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    aaa s7 2 “4 Mere Dictum Volume I! Number III (North Carolina Collection, UNC- CH Library) By Robert Weaver Professor William Aycock's office fon the top floor of Van Hecke- Wettach “Hall commands an im- pressive view of the University of North Carolina campus. The sites visible out his window represent some of the many faces of the university with which’ he has been associated i asa student forty-nine rudent dormitories, both ‘raduate and undergraduate; The Tn fie of "Goverment and N.C oral Hospital lati {wo basketball sadn and one Bl ‘In December, Professor Aycock will retire from his postion on the law school faculty, having moved from graduate student in 1936 through the positions of law pro- fessor and chancellor of the Chapel Hill campus of UNC. In 1964 he returned to the aw faculty where he has since remained a Kenan Professor of Law. ‘A visitor might assume that be- ‘ween the vista and the oecasion of his retirement Aycock might indulge himself in a bit of backward reflec tion about his career and the institu fas Spent it. His re ‘Aycock insists that he 4s “too busy doin’ the things I got 10 40” to so indulge himself. “Appareniy the peasive stares and dangling texts are reserved forthe law Students looking out the fourth floor Windows, not those above us on the fifth. Aycock is, nevertheless, in a Position to discus the recent history Ofthe University, and the Law School naaae os # University of North Carolina Schoo! of Law ‘Special Dedication Issue Aycock Retires This Semester in general. And the frst subject shat comes to mind, invariably, is how they bave changed “Obviously, the size of the law school—the size of the Univesity, period—stands out,” Aycock begins. “And thereis the presence of women; there are now, obviously, significant numbers in both, particularly the Univesity, lest 80 the law school.” ‘Third, he sees the admission of minorities, particularly blacks, as major development. “It's in the st dent body—the composition and size Of the student body that I see the sreatest change.” ‘Within the Law School, Ayeock first recognizes the modernization and. expansion of facilities, par. ticularly the library and research materials, Beyond these obvious ‘changes he ses the evolution of what shall “more petsonalized teaching ‘methods” as a significant departure ‘rom the traditional practices—and a desirable one. Since is inception in the early 19506, the seminar program hhas answered the demand’ for specialized legal training. “Estate Planing was the first” he recalls; “after you'd had your Prop> lines and picked out the important bits fr that issue.” In addition tothe {twenty-seven seminars now avalable, the Clinical Program stands out in ‘Ayooek's mind among. the major developments "As helpful as those changes in the curriculum can be, however, Aycock warns both students and faculty 10 enerber that “the iberal ars aspect {s the heart of legal education, and flvays should be"; students, he fel, ould go t00 far in spending thei time on these faces of their educa- tion.

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