Well, you know, the thing about it that was so important wasn't just the
decision. The decision had some importance. But the symbol—symbolically
here was a very prized sort of academic possession. That was what really
made it important. Had it been, you know, the School of Social Work or
something, it might have been different. But within this sort of
hierarchy of, I guess, college administrative snobbery, veterinary
schools are pretty prized things. So, it really was a kind of
bigger-than-itself issue, if you know what I mean. It was the university
system of North Carolina deciding, from my viewpoint, whether they were
actually seriously going to consider even putting a program that would
unquestionably attract white students to a black site. There
Page 15are very few schools, it seems to me, you could
have put at any black campus that would have had that Howard impact that
I'd mentioned, where it really was clear that there would be significant
numbers of white students. But I think it's clear the veterinary school
was one of those examples. And, you know, the issue you get is how often
in any university system do you get to make those decisions. And, of
course, as you know there is an unwritten rule that you only do one
veterinary school per state. And, of course, they're still some states
that don't even have one.