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Roosevelt Pushed Through

"Do you know how they
got Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.
through up there (at the Law
School)? They had to appoint
'old man Douglas' (Supreme
Court Justice William O.
Douglas) to the federal bench
(Supreme Court) and that's
how they got him through
there –– that's how dumb he
was."

Other funds totals for the
Medical school show that 39
percent of total contributions
in 1971 came from out-of-state
sources.

Mr. Stone attributed this
trend to the failure of the
University to furnish the state
with enough doctors by
allowing too many
non-residents into the Medical
School.

"We've got four counties in
the state that don't have a
doctor in them and soon there
will be fifteen."

"The function of the
University of Virginia, if it's
going to be supported by tax
funds, is to educate doctors for
Virginia, not for other states.

According to Mr. Stone, it
costs Virginia $12,000 a year
to send a student to the
University of Virginia Medical
School. "Now when you take
in 40 per cent out-of-state
medical students –– and God
knows we need them here in
this state –– and then they go
back to the places they come
from, see how much we've lost
on them."

"How can you justify taking
tax funds and having a
graduate school that's 55
per cent out-of-state –– more
than in-state?" he said.