News Scrapbook 1982-1984

EVENING TRIBUNE NOV 2 3 198'-

Civil rights appointee defends Reagan record

THE TRIBUNE

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San Diego, Wednesda)

NOV! 4 1982 ~ZEL crow TRIBUNE SOCIETY EpiTOR Y OUNG CONNOISSEURS OF THE SAN DIEGO Museum of Art have chosen a nostalgic look at Hollywood in the '50s as the theme for a New Year's Eve party at the museum. Planners have borrowed the title of "Some Like It Hot" from the Marilyn Monroe film for the party's name and promise a Hollywood extravaganza to match film premieres of the era. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Huff are the chairmen and Leslie Simon is supervising the decor. Dress sugges- tion is black-tie optional or prom fashion. Among those assisting with arrangements are Mr. and Mrs. John Adams, Dr. and Mr. John Wil- liams, Janis Butcher, Bob Gallagher, Chris Hatch, Lucy Huddel, Michael McGreevy, Martha Moore and Chris Wallner. Party information is available from the museum office. Marion Ross, star of TV's "Happy Days," joined local planners of a Jan. 29 gala at a progress meet- ing Monday evening at the Mission Hills home of Dr. Noel Meadows. The gala, "Stairway to the Stars," will honor Miss Ross and inaugurate a Marion Ross Scholarship for the drama department at San Diego State University. The scholarship program is an outgrowth of Miss Ross's work with the drama department in bringing professionals to the university to work with stu- dents. She is an alumna of SDSU and has been asso- ciated with the Old Globe Theatre here. Her co-workers on "Happy Days," Henry Winkler and Tom Bosley, head the list of film and television personalities who will participate in the gala. Win- kler is dinner chairman and Bosley will be the mas- ter of ceremonies. They weren't able to attend Monday's session but members of the honorary committee who did were Rep. Clair Burgener, Mrs. Lynn G. Fayman, De- borah Szekely and Ed Self, as well as Miss Ross's business manager, Barbara Best. Dr. Thomas Day, SDSU president, was there and so were Dean Jerry E. Mandel of the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts and Merrill Lesslev. chairman of the drama department. Loca1 memoers ot tne corporate commmee re- porting on sales of tables (at $1,000 each) were Everitt A. Carter and John McKenna Case. Los An- geles members of this committee are entertain- ment executives Gary Nardino and Anthony Thomo- poulos. Glenn and Jan Broadus donated the Christian Brothers wine for the party, and Julie Poole ar- ranged the hors d'oeuvre table. Tickets for the gala ($100 per person) at Town and Country Convention Center may be reserved through the drama department or Alumni and Asso- ciates at SDSU. Comedian Lily Tomlin was a surprise guest at a party given Sunday evening at Fat City to honor volunteers in the COMBO campaigns to raise funds for the arts in San Diego County. Miss Tomlin, who is appearing at the Old Globe Theatre, was escorted by Jack O'Brien, artistic director of the theater which is one of the beneficiaries of the COMBO drive. Sheila Guebert arranged the party attended by some 200 volunteers and members of the media. Many of the guests will be active in the Dec. 4 COMBO television auction of goods and services. Coordinator of this auction is Al Dillon. Tom Fat provided hors d'oeuvres for the party and Simon Levi Co. of San Diego and Ferrara Win- ery of Escondido brought the wines. . Mr~. Thomas Carlson heads the committee put- ting fmal touches on peparations for the 53rd annual ~andlelight Ball Dec. 4 at Vacation Village Conven- tion Center. The black-tie dinner dance is sponsored by the Auxiliary to Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, and proceeds will be used to purchase equip- ment for the hospital. The Greater San Diego Chapter of Children's Vil- lag~, USA, will celebrate the holiday season with a Christmas luncheon and boutique Dec. 6 at the Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel. Mrs. Lionel P. Hernholm is chairman of the event which will in- clude an auction of hand-crafted ornaments, plants and home-baked goods. ~rs. Albert Jaco~s is president of the chapter which supports Children's Village at Beaumont Calif., a non-profit residence for the care and reha'. bilitation of abused children. The University of San Diego Auxili~ry will wel- come 77 new members at a luncheon next Wednes- ~ay at Cafe del Rey Moro in Balboa Park. Follow- mg the luncheon, the group will tour the "Celebrate the Holidays" display at nearby Casa de Balboa prese~ted by the San Diego Historical Society. During the luncheon Mrs. William Edwards will p~ese~t a check for $13,500 to USD for student finan- cial aid. T~e money was raised by the auxiliary's recent fash10n show which Mrs. Edwards chaired. ~rs. Jonathan Tibbitts is taking luncheon reser- vat~ons.. ~uest~ are asked to bring small gifts for senior citizens m convalescent homes.

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By Bob Corbett Tribune Staff Writer

Pre ident Reagan's administration is trying to make a. fun.d~m~ntal change in the nations CIVll-nghts program, says Clarence E. Pendleton Jr The administration is trying to substitute opportunity for prefer- ence. Pendleton, Reagan's appointee a chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Comm1s ion, said yesterday in San Diego Pendleton, former president of the San Diego Urban League, defende? the administration's record on c1v1l rights in a lecture and press co~fer- ence at the University of San Diego Law School. He said "there is no basis for criti· ci~m" of the administration as being deaf to the civil-rights movement. "This 1s the only time in history that an admimstration a Republi· can admini tration - has placed the government leadership of the civil- rights mandate in the hands of blacks," he said. referring to himself and three other top civil-rights offi- cials The admimstration is shifting the focus of the civil-nghts effort back to its original meaning, opening of op- portunities for blacks and other m1• mm ics, rat r than a suring them of "preferential treatment.'' Pendle- ton aid. C1v1l rights, he said. had become "a zero sum game " "All policy solutions about eco- nomic growth and productivity in- volve some degree of redistribution of income and wealth," he said, "to the ever increasing number of mi- norities who comprise the protected classes. "We now have 15 protected classes of Americans. More than 75 percent of our population 1s eligible for pref- erential treatment. "I believe that civil rights are at the crossroads again and we must boldly strike the path of racial ne~- trality toward achievement of a soc1• etv free from discrimination. ··rncreasingthe number of protect- ed classe · supposedly increases the number of opportunities for minofl• ties to enter the mainstream, but un- less the economy 1s expanding pro- portionately to the number of pro- tected classes there will just be more people fighting for less opportunity. "For this reason, the focus of the civil-fights movement should .be on expanding the economy. which 1s now stagnant. rather than attempt· ing to increase the number of pro- tected classes or boycotting indus- tnes that are hard hit by the current state of the economy or lobbying government for make-work_ job,~that provide no permanent solut10n. Pendleton has been under attack by many black civil-rights. grou~s since his appointment earlier this year He dismissed their charges yes- terday. "I don't care if they like me or

Clarence Pendleton: 'This is the only time in history that an administration - a Republican administration - has placed the government leadership of the civil- rights mandate in the hands of blacks'

The Son Diego Union/Peter Koelemon Clarence Pendleton calls for end to criticism of President. Recession Hurting Civil Rights, Pendleton Says By ROBERT P. LAURENCE Stpff Writer, The Son Diego Union

not," he said. "I'm not chairman of the black commission on civil rights; I'm chairman of the Civil Rights Commission of the United States." Under the Reagan administration, Pendleton said, civil-rights spending will increase from $511 million in 1980 to $531 million in fiscal 1983. Funds for civil-rights enforcement will double under current adminis- tration proposals, he said. "Wnat we have aone as 01acKs, Pendleton said, "was to believe that government was our salvation." Parents of black and white chil- dren should play a larger part in the education of their children, he said. "Parents must tell their kids that discipline. preparation and competi- tion are the true roads to freedom," he said. The "administration has continued the effort to require school districts which classify and assign students or teachers on the basis of race to adopt effective desegregation plans," he said. "To maximize effectiveness," he said, "the Department of Justice .no longer seeks a mandatory busmg plan to achieve racial balance but tries to emphasize quality education- al opportunities through use of mag- net schools and other techniques.'' Pendleton said Americans should "insist on the kind of preparation and training that will allow our young- sters to take advantage of the new opportunities in the information- based society of tomorrow."

Economic conditions are playing a major role in denying civil rights to mmority groups, U.S. Civil Rights Commission Chairman Clarence M. Pendleton Jr. told a press confer- ence yesterday. "We're in danger of creating a permanent underclass in this coun- try if we don't turn the economy around," he said to reporters follow- ing a speech to law students at the University of San Diego. "Reaganomics makes a lot of sense to me," added the former chief of the San Diego Urban League, who last spring was appointed by Presi- dent Reagan to his part-time, non- paying position. He remarked that Mr. Reagan's economic policies would "get gov- ernment out of people's lives and get the free enterprise system to flourish again, which is what made this country great in the first place. . . . If you don't broaden the econo- my, what do you do?" Saying that "the safety net is in place" for the poorest people, Pen- dleton questioned the need for pro- grams aimed at the middle class. "People think the more govern- ment there is, the more civil rights you have, and I don't believe that at all," Pendleton said. Fresh focus should be placed, he said, on "linkage" between the schools and technological industries, making sure school administrators and students inquire "what does it take to go into hi-tech? .. Discipline and education are the two roads to freedom." Besides the economy, the nation must also deal with "the whole issue of hate," Pendleton said in his press conference. "Oroville is just about wrecked," he added, referring to the case in that Northern California city in which a neo-Nazi leader and two

@ THE SAN DIEGO UNION Tues:ioy, November 23, 1982

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youths have been accused of killing a young follower and police inform- ant. Pendleton's speech defended the Reagan administration's record in defending civil fights for minorities and reiterated his stand in opposi- tion to race quotas in education and hiring and to busing for school inte- gration. "We must stop criticizing Presi- dent Reagan," he said. "It is not pro- ductive. Things were getting bad long before January 20, 1981 (when Mr. Reagan took office). "Too much government: its spending and regu- lation excesses occurred before President Reagan took office." Pendleton said he had told the President that he agreed with "a policy of color-blind racial neutrali- ty. But that a firm administration civil rights policy (should) be estab- lished so that non-white Americans would not perish on the route from color consciousness to color blind- ness." Busing has resulted in "the de- struction of public education" in many cities, Pendleton declared, and affirmative action programs have "led to the creation of a kind of racial spoils system in America.''

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NOV 2 5 1982 "A Comparison of U.S. and Japanese Corporate Performance Throul!h Financial Statement .------ Analysis" will k the ,uf-iect ot a le{ tun.· hy Japa1H:-..c pr1.if\!~M)f H1roiuk1 lc.,m,. M ,nday N, vcmbcr 29. 7: 30 p. m., Philip Y. ll.1hn School of Nursing, USD. 291-6480 x4296.

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Piano Recital by Nicolas Re,·eles, featuring works by Liszt, Beetho- ven, and Prokofiev. will be held Tue,Jar, 'ovcmber JO, 8 p. m.. Camino Theatre, USO. 291-6480 x4296. ·

DAILY CALIFORNIAN NOV 2 7 1982 Nicolas Revele - The pianist wi perform at 8 p.m. in the University of Sa Diego Camino Theatre. General ad mission is $3, students are $1. Ticket may be purchased at the door. Cal 291-6480, Ext. 4296, for more informa- ion. -~)

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USD Founders Gallery _ "A Passion for Detail," an exhibition featuring sculpture from the Grand Tour will be displayed through De~. 9. De Sales Hall, Alcala Park, S.D. 291-6480.

"A Passion for Detail," an exhibi- t1,,n ,f sculpture from the Un1ver- "t\ ofSan Diego collection, will be on view through Dcccmher 9 Fo1111dcr,G.11lcry, USD. 291-6840.'