News Scrapbook 1986-1988

San Diego, CA (San Diego c~.) Daily Transcnpt (Cir. D. 7,415) 1987

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McKay, who now teaches at YU, said that the top law schools m the country didn't appear to suf- fer even though they may have dipped down to their S('Cond tier of applicants. In the early '80 . applicants may h vo ·hied away becaw·e of the overcrov,d,n in the job market nd the "very heavy" expenses of gomg to law ·chool, said McKay. That may ha\e been relieved be- cause of mergers and acquisitions of law firms, and the guaranteed federal student loan increase from 5,000 to 7,500 which took effect Cµt-out "",1 v ••

last January. Also, private loan sources are increasing. At San Diego law schools ap• plications varied. According to admissions secre- tary Karen Richeson a ~hb fall 2,450 students ~lied for the full-time program, up 12 percent

down feeling about the lav, " Hobert B. McKay, former dean of Nev, York UniverHity Law School, cham·d lht• Long Range

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Pl.mmng Committee for the BA l"lion of Lcg,,l Educat10n and dm1 10n to the Bar One of hi explanations i~ that "thne is faith that the law 1s a good thing to do " • r••••• I I I = ••••

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Law Scliool Enrollment; Helen Rowe's History- 1Contmued from Page_~)~ from In t year's 2,189. ;er/5':7

current collection of historical in- formation is housed in Rowe's of- fice, although she has been negoti• ating with the San Diego Histori• cal Society to earmark pace in its archives. he said preservation of the material requires skills that only an archivist can provide. "I enJoy history. I love looking at our roots,'' Rowe said. "I'm ag gre sive about the opportunity to keep our history intact." One of the committee's goals is to pn,serve written history of the pro- fe,s10n . Some special entries in- clude the original 1862 Mexican manuscnpt. of Juan Bandini, detailing legal transactions and other statistical mformation of San Diego and Upper California. The manu. cripts were found in the Mexican National Archives in Mexico City and are being translated by Jorge A. Vargas, director of the Mexico-United States Law Inslltute of U D's School of Law. - Other written entries include books by San Diego legal histori- an,, Leland Stanford and Jeff Stickney, the writings of historian Elizabeth MacPhail, works from the Daily Transcript, and back issues of Dicta, the county Bar's monthly publication. The second g()al is to create liv- ing history for future reference in the form of taped and transcribed interviews. Already formed are in- terviews with Jeff Stickney and former Fourth District Court of Appeal Justice Gerald Brown. A third goal is to protect tangible symbols of the legal profession like the old Federal Courthouse in downtown San Diego. ·•1 have enough material to write about 20 books," Rowe said. "One person as Bar historian is not going to be able to do the job." The committee, numbering 25 and growing, is still looking for new members and more informa- tion on legal history. Rowe, Bar historian since 1985, will only be around until December when incoming Bar President Ned Huntington will pick a new one. -Andrew Kleske

torneys wi II discuss euthanasia, AIDS and surrogate parenting at a seminar at Cal Western Law School on Nov. 14 from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Call Donna Slaton for more information. • .. * Doing Business in Mexico will be the subject of a seminar at the Universi~ San Diego Law School on Nov-;74 from 8 a.m. to 12:30p.m.

In 1983-84, applicants numbered 2,:.156, dipping to 2,197 in 1984-85 and decreasing again in 1985-86 to 2,136. Cal Western's applications dechn d sharply from 2.046 in 19 1 2 to 1,194 in 1986-87. This fall they ros dramatically to 2, 5. Judy ( ohrs, director of devel- opment, credits the rise to Dean Michael Dissent, an expanded curriculum nd Dissent"s video us- ed a. ll recru,tmg device. At Western State, Dean Hadley Batchelder partial!; attribut d the national d cline to "so many lawyers" and not enough jobs, ad• ding that dmL~ ·ions statistic '"tend to be omewhat cyclical." Enrollment at WSU dropped from 239 1n 1984-85 to 233 Ill 1985-86, 0 m 1986-87 and 3 thi · fall - caus d primaril} by .the school's rejected applicatio for ABA accreditation. '•We were obliged by the rules tO accept only ~rsons who could go to ABA .chools. But we couldn't assure them that they"ll go to an ABA school." Batchelder felt th" state of limbo contributed to the sharp decrease . "We're still suffering the effects of the aborted effort," he said. Law schools weren't the onl) profe -~ional school- that found their applications down during the early 1980s. So did medical. dental, MBA and Ph.D. programs, said one educator, who added that la t month's LSAT test is a "good in dicator of a bumper crop." Christensen, however, is cautious. "The preliminary signs are for a big incre. se," he said, but it was also the latest time that the test was given in the fall. • • • Attorneys are traditionally m the business of setting the record straight but not when it comes to recording the history of their own profession. Enter Bar historian Helen Rowe and the newly formed Bar -,,-,u,r . Cummittee he San Diego County Bar Association. If you"ve got a good bit of barrister history, Rowe wants to hear from you. "One of the unexpected things of being the Bar i!,'torian is people th·nk r committed it all to memory,' Rowe said. "It occurred to me what we needed was not a single historian but a Bar history committee to preserve our histo- ry.'' Rowe has an answer for skeptics who think San Diego doesn't have a legal history worth documenting. Clara Shortridge Foltz, for exam- ple, was California's first female attorney, serving in San Diego from 1887 to 1888. Rowe, herself, has an interesting hi tory, which includes serving on a dozen legal committees, boards and local civic associations. She is an author, lecturer and a member of the Rowe, McEwen, Konold & Rowe law firm She has been honored as the 1987 State Bar Association Woman Business Advocate of the Year and a Venture Magazine 1987 En- trepreneur of the Year finalist and is listed in "Who's Wn~, in Ameri- can Law." Rowe spends 15 hours 88.Ch week on legal volunteer work , 15 hours each week on community service and still maintains a full-time oc- cupation in business transaction law, which requires a staggered schedule. "I work evenings and weekends," she said. The San Diego County Bar's

La Jolla, CA (San Diego Co.) La Jolla Light (Ci r. W 9,040)

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proximately 37 percent of the city's registered voters went to the polls. The battle lines seen in Pro- position H originally were drawn over the San Diego Ei,ergy Recover Project (SANDER) and pitted grass-roots env!f6nmen- talists against Wheelabrator Inc. (formerly Signal Inc.). Wheelabrator had proposed a tras~ plant to be built at a 43-acre sitel"nKearnyMesa. However, opponents of the pro- ject dogged the city manager's of• fice and made their concerns over pollution and toxic byproducts heard throughout the city. "This (Proposition H) will have a national impact," said Jack Minnon, a Ul_li.Y~~ Diego law professor and co- author ottliemeasure. "I am in to"ch w;(h people f New Y0ck Please see ELE TION, AlO

A decade-long strug.gle over rhe direction of San Diego's waste management was decided. by a sound margin of more than 20,000 votes in Tuesdav's · The change was heralded in by a tightly knit group of supporters of the Clean .(\ir Initiative, Pro- position H , led by San Diegans for Clean Air, the organization that wr,ote the measure. Proposi- tion H was approved by 9 ,998 voters, compared to 75,738 who voted against it. Also in Tuesday's balloting, San Diegans approved a transportation improvement measure, rejected two bond issues intended lo improve and preserve Mission Bay Park and Balboa Park and voted to change back the name of Martin Luther King ·way to Market Street. Ap- municipa l elections.

ELE TJON Co::::-n-t:-in_u_e_d:-fr_o_m_A_l_trA-ilQ~lk'....::_ an Connecticut very interested in the outcome.,. pas..ing.. of the proposition as the passing of mass burn as an alternative to waste management. "I see this as an end to mass burn for the city," he said. "Mass burn as an industry is in trouble." He alsp said he is look- ing forward to the new council committing itself to alternatives to incineration, since all four newly elected councilmembers endorsed Proposition H prior to the election. in- cinerator burning more than 500 tons of waste per day can be developed within a 3-mile radius of hospitals, elementary schools trash per day. Opponents of Proposition H. said the initiative eliminates mass burn technology as an alternative for the city. The plants allowed under the new guidelines are not economically feasible, according to Frank Mazanec, regional director for Wheelabrator. Mazanec also said the city eventually will come full circle and find incineration as the only answer to the mounting refuse problem, but by that time, the price tag will have tripled. Voters decided on eight other propositions besides Proposition H. The only countywide measure, the Transportation Im- provement Program, or Proposi- - (o'-J d Minnon vi ws t As it stands now, no nursing homes and day-car; facilities. The SANDER would have burnea 2 250 t P lant r ' ons O

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needed two-thirds approval to pass. Proposition B, which garnered J 06,563 favorable votes (59 _percent) compared to 74,209 agamst, would have allowed the city to raise $93 million through the sale of bonds to improve and add to the facilities in Balboa Park and Mission Bay Park. Pro- position C, a $73 million measure, would have done likewise, but it gained ~upport from only 61 percent, with 109,797 voting in favor and 69,452 opposed. • Proposition G: Voters over- whelmingly approved restricting the use of Mission Beach Park whic~ is owned by the city, t~ pub!1c park purposes, excluding re_ta1! and commercial uses except w1~h1? the rehabilitated Plunge bu1ldmg. Where economically feasible, the city would also preserve and restore the Roller Rink building and the Roller Coaster. Some 115,567 favored the initiative, compared to 58,223 opposed. Propo~ition D: San Diego _residents voted 135,633 to 34,315 to restrict all land and water leases in Mission Bay Park to 25 percent of the total land area, or 6. 5 percent of the total dedicated water area. The voters could authorize · an exemption with a two-thirds vote in a future election.

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Approval of Proposition A means the county sales tax will in- crease from 6 percent to 6.5 per- cent. The hike will pay for a $2.25 billion, 20-year program designed to improve the region's highways, public transit and local streets and roads. Among the improvements set out in Proposition A are plans to run trolley lines from Old Town north _to Del Mar and east .to Santee, construct a commuter light rail line connecting downtown San Diego and Ocean- side and extend of State Route 52 east to Santee. Results in the seven other city propositions follow: • Proposition F: San Diego voters reversed the efforts of city 6-m_ile downtown thoroughfare to it~ former name of Market Street. The vote stood at 107,292 to 71,621 to erase the name of the slain civil rights leader from the street signs. • Proposition E: Voters nar- rowly defeated the measure which would have waived fo; four years the Gann limit on how much tax money the city can · spend, allowing the city to spend all the taJ(eS it raised on various projects, including police and fire protection. Some 82,608 people voted .:gainst the waiver, com- pared to 82,098 who approved it. • Propositions B and C: The two bond issues aimed at preserv- ing and improving Mission Bay Park and Balboa Park both gain- ed majority support, but they ~a1;rs u . er i._? honor Dr. Martin mg Jr. by reverting a

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• Proposition J: By a vote of 130,651 to 39,077, San Diegans di1 ected the city not to amend the Progress Guide and General Plan to shift some 5,100 acres known as La Jolla Valley from the "future urbanized" designation to the "planned urbanizing" designation. ------ -------------------