News Scrapbook 1989

National City CA (San Diego c~.) Star News (Cir. 2 x W. 3,336) (Cir. S. 3,301) 1989 Ch ula Vista CA (San Diego Co. ) Star /\'ews (Cir . 2 x W. 24 .4 18)

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.I Daily Transcript (Cir. D. 10,000)

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Last year t e o con- tinue fundmg the center, but on ly after a lengthy debate. It placed Grindle as chairman of the center with the charge of making chan ges. d Early this year, the center boar voted to go independent by bec~m- ing a "50lc corporation," mean'.ng an independent non-profit entity. USO President Author Hughes said no to that. Instead, he offered to inJect $30,000 into the center. . But the center's board stood its ground. It rejected the $30,000 a_nd again voted to go independent with conSJderation to movmg off t he USO campus to resolve USD's pro- blem with allowing an uncontroll- ed independent organization to operate on campus wi!h the ap- . pearance of a USO sanction. tThe tage That t the stage for last Thursday's negotiating eeNion in- volving: Hughes, USO Provost Sister Jly Furray, who is a Bar director; Gnndle; Bar President Marc Adelman, a center director; acting USO Law School Dean Grant Morris; Bar director Robert Baxley; USO law professors Charles Wiggins and Kevin Cole; and Kinnaird. Grindle said that if the Law Center board this week agrees to the compromise, then it will promptly begin a national 110arch for an executive director Hallstrom couldn't be reached to comment whether that position in- terested her. Said Grindle, "I don't know if that has anything to do wilh her involvement. She's been a wonderful participant. She's been very involved." ----~---" ar vo e

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inued from Page l A ' and control the Law Center as I joint venture und r a memoran dum of undentanding. Thus, thE Bar nd the university would still hold indir ct control of the center. Repre •ntativ of the universi- ty and th Bar m t last Thursday night and agreed to the utonomous board, pending ap- proval by the boards of the two as well by th now-advisory board nfthe Law Center. "[ w very excited by our ability to come to an und rstandin with th b r ,nd the university that the I w c ntn hould continue," said Gr nt Morn , acting dean of the USO L11w hool, on Friday. "It's our expectation that we'll be able to move forward with hiring an ex• t•cutlv director and implementmg program ." Techmcally, the Law Center board this week will vote whether to incorporate into the memoran- dum of under landing recently created bylaws thut define an autonomou board. "I thank w tisfied the e nee of what wa the concern" during the p t Revera! months, aid Webst r "Buzz" Kinnaird, a Bar and Law Center director. "We t lked ,n principle about a mod I th t everyone is comfortable with,'" aid I wyer Dan Grindle, cha1rm n of the Law Center board. Whil Crandle agreed to comment, he aid he preferr ·d to provide the inform ta n to involved parties Two Program& The Lav. C nt r conducts grant- funded leg I community rvice proJt·ct It current two programs, both led by progr m director Carol Ii II rom, re dmini termg 1m- migr,1hun 1mn sty here und set- ting up community dispute rcsolu• t1on centers m p rtner hip with tho City Attorney'& office. The Bar contribute $25,000 per year while USO provides two office and other equipment. Curnmtly. th center's board 11cts only an advisor, havmg to k ratific.ilton of any actio!lll from the university and the Bar The p t w year , Bar directors h ve grown dismayed that the univer ily exercised more control over the center than the Bar. "We're window dre mg," Bar and Law Center director Marshall Hockett aid in February, "We're tlr d of that"

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real estate development company based in Chula Vista, was recently honored by the 7 ,000-member ational Association of In- dustrial and Office Parks for his leadership in the real estate industry. Phair received the award at a recent conference in San Diego attended by San Diego's leading real estate de~eloper , architect , engineers, lenders and brokers. For the past two year , Phair has represented San Diego's com- mercial/industrial real estate in- dustry first as president of the Commercial/Jndu trial Council of the San Diego Building In- dustry Association and then as president of the National Association of Industrial and Qf. fice Parks. In those roles he was an advocate for protecting developers rights as well as work- mg with community groups and elected officials to find com- promi e solutions to the "no growth" movement in San Diego County. In addition to his local ac. tivities, Phair represented San Diego in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., meeting ~ith elected officials, so as to discuss the tate and national issues which affect real estate develop- ment in San Diego County.

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Phair, a native Chula Vistan, is a former officer of East Lake Development Company, v.,here he designed and built the first phase of lots and buildings in the Eastlake Busine s Center. He has been a featured speaker at many real estate development symposiums and has authored several articles on real estate development techniques and trends in local, regional and na- tional publication . Phair holds a M sters Degree in Business Ad - ministration and a Juris Doc- torate from the University o(San Dieso SchoaLof Law.

..All«11 ', ,. c. 8 I 888 ,, /"rhe American lnatitute of Real Eatate Appraiaara is offering eight courses in real estate appraising al the Universjty of San Diego from June 4 to 24. Cours include real tate appraisal principles, case studies in eal-estate valuation, resi- dential valuation, report writing and valuation analysis, standards of pro- fessional practice, litigation valua• tion, and capitalization theory and .,,- techniques. Costs vary from $450 to $200 per course. Call (312) 329-8559 or {312) 329-8567 for registra!iJ>n infor· mati~- ,2H~S_'?~ _,,.._._J Est.

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Peccorini 'kind and good man' Professor's death inJ:I Salvador called political assassination United Press lnte 111 atlona1 ')---Cf -lj'~ - . . suffering from incurable stomach WNG BEACH - FrancJo L. Pecc?rim taught at th e cancer, is not seeking another term. Peccorini, a retired California State San Diego College for Men Peccorini, a Salvadoran-born U.S.

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University at Long Beach professor assassinated in El Salvador, was re- ~~~:f:J:~~t ar who risked death to speak out against communism in the war-torn Central American country. Peccorini, in recent years a highly visible critic of El Salvador's govern- ment and of the political movements he charged aided leftist guerrillas, was shot three times in the chest Wednesday while driving in down- town San Salvador by a man using a :;~be;a:a:tt!:8 Police said Peccorini, 73, de- scribed by friends as a gentle man who looked every bit the humble phi- Iosophy professor that he was, died in a hospital a short time later. A U.S. Embassy spokesman termed the killing an "obvious politi- Peccorini taught at the San Diego College for Men in the early 1960s, before the merger that created the University of ~n Diego, a USD spokes~oma? said yesterday. VirginraTfinger, a professor at the ~ng ~ch university who headed its philosophy department in 1966 when Peccorini joined the school's faculty, remembered the former Jesuit priest as "a kind and good silencer-equipped pistol. cal assassination."

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"He was a commer;it.ttor or the • scene," said Dan Guerriere, a profes- sor at California State University at Long Beach who shared an office with Peccorini and was one of his closest friends for more than 15 years. "He was not a political activ• According to Guerriere, Peccorini was a "gracious and compassionate" man who vigorously monitored the political events in Central American while at the Long Beach school and eagerly returned to his native coun- try to comment on what he viewed as the shortcomings of communism. Once in El Salvador, the former professor quickly became very vocal in his opposition to the leftist insur- In addition to supporting ARENA, which is widely believed to have ties to El Salvador's right-wing death squads, Peccorini also was active in the Pro-Rescue Committee which opposes what it views as in~reased Marxist activity at the national uni- ist." gency.

'We have come a long way in becoming aware' ofMartin Luther Kin~ 's concern for human rights, but bigotry and prejudice continue to pervade the public sector.

Blacks were also denied entrance to restaurants, parks and hotels used by whites and could occupy only a "few seats reserved for us in the back of buses," King said. Local blacks recalled similar scenes in San Diego before 1964. Mi1ler said in the 1950s and early '60s blacks could not get jobs in the professions or skilled trades and could not stay in hotels or be served in restaurants. Audrey Chung, former Diocesan Pastoral Council chairperson and parishioner of St. Rita Church, San Diego, said a lunch counter in a downtown dime store and a cafeteria 1-.ere the only places that served blacks 10 the 1950s. She remembers being refused service by a white dentist m the 1940s. Ruth Hatcher of Christ the King Church recalled applying for a job as ticket clerk in a local theater and being told she was not qualified. "There were no blacks in those positions," she said. These respondents agree with Coretta King who told USD students that racism has not been erased in the nation. . "Racism is alive, well and flourishing m San Diego," which reflects a "worldwide attitude of white superiority," Hatcher said. She noted recent distribution of Ku Klux Klan fliers at Patrick Henry High School, San Carlos; graffiti sprayed on the walls of Tifereth Israel synagogue, San Carlos; and a resurgence of local influential white supremacist groups. Chung said she feels racism is responsible for the Port Commission's failure to name the new San Diego convention center after Manin Luther King.

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Recounting a conversation she bad with Peccorini during his final visit to Southern California two weeks ago, Ringer said, "The last thing I said to him before he left was I think you keep too high a profile down Ringer said Peccorini returned to El Salvador last week "because be wanted to be sure to be in his country - and that's what he called it, his at the time of the elec- country - Salvadorans hold presidential elec- lions Sunday. Recent polls show ARENA presidential candidate Al· fredo Cristiani ahead of Fidel Chavez Mena, the candidate of President Jose Napoleon Duarte's Christian Democratic Party. Duarte, who is !ions." there." "But he felt he was perfectly safe," she said.

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ccording to tht· Vatic<1n document on ran rn, "th,· school provides the occa ion for th ch1ldn·n of 1nirnigr,mts to mix with the d1ildrcn of the re, eiving country ... to help both group to know one another hettrr und pr p,1rr ,, more harmonious coex, tcnre." Smee 1984, nunority students have d I, lwn·n 10 ,rnd 13 percent of one 5, 00 tudrnts, .irrording to un , din·< tor of USD's News

CIVIL R~GHTS ADV~CATE - Coretta Scott King addresses students and staff at the Unive~s1ty of San_ Diego March 8. S~e said contact among different races is the most effective way to_ improve race relations and urged the university to provide scholar- ships for minority students and tenured faculty and administrative positions for blacks. seminars dealing with racial prejudice. USD's Social Issues Committee, composed of administrators, faculty and A ociated Student representatives, The county

also mirrors national unemployment figures for blacks, said state Employment Development Depanment spokesm Jack Nowell, citing 1980 census figures. In her talk King said unemployed blacks outnumber their white counterparts 2·l. She described her husband 's nonviolent resistance to the "host of indignities and humiliations" suffered bv blacks before passage of the Civil Right~ Act of 1964. King said she walked four miles to an elementary school in Alabama while white pupils rode buses. Living in "segregated communities with few city erv,ces," blacks were denied employment opportunities, decent wages, voting rights and justice in the courts, she explamed. ---~---- ~~----~-

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/WOMEN'ST~IS H~I.Yl;; of SAn Diego defeated Iowa, 9-0, m a nonconfer- ence match. Aby Brayton (No. l) and Jenni- fer Larking (No. 2) won singles matches for USO 03-4), before teamming for another victory No. 1 doubles. __. ,..,

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ponsors up to 24 such sessions a year, aiming "to raise awareness of social issues, including racism,•• Nunes explained . King said, "We have come a long way 111 becoming aware" of her husband' Lontern fur human rights, but bigotry a11d prejudite continue to pervade the public ector In 1955 there were fewer than lOO blark elctted officials in the Untted St cs, as opposed to 7,000 today, she said However, this number represents onb, l .5 p,•rrcnt of all elected officials, ..,/ulc Afro-American tomprise J J J)t'a-ent of th" U.S population. John Miller, council representative to ,n Diego Counnlman We Pratt and J.l.:lri h1011t'r of Christ the King Church, 1 mated bl.ic-ks to comprise 10 percent of , ,,n Diego County' population and less th, n l pern·nr of its elected officials.

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The commission's proposal to have King's name first in the center's terrace level "Avenue of Honors" 1s "Pablum for the baby to keep us quiet," Chung said. Miller said the "perception exists in San Diego that "blacks are not qualified for the professions." He hailed' the Vatican document on racism, saying, "If it had come 10 years earlier, there would be more blacks in the Catholic Church." Miller said he agrees with the document's statement: "To overcome disc~im_ination, a community must rntenonze the values that inspire just laws and live out, in day•to·day life, the conviction of the equal dignity of all/

Selmer defeated U Stewart in No. 1 doubles 2-6, 6· , 6-4, but the host Toreros beat the Big Green, 7-2, in a ~tational men's tennis tournament semifinal match. USD (15-3), the two-time defending tournament champion, will play Yale in the finals today at 2 p.m. on USD's West Courts. The Bulldogs beat Princeton in the other semifinal, 5.4 Host Brigham Young beat Sa~ Diego State (8·6) in a non-conference women's match, 6--3 ... USD's women (13-4) beat visit-ing Iowa, 9-0. «:1

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