News Scrapbook 1970-1972

USD Prological l,aw group head to give speech The president of the Uni- versity of San Diego Environ- mental Law Society will par- ticipate in a panel on environ- mental problems Sunday. David W. Diehl, a third- year law student, will have as his topic "Environmental Law -Past, Present and Future." The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at SI. Mary's Metho- dist Church, 3502 Clairemont Drive. The session is spon- sored by the church and is open to all interested citizens. In his talk, Diehl will trace historically the role of the law in solving environmental prob- lems, and will discuss in de- tail the part interestPd citi- iens can take in making the law more rPsnonsive to the pressine; probl ~m; faced by San Diego County. II·

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Sears grant assists USD SAN DIEGO-The l/niversity of San Diego has been awarded an educational grant by the Sears-Roebuck Foundation Checks for $600 were presented to the University by Leonard J. Zanvitte, local representative for the foundation. A portion of the award will be used to purchase books for the USD Library. USD 1s one of the two in- stitutions m the San Diego area to receive Sears grants. The other is U. S. In- . ternationat Urn versity. The unrestricted grant and the college library grant were accepted for the university by Henry J. Martin, academic dean, and the Rev. Charles JJollen, director of the USD Kmghts ot Cotum1>us Library.

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VOL. LXXXV NO. 115 Left in the Ghetto Catholic Schools Find Themselves Becoming Non-Catholic and Black Running Out of Money, They Struggle to Keep Teaching, And Meet Some Resentment Holy Rosary's Dwindling Cash Sla'h lf.eporlf'r of THE ALL STREET JOURNAL PITTSBURGH - A Catholic school that Is 90% black and non-Catholic? It certainly doesn't tit the parochial school Image, but just such an Institution- Holy Ro- sary School- ls currently educating scores of ghetto youngsters In this city's shabby Home· wood section. It Is a far cry from the conventional school that Holy Rosary was a generation ago, In which nuns In starchy wimples and black hab- its taught the three Rs and a heavy dose of re- gion to the neighborhood's Irish and German Catholic youngsters. Since then the whites have fled the Homewood section for the suburbs, and blacks have taken their places. Today lay teachers and nuns In ordinary dresses teach lively groups ln free-form classes. Religion Isn't even a regular classroom subject. With the white exodus from the Inner city, schools like this have become surprisingly nu- merous. Catholic educators say there may be as many as 200 big-city parochial schools In which non-Catholic blacks constitute a major- ity or near-majority of the students. In Chicago alone, the church operates 33 predomlnantly bla ck elementa ry schools ranging from 20% to In an era when Catholic schools across the nation are changing markedly, these Inner-city schools perhaps represent the most dramatic shift from the traditional parochial school. At the same time, while most Catholic schools are suffering at least some flnanclal straln, the mainly black schools are probably In the greatest danger. The poverty-stricken I parents and shrinking parishes often can't sup- port the schools , and white Catholics elsewhere aren't alwa ys rushing to help. The plight of schools like the Holy Rosary School here poses a dilemma for the whole church. " Ideologically, we want to stay (In the black ghettos)," says Edward R. d'Allessio, director of elementary and secondary educa- tion for the U.S. at:lnlU~ Ctmf"'• neo, the orga- niza tion of bishops. "I think w~ havp nn nhlirta• uon to stay. But whatner ,. ca.n or not Is an- other story. " Non-Catholics also want the schools, whose students would otherwise crowd public Institu- tions. Many also contend that the schools play a constructive social role In the neighborhoods. " We need every resource and every agency that we can possibly ha ve In lhe Inner city," says Ma rk R. Shedd, Phlladelphla's superlnte~- dent of public schools. "In many places in Phil- adelphia, If It wer en't for the church's schools, the communities would be a hell of a lot worse off." "Plywood Avenue" Few schools show the transformation, the potential and the plight of these Inner-city lnstl· tutlons more than Holy Rosary. The 161-student population of today contrasts sharply with the 1 200 elementary and high school students who packed the 23 classrooms in the late 1940s. In those days , Holy Rosary Church counted ov';r 3 ooo member families, compared to todays 506. Parishioners took special pride In their graceful Gothic church bulldlng, which cost $1 million In 1928- an extravagant sum In those days. The church and Its school thrived. Today the soot-grayed brick and stone school building looks forlorn on the outside. To try to foll vandals, the glass In the front door has been replaced with plywood and steel-but vandals nevertheless havt attacked the school five times In the last two years. Following a riot In the area three years ago, numerous shopkeepers and homeowners abandoned their properties. So many bulldings are boarded•u,p that Holy Rosary youngsters refer to the area s main street, Homewood Avenue, as "Plywood Avenue.'' Holy Rosary charges annual tuition of $150 per child-but many ghetto parents can't and don't pay. Thus tuition _charges meet only $6,- 000 of the school's annual $82,000 budget. The Pittsburgh diocese contributes $5,000, and a black-operated foundation pays another $10,000. The remaining $61,000 a year comes from the parish reserve. During the parish's better days, the reserve was built up to a hefty $400,000. But In the last six years, the school's deficits have slashed this figure to $125,000. At the current rate the school deficits wlll deplete the reserve in just two years. "We've spent a lot of bread In these years, but we've had our money where our mouth was,'' says Monsignor Charles Owen Rice, pastor of Holy Rosary. The school's budget Is tight- $13,000 below last year's. The four teaching nuns earn only $2,500 a year (lodging ls free) . Pay for the lay teachers ranges from $4,300 to $8,500 a year• The principal, a 32-year-old black non-Catholic named Dennis Johnson, earns $11,000 a year. "Twinning" Parishes ,v 75% non-Catholic. A Changing Rolo By JOHN V. CONTI

on man exhthltlon of th Eth!'! Gr "" 1 on d1 play now at th Founder~· Galkry at the U v 1ty of San Die o The h1b1t con JS! of 12 p.1mtlngs by th artist who received hrr formal training 1n ,\la s,,ch11 ett~ encl has ex- h1b1te

U '/) rcr<'i vr.~ grant of , 600 from St>ar. ;, 'Ille Un11ers1l,1 of 'an Die«o ha~ been award ed an Pd uc'a- ttonal ;? r.anf by the . ear ~•Hoe- huc k Foundation. Checks for 600 11 r.re presPntPc1 lo the un11·ers1ty b~ Leonard ,I Zan- 1 ille, !oral 1e-prr , Pnf al1ve for lhe fou nda tion \ port ion of lh a11ard lill he u,ed fo pur. ·ha " books fo r the USD Ji. llr.11·J, USD L' one of t 110 msti tu• 1 ons in the San Di e,,.o area to rec~n·e Sears gran ts. The other is U. S. International Univer- Slly. ·11 1 e unre~tncted grant and the college library grant were accepte~ for the university by academic dean Henry J ..Mar- tin and_ the Rev. Charle~ DoJ. l~n. d1 rec or o' the USD Kmght of Col lllbU Library -~----,. ,, .J

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students from this area have been awar de d fun ds for un- study in the special education program a l the University of funds were made availa ble from a $21,500 grant received by the university from the Bureau of Education for the Handi capped, Office of Education. Student s will study fo r professional servi ce to the mentally retarded yea r trameeship includes a tax-free stipend of $800, pius a waiver of twlion and fees for the senior year of study m lh1s dergr adua te or gr adua te San Diego Th ese f:ach seni or

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Students receiving graduate fellowships al the master's degree level recei ve a tax free sltpend of $2,200 for the year, plus $600 for each dependent and a wai ver of lu1!ton and lees. Recei ving fellowships are Robert Michael Berritl , 51 23 , Longbranch St. ; James Harrington, 7653 43rd St., and o n Shoop Wood, 657 West bourn Dr., La Jolla.

r.,o 'G DI! T~-CE PU: urrealistic Pfllnt• ing by Ethel Greene, i~ one of 12 oi her works on display now at the University of San D1ego 'F.: - "Temple," a

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ed of three polamed light d1 cs - the fc,ward one re. ma 1ng r1g1d wh11e the other two conllnualiy rotate m op. po He dtr ct1ons. The design on the discs is in strips of tape the discs rotate, the lntens1t> of the 1.~ht 1s affect- I'd and !hr background changes from light to dark. Th tape refracts the light in another way, adding a contin• ual change or color, shapes and des gn. All color IS pro- duced by polanzation and re- frachon of light. Vrnwers should allow tune to ex- perience the changes which ta.kc place ln the work. The Earth: Animal, Vege- table and Mineral exhibit cur- rently showing at the La Jolla MusP.um of Contl'mporary Art WJII close Sunday with a public d1sa sembling or New- ton Hamson's "La Jolla Promenade" and distribution of the components. Given away will be the flats of grass, duck pond, ducks, cmderblock planters and plants to anyone who wishf>s them. The exh1b1t s Harrison's ton e- n ch solution to ,

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Md., at the Fine Arts Gallery tomorrow and Sunday. Exhi- bition hours will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow and 12:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Thl' cxh1bit10n includes more than 1,000 original etch, lngs, lithographs and wood- cuts by such artists as Pi· casso, Chagall, Miro, Goya, Renoir, Roualt, Kollwitz, etc. Also on displlly '\\ ill be a collection of Western and Ori- ental manuscript pages from the ,rnrks or the 13th through 20 centuries. On view now through Jan. 23 at the Los Angeles :Munici- pal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park 1s an exhibition, ''Tony Duquette: A Persona1 Cul- ture.•· The exhibition consists of designs. jewelry. assem- blages, fabric mosaics and sculpture. Duquette has designed sets and costumes for stage and motion picture producl!ons. He won the Antoinette Perry Award for costumes for the Broadwa) produclton of Cam• elot.

fe5t~t1on in La Jolla. • ·ext exh1b1t at the gallery will b the Helen Lundeberg retro pecllve "hich opens Thursday. Newest acquisition of the La Jolla Museum of Contem- porary Art is "Buster," a brightly colored lacquer and 01! painting by Billy Al Beng- ston. The piecl' was created In 1962 and appeared on the cov- er of Art m America maga- .zl!J in 1964. The fa1111Uar Bengston ch vron emblem 1s employed within concentric circular motifs and ls one of a sene of three works ex- empUfymg this type of picto- rial composition. The surface combmes sprayed and polished lacquers with areas of hand-painted matte 011 paint m a sym- metrical format. An exhibition of original graphic by classic and co11- temporary artists will be presented by Ferdinand Ro- ten Ga!leries of Baltimore,

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The Associated Student Body of U.S. Internat1onal Univer- s1t v's Ca, Western campus is accepting donations of clothing and other items for refugees in India, with the intention of send10g collected iterru to West Bengal. TI1e drive will contin• ough Dec. 10. llems should be delivered to Alpha~ at estern, 3902 Lomaland Dr. "-..,,, stopher Gerlach named staff cartoonist Christopher Gerlach, son of Dr. and Mrs. Lee F. Gerlach, 4276 J ackdaw St., has been appointed staff cartoonist of The Senator, the weekly campus newspaper of Lake Forest Col- lege, Ill. Gerlach, a sophomore, is a graduate of San Diego High School. __ ......... _._ ___

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The Rev John ityhan, an assi tant professor of history at USD, has been counseling young men about the draft for five years. He is listed with all the draft counseling services on the West Coast, he said. Most of the men he counsels are from the San Diego area outside the USD community. He attributes this to college deferment, apathy about the draft on campus and to a

'Civ"lization' Film Due At College SGl'I DIHO Union staff Dispatc~ - OCEANSIDE - ·Civ• llization," a 13-part documenta- ry film covering 1,600. year ' II become a community er- wi c sta Col• vice course al Mira o, leg . \ Cla es wlll meet at 11 a.m. in the Little Theater o~ at '! in Carl ·bad P ubhc LI· g:a~ each Wedue day throu~h \larch S. except for the Christ• ma' , acallon DI cu ions wlll expand the him,, which won Pe body a nd Saturday Rew•v. awards. _ Robert Fred in, M1raCosta Ul· structor in we,tern culture, ·will be leader or the free cours •

lack of publicity. He said that he has made no effort to pub- licize himse]( on campus be- cause of his already heavy counseling load. although he will help anyone who comes to him. Father Myhan explained that draft counselors are not in the busmess of instructing young men to avoid the draft. "A counselor just info rms registrants of their rights be- fore the law and helps them attain their rights under the law," he said. He is training several Mex• ican-American students from liSD to help counsel other

For many hard-pressed Cathollc schools like Holy Rosary, outside help seems the only hope, In some titles, Catholic bishops try to tap wealthier parishes to keep the Inner-city schools al!ve. Sometimes bishops try "twin- ning" a rich parlsh with a poor one in a sort of big-brother relationship. Usually the diocese must also provide funds from its own treasury• In Phlladelphia, a newly-formed group called the Community Advisory Committee for catholic Schools Is looking Into ways to obtain funds from business, labor and foundations to support Cathollc schools, especially In the ghet- tos. But fund-raising problems can be severe. Many white Catholics resent being asked to help subsidize the education of children of an- other race, another religion and another area. Indeed resentment among some Chicago white catholics over the archdiocese's plans to give more money to inner-city parochial schools helped hinder a fund-raising drive. Because of thls attitude and other problems, the arch- Please Turn to Page e1, Column 3

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• draft problems. F ather ~lyhan said he is beginning to branch out, and has agreed to open a dra[i counseling service in a Catholic, fam- !l.1,-life center in the downtown a rea.

Holy Family Parish wm ce from 8 to l, Saturda~ night. In ~ OrP Hall at the School of Law, )!rs. Lucy Schoepp, left. and :\lrs. Jess :\la«-ias are holding <>ne of a number of pr izes the Parent• Teacher Group is to give away at the fund-raising e, ent. l\Iusic is bJ the L and .\I Trio, and a donation of $1 !\0 is asked. For infonnation. 1rs. Schoepp ·s number is 279· 7322. Joe Hel,chrr is dance cha nnan M, (•., 1 ,(II•,,., sponsor its annual fall d

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