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ge toward the churchyard. Giving chasP. bdatedly the two m<•n were almost certain that one oftheir pi to! shots had grazed thecn•ature'' leg as it leap<'dowr the churchyard wall The following monung, the. brother< accompanied by a few !oral villagers, marched grunlv into th~ churchyard and• d thr anc1cnl bunal vault. Whal they ~~Id made themshnnk back in horror All d ~roken into, and their viciously mutilate C(lnt<"nts strewn about the dusty n.oor Choking down nausea, the men pned ,,pen th t II intact but age-sealed casket, the nng of~~:,r hammers resounding in the foul air. Inside the coffin they found a ghastly, shriveled corpse - with a fresh gunshot wound scamng its leg · · . . L t ·t be a sumed that the preceding" es • · · 1 h Id be 1ust anothrr Halloween slory, , s uu mted out that a great number of the. po o I<> who presently inhabit the Engh,h pe Pt .·de referred to a bow still bdwve coun rys• . · ·sm Ihat this late nineteenth-century vampm • actually took place. In fact, in a l),•r<>mber 1975 article in People magazine, San Franc,,sca State Umwrs1ly Enghsh professor Lennard Wolf theorized that not only dn Europ,•ans believe such things, but behdin mon,ters such as vampires also thrives in lhis country Convinc d that the Amencan P reoccupahon with monslers stems frohm hJ I oung people (w 1c los, of ntua among Y . d r • ) wa once provrded by orgamLe re ,gion ' W~lf betrays his own fascination with the ,ub ect of vampires in two lx·st-,clhng b lk A Dream of Dracula and Tlte Anno/a/rd oo s, f ·sorsh,p is Dracula. But Wolf's literary pro es. . .. n ither the reason far nor the source oft•~ knowledge of vampires - that com';;' irs hand. Wolf, vou see, was bom m w at is now Rumania, in an area of Eastern Euro_pe f rred to in monster lore as Transylvama. re ~h, week, Wolf w,11 ap r in San D.' 'I', for a lecture on his favorite subj ct. Entitle~ "The Annotated Dracula," the program~v1 not only foature Wolf' discu%ion of t e vampire curse, ,ts history, folklore, and psychol<;)gical, religious, and s.-xual connolations; but it w,11 also include a .f. exc"'pl one - had been ,f th<> n>I ms .- ' . .

Sunday, October 29, 1978

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day night In USD Stadium.\ A victory would even th Toreros' record at 4-4. _A USD team hasn't turned m four victories since An~y Vinci accomplished that m 1973. Williams was offen- sive coach of USD that sea- son. bo t "r believe we are a u ready to put it all to~? th . er " Williams said. We have a young team,_ ~!h only six seniors, bu_l it s m the process of leammg. "We just have to play better as a unit. Our .de- fense was good agamS t Azusa Pacific (USD lost 35- 6) last week, but eight turn- overs hurt us. "I have seen film of the Edwards team. They look tough. They really charge and they throw the ball a lot." Charles Simmons, who was a ball carrier and a cornerback in service foot- ball in Europe, is coach of the Rattlers for the fourth season. They are 3-3 after being trounced 37-13 by a semi-pro eleven from Los Angeles last weekend. 1 "We're not a big club," Simmons said. "We aver- age only about 210 on the line. Thev don't allow the men to get too big up here. "We have a good defense and my players always give 100 per cent. They love to play and they practice hard." Southpaw Austin Jones is the Rattlers' quarterback, changing over from wide receiver after last season. The top runners are Ray r. lgrin, Bill Jones and dre Bailey. 'We have two fine wide receivers," Simmons said. "Bob McMillen has played for me four years and Charles Brathwaite also is a good pa~ catcher:... -

Bill Williams will be able to take a bow if University of San Diego's football team turns back the Edwards Air Force Base Rattlers Satur-

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COMMENTARY Liberal Arts Is Regaining Stature As Meaningful Facet Of Education

duced to a nettlesome requirement standing ln the otherwise clear path toward a student's professional goal . Compounding this dri!t were the strident demands of the student activists of the '80s for less structure and more freedom of choice - in- cluding the freedom to make the wrong choices. A a re ult, by 1974 the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education found that general educa- tion requirements as a percentage of undergraduate curricula had dropped from 43 to 34 percent. Other traditional standards went by the board as well. Half of the colleges and unlvers1ues of the nation had abandon d any foreign language r

now emerging from high school will eventually find their ultimate occu- pations in career fields not presently In existence. Never bas specialized education had such transient value, and at the same time, never before has the ability to make reasoned judgments and sound decisions been as import- ant as it is today. Harvard Umversi- ty president Derek Bok recently spoke In exactly those terms to an incoming freshmen class. "What so- ciety lacks today," Bok stated, "is not people who are trained for skllled jobs and professional carrers." Rather it requires "people with a sufficient breadth of knowl- edge to provide them with judgment, perspective and taste - people with a sensivity for the problems or oth- ers and a strong sense of ethical prmclples." Those character!Slics are the spe- cial objectives of an education grounded in the liberal arts and, Bok sternly warned the freshmen, "It would be tragic if you were to disre- gard them m favor of a short-sighted effort to use these college years to get a head start on your professional training." At the University of San Diego, too, there has been a continuing commitment to the hberaJ arts. That commitment ls held in creative ten- sion with the university's intention to serve the legitimate practical or career-oriented expectations of our students. Yet the primary thrust of the unJversity remains the enrich- ment of its students through the liberal arts. This means an educa- tion in philosophy, literature, histo- ry, language, theology, and the phys- ical and social sciences. their own aptitudes, and to pursue their own goals. But truly educated persons move beyond themselves, see themselves in relation to other people and times, and understand how their wants and needs are tied to the wants and needs of others. Such perceptions are the substance of the liberal arts. As philosopher Charles Frankel has written, the liberal arts "taJce us out of ourselves to facts that are not of our making and that we cannot wish away, to ideas and ideals that have transfigured the human race." In Robert Bolt's play, "A Man for All Seasons," Sir Thomas More strikingly explains to his daughter why he finds it impossible to swear a false oath: "When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. (He cups his hands.) And if he opens his fingers then - he needn't hope to find himself again. Some aren't ca- pable or this, but I'd be loath to think your father was one of them." An education focused In the liberal arts cannot promise utopia, but it can offer those pnvileged enough to exposed to it a chance to shape their own lives and the life around them with some or Thomas More's sense of self and purpose. An education to this end ls one that should indeed produce men and women for all circumstances, for all seasons.

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It was as LI the country home had be n lifted from the pages of an English roma~ce novel Stately trees, their boughs stra,run~ to capture every passing gust of wmd, hoe the dirt path leading to the front door. On a nearb hill reposed a modest churchyard. Even ham their first noor bedrooms the aun woman and her two brothers co~Id ~ew ~he miles of gently undulating Enghsh countryside which surrounded their newly rented cottage. The first weeks of spnng were spent in blissful indolence, and to the infrequent passersby ,1 must have seemed that the inhabitants of Croglm Grange "'.ere truly pleased wilh their chmce of a vacation s~~e articularly warm spring mght, t.he three s.it visiting in the parlour unhl quite late awaiting a cooling breeze that never ' E tually weariness forced them came. ven , · d into their bedchambers for what promise to be a fitful night's sleep. Ope_mng her windows wide ta admit what httle arr was crn:ulating, the woman reclined an her bed,

II At some point she was aware of two sma hght~ commg toward the house from the direction of the churchyard. Throu.gh half-closed eyes she watched the hghts draw closer, until she realized Iha! they were not lights at all, but eyes-:- eyes attached lo adark and suddenly d1scemable Ii re moving swiftly toward her open ~dow. Bolting from bed, she ran to the d b t by this time the face was at her oor, u f th window - a paralyzingly ugly ace w, burning, evil eyes. Frozen with fear, the woman watched the form climb into her room, approach, an~ ab her, forcing her head back. It wasn,t ~ntil she felt the sharp pain of the creature s teeth in her throat that he was able to scream. Although the brothers entered the oom in seconds, the creature had by then :xited through the window, and could be seen running across the grounds of Croghn

huwing of the first Dracula film ever made, tosferatu (a 1921 German silent film), as w~II as a slide presenlation of Count Dracula s b,z.arre journey through Northern Europe, ending with his death in England "The Annotated Dracula," followed by a / ueshon and answer period, will be \esented Thursday, October 26. at 8 p.m., fn the Camino Theater of the Umvers1.ty of S D. 0 Alcala Park Late word has 1t that an 1eg , · . 1 · ·n f Wolf will even offer mstruc ,on i Pro essar 1. K·• Who the use of his Vampire Kil mg ' knows, if you're ever pas~ing thrnugh t~e En lish countryside, you 1ust might nee onf For additional information, call 299-lOW. _ John D'Agostino

Much later, m the 19th century, th d bate height n ·d through the Jr flu nc • of vartou~ continental thinkers. John Stuart Mill at St And w' Univ r lty m 1867, or xampl , argued for th primacy of th edu aled mind and person ov r and amst the claim of what we might now call "narrow profe 10n- ' lbm." In Milt's word · "Men are men bdore they are lawyers, or phy. lr1an . or merchants, or manufacturers " With more pow rful consequences for the rurrlcula of American chool , howev r, G rman profes- sional S('holar hip developed as a mod l for colleg education. The model was ironically first adopted by traditional liberal arts di!-i<'I· plin ·, bringing into bemg academic d partments and a bit later splmt d d partments, thereby pro- viding the pr!l<'edent by whJch more • , rlclly vocational programs camE• to be admitted Into un1verslt1es In th , at Then as 20th rentury condltions placed a h avy re ponsibUlty upon high r education lo produce gradu- al •s m u ful ar as, the atmosphere or lncreastng sl)('c1aliz:.tion among

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O,. C. Jos.ph Pusar.rl requirements, and 80 percent grant- ed a bachelor's degree to students who might not have taken a single course In mathematics. After a decade of sorry experi- mentation with open curricula, how- Career-oriented course concentra- tions at USD are always accompa- nied over the fuJI course of under- graduate study by a core curriculum which, in the judgment of the facul- ty, gives every student, regardless of major, an adequate exposure to the disciplines of the liberal arts. Clearly, student must be f to .....:=:::..-=:.::.=.:::::....:=--=..:-...:::::::=:--follow their o n interests, to develop

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Dr. Puroteri ,s dean of the College of Arts ond Sciences of the Umversify of San Diego.

ever, thPre has been a resurrection of general education in American higher education. Many faculty members and administrators be- lieve that students simply have not used free elective systems wisely and have failed to design well-round- ed courses or study for themselves. As one Stanford official commented: "Whatever merits laissezfaire may have In economics, It leaves some- thing to be desired in education." More bluntly, the president of Johns Hopkins stated: "We were turning out highly technJcal and highly skilled people who were literally barbarians." The current movement for curric- ulum reappraisal ls, in fact, an affirmation that liberal education was never before as important as it Is today. It ls quite strange that too often in the past a college education was judged by a single norm: How well trained was the graduate for a lifetime specialty? Yet the one cer- tainty about life In the last quarter of the 20th century is that change will be an Incontrovertible constant. In fact, it has lately been forecast that a third or more of those. students

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highly technical and hig hly slcilled people who were /Iteral/y barbarians.'

TEAM PHOTO. Members of the Loaned Executives Class _of 1978 pos~ for th ·r class photo in front of DeSales Hall, university of S~n Diego. ei 1 ti"on was made available for the five-day train- The campus oca • f th u · ersity and ing session last month through the cooperation o e niv its president, Dr. Author~· Hughes. Loaned Executive Steve Akers Steven w. Akin Walter S. Albright Assigned to Professional North County North County Region I

facuJtie absorbed In their own lndi- v1dual di 1pllnes, and of preprofes- slonalism among studPnts compet- ing for academic records that would guarantee entry Into graduate or prof • Jona! schools, came to domi- nate Th trend toward "usefulness" ln education was further Intensified In th 1960 by powerful national pro- ! Jona! accrediting organizations which, often acting Independently of th Int •mal philosophie or colleges, ert d their own pr ures for a growing occupational emphasis in th curriculum. Thus the liberal arts cour content which once formed th center, th core, of undergradu- ate education at too many chools eliminated or at least re-

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Wooll festival scheduled music performed by a trio. A limited edition signed portfolio or drawmgs by au- thor and artist Richard Kennedy, who workPd m publishmg With \\ oolf Will

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be gJ\,en as souvenirs lo diners Dinner reservatm may be made with Jean Karlen, 5972 Avenida Chamnez, I.a Jolla, 92037.

Maestros Ero. and Ketcham had the compan; ·or among them composer Paul Creston, whose works are frequently ;. mrluded in San Diego Symphony concerts. ~tr and r\ Mrs. Creston now live m Rancho Bernardo. ,,3 Also attending were Dr. and ,Wrs. Saul H. Karlen who arc busy with plans for a Virginia Woolf 1 Fe l1val Nov. 4 at the Universil\ of Sag Djegp. Dr. Karlen is president of F'orum of the Arts San Diego which 1s sponsoring the late afternoon program , 00t•n to the publ!c without charge. There will be a dmner, by reservat10n, in the evcnmg. \\., a few men durmg the afternoon -

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1\ mobU unit from tlir , an Diego Blood Bank Is . chedulcd to b, at the Uni- v rslty of an Dwgo from 10 a.m to 2 p.m tomorrow Ill I> Sall s Hall .