News Scrapbook 1975-1977

Law Briefs _..f'(lN\~e,t"} /c)-~,-,1:, Aliens Topic: 'In Defense' "In Defense of the Alien" is the topic of a two-day conference on Immigration Law and Practice Feb. 4. 5 at the Royal Inn al the Wharf. The conference is co-spon ored by the University of San Diego Law In• stitute, the San Diego County Bar Assn. and Fronteras. A practical course geared to give news reporters a working knowledge of the county judicial system is being sponsored by the San Diego Bench. Bar Media Committee. The class will meet on Monday venings at the county courthouse for eight w,•eks. Cost will be $15. C~ief ,Justice Donald H. Wright, as chairman of the Judicial Council, has named three San Diego County superior court judges to serve on th~ appellate departments of the superior <·ourt in 1977. They arc Robert W. Conyers (presiding), James L. Focht Jr., and Louis M. Wcbh. In each of the slate·s 58 counties there will be a three-judge appellate department to hear appeals arising from municipal and justice courts. A series of six debates involving law and economics questions will be presented by the University of San Diego School of Law at Salomon Lecture Hall. First debal<' is on "Should Congress Enact th~• Ken- nedy-Corman National Heath Jn . surance Bill?" Pro: Dr. Lester Breslow, UCLA School of Public Health dean; Con: Harry Schwartz editorial hoard, New York Times: author of "Case for American Medicine."

SCHOOLS BUSTLING 3,100 Lawyers Here; Double 1970Number /~-~7-?b By HERBERT LOCKWOOD SANDIEGODAIL YTRA.\';'.(R/Pl'Sr,,/1 R'nl,r At a swearing-in ceremony last week, former State Bar president David S. Casey told n w lawyers there were 250 lawyer in San Diego County when he came here 30 years ago, and there wt>re grip,•s then that there were far too man · for the art>a. Todav, th,· Countv Bar Assn estimates there arc clo ·e to 3,100 - more th,m double the number of attorneys only six year. ago. Membership in the as. ociation i 2.267 and about 800 have not joined the as ociation. Here' the score for past years: 1975-2,800; 1970-1, 178; I965-1,006; 196Q,728 Although the following figures are , stimat(' , mce most San Diego law rhools are pet"' n semesters now, California Western figures on 630 students when cl ·scs start again. \'Vestern State 1,200; abrillo-Pacific 115; and the Cniversity of San Diego 940 for a grand total of 2,885. Job~ for gradual the big problem. "San Diego i n't an e. y market," said Univer ity of San Diego School of Law Dean Donald T. Weckstein, "but we have had some luck 1n placement. Of t hose who were graduated in 1976 and contacted our placement office, all have been placed but 20," A ahfornia Western Law School spokesman said, "Of the 126 in our last graduating class, more than hall are workin .• ome got po itions on their own, others through our placement office: The . chool has been sue essful in seeking help for new graduates from alumni groups out of state, he said. Everyone who pas. ed the recent bar in Hawaii wa placed through the efforts of tht> local alumni a sociation. With a heavy night school population, Western State mversity College of Law of an Diego finds itself in a peculiar pla(' ment position. "Most night students re older, more mature people who work during

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ayt1me . already made <"onnections," Western State ,pokeswoman said '·Many lay on in their present jobs and ar~ appoint,·d. sav, house counsd or get ~tter jobs bec;iu ·p of their legal qualifications. ''We hav~ nn aell\'e pla<"ement departmPnt and rpsponse has been very good. Alumni help a lot. Our old graduates hin· th,• nc>w ones; they stick togdht'r.'' Cabrillo Pa,·ific University College of Law also [inrls many of it night tudenls havt• already lined up job· b<>fore graduation. All agree that the day students ;ire the ont' "'ho have the most problems in find.ng Jobs. Night students have lh,· contacts An unknown number of recent graduatt-s ha,! from out of town, even from out of state and have no in• tention or prarticmg in San Diego County. This hPlps the local job siluat10n a bit. There an• two reasons whv other major nations haw nothi~g ap, proaching th<· lawyer population of the U.S : with l'entralized gov,•rn- ments the~· don't have to bother about 50 diffen·nt SPts of slate laws, and they're Just not natural litigators. Japan, a mnj r industrial nation with a population o 10 million. has only 10.000 attorJJ ) . while Great Britain, wilh a p,1putat1on of 56 million, has 28,000. Th,• .S. has 400,000-plus attorn,•vs for a population of 214 million.

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t am will be participating In th El Centro tournament, and another pa1r or San D1 go repr ntatives will be competing In the Chmo Toum y starting today Chri Ian High will be th ho t chool for the West rn elation. or hnstlan School Tourney encompass- Ing 12 schools tn two dlVI· Ion at two 1tes which tart !Oday and a patr or ddltlonal local tournament ar waiting to begin tomor• row two a re the

~rossmont'.Santana Invita- victory in the Kiwanis Tour- t1onal, an eight-team tourna- nament's Unhmited Division ment to be held at Santana last week, are featured in over three days and the tonight's nightcap contest Granite Hills Eagle Classic, against Southwest. a four-team event slated ror 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• most Interest for local fans, coin or twice-defeated Pa• figure to be the University trick Henry. Three schools and Baron-Optimist group- from outside the county, lngs. Huntington Beach, Downey In the Uni event, undefeat• and Notre Dame or R1ver- ed and top rated Kearny Is side could also be title fac• the team to beat. Coach Tim tors though little is known Short's Komets, fresh from about their records to date.

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Senate by the Rev. . Portman, then rehg1ous studies chal.l'man (he later resigned) and the Rev. Laurence Dolan, campus chaplain. Last September a committee chaired by Thomas C. Barger was named to investigate USD's Catholicity. Srster Sally l<'uray, 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 mtellect,'' she says. Founders or the new college say the nun's observation has some validity, but that it's essentially 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 Newman College presi· dent. Magdalen president Dr. Peter V. Sampo admits some teachers in the past were heavy-handed, but he says "the colleges today have gone too far in the other direction either p~esenting Catholicism as just one of many option~ or 1gnormg 1t altogether." For _Father Lanahan the question is not how poorly Cathollc1sm may have been taught in the 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 whPther Catholic colleges exist primarily "to t_ransmit a Catholic body of knowledge" or simply to survive by appealmg to government, non-Catholics and the AAUP. Dr Ronald McArthur, Thomas Aquinas College presi- dent, says Catholic colleges today need more than the orthodoxy behind which most of them hid their shortcom- ings i~ the past, however. He says that while a truly Catholic .college_ must take Catholic orthodoxy seriously, its prmc1pal obJect1ves are truth and teaching students how to think for themselves. , Invo!ved in all this is the question of what obligation a Catholic college has to teach the doctrines of the church. ister Furay says the church can say what it teaches, but that 1t cannot tell a Catholic college this is what it must teach or otherwise manage its affairs. .\lcArthur thinks this misses the point that in a Catholic education the magisterium (teaching authority of the church) is "a guide to the whole educational process, not a sort of informed opinion Catholics can ac·cept or reject." But for Sister Furay an institution that allows itself to be dictated to by the church brcomes "an extension of a dio;ese or ~ha~cery" rather_ than a university Father Rigali says USD sllll teaches Catholicism as the om', true reli&!on "in the sense that it's not taught as a false religion, but that 1t also teaches truth is found in other religions as well. He says this in no way 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 religious studies departments, you need a sta~dard. by which to compare. In a Catholic college. you d thmk this would be Catholicism otherwise it shouldn't call itself ratholic," said Sampo' Father Rigali concedes the church nrvcr said other religions are devoid of truth, but he claims it often came out sounding that way in the pre-Vatican II church. Donnelly thmks orthodox Catholicism ("and none of this post-Vatican II bit, either") 1s "emmcntlv reason- able" and teachable without indoctrination · "It's nothmg we should feel the need to apologizp for We only nPrd to apologize for thr fact that not t>vervone who calls himself Catholic today is in fact Catholic,"·said Donnelly. But Sampo says most Cathohc colleges today arr being foohshly ret1cPnt, tonmg down their Catholicism while other groups loudly trumpet thrir own value systems bt'fore today's college students. "Wr'rc losing a lot or thesr kids by dPfault," said Sampo. Sister Furay said she wish s the new traditionahst collegrs well, but that most collPge studPnts wo11ld probably regard their cu1Til'ula as too narrow. Barger say.s one of thr flrnt things his USD Cathol>eity comrmttee wtll have to do 1s to determine what Catholici- ty means at a collrge with so many non-Catholir students. s .

-d,i-,l4-{o{IA {.I~ - USD auxilians to he~t'·De ~;;~;~frm~~P,~:Y~ be honor sixty new A T honored are Mrs. Vin- members at a noon are ux~::Y hostesses cent L. Buckley, Mrs. lun~heon meeting at the Handley M J:; E. Arnold E. Asherfeld, Umversity Club next Howard' Mrs. ert C. l\1rs. Vernon H. Gaston, Thursday. Hu h '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 g and La Jolla based 8 · Mears. Mrs. Charles A newspaper publisher Others are Mrs. Patapou . and a"university trustee, James ~- Mulvaney, Other~ are h~s . accepted an in- Mrs. Josiah L. Neeper, Edward Pulaski Mrs. v1tat1on to speak and Mrs. Frank J. O'Connor John s d k' Mrs. will Mrs J h F , an roe Mrs. present "Women in · o n . Scanlon Edward Sk'll' ' M the Media." Mrs. John Senneff, Mrs'. John Snite I a~nd M~:- Mrs. Serio Anton and James 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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