News Scrapbook 1975-1977
Law Briefs \~a,v\'f°;)~\ p\- /d-d-7... )I:, Aliens Topic: 'In Defense' "In Dcfonse of the Alien" is the topir of a two-day conference on Immigration Law and Practice Fc,b. 4 5 at the Royal Inn at the Wharf. The conferenc,• is co-sponsored by the University of San Diego Law In• stitute, the San Diego County Bar Assn. and Fronleras. A practical course geared to give npws reporters a working knowlc•dg-P of thP county judicial system is bc•ing sponsored by the• San Dic•go RPnch Har Media Committee. The class will meet on Monday evenings at t he county rourthouse for eight wt>eks. Cost will be $15. Chief Justice Donald R. Wright, as chairman of the Judicial Council, has named three• San DiPgo County superior court judges to servp on the appellate departments of thp superior ('OUrt in 1977. They are Ro lwrt W. Conyc•rs (presiding), ,Jamps L. Focht ,Jr., and Louis M. Webh. In each of thl' statc.'s 58 counties there will bt> a three-judgp appellate dt·partment to hear appPals ari. ing from municipal and justicl' courts. A series of six debate•s involving law and economics questions will be prpspntl•d by the University of San DiPgo School of Law at ·Salomon Lectun• Hall. First d<>batP is on "Should Congress Enact thl' Ken- nedy-Corman National Ht>ath In- suran<"e Bill'!" Pro: Dr. Lester Breslow, UCLA School of Public Health dean; Con: Harry Schwartz editorial board. New York Times: author of "Case for American Medicine."
SCHOOLS BUSTLING
3,100 Lawyers Here; Double 1970Number l~-J.1-?k By HERBERT LOCKWOOD SAAD!Er.oDAIL l'TRA.\3CRIPT wt Wrrr,,r At n s vearmg-in n~n•mony last late Bar president David S. Casey told new lawyers there were 250 lawyer in San Diego County when he came here 30 years ago, and lherl' Wl're gripes then that there v, ere far too man for the area. Today, the County Bar As n estimates there arc close to 3,100 more than double the number of attorney only six year ago. Membt rsh p m the as ociation i 2,267 and about 800 have not joined the association . He.re' the core for pa t y ar : 197fi 2,800; 1970 1 478; 1965-1.006; 1960-728 Although the following figure are estimate , ince most San Diego law chool are betv.een seme ters now, California W ll.. rn figures on 630 ·tudent. when classe start again, \Vcstern State 1,200; C'ahnllo-Pacific 115; and the Universit · of an Diego 940 for a grand total of 2. 5. Job for graduate i the big problem. "San Diego i n't an e y market," said University of San Diego School of Law Dean Donald T. Weckstein, "but we have had ome luck in placement . Of those who were graduated in 1976 and contacted our placement office, all have been placed but 20." A alifornia We~tern Law School spokesman said, ··or the 126 in our last graduatmg class. more than half are working. 'ome got positions on their own. others through our placement office · The school has been uccessful in seeking help for new graduates from alumn, groups out of state, he said. Everyone who pas ed the recent bar in Hav.aii wa placed hrough the efforts of the local alumni association. With a heavv night school population, Western tate University College of Law of an Diego finds itself in a pl'culiar placement position. re ·older, more mature people who work during (Continued on Page2Ai wt>ek, former ''Most night stude ts
UNIVERSITY EVENT HAS LARGEST FIELD eavy Tournament SI
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tat!' "Jlnkcswoman said. ..Many sla~ on in their pn•spnt job and arci appoirted sav house counsel or gpt hct ter iohs h,•cause of th ir legal qualificallons 1 WP ha e • n a,·uve placement departmPnt and n•sponse has been very good Alumn, help a lot. Our old graduates h1rP th,· new one , they stick Logel hl•r." · Cabrillo P 1cil1c Universlly College of Law also find many of it night students have already lined up jobs lwfon, grad•Jatio11. All agrel' that the day tudent arc the one v, ho ha vc the mo t problems in finding jobs. Night students have the contacts An unknov.n number of r,•ct•nt graduates ha,! from out of town. l'Vl'n from out of state and have no m• tention of pr1H't1dng in San Diego County. Thi hl•lp. the local job situation a b:t. Then• ar two reasons why oth<>r major nat10115 ha" nothing ap proaching th lawyer population of the l .S.: w1tt, ccntraliz<'d govl'rn• ments they don t have to bolhl'r about 50 diHen·nt s1 t<; of stat!' laws, and they're just not natural litigators. ,Japan, e major industrial nation with a populat1or- of 106 million, has onlv 10,000 attnrnc,} while GrPat Britain, with a population of 5 > million, has 28,000. The l'.S. ha 400,000-plus attorne ·s for a population of 21-1 million
t am will be participating !l the El Centro tournament, nd anoth r pair of San D1 go r presentatlves will be competing ln the Chmo Tourn y starting today Christian High will be the h t hool for the West rn o latton. of C'hrlstlan hools Tourney encompass- Ing 12 hools In two diVJ- ton at two ltes which starts today, and a pair of addl onal local tournaments ar Wallin to begin tomor-
~rossmont- antana Invita- vfctory in the Kiwanis Tour- t1onal, an elght-team tourna- nament's Unlimited Division mcnt to be held at Santana last week, are featured ln over three days and the tonight's nightcap contest Granite Hills Eagle Classic, against Southwest. a four-team event slated for two days. Kearny figures to get its The biggest of the tour- stiffest competition later on neys, and the ones with the from similarly unbeaten Lin- mo t Interest for local fans, coln or twice-defeated Pa- figuN' to be the University trick Henry. Three schools and Baron-OptimL~ group- from outside the county, lngs. Huntington Beach, Downey In the Unl event, undefeat- and Notre Dame of River- ed and top rat d Kearny is Ide could also be title fac the team to beat. Coach Tim tors though little ls known hort's Komets, fresh from about their records to date.
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Senate by the Rl'v. . Portman, then religious st.rdies chalITllan (he later resigned) and the Rev. Laurence Dolan, campus chaplam. Last September a committee chaired by Thomas C. Barger was named to investigate IJSD's Catholicity. Sister Sally Furay, USD vice president and provost, says one reason today's Catholic colleges may not always appear to be as Catholic is that they no longer force Catholicism on their students or make them feel bad for not accepting it unquestioningly. "Students today are presumed to have an intellect. When I was in a Catholic college I wasn't presumed to have an intellect," she says. Founders of the new college say the nun's observation has some validity, but that it's essenliallv a caricature "I can't recall anything like that on any Catholic college campus I was ever on," says the Very Rev. William L. Lanahan, Cardinal Ney.man College presi- dent. Magdalen president Dr. Peter V. Sampo admits some teachers in the past were heavy-handed, but he says "the colleges today havr gone too far in the other direction, eit):ier presenting Catholicism as Just one of many options or ignoring it altogether:• For Father Lanahan the question is not how poorly Catholicism may have been taught in Uw past, but if and how well it is being taught today He says there will always be poor teachers, but that the question now is whether Cathollc colleges exist primarily "to transmit a Catholic body of knowledge·• or simply to survive by appealing to government, non-Catholics and the AAUP. Dr. Ronald McArthur, Thomas Aquinas College presi- dent, says Cathohc colleges today need more than the orthodoxy behind which most of them hid their shortcom- ings in the past, however. He says that while a truly Cathol!c _college_ must take Catholic orthodoxy seriously, its prmc1pal obJectJves are truth and teaching students how to think for themselves. • Involved in all this is the question of what obligation a Cathol!c college has to teach the doctrines of the church. Sister Furay says the church can say what it teaches, but that it cannot tell a Catholic college this 1s what it must teach or ott1erwisc manage its affairs. McArthur thmks this misses the point that in a Catholic education the magisterium (teaching authority of the church) is •·a gmde to the whole educational process, not a sort of informed opinion Catholics can al'eept or rPjert." But for Sister Furay an institution that allows itself to be dictated to by the church bPromes "an extension of a diocese or chancery" rather than a universitv Father Rigali says lJSD still teaches Catholicism as the onr, true reli~!on "in the sense that it's not taught as a false religion, but that it also teaches truth is found in other religions as well. He says this in no wav denies the uniqueness of Catholicism. · But Sampo says this can be done without the embar- rassment he says most Catholic colleges today exhibit in 1dent1fymg with Catholicism. "Even in the comparative study of religion you get in these modern re)igious studies departments. you need a sta~dard. by which to compare In_ a Catholic college, you d thmk this would be Cathohcism otherwise it shouldn't call itself Catholic," said Sampo. FathPr Rigah concedes the church nevrr said other religions are devoid of truth, but he clauns it often came out sounding that way in the pre-Vatican II rhurch Donnelly thinks orthodox Catholicism ("and none of ~his .~ost-Vatican II bit, either") is "emirenlly reason «ble and teachable without md
--(hl.,/.A f'o{/A {.I~ - USO auxilians to he~t•·De ~~~.,,.?,X." ~v:~~n Copley Diego Au~iliary will of hostess~. chairman La J oilans to be honor sixty new Auxili h honored are Mrs . Vin- members at a noon are M:{Y J ostesses cent L. Buckley, Mrs. luncheon meeting at the Handley M ;ti;) E. Arnold E. Asherfeld University Club next Howard, Mrs. o ert C. Mrs. Vernon H. Gaston' Thursday. Hugh 'M rs. _Peter J. Mrs. R. Clemson Griggs' . es, rs. Richard C. Mrs. Peter J Hu hes' Mrs. James S Copley, Levi and Mrs . Richard Mrs. Louis Mack gand La Jolla based 8 · Mears. Mrs. Charles A newspaJ:>er publisher Others are Mrs. Patapou. . and a umversity trustee, James ~- Mulvaney, Others are h_as - accepted an in- Mrs. Josiah L. Neeper, Edward Pulaski Mrs. v1_tat10n to speak and Mrs. Frank J. O'Connor, John Sandrock' Mrs. will present "Women in Mrs. John F. Scanlon Edward Sk'Ir ' :rs. the Media." frs. John Senneff, Mrs'. John Snite 1 a 1 :ci M~:: Mrs. Serio Anton and a mes M. Smathers, Harriet Mons Wille M Mrs. Ross G. Tharp · rs. James R. Davis Mrs. John A. Waters Jr' Mrs. Richard Duncan are cochairmen of the and Mrs. Richard and Mrs. James M. event. Mrs. Charles L. Viertel.
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TWO PLAYERS OUT WITH INJURIES Torer
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\\hen the floor agamst Ha}'\\ard State (5- 4) tomorrow night USD (UI Santa Clara <•> Harnett (41 McGee C2) Sttwart UJ Pierce (8) Ely (4) !iambls (16) Cele (0 Taylor (1') Oovl_s (15) Chavez <2> USD .. ..... ..... .... 21 3'-U 5anto Claro ............ .. l4 46 - Other scorlno-USO : Strode 13, Gibb 8, Mlchlemore 2, Honz 11; Son to Clora: rneu, 17. Nelson 16 Eosley 3. FOUied Out-Nooe. Ttchnlccl Foul-McGee (SC) Total Fouls-USO 23, SOnto Claro l6. it take
Smathers of Rancho Santa Fe will also be honored. Mrs. John H. Mazur is president of the auxiliary.
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Broncos called regrouped. and won gomg away A pair of freshman led the way for Santa Clara. Londale Theu.s, a first-year man from Los Angeles, scored 17 points Kurt Ramb1s, a freshman from San Jo e, had 16 pomts and II rebounds Guards Eddie Davis and ltke Strode had 15 and 13 points, re peclivPly, for San Diego. ·tevc Hanz came off the
ch and contnbuted 11 . The Toreros agam had trouble hitting their shots. After shooting 28 per cent in i, three-point loss poln a
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EVENING TllllUNE
Son Diego, Thursday, December 30, 1976
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regard as unmistakable signs of secularization. Many Catholic colleges, for instance, have severed church ties (USD went inciependent in 1972), added non-Catholic trustees and advertised themselves as "community" colleges offering a "value-oriented" rather than a Catho- lic education. Theology and philosophy requirements formerly long on the thought of church-approved St. Thomas Aquinas have all but disappeared. Holy Cross, for example, went from 28 required philosophy units in the early 1960s to none. At USD, which once required 15 units of St. Thomas alone, students could get through with six philosophy units all told. Theology departments specializing in Catholic theology nave been converted to "religious studies departments" offering world religion and other courses in a manner the critics say makes Catholicism sound like just another religion. Perhaps the most serious concern to traditionalists is the feeling that most Catholic colleges today are less U1an dedicated to the church's teaching authority or "magist- erium" Hard-pressed to understand how a college can undergo so many changes and remain Catholic, disgruntled traditionalists have opened two colleges In recent years· Thomas Aquinas College in Calabasas in 1970 a d Magdalen College in Bedford, N.H., in l!Y/4 Due to open in 1977 are two more traditionalL~t schools: Cardinal Newman College in Normandy, :',Io., and Christendom
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To some, it appears the traditionalists are displaying a characteristic preoccupation with orthodoxy, resistance to change and predilection for indoctrination But for Dr. arren H. Carroll, Christendom's president, the issue is at "There are few Catholic colleges today where the full Catholic truth is taught or the Catholic faith even spoken of except peripherally." uSD philosophy department chairman Dr John Don- nelly retains his faith in Catholic colleges (he says uSD is better than most) and suspects the traditionalists of indoctrination, but he concedes they have a point. " They're correct in that Catholic colleges surely are not Catholic any longer," says Donnelly. "They're Catho- lic in name and tradition only. Their content, their reality is simply not that of a Catholic srhool " Donnelly says today's Catholic colleges 'go to great lPngths to make it absolutely clear they a~e no longer Catholic" in their attempt to attract non-Cathohc stu- dents and government funds. But he does not regret the cut in philosoph, and theology requirements. claiming these were often exces- sive, poorly taught and wasted on unintere ed udents. He says USD has retained its catholicity with far less. The Catholicity issue has been a lively onP at t.:SD for y a , althougli few faculty member h r I the school is less ~atholic than 1t should be wil, speak on the record. In 1974 the matter \\a. broached before the Prlests (Cont. on page B-5, col. 1)
The Broncos, who shot 52 per cent, squared their this picture as overdrawn, record at 5-5. 1ey say are still Catholic US~. after v.inning its less n~w, less unques'. first eight games, v.111 be 8-2 church or condemnatory CritJCs of today's Catholic colleges, they suspect, would be placated only if they issued students a compendium of the .,., rltings of 13th century philosopher-theologian St. Thomas Aquinas with intellectual blinders to match. For those unglued by the removal of crucifixes from classroom walls, they counsel caution against a preoccu- pation with externals. To those alarmed because Catholic theology and philosophy requirements have been all but eliminated, they suggest that students formerly may have been treated to too much of a good thing In this regard. For those upset over the vanished emphasis on Catholi- CISm as ''the one, true religion" they cite Vatican II's Y.IIJingness to acknowledge that all religions contam at least some truth. "If they think we're going to keep on fighting ~artin Luth r the way he was fought ever smce the Reforma- tion, they're crazy. Times have changed and they apparently haven't:' says the Rev. Norbert J. Rigali, chairman of the University of San Diego religious studies department. But traditionalists remain suspicious of what they
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