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

Anaheim,,_ CA (Orange 1.,0 .) Anaheim Bulletin (Cir . D . 14.405)

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In prot t, law tudent Gail Thome n d from the board of the USO Law &hool Women' Law Caucus - the group that invited Weddington, a former Texas legislator now in pri- vate practice and teaching law at the Umvers1ty of Texas. "It i inappropriate for an educa- tional lnst1 tution to engage in aca- demic cen or hip, Thorn said "Sarah Weddmgton 1s not some bum off the treet. She is a well-regarded attom y. She' a law professor. She' the younge t person to argue before the Supreme Court." Weddmgton argued the Roe vs. Wad ca 18 years ago, when she wa 25. R ached at her Austin office, Weddington declmed to enter the fray, yin only, "I've been Invited and m commg " r

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

The American Civil Liberties Union has withdrawn financial sup- port for Weddington's appearance, according to student Peter Allen of the campus ACLU liaison group.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 bear the message. In effect, that's censor-

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student of math teacher Jaime Escalante who was featured in the award-winning movie "Stand and Deliver," will speak at the University of San Diego at 7 p.m.'rnormtar,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 with Escalante and for 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

/4WJ,li9:11 in~ new, An~r~ of Anaheim is one of 62 , Universit y of San 1 o udcnts named to the 1988 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. Stu- dents arc included in the an- scr- vi~e to the community, leader- .ship . in extracurricular ~ctivites and Potential fo 1 con tmued success. Students have been honored in the annual Who's Who directory since 1934, nual ~1rcctory hased on a~ad m,c achievement,

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By TOMDRESSIAR SACRAMENTO - The Center for Pub- lic Interest Law at the Qnivcrsity of San Dic"o - which played a key role m re- forming lhe State Bar's lawyer discipline system - plans to open a new branch of- fice in Sacramento, theDaily Journal has learned. Steven Barrow, currently a lobbyist for C lifornia Common Cause, will direct the office, which will beef up public interest research and legislative activiti in Sac- mento. Barrows 'd, ''I hope to have the doors open by ch 1." The office will have an initial annual budget of $40,000 to 50,000, Barrow said, and a two-person staff that includes him- self and a part-time assi tant. Five Bill Areas Barrow said ce Will concentrate on "five bill areas" in his duties as the Cen- ter's legislative advocate. The bill areas include reform oflegisla- tive ethics, political campaigns, the Board ofMedical QualityAssurance, and state agencies, and conflict of interest legislation governing the election of the

state insurance commissioner. Barrow said, "One of es we will be dealing th iJutiajly is the Board of Medical Quality Assurance." The board has come under criticismfor allegedly maintaining a lenient system for disciplining miscreant doctors. Sen. Robert Presley, D-Riverside, has intro- duced a skeletal bill that addresses the tateNews 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 Fe i:tb won an ap- pointment as the bar's DisciplineMonitor and was instrumental in devising the new ID.wyer discipline system. Fellmeth said the Center recently won a grant to create a California Child Advo- cacy Institute, which will conduct re- search and education programs and toughest is-.

"defend the rights of children in !iealth and safety issues.'' He said Barrow will play a major role in getting that project off the ground. "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 agencies are based and meet in Sacra- mento....We'll definitely make our pres- ence felt." Barrow said he will handle the same issues he handles with Common Cause, ''.just more of them." He said, "I feel like I'm stepping over and beefing up the pub-

lie interest ranks I'll be working closely with Common Cause. I think it's kind of exciting." The Center, Barrow aid, 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 andmaturi- ty. He knows legislators and their staff, and he's trusted." Walter Zelman, executive director of California Common Cause, 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 • nted." Zelman said if Com on Cause cannot quickly find a replacement for Barrow, "he may stay on for a while in a dual capacity."

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 123,064)

/BU 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 ofpublic interest groups in the Capitol. .> .c: USD stirs firestorm in barring public from aborti0n speech .:zrs Richard Core

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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 Catholic university in 1987. "USO 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 speak," Furay said. "During the intervening time there has been no equivalent, the USO students have not mvited an equivalent - which means a nationally known speaker with alternative views - to speak at a public forum. So we decided not to open it to the public a second time." To the student charges of censorship, Furay replied: "They can view it any way they want. I don't see it that way." .;;.__ ___

nd Rit-a Calvano TrlbuQe Stall ff'nt 1'11 .As the U . Supreme Court considers a a that could alt Am rica's abortion s, administrators at the University of San iego ar refusing to grant a puoTic-rormn c mpus the lawyer who successfully rgued Roe vs Wade 16 years ago. Sarah Weddington, the Texas lawyer who p rsuaded the upreme Court to legalize abortion in 1973, is scheduled for a March 10 peech t the invitation of the law school's omen's Law Caucus. But university administrators have told the student organization that only students nd faculty will be allowed to hear Wedding- ton's talk. AI; a result of the university's position, one organization has withdrawn its support and he leader of the Women's Law Caucus has tigned her post in protest. L" J -

One of those students claiming censorship is Gail Thorne, 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," Thorne said. "I thought it was wrong for an educational institution to do that." Thorne said the women's caucus decided against moving Weddington's speech off campus because they wanted to maintain its emphasis as an event primarily for law stu- dents. 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, Thorne said. Weddington's expertise on reproductive-rights issues was also viewed as timely, given the Supreme Court's recent decision to consider the con- stitutionality of a Missouri law that chal-

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. 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 change its position, she 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 university insisted. "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

the legal underpinnings as anyone would be as the Supreme Court faces the abortion issue again." After the university placed the restrictions on Weddington's speech, the American Civil Liberties Union withdrew its support. "Effectively, what they're doing is censor- ship," said Peter Allen, director of the ACLU's campus branch. "Censorship in its tradi 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 much censorship as telling Sarah Wedding- ton she couldn't speak on certain topics." Despite the debate surrounding her pres- entation, Weddington said she'll deliver the same message. "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- fice in Austin, Texas.

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P. C:. 8 fo IRU Channel !O'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 cel- 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 . . . SOSU'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 hasketbalt" game toniglit at 8 on Channel 4. What's notable: The video and audio were produced by the San Diego City College sportscasting class, over which Fred Lewis pre- sides ...

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The San Diego Umon l'J'om Kurtz schools march belate IY y~terday at USO In celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday. -