News Scrapbook 1980-1981

SAN DIEGO UNION

Reiecting Challenge

berger is going to say in his com- mencement speech, but from his years of association with govern- ment and public policy, we can expect it will challenge the think- ing of the class of '81. That's what the experience of attending a uni- versity is supposed to do. Universities do not make polit- ical statements in choosing to honor prominent Americans at commencement time. It is re- grettable that a group of USO faculty members trying to make a political statement of their own put themselves in a position of t ying to block the expression of ideas with which they disagree.

another that President Rec:1gan is trying to do in Washington. A di- versity of political opinions is a healthy thing on a univer;5ity campus. But what has this to do with Mr. Weinberger? The USD Board of Trustees asked him to accept an honorary degree and speak at the May 24 commencement be- cause he is an eminent Californi- an with a long and estimable ca- reer in public and private life - the same kind of qualifications that have brought this recogni- tion to others in the past. We do not know what Mr. Wein-

Thirty-four faculty members of the University of San Diego have brought little credit to them- selves or their distinguished insti- tution by trying to head off the selection of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger to be the USO commencement speaker May 24. The 34 signers of a letter pub- lished in the campus newspaper make it clear that they object to certain policies of the Reagan ad- ministration. So what else is new? With 241 persons on the USO faculty, we would be surprised if a certain percentage did not disagree with one thing or

Beverly Schroeder

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USD gractuations features guests

CCDC, lhe City Council's downtown redevelopm_ent arm, has spent $99,779 so far to meet the federal requrre- ment of excavating the historic site of "New Town," lhe city's center developed as a competitor and then succes- sor to Old Town, starting in lhe 1850s. Hans Kreutzberg, the state Historic Preservation Off- ice official responsible for overseeing the city's compli- ance with federal excavation rules, expressed pleasure with the results so far. The Brandes-Moriarty team, which is donating the written analysis of the findings by the end of the year, drew from the overview of the downtown area written last year by Wirth Associates Inc., an environmental firm based here. After determining what blocks might produce the most artifacts for the least amount of money, the students used back hoes and other large equipment to dig into 30-foot- deep privy pits - considered a valuable sourc~ of items discarded or lost by 19th century downtown residents. Brandes said the careful sifting and band-digging tech- niques used by prehistoric archaeologists are not suffi- cient or suitable for historic archaeologists - mainly because diggers have a very limited amount of time in which to dig before new construction begins. "When you're moving tons of earth, you can't afford to be teaspoon archaeologists," he said. The students found about 40,000 items in their digging last summer - mostly bits of broken bottles - but even these can be revealing. Moriarty showed a bottle that a housewife might have used in preparing a daily dosage of narcotic - a habit ended with the passage of food and drug control Jaws.

Just as Heinrich Schliemann discovered the ancient site of the Trojan Wars, area college students are unearthing the recent but nearly forgotten past of San Diego. U m he tools of archaeologists and modern-day de- velopers, Umversity of San Diego students are sifting through rubble south of Broadway to fill in the blanks of h1storv that went unrecorded in newspapers, diaries and letters. 6nd the tudents, directed by USO historians Ray Brandes and James Moriarty, are paving the way for other communities undergoing redevelopment but inter- ested in discovering their past before building new fu- tures. Brandes and Moriarty, giving a progress report to the Centre City Development Corp. (CCDC), said ~ey have found about 40,000 artifacts discarded by residents of downtown in the second half of the 19th century. There was a set of false teeth - showing how dentists a century ago used real teeth from one mouth to fill spaces in another. A "hell box" was discovered - a pill-box-size container filled with highly explosive bits of nitrogylcerin that con- tractors used in breaking rocks loose. And perhaps most interesting so far, the students fou_nd a do11' that turned out to be an effigy figure of Sparusb ongm used in black magic. . . .. "It seems like a bunch of non-essential thmgs; Monar- ty said, "but the future will be gratified for i!, just as we are grateful for photographs taken years ago. . None of these items would have been retrieved and available for public display if it had not been for federal requirements imposed on projects where federal funds are used. In the area where the USD students worked,

The Uruversity of San Diego will offer two commencements on the campus on Sunday Ed· win Meese will address the Law School and Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger the undergraduate- graduate com- mencement. The 24th commence- ment of the School of Law will be held at 10 30 a.m. Degrees will be conferred upon 283 graduates . The class

will include the reci- pients of the first Mas- ter's of Comparative Law to be awarded by USO. Commencement speaker and honorary degree recipient will be Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese. Meese, a member of the Law faculty and Director of the Center for Criminal Justice Policy and Management, is on leave from USD~

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THE SAN DIEGO UNION

Tuesday, May 19, 1981

COLLEGES/By Ailene Voisin

USD Sends.2 To NCAAs, Wishing It Were 3

with tendinitis in his leg. "But I've bad a pretty good year, considering," he says. The 5-10 senior is confident - "some would say cocky," be said - and fully expects to improve upon last year's effort. "I'm not going back there with the idea of losing," be said. "I'm playing the best tennis of my four years right now." At this, Collins begs to differ. "He's not match-sharp," said the coach. "He hasn't been able to maintain his sharpness all year because of the injuries." Collins describes Lipton as a steady, somewhat slow, baseline player who uses a lot of topspin. "But," said Collins, "he's too much of a retriever. He gets exploited by the better players because of his reluc- tance to move to the net. The key to bis success will be his ability to hit the ball harder and deeper, and dominate the point." Like Lipton, Herrmann prefers to play baseline. Collins has strong feelings about this, too.

"Peter doesn't come to the net behind his big shots,''. he said. "He needs to bit with more pace, more authority. But he's got excellent groundstrokes. And he's in pretty good shape. Herrmann, a native San Diegan, agrees that the compe- tition among the three has been of benefit. "I'm not,'' he admits, "a very good practice player. I've been playing since I was six years old. That makes it hard to get up for tennis every day , "But all last year, my sole motivation was to beat Scott. Then it was to beat both Scott and Terry. It got pretty intense, though in the long run, I think it worked out." Yet Herrmann bas mixed emotions about the NCAA tournament. The day before his departure, he said he was exhausted from final exams-and not in bIS best mental condition. "I guess, though," he added, "I feel kind of bad for Terry. I think be deserved to go."

The fact that USD's Scott Lipton and Peter Herrmann are en route to the NCAA Division I National Tennis Championships in Athens, Ga., pleases no one more than their coach, Ed Collins. When the ongoing NCAA team championships conclude, Lipton and Herrmann will compete in the individual tour- nament and Collins needs no reminders that both players, ID Jess than two years time, have helped transform USD from a Division II power into a very successful Division I program. But he feels there's a third USD player, Terry Ward, who should also be on his way to Georgia - and isn't. "Terry kind of surprised us," admitted Collins. "He hasn't had the experience that Scott and Peter have, but frankly, he's playing the best tennis of the three." Back in January, who would have thought it? USD's season looked to be a repeat of 1980, when the Toreros, as a team, were ranked in the top 20. The team standing appeared equally set - Lipton No. l, Herrmann No. 2. Ward, a probable No. 3. But the Toreros fell from the Top 20, and Lipton and Herrmann ... well, they went back and forth depending on whose topspin was most effective. Then there was Ward, the junior from St. Louis, Mo. He pushed his teammates, all right, almost out of the top two positions. And that, says Collins, is one of the main reasons Lipton (32nd in nation) and Herrmann (35th) are going to Georgia. "A significant amount of Scott and Peter's improve- ment is due to the competition among the three," Collins said. "Before, Scott just had to worry about staying ahead of Peter. But because Terry came on so strong, that made it even more intense." Lipton, an All-American last year, finished with a 15-5 singles record. Herrmann ended the season at 24-6, claim- ing his two biggest wins against UCLA's Robbie Venter and USC's Billy Nealon. Ward, 34-7, captured singles titles in the West Coast Athletic Conference, Ojai and Coronado tournaments. He also defeated Herrmann in a tournament final (Corona- do), and beat Lipton the only time they faced each other this year. But as USD's No. 3 player, he was never matched against an of the 20 players selected for the NCAA tour- nament from Region 8 (West Coast). And since NCAA selections are based on the number of wins, with consid- erable emphasis on the opponent's ranking, this weighed heavily against him. "Still, if I had to pick which two of my players to send," said Collins, "I'd have to get Terry in there." Lipton, who reached the final 16 in last year's NCAA tournament, was injured all of February and part of April

A healthy Scott Upton has confidence.

The San Dltgo Union/Russ Gilbert A weary Peter Herrmann remains eager.