News Scrapbook 1974-1975

-r: mes -/Uvoc~ 3/1/1s Recital slated SAN DIEGO - Larry Le Blanc. San Diego pianist and a graduate of San Diego State Umversity, w1f1 perform a recital or Beethoven's piano music al 8 p.m. Sunday, March 16, in Camino Theater, Univer 1- ty or San Diego, Alcala Park. The program includes the "Waldstein" Sonata and the "Appass1onata" Sonata and is free to the public.

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5"04.lld tft• 1tate-afflllat•d Hastings Coll•,,_ of Law b• p•rmln.d to acqu/r• tft• United State1 International Unlv•r1lty'• law ,choo/1 H•r• ar• two op nlon1: What 11 your vl•wt

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LAWRENCE KAPILOFF Purchase Will Meet Growing Legal Needs

KENNETH R. REARWIN Proposal Conflicts With Master Plan A bill to purchase USIU's law school, by the state-affiliated Has- tings College of Law of San Francis- co, would conflict with eXJ.sting, long

California State Bar admissions. As a result, the California State Bar will more than double its 1968 member- ship of below 29,000 to around 61,000 In our state, there are 20 public and private American Bar Associa- tion or California aecredited law schools located in only eight coun- ties. In addition, there are some 20 unaccredited law schools. In 1972, the total estimated enrollment was over 14,000 for all 20 law schools, and of this number, some 6,000 were first year students. With those trends by 1979. continuing, approximately 4,000 stu- dents will be graduated from Cali- fornia's 20 accredited law schools One major argument for a branch of Hastings in San Diego is said to be the need to provide law school facili- ties in this area for students who are socially and/or economically disad- vantaged. One of our local law schools already provides scholar- ships to approximately 50 such stu- dents, most of.,l'hom_ijl:e from mi- starting this year. pecial summer program to incom- g minority students which assists em to master the difficulties of gal study. Another San Diego hool, with over 9 per cent minority students, awards to 40 per cent of such students scholarships of 75 per cent to 100 per cent of tuition. ed, students pay almost $700 each in tuition and fees. Only about 9 per cent of Hastings students are black and Mexican-American; most other minority students are Asian. Incidentally, Hastings has by far students of our four tax supported law schools. If public policy favors increasing the number of minority students in the field of law, then additional scholarships and/or loans of $100,000-$125,000 would provide at least 50 full scholarships. Since pres- ent public and private California law nority groups. Lt W

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tr ;t, the pres nt proposal does not create a new law school, it mer ly changP.s control and owner- hip or an existing school. Moreover, w hav cured a commitment that 1f Ha tings does replace California W 't m Coll g of Law, th re will be no expan Jon or additions for a minimum of f1v y ar . '.Ondly, who is to d termlne wh n "too many" lawyer· exist? If th r · 1s a d mand for i,Jbllc educa- tion, it hou\d b filled. Open compe- t1twn on th basis of intellectual ability should go far to uplift the quality of the legal profession, and tx·n fit thr. public by insuring that' ther is a sufficient number of quali- fied lawy rs in the community. Finally, the opposition has appar- r.ntly f 1led to consider that while San Diego taxpayers ubs1d1ze pubic 1 gal education in at least rive maJor communities Jn this state, their own chlldr n cannot, without relocating, benefit from thl ub idies. Und r my blll. th Stat of Cahfornla will acqu1r for San Di go, at a bargain ba m nt price ($2.5 million to take over Cal Western as opposed to $8 mlllion to initiate a school) a quality pubhc law chool for the people of this county and this tat1; The questions, then, are two.

-r;:"u_':( 3/ /o I 7!> USD visiting day scheduled Saturday

The Umvers1ty of San Diego's college visiting day will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The event will feature meetings with the university president and facul- ty and d ussions of student activities, majors, careers and college costs. Campus tours will also be offered to visitors. • Persons interested in enrolling al USO, or about a college d grec, are invited to attend the event. o~ o/1 /16 USD DEGREE President To Receive

established legislative procedures. In 1!160, a far-sighted legislature passed the Donahoe Higher Educa- tion Act, which provided a "master the orderly growth of hlgher education in California. Sec- tion 2250 clearly stated the legisl - tive Intent: "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Legislature not l to authorize or acquire sites for new l institutions of public higher educa- cation Commission succeeded CCHE and took over its functions. The proposed bill would short-circuit this legislative pohcy which has worked unusually well. The Donahoe Act has on a number of occasions prevented expensive "hurry up solutions" to what were really non-existent prob- In 1972, the Coordinating Council need for additional law schools in California. After careful study, the councll on April 3, 1973, concluded that there was absolutely no need for additional state-supported law If the sponsor of this bill feels there is justification for acquisition of USIU·s law school by Hastings, he should request the Post Secondary Education Commission to investi- gate. However, as of the end of February, the commission's staff had received no such request. At present, there is approximately County for every 650 people - adults and children. Further, in 1974, over 300 new lawyers just from San Diego law schools passed the bar exam. In California, there has been a plan" for tion unless such sites are recom- mended by the Coordinating Council of Higher Education ... " In 1974, the Post Secondary Edu- lems. schools. reason is that, although California population is barely growing thP.rc is an annual increase of 7 cent in

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Rearwin is a former presi- dent of the California State Coordinating Council for Higher Educot,on. His home is in La Jolla. schools would be used, overhead per student would decline and quality of education would remain high. The cost to the taxpayers tD ac- quire USIU's law school would ini- tially be $2.5 million - for a relative- ly old building which would probably need expensive remodeling and re- furbishing. Included would be a law library substantially smaller than the law library of another San Diego law school. Based on operating ex- penses of other law schools, a Has- tings campus in San Diego would cost the taxpayers at least $2 to $2.5 million each year to operate. In summary, the acquisition of a Hastings San Diego campus should not occur for the following reasons: passes the established procedures of the Master Plan for Higher Educa- Other alternatives to acquisition of the USIU law school by Hastings, which would not involve taxpayers' money, are available. There will probably be an over- supply of law school graduates for a Qualified economically and social- ly disadvantaged law school stu- dents, regardless of race, are and can continue to be as:.isted by schol- Quality legal education is current- ly available in San Diego County. lion. long time to come. arship and loan funds.

Assemblyman Kapiloff, a San Diego Democrat, i!'fro- duced the bill to make possi- ble the acquisition of the US/U law school by Hastings Col- lege. Should we provide a first rate legal education at one-fourth the current price for young San D1e- gans? hould the people of California take advantage of a once in a life- time bargain in the purchase of a going law school at one-fourth the cost of building such a law school from scratch? In our view, the answer to both questions 1s an obvious, and enthusi- astic, yes.

Honor Here President Ford is sched- uled to receive an honorary degree from the University of San Diego at its com- mencement exercises May 25, according to the Most Rev. Leo T. Maher, bishop of the San Diego Catholic diocese. Mr. Ford also wlll be the principal commencement speaker, the bishop said. The arrangements to confer an honorary doctor of laws degree on Mr. Ford were made before he. be- came President, and since then he has indicated he would come here for the commencement, Bishop Maher said. According to White House aides, Mr. Ford pla to fly to Palm Springs for an East- er vacation of about 10 days, and he is scheduled to ad- dress a regional economic conference in San Diego Aprll 3. Bishop Maher said Prince Sattam Al-Saud, of Saudi Ar- abia, a 1965 USO graduate, also will r elve an honorary degree at the May 25 com- mencement.

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anyone m "The Pit." Brovelli figures to start 6 ft. 9 in. l'\eil Traub at center, 6-7 Richard Harnett and 6-5 Paul '.\1:eade at for- ward and Ken Smith and Joe De- Maestri at the guards. Traub leads the Toreros in scoring with a 13.6 average, followed by DeMaestri and llan Jones, the team's effective first man off the bench, at 12.2 and Smith at 10.8. The Aztecs are led by their awe- some front line composed of 6-8 center Will Connelly and 6-7 forwards Bob Kovach and Steve Copp and Allen Bunting sharing time on the sides.

Torero . Thursday night, State must visit Long Bench in a gam that could d c1de th PCA title as well a secure the visitors a berth in the NCAA playoffs. At the moment, Long B ach and San Diego are tied for the league lead. "We can't afford to overlook USD," said Vezle, "but we also can't afford to get in a struggle with them" Id ally. Vezie would like to see his team blow the game open early so he can rest his player for t crucial Long Beach tilt The problem, of course, is the Toreros rarely make It easy for

It' hom U • ver Hy of San Diego ba k tball t am, a plarP where the Tor ro. ha vc enJoyed con stent succ . ov 'r the year:; To v1s1t1ng teams, howev r, it is known as "The Pit." On · in ide, th challenge 1s to get out ahv . lot of heavily favored teams hav been trnn:;formed into victim. by the Toreros there With this in mind, San Diego State Will entPr "Th Pit" tonight at with vi wns or what happen ·d ther two years ago serving a th ir caution light In the previous m ting, the un- d •rdog Torero · fired themselves up ror th cro town rivalry and red a 78-69 victory. "Playing at horn rtamly has to be to our advantage," aid Torero coach Jim Brovelh, who has seen his men win mne or 11 arts there thi ason against 2-ll mark else- wh re. "But with th• Wahington t t anybody of h 1ble xc ption of we haven't played e caliber as the Zl th y a Ji Tim Ve21e's Aztecs, 13-10 overall and 6-2 in Pacific Coast Athl tic ·n play, may have some prob! trying not to look past the w t home to t

oversupply of attorneys here, that the $2.5 million purchase price proposed in an Assembly bill authored by Larry Kapiloff, D-San Diego, is no bargain for tax• payers, and that the private schools might suffer. Hastings College is a state- supported school with a tui- tion of only $676 a year com- pared to tuitions of $2,000 to $4,000 a year in private insti- tutions. Peterson urged the board to endorse the purchase so more students, especially those with low incomes, could have access to a legal education. He said it was not the job of the board to deter- mine feasibility, a question which will be decided by legislators and the governor.

The San Diego County Bar Association executive board last night endorsed the pro- posed purchase of USIU's California Western School of Law by Hastings College. However, the members stipulated that their action does not imply that the pur- chase is feasible or of high public priority. The board cautiously en- dorsed acquisition, in an 8-4 vote, after hearing two hours or testimony from both sides and watering down the origi- nal endorsement motion. Board members added amendments to say their ac- tion did not imply a need for lawyers in San Diego County and that it is contingent on the law school's enrollment not exceeding 500 within the first five years after pur- chase. One board member ques- tioned the appropriateness of their voting on an issue with which many members have conflicts of interest. Many teach at, serve as board members or were graduated from the local law schools involved. This objec- tion was overruled. Yesterday's action reverses the bar associa- tion's stand on two occasions in the past five years when it opposed the establishment of a branch of the state-sup- ported Hastings College here. / Those testifying against v the purchase included the deans of the University of San Diego's Law School and Western State University College of Law, the two pri- vate law schools in the area. Those in favor of purchase included the deans of Has- tings and California West- em's la schools, San Diego attorney Paul Peterson and Richard B. Ault, a 4th Dis- trict Court of Appeal judge who is leading a drive for purchase. Those who objected to the sale sald there already is an

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Sunday, March 16, 1975 USD Auxiliary Dr. Author Hughes, president of the Universit~ of San Diego, will address the spring luncheon meeting of the university auxiliary at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday n the Rose Room on campus. His topic will be "Your Universitv Today." Luncheon will be served. Mrs James D;vis. auxiliary president, will pres.id Mrs. Thomas Holmes and Mrs. John \\ aters, .Jr are co-chairing the meeting, wh\ch is de.s1gn~d to bring into focus the uni~ersity s. role m higher education Catholic education, and m the local scene of post-se~ondary education. •

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Nationally and internationally ~own visitors are being honored here th1S and next season. Tonight, the Most Rev. Leo T. Maher, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of San Diego, will give a dinner in the ~ioce~ chancery at the University of San Diego m honor of the Rev. Joseph J. Spae, secre- tary general of The Committee on Society, Development and Peace, Geneva, Switzer- land, who will speak in Salomon Lecture Hall following the dinner. . The Rev. Mr. Spae, who is the house guest of Dr. and Mrs. William Doyle of La Jolla, was honored at a small dinner party last night by his hosts.

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'Matisse And Colette' Talk Mrs Jonas Salk will return from Europe in time to talk on "Matisse and Colette" to members of the Alliance Francaise on April 19. Mrs: Salk cans Ma~isse and Colette , her "spiritual parents." The talk will be given at 2 p.m. at Salomon Hall, USD. Mme. Jeanne Rigsby is president.of 111am:e r rancaise and Lt'(lnard Messier is assisting with plans for the talk.

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