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by Roe vs. Wade attorney closed have a whole lot of time to be fight- ing battles. We're all feeling the pressure," she said.

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Deliver'' Student to Speak at USO former student of math teacher Jaime Escalante who was featured in the award-winnin g movie "Stand and Deliver," will speak at the University of San Diego at 7 p.m.'Tnnrsday;' Feb. 23 in the University Center Forum. Medina was Escalante's student at Garfield High in Los Angeles for three years and was class valedictorian. She also worked for Escalante as a tutor and will soon graduate from Cal State Los Angeles this spring. Her talk at USO will focus on Escalante's teaching methods which gained him notoriety after several of his students passed the difficult Advanced Placement math test. She frequently speaks wit h Escalante and fo r FASE (Foundation for Advances in Science and Education), both locally and nationally. Medina's visit is sponsored by the USO Social Issues Committee and the Associated Students. The speech is free and Nora a

In protest, law student Gail Thome res.igncd from the board of the USO Law School Women's Law Caucus - the group that invited Weddington, a former Texa legislator now in pri- vate practice and teaching law at the University of Texas. "II is inappropriate for ar. educa- tional institution to engage in aca- demic censorship, Thorne aid. "Sarah Weddington is not some bum off the street. She is a well-regarded attorney She's a law professor. She's the youngest person to argue before the Supr me Court." Weddington argued the Roe vs. ca e 18 years ago, when she was 25. Reached at her Austin office, Weddington declined to enter the fray ymg only, "I've been invited and I'm corning " Wad

Student Denbigh Dickson, presi- dent of the fledgling Women's Law Caucus, said the board assumed it would be able to open the speech to the public, and therefore seek spon- sors to help pay Weddington's $2,500 fee and expenses. the restrictions were an- nounced this month, board members considered moving the speech off- campus, Dickson said, but then de- cided to comply with the restrictions the university imposed. "It's a really difficult situation we're in. The organization is run by first-year law students; we don't When

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The American Civil Liberties Union has withdrawn financial sup- port for Weddington's appearance, according to student Peter Allen of the campus ACLU liaison group. "We withdrew, effectively, be- cause the censorship was imposed," he said. "They were probably hoping the event would be canceled. Now they're limiting the audience, which doesn't allow the public to hear the message. In effect, that's censor-

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µ<,;'"?BJ' in~ news Anne Par~ of Anaheim is one of 62 , University of San _ eigo students named to the 1988 edition of Who's Who A~ong _Students in American Umvers1t1es and Colleges. Stu- dents are included in the an- nual directory based on academic acl:)ievement, ser- vi~e to the comrnun11y, lead r - ship . in t!Xtracurricular ~ctivites and potential for con- tinued success. Students have been honored m the annual Who's Who directory since 1934.

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I state insurance commissioner. es we will be dealing the Board of Medical Quality The board has come under criticism for allegedly maintaining a lenient system for disciplining miscreant doctors. Sen. Robert Presley, D-Riverside, has intro- duced a skeletal bill that addresses the Barrow said, "One of the toughest is. th iJ].itially is Assurance."

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SACRAMENTO -The Center for Pub- lie Interest Law at the Qnivcrsity of San - which played a key roTe in re- forming the State Bar's lawyer discipline syst~m - plans to open a ~ew branch of- fice mSacramento, the Daily Journal has Steven Barrow, <:urrentlya lobbyist for California Comm

The Center, Barrow said, possesses a "track record" of researching and ana- lyzing regulatory problems, then ap- proaching the Legislature and saying, 'This is what should done.' " Fellmeth said of Barrow, "When he says X, he means X. He is a public inter- est advocate with experience and maturi- ty. He knows legislators and their staff, and he's trusted." Walter Zelman, executive director of California Common Calllie, said, "Steve's been great for Common Cause. He's a true public interest type, If there is such a type. He's hard-workin , conscientious, and public-interested o ted.'' Zelman said if Com on Cause cannot quickly find a replacement for Barrow, "he may stay on for a while in a dual .capacity.''

"A very major hunk ofmy time," said Barrow, "will be working on looking at how the state deals with all of its child care issues." The Institute hopes to pro- pose comprehensive legislation in its sec- ond year of operation, he said. Fellmeth noted the Center previously had a Sacramento branch office, but closed it because the Centerwas primari- ly concerned with agencies based in San Francisco. Those agencies include the State Bar, state Insurance Department, the Public Utilities Commission, and the Board of Medical Quality Assurance. "We are opening up Sacramento again," Fellmeth said, "becausewe have a lot of stuff going on (there). A lot of

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subject, but Barrow said reform legisla- tion is a long-term project. Similar criticism resulted in Presley's 1988 legislation to overhaul the State Bar's attorney discipline system. Center Director Robert FeIJmeth won an ap- pointmentasthebar's DisciplineMonitor

S n Die90, CA (San Dicgo _Co.) Evening Tnbunc (Cu. D, 123,064) Jl.ll«rt'• Despite the loss of Barrow, Zelman said the Center's move "in some ways is a plus for us." He explained the develop- ment will enhance the presence of public interest groups in the Capitol. -C = USD stirs firestorm in barring public from abortion speech .z . und · ln the tourn ment w1 I he plnycd at lJSD ,nd £:1)..:itJ on Thlll'S· tley nnd l- nJ y. 'lhe Chum- ;,lon hip Finals will take plut" at the Uni~M·,1ty or <:, D i<'go West Cou,·t on S turd. Y, L limlna1y

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the legal underpinnings as anyone would be as the Supreme Court faces the abortion After the university placed the restrictions on Weddington's speech the American Civil Liberties Union withdre~ its support. "Effectively, what they're doing is censor- ship," said Peter Allen, director of the ACLU's campus branch. "Censorship in its onal form is the removing of contents. What they're just doing here is preventing an audience from hearing it. In effect, it's as muc censors, P as telling ~ah ~ed~ng- ton she couldn t speak on certain topics. Despite the debate surrounding her pres- entation, Weddington said she'll deliver the tra h hi "Nothing ever changes my speech but me so I'm going to say what I want to say,; Weddington said by telephone from her of. issue again." same message.

lenges the controversial Roe vs. Wade ruling. "She's not coming to talk about the morali- ty of abortion but 'to talk about the law,'' Thorne said her organization also had agreed that it would invite a noted authority to speak on the constitutional arguments against legalized abortion. The university apparently did not find the offer sufficient to Thorne said. Jack O'Donnell, president of the Student Bar Association, which helped pay some of the $2,500 fees and expenses for Wedding- ton's speech, said the nature of the lawyer's talk should not require the presentation of an alternative perspective or a debate as the "This is a matter of imminent legal inter- est and she's writing a (friend of the court) brief to the Supreme Court on the Missouri statute," O'Donnell said. "She is as close to change its position, she said. university insisted.

One of those students clamung censors p is Gail Thome, who resigned as chairwoman of the Women's Law Caucus. "I disagreed with complying with the re- strictions because I thought it was a form of censorship," Thome said. "I thought it was wro~~ for an educational institution to do T~orne sa1~ the wo~en s ~aucus dech1ded against moving Weddington s s~ . off campus_ because they wa_nted _to mamtain its emphasIS as an event primartly for law stu- Weddington, who argued the landmark abortion case at the age of 26, was invited to speak because members of the Women's Law Caucus saw her as a role model for women and law students, Thome said. Weddington's expertise on reproductive-rights issues was also viewed as tiJnely, given the Supreme Court's recent decision to consider the con- stitutionality of a Missouri law that cha!- that. . , . dents

Sister Sally Furay, university provost, said the administration's decision was based on a belief that public forums should offer oppor- tunities to understand more than one side of an issue, which she said had not happened since Weddington last visited the Roman "USD is committed to exploring all sides of an issue, and less than two years ago USO did provide a public forum for Ms. Wedding- ton, who had been invited by students to "During the intervening time there has been no equivalent, the USO students have not invited an equivalent - which means a nationally known speaker with alternative to speak at a public forum. So we decided not to open it to the public a second speak," Furay said. views - To the student charges of censorship, Furay replied: "They can view it any way they want. I don't see it that way." Catholic university in 1987. time."

As the U.S. Supreme Court considers a that could alt r America's abortion ws. adm101strators at the Uo,iversity of San 1ego are refusing to grant a pu6lic"tonnn on campus m th. lawyer who successfully rgucd Roe vs. Wade 16 years ago. Sarah Wc

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Channel lO's sportscasts on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will originate from the Padres' train- ing camp in Yuma. The shows will be bounced back to San Diego via satel- lite. Sports anchor Larry Sacknoff, sports reporter Rick Powers and a half-dozen technicians also will c11l- lect video for an April 2 preseason special . . . Daniels Cablevision, pri- mary cable operator in Carlsbad, Del Mar and Fallbrook, is offering the San Diego Sports Channel's package of 41 Padres home games free to its 42,000 subscribers - providing they take two or more pay channels (HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, The Disney Channel). The Padres package costs $140 for Cox and Southwestern sub- scribers . . . SDSU's baseball team goes coast-to-coast Sunday on ESPN. Fresno State is the opponent; Steve Physioc and former Padres manager Dick Williams are the announcers ... Cox Cable will carry a telecast of last week's USO-Loyola Marymount basketbali' game toniglit at 8 on Channel 4. What's notable: The video and audio were produced by the San Diego City College sportscastmg class, over which Fred Lewis pre- sides . ..

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