News Scrapbook 1986

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,089) (Cir. S. 341,840) SEP6

LOS Angeles, CA (Los Angeles Co.) Los Angeles Times (Cir. D. 1,076,466) (Cir. s. 1,346,343) SEP9

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month. Curran became the first U.S. pro- fessor to have his teaching 1icer1Se revoked by Pope John Paul II when he refused to retract his support for public di agreement with church teachings on such issues as contra- ception, abortion. divorce, euthana- sia and homosexuality. Hughes stressed that Catholic Uni- versity is a Vatican- ·ponsored uni- versity offermg a po llhral degree with jurisdictional tie· to the Vati- can, and therefore d,flerent from all other Catholic univ ities in the U.S., including USD But the case has drawn increasing attention to the growing conflict be- tween church and campus, and creat• ed anxiety about church-university separation Hughes said.

ment and sexual misconduct by offi- cials of the local diocese. Without naming Copley, Hughes said, "A university trustee chose to accede to the request of a few diocesan priests who believed the trustees actions to be inappropriate as a Catholic university trustee." Even though there was no request for any action from the diocese, the university, or the board of trustees, "The unhappy conclusion," Hughes said, "was the unnecessary loss of a valuable trustee." The second clash between church and university highlighted by Hughes was the ongoing conflict between the Vatican and the Rev. Charles E. Cur- ran who was barred from teaching theology at the Catholic University of America in Washington last

m Th ugh ll D I a Roman Catholic msttlutton It IS not owned, con- trolled, or financed by the church, though th Diocese of San 01 go, the Rehg1ou of the Sacred Heart, and the laity provided 11 rnitlal capital.'' Hugh , who ha poken out prev1- ou ly 111 favor of umvers1ty autono- my from church control, used two recent cootrovers e to highlight growmg tea 1oos be ween the church and academe. F1 t he referred to earlier this year, when Helen K Copley, publish- er of The San Diego Union and The Tribune, did not eek reappointment a a truste of USO following a con• trovcrsy surrounding stories In The San Diego Umoo last December list• mg favoritism, fmancial mismanage-

Small Colleges / Alan Drooz Whittier Offense Has a NewLook, Sporting 3 Finns J>o?.-j£~ltecl if the Whittier College football team fights to the Finnish. The Poets open the season Saturday at home against the Ul\i,v~ ·ty f San Diego and the team, expected to be a contender in e Southern California Intercolle- giate Athletic Conference, is expected to have a distinct Finnish flavor. First there's Coach Hugh Mendez, who spent the last two summers coaching in Finland's IO-team professional league. Mendez went out of curiosity In 1985 and liked it so much he returned this summer. He also found the Finns to be surprisingly good football players-good enough to win the recent Eurobowl competition among the champions of eight countries. Then there are the three Finns whom Mendez brought oock with him last week to enroll at Whittier. He said two will probably starL M ndez, who has been at Whittier for 17 years, said American exchange students introduced football to Finland, which has had a pro league since 1979, and that the level of play is surprisingly good. He said the players are often bigger than those he deals with on the Division Ill level, and that even though they aren't allowed to play tackle football until their late teens, they are every bit as aggressive as their Amencan counterparts. Pro teams in Finland are allowed two American players, usually the quarterback and another key position, such as linebacker. "A lot of the players could play here in Division llJ, and a couple could play Division U," Mendez said. Mendez's star was one of his former Whittier quarterbacks, Joey Jordan, who was the league's most valuable player in 1985 and Eurobowl MVP last month. Finland's 10 pro teams are all coached by foreigners, about half of them coaches at California schools. Mendez, who gets the use of an apartment, plane fare and expenses but no salary, lived in Tikkurila outside Helsinki. Mendez said the level of coaching has made the Finnish game relatively sophisticated, with styles similar to U.S. teams. "On my team, probably 6 out of 42 spoke fluent English, others spoke some, others spoke none. Yet they pick up the plays. We ran eight or nine formations. I ran multiple sets," he said. In the Eurobowl, sponsored in part by the National Football League, Mendez's team defeated Italy for the tiUe, 20-6. He won earlier games by scores of 61-0 and ~-6. While in Finland, he got the idea of a reverse exchange, bringing players back with him. And it probably won't hurt his team. Wide receiver Harri Kaasinen, for instance, is 6 feet 2 inches and 205 pounds. Fullback Jari Sirkia is 6-3, 250. They were enrolled in school last week. The third player, center Vela-Pekka Nyykist, 6-2 and 235, is expected this week. Mendez said the transfer idea appealed to the players and was popular in Finland as well, receiving big play in the media. "I enjoyed it over there," he said. "I thought of the idea of trying to interest kids in Whittier. They're good players, good students and it was really big news in Finland that they were coming over. California appealed [to the players). They were ready to come. I think it will be a great cultural experience, and an educational experience." Will it start a trend' · "I hope so," Mendez said. "That's what I'm trying to starL This is a first. Hopefully, it works." He might be willing to bet a couple of Finns on it. ' .

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The quarterback he was refer• ring to i11 Pat Dixon, who threw seven touchdowns and pa sed for 1,150 y rds in his first year as a &tarter. MWe're pleased with the talent we have." USO wants to improve on the 5-5 record postetl last year. The team returns 42 lettermen and 13 starter . Last year, the Poets defeated the Toreros 32-8 in USD's econd game of the eason. The San Diego State women's volleyball team is 6-0 following win over U IU and USO Tues- day. "We've gotten off to a faster start than we thought," said head Coach Rudy Suwara of his team, which is now ranked among the top 10 in the nation by Volleyball Monthly. MWe're playing longer before giv- ing up the points," he said. "We're pas. ing and we're playing well against everyone. We're looking forward to playing Brigham Young University. At home they have these polite-but-screaming fans, which really gives them an edge." The Aztecs are the defending champion of the Collegiate Clas- ic, which they host Thursday through Saturday at Peterson Gym. Among visiting teams are University of San Francisco, BYU, Illinois State and Texas A&M. Blair Swain, who has taken over as sports information director at USIU, says money problems caused the dissolution of the

Northern Arizona University hockey program. He shou ld know. Last year, Swain was the information direc- tor of the Great West Hockey Con- ference, to which Northern Arizo- na had belonged. USIU, University of Ala ka-Anchorage and Univer- sity of Alaska-Fairbanks are the remaining three schools in the con- ference. "They couldn't raise the money,n said Swain of Northern Arizona, which had originally suspended the program last March. "The suspen- sion didn't affect USIU this year because they weren't included in the scheduling. But it might hurt the future of the league." The Arizona Board of Regents approved the dissolution and the university's Athletic Director, Gary Walker, who resigned over the weekend, said he recom- mended deleting hockey because of rising costs. The hockey program became a varsity sport in 1981. Before his year with the Great West Hockey Conference, Swain, who will be 25 in October, was a graduate assistant in the Northern Arizona sports information office. At USIU, he replaces Mike Grady, whose contract expired at the end of August. Former Chargers linebacker Bob Babich and former California Angels play-by-play announcer Joe Buttitta have been named an- nouncers for the three San Diego State football games to be shown on pay-per-view television this season.

Babich, a 1969 first-round draft pick of the Chargers, played in San _ Diego from then through 1973, when he was treded to Cleveland. The three home games, Sept. 20 vs. UCLA, Oct. 25 vs. Air Force and Nov. 22 vs. Hawaii are avail- able only throug he San Diego Cable Sports Ne work, offered to subscribers of Cox Cable and Southwestern Cable with address- able program decoders. The package of three games is available for $24.95. Individual games are $9.95. . The USIU volleyball team was 3-1 following Tuesday's 15-3, 15-10, 15-3 loss to San Diego tate. The Aztecs also defeated ho t USD in the San Diego City 'l'oumament 15-3, 15-3. 15-11. The MiraCosta College fall sports season is under way, with the men's cross country team scheduled to travel to the Moorpark Invitational at Moorpark, 2 p.m. Friday. The home opener will be at Guajome Park at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20. The women's team opens this weekend at the UCLA Invitation- al, Sunday, Sept. 14. The MiraCosta soccer team will host the two-day MiraCosta Invi- tational Tournament this week- end. Competing teams include San Diego Mesa, Palomar, American River, Cuyamaca, Imperial Valley, Fullerton and Glendale. Arizona Western was supposed to partici- pate, but withdrew due to a sched- uling conflict and has been re/ placed by Mesa. /

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

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v USD's Hughes urges freedom for colleges Robe~~li more urgent with the publication of a 1985 Vat- signed last March in respon~ to the Vatican demic institution in w.hic, Catholicism is vital- .....,...,._,~,neReJigion Writer ican document on Catholic education and the document, a statement that said church control ly present and operative. Catholic universities should be kept free of recent decision by the Vatican to strip the Rev. of Catholic universitt~s ~oul_d violate their ac- . He said the churc_h ha~ a ri.ght to de~ine doct- Catholic Church control if they are to maintain Charles E. Curran of his right to teach as a ademic freedom and mstitutional auto!1omy. nne, ~)Ut that t~ns1ons mev1tably ~rise when their "academic freedom and institutional au- theologian at Catholic University of America. He quoted the statement as saymg that teachmg theologians are led by their research tonomy," University of San Diego president The Vatican document, published by the "sue~ direc~ ecclesiastical. cont:~I means that into con~ict with ~he church's "magisterium," Author E. Hughes said yesterday. Congregation for Catholic Education, seeks to our msl!tutions are not um~ers1~1es at ~11, _but .or .~ea~hmg ~uthority. . .. "The Catholic university should serve the ensure the orthodoxy of Catholic colleges and places of narrow sectanan mdoctrmatlon; It 1s precisely because umvers1ties are sep- . Catholic Church as a umversity, not as a par- universities and, as Hughes noted, says the hence, they have no right to claim _Public mo~- arate ~rom t~e church that, such ter1Si~ns have ish," Hughes said in his annual welcome ad- Catholic university "exists within the church ies to sup~ort w.ha~ w~.uld be descnbed as their and will contmue to occur,' Hughes said. dr r· to US faculty and admimstrators. and is part of it." pro~lytizmg mission. Hughes said the Catholic university is en- liiighes ai ,, Said that since tensions are in- Curran was disciplined for publicly dissent- Said Hughes: riched "by the presence of the church" and that evitable be(\1\een university theologians and ing from church teachings on abortion, contra• '.'I cannot improve upon the statement; they the church's understanding of the faith is en- the church, some way must be foand to man- ception, divorce, homosexuality and other mat- ~emforce th~ view that the essence of academ- riched through the "constant pursuit of truth" age such tensions more constructively. ters. One of the charges made by critics of the 1c freedom IS the absence of control from any by university theologians He said USO is and was founded as "a body outside the university." Roman Catholic institution," but that it is a Vatican action is th at it compromises th e uni- Hughes also endorsed a 1972 International d versity's academic freedom by imposing f c th 1· u · ·t· d t separate legal entity ''not owned, controlle or Federation o a o 1c mvers1 1es ocumen financed by the church" and one that 'does not church or th odoxy in th e classroom. which calls the Catholic university "both a proselytize or indoctrinate for the church." Hughes reiterated his support of a statement community of scholars representing the vari- He said the separation issue had become he and 13 other Catholic college presidents ous branches of human knowledge and an aca- ~-- .. "Mechanisms are needed for communication between these two complex organizations, for dealing with inevitable tensions between church and university with their differing roles and experience," Hughes said. ~--~-•-~..::.• __ ·-~--~~ ....

Rancho Santa Fe, CA (San Diego Co.) Rancho Santa Fe Review (Cir. W.) SEP 10 198

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Daily Transcript (Cir. D. 7,415)

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