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USD Builds Supreme Court Chambers Replica By DAN CARSON

Century furniture and ap pointments with 2oth Centu- ry technology. Zoom.Jens television cam• eras and monitors will be partially concealed by panel- mg that matches tb late cla cal period furniture. The triangular-shaped chamber will be air ·ondi- tioned Offsettmg the balustrades and the three-judge dais, will be the two skylights. Busts of the early Supreme Court justices - Marshall, Taney, Rutledge, Jay -will It In silence along both sides of the room In tb ongl- nal.

of Donald D. Goertz was hired by the university •o turn Ph1lbin'11 Supreme Court dreams 11110 workable blueprints. ' There were a !ot of problems, • said Goertz, who \,orked on the project Ix months. "We took bits and pieces of the (Supreme) Court design, and trled to recreate th atmosphere and layout and the old-time court feeling. "I think it's gomg lo be fantastic. It's going to fit in quite well," said Goertz of the courtroom The cham- bers will be a rrux of 19th

glass will be set up adJdccnt to the courtroom. Planning of the new faclli ty began shortly after the Krattcr Law Library was moved from More Hall to a nearby building in l 973 . "II became obvious we would have to expand our racllitH.•s for the law school. As long as I've been here, they've always said they needed that courtroom," id Gilbert L. Brown. a USD administrator . DISCl'SSION REGAS Law school faculty com- mittees began discussing what to do with the now- vacant floor of tbe buildmg. Financtal donors were sought. Then, Edward J Philbin, a USD law professor Y.ith a degree In mechanical engineering, captured the lmaglnat1on of his col- leagues with his proposal for a Supreme Court replica. ' A thematic courtroom would distinguish our under- taking from numbers of oth- ers and would serve an edu- cational purpose In remind- mg students of their rich judicial heritage,'' a law chool report said. But the price tag, first estimated at $200,000, went hlgher and higher. Addi- tional fund raising began in

earnest. • 'Originally It was not thought of as such a major proposal," said Brown.• ev- erthe less, $300,000 was raised. The Council on Legal Edu cation for Professional Re- sponsi biii ty contributed $30,000, USD Trustee Charles Grace gave $50,000, and the Jame:; Irvtne Foun- dat10n chipped tn $75,000. Numerous smaller gifts and grants were received by an alumm fund raJSing commit· tee. In the summer or 1976, the San Diego architectural firm

Staff Writer, The SOn Dle90 Union That hammermg sound coming from the third floor of the University of an Diego's More Hall is not a Judge's gavel - at least, not yet By late Sept mber, though ronstruct1on or a rourtroom modeled after the old U.S Supreme Court C'hamb rs of 1810-1860 should be complete. Th facility ts planned to provide students a place to practice their legal argu- ments and to participate 1n mock proceedings. Prev1ou ly, law udents had to tniyel to the uperior or !unlc1pal courts available only n the evening Donald Wecksteln, the law hool d an, expects San Diego al rourts to use the new fac11lty occasionally, students can observe legal procedure PLA TOLD Rearrangement o~ More Hall' upper floor also will lnclu pace for a legal assistance center for stu- d nts and the poor, a small library and classrooms. lawyer's office where students may observe Interview and negotiation techniques through one-way A mock

One of the most contro- versial areas of the post• Vatican Council II Roman Catholic Church has been that of religious education. The winds of change fanned by the council have spawned new concepts in the teaching of religion that have left some parents bewildered. To the educators such parents have often seemed hopelessly behind the times, resi tant to change, and unable to perceive Catholic truth unless stated in the language of the old Baltimore catechism on which they were raised. To parents, religious edu- cators have often seemed an Insensitive elite that, while expecting the par- en ts' financial support, brooks little questioning, much less opposition, to the so-called "new catechet- ics." But Helen De Laurentls Is one religious educator who says she thinks these par- ents have a legitimate com- plaint "People are Jui;tified in coming lo the religious edu- cators and asking 'what are you teaching my children'' and it's th1• educators' duty to explain it in terms the parent can understand,' says Of> • tht that adults, rather than the young, should be the prime focus of the church's religious educa- tion program if only be- cause the church has al- ways said it regards par- ents as the prime educators of their children. But she says that except on those occasions when they want parental coopera- tion, religious educators have as a rule given this principle only lip service. "Besides all that," De Laurent Id in an inter- Ylew, th parent has been made to be 1ev that I or . he is a Ju ly ncapabl of teaclllng religion becau e only nun and pr! sts are capable or domg that.'' De Laurenlls says the no- tion that priests and nuns are better religion teachers because they know more is only "a function of their seU-image." "What makes them more competent than the parent who is with her child all day long?" she asks. She says she's not putting down priests and nuns, but that the church should channel its efforts into mak- ing adults their prime relig- ious education target both for its own sake and so they can do a better job of teach- ing their children. Courses for updating priests and nuns in theology are fine, but these should be directed primarily at lay adults, says De Laurentis. "The point is not to create new experts, to just update the priests and nuns in the latest theological develop- ments and then send our kids to them for instruc- tion," she says. "The lay person, as a committed Christian, has just as much a right to that knowledge and In ways that are not coercive of him and as enriching and satisfying to him or her as a parent as it can be to the child. e ..auren IS t I s, m fact,

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"I'm saying I at, yes, re- ligious educators have In some ways unconsciously perhaps wanted to mamtain that image or themselves as experu, to perpetuate the idea that they know it and nobody el does, but par- ents teach their children ev- erything else, why not relig- ion'" De Laurcnlis, who taught religion at elementary and high srhools in Pennsylva- nia, 2\1aryland and Virginia before coming to San Diego 1n February, says these and other them will be dis- cussed at a workshop on the plannmg of adult reh ious Pducatlon program that wt.I be held Julv 11-22 at L'SD. . The workshop leader Will be thr Rev. Joseph Gallen of Washington, D.C. J!'alher Gallen is also part of a six-member faculty teaching in a USD master's degree program In religious education that runs next Wednesday through Aug. 2. D Laurent!s says that although the post-Vatican II church has repeatedly stresi;ed the parents' role as primary religious educators of their children, the bishops have been slow in 1mplcmentln this man- date 'Th re h not been enough for ful leadership at the dloc an le\ el, she says. ''They're not unaware of the problem, but they Just don't seem to know where to begin." She says that good adUJt ;religious ed- ucation departments are conspicuous by their ab· sence In most dioceses. De Laurentis says that religious education means more than just learning doctrine. "It means helping people in a parish grow religious- ly " she says. "People don't want to learn doctrine. They want to live religious lives, To the extent that doctrine is understandable and helps people do that, it's a good thing."

Summer courses the Religious Education Diploma Program spon ored jointly by the diocese and the Univer- sity of San Diego, have been announced by Sister Josephine Breen. director. Psychological and Moral Development will be offered at St. Francis de Sales School, Riverside. beginning on June 23. USD will be the site for six courses. "Understanding Scripture-Old Testament" will begin June 27; Under- in

standing Scripture-N w fest· amcnt, June 23; theology I, June 23; Theology II, June 27; Ministry of the Word. Aug. I; and Introduction to Morality, Aug. IS. Fees arc S70 per course for those taking the courses for credit. and SS0 per course for those auditing the courses. Full details are available from Sister Josephine Breen, P.O. Box 11277. San Diego. 92111. phone: (714) 297- 7110.

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personally feel now is the moment," said , er Marga- ret. "We need a longer period of reflection on women's role in the ministry first." Sister Juliana thinks it would be better to wait until conditions permit the ordination of married and other lay people as well. Sister Mary Ellen thinks that women who have a true calling approved by ' 'the community" should be ordained now. "The solutions will begin to emerge out of the reality of it rather than anything else," she said. "I also feel comfortable about the fact that the women's ordination tsSue iS such a hot one today in all the churches, in particular the Roman Catholic Church," she added. "I think it will make us do some very hard, reflective thinking about it. The other thing I feel is that from a theological point of view, the recent document that came out of Rome (upholding the ban on women priests) is a very good occasion to thrash this whole thing out. "

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. insufficient trained women who knew how to speak out, to pt..t their case and speak as peers with men, but that is no longer true " Sister Margarc concedes that many church women don't want any official role in the church. Catholic women have been conditioned to feel pastors should make all the decisions and that they themselves lack the ability to do so, added De Laurentls. Sister Juliana and Sister Carol Quigley, a former missionary to South America, said present church law bars women from ministering to many In need, particu- larly In missionary areas where there IS a shortage of pri s to say Mass and give communion. "We have thousands of people dying all over the world and who have no one to bring them communion because there is no priest," said Sister Juliana. "We have thousands of people who need to be reconciled with their G-Od and there's no one there to help them. Women are the but th y can t help " SIS er Margaret said that thousands thus become 'sp ually malnourished" by going months without comm n on and tiling 1ru,'lead for a priestless, commu- nionle on of the !ass. " So for e sake of certaln church laws, we are in a way keeping the center of church life, the Eucharist, from the people '' she said. Sister Carol 1d that "the average man in the pew still has a better chance of ser.ing the church, if he wishes, than the aver ge woman." 'The aver man or woman worshiper has no active function in th ltturgy, either," added 1ster Juliana. ''Theirs 1s an tremely passive role." Si er Margaret said the trepidation Wlth which some parerts are respo ing to the new emphasis on the role of parents m the religious education of their children is another symptom f the Catholic layman's passivity. It hows that the church has in fact assumed this illty ltseU and that laymen have tended to let the allsts do It," she said. Al: the nuns said they think the Catholic Church will one day ordain women priests. "The question of meeting the pastoral needs of the people Is the urgent one, but I would hesitate to say whether ordination should come now or later," said Sister Carol. "I ha~e no doubt that it will come In time, but I don't

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such mmistries in today's church Fee for the institute, which meets from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily June 13-22, ex- cept June 19, is $75.

A "Women 111 Mmlstry" institute will be held June 13-22 at the University of San Diego under auspices of the BSD Conference Center. Among the participants will be Sister Margaret Brennan, general superior of the Servants of The Im- maculate Heart of .M~ry nuns in Monroe, Mich. and three other members of the order. Also participating will be Sister Juliana Casey, theol- ogy professor at the St. !\!einrad School of Theology in St. Meinrad, lnd.; Sister Carol Quigley, her order's general coordinator of ministries; and Sister Mary Ellen Sheehan, professor of theology at St. John's Pro- vincial Seminary in Detroit. The purpose of the insti- tute 1s to explore the Bibli- cal and historical founda- tions or women ministries and to assess the place of

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Research Awards on Sue Sullivan, a graduate the h gh school d1v1sion and student at the University Of Tom Solazzo, who descnbed .an Diego received tbe top the history of MJSSJon San award for graduate students Diego de Alcala, placed sec- this year from the Old ond among high school stu- School House Historians for dents. Both attend Universi- her paper on Franklin ty High School. House, an Old Town la nd _ Victor Magee, headmaster mark. . of the Old Mason Street Mary Therese !'\augle, School who presided t the who wrote about th e old banquet aturday at Hanalei plank road m the _sa nd bills Hotel, said other high school between Sa~ Diego a d ~udents honored Included Yuma, received the top ichard Jorgensen Tim award for _undergraduate Hu_ghes anif'Paul 'l'heil, all of students dunng the f1f~h an- u iverslty High nual awards presentation of OI chool House Historian M said the awards Joe Chlad, who wrote are sented each sprtng to about Old Mission San LuiS promote research on San Rey, received first place In Diego history.

Poetry lectures offered at USD

The University of San Diego Conference Center will offer a summer lecture series on poetry June 27 through July 18 on Mondays and Thursdays from 7:30 to 9p.m. A second series will run Tuesdays from 7:30 to 9 p.m. and Saturday from 10 to 11:30 a.m. beginning June 28. The programs will be conducted by poet Eliza- beth Bartlett. Bartlett for- mer director of Cre~tive Writers Assn. at the New School of Social Research will present a poetry read'. ing of her poems at 8 p.m. July 19 in Founders Hall USD. '