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San Diego, CA (San Diego co.) S n Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,089) (Cir. S. 341,840)

Oceanside, CA (San Diego Co.) Blade Tribune (Cir . D . 29 ,089) (Cir. S. 30,498) JUN

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liDi'• "· C. B Etr. 1888 .h~J:!:1'1. arts Liberal arts graduates are beginning to be as much in demand a business grads m the corporate world but that message has yet to filter down to universities and high the platform of Lynne Cheney, chairwoman of the ational Endowment for the Humanities, who spoke last week at the University of San Diego (USDJ. An Eastern university study found that over the last two years, 25 percent more people with liberal arts degrees were hired by businesses, she said. At USD, a two-year trend is emerging in which more liberal arts graduates are being hired in such fields as banking, in- surance, retail management and sales, aid Linda Scales, co- director of career counseling and placement. Company recruiters are "listing skills instead of the ma- Staff Writer SAN DIEGO - chools That was

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Business Journal (Cir. W. 7,500) JUN 1 1987 Jl/len '• P. c. B I t

applicants, Scales said. Often my heart of hearts, feel you those skills include leadership should spend your time in college and critical thinking, foundations expanding your mind."

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that "an ability to think critically judge wisely" will serve graduates well in a future that predicts people will switch jobs an average of nine times in their and Elementary and high schools need to teach children what the lives, she said.

But students continue to enroll in more specialized majors, said Cheney. "Even when students humanities, they don't do it," she said, because of the perceived notion that specialization is more are interested in taking the

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and English have AIDS or drug-abuse education. declined between 37 percent and All students, not just those on a 59 percent, she said. A University college preparatory track, of California at Los Angeles should be exposed to classical study showed "the number of literature and history, she said. freshmen intending to major in Cheney advised corporate English is down by 80 percent personnel directors to look for over the last 20 years," Cheney liberal arts graduates with a said. depth of knowledge that broad- Cheney, hersell trained in lit· ens perspective, who can turn erature and philosophy, admit- thought into action, and who ted that liberal arts majors may support the capitalistic economy need to take some business and who respect and strive for courses to "make that initial excellence. ) literature

pea n at tbc llmve itr or San en Y 1d, ''The schools are to teach young people to think them anythmg to th nk about and to write without x- posmg th rn to good writmg.'' The re ult, accordmg to a UCLA u:vey quot d by Ch ney, is that de- ptte an mcreasc in the number of bach lor d gr granted over the P t 20 y •ars, th r has be n a 37 percent d hn in philosophy de gr , a 45 percent decline in foreign Ian ua , 49 percent drop in hi tory de r , and a 59 percent decline in f,ngh h literature degr s. Thi ls making American chlldren "d1. advantaged" compared with chil- dren of other nalion who I v a knowledge ,ind under tandi of their own culture and history, giving them a en e of belongmg to ome- thing and m pla e, he id. "In our hurry to make sure that students understand the Chmese or the Japan •e economy, let us not ne- g! cl to mform them of their own hcntag(' "It i. my clear impre ion that th with whom we find ourselves m s 1H st competition carry around with th m a decided n e of their culture, and that far from being a di dvantag , their ,tron n. o 1d ntity gav them an dge m confi• denc and determination " Cheney Id ' , he aid that m the past, students were taught about important events and those who played s1gnif1cant rol m their outcome "In recent years, 11 ha· happened all too orten that when the great texts are ~rought fort~. it 1 0 they can be derided for th 1r racism, sex- m and ethnocentri m A for the h r and h romes, they have been n 1d. , ma~ to no mor the um of their fl ," he Cheney, who wa appoint d NEH cha rman by Pr ident Reagan in Apnl 1986 and unanimously con- firmed by the U Sen te the follow- mg May, ha a broad business and professional background She was mo t recently a senior ed- itor of The Washingtonian magazine, nd !n April 19B5 wa appointed by Pr id t Re gan to the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Con• lltulion. Sh i a \udely published author an~ ha taught at George Washmgton U~1v rs1ty, the University of Wyo- mm and the Northern Virginia Community College She is married to R p Richard Ch ney, R-Wy. A h ad of the EH, Cheney pre- ides over the di tribution of more than $125 million a year to non-profit v ntures. Sh hop to use that money to d mon trate the valu of a liberal art ~ducat1on as opposed to the in- crea mgly specialized course of tudy being tak n by today's college stud n Chen told almost 100 people at- t ndmg Y terday' luncheon that the majority of Pr !dent Reagan' cabi- n t are liberal art gradual , as:)re 38 perc nt of the nation's chi f xec- utiv offi Di go try1n without g1vmg

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Cheney said when she leave:; NEH h hopes that part of her legacy wili be a reversal of the decline in focus on cultural, historical and literary valu m the nation's chools and col- leg

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sir LJiscipline Criticized l· ity is indefensible, case abatement practices are reprehen.<;ible the computer system has serious holes, tt aining is inadequate for new investigators and attorneys, s1:3ndar~ for case rejection are unclear and mc~ns1stent, and the conviction referral system 1s not op- erating in many cases." . Concerning the lack of public o_utreach, Fellmeth said the toll-free complamt nun:i-· ber in Los Angeles is a yirtual secre~ and 1s not available from directory assistance there or in San Francisco. He added bar officials permit "local bar associations, which have no disciplinary au· thority free reign to handle and delay

Presley said the report "reveals all too clearly what I have suspected for several years - that major structural and attitude changes are needed within the bar to make discipline system one which ~l serve our citizenry, serve the bar, and wm back the respect which the legal profession must have.'' Van de Kamp agreed with Fellmeth that the system is weighted in favor of attorneys and against consumers. 'If you were to de- sign a system to benefit the person accused, you couldn't do a better job," he said. Armstrong responded, "I don't think the system is weighted in favor of attorneys." He added "Attorneys are entitled to get due process of the law," which he said the system provides. About a Hundred Interviews The report, which contains 35 exhibits, is the result of a four-month investigation which included about a hundred interviews and on-site inspections of the discipline system. Fellmeth will issue a follow-up report that will contain specific recommendations on how to correct the deficiencies identified in the report released Monday. The original re- port now goes to the Senate and Assembly judicial committees. Fellmeth's work through June is being handed by a $90,000 appropriation, and Van de Kamp estimated the Legislature will have to provide somewhat less than $200,000 for the next fiscal year beginning July 1. Van de Kamp said Fellmeth estimated the bar would have to spend about $2.5 million more annually on discipline to implement needed changes. Armstrong said the l:kr cur- rently allocates $15 million to $16 million a year to its discipline operations. According to Van de Kamp, the$2.5million in required additional expenditures would translate into an extra 25 in bar dues devot· ed to attorney discipline. Currently, attor- neys pay $25 annually to fund the discipline system. Presley said be will ask Sen. Barry Keene, D-Benicia, to amend his legislation setting 1988 bar dues to provide for the additional $25 for attorney discipline. The report identifies nine areas "where initial inquiry indicates serious difficulties warranting further investigation and reform efforts," as well as "a long list of other re- forms needed." The nine problem areas identified in the report include: • Lack of public outreach; • Lack of "proactive" efforts to detect and prosecute violation of ethical conduct. "The identification, investigation, and prose- cution of cases depend very heavily on the

San Diego, CA (San Diego co.) Dally Transcript (Cir. D. 7,415)

Soft on Discipline, Despite Reforms Bar Discipline System Secretive And Slow, New Report Claims Protective of Lawyers? By TOM DRESSLAR SACRAMENTO - Despite improve- ments, the State Bar's attorney discipline system is still riddled with structural de- fects, plagued with inadequate resources, and does not approach "a minimum level of acceptability," according to a report re- leased Monday. State Bar discipline monitor Robert Fell- meth, director of the Center of Public lnter- estLaw at the University of San Diego, made the 273-page report pubhc al a Sau·amento press conference also attended by Attorney General John Van de Kamp. The monitor's position was established by 1986 legislation carried by Sen. Robert Pres- ley, D-Riverside, in response to criticism the bar's method of disciplining lawyers was too secretive, slow, and lenient. Presley origi- nally wanted to strip discipline authority from the bar and place it in an independent consumer agency. In releasing his long-awaited report Fell- meth praised the bar for recent refo;m ef- forts, but said, "in general, the bar is not equipped to handle serious, complex cases on any appreciable scale, perhaps not at all." He called the end of the bar's "protection- ism and solicitude for attorneys" a neces- sary step toward improvement of the discipline system. Bar Cooperation Pledged . State Bar President Orville A. Armstrong, m a press conference following Fellmeth's, pledged the bar's cooperation with Fellmeth to implement recommended reforms of the system. He contended the system "is working" and pointed to procedural reforms and 38 percent backlog reduction since March 1986 as evi- dence of the bar's improvement efforts. Armstrong acknowledged, "I think the system can work far more efficiently that it does.'' But a staff attorney m the state bar's Los Angeles Office of Trial Counsel (OTC), who requested anonymity said, "I agree with the report" and added the document "reflects our criticisms and concerns." The OTC 1 with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, prosecutes discipline cases rou ht to them by the bar's Office or

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cases.': Based on a survey condu~ted for the report which requested information on 10 at- torneys with discipline records, Fellmeth said members of the public are likely to re- ceive inaccurate and "charitable" informa- tion when they inquire about an attorney. The system contains "an enormous num- ber of stop points at which a case can be exited (dropped>," said Fe!lmeth. He_ad~ed investigators in the Office of Investigation and OTC attorneys confront "a bureaucracy of red tape that blocks and impedes" com- plaint processing. Investigators handle an average casel?3d of 200, Fellmeth said, whi~h is at leas~ triple the optimum rate. lnvesltgators are under enormous pressure to get rid of ~ases," he added which results in less serious cases recei.Jing top priority and more se~ous cases getting "shoved to the back.''

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

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