News Scrapbook 1986-1988

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,089) (Cir. S. 341,840) MAY 5

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before his proposal gains acceptance. "The enemy is not so much oppo- nents as inertia," he said, adding, "The accustomed practices are deep- ly ingrained," and change "takes time and a lot of effort."

were available) but the word dra- matic overstates it," Davis said. "The time will come when we will look back at the 20th century as primitive." Davis believes it could be years

summer poring over medical studies on abortion before the court decided the controversial Roe vs. Wade case in 1973. "We would see different decisions from the court (if a research service

claims with the familiar and effec- tive tools available to them as they are not to us." The court must want more factual data, Davis said, pointing out that Justice Harry Blackmun spent the

Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote the 1972 opinion that overturn- ed capital punishment laws across the country, and he noted, "Legisla- tures will have the opportunity to make a penetrating study or these

ers t of Sa here he teach- a mm1 tratlve law He aid he al- ready di ussed the idea with cv r l m mb •rs of the Supreme Court and i looking for support ln Congr "Courts make policy and an ord r to do intelligently, th"Y need r cts," Davis sa d. •·w need to cut b ck law-making by th Supreme Court that i without fact." He beli •v the court should be able to ask for n independent analy- of re arch and of public senti- ml!nt, although he draw a line be- tw n awaren and decision-mak- ing by popular opinion. "Lawmak rs ·hould know what th people want," he contended. "Th r ought to be a democraltc ele- ment in the process." D vis' proposa I rai es qu ltons bout d mocracy in th jud1 ial y • tern n about inde nd l fact- gath nn by Judg 1t hkely will prompt d bat among lawyers who beli vc facts are their bailiwick and among Judicial experts who dout t the n d for more court advisers. Judg lfred T. Goodwin , who 1s pr 1ding ov r the United Slates 9th C1rcu1t Court of Appeals, said, "I would consider carefully anything h (Davis proposes" 'fh court already has legal r ch r and computer access to the Library or Congr , Goodwm 1d, pondcnng whelh r additional mformalwn from experts wa neces- coucluded however, that if the adv r nal pr of allowing th s1d s lo argu their ca wa pre- rved, 'I don't see anything wrong with havmg a spectro opi t tell you what color the ga are on Neptune in tead of trusting your own memory or a i th-grad cla. " Rich rd Fallon, a ffderal law pro- fe rat Harvard University, howev- er, aid he wa keptical about Davis' proposal He worried that added experts could erode the validity of argu- men by dversane , nd h sug• g t d t t md pendent r archers would "mv1t the court to focus on I i laltrn fac and pull it from its rol an adjudicator." J ph R , who heads the Con- g re 1onaJ Re ·earch Service in Wa hlogton, DC., said he thought Davis' proposal had merit "on occa- ion ln unusual cases." J,'or ample, R said, som re- i c.i h n a ·ked tf independent re- rcb might have helped the court in that c , Ross responded, "It wouldn't have hurt." Davis has lists of Supreme Court ca to bolster hts arguments for a more informed Judiciary Factual a umption.s have led the court to rule in ways now viewed as "a urd1ty," Dav1S said, citing a 1908 ca e up olding the constitutionality of segregated classrooms m Kentuc- ky . He believes the deci on was based on an argument filed by the state ttorney general that the brali of blacks were smaller than th brain~ of whites It is difficult to predict what the decis10n would have been had the true facts been available, Davis ac- knowledged, but he argued that "peo- ple doing sdentific inquiry are out on the fronller" and the justices ''need to have access to the best SCJentific understanding." In the nation's landmark death penalty decision, Furman vs. Georg- ia, the court acknowledged the msuf- fiCJency . of its fact-findmg tools, ( DavlS said. m the servic.'e, which has of employees, reacted with to the court's rulin last racial bias in death penalty

Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles Co.) Herald Examiner (Cir. D. 266,102 (Cir. S. 270.666)

T H OT WHEELS: for Crime Stoppers

AY5 1987

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ut over the weekend the station broadcast one as a public and personal service. This particular stolen car - a 1982 Merced turbo diesel - belonged to KSDO morning man Ernie Myers, who was doing his Friday show when it was bagged from the company lot. There was a security man on duty, says Myers. But he apparently got lost in detail work. When the thieves took Myers' Mercedes, they left behind a battered Chevrolet Chevette. The stcurity guard tagged the abandoned Chevy for illegal parking. SNOOP DU • OUR: It's a low- profile visit, but Atty. G~~- Ed Meese will havii a busy 1tmerary tomorrow w1,.,~, h.,. ,·omes home to San Diego fo ti, .,ay. In the morning, '" 'l ·1,orcss undercover officers a~ 't.c ~2nd national training mrnar d tre Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit at the Hanale1 He'll lunch at USD with "Corpo ale Associates," a group o(big-bucles backers of the university, then go to the law school for a meeting of the Board of Visitors, of which Meese is a member.... A 120-room Fiesta Inn operated by Holiday Inns, has tiee'n added to the ambitious Villas del Rio shopping-dining complex scheduled to open in Tijuana late this year. Also planned for the upscale cer.•er: a Casa Ley supermarket, ?perated in . partnership with another big-name gri,:-nn nntfit• Safeway Stores. THE STA D-IN: The fan who phoned the SD Opera office for tickets to Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Telephone" and "The Medium," got a temporary receptionist with a thick accent. She also got prompt and efficient information. And when the caller t anked the receptionist, she got a surprise. "I'm always happy to have an enthusiastic audience at one of my operas," said Maestro Menotti, who'd grabbed the Opera phone and decided to play receptionist while waiting for a ride to rehearsal. . LIFE IN THE CITY: UCSD will have more than its usual quota of Nobel laureates this-week. Joseph Goldstein, the 1985 Nobel Prize winner in physiology/medicine, is due in Thursday for a two-day Molecular Biology Symposium sponsored by Eli Lilly.... Rick Leibert, the former KGB program director who originated the highly popular Sky Shows at SD Stadium, is into fireworks full-time now. He's based in LA, but he'll be back in San ' Diego tonight for his National Fireworks Ensemble blowout at Seaport Village. It's a celebration of the new alien amnesty law and Syndicated political columnist and former presidential pitchman Pat Buchanan keynotes the American Resort Development Conference at the Sheraton here Sunday. MORNING MOUTH: Roger Hedgecock, who's found something of a third wind as rock 'n' roll singer, has a first record due in some local stores this week. It's the old rocker, "Louie, Louie," backed by "Wild Thing," and recorded with his ne ., sidekick, reporter Thomas K. Ar old. At a party Saturday night, -Iedger.ock gave an autograpted copy to an old colleague, Councilman Mike Gotch, who chose a different path to political retirement. Hedgecock's pointed inscription: "Free at last." . QUOTEWORTHY: He doesn't make the cover, so this week's Sports Illustrated interview with Padres Mgr. Larry Bowa can't be a jinx. Oi the other hand, how do you jinx a r okie manager whose team is off to a 7-and-20 start? Still, it offers i cresting insight into a Cinco de Mayo. (The party's underwritten by Coors)....

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are more than twice as likely to be m employed positions (rather than self-employed positions) than their male colleagues. UCLA law professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow, describing her worldwide analysis of women in the law, reported her finding that In every country women lawyers are relegated to applying themselvf's to the areas of the law the culture values least. Women lawyers have tended to employ innovat10ns in conflict resolution such as mediation, she said. She expressed hope that as more women become lawyers the law will be "feminized" not only in the numerical sense but in a qualitative sense. And then she shared her fear: "How can women change some or the structures of the legal profession unless women do rise to some of the high levels within the proress1on? And can they rise to those high levels by innovating or will the pressures to adapt, to look like one of the boys, to conform to conventional notions or what it means to be a good lawyer, to be so strong that by the lime women get there they won't remember some or the different voices by which they are trying to change the system?" The conclusions of the research conducted by Douglas Rebne, a researcher with the UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations, provided a possible answer lo Menkel- Meadow's questions about the future of women in the law. Rebne is concerned with technological change and its effect on worker participation and productivity. He reported the bad news first: that his subject - women academics - are paid less for comparable achievements and have greater difficulty publishing than their male counterparts. Rebne's good news, how':!ver, can be interpreted to pertain to women in all fields. The good news, he said, is that the more women there are in a field the better women fare, the more productive they are. · Andrea Rieb, UCLA ass1Stant vice chancellor and one of the conference moderators, said: "The challenge for us all, for me at least, is not to get angry when we hear the results of this research. The challenge is that change is possible."

prectSely where women would make the trade-off, where they should be reducing effort in the workplace in order to meet family obligations. But this is not what we found." Furthermore, she added, their research suggests that women tend to underestimate the \'alue of their work. "So our estimates might actually understate the sex diCCerence in allocation of effort." The Bielby study is significant because economists have shown that assumptions about gender differences can lead to discrimination in employment. li "Ironically," she says, "our results I suggest that an astute employer f would do better by discriminating li against mPn than women. Our i findings show that roughly 65 to 70 l percent of all women allocate more a; effort to work than do men with comparable attributes and responsibilities. · despite their greater household responsibilities, they must be able to draw on a reserve of energy that is either not available to the typical male or, more realistically, that men choose not to draw upon." Another of the Bielbys' studies found that although women are working twice a hard away from home, when they are at home they are starting to not do as much. The Bielby study concludes: "For women to work harder than men, The Bielbys have found that although men don't help in the home any more than they have in the past, they are beginning to acknowlege that neither should women who work outside the home have to work at home too. Denise Bielby says that the result of this is that what constitutes a clean house is changing. "Whal men and women used to put a premium on isn't the case anymore," she says. "People today are more willing to put up with a mess." The Bielby study was but one of the many papers presented in brief at the UCLA conference held for a primarily female audienc~ all day Friday. Denise Dimon of the University of San Diego read from a study of women doctors she collaborated on with William Custer of the American Medical Association. That study found that female physicians

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less demanding jobs with lower hourly wages. In the past economists such as supply-side economist Gary Becker who have looked at the effort expended by men and women at work have argued that a woman is more likely to perceive her job as being more demanding because of the toll taken on her store or energy by her household responsibilities. But the Bielby study shows this assumption to be false. "If that were the case," says Denise Bielby, "we would not expect women to score higher on the question we asked regarding the effort put into a job beyond what is required." If the existing assumptions of economists were true, she says, this "spould be

omen work harder conclusion of a study she conducted in collaboration with her husband, William Bielby, both UC Santa Barbara sociologists. The Bielbys, who had analyzed than men both at home data from a representative national and at their jobs, survey conducted by the University according to a new of Michigan of 1,515 working men

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and women, found that more women than men reported having JObs that call for considerable physical or mental effort and at wtuch they expend greater effort The Bielby study challenges a Jong-held economic assumption that the reason women don't earn as much money as men is because they allocate less effort to work because of family and household responsibilities and therefore seek ..._ eel u.w.n is reqllir ·

study by two sociologists presented last week at a UCLA conference on women at work sponsored by th e university's Institute for Social SciPnce Research, the Center for the Study of Women and the Institute of lndu trial Relations. Women give more time and attention lo their jobs than men despite the fact that women also spend more than twice as much lime on household tasks, said Denise Bielby, reading the

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Richard "Corky" Wharton and f Hugh Friedman will be pitted against each another in the first ~:r USD Forum, Wednesday, Y 13, at 4 p.m., at the Lyceum Wharton and Friedman role as advocates, 'will debate growth control in the San Wharton, who will argue for growth controls, will call as in their Diego region. Theatre ·

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Jlll~ri x~, "Future J udge Siegan" is the way USD law profe~r Bernie Siegan --wmrlntrodt!Wa 1"t the Law Day luncheon 'fi-i~ay by Luce, Forward's Jim King. Responded Siegan, who's been nominated by President Reagan to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals: " I sure wish the Senate hears what you said and takes it very seriously." • * * 's P. C. B , ,. 1

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. • Former San Diego Coun- c1lman Fred Schnaubelt, who is now m real estate development. • Kim Kilkenny, a legislative analy~t for the San Diego Con- struction Industry Federation. Sheldon Krantz, dean of USD's

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manage whose favorite adjective is bleep. " like being the underdog," says Bo a. "It makes you dig deeper within yourself. It's true I've always had a bad temper. But it's much more controllable now."

• ynn Benn, who chairs the School of Law, will moderate the county_ Community Planning program. Committee and the Sierra Club The USD Forum is free and Land Use Task Force and is a member of Mayor Maureen ~pe~ to the public. Because of O'C , limited seating, tickets must be Tas~n;i;c:_Growth Management obtained for admission. • Dwight Worden, cons1·dered For more information, c .. John Nunes at 260-4682 :··························~ . . .~--,--..C:::..~