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Proposition 9 wins praise lrom Nader

Law dean appointed by - . USD; Connecticut ma Oonald T. Wcckstem, a University of Connecticut law professo r·. has been named dean of the University of San Diego School of Law. He taught as an ass;st.ant became a full proressor in 1966. professor at the University of He returned to the University Connecticut from 1959 to 1962 of Cunnec-t1eul m l967 . before going to the University W<.>ckstein 1s a member of the of Tennessee as an associate Texas Bar Association, the

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Ily RALPH BE.·. ETT EVENING TRIBUNE Pol1flcs Wriltr Ralph ;-.;ader, champion of the consumer, has praised major provi ion of Proposi- tion 9, the antipollution m- illa\ive on the June 6 ballot in California, but declined to en- dor ~e it. Nader spoke yesterday to mthusiastic campu. au- d nces here - 500 at the Cni vers ty or San Diego at noon 3.000 at San Diego State (;allege last night. He did not express his res- ervations about the initiative in his talks to the students but told reporters in a w con- krl'nce: "There are certam minor aspects I would have to look at \ ery closely." Asked what these aspect are, he replied: "I would have to look at 1t m detail." . ader praised the five-year moratorium propo ed ll1 the initiative to halt the buildmg of nu<·lear power plants. He .-aid there i the hazard of a nuclear accident at these plants that could cau e Hiro• h:ma- rale destruction. lie al o praised the in• illat1ve's ban on coastal oil drilling. ''The overall idea or it is very commendable." he said. "It would let the voice of the people ring out in no uncer- tain tenns. It's time for a

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3 /2o/7Z Tor r s trv t r bound after loss s l'1m rs11y of f;a n l lll'g", 011 a two- rne. lu,1 ng streak, 11oultl l1k I lo brg111 a c.l1fk rcnt k111d of st reak tomorrow. Th '/'orPro basehall crs, 9 4 1 011 .tllP yea1· play host to Cal HapI 1st in a doublrhcacter brg_111ning at 1·30 at El Toyon Park in National City. They will attempt to bounce back from 8- 7 and I O losses to Chapman College S,1t11rday in Orange. San n1cgo State, mean- while, resumes act ion m a mund-rob111 lVC11t opposite I Oregon and l Lah tomorrow. The Aztecs, who drnpped three in /J row to USC nver the weehend, are slated lo facr Oregon at noon and Utah at 2:30 on Smith Field. utah and Oregon will col- lide at 9 ·30 a.m The tourney ends Wednesrlay. U.S. lnlernaiional Un1vn- sity, which won a doulJ!e- hcadcr over Pasadena Satur- day, gets bark in action Wedne~day whrn 1t plays host to Utah ·in a doubleheader be- ginning at noon. The Westerners turned back Pasadena, 2-1 and 4-2, to up its season record to 11·4. 4 San I liego SI atP, on the oth- er hand, opened its round, / robin ac-fion wit.Ii Oregon and Utah tor!;iy with a 6-15 1 record whu:h has seen the op- position average .297. The Az- tecs are hiltmg at a .264 c-lip led by outfielder Ron Weyand at .36·1. Weyand, ro vever su ff reel a fract , d w last week v. hen h I nallmg practic His statu. or the round-roll111 e\'ell 1s. quesllonable. T oreros- I ail to cash in on chances The University of Oregon topped two rallies to score a 5-3 baseball victory over the University of San Diego yes- terday in National City's El Toyon Park. Absorbing a fifth loss in 16 games, the Toreros loaded the bases with two down in the sixth inning. Kerry Di- neen struck out to halt that. In the ninth, the San Die- gans worked Steve Townsend for two walks with two out. Mel Arnerich then sent out- fielder Greg Brosterhous to the fence to catch his drive and end the game. The losers bunched four singles for two runs in the third Their other marker came on a homer to right centerfield by Gary Prior in 1hc four1h The Toreros, who have single games today and to- morrow at US . Internatonal University in Point Loma. helped their downfall by com- mitting five errors. Li11e- score·

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Ile Is unfair In h1 old fas!' oncd antl-b ine s rhetoric but he Is a good Influence on the young people when he urges them to d v lop the same kind of ethical stamina m the citizenship aren that they develop ,!l athleltcs. "You neu~r glHi up. You never drop out. You exert the utmost of your sra na." He 1s at h1s be t wh he 1s scourging the students them- s Ives - for e~erythmg from th ·1r pa s1on for soft drinks to their n urotic fear of facial blemishes )Ollr forehead, strip yourself of your tnd1vidual c!Jgn,ty, forget about the Con- stitution, forget ab :• th IJ<)claratlon or Independence, forget about d mocracy, and Jorn the robot brigade' ' \\ e cant build a society "' thout institutions. We can't build in t1tut1ons without loyal workers. We can't all be gadflies and muckrakers WIJo woulc! accomphsh the dull, dre ry, wc~k- a-d, y tasks th • keep our ecunom " engmc turr g over if we all tum into se!f-appomtcc er, 1cs of the s}s en:? And U they ignore h1s challenge? "Paint the wont 'moral eunuch' on

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15,000 EXPECTED Catholic chool Talks Next W ek By EDWARD :-.IEILAN CoPltY New" 5ttrvlc• WASHINGT0:11 - Catholic keep Catholic ~choo!s open. educators will get an idea of -A subsc<'juent but presum- what they can expect from ably unrelated expression by the federal government - Commissioner :\larland that and possibly what the federal he fears constitutional re- government expects from strictions will hold govern• them - when they gather In mental asEistance to non- Philadelphia next week. public schools to marginal Keynoting the 69th annual proportions. convention and exposition of While governmental activi- the National Catholic Educa- ty, and all that implies in an tional Association April 3-6 election year, can hardly be wlli be U.S. Commissioner of Ignored in approaching the Education Sidney P. Marland Catholic education con- Jr. vention, its planners stress Marland will address the that the meeting's first order meeting's opening session in of business is education. the Philadelphia Civic Center BARGAINING ISSUE on the convention theme, "Catholic Education - A :\'a- tional Asset " NIXON MAY VISIT Marland's appearance The wide-ranging program covers suhjeds from collec- tive academic bargaining at the college level lo perform- ance-based education at the elementary level. T h o r n y problems con- cerning religious education will be faced at all levels, said conYention planners.

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Paea 4 - SOUTHERN CROSS, THURSOAY, MARCH 23, 1972 A time to keep by Michael Newman There's no The largest audience I have seen crammed into the USD Law School auditorium could not get enough of Ralph Nader. This crusading advocate for the con- ~umer held a ~rowd of more than a thousand students m ra~t attention for 80 minutes, excluding time for questrnns. . Thi_s m_an has charisma and he has captured the !mag1~atJon of the your:! r generation. He stands for mtegr1ty, ho~~sty anJ for cleaning out the fusty stables of poh_hcs and big business. And he has the young people m the palm of his hand. The~e are the_ same young people who may find a ten_-nymute homily too long. or the same messa e in religious terms_ tedious. So what is the Nader se~ret? Directn~ss, plam words, facts, figures of speech and a touch of irony and satire which laces his message. Before he spoke I? the students I asked Ralph Nader whether he would mterpret the ills of our society as lowered moral standards

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and that of other U.S. Office of Education officials, including Dwight R. Crum, USOE's first coordinator of nonpub!Jc educational services - may be overshadowed, however. "Rumor has it that the White House has approached the National Catholic Educa- tional Association about Pres- ident Nixon speaking at the NCEA convention," said a re- cent Issue of the National Catholic Reporter. Asked about the National Catholic weekly's report, a:i NCEA spokesman said: "That's an Interesting ru- mor. It Capital insiders say there is a good chance the President will appear. MANY PROBLEMS The convention is being held against a backdrop of problems that range from declining enrollment at all levels to difficulties in re- cruiting nuns and need for governmental financial as- sistance. On the minds of convention delegates will be a series or government-related actions that have affected Catholic education substantially since NCEA last met a year ago in Minneapolis. • They include· - The U.S. Supreme Court's June 28 decisions which struck down substan- tial aid to Catholic schools in two states and drastically reshaped thinking on similar programs nationwide. COOPERATIVE MOVE The unprecedented, USOE-sponsored meeting last fall between public and Cath- . olic school superintendents which sought to establish co- operation between school sys- tems in the 'nation's largest cities. - The report of the Presi- dent's Commission on School Finance, issued March 6, which encouraged expanded / nonpublic participation in "child benefit" services at public expense and urged "that governmental agencies promptly and seriously con- sider additional and more substantive forms of assist- ance" to nonpublic education. - The report of the com- mission's nonpublic school panel, which spells out "more substantive forms of assist- -The introduction into the cu.i;rent session of Congress of several bills aimed at provid- Ing tax_credit relief related to educational exp~nses of par- ents of nonpublic school pu- -The late. st In the series ?f rei~arks by the President 1n which he '·pledged" to help ance.'' TAX CREDITS

The second of two general sessions April 6 will hear the Rev. Alfred McBride, direc- tor of NCEA's newly formed National Forum of Religious Educators, whose topic will be "The Jesus Experience." 200 SPEAKERS The convention's cast of al- most 200 speakers (and 15,000 delegates) includes some of the outstanding names in the American educational and re- lated communities. Among them are Siegfried Engelman. University of Ore- gon; the Rev. Carl J .. Arm- bruster, who directed the re- cent massive study on the U.S. Catholic priesthood: John Bremer, first principal of Philadelphia's famed "school without wall;" Broth- er Gabriel Mnran, whose views on religious orders and other aspects of church activ- ity prompt widespread dis- cussion; Edward Marciniak, deputy commissirmer of de- velopment and planning for Chicago; the Rev. William Tobin of the National Center for Religious Education at the U.S. Catholic Conference in Washington: Dr. Mark Shedd, who initiated dramat- ic changes in the Phila- delphia public school system as superintendent and now serves the Board of Educa- tion there as consult~nt, and Auxiliary Bishop John R. Roach of St. Paul and Min- neapolis. NCEA ls continuing the trend of recent years of con- centrating on smaller, infor- mal meetings designed to generate give-and-take be- tween speakers and le- gates. NEW DOCUMENTS 2\Ieanwhile, the convention Will serve to unveil several NCEA documents relfecting updated thinking in criJicai I' areas of Catholic education, including: NCEA's new curriculum guide for continuous progress in religious education, a com- panion and follow-up in- strument to the NCEA cri- teria for the evaluation of re- ligious education programs. -A manual-type document, I now being completed, will de- scribe methods to "liberate" schools from restraints or ob- stacles blocking the in-

and scruples on the p of everyone - consun ·• and big business ali~ He readily agree"' "Consumers wallow their own victimizati-On was his gr aphic reply. "They wan t ins tan t gratl!ication" and so put up with goods which they k now may even be ha~mful to health, jus t to satisfy their " needs." I also asked hi m :,vheth~r he had thought of mvestigating the Church . " I 'U leave that to Paul Blanshard," he smiled harking back a few years'.

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Citizenship on the job Nader challenged his audience to act not to let nat~al ~~athy over. " You've got to practice on- ~he-Job citizenship, he said. "You can't be a Christian Y?U ,preclude yourself from ethical whistle- . ?Wt~g. Here he referred to those who cry out at mJusth1ce or malpractice or unethical conduct anyw ere. F or those. who stay s!lent while the ir company, or other a llegianc_e practices criminal negligence or other wr ong domg, he has a nother label . I neuter " Y u' rf d - a mor a · 0 ve pe orme a non-surgical lobotomy." He warne? the students they couldn't change the world overmght. " I remember one grou t · . pollutio h 1 • P ac 1ve m k n w O comp_amed that after working for seven powe 1 e 1 t~nds,, on a giant steel plant, they were s till u mg. T::!s evangelist of consumer and ecology causes has per ps sho~n us_ all a way to come to grips with our consc1e?c?.5 m this dar of " justice and peace. " The about ~{.' ' Do something. Don't just sit and m oan Ry th e way, th e runner-up in audience size to Nader at M?re Hall was about three years ago when the then candidate Senator Alan Cranston spoke to about 600 Congressman Bob Wilson in the same election yea~ drew 30.

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