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~m \)1P90, CA \&lo O1e\]O Co .) Sao Diego Uoi oo \Cir. 0 . 217 ,089) \Ci r. S . 341 ,840) . , -~-an thinks Toreros are better, ey'l have to prove it early

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IEWS: Dean under fire ~ntinued From R q 5 5 . The Rev ~~ymond 0. Ryland, pro-

Catholic leaders criticize Ll

, / Ji ouster of pro-choice dean

!:rd~pmt which guides us,' Hughes owever, Ryland said the Stra- cha.n ap~omtment "jus~ marks anoth- rrsoteF m ~e co~tmumg erosion of athohc university." He Fccused Hughes and Sister Sally a~JaY., kl!SD provost, ~f "going out sc~O::;cd~~~ a pro-ahortiomst" as law a Maybe she tried to hide her pro- :~IO~-~n~enc!es more _th~n other h Pe . 1 1 , ut if t~ey d1dn t know and 1t:as come out very negl[g~n~~wRyla~de~atdhey were m eta ets protestmg the appo1Dt- en were d1str1buted by abortion opponents at the recent Rosaries for 8 a as a v:~/~~~;or - L fl ' . 1 · Peace cr11Sade at the _USD Anol her group, Cathohcs Concerned for Life, sen_t protest letters to uni- ~::~tlh~fC~~~~nand forwarded cop- tadium

fes or of rehg1ous studies at USO and a USD law school graduate said ' . would be a very good thin :, for th1! council to take up the matt~r A diocesan source said that the Strachan appointment is not on the council meeting's agenda but that the ;;~ter could be raised by any mem- In an Aug. 4 interview m The Tri- bune, Strachan described herself as "pro-choice" on abortion. In an at• tempt to clarify her position, St ra- chan said m an Aug. 22 letter to the newspaper that 1t wa her "private conviction" that abortion s 'morally of the government" s6esa,d"trus1on Said Mooney: .. ·u you're morally to It, you should try t change the law, not accept it." 0 Strachan's argument that tho h bundi of baloney~~c!~~!s!\•d 15 '1'11_1 against abortion my elf but i believe women have th · ht t k"ll their babies·" Moone; ~~,d ?Th~t doesn't mak~ any sense to me· , be~oonerhsald_ he found it difficult to they couldn t fmd a Catholic lawyer or jun t who s against abortion" The only USD res onse · tions from The Triliune ai~utqutchse- era ic1 ms of Strachan came m a written statement from USO Pre i- dent Author E Hughes who dealt olely With th charge that USD has become less Cathol1·c a "ll"rc's a ' · woman who's saying ieve t ~t m this whole country ·t . , som ho Hughes said that ince its loundmg in 1949 U, D ha operated in a man r 'con I tent with church teachm and has enioyed mutually sup frt- mg relationships" with bishops J the °:' San Diego Diocese. He cited its campus ministr gram. classroom discussions cal is ues and students' commumty volunteer service a exam I f . Catholic identity and comJit~~n/lS ro- oi :h1• are Catholic in naml only or lha~ USD favors abort10n is either una• ware of or is ignoring a lot of history curr~nt activity on our campus and oppo ed fg~s~~ 1~ 0 1 !~~rtion, s_he_ feeis b_o~~d Ca) . · hog .th charge "misguided " "Anyone who reall believes ,:V wrong" However h legal, it sho~ld ;e~~;;a cis1on ''without the 1m ·ed ·

Proctor, pastor of Corpus Christi Church in Bonita, said he had n_o plan to raise the issue but would vo1~e his opposition to the appointment 11 the issue came up. "l thmk the problem is that whoev· er selected her as dean betrayed the Catholic identity of the university," Proctor said. "I don't know Professor Strachan, and I have no reason _to suspect that she's anything but sm· cere, but my problem is that. th?5e who selected her as dean, by p1clung a pro-abortion feminist, have be· trayed the Catholic identity of the university "What her appointment reveals IS that there is a misguided desire on the part of the administration of USD to pass themselves o[I as very broad- minded. It may indicate an emb~r- rassment on their part concerning Catholic moral leaching. but most probably it reveals a misguided at- tempt to appear br ad-minded." Please re VIEWS: -6, Col. 5

ouster of Dean Kristine Strachan. Mooney said opposition to . Stra- chan's appointment runs deep in ~be San Diego Diocese and the appoint- ment raiseS questions about whether USD is truly a Catholic university. "Whether there's any ability to co- alesce the individuals and groups to- gether to get her out of there and buy out her contract, we don't know," Mooney said. "There's no reason a woman like that should be in that position." Strachan 45 a University of Utah Jaw prof~r. 'was appointed in Apr~! to take over the USD Jaw school this fall. She succeeded Sheldon Krantz, who remains on the faculty. Strachan is out of town and could not be reached for comment on the movement to oust her. Mooney said he has suggested to the Rev. John G. Proctor Jr., a mem· ber of the Presbyteral Council, that Proctor bring up the Strachan. mat- ter at tomorrow's council meetmg.

m n cla is a good as last year·s," said Egan. ''But they won't start llke the freshmen did last year. That's good because they won't have any und p ure on them, but for com• pclitors it's gomg to be tough not being on floor 'Th y're good enough athletical- ly ' Egan said be expects to see a marked difference in the Toreros' performance level over la t year. I do f I we are quicker and over- all bav better athletes than e've had the last couple years," Egan 1d T e Torero season begms with ex bit ons against the Au tralian au nal Team ov 3 and Athletes In Action ov. 16. The pre-confer- nce sch dulc leatures a stretch from Dec 2 9 m which USD will t Jo m N w York City as pa t of a t d tournament, face San Diego h Sports Arena and take o a Pauley Pavi- hon. "We feel bite .,., ve upgraded the hedule,' Egan said. "We think we ve improved ID a lot of ways, now we've got to go o l and prove it."

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come un r increasing criticism from Catholic priests, educato~ and abortion opponents for appointing a law school dean with pro-choice view , and at least one priest is lead- ing an effort to oust her. The Rev William Mooney of Blessed Sacrament Church in San Diego has urged the Presbyteral Council, a Roman Catholic clergy- men's orgamzation, to push for the

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Notes - Kelvin Mean has trans- ferred to Fr no State and is playing wid receiver on that school's foot- ball team . eal Meyer, a fresh- man guard from Scottsdale, Anz., ulfered an ankle injury on the open• mg day f practice, Oct 15, and will be out for the ason .. Mike Legar- za, a tStanl coach, ha left the Toreros to become bead coach at Canada Community College in Red-

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arous:d univrs1t~ had previou ly ptro ests rom some Catho- 1cs over wo peaking wh; :;gau d re ~~ngton, an_ att?rney the Roe vs. Wade case m which the ~::;;fi~e Court struck down most re- 1973 _ e sta te laws on abortion m wr~rhohcs Concerne~ for Life also tive-~i;~h;3 protestmg a reproduc- dorum conducted Friday un er auspices of the USD ~1h:plrr of the Ameri~an Civil Liber• nion. Cathohcs Concerned ! 0 [ir~e:.."capitulation to 1· by S h W d . engagements or e pro-choice side ID . at USO 5 ~:~l-~~~~ 0 oh the groups letter were v:ticin ts op Leo T. Maher and the Co ie f . . e t r~-

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After the accident Cunningham began each practice with an update on Schwindl's condition. A psycholo- gist also spoke with the players to help them deal with their feelings. One of the things the psychologist mentioned was how the healing pro- cess could be helped by the good-na- tured ribbing that goes on among ballplayers. That's exactly what has happened. "About seven of them came in when I first went into rehab, and we were ragging on each other," said Schwindt. ''I'm a pretty stubborn per- son and they ragged on me because the ball ricocheted all the way back against the fence behind home plate. They said it was no surprise because I'm so hard-headed." Said Stumpfl: "We went over and talked to him for a while and he was just Adam. He lives on junk food. I knew he was all nght when I saw him drinking a Pepsi and eating Cheetos and trying lo get us to bring him something from McDonald's. As a matter of fact, I think one of the other pitchers brought him a chew. That's when you really knew he was OK." There is one subiect for which Schwindl's teammates no longer will be ragged. "I'm the only biology major on the team and everybody else is a busi- ness major," said Schwindt, whose interest in becoming a doctor has been inlensilied. "I always hassle them about how they don't know any- thing about medicine. I can't hassle them anymore. I would have bet a million dollars they would have fall- en apart. I can't believe what they did. I'm very amazed - and very happy."

walk agam." said Schwindt. "Then they ran a lot of tests to see how my memory was and all that When they lirst put a piece of paper in front of me, I couldn't even read what it said. It's been a weird situation for me the last four weeks, but I feel good and I feel normal right now 'Tm hoping to get my body in tune to get back on the baseball field, and I want to get my mind ready to go back to school. I haven't picked up a 'I basically had to learn how to walk again. Then they ran a Jot of tests to see how my memory was and all that.' - Adam Schwindt baseball yet, but I'll probably be playing catch with my little brother tomorrow." • • • The emotional impact of such a traumatic experience is often the most diflicult thing to overcome, not only for the person injured but for those who were involved in the acci- dent. "For a while there, every time somebody hit one back through the middle everybody would freeze," said Stumpfl. "Seeing as he's OK and that he will be back has helped ev- eryone relax."

• • • Schwmdl underwent three hours of surgery at Sharp Memorial Hospital to remove a blood clot near his brain. He was in a coma for the next week. "It's very difficult to look into your child's eyes and not see anything there," said Adam's father, John Schwindt. "It's just scary. You don't think of the vulnerabilitv. You don't realize bow vulnerable you are and how you can only protect your kid from certain hings. "We haven't had a death in our family for a while, so we haven't been exposed to that kind of critical- ness for quite a while. He and his little brother (12-year-old Andy) are each other's biggest fans and it was pretty hard on the little one. Part of that is because there was no progress for a time." Tnitially, doctors could do little as they waited for swelling to reduce around Schwindt's brain. "When he lirst went in I was told he was going to be m the hospital for a long time," said Cunningham. "They didn't want to hazard a guess, but they said it would be a number of months. They thought he might have some speech impairment and some motor-skill impairment. "A week ago last Thursday the neurosurgeon told his dad that he would probably be in intensive care for at least another three weeks and in the hospital for another month or so after that." Schwindt made a rapid recovery, even though he had to relearn many of the things we take for granted. "I basically bad to learn how to

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How USD players saved 'l~'a teammate from death I/~ nt :-IDY' back was to the pla~mg fl~ld at USO s Cunrungham tadium a he put away hlS batting helmet In the dugout Bundy didn't see what happened. He didn't There were two distinctive sounds. One came w1thm a sphl second of the other. They may be the sweetest and sickest sounds 10 sports. · · h b 11 " ''You love to hear that solid sound of the bat h1ltmg t e a , said Bundy "But the next sound I heard was a dull thud." HIS reaction: 'Instant fear." Bundy's worst [ears were conlirmed when he turned around. USD pitcher Adam Schwmdt lay motionless on the ground be- hind the mound. Schw1Ddt had been struck in the head by a line drive, the ball hittmg him ju above the right ear. need to e 1t. He heard it. . . . By Kirk Kenney Tribune,portswnter DE\'I . '

'Th ydtd8 fantastic job. I ow them a lot It's good to beoutofthehospitalandat home There ·s really nothing r wrong. My memory is OK and physically I feel pretty good f'm really happy with

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TENNIS - ·u hold a day-long clin- ic for San Diego's top junior 1ennls players Sunday. Ed Collina, USO men's tennis coach will conduct the clinic along with varsity team members. Cost Is_J35. }'or mformahon, call 260-4803. 'iA>fj':J • • •

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hwtndt ahv and well tod y of the calm d1 played by htS t ammates In an em rgency. "Th y d1d a fantastic Job," stud Schwmdt, 20 speakrng from his home n Rancho Palos Verd one month to the day after the accident. "I owe th m a lot It' good to be out of the h p1tal nd at horn There's really n thmg wrong My m mory is OK and phys! lly I feel pretty good. I'm really happy with my pro r . Good and quick" hwlndl spent 28 days in the hos- p ta I He w m a coma the first k nd m the intensive care unit for three w ks. He went through re• hab htation exerc the la t week befo being sent home Friday. Th only thing faster than Schwindt' r ov ry a the fast ac- tion tak n by his t mmat "Th Job that wa don was don right her on the field," ld USD a

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ADAM CHWINDT coach John Cunmngham, who was out of town with the Toreros football team Sept. 23 when the accident oc- curred "Had there been a trainer here ~r had we been here, I don't know 1f we would have handled it as well You never know what you're going to do in an emergency situa- bon. "They stopped the bleeding, treat- ed him for shock, kept him from swallowmg ht tongue and waited for the paramedics. In the meantime, they had ent other guys to get help. The paramedics were here with1D 10 minutes and within 20 minutes he wa in surgery. That's probably what

Jllkri'• P. C. 8 F.,r. 1888 s~~f }2-' priests, educators and abortion op- o ents are criticizing theJ,lniver- £ San Diego for appointing a law school dean with pro-choice The Rev. William Mooney of the lessed Sacrament Church in San [)iego is pushing for the ouster of ristine Strachan from the Catho- ic university. He said opposition to her appointment as law school "Whether there's any ability to coalesce the individuals and groups ogether to get her out of there and uy out her contract, we don't now," Mooney said. "There's no reason a woman like that should be J;t ·ews. ean is great.

the Catholic identity of the univer- sity," Proctor said. "I don't know Professor Strachan, and I have no reason to suspect that she's any- thing but sincere, but my problem is that those who selected her as dean, by picking a pro-abortion feminist, have betrayed the Catho- lie identity of the university." University President Author E. was to say that the university had not lost its Catholic identity. "Anyone who really believes we are Catholic in name only or that aware of or is ignoring a lot of his- tory, current activity on our cam- pus and the spirit which guides us,"

pointed in April to take over the USD law school. She was out of town Tuesday and could not be reached for comment. She has described herself as "pro-choice" on abortion, but then said in a letter to the San Diego Tribune that it was her "private conviction" that abortion is "mor- the Rev. John G. Proctor, a mem- ber of the Presbyteral Council, that Proctor bring up the matter at a meeting of the clergyman's orga- said he would voice his opposition to the appointment if the issue ally wrong."

Mooney said he has suggested to Hughes' response to the criticism

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Strachan, 45, a former Universi-