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Monday, May 21, 1984

an Diego Communities/Television/Weather/Obituaries/Editorials Commencement: seniors' big day

COMMENCEMENT 1984

Weak public schools threaten American dream, SDSU told

U.S. trength means freedom, Wilson tells USD graduates

BRUC"f K HUFf Journalist-author David Halberstam gives thumbs-up sign to San Diego State University graduates. GraduatesHearOpposingViews Sen. Wilson at USD, David Halberstam at SDSU By DANIEL M. WEINTRAUB and NANCY REED, Times Staff Writer,

and capitalism. The two men -Wilson a graduate of Yale and Halberstam of Harvard-could not have been more blunt in their assessment of the direction m which they believe the world is heading. But Wilson characterized the Unit- ed States as a country threatened from the outside, particularly Mos- cow, while Halberstam said the country's perch atop the world power structure m the 1950s was simply an '"accident of history" that Americans will have to learn to live without. •Ruthless . .. Arreulon' "The Soviets are ruthlessly bent on extending their hegemony in virtually every part of the world," Wilson 831d. '"That IS beyond dis- pute. They are doing it by violence, by political subversion, by armed aggression, by surrogates in the horn of Afnca, In Central Amenca, m the Middle East and in the Far East." Although he said he recognized the need for negotiations with the USSR, Wilson criticized those in America who would capitulate to the Russians without astruggle. '"They (Soviet leaders) feel that Americans in their love affair with peace, in our democratic idealism, will make the most repeated mis- take in history," he said. "They are hoping that Americans will be the people to most recently engage in that most bitter of ironies, that those who will not face aggression make it ineVJtable that they will suffer it." 'Deterlontion of Eclucatlon' A few moments later and and across town at SDSU, Halberstam, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Vietnam in 1964, told his audience that the United States' biggest challenge will come not from abroad but from deterioration of the Amencan system of educa- tion. "Today as you graduate there are people again unmindful of history who would hope to have some form

In speeches that presented stark- ly diffenng views of the challenge facing America and its youth, Sen. Pete Wilson CR-Calif.) and author David Halberstam addressed gradu- ating classes of the University of San Diego and San Diego State University Sunday morning. Wilson, San Diego's former may- or who was elected to the Senate in 1982, told almost 900 USO graduates that the greatest threat they will face will be the one posed by the Soviet Umon, a country he said was bent upon conquest of much of the world. including Central America. Halberstam, meanwhile, urged SDSU's 5,000-strong Class of '84 not to heed the advice of those "un- mindful of the lessons of Vietnam" who portray the conflict tn Central America as no more than a battle between the forces of communism

HAPPY GRAD Chr' Cook, a nursing major, at USD graduation

University of San Diego • Speaker: Sen. Pete Wilson. • 880 clerrees awarded: 658 undergraduate and 222 graduate. • Law acbool speaker: Father Robert F. Orman, Georgetown University School of Law professor and former Massachusetts congressman. • Law nbool derreea: 318 juris doctor and master of law degrees awarded. San Diego State University • Speaker: David Hal- berstam, reporter, author and Pulitzer Prize winner. • 8,708 clerrees awarclecl: 7,200 undergraduate, 1,500 master's and eight doctoral.

Sen. Pete Wilson of American involvement in Central America," Halberstam said. "To them it will again be capitalism versus communism. Though capi- talism has never touched in any benign way the people involved, the peU!Jants of these nations, the true wretched of the earth, that does not matter to them. They would fit the world to American specifications and do what they please . . . And they, as those before them, would fail." . Halberstam contended that the position of power which the United States occupied in the 1950s was a temporary phenomenon brought on by the destruction of much of the rest of the world during World War II. "We were careless with that affluence. It was an extraordinary time. First every family had one car, then two cars and a house in the suburbs. Then a boat. And we began to believe that that 40 years of Please see SPEECH, Pa1e 4

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unparalleled affluence, that which was a historical accident, we began to perceive it as a permanent condition." · But the rest of the world has spent the past 40 years catching up with America, Halberstam said, while this country has forgotten lhe value of a strong system of public education. "A critical part of the American Dream-that no matter how simple your own origins in life, if you worked hard your children would do better-that critical part is now in jeopardy. Do not in 20 years think it is a surprise that as we were rotten at the core of our educational system we produced an America that could no longer compete with peoples whose soil is less bountiful than ours."

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/ Law,Aollege seeking further accreditation w snife" Universit Colle e of Law graduates are elig_ible to sit f~r bar exams is taking the firs s eps towar accre 1ta· in California Indiana, Georgia and Men- tion by the American Bar Association. tana, but in ~ther states only by petition," University President William B. Lawless he said. "Upon obtaining ABA ~pproval, ; said the move will be made over a three- our graduates will be eligible to s~t f~r bar . year period, beginning in the fall. _ exams in all 50 states and the District of The university, with law schools m San Columbia." Diego and Fullerton, is accredited by the The San Diego campus of Western State Committee of Bar Examiners of the..Stak is in new quarters in Old Town. More than 8atof Cali[Qfllia and the Western Associa- 2100 students attend classes in San Diego lion of Schools and Colleges. . a'nd Fullerton. • Lawless said the major advantage of The lloivetsil)' of Sao Diego School of ABA approval is that students would be Law and Caljfomja Western University able to sit for bar examinations anywhere School of Law already have ABA accredi- "At the present time, ,Western ·State.. tation. . - -