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Show Deans Like High Court Two law school deans concurr- m supporting the "activist" of the United States Su-Ke Su-Ke Court Thursday after-Jtinued after-Jtinued on page 4) Seminar . . . the Court were more , pertinent and definiti!, ever before. nitlVe ft A LAW student jki . McKay if he thi commerce clause in J1 h tution, granting the FelS" ernment jurisdiction 1 gov' matters relating to v" commerce, had been S t te and misconstrued" by tw0 particularly in its iJdS the public accoroodXS 01 of the 1964 CiviJ The Dean admitted that , Dean Lockhart added that ft, interpretation was not at all Un realistic for Negroes travel across the country who some times "had to drive 300 miles m find a place to sleep. Ktt (Continued from page 1) noon in the University Law School Auditorium. PARTICIPATING in a Challenge Chal-lenge Week seminar entitled "The Supreme Court: Activist or Pacifist?" were William B. Lock-hart, Lock-hart, Dean of the University of Minesota School of Law and Robert McKay Associate Dean of the Law School of New York University. The panel was moderated mod-erated by University law professor pro-fessor Alfred C. Emory. "We must have an activist court if the Constitution is to have any meaning for our day" commented Dean Lockhart. A non-actiVist court, he said, would have two alternatives: either to dodge the issues of the day by refusing to rule on important cases, or to hand down inconsistent inconsist-ent judgements. DEAN McKAY also favored the Court's activist role. He singled sin-gled out the recent reapportionment reapportion-ment decision as a "correctly decided" de-cided" judgements. He concurred concurr-ed with the view that "equal justice under the law is what the Supreme Court is all about." In response to a question, Dean McKay said he thought that national prestige of the high tribunal was "as high today as ever" and that the decisions of |