended) statements that this band of six or seven hundred high school dropouts, a few ex-cons and a handful of former OEO employees was plotting to overthrow the state. Good...
...office of the Governor, provided he has a large enough planning staff and an open mind. In fact, these changes presume a redistribution of political power, just as poverty warriors once argued back in the '60's before the adventures of Community Action Programs and the disasters of the OEO led Dr. Moynihan to write Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding. The great effort to reform local power structures did prove, as Moynihan wrote, that the federal government cannot be expected to agitate against local political authority. But it did not refute the need for community action or the contribution of participation...