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regulate motor vehicle dealership While ostensibly holding a major- ity of public members, he said, the panel is dominated by dealers, who have put in place tough rules re- strictlng the esta h hment of new dealer franchises. In effect, says Fellmeth, the dealers are using a state agency to literally drive away competition and reduce the oppor- tunity for consumers to engage in price-shopping. There are signs of some resist- ance to such regulatory schemes. The Legislature last year abolished one of the panels, the Board of Fabric Care, which regulated dry cleaners. Sen. Daniel Boatwright, D-Contra Costa, has introduced a new bill to wipe out six more boards, govern- mg auctioneers, geologists, land• scape arcl,itects, cemetery opera- tors, lax preparers and guide dog trainers While collectively ron- su1!1ing more than $1 millton, Boat- wright observed, most of them have undertaken little or no disciplinary actions against the industries they are supposed to regulate.

move disliked by the professionals. Nine additional bills that would undercut public representation were introduced and failed All but one had Democratic authors Fell- meth 's article suggests the trend running against public members is non-partisan. He does say the problem is "ex· cerbated by the habit of some governors, including current Gov. Deukmejian, to appoint as public members people with strong indus- try or profit-stake ties, either in their past career or in their present indirect connections " Fellmeth, in an interview, noted that following his own appointment to the Slate Athletic Comm ssion which regulates boxing matches: Deukmejian appointed both a ref- eree and a fight promoter to the panel. Thal, he feels, raises the chances of featherbedding and con· flict of inter t at the expense of the pubhc and sound regulation The consequences for the public can he real, Fellmeth said He cites the example of the •·ew Motor Vehicle Board, a panel desil(lled to

fornla " Purely advisory panels, designed to garner the expertise of prof - 1onals Ill a given field uch as toxic wa le, 1s not what's at issue. Rather, Fellmeth points to a erle of bills llltroduced in recent years that either reduce public membership on regulatory panels or ncrease the number of industry m mbers - thereby eroding the clout of the public members who remain. Ince 1983, Gov Deukmejian signed Into law bills tilting toward profe 1onals the membership of th Board of Dental Ex11miners (twice), Board of ccountancy, Structural Pest Control Board, Board of Landscape Architects, Bu- rca u of Home Furnishings and Board of Architectural Examiners In the last case, the governor's signature on SB 790 by Sen John Seymour, R-Anaheim, wiped out the public majority. ow !1Ve archi· t ctural Industry members will sit along with five public members at least theoretically giving the mdu ·. try the power to checkmate any

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. 0, 217,089) (Cir. S. 341 ,840) C£tY£D FEB

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P c e , , Torero1.have tougher road to NCAAs By Kirk Ke~ a tomabc qual ier for the NCAA night. Trtb,me Sportswriter _ playoff "If you want to know if I have I T WAS all so sunple for the Th top four regular-season fin- gone to bed thinking, 'Just my luck,' USO bjSl(etball team three 1Shers will host he bottom four in you bet I have," he said. years ago. the first round Feb. 28. The winners USO (19-4 overall) has compiled . Three years ago, the Toreros advance to the semifinals March 6 a 9-1 conference record. The sunply on the Wes~ Coa~t Athlet(c _____.:.,______ league-leading Toreros have al- Conference champion hip. Their ready clinched one of the confer- reward was an invitation to the Miners beat Aztecs, ence's top four spots and the NC¥ Tournament. . _ home game reward - entering to- Its not qlllt~ so sunple th1S sea- Page B-8 mght's game at 7:30 against St. son. If {!SO_wms the WCAC, as ex• ___________ Mary's (5-5, 14-10) at the USO ~ted, 1t will be rew~rded with - Sports Center. The Toreros are just strike up the Toreros band - an- at USF. Those winners will play for two games away from clinching the other home_ game. the tournament championship and conference title. Some pnze. What's the second- the NCAA bid the following night at But for the first time in the con- place team get? Third place? the same s1l ference's 36-year history that's not

1987

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,454)

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good enough. As much as the timing of the tournament bothers Egan, he can understand the reasoning be- "Postseason play ha~ the oppor- tunity to do several thi~ for you" hind it.

USO coach Hank Egan knows all about the change in procedures. He has ever smce the plan was ap- proved m September 1985 by the presidents of the conference's eight schools. Still, that hasn't made it

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son. Yezbak en(ered the game with a team-leading 22.3 average, but missed his first 11 shots from the floor He fm~hed with eight points on 4-for-23 shooting. missing double figures for the first time in 51 games at USIU "It was difficu1t," Yezbak said. "My shot felt h e 1t was there. I don't have any excuses. I Just didn't hit it. I don't know what we could have done to change anything. They could have done basicallv anything they wanted We can't get 1t inside on them. They're big. so we have to shoot outside and they know that. They're out extended on you, and there's really not much you can do. You just can't hang with a USO. They're too good." USO turned an early 12-1 lead into a 45-8 advan- tage with a 27-2 spree that enabled Egan to empty his bench. Reserves like sophomore forward Char- lie Wickstrand, freshman swingman Craig Cottrell and junior center Jim Pelton took advantage of the opportunity for extended floor time. Wickstrand. who scored nine points in the sea- son's first 22 games, tallied 14 last night. including a three-pointer that made it 100-48 with 5:12 re- maining. Cottrell added 14 and Pelton had 10 as the Toreros' bench outscored the starters 58-55. '·That was important for us to play the other guys,'' Egan said. "It's important because you don't know when you're going to need somebody down the stretch. and it's important for next year." Said Wickstrand· "This year we've been getting up a lot early, and then the other team comes back the econd half and we don't wm by that much so we haven't really gotten a chance to play. "Whenever we get up early in a game, we al- ways get a little excited on the bench, and then when Coach Egan starts walking down the bench I start sticking my head out. We love to get in there, and we don't care who it's against. We don't care if we're up by 30, or down by 30. When we get a few minutes it's really nice." Egan feels much lietter when the Toreros are up by 30. I've been on the ide of ome 30-point-plus l es," said Egan, adding. 'One of the comments I made on the bench is if I had known 1t was going to be hke this, I wouldn't have had a stomach ache for two days."

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weighs on Egan's mind. If Toreros were to win their remaining games but lose in the tournament finals they would have no guarantee of a tourna- ment berth despite a 25-5 record. "It comes down to this deal,'' Egan said. "Everybody says the pressure is on us because we're going to win the league. The pressure is going to be on everybody. You've got to produce at that time. We've already proven we can do it. Now we have to go out and do it again.'' Another test of strength in other words. That could be just what the WCAC needs, according to Gilleran. WCAC teams are 1-6 in their last seven NCAA Tournament appear• ances. Maybe this will make them tournament tough. "One school of thought has it that because on a couple of occasions our teams have clinched early, they haven't sustained a high level of play after they've clinched," Gilleran said. "They play out the string, then they wait and thev go and lose. I've been told that it's .~r better to have those people perform at a top level and risk getting beat. "At least you know that whoever you send from your tournament is the team playing best at the moment." Seems simple enough. Egan had another idea, which would eliminate the regular season altogether "(Oklahoma City coach) Abe Lem- ons has a great idea," he said. "What you do is rank the teams from 1 to 284 and split them up and then pllfy. As soon as you los you're out. ... And then you go recruiting.''

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Egan said. "It can generate revenue, generate exposure through television and create another spot in the NCAA playoffs. If it does those things, it's of value. If it doesn't do any of those things, then it's not worth it." To the seven teams who have looked up at the Toreros in the stand· ings all season, it appears \H:ll worth it. "For our league I think it will in- crease interest," WCAC commission- er Michael Gilleran said. "Specifical- ly, at the schools other than San Diego at this point in the season. I've received calls from people in other cities saying, 'This is great.' In other years it's been: 'Case closed. We're out of it. San Diego's the champion. We might as well cancel our games.' This way you may not be playing for first place, but you're playing for seeding. You're playing for a spot You're playing for momentum. "Obviously, if you're winmng the regular season, you're not going to like it. That's an obvious given with any tournament format. The question usually comes down to is the happi- ness of seven preferable to the unhappiness of one? Most league's have overwhelmingly answered, 'Yes."' Pepperdine coach Jim Harrick is happy. His team struggled e::rlier in the season, but appears to be coming together with the first round of the tournament on the horizon. Harrick's mood would have been decidedly dif- ferent if the tournament was in place two years ago. The Waves have won the conference title the past two sea- sons.

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NOTE: The WCAC will hold its first conference tournament this year with the top four teams hosting first-round games Feb. 28. The winners advance to the semi• finals March 6 at USF. The championship game will be played March 7 at USF with the winner gaining the WCAC's automatic bid to the NCAA playoffs. 'Tm certainly for going along and trying it," Harrick said. 'Tm still a conference champion guy because a conference championship has to mean something. But a team like ourselves, we've really struggled, but we're playing some pretty good ball now. Maybe we can get it done. I think the conference champion could get beat in the tournament. It's called March Madness. Anything can happen." Then Barrick pointed out the pri• mary drawback of the tournament, saying: "If our conference champion and tournament champion aren't the same, there's a chance we'll only have one representative in the NCAA playoffs." That last thought is exactly what

'I've been on the side of some 30-point- plu losse ' ank Egan

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