News Scrapbook 1970-1972
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auto safety . • • food ... insurance ... Congress ... Civil Service ... h Nader Talks To The Editors b known until pollce o!ftcers r ally rt r eking down. Ralph Nader, champion of the nation's consumer, was inter- viewed by o board of editors of The Son Diego Union. He was in the city to oddr ss ~tudent groups ot the University of San Diego.
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White House presidential ass1 !ants has taken over maJnr cabmrt po. ts. Henry Kissinger and Peter Flanigan are ex- amples. They are not confirmed by the Senate. They invoke executive privi- !Pge and refuse to attend congressional hearings. Q: You don't believe in excculive pri1·ileges? : Very limited and limited onlv to lhP President. But not when thP Pre,1- dent circumvrnts the consl1tullonal rabmet ) st Pm. The exPcu 1ve privi- lege was only designed to shield the Pre 1dent, not the executive branch, from the Congress. Q: How can one citizen be beard the e days? A: A great impact can be made just by writing goorl lettrrs. I have seen ime and time agam bow an issue surl- denly comes of age 111 Congress 1ust because the letter volume went Crom 300 per month to 3,000. Q: How do you write a good letter t.o a Congressman? A. One of the tricks Is to end w1th a series of questions so that the letll'r 1s not JU t tabulated. Thi' senator or con- gressman ha to do bis own rci;ea1Th and respond. The aggrrgatr lot al of let- ters. which is the mo. l rlrmcntary m- iliatil·e that the c·1tizen !'an take, is a pomt that 1s often d1sm1s ed as being ridiculous. Howevrr, the whole tax- payers' rPvot• \\as basrd on about 15,000 letters scut lo lhe While House. Q: What elw can a' citizen do to make his '\\eight felt? A: A lot of other thmgs. For ex- arnple, each congres man bas a dis- trict orrice accessible to the people There is a great need for problems Of the community bec<>mmg the chief con- cern of the congressman. I have heen amazed at how the congressmen from the poorest areas of the country are the most insensitive to poverty - as m Apalach1a or m parts of the south. That 1s not as 1t ·hould be. It should be just the reverse. There s a great deal that can be done by developing citizen coali- tion groups m di ricls on an lssue-b) • issue ba is. There 1s a need to evaluate each corgrcssman's producllv1ty Q: How di) you gn about gelling civil &errant accnvntab1lil) '? A. Citizens have to have a way to evaluate c1111 ~Nvanls. If a c1t1z<'n is aggnevcd, he should not h,n e lo ~wal- low his gnevanre because hP eannnt af- ford a lawyer to go lo court to sue the government. Q: What can he do? A: He should be able to consult an
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' Q: How has this hren done? : In Pvery conrC'1vahl
not allow compcn af1on f r pain ;md ufl ring. ·11 rl1 cnminatc a~111n I ch1l• dren, men anrl women v.ho don't ha\e Jobs.
" for adult male /,la expectancy in US. ,s somelh,ng like 33rd ,n the world," ombudsman attarhed to a legislature. He shoulrl hr able to go to an adm1rus- trative court and, m a very simple wa), be givrn roun.s!'J if he is poor and cannot afford couns<'l. Q: The rhll servant does haie kn• urr, d(l('s he not't Tsn't It pretty hard ui maintain diseipline'? \: That i cxaclly the point. WP are putting out a report enlltl<'d. "The Spoiled S)slcm." It's a takrorr from the old spoils system. 'I'hr c1v1l srrv1ce has replaced the old spoils s1strm. , ·o,,., rt is a "sr10tll'd sy t<'m," A ci"il serrnnl cannot do lus job well if he has total srcunt ', If he ha~ the maximum ~<'cunly or trnurr, he 1s not gomg to rr pond to public prrssurr. HesponSJ- bility has lo rnclude, in some measure, lllSC<'UrJt)', Q: Arrn't y·ou worrird th.it J'INI \\Ill lose ome of your dfrC'liwncs5 If you become involwd in politirs'? A. I think that citizens have to work in the political system. But that doesn't mean they ha1·p to 1n\01'·e them.selves m partisan politic , such as campaigns or support of individual figures. Q. Do you feel that the errors you han made ha, e eroded some of your credibility? A: , ·o, not al all. We real Iv maintain a vrn high ·eve! nf accurac, It IS nat- ural for those v.ho er t1c1z/ us to tr), with one grnnd wrPp, to di credit us, often 1qthoul C\en reading our reports. \\IP marnlam a pretty h1gr sta11!lard I th,nk. by any Journal! :t r l'holar• .slup lr~cl - p.1rt1cularl 1de in that we are dealing with r <.'Om e da, llons. . • lat11st figure
umnre en t 7 : I thtnk we ne d a little more timP la achusetts 1s the on I experience of any 1 r"th or I me, and tha 1s very l1m1trd We need to know hm1 much of the m~urance prermum rlollar 1\111 come back to the in 1irerl to compare tl with regular insurancr. It may be chrapcr anrl qu1rker, but 1l also may h<> full of loophole~ v. htcli veryborly 18 try Ing to rles1gn around - to the extent that we may go hack to tJJ!' old system. Q: !low ran ln~urance be lmprond It w do not ha,c no,hrnll? : The Insurance mdu ry can gear IL~ struc ur and its influcnc• to reduce th level of health ha1.ard In our oeiety. It can pu h for afer < ars, le s pollullon ami bcller fire prolet Inn. It c.in do all of the c things if 1t sucks to Its original pur ,se of lr)'1ng to Keep claun do11 n and prcnuums h,w. Q: Ha the lnsuran~e lnrlu. try <'h,inned? : In the la t 20 years the 1.nsurance I dustrv ha gotten a\\ay from lo s pr rventron It has b come an 1n- \ estmcnt mdu ry. II .erm to prefer a $16 premium agam.,t a 12 loss over a 12 premium again t a 10 lo s bccau e there Is more money to invest. It 1s re- stricting its coverage. Q: Ho\\ do }OU \\ant to reform Con- gres ·: : Orf' day I went le a bookstore and picked up a book on birds. I saw that there "ere three pagPs on the robin, four pa es on th crow It occurred to e that \\e don't ba\e a:-y handbook that d en the men and \\omen that make our fed ml law~ So o of the l!11n s we want lo do is tn d velop very £actual prohles on members of Con- i::rcs o lh<1t c11Jz ns ran h,t\C lnfor- allon about llwn bcllilVJor, l"hcws, mflu n es a11d productrnt} The s fond thmg ¼e \\ant 1s lo de\elop a handbook to help c1llzcns have an impact on Con• g1 e s and to use tberr C ngress as they h uld. Third, v.c want to try to shnw In d tail ti'at the e ecut1ve branch has ba ical y usurped the con- stitutional power of Congre s.
• It <11d11 I sr<'m as lf girls wc•rP holrl111i; up lh<'i1 l'nd of the• respons1biht~ of govern- mo ~l11dent affall's," Miss M,JUrK'I Id. Aboul 1hP time th~t Miss Maun~io and several nlhPr women ilcd for studPnl off. kl', women stud,.,nl spon• sored week of disc·uss1011s and < I\ ities to emphasizc awareness of the roles of women m society. . 11. Mauricio f<'els that t lte womcn·s week also in- flu, n<·Pd the campus lee- lion "It t•ncoura~•'
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:anri wni ,~n, a11d1d1f<'s "shr ~aid. •'or a re •J<' ant pot'11Jcian .. l1ss ,\lauril'i . insurance induslry f>as g lten away from loss prevenl,on .•• be- corse an ,nveslment industry." branch that control of he most popular branch of government bas been taken from the people. Q.: I Congre s abdicating its r!'spon, lbility? : (oni;r ss qannot poss1bl\ count eract the resources of the executive hranrli especially m approprrnlions hearings, One contrnl that Congress his on the executive branch 1s its con• shtul ondl re 1ms1b1l y to gi, e adnee and consent to some cxecuti\ e func- tions The members of the cabinet are suppose
lieut "pure" our reelmg e? e pure no-fault. It does • Doing In San 0 !s.D. State Job Expected To Go To Ohioan Wright State U.'s Golding Likely To Announce, Today By JOE KNIGHT Education Writer, The San Diego Union I Brage Golding, president cf Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, is expected to announce there today that he has accepted the job of running San Diego Stale College. Golding, one of two leading candidates for the presidency at 1 State, circula~ed an unprecedented memo to the faculty and staff of lhe Oh10 mstilut10n yesterday saymg he would end their 1 speculation about his future today. ed ools I That announcement probably will take the form of a resigna- tion banded to the Wright State trustees at their 11 a.m. (San Diego time) meeting, according to an article in the Dayton Journal Herald this morning. OKd BY FACULTY Golding won the stamp of ap- proval from the San Diego State faculty committee work- ing to help find a new resident while he visited the campus March 20 - just before the last meeting of the Califorl'!ia State University and Colleges trustees. Chancellor Glenn S. Dumke and his staff have stnce adamantly refused to discuss the search for a president at State that began three years ago when Malcolm Love announced Students tune up Ior choral f est,val s BRAGE GOLDING • •• to announce decision he wanted to re.tire. Over 3.000 singers from 33 high schools in thP San Diego area will take part in the an- nual "Spring Choral Festi- val" April 5 on the campus of University of San Diego in Al- r;ala Park. • Th£J rst session is sched- u1ed at 10 a.m., taking in voc- al •olos, senior high rn- se-mbles and junior high chor- al groups. Senior hi)lh choirs and glee clubs will be fea- turPd in the second session at 2p.m. A_n ad_dit1onal pio ,ram by senior high school choirs has been scheduled from 6: 30 lo 9:30 p.m. Special mini cnnC'erts will be presented throughout the day by !hr San Diego Slate College's Aztec Choir, the UCSD Chamber Singer~ and the Barber Shop Quartrls. The San Diego City and County Music F..ducators Assn. is spon 'Oring the fe ti- va•. Gilbert Sloan of Madi. on High &hool is organizer of the affair. The public may atte~d any of the ses~ions free of charge. Each so.oi aod horal group will receive ra ·ngs and comments on 1 Heir per- formances by a group of judges. Informal reports indicate that Donald E. Walker, State's act- become Pui:due's ing president since Love finally ~chool of Chemical Engine_er- resigned last September, is no mg, a post. he held until takmg longer a contender for the per- over ~t Wnght State. manent appointment. Durmg his ~1x years on tha~ campus, Goldmg has been no stranger to con1roversy. He is That leaves Golding leading now in the middle of three con- John T. Bernhard, head of flicts that pit him against vast- ., Western Illi1101s University in ly different segments of his Macomb, Ill., in the race for community. the post His push for a medical srhool Golding, 51, has be.en the at Wright State has put Golding chief executive at Wright Slate in conflict with the lower house since it opened its doors in 1966 of _the Ohio state legislature, and ~versaw the . commuter which_ balked at approving a schools growth to its present planning grant for the proposal 11,000 enrollment. · shepherded through the · state A chemical engineer, Golding Senate. earned his bachelor and docto• Golding has plans to e~tablish rate _deg s from Purdue Uni- a b:anch university. 1n a neigh. vers1 y rved ,is a re- hormg commu111ty to eclucate sean h asso 1af there while freshmen and sophomores advancing to director or re• bound for Wright State. But his , earch for an Indianpolis var- critics say the school should be nish company in 1957. 1 a community college instead, , ln 1959 be severed his con- thus under the control of a local nr.ction with private industry to board --~==------ head . of ONE OTHER CANDIDATE •
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