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Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles Col Times (San Diego Ed.l (Cir. D 50,010) (Cir. S 55,573)

Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles Co) Times (San Diego Ed.) (Cir. D 50,010) (Cir. S 55,573) IU

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P. C B • Night,,.of 2 Slayings Recalled at Lucas Hearing (1~ '::, . Ry scoffIIARRIS, Times Staff Writer . ing of Mr. Massingale's confes- . t k a against Massingale, who has smce .d "Th Something was wrongrwhen Mrik• Sclwosaenr\~~a!~nf~~:c~::p:t in filed suit against the city and ~:i:::i!~~n~ea1:si~~aie giv~ i~:~ h I J obs Came h ome romwo county. A short time later, lh_ey all aff ts c ae ac J b qui·te a problem. It re y ec f M Y 4 1979 the aco s case. h d L Lucas has denied on the evening O a • · d d Evidence found at the scene c arge ucas. . their case, and will really hav.~ an A dmett that hati b~ein~~:c':t pointed to Lucas. For example, laking part in any or the crimes for effect on a jury if we go to tnal. . from S ars w dsooonrs toe t~e kitchen· prosecutors are expected to present which he is accused. Assistant Dist. Atty. Dan Wil: The swmgmg l d Ther~ testimony showing that a piece of Ironically, the attempt to prose- Iiams declined to discuss in detail alway open, were c ose . found at the scene bearing cute Massingale now pose~ the the evidence linking Lucas to the was no ign of his wife, Suzanne, or paper ds "Love Insurance" and a major problem in the prosecution of Garcia slaying. He said the nature their 3. y ar-old aon, Cohn; t~e wor mber match Lucas' hand- Lucas. Saunders says his defense ~f of the six slayings, and the att_ack "I called out my wifes name, p one nuM ver Lucas obtained Lucas will focus on Massmgale s on Santiago, are in "a very d1stmct Suzy. No an wer," Jacobs recalled, w:~~1~~~er:~ro~ Love Insurance statements. He has subpoenaed category" m pathology annals of his~~~e~:}abod~~r. Jactohbs h!\~~:Y· ! fe;t:::cn:~~~:i:r~l~~~rr:~~hp~ep:~:~~li;~~t~s~:r~g:es~,...,M"'as "" ..~Ws:i~: ~:al~if: 1 ~ ~: t:~:s;~:xpfy:i:o:re~ th~e~m~e=a=n=•=,,,,,,S,,,an=D""ie"'g"'o=C=o=u=n:::t-=y=. =======) red his on s Ym Stunned, Jacobs walked out of the hous to 8 k neighbors for help. ~---- Soon, hts wife's body was fou ms1de a b droom. E,r 1888 --~- --~--..111 ~------;;

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P. C. B far. 1888 ~ cilities at S.D. Schools Vary Widely A11'°j?th~ uslness of San Diego's business schools Is educa- tion, the sites where that education is delivered couldn't be more dif- ferent. If physical plant Is the bottom line, James Burns is silting in the catbird seat. When Olin Hall opened in 1984, the Univtirsig of San Diego touted the computer-eq111pjS!a;-8panish- design facility as the nation's mos• modem business school building. Burns, who has completed his 1 11th year at the helm of USD's undergraduate and graduate bus!- 1 ness programs, works out of an immaculate office that boasts a breath-taking balcony view from the northern rim of Mission Gorge. A few miles to the east, Allan Bailey's office is in sharp contrast. Office space is In short supply in San Diego State University's Busi- ness Administration and Mathe- matics Building, and some of the offices have been subdivided to the size of a large storage closet. That space shortage should end in a few years when the California State University system provides funds for a new building, reported Bailey, who is beginning his 10th year in the dean's office. When Reed M. Powell, United States International University's new dean, arrives on campus in July, he'll work out of a business school that is in a decidely non-business setting. USIU's rural campus near Scripps Ranch under- scores the unorthodox nature of USIU's student body, faculty and business program. - GREG JOHNSON

Michael Jacob relived, in a Mu- nicipal Court heanng Monday, ~he day that his wife, Suzanne Camille Jacobs, and their son, Cohn Mi- chael, w re slam The hearmg was to d t rmin hcther David Allen Lucas should stand trial for three mor slaymg . "I iust sat down on my front • lawn .. Jacobs recalled. "That's all I r me'mber that day." Luca , 8 one ttme Spring Valley carpet cle ner with a record or , assault and man1uana smuggling. is air ady sch duled to be tried m the October, 1984, killings m Lakeside of Rhonda Strang, 24, and 3-year- old Amber Fisher, whom Strang was baby-sitting. He will be tried at the same time In the Novemb_er, 1984, slaying of Anne. Catherine Swanke, 22, a Univers1t of San Dlego ho.Dor- udent, an t e at- \empted slaying of Jody Santiago, 30. m June, 1984. . Pros cutors are now trymg to prove that Luca also committed the 1979 slayings of Suzanne and Cohn Jacobs, and in 1981 killed real estate saleswoman Gayle Robert Garcia. h' h In all SIX slaymgs for w 1c, Lucas 18 charged, the v1ct1m s throat was cut with such force that the head was nearly decapitated, prosecutors have said. Santiago, who survived a kmfmg to her throat, identified Lucas_ as her attacker tn an earlier hearmg. After everal years' delay, the San Diego County district attor- ney's office may have a tougher time pmnmg the Jacobs and Garcia laymgs on Lucas . Prosecutors must undo the damage done when they charged Johnny Massii:tgale, a drifter from Kentucky, with th_e two Jacobs slaymgs, only lo admit they errerl and then charged Lucas instead, . "We have a chap named Ma~sm- gale who confessed to these ~?mes on three different occasions, Bald William Saunders, Lucas' defense counsel for the Jacobs and Garcia slayings.

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;;J._ Cf.c::::;-s BOB GRIESER / Loo Angeles Time, Jamfkt!urns, dean of University pf San Diego's school of business, in front of school's new and impressive Olin Hall - S.D. Business Schools Study Their Future Course By GREG JOHNSON, Times St.a// Writer

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Massingale, who ~Jlent 10 m_onths m County Jail awaiting trial m the Jacobs ca e, was arrested largely on the statements of two peoJ)le who said that he boasted, in precise detail. about murdering a woI!lan named "Sue Ann" and her son m a town east of San Diego. . I In two tape-recorded interrog.a- tions, Massingale admit~ed g111lt. I Massmgale's lawyers, pomtmg out that Massmgale is illiterate and has an IQ in the 60s, claim that the confession was coerced. Massingale later recanted his statements. Last fall, Massingale's atto~eys alerted detectives to the possibility of similarities between the Jacobs I killings and the slayings of Strang l and Fisher. After Lucas was charged in the Strang, Fisher and

the building and computers arrived en masse when the Olin Founda- lion provided a $4.5-million grant that funded "everything you see walking around" the building, "It takes some time to build a machine, but when you put it together, you can do something with it," Burns said, adding that the school's faculty is ready to expand its graduate course offerings. Capitalizing on what Burns called the school's growing "inter. national" expertise, the university this fall will begin a master's program in international business. USD also is in the final stages of creating a master's degree in ac - countancy, Burns said. Down the line, he added, USD might offer courses aimed at San Diego Coun- ty's growing number of entrepre- neurs. He also is considering a program geared toward managers in the financial sector. Attradive Potential Reed Powell, incoming dean at United States International Uni- versity's School of Business and Management, said he was attracted to the business school by its poten- tial to assist managers who are; "reaching out to the internationa, marketplace. Outreach is the best thing that could happen to a coun- try that needs to be a world-class competitor." Powell, most recently a professor at cra:~~i~Pot_ytechnic Unive~si- tyf a,_ said he was at flI'st "not interested" in the job. "But .. . I realized that USIU can be a real leader in terms of helping the United States to build bridges, relationships and understanding with the world." Powell said he has three goals at USIU: helping U.S. companies reach new international market- places; providing a forum for gov. ernment, business and the not- for-profit sectors, and helping the university "be a good citizen in the San Diego community." Burns Said.

c'?:l.nued from Pare 2A the state system's low salary schedules. That changed last year when the state legislature in- creased salary caps for university professors. As a result, the eight faculty members SDSU has hired for the 1985-86 school year are more than were hired in the last However, Bailey said the college deliberately limited its hiring dur- mg recent years, opting instead to limit the number of students it accepted. That helped SDSU main- tain a higher-quality faculty. Some business schools that added faculty instead of limiting enrollments are faced with accreditation questions. The national association that ac- credits business schools is con- cerned that some of those hastily hired professors, saddled with ad- vanced duties too early in their careers, are not able to produce high-quality research. Bailey said the college, which lost faculty to out-of-state compet- itors with fatter pocketbooks dur- ing the early part of the decade, is back on the hiring track. He said the 1984 addition of Chee W. Chow, an "outstanding" accounting de - partment professor who was hired to fill an endowed position, helped attract several of the accounting professors who will be on campus in the fall. More Competitive Chow's decision to JQm SDSU -coupled with awareness of Cali- for nia's new salary sched- ules-should make SDSU even more competitive when it comes to hiring, Bailey said. "This will be a year of dissemi- nating information," Bailey said. "We'll get the word out at various professional meetings and sow the seeds for future hiring." Burns said the USD business school's physical plant and teach- ing staff are in line with the plan he created in 1974. "Of course, if you asked what we needed around here (in 1974) I'd have said a building, more students, computers, library books and fac- ulty," Burns said. The number of students, faculty members and library books grew/ steadily during the past decade b;rl' four years combined.

Trying to be all things lo all people is not sound business practice. With that m mind, San Diego's graduate and undergraduate schools of business are building on existing programs rather than branching out into new territory. "We can't afford to use the shotgun approach anymore," summed up James Burns, dean of the University of San Diego's School of Business Administration. "We can't do everything people want; we have to use a rifle approach." Because of those limitations, USD's business school in 10 years "will be known for four or five quality programs" at the graduate level, Burns said. Those offerings, he added, will be tailored to meet the needs of San Diego's business community. "You go through cycles that include periods of maintenance and periods of new issues," said Allan Bailey, dean of Deigo State University's College of Business Administration. "We're m the m1ddle of continuing issues now." Bailey said the college's priorities include generating more private donations and bolstering "community awareness" of SDSU's business school programs. Obviously, the availability of funds is the bo om line that dictates how much area business s hools will accomplish during the coming decade. Bailey said financial pressures have historically haunted business schools that must lure Ph.D. instructors from a pool that is not large enough to meet nationwide demand. An obvious problem, Bailey said, is that the universities generally can't compete with the hefty salary and benefits packages offered by industry. Alumni Donations "We have the same problems that the people at Genera,! Dynamics have," Burns said. "You get the guy with a five- or six-bedroom house and a half-dozen acres in Connecticut and he tells you he can live with a $60,000 mortgage and just a couple acres. Yes, we've lost a couple of people because of the costs of living here." Al SDSU, Bailey relies on donations from the college's alumni and friends to help cover the costs of recruiting instructors: Although the state covers travel expenses for candidates, public funds cannot be used to house them or their spouses overnight. The college's Century Club last year donated $32,000, which Bailey used to cover some recruitment expenses and underwrite the college's small faculty travel budget. SDSU's business college hiring has been hindered more, thoughJ by ---~-~---~---~Please see SCHOOLS, Pagf 2B

BOB GRIESER / Loo Angeles Times Allan R. Bailey, dean of San Die o State's school of business.

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