News Scrapbook 1986-1988

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

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

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MAR 1 01987

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tion in the preseason. I think they thought they were still ranking our football team." • "We pict out somebody every game and don't guard them. That's what we call our gimmick defense. The ptoblem with us is sometimes we pick out all five of them and don't guard them." • "The AubUr·n Tigers have a 6- !oot-7 center who can't jump. We're m real trouble." • Asked how his team could over- look any opponent in the NCAA Tour- ament, he said: "My team could overlook its own birth date. You haven't seen my team play, evident- ly. We can't even get up for Miami Vice and it's the No. 1 television show up here. We have to jump start our team." One sensed a smoke screen rising in Alabama. "He's a fox," USO coach Hank Egan said. The Tigers enter the NCAA Tour- na'!lent with a 17-12 record following a fifth-place finish in the Southeast- ern Conference. But take a closer look. • Six teams from the SEC received berths in the NCAAs. Two more SEC !earns were selected to the NIT, giv- mg the 10-team conference eight par- ticipants in postseason play. • The Tigers played 16 games against NCAA Tournament-bound teams, compiling a 7-9 record a~ain~t ,tb_e schools. Among the T111:ers victims this season were Ala- bama- irmingham, Kentucky (in the SEC Tournament), Georgia LSU and Florida twice. '

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'My team could overlook its own birth date'

Rose Tyson, curator of physical anthropology for the Museum of Man, with castings of skulls showing the progression used to determine a face Who digs skeletons? The 'bone lady'

-Sonny Smith

"but the foot, well, I thought, 'Naw.' " Tyson studied the remains briefly and said, "They're not human." The detective's instincts were correct. She walked hurriedly to the human skeleton hanging in a corner and compared the bones. Please see TYSON, f;'-4

bury their victims without realizmg that ani- mals - coyotes and dogs - dig up the fresh graves and gnaw at the remains. Body parts show up unexpectedly. That could have been what happened near Spring Valley, where the bones were found.. "This part (the leg) looked human," be said,

and removed the severed lower part of a leg with a foot attached. It was mostly skeletal remains. To an untrained eye, the many bones of the fool didn't look like a foot but more like a hand. Rose Tyson, the "bone lady.'' was about to begin her police work. . . Helping cops with bones on then: hands 1s a sideline for Tyson, curator of physical ~nthro- pology for the museum, which traces its on- gins and many of its bones to the Panama- California Exposition here in 1915. Rece~tly she supervised the creation of two new exh1b1- tions, one on ancient mummies and another on bone diseases. But for the moment, her attention was on police work Bohren was asked if this was part of an mvestigation. "Yes and no," he said. His smile was tenta- tive. He was concerned because murderers often

Stories by Jimmy Thornton Tribune tall Writer S HERIFF'S D , H.CTI\ E Roger Bohren climbed the tep to the Museum or Ma~ in Balboa Park, passed through a com- dor, then climbed a stairway to a laboratory on the ccond floor. He earned a brown paper bag containing a grisly discovery. He was there to see the ''bone lady.'' In the Jab, hanging from a stand, was a human skeleton. On a table were several skulls. The shelves and racks of the laboratory contamed thousands of bones. Some were de- formed . Others were marred by disease. One skull had a sharply defined square piece cut from the top or it, the result or ancient surgery. Another wa damaged by syphilis. Ro e Tyson, attired in a smock, greeted the nattily dressed detective. "Roger?" she asked, then welcomed him to her domain. He hande-l her the bag. She reached inside

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• Last year's Auburn team defeat- ed Arizona, St. John's and Nevada- Las Vegas to advance to the finals of the ~e~t Regional where it was defeated 84-76 by eventual national champion Lomsv1lle. Four starters return from that team. "They're ~rea~physically and they're unbelievably f st," said Egan, who bega~ studymg films 1 the Tigers last night. "They jump and move very well. They re a great trans1 r on team. I was watching the Kentucky game and they Please see TORERO' D-6

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"I can appreciate what these people went through, aJJ.d I know that they suffered terribly."

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they suffered terribly. So what they have left behind is precious because it's a record of what they went through. And we can learn from it. "In a way, I know them a little bit as individuals. I don't know what they were like (as personalities). But this is what they left of themselves "So we need to take care of it and treat it with respect and learn what for us.

You look at the mummy, remarka- bly preserved, naturally (no chemi- cals were applied}, and you wonder about this young girl, how she died. in a nearly fetal ·position, and why was she wearing the garment and The answers are the gold of the "It tells us something about our She said that as an anthropologist she is forever mindful that she is handling "remnants" of people. It is not as though she were a geologist sorting rocks, she says with a look of trinkets she wore? anthropologist's quest. pas~" Tyson said.

cently opened exhibit is that of the Lemon Grove Mummy. The mummy, stored for a while in a Lemon Grove garage, is that of a young Indian girl had received injuries 800 years ago similar to those you would experi- ence in a car crash, Tyson said. A study of the girl's remains showed that not only was she preg- nant but the fetus was positioned for birth at the time of her death. Tyson said the girl lived in rough terrain near Chihuahua. How she suf- fered her injuries is a matter of con- jecture. Perhaps she fell. Perhaps the fall triggered labor. She probably died in agony before

Then she shook her head The bones looked like he remains of a bear, she said, then she asked, "Are there any bears around here?" ''Not that I know of," the detective said. It was a mystery but one that the bone lady would be unable to solve without help. She's an expert on human bones. The anthropologist would have to find an animal expert for more positive identification. Satisfied murder wasn't involved, Bohren left his package with Tyson. "Well, what now?" Tyson was asked. "First of all," she said, "I'm going to thoroughly wash my hands." Tyson, who was born in Oceanside, is a home-grown scientist who went ' to high school in Vista. She has a master's degree from San Diego State University. And she has taught anthropology at the lfu!versity of §an Diego. --xooiit 20 years ago, she gave up a career as a dental assistant for one in anthropology. Today, she and her husband, a vegetation restoration consultant, live in University Heights. She can rattle off the nomencla- ture scientists use to describe body parts. Yet her colleagues call her simply "the bone lady.'' Human remains, often in the form of keletons, are to anthropologists what books are to librarians. Once

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(15, perhaps 16 when she died) who Was she a wife, why was she buried

they are collected, identified, labeled and filed in handy boxes on shelves, they become archives of humanity. And then there are mummies. The San Diego museum, next to the Old Globe Theater, bas some ex- hibits of human remains that have been carefully arranged and pre-

But she said she can work with mummies and skeletons and skulls we can from it." without qualm because "the person is

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~f?s--r------.-------------- ~:~1~yb;i:1~·e boards. Ttley outrebounded Las Vegas by nine and Texas-El th T~ere's n_o questio~ Auburn misses the presence of Chuck Person, who led l e _ea~ with 21.5 pomts and 7.9 rebounds a game last season Person now is P aymg_m the NBA for the Indiana Pacers. · pe}~n~t 0 f !~ee-point range, which approximates the national average "ma Y, rm ac~owledged his team does have a few strengths · "WOur strengths are ID the running game and the rebounding game·" he said e ge~ o_ur rebounds !Jecause our offense is designed to get rebo~nds Ou; etmhphasi_s IS on reboundmg. The main thing is getting the rebound. You'v~ got o ave 1t before you can run with it." Provided_ with information about USD's success from three-point range ~II Smith needed to set him off again. "

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J The hneup_ remains formidable. The front line consists of sophomore Mike on~ (15 pomts per game), who assumed Person's spot and juniors Chris Mo,ns {13.4) an~ Jeff Moore (17.2). They measure 6-7 ea~h and average 220 pounds. Moore IS the center who "can't jump." He leads the team with 93 rebounds a game. The other two average 7.2. · The backcourt consists of four-year starters Frank Ford and Gerald Whit Even Ford a~erages 6.2 rebounds a game along with 132 points Wh't ~- Auburn's all-time assist leader. ' · · 1 e is On the average, the Tigers have outrebounded opponents 39 7 to 31 6 and outscored them 80.2 to 74.3. Auburn shoots 50 percent from th~ field ~nd 38

Its one of the ~t teams in the country with the three-pointer" he said t~ne gu_y na~ed (semor forward) Mark Manor is shooting 51 percent from th~ ~,ee-pomt hne. Pl~ the team as a whole is shooting 44 percent. All I have to do IS read them our defensive ability versus the three- int play; let ~hem read two or three articles about how (poorly) we defense them· ~ave their coach call the Nevada-Las Vegas players, who probabl h ' hsted phone numbers, and let them talk 30 minutes about how sorr !e ::ee ... Then we could probably get motivated for the game." y ·