News Scrapbook 1980-1981

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San Diego, M1

LOS ANGELES TIMES

SENIOR LIVING by Mark Monday

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LETTERS

SAN DIEGO BUSINESS JOURNAL DATE: June 13 TIME: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. S_EMINAR: Financial and Tax Plan- ning for Physicians and Dentis1s LO<;A~ION: School of Nursing Aud1tonum, University of San Diego FEE: $135 SP~NSOR: Coordinated Financial Services, Jnc., of Salt Lake City CONTACT: 293-4585

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. Summertime, my classmates claimed, was really time off from school for misbehavior. But when the Se~or Class graduates that's a great time for ~en_1ors t~ get ~ack to class. USD still has openings m its University _or the Third Age program. That program, the subJect of a documentary film starts July 7and runs through Aug. 6. Classes are h~ld four days a week, between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. The cost is $50, but some scholarships are available. Mal Raf- ferty a~ 293-4585 has the details and the forms.... San Diego Educational Growth Opportunities (~O}, SDSU's educational adjunct for senior edu- cation: has a special new-membership bonus. Those wh~ sign up now will have their membership run until Aug. 31, 1982 - a year's membership that's 15 months long. The phone number is 294-9466. EGO celebrates its fifth anniversary on June 16. It has sp.onsored more than 500 classes, forums and spe- cial events for area seniors.

SAN D IEGO UNION

Agency Watchdog eeping rack Of Red Tape In California

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shows up at the meetings except agency and industry personnel, who are there for their own protection." Smith who reflects the view ?f Fellmeth and other student r~porters - 15 adamantly in favor of allowmg members of the -public to sit on agency boards. 'There has to be more -public mput (? the decisions ade by these regulators, she said. "And their decisions have got to be publicized on a larger scale. There is a whole subterranean world out there that the people don't know about. We wa~t to help change that."

of the board's expenses. . . 'The board is therefore facing a deficit of approximately $239,000 on July 1, 1981. As a temporary stop-gap measure, the bo~rd has been attempting to pass a. regulation which would increase the b1enmal renewa! fees for pharmacists from $60 to $75, Smith reported. . After sitting in on one board meell?g for each of the three agencies, Sm1~h. sa1~, her imtial reactions have been positive. Ev- erything at the meetings has s?unded. so logical and reasonable," she said, adding that "it's all very one-sided, though. No one

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Tllt Sen llicQO Unkrl/Rld McCa1hy Robert Felfmeth, one of Ril/ph Nilder's original Raiders, discusses work of the Repul.1tory ldw Reporter with student Michele Bouziilne.

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These agencies act under broad enabling statutes. Supposedly, he said, each branch of state government exercises specific checks over the process. The Legislature is supposed to check the agencies by cancel- ing authority and overruling a regulation by an act of law; the state judiciary checks the agencies by reviewing constitutional its appoinl!ve powers, choosing board and commission decision makers. All boards are funded by license fees, he added. "These are hidden taxes that are passed right on to the consumer." On nearly all of the agency boards, there are blatant conflicts of interest, Fellmeth noted. ''Most or all of the board members on these committees come from the indus- try that is being regulated. They are noth- ing more than industry cartels - legal trade cartels that If the government weren't involved would be standing felo- nies under the state's anti-trust laws." Fully half of Califorma's major regulato- ry boards, Fellmeth estimated, should never have been established in the first place. Among these are the Board of Land- scape Architects, which requires gardeners to get a license to plant a garden for some- one, and the Board of Petroleum Engi- neers. "I think oil companies know who they are hiring in an engineer and don't need a license to justify someone," he said. "I don't think Exxon needs state protec- tion." Among the 20 students who keep an eye on various agencies is Anne Smith, a 35- year-old third-year law student, who moni- tors the Board of Pharmacy, the Physical Examination Committee and the Board of Behavioral Science Examiners. Within the last few months, Smith tra- veled to San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles to attend agency meetings. The Board of Pharmacy licenses phar- macists, pharmacies, drug manufacturers and wholesalers and those engaged in the sale of hypodermic needles. It r_egulates the sale of dangerous drugs and poisons, conducts disciplinary hearings and is em- powered to suspend or revoke licenses and permits. A current concern of the board, Smith re rts, has been whether to aUow the u e o pb~rmacy ter.!Jnicians n dispensmg prescriptions. At a recent board meetmg this issue was discussed. At the.same meet'. ing, ii was reported that the board's reve- nue from 1980-81 license renewals fell hort (Continued on 0-2, Col. 1) the executive brand1 checks through

. ie o forward Bob Bartbolo- Tony Gwynn as the only • University of. San mew joined San D1e~o \ draft. Bartholom~w, a area players taken m t e was drafted in the e1gh~h 6-8 Kearny High gradu~t\purs Gwynn was taken m round by the San _A.ntomo . the 10th by the Chppers. ~--~

By FRANK GREEN

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DAILY TRANSCRIPT JUN l O1981 Business Fraternity Organized at USD The University of San Diego Chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, national business scholastic honorary fraternity, inducted 29 charter members recently, including honorary member Larry Lawrence, chairman of the (hotel) Del Coronado Corp. Lawrence also is a member of the USD Business School advisory board. USD became eligible to form the chapter of the national society when its undergraduate business school became · accredited last school year by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business. Four faculty members and 24 students comprised the charter membership.

currently four vacancies on the five-mem- ber board. Consequently, the board has been unable to form the quorum necessary for it to act and there is no noteworthy board activity to report." The publication, with an initial press run of 3,000 copies, is being distributed to li- braries, journalists, judges, legislators and interested citizens. It is being financed in its first year by a $90,000 grant from the Weingart Foundation. Most of the money, Fellmeth said, will be used to pay for traveling expenses of stu- dents to board meetings. Fellmeth, one of Nader's top aides from 1967 to 1972, headed the local district at- torney's anti-trust office from 1975 until recently, when he decided to devote all of his time to teaching and editing the Re- porter. As a deputy district attorney, he prosecuted 17 cases in six years. These cases included price-fixing suits against ARCO and Revlon. His work with Nader and the DA's office provided him with the ideal experience and point of View needed to edit the Reporter. Fellmeth believes regulatory agencies - which have been operating for years with- out public scrutiny or much legislative con- trol - need a watchdog like the Reporter because they "wield an enormous amount of power over who gets in the various trades . . . They establish the rules that determine the nature of th trades," he said. The state Legislature, and m some cases the state constitution, has delegated quasi- legislative powers to these independent regulatory bodies, Fellmeth explained.

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