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Law School News Gordon T. Ownby ZC)<;S Schools Hike Grades to Keep Students on Par Grade inflation _ the much-discussed

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~ - --rl a founder of UCAN, a consumer group battling San Diego Gas & Electric Co. Ca lston, who e husband, Peter, Is a candJdate In the 44th District In downtown 8an Diego, Is a Lyndon LaRouche Demo• crat, & faction best known !or Its advocacy of a crash program to shield the United State from nuclear attack with laser• beam weapons. .Mann, who has been visiting the Middle E st for the past month, says Congress should r fuse to ever raise the federal debt celling gain and Is a critic of wheat aale to th Soviet Union, Hostett r, a ferv nt opponent of nuclear arms and the X missile, Is runn.ing "be• caus our government Is about to Install ' the fu e that could Ignite the nuclear holo• caust." Ho tetter aid his campaign, which has consisted entirely of newspaper ads in the San Diego Reader, Is aimed at weakening Lowery for the November general elec-

tlon. He concedes that Simmons is the par• ty's man, and says he will support him after the primary. Libertarian Sara Baase will also be on the ballot. Attorney David W. Guthrie, 36, of San Diego and businesswoman Georgia Day Irey, 80, of Chula Vista are competing for the right to oppose Hunter In the 45th Dis· trict, which Includes Poway, Ramona, the eastern hall of Rancho Bernardo and the eastern fringe of Escondido. Irey Is another LaRouch Democrat and a grandmother of five. She works In her home as the local distributor of a gasoline add!tive which, she claims, increases en- gine Ille and gas mileage. Guthrie, the choice of the Democratic leadership, Is a moderate who opposes President Reagan's foreign and military policies and Hunter's attempts at solving problems along the U.S.·Mexican border. Libertarian Patrick Wright, a retail clerk, will also appear on the •ovember ballot.

merical equivalent of the Jetter grade is higher." ·d "We real A USO committee report sat : . · ize that a sensible employer would consider only class standing in comparing stu_dents at different schools, but we have received an• ecdotal evidence that many employers also consider the numerical grades as abso- lutes." Both schools have raised their mean aver- ages. On a scale from 2.1 to 4.3, Stanford has raised Its mean average from 2.85 to 3.2. At USO with a grading scale from 65 to 93, the mew average has been raised from 75 to 80. The two schools also made other changes In their grading systems. Stanford has lim- ited the number of courses a law student may take on a "pass/no credit" basis, and USO has limited the number ~f A's, B's, D's and F's that a professor can give. Beside placing Stanford students on par with students from other schools, Ellickson said some faculty members expressed a con- cern to alleviate the "needless trauma" of giving low first-year grades to students who have been used to getting mostly A's and B's in their college careers. As for grade inflation, Ellickson said that higher grades in Jaw schools could ~eflect the higher quality of students than m de- cades past. Raising the mean average slightly, the faculty maintained, was "not inflation of an egregious kind," Ellickson said. L

phenomenon at undergraduate schools In the 1970s - has not been a burning issue at l~w schools. But some schools are f!iaking changes to keep their grades on par with oth• ers. Two law s~hools in California, Stanford and the Universicy of San Diego, recently raised their mean grading averages In re- sponse to complaints from students and fac- ulty members that their schools' lower averages were putting graduates at a dlsad• vantage in the job market. Prof. Robert Ellickson, who served on Stanford's committee to amend the law school'!> grading policy, said that some pro- fessors had found that judges evaluate clerkship applicants by looking at grades In- stead of class standing. The professors maintained that because Stanford had a lower mean average than other sch~ls, the school's students were passed over m favor of students from schools with higher grading averages. The same concern was eviden~ when ~e University of San Diego changed its grading policy at the beginning of the school year. "Students have alleged that they are at a disadvantage compared to students from other Jaw schools," Prof. Herbert Lazerow said in support of the change In September. "At some schools, a low C average is a 75, whereas at USO it's a 70. The student from the other school looks better because the nu•

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Deputy DA Melinda Lasater lected county Bar president By Rivian Taylo52935 Staff Writer

between the local Bar and the state Bar. In recent years, local Bar officials have proposed withdrawing from the state Bar's Conference of Delegates. The conference decides upon the state Bar's legislative program. • "I want San Diego to have more input on decisions that affect law- yers," Lasater said. Lasater is a native of Washington, D.C. She received a degree in psy- chology from the University of Wis- consm and her law degree from the University of Saa..Oiego. Lasater has been active in Bar ac- tivities for the past four years. Her community activities have included being chairwoman of the San Diego City Advisory Board on Women, being chairwoman of and developmg the board's Women's Opportunities Week, and serving as vice president of the Tierrasanta Community Coun- Lasater, her husband, Michael, who is an assistant U.S. attorney, and their daughter Ashley live in Poway. ~----~~-~-....-"i cil in 1978.

Deputy District Attorney Melinda Lasater was elected president of the San Diego County Bar Association last night, becoming the first woma • to lead the lawyer's group in its 85- year history. Lasater, 35, who was selected by the association's IS-member board of directors, will begin her one-year term in December. A prosecutor for the past decade, Lasater currently is the chief of the district attorney's juvenile court di- vision. She is the first woman to head a division in the county district attor• ney's office. "I'm really excited," she said last night, minutes after her election. "This has been a serious goal of mine and I've made a concerted effort to prepare myself for this position." She added that her election to the Bar presidency was significant be- cause "women comprise a large por• tion of the Bar and are active mem• bers of the Bar Aswciation." /'

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Lasater said during her term she will try to improve communications between the Bar's board of directors and its 3,800 members. Another high priority will be to improve relations