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89% PASS BAR USD's Program Expands; More .Cli~ical Study University of San Diego School of Law under Dean Donald T. Weckstein is firmly entrenched; in its 21st year _it is teaching and grooming 930 students m the art of legal practice. Of these, an expected 248 will graduate in June. Tha~ks to a substantial $30,000 grant from the Council for Legal Education and Professional Responsibility, the school'.s clinical program was greatly expanded this year. Students now have one semes~r where they elect clinical study, w~1ch involves them in the more practical (versus academic) side of legal_ work, including court appearances, me~tmg a~d working with clients and workmg with other attorneys. This program is supervised by both faculty and volunteer professionals. The school boasts of an 89.3 per cent passing rate for its fulltime .stud~nts who took the bar exam for the first time !ast July. Overall, it rated 83 per cent, Just a point or two behind California law school giants such as Stanford, UCLA and USC. But the job situation once the fledgling attorneys pass the bar is still congested. "The best way we've found for these students (to get jobs) is to get them to clerk in their second and third years. Get them downtown and get known, hopefolly get liked by a local law firm and be _kept on." said Col. William NL Cummmgs, USMC rel., the school's placement officer. "I'd say that across the board, there is no wa~ that all the people who want to stay in San Diego can be placed here." But he does see perhaps 30 to 40 per cent of the graduates staying. in San J?ie~o, either through ab'3orption mto an ex1stmg firm, or going out on their own. The market is still good for minorities and women, he agreed. prestigious USD is considered, ac- cording to sources in the county, THE quality law school south o_f Los Ang~Ies. Which is one reason, caut10usly admitted by a USD spokesman, for that school's opposition to Hastings Law School establishing a branch campus here. The primary argument, continued the spokesman, is that "at this time when high school, community colleges and state colleges are getting cut back and are hurting for state funds, the consensus 1s it's unwise to commit $5 million for the first year of that school at this time." He says it would cost $2.S million to acquire the Cal Western University School of Law, and approximately the same amount to get it through its first year of operation. The main Hastings budget outlines !5 million needed to run the 1,500-student school, which rough!)' breaks down to $3,500 per student subsidy. For the 500 students that the CWU building can legally house, that's about another $1.5 million per year state subsidy. Guardedly, the spokesman admitted that "this 101111 is probably big enough for both of us, though."

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THE SAN DIEGO UNION

Free Forum Voted Bishop! For USD Ta lk University of San Diego law students have voted to permit Jle scheduled address by the Most Rev. Leo Maher at their May 25 graduation ceremony proceed without censorship, law school dean Donald Weckstein said yesterday. A petition asking for student opinions was circulated by students last week after several graduating law students said they felt they did not want to give the bishop a free forum to make more anti-abortion statements. Bishop Maher recently gained nationwide recognition for refusing to administer communion to members of pro- abortion organl7.atlons. By DlANE CLARK Education Writer, 1be San Diego Union

Poll rejects topic curbs for bishop By ROBERT DI VEROLI TRIIUNE Education Writer A majority of University of San Diego law students responding to a poll have voted in favor of a sched- uled address at their May 25 graduation by the Most Rev. Leo T. Maher, bishop of the San Diego Roman Catholic Diocese. The poll was taken last week at the instigation of students critlcial of the bishop's recent edict barr- ing publicly known pro- abortion Roman Catholics from receiving communion in the diocese. In the poll, to which 117 of the 250 graduating law stu- dents responded, 57 per cent indicated they pre- ferred to take no action either to limit the bishop's role in the graduation or restrict his lecture topics. Law school dean Donald F. Weckstein halled the poll results and defended the bishop's right to speak at the commencement. Wecksteln said that al- though control of USD was transferred from the diocese to an independent, interfaith board in 1972, the USD charter still identifies the school as Roman Catho- lic even if "some law or other students" reject its Roman Catholic nature.

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1 050 TOTAL ENROLLMENT I w stern State Inaugerates Own Full-Time Program

creditation. The Orange County, main W • tcm state campus, received full state accreditation la summer. Incidentally, 1 between the two campuses, Lowe said the number of students enrolled makes Western Slate th\! largest law school in the country. Th school's clinical intern program is imilar to others in the city. Under full-time and volunteer professional upervision, a student 11:ay elect thr_ee umts of clinic work with Legal Aid, Defend rs. Inc. and for the district at- torney's office. Mnxwetl S. Boas is the dean for both schools and l{oss Lipsker is the associate d •, n ,; charge of the Sun Diego ca1~pus. Lowe said the school is contmuatly xpanding, and more full-time. professors will join in the fall. The building that w ern State inhabits is completely en- compa sed by academic facilities, with room for more full-tim..! faculty. We tern State's admini~tration has opted to be ome very active in the Hastmg~ acquisition of Cal Western University College of Law, and has ap- perircd b fore the Cham~er of Commerce, the city ancl county councils as an opponent of the measure. With 1he University of California y tern "m de perate n~ed ~f money to upport itself, \Ve question tf the st~te taxpayers hould bail CWU out of its fin nciul problems," said Lowe. . lie said Western State has advised, as has the chamber, that the Post S ondary Education Commission review the matt r and determine the need. "As rar a I know, that committee hadn't even seen it (the legblation) before all this sturtcd." lie addresses the argument for the acq1usition on the basis that more minority stud nts could attend school becaus of tow tu1t10n foes: "Both law schools (USD uml We tern State) search out people to give minonty aid to. We can't lmd them. Be 811 e there's a Hastings, does that mean they'll all come forth now 7 " Lowe said We rern State had 20 full grants to minority students which they offered. Only two were applied for and gnmtct.l, he said.

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NONE WIN MAJORITY None of the 11 options on the petition received a ma- jority endorsement of those voting, according to Terry Bingman, student gradua- tion chairman. Bingman said the highest single vote favored noninterference with the bishop's speech. Slightly more than one- fourth of the voters wanted to ask the bishop not to speak. An announcement issued yesterday by Dean Weck- stein defended the bishop's right to freedom of speech. "It is entirely appropriate that Bishop Maher, as chair- man of the university Board of Trustees and as bishop of the San Diego Diocese, speak at the law school grad- uation and address himself to issues of moral concern," Weckstein said. 'CATHOLIC VALUES' Weckstein also said that while the Catholic Church no longer owns, controls or di- rectly subsidizes the univer- sity, "we are still committed to identifying and affirming Catholic values as recog- nized at the Vatican II Coun- cil." Bingman said that of 113 valid ballots cast (represent- ing nearly half the gradua- tion class), 42 favored allow- ing the bishop to speak on any topic, 30 favored re- stricting all speakers' com- ments to appropriate gradu- ation topics, 30 favored ask- ing the bishop not to speak and 22 supported taking no action Most other options, which received a few votes each, proposed some restriction on Maher's speech. They in- cluded preparing a list of suggested topics for all speakers, asking only the bishop to restrict his speech, having a student express the students' views and having a student disclaim the bishop's remarks.

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CARRIER INTERVIEWED A candidate for one of 10 Copley newspaper carrier scholarships is inteiviewed by a panel of judges, from left, Dr. Author E. Hughes, president, University of San Diego; Municipal Court Judge Earl J. Cantos, and circulation manager Frank Hill. Winners receive $250 each.

The first woman associate vicar for religious has been named by the Most Rev. Leo Maher and the executive committee of the Sisters' Senate, of the Roman Catholic diocese of San Diego. Sister Mariella Bremner, or the Religious of the Sacred Heart at the Univer- sity of San Diego, will serve for three years as associate to Msgr. James O'Donoghue, diocesan vicar for religious. Sister Bremner is retiring from the University of San Diego this year after 20 years of service there. At a meeting between the bishop and the represen- tatives of the senate, Bishop Maher welcomed the appointment, as one "which will provide great assistance to the sisters in every way, and particularly in counselling and problem areas."

Dvorak's String Quartet in four movements will be featured in a chamber music recital at 8 p.m. today in the University of San Diego Camino Theater. Student musicians will include pianists Robin Nairs, Anna Miller and Linda Ford and flutist Lynn Miller. Faculty members Henry Kolar, violin, Willaim de Malig- non, viola, and guest artist James Zagami will also perform. The program will include Kolar's Suite for Two Violins, a Schumann suite for two pianos and a flute and piano duo. 0~ S-/7"/7s USO Concert Slated

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History Courses .Slated At USO Life during the colonial pe- riod, the American West and causes of the French Revolu- tion will be studied during summer sessions at Univer- sfty of San Diego. The presession, June 2 to June 20, will include "The French Revolution and Na- poleon," and "Congress in the Arneric;an Tradition." The regular summer ses- sion, June 23 to Aug. 1, will feature, "A Bicentennial Military History of the Unit- ed States from the Revolu- tion to the Present," and "The American West."

Editor, The Union: The April 'n letter "USD Criti- cized For Land Use" in- cluded inaccurate state- ments. The University of San Diego is a Roman Catholic University, separately and independently incorporated by its founder, Bishop Charles F. Buddy in 1949. Merger with the S~n Diego College for Women m 1972 did not change the sta- tus of the university; it was receiving grants from the federal government prior to the merger and it continues to receive them. USD stu- dents receive state and fed- eral government loans and other financial aid. The university recently acquired two apartment buildings for student hous- ing on property adjacent to its campus. It now must regretfully ask the tenants to vacate. The university has offered greater than minimum time for notice to vacate and has offered to assist tenants in locating new apartments. THOMAS F. BURKE Dean of Students Uni rsity of San Diego J/JU(ftt. 5/ 2/7 >

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With its budget cut in hall, the Wool- sack, the student paper of the University of San Diego Law School, will have to look to other sources for income. In its April edition. it announced; "The Woolsack will b funded through advertising, the SBA and, if need be, increased activity in the white slave trade."

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