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The hall of fame offers five one-week programs free of charge ninth =ade during the summer through a grant from the Reuben H. Fleet Foundation, said IAHF spokesman John Roche. The em- phasis is on introducing students to .,. And its success only emphasizes the need for similar cost-free pro- "The program started in its cur- students," Roche said. "Now we have more than 250. We passed roe ures-in the city and county school districts, and in churches, in the first week of May. By the end of the month our classes were completely filled up." Whets Appetites "The program is designed to whet appetites in the aerospace field," said instructor Bill Trumble, an avid model builder and a teacher at Twin Peaks Middle School in Poway. "It gives them just enough background in the subject for the motivation to continue on." But this program, like others throughout the park, isn't designed to make students slave over books. "I don't think you can make it too tough (with books and tests)," Trumble said. "You have to re- rent format last year with 84 d b h aroun lo students from fifth through an aerospace career. grams, Roche said.

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Th u of ''magic pap r" and a mod I nv1ronm nt fill d with toy cars, plan s nd buildings is Just on exampl or er alive t ching t chniqu s us d in a multitud of programs off r d by vanous Bal- bo Park In. lilut1ons thi. summer. Th Natur I History Museum, th S;in D1 go Junior Thea!J:c, the Int rnat1onal Aero pac Hall of F'amc. mong others, h v Q n offi rfog summ r progr ms to the city's youth-from toddlers to high school . niors-th t ar not only fun, but lso comp! m nt what they l am during the regular school y ·1r. At most of the institu- tions, Clas. cs run through August. "Teachers dunng th school year ar so much busier bec,u. e they're hondhng so m ny more kids, and they Just don't hav the lime to do stuf£ hke lht .•· said Radford. who has a master's d gr c in education and · has be n teaching at the mu. um ror v n years. "Th most important thing these 1 11 l1•arn I th. t env1ronm n- ta problew ar n't some abstract noti9n fron1 a r omph<'at d s I nee text k," fih aid m desenbmg "Na~ure's llou e"-a $38 course explammg th interaction of na- ture'.s' thr c maJor clemenlS: air, soil and water. "We try to make them realize th, t,•pven In their very young lives, every action they p rform has a consequcnc ... that their actions affect the delicate balance of na- tur ," Rarlford said. "For example, very time th y nag their moms to drive th m down the street, they now know that their car is contrib- uting to the amount of pollution in 1 the air." Rapid-Growth Problems In their wecklong classes lasting two hours each day, Radford's 20 stud nt., d vclop d th ir v rs1on of "America's Fm st City" from a model ecosphcre complete with an oce n, mount ins, lakes and rivers. 'fhc ch1ldr n cleared the forest from their model environment and in its place built a thriving city, kyscrap rs lined the co:i.stline, planes dolt d the airport, cars lined newly paved roads. But these first- and second- graders learned quickly that rapid waste comes from rapid growth. "So where are we going to put our garbage?" Radford asked. One of her student:; pushed a toy dump truck around and around their city ln search of a suitable site. Unable to find such an area, the youngster dumped the garbage mto the city's I "It wasn't the greatest of solu- t1oo,s," Radford said, "but at least the kids arc learning about prob- lems confronting our community .. '·the same ones the City Council 1s grappling with." Carole Ziegler, who sat in on the class, was delighted that her 6- yctu"-old son, Matthew, was getting a preview of the complex problems bound to be issues of the future. "I've taught environmental courses at (San Diego State Uni• ver,sity] and will be teaching at (University of San Diego( this fall," said Ziegler, a Mission Hills resi- dent. '!I've tried teaching college kids abqut environmental problems and a lot 'of them can't pick it up," she sal(I "You worry sometimes that they've buned their heads in the grduod like ostriches . . . (but he~e J it's obvious they're absorbing stuff. ?,iy son came home the other day and around dinner time ex- plained to the whole family how we all'use oxygen." I Youn1slers on Stage I Aaron Sander, 7, when asked whether the museum classes will help .Jiim in school beginning in September, replied, "Oh, yeah!" With such a booming voice, Aaron may just as well have been enrolled in classes at the San Diego Junior Theatre-across the street from the museum. '.'We arc not here to produce professional actors, although many or our students do decide to pursue a career in the theater," said Robin Stevens, the theater's artistic di-

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good for these kids to use their imagination and use their creativi- By participating in such pro- ·" , grams, Trumble said these students 'j also get access to the exhibits in the IAHF and to its libraries, where they get a chance to learn about aviation greats like Charles Lind- bergh, the Wright Brothers and Amelia Earhart. "Al the Hall of Fame we honor those people who had a dream," he - said. "And when I look at these kids when they look up with fascination at the airplanes [in the IAHF), I can see that the dream is still alive in ty."

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Rent- -Judge- !Continued from Page 1A) / .:2J1JJ'?. "Several people became cunoua if I would ever open offices in other areas. I had to make a decision as to the future of the company. My thought was to build up more of an institution, get more organized." After getting a good-reception in San Diego from the Law Center, Superior Court Presiding Judge Thomas Duffy and other judges both current and retired, Knight opened his company to a limited stock offering in May. He said he "raised considerable capital, selling to close friends." Presiding Justice John Trotter, of the Fourth District Court of Ap· peal in Santa Ana, invested heavi- ly in the company and will retire Aug. 31 to take a marketing and business development position, Knight said. He noted he and Trot- ter have been friends for 25 years. Businessman Peter Donald was hired as president, and put in charge of the San Diego office that opened last month. JAMS is now operating out of temporary offices, with two hear- ing rooms, on the third floor of the First Interstate Bank building, 401 B St. Office administrator Barbara Price said 4,000 square feet on the second floor, with five hearing rooms, should be ready for them by mid-September. · Knight, 58, said he might take the company public in two years. · Meanwhile, he has set up another office in Los Angeles, with a panel of eight retired judges, and is thinking ahead to San Francisco. "You need the support of judges and the legal community before you can open up an office," said Knight. "People won't retain a private judge unless they know and respect that person. This is some• thing that's needed in every met- ropolitan area. "Anything that can be helpful to resolve disputes outside the court system, we'll do. Settlement con- ferences, a mediator to listen to both sides, or a private trial, and arbitration." He noted the state Constitution provides for the appointment of a private judge with all the power of a Superior Court judge. Parti( s who agree to arbitration are held to the final decision, and may appeal only on grounds of ar· bitrator misconduct. Mediators, by contrast, have no authority to im- pose a ruling and merely try to get both sides to reach a solution. More and more, commercial con- tracts - such as between a broker and client - specify that disputes must be taken to arbitration rather than court. Judges also often en- courage lawyers to look into alter- natives to litigation as a means of resolving cases more quickly. Higgs noted that San Diego judges referred cases to A TL; other cases came in before a lawsuit was filed, or just afterward. He had no statistics on how ·many cases ATL handled, but said the number of hours put in by panel judges trebled in the last few now.

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years to 221 hours just in March. Car~! Hallstrom, founding direc• tor of the Law Center, noted that the original concept behind ATL was mediation. Over years of evolution in the hands of retired judges, however, focus shifted to arbitration. She said center directors began to discuss launching into some new endeavor, as yet unsettled, but aimed at a general public not in- volved in large commercial disputes. "ATL never reached out to the smaller business people," Hallstrom said. "We've been try- ing to assess for a number of mon- ths what types of legal services are most fundamentally needed in the community, and the appropriate role of the Law Center in such pro- grams. "When Judge Knight decided to come into San Diego, it accelerated our decision. Some on the board wanted to move away from ATL, others wanted to hold on. But the Law Center does not administer long-term programs." Around June, she said, the board came to a concensus to pull out of the rent-a-judge business and look for something new. ATL was phas- ed out as of July 1. The Law Center had previously run Community Mediation ~rvices in Golden Hill and Mira Mesa, and now is involved in the Immigration Law Coalition and San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Pro• gram. Higgs said possible new direc- tions include working with the city attorney's office to create a code enforcement mediation program to step into neighborhood disputes over trash, fire hazards, parking and similar difficulties. He acknowleged that ATL was making money, despite its non• profit status. Administrative fees of $65 were charged for half-day matters, $110 for a full day. Cost of the hearing ran $200 an hour, with $125 going to the judge. Further research ser- vice came at $150, with another $125 for the judge. "That's the ohly downside to this whole thing - it provided money for our program," said Higgs, ad- ding the money was channeled back into USD to pay for opera- tions and a secretary. "ATL was providing a service to people with lots of money. We want to redirect our efforts to those peo- ple not being served by the legal system." Price, as ATL's office ad- ministrator before hiring on with Knight, said the university pro- gram drew anywhere from one to five new cases each day with just word-of-mouth advertising. JAMS, she said, is attracting more clients, and with Trotter as promotor, more are expected. Price said a dozen ATL ca!>es in progress were carried over to the private firm. JAMS President Donald said his company charges $250 an hour, of which the judge gets $135. A full

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The Junior Theatre has free use of a stage from the city and is financially independent, Nash said. The difficult struggle for independ- ence is achieved through tuition, ticket revenue, contributions and fund -raisers. That leaves little money for recrmting underprivi- leged children, Nash said. Many of the park's institutions faced similar constraints on bring- ing inner-city children to their programs. The summer courses offered range in price from $8 one-day workshops to $120 two- eek sessions. The summer sessions adminis- tered by the International Aero- space Hall of Fame (IAHF) have no such worries.

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Jl.l~.. '• p C. B '"' 1888 / "Expert sees dim fu™re for pov.f~{ plants New, large electric power plants won't be built in the near future because of inconsistent regulations and the public's attitude about busi- ness monopolies. That's the opinion of Peter Navar- ro, a Um~ersj!y of_San Diego eco- nomics professor who spoke Tues- day in San Luis Obispo. As a result, the U.S. Department of Energy is forecasting electricity shortages in the early 1990s for some areas of the country, he said. . "The public's attitude and regula- tions, however, are preventing utili- ties from planning new energy sources," Navarro said during a luncheon sponsored by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. . Navarro said the public's attitude IS that electric utilities "are ripping them off" ~e added that the public doesn't believe the utilities should be pro- moting economic growth. "Building a new power plant to- day is like betting the company in Las Vegas," he said. ~_ayarro explained that electric utilities may get approval to build a new plant, but after it's constructed th e_ company could be denied rate relief for all or a part of the plant's cost. . "The only plants under construc- tion now were started five years ago," he said. Ele~tric rates have increased for a variety .of reasons, according to Navarro, m~lu_ding the forced pur- c~~e by utilities of high cost elec- tricity from si_nall power producers. Navarro said that the high rates ave caused large industrial cus- tomers to supply their own electrici- ty needs instead of relying on the utility.

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"What we do teach is how to be assertive and how to express your- self. Whether you are an engineer, a doctor, a tawyer or whatever, sooner or later, there is gomg to come a time when you want to talk about something with conviction ... something that you really care about that you'll like to address." He watched his students, who had justfinished dancing and sing- mg in a production of "The Wizard of Oz," mill about backstage drip- ping msweat, praising not only the acting but also the light and sce- nery work of those students behind the curtain. "I think they also really learn the meaning of team- work," he said. "Moot of our students have been with us for four or five years and have put on shows for the ump- teenth time," said Jennifer Nash, the theater's school director. "They've practically grown up with the theater. A lot of them keep in touch once they leave." Jim Ponichtcra, 19, last year's Tin Man, is one of them. "I was painfully shy before I got involved with [the theatre]," said Ponichtcra, a Yale University sophomore studying theater and philosophy. He returned this sum-

mer to work as a teacher's assist- ant. "Through acting, I've gained a tremendous amount of self-confi- dence. I spent four years at JT, but I wish I had started earlier. I think the programs are even more im- portant because so many art and theater prog~ams are being under- emphasized and underfunded in the public schools." Not for Everyone But at $120 for a two-week session at Junior Theatre, the pro- gram is not available to every- one-especially those children who come from low-income families. "We have always wanted to extend our programs to all kids," Nash said. "It's a direction we realize we must head for in the future. There have been a couple of possibilities discussed, for example, placing a satellite of the Junior Theatre into the heart of low-in- come communities. But the prob- lem, as always, is finding the funding for such a program."

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