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San Diego. CA. (San o,ego Co.) S,in Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,089) (Cir. S. 341,840) JUN 2 2 rnilQ

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the view that such activity by a b1sn- op or episcopal conference constitut- ed interference by an outside agenl "Even when they do not enter di- rectly into the internal governance of the university, bishops should not be seen as external agents but as 1 par ic1pants m the ife o t e lie university," the congress said. Of Catholic universities, the con- said, ''The Catholic theology that is taught should be faithful tel the magistenum of the church." The Catholic Church permits vir• tually unlimited academic freedoni in all university d1sc1phnes, but ii teaches that no such freedom exist! in sdtled matters of faith and mor• The congress repeated the hrs1 draft's description of the Catholic umversity as part of the church'! mission. But in response to cnticism it distinguished between the church'. m1ss1on of evangelization and the teaching/research functions of a uni f h Ca tho- gr ls a ·. '·Wh le education and evangeliza- hon are 1elated, the university should not be described simply as 'an The United States has more than 230 Catholic colleges and r · ties. Many were established 1 ious orders, but many now 1 erned by mdependent boards tees, which often includ t - versity said.

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where burning is prohibited, said Kim-Thoa Hoang, the deputy city at• torney handling the case. The charge carries "• maximum penalty of 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fme. Schizas is scheduled to appear bhizas, who \I/Tote a statement de- scri ing th e ritual as a pseudo-relig- JOUS teaching process, was one of 27 ty's Sigma Chi fraternity chapter Hoang said the rangers supplied the names of the others and copies of ry 5 a ement Y another man but the seco d t ,.. h d n s a..,ment a to be thrown out because rangers did not read the man his rights before he told th em he had provided the gaso- hne, carried the cross acd lighted 1t. ''The evidence against the other 26 is weak," Hoang said. 'We only have Before the Sigma Chi group was apprehen ed, park range had found who took part. I ta t t b a vo un · th · " eir presence. in ~urt Sept. 6 -

preserve within a two-year period. The pTark is a protected area for the Schizas acknowledged in an inter- view that he had taken part in at eas one o er cross burning as a fraternity pledge. An official at the fraternity's national headquarters in Evanston, Ill., said the organization has been obliged to send out bulletins warning chapters against cross burn- ing every year for several years. Said ranger Wohl. ··We're pleased that we were able to uncover the cul- prits who were doing th1i; • Charles Reilly, USD director of public relations, said university olfi- c1als are still evaluating what, 1f any, d1Sc1plinary action the school will take against the fraternity chapter rare orrey pine tree. I t th 'The action by the city attorney will not affect our investigation or decision whether or not to impose disciplinary action," Reilly said. Tribune staff writer Darla Welles or any of its members.

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. The San Diego city attorn·ey's of- ice as c arged a University of San Di."gn stucieot wi th committing a misdemeanor by burning a cross in Torrey Pines State Reserve but de- cided against prosecuting 26 others who took. part in the fraternity ritual _A ranger who came upon the group minutes before the cross bum?d on a appointment with the decision not to f h h e students, in an anonymous let- er O apo ogy sent to media organ- izations soon after th e burmng. de- med that the ritual had any raciSt overt?nes Cross burning normally is associated wi t b th e Ku Klux Klan a nd . 0th er white-supremaciS t organ- e st udent charged. Jeffrey Schi- zas 21 • was accused Wednesday of sta rting a fire in an area of the park t 1 1 1zat1ons. Th prosecute all 27 , Def initely, th ey got off easy" Chief Ranger Bob Wohl said ' Th

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soc1 ty, bishops and episcopal con- ha ea responsibility to pro- t th e institution:; to thetr catholic identity," ferenc mote and a m mtam of 10 recommendations greed up0n by 175 Cathoh~ educa- tors from o tuuntn whu met re- tican with olhcials of th Congregat10n for Cathoh Educa• the secon ara t o a documcnt un Catholi higher educa- Uon to be written by Pope John Paul rently at ttie on to 1scu ti d d f f d Im d to comment on the docu• ment, which was made available to th pubhc only late last monlh by the US Catholic Con! r nee in Washing Th docum nt I be1ng prepared in re ponse to changing conditions f ced by Cathol1 colleges and um• to the offic1 I teachrng of the Catho- rburch at a time the theories of theologians have gained high vis1b1lity at ome catholic col• American Cath he college and un v rs1ty pr 1dents, includ10g Dr. negatively to cveral sections of the first draft I ucd In 1984, contending that 1t infringed on tlwir academic freedom and inst1tuUonal autonomy. They were particularly critical of a section asserting the nght of bi h- o to upenntend the teachmg of the Catholic faith ID a !Of.al Catholic col- lege as outsid lnterlerence and as a vtolat on of their academic reedom. h d Id nt I g and umvcr 1hes. Author E llagh of USD, reacted congr part,1c111i111LS 1d. Th is 011 11 llm:i:efl1t of n Diego officials ton D vers1t1 throughout the world Amaior ncem of the Vatican ts rema1D faithful that such mstltutio

viduais who demonstrate out standing achievement or merito- nous service in the performance of their duties on behalf of the Army. She 1s a tactical computer systems repairer with the 19th Signal Company. Education Michael J. O'Grady, a re,1 dent of Salinas, was among the 1,425 students receiving degrees from the Uni"mil..)'.Qf.San.Diego in May. O'Grady received his bacca- laureate degree in business eco• nomics. He plans to begin the mternational business masters program in the fall. He will be participating m the International Business Seminar Program in Asia for three weeks this sum- mer rl YOUR WINNING WAYS is a re- port on the accompllshmenls of local people and organizations Send items and photos to lhe Winning Ways Editor at P O Bo• 81091, Salinas, 93912.

Lisa Marie Agliano, a gradu- ate of Brigham Young Universi· ty School of Law, was among those who successfully passed the Slate of California Bar Ex• amination in February. Shl' was admitted to the practice of law following a June ceremony m San FrancJSco. Agliano is the daughter of Judge Nat A. Agli• ano of Salinas. She is also a graduate of the University of California, Davis I lJ Andrew Vonnegut, son of Arlene and Martin Vonnegut of Salinas, was recently elected to the Phi Beta Kappa al the Uni- versity of California. Santa Bar- bara. Military Spec. Laura L. Armbruster, daughter of John H. and Monica R. Hawthorne of Salinas, has been decorated with the Army Commendation Medal at Fort Huachuca, Ariz, The Army Commendation

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terpnse system, opening the door to predatory pricing and the eliminma- ·' tion of competition." Surpnsmg Edison lobbyists, the Senate Judiciary Committee recent- ly eliminated the Ed1son-SDG&E merger exemption irom the overall bill, which bad already been ap- proved by the Assembly. The mea- sure will be taken up again by the Senate committee at 1:30 p.m. Tues- dav for a formal vote. Killea said there is a chance the entire Senate would approve the measure without the exemption, which would mean an Assembly-Sen- ate conference committee would have to decide whether the exemp- tion remained. The overall bill has the strong backing of Attorney General John Van de Kamp who wants all business mergers to be subject to the state's antitrust laws.

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llal adverse effects on the price of energy and competition by such a large utility "are tremendous." Her statements were supported by Bob Fellmetb. head of ~ -Ulliveri;il!' oL San Di~o•s -'.:enter for _!'.!lblicJ!lte.r· es1Tow. and Fellmr ti> are opposed to only a portton oi the Assembly bill, an amendment that would ex- empt the Edisoa-SDG&E merger from scrutiuy on anti-trust grounds. The overall measure, introduced by Assemblvman Lloyd Connelly, D- Sacramentc, would once again man- date that bJsiness mergers be auto- matically evaluated on anti-trust grounds. Astate Supreme Court deci· sion last year specifically exempted mergers from the broad-based Cali· fornia laws governing anti-competi• tive acts. Fellmetk said the court's decision "jeopardizes California's free en-

By Charles W. Ross "'2 J An Assembly bill that would re- quire the Ed1son-SDG&E merger to automatically lace scrutmy on anti· trust grounds IS likely to be approved next week by a Senate committee, Assemblvwoman Lucy Killea, D-San Diego. said yesterday: The bill's fate ID tbe Senate, how- ever, is uncertam, said the lawmak- er, who noted that Southern Califor· nia Edison lobbyists are conducting an all-out effort to defeat the bill, AM7I. Edison bas contended the measure is not necessary because the state Public Utilities Commission is evalu- ating whether creation of the na- tion's largest utility would negative- ly impact competition among utili- ties in the Southwest. At a news conference on a down- town sidewalk, Killea said the poten- , ~taff \\r1 ter

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San Diego, CA. (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,089) (Cir. S. 341,840) 4 - 1989

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State park rangers urged the city attorney's office yesterday to hie misdemeanor charges against 27 Umvcrs1ty of San D90 students who they sayilfogallyriurn d a cross In a fraternity rttual at Torrey Pines State Res rve. Sigma Ch membc.rs in isted there were no ra I overtones to the cross-burning, a practice often asso- c I a ted w1lb white supremacist groups h as the Ku Klux Klan "This Just preparation before the imtiat1on," said Sigma Chi member Jeffrey Sch1zas, 21, who admitted to havmg taken part in a previou cross burning ceremony, as well as the one carried out May 20 on a moonlit bluff at the state park. The USD mor, who yesterday de- ribcd h1mself as the chapter organ• 1z r of actlVlti for new pledges, said, ''This whol (cross-burning) vent was In my understanding blown out of proportion " Torrey Pmes Park Supervisor Bob Wohl d1 agreed "Anyone who feels this IS being blown out of proportion is not seriously considering the con• sequences of his action in a respon• 1ble fa hion," Wohl said yesterday. Deputy City Attorney Kim-Thoa Hoang id she was still reviewing the lengthy report of the incident by Torrey Pmes park rangers. She said he did not know whether the office would charge any of the 27 Sigma Chi fratermty members or pledges named in th document. Hang are mg to have the students charged with committing a public nuisance and breaking state park regulation . Both are m1s- dem anors SchJZas, told of the rangers' action In a teiephope call to his home in Englewood, Colo., repeated apologies for the cro -burn1Dg. In an unsigned statement sent to the press after the mc1denl, fraternity members had apolog1,ed and said it would not be repeated. The negative public reaction to the cross-burning eems to have taken the fraternity members by surprise. Sch zas 1d he and the others at the time thought they were domg noth• ng wrong Park olflc·1al intercepted the fra- ternity brothers mmutes after they t flre to a 10-foot cross under a full moon. Eight charred crosses had n found m the park on previous ·ca Ion . lgma Chi members told rangers l ight they had no knowledge of the o incid nts but Wohl id ti IS not satl that the tudents w re telling the truth: Th rang r who spotted tbe cross btfor It wa ht a he return d to hlS horn tdc the park on the night of May 20. Id, We're very concerned that th re were quite a number of cro burning ep1sod s at Torrey I'm . W re ncerned that th re might be r tll1on of th11 1f we do not resolve some of the inaccuracies giv n out that night" U D Uejll of Students Thomas Burl 1d y terday there were ID d1cat10 that Sigma Chi members had burned er 1n the park on other occa ions, but he declined to elaborate "I have the whole thing under mv t1Kallon,' he said Fratcrmty members told rangers and USD ofl1c1al that the cross- bUrnmg w an in pirational cere- mony ha~ on an event in which the Roman f,mperor Con tantine sup- posedly saw a vis10n of a cross.

doing to keep abortion legal and un- restricted. Hampton and Thotne, who beads the American Civil Llber· ties Union at University of San Diego Law School, were among those who attended. Later, in the evening, an estimated 500 pro-choice demonstrators picket- ed in front of the federal building downtown, carrying balloons, banners and placards condemning the high court decision. Ahalf-dozen police officers stood by, observing things at close hand, but otherwise had nothing else to do. Mark Sala, executive director of Planned Parenthood, lik.ened the court decision to that of the Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case of 1857, which said that blacks could not be American citizens. "That was the last tune the Su• preme Court turned back a funda- mental right," Sala said. "That also involved a Missouri case and a politi- cized Supreme Court." Yesterday's ruling upheld a Miss· ouri law co-written by that state's pro-life lobby, and basically allows states to stop public funding of abor- tions for the poor and to restrict abortions and counseling in publicly funded hospitals and clinics. The ruling has little immediate ef- fect in California, where abortions in the first two trimesters of pregnancy are legal, but that could change should anti-abortion activists push through legislation to limit the pro- cedure. Amoderate in the abortion debate in San Diego, the Rev. Joan Pettis, said yesterday that she believes the court decision attacks the poor and mostly restricts poor women who cannot afford abortions.

''The Supreme Court bas thrown down the gauntlet. This is war," de- clared local feminist Gayle Thorne after the U.S. high court ruling yes- terday relmquisbing some control over abortion rights to state legisla- tors. Local abortion activists, defeated in the key legal battle, sought to turn it into a rallying cry, holding two public demonstrations yesterday, while their opponents held one. ''Fear is a great mobilizer," said Sylvia Hampton, an abortion rights advocate. "Now you'll be seeing the silent majority that has always fa- vored the right to choose, but never really did anything about it until the wolf was at their door." Local anti-abortion leaders, on the other hand, bailed the high court's ruling, and quickly staged a demon- stration at a La Mesa clinic that pro- vides abortions. ''This is truly a historic moment. The fact that it's in the bands of the states is a great advantage for us,'' said Operation Rescue member Angela Phelps of El Cajon, who has been arrested for blocking entrances to clinics that provide abortions. ''The fight is on in California " To punctuate group leaders' re- solve to never stop protesting, Oper- ation Rescue staged a demonstration at noon at the Family Planning Asso- ciates Medical Group office in La Mesa. Eight people were arrested for blocking the clinic entrance. •·we must continue what we are doing," said Joan Patton of the Right to Life Council of San Diego County. Pro-choice activists yesterday mounted a push of their own to get the attention of legislators who may nowbe deciding the abortion issue. . Fnt, a dozen local pro-choice aders held a news conference to ex- lain what their groups would be

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Women hold a candlelight vigil in downtown San Diego yesterday after the Supreme Court's abortion ruling. . '

the Missouri law that declares the life of each human being begins at What also concerns both Grobstein and pro-choice leaders is that if ·abortion is banned at tax-supported institutions, such as a major hospital like UCSD Medical Center, then med- ical students might not gel training in safe abortion techniques and how to handle post-abortion complica- rtion tech niques have improved to the point where the pro- cedure is considered routine, re- search in reproductive medicine re- search could slow down because of restrictions authorized by the court, said Grobstein, author of "Science .tonception. lions. hi W ·le a bo

That could affect San Diego Coun- ty because it receives state and fed- health programs and oversee medi· cal treatment services to the poor, Leon Williams, chairman of the county Board of Supervisors, said he personally favors a woman's right to choose whether to have an abortion. He is studying the decision and the next three abortion cases before the court, he said, because further re- strictions to abortion could lea~ this d all governments footing the bill for caring for all the addi- tional births. Staff writers Gregory Gross, Rex Da/tall, Geltge Flyao BDd Suzette Parmley also contributed tbis era! funds to administer public including abortion. county

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"They just don't have the courage, so instead they will backpedal,". Fellmetb said. UCSD biologist Clifford Grobstein, an expert on reproductive medical issues, shook bis head in wonderment at the medical wisdom of the high court's decision. Yesterday's Missouri decision calls for doctors to perform "viability tests" on women seeking abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, to see if the fetus is formed enough to live outside the womb. The lungs of developing fetuses have not matured sufficiently by 20 weeks to be kept alive, Grobstein said, so "we will need an entirely di!• ferent technology than the one in use now." Grobstein also had criticism for

Pettis, who will be holding a prayer vigil at her Lemon Grove Congrega- tional United Church of Christ to pro- test the Missouri decision. USD law Professor Robert Fellmeth called the high court deci- sion "hypocrisy." "Either this (abortion) is a funda- mental right, or it's not," Fellmeth said. '.'If this was a basic right, you don't let anyone mince around with it, you don't let Arkansas say parents have to consent, or Missouri say pub- lic funding can't be used." In Fellmeth's view, the new con- servative court, reshaped by the anti-abortion Reagan administration, obviously wants to overturn the con- troversial 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision that declared abortion a constitution- ally guaranteed right of privacy.

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