IN THE Oct. 24 op-ed “An affordable option,’’ it seems that Jean MacCormack, chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, forgot to mention that the Commonwealth does not need 200 more hacks coming out of law school every year. She also does not include information about the kinds of jobs that she says lawyers are so successfully finding in Massachusetts. Nine law schools in the Commonwealth is at least one too many, if not more.
MacCormack does not explain why the university does not instead increase or create more engineering and technical slots, or why these funds are not used for more tuition support to incoming students.
The United States is perceived from abroad as increasingly bureaucratic, and caught in legalities. Some of my friends have even gone as far as to say it’s like the Soviet Union used to be. The addition of more and more lawyers can only make this worse.
Pedro Politzer
Brookline 
