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Santa Ana, CA (Orange Co.) Register (Morning Ed.) (Cir. D. 263,099) (Cir. S. 280,000)

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Santa Clara Holds Off St. Mary's By Pam King The great thing about a conference tournament is its pote ial absurdity. Take the first-ever West Coast Athletic Conference tournament. It's oing to send to the NCAA playoffs either a seventh-place team with a sing record or a team so balanced that Its components almost could be ---~---~-- described as mediocre. Yet the pair of games last night

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Rush o misjudgment 20! '>5 those rights. W c would hardly want to deny Sen Joe Bidcn of Del~ware 1 t a certain amou~t of m~ul- ell € 1 character as a mat10n Just

5 ·. gan is the kind of scholar thorough, responsible, fair- :i;J;d, dispassionate, but willing to f Bow the evidence to conclusions s~me might deem controversial - whose qualities embody the kind of . d' . 1 temperament that should be :o~~fn evidence on the bench. He is both a gentleman and a gentle_ man. Before beginning his academic ca- reer, he was a successful lawyer. It would be difficult to [ind a ~ore minently qualified j 1die al nominee. e But a Feb. 2 articit m the capital's Legal Times predicted a "full-blown fight" because Siegan had "roundly •zed" the 19 54 Brown vs. Board c;; ~~ucation desegregation decision. A number of scholars who are remotely kin to racists have cntl- cized that decision, of course, but they weren t Reagan nominees. '_'CPr- tamly he's going to be questioned closely about that," predicted People for the American Way. Represen- tatives of civil-rights groups and the Federation of Women Lawyers tut- T It could have been a fascinati~g brouhaha, but f r one little detail. rof. Siegan never said or wrote any The a11egation had come from an unnamed source at the Cato Institute, which in 1984 published an article by judicial restraint. The source claimed that Cato editors had deleted references to Brown because Siegan on Trouble is. all the evidence points the other way. Brown wasn't especially relevant to Siegan's topic. A Cato editor in the course of prepublication corre;pondence, wrote to Siegan that '·from the context I infer that you are not criticizing Brown vs. Board of Education and other desegregation cases but only busing, quotas, and other 'measures to force integration.'' Shucks. even sen. Biden has done lished a clanflc; tion. There s not ev~n a sc~ntilla of a scand~l to smffed. With anylruck Se~- B1den _will settle down and get on with ?ear_mg_s on one o~ the mo ~utstandmg J~d1- cial nommees he · hkely to be pnv1- such thing. they were just too controversial. th t a · . On Feb. 28 ~h_e f..:egal Time~ pub- tutted.

to k. p h" h ui in the ~arr_ie. After II, he uiscov r d ea!·ly m his te?ure on the Senate ud1ciary Committee that the TV camcr~s don_·t r~ll ~e:Y long when you re ?1sc_ussmg Jud1c1al philosoph~ or the_1~tncac1cs of long- splashy accusal1?n, ~he sly mnucndo, thP carccly veiled 1mpu~a lion of raci mare all more tel~ge~ic. >. having honed his demagogic s~ills '.\tee ·t• . Rcy~olds • ~amon - R hnqui t hearmgs, 1t would hardly be :;urprising that wit~ a De~ocratic maJority th<1t make him chairman of .Judi~iary_ Committee. the first Reagan 1ud1c1~l appointee to come under his purview would get the full during th Now that he's chairn:an, of course, gaunllel for nominees can be longer and more formal. So gr. at is hts tender concern tor t~e quahty of th no meed the crea{lon of a pan~l to creen appomtees prior to cmnm1ttee hearings. The panel contams 0 °1?' Democrats, of c ii"se. You wouldn t want ,, pollut~ it with bl~tanl apo)o- gists for the evil emperor m th e White ago Jud1c1al dec1s1ons.. - Th ar chamber treatment. j1.,d1cial nomm c that B1den has an c1al nominee began the prehmi~art ies. ',\'hereupon the lust to dr~w irst blood becam~ so overwhelm1~f th_~ th Biden-bu1lt system wen\~ er i _s first victim not on the basis of t~s record or competence, or ~v~n on e basis of his 1deology. or opinions. Nod th fir ·t blow wa~ aimed at Bernar _ Siegan r the ba.1s ~f what hi~ oppo l ult! d~al'ly hke to beheve_ ~e thinks, b't! which the record shows e nents Siegan, who has bee~ no_mi~a e serve on the Ninth Circuit court o the di -tinguished law pro- fe~~or ~t the Umversjty of San Diego cholarly writings. including ;e 0 ~ 80 \ook Economic Liberties and the constitution. have inspired wide- spread reconsideration of just what rights the founding fathers intended to protect and what role they e~vi- sioned for the judiciary in protectmg of A eal i h doesn t thmk at all. . t d t Hou . . . So Biden_ ha~, his ducks_. 10 ,. p~ac~ when the first controversia~ ~udi

at USF's Memorial Gym were decid- ed by a mere handful of points, and the idea of a tournament is to gener- ate Interest and to help the teams prepare for NCAA intensity. Santa Clara was not so much the winner as the survivor in a 55-50 game against St, Mary's. Trailing by three in the final minute, St. Mary's had a remarkable number of chances to tie the game, but the Gaels' opportunity to play Pepper- dine at 7:35 tonight for the WCAC title ended as two 3-point attempts by the Gaels' two best shooters rat- tled off the rim. Trailing, 31-23, at the half after putting St. Mary's on the free-throw line 25 times, Santa Clara put on an 11-2 spurt at the beginning of the second half, and the game was even with less than 15 minutes to go. And from then on, it truly was anybody's game to win or lose. with just under two minutes left, Santa Clara went ahead for good, 51-50, when the Broncos' leading scorer Jens Gordon (14 points) rebounded a missed jumper by Mitch Burley and laid it in. St. Mary's had three possessions see Page 47, Cot. I

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. BRONCOS, PEPPERDINE IN WCAC FINAL _From Page 41 subsequent to that, but couldn't score. "At halftime, we tried to get Unless the NCAA selection committee finds charity in Its heart and extends an invitation to regu- lar-season champion San Diego, the inaugural conference tournament at USF has served to render mean• ingless the last eight weeks of com petition. "l Just hope our record over the Despite beating the Toreros, Pepperdine coach Jim Harrlck said he didn't see how the NCAA selec- tion committee could fail to pick USD. "I'm on the recommendation committee," he said, "and I ranked 'em No. 3 in the West, behind UNLV and UCLA." Two baskets in the final six sec-

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our emotions under control," said Santa Clara Coach Carroll Williams, who admitted his team had begun to battle the officials instead of the Gaels. But Burley hit a couple of criti- cal 3-polnters (while containing the Gaels' 3-point specialist, Paul Rob- ertson), and helped open up the middle for Gordon and center Dan Weiss. Pepperdlne 64, USD 63 PEPPERDINE SAN DIEGO to/a 1111 tp While 6-14 6-6 18 Manor Mdlbrks 9-13 0-0 18 Madden Cmbrlnd 3-6 0-0 18 Thmpsn Moore 0-0 2-2 ·2 Leonard Davis 3-6 H 14 Means Horrid< 0-0 2-3 2 HauPI Allen 2-3 0-0 4 Munn Crowfrd 0-0 0-0 0 Krollmn Howard 0-1 0-0 0 TGlals -iMr!S-17 14 TDt.is to/a ft/a tp 2-9 3--4 7 3-10 2-2 8 8-13 3-7 19 6-7 1-3 14 2-7 1-2 5 0-0 0-0 0 1·3 0-0 3 N 4-4 8 11'6314-7l 6J 32 31-63 :k>olnl plt-f'epperdine 3-5 (Cunber'- land 0-1, Davis 3-3, Allen 0-ll, San Dleoo WI W-.,,rcr 0-3, Leonard WV!JatlS 0-3). Fouled ~ - Rebouuds Pepper dine 'D (Mlddlebrodson 8). Asslslrf>epperdine 11 (Nome 6), San Oieoo 16 (Leonard 5), Tolal fouls ~dine 21, San Dleoo 16. PEPPERDINE 3' :II- 64 USO