News Scrapbook 1986-1988

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Dally Transcript (Cir. 0 . 7,415)

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18C SAN DIEGO DAILY TRANSCRIPT FRIDAY APRIL24 1987 ~:"~,~~!ander: It Works - box and •t· . th g, 1 constitutional mterpretation cannot be en 1c1ze e government - t · I · remains unchanged and strong. s t must cha~ge with the times. "Most fascinating to me, thou h i . asonable mmds can, and will, how we interpret the fringes. Wegh; s d1n:er over _the mterpretation of these to go back to what was in the minds:~ topics. A ~ist of present Constitution the writers W d h . controversies can go on forever. There · e o ave some idea diffi . much as we have an idea of h t' are many . icult issues that will . . w a never be laid to rest " someone will brmg back from the store Al d · "The question is how we give mea~• . e~an e~ sees the ~hanges in con• ing to the words. Will we take th stltut1onal mterpretat1on, but he says exactly or will we shape them tow~: the\_com: slowly._ C?n the religion we want." ques ion, e_ said it 1s only recently The tenet that guards the ri hts that the A~1sh _have won the right to against self- incrimination for onegex re;:io~e th eir children from the public ample, has resulted "in ~ome slo . sc oo system after the eighth grade, jurisprudence," says Alexander. PJ~ andhonly recently have some religions, the .ither hand, there are some obscure sue .as Seve_nth Day Adventists, won parts of the Constitution that no longer ~he right against working on holy days, mean much. . aturday~ m the case of the religion "Th · h f JU t mentrnned e ng t o a homeowner to house "R 1. . · . membws of the militia isn't too impor• . e ',~•on results m some tough tant any longer," Alexander said wh issues, . Alexander said. "lt gives interestingly puts the right to' be/ some th mg hke the case in Riverside, arms, the second amendment in th: where so~e people are protesting be• same category. ' cause the city logo has a cross on it." "There has been a fair amount of Even more active. in today's news, discussion over that, although it seems says Alex~nder, are lSSue~ attached to clear it was meant primarily for the the exclusionary rul~, which prohibits militia," says Alexander. "Handgun m~st searches and_s~1zures: . lobbyists have invoked the Const't . r ~hmk pr~vailmg op1mon favors tion in their arguments, but I th~~ }mitln~ that right somewhat," he said. they have done 80 without too m h _That 18 on~ element of the Constitu• success. • uc t i~n whose mterpretation will change Th · ht . with the times " e np; s of religious and speech Al h · freedom, however, continue to domi• .t ough he alwa~s "presumes" nate the news. agamS t t?e need to tmker with the "There are so Constitution, Alexander favors a con- many avenues of stitut· l d debate," Alexander said "Th d' iona amen ment calling for a I · e me 18 balanced budget oves these debates. There are ques• " · tions as to how much the govern t In the case of the budget I think you can regulate advertising or :-:;n h~;:ito change the rules," he said. whether government can control the oat at~rn_eys do not focus on the advertising on publicly funded broad- .S.. Constituhon ~ay in and day out, casting programs. ut it potentially is in play in every "Those are hot topics, along with law ~as~ th ey de~l with," he said. "For all of defamation. All these questions have its imperfections, the Constitution has constitutional applications but th" setv ed_ the country well, through thl;~

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the gemus of the American system." The Constitution followed the Arti• cles of Confederacy as the prevailing document, and was needed, says Alex• ander, because under the Articles the states were at each other's throats. "We needed a stronger national government," says Alexander, poin· ting out that post.Constitution the great majority of legal debate has been over the interpretation of state and

lot of other countries read better, but none ·provide more protection. The problem with most other countries is that their constitution 1s treated sim· ply as political rhetoric instead of the ultimate law of the land. Our Con• but simple ordinary law just as stopping your car at a stop sign is law. Our Constitution is the law above the political passions, which is titution is ordinary law - law of the highest order -

That is not to say there has not been volumes of litigation over such little items as Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Speech. "Most of the debates and controver- sies concern what I'd call the fringes of those laws," Alexander said. "The basic tenet of Freedom of Speech - that someone can stan upon a soap

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"No on is 11n expert in the Constitu tion th y can be on oth r parts of l11w," Alexander aid. "Constitutional 1 sues often ar so theoretical th t it's not n m11tter of having all the facts at one's fingertip.. Often the Constitution is not bluck and white in the ame way th t the rules ofth road ore black and whit . "Still, thP Constitution has held up r m rk bly well over the 200 yearH," Alex11nd r md. "It works. There is no anywhere m the world near Ollrfl "Som y that the constitution of a I

t::onference to focus on 'Bridging the Pacific' A c~ re~?on "Bridging the Pa•

tions Non•Governmental Liaison Ser- vice, will address the opportunities and challenges for San Diego in its relationship with Pacific nations. Representatives from th~ World Bank, the UN Industrial Develop• ment Organization, the lnter•Ameri- can Development R:rnk, UNICEF, and other organizations will addres

cific" will be held from Thursday through next Saturday at the Univfil; The con erence, jointly sponsored bv the Southern California United Nations Association, the San Diego World Trade Association, the Univer- stty of San Diego and the Sierra Club in cooperation with the United Na- sit of San Diego.

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Crusader for school Ry Rene . Davalos ,L Slaff Writer :,<-\. Ci ) Elvira Cordova of Bonita ,abashedly says that she 1s a natic crusader. A fanatic about rying to talk people into mi hing school. "I talk to people about the im- portance of continuing their education," she ays. "I talk to all kinds of people . . . young peo~le, women, adults . I try to motivate them and make them realize that it i not late." Cordova, 57. has tauaht English as a second language at Southwe ·tern College since 1976. She ay~ that crusading for education is her way of giving to her community and adds that she "preaches" her message whenever she finds the opportunity. "I've never been put off," she ays and adds that in fact most people h ten to what she ha to ay with a great deal of interest. The number of people she has talked to over the year have b 11 countless, she ays, but she is not ure how many actually took her message to heart. One who did is her son F.ric. He credits, albeit not entirely her mother's words for returning to school. Eric, 28, founder and member of "Erth," a four-member modern rock band, attends outhwe tern College as a mu ic major. Last emester as a traight-A student he made the Pre ident's I.1st. His band is

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. preparing a concert for children as a community service event. Cordova came from Mexico havmg married an America~ teacher she met in Mexico City and has sin e d'vorced. She found comp.;t1tion strong part of th e American national character, Cordova says. She realized early on that to succeed she had to cont'nue ith her col- lege career. She received a master' degree in Spanish from the University of San Diego in 1977. "Kno~le_dge is not only good for (obtaming better) jobs," she

says, "but it makes you feel bet- ter about yourself, and gives you more self-respect and self- assurance." When not extolling the benefits of education, Cordova says she ~ecomes politically involved, par- ticularly when the issues deal with education. Last year she "walked miles" through local precints to help elect Maria Perman to the Southwestern College Communi- ty Board, Cordova says. . Her ot~er interests are pain- tmg, dancing, sewing, the theater and ballet, she says.

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