News Scrapbook 1982-1984

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DAILY TRANSCRIPT OCT 1 1 1983 Mediating In Golden Hill By BILL BURRIS SANDIEGODAILYTRANSCRJPT Sw!Wr,~r Bolstered by a "success rate" of about 900/o in a pilot program in the Golden Hill area, the San Diego Law Center of the University of San Diego School of Law has joined forces with the Mira Mesa Com- munity Council in e tablishing a Mira Mesa Mediation Center to assist in resolving minor disputes between community residents. . A judge, two attorneys, a police The board is to hold its first meeting at 6 p.m. today in the social hall at Mira Mesa Presbyterian Carol Hallstrom, an attorney and coordinator of program development for the Law Center, said goal of the program is development of an ef- fective alternate to the court system f or resolution of minor disputes. "The Law Center will provide a , development and implementation of t e program, but the policies and h Church. small staff to coordinate the officer, a probation officer, a n_iinister, a high school vice prin- ctpal, a student and business community representatives and minority are among 17 members of the planning board for the center.

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California, and for Cal Western." He added that "we may turn out too many lawyers, but we're not turning out too many good ones. We are looking for talented lawyers." "One lawyer in a small town will starve to death; two will get rich. Why should law students be subsidized to the tune of $5,000 a year?" "This would be a legitimate state expenditure," said Higgs. "Why are we turning out lawyers we don't need instead of engineers we do need?" the senator asked the Chairman Alquist said, remember when UC was accused of turning out too many: engineers," Higgs said. "Maybe too many legislators are being turned attorney• "I

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Asked if there was space for a law school, Atkinson said, "We have 2,200 acres: we're land _rich, b~t ~ur first priority is developmg a building for an engineering sch~!." . Gary Plantz, special ass~tant. to David Chigos, National Um:versity president, said his school, which also Rather than use tax money for the support of law .studen~, . he payments until three years after graduation, when the average at- torney is making $33,000 a year. The Ian has been tried in Minnesota and has proved to be successful, he said. University of San Diego Prof. . like the results of a thorough stu~y made on the merger before USD will take a position on t e su Jee . "And why UCSD? Riverside, Irvine, and Santa Barbara all want , • h b' t . representative, said a UC study should be completed in the spring of 1984. "If you started a law library from scratch it would cost you $40 a volume to buy, catalogue, and file," said Cal Western Schoo or Law Dean Ernest C. Friesen. "To replace our 130:~ ~?lume would cost close "And, since we parted. from USIU seven years ago, the hbrary has grown from 48,000 to 130,000 advocated deferring tu1t1on L 'd h' h I would Bert azerow SBI IS sc oo Jaw schools," he said. . . Steve Arditti, UC legislative to $5 rrulhon. has a law school, supports the proposed merger.

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distingui hed faculty. and a 130,000- vol me Jaw library worth millions. "Our assets are more than $12 million, our cash flow is excellent and we have a debt of $350,000, which we can pay off anytime. We have no axes to grind," the judge The idea is to sell the valuable land and building at 350 Cedar St. and apply the money to a law chool building on the UCSD campus. education analyst of the leg~~lative analyst's office, said the state now has 48 law schools. 01 these, 16 are · an Bar A sociation- told committee members. . , . . Harold Ge1ogue, pr1nc1~al

(Continued from Page lA) success will depend on the active involvement of a broad cross-section of the community." Serving on the planning board are to be Nancy Ajemian, director of ,....the Harmonium family counseling program; Sgt. James Baker of the San Diego Police Department; Herb Barnum, a senior citi7.en resident; Gene Batalia, a clinical social worker with the Douglas Young Clinic; Sandy Boyle of the San Diego County Probation Department; Danisi Elliott of Harmonium and Jack Dean, a businessman. Also Judge Ronald Domnitz of municipal court: Otis Funches, vice principal of Mira Mesa High School; Carol Hallstrom of the Law Center; Hector Molina, a community resident: Shirlee Rathmann of Pardee Construction; Rosemary Ricks, a resident; Rev. Douglas Riddle, a Methodist minister; Attys. Gary Sanders and Joan Scimeca; and Len Wheiland, a Mira Mesa High student. Ms. Hallstrom said the mediation center process will be a voluntary one in which a mediator li9tens to both sides of a dispute and, although he or she does not decide who ill right or wrong, assists the parties to reach their own agreement. Funding for the Law Center's work in developing the alternative dispute resolution program is being provided by the County of San Diego. Members of the planning board in this evening's meeting are to observe a simulated mediation presentation by a mediator from the Golden Hill Mediation Center. Ms. Hallstrom said the Golden Hill center since the end of April has received 225 calls for service, about 80% referrals from social service and other governmental and com- munity agencies and about 20% from individuals involved a dispute.

About half the calls, she said, were about matters that could not be mediated. In many of those cases, the callers were referred to other social services, governmental agencies or private attorneys for assistance. Of those cases in which mediation appeared possible, Ms. Hallstrom said agreement was received for participation by both the initiator and respondent about 60 to 70% of the time. Agreement has been reached between the two parties involved in more than 90% of the cases in which assistance of a mediator was arranged. Most of the disputes resolved to date in the Golden Hill area have involved claims for money, Ms. Hallstrom said, including lan- dlordtenant, employer-employee and contractor work dillputes. In one of the domestic cases, involving a runaway teenager, the mother and daughter worked out a contract between themselves establishing such things as curfew hours and visits to the home by friends of the daughter. Ms. Hallstrom said the mediation program in Golden Hill has not only saved attorney fees and possible court time for participants but that mediation sessions have been arranged at convenient times so participants have not had to miss work. In one case involving a dispute over a fence, a mediator went to the site because the complainant was a handicapped woman who objected to a neighbor family hanging clothes to dry over a fence between her home and theirs. In that case, the dispute was resolved with the neighbor family agreeing to hang their clothing along their own side of the fence in a fashion so that it could not he seen and considered an eyesore from the opposite side. "We have been encouraged by what has been developing in Golden Hill," Ms. Hallstrom said. In some cases, she said, problems have been resolved simply by the staff talking by phone with each of the parties involved and providing direction where there had been a breakdown in information between the two sides. The board for the mediation program in Golden Hill is chaired by Judge Robert O'Neill of superior court. Paul Wohlmuth, a professor at the USD law school, helped plan the Golden Hill project and serves on its board.

Debate Is Rich; USD Wants Study, Of Santa Barbara? By HERBERT LOCKWOOD SANDIE LMILYTRA JRIPT Wl\llriter t !t t Senate Committee on Finance hearing ye terday on a propo d wedding between Cal We tern School of Law and UCSD, Chairm n Alfred E. Alquist, D-San J , 1dmitted there w~ an im• balance of public law chools. "Th e are three UC hools in North rn California and only one in uth rn California at UCLA. I propos we eliminate either Davis or II ting , then install a school at U , D inste d," the stat enator said. Sen, Milton Marks turned white and muttered, "I hope he' kidding." M r a H tings School of Law gr duat nd repre cnt an 1-ranc co. In the p lqu t has i dicated m ny 11• torney , that m form of birth control hould he appl!ed to tho mitten with the urge to practice law. everal month go, he sug ted the late cl down all lour UC law chools, thereby aving the sy t m 30 million a year. There would be no lo . h said, ince there w r far too many lawyers in California anyway The h arin at the SDG&E aud1 rium on th n co po n of C School th UCSD s kick d off by n. W die Dedd h, D-Chula Vista, ho in ed out t a th tran. fer would result in le rather than more attorneys. Enrollment is now 750, will be 500 if nnd when the school become part of UCSD. Deddeh has ponsored a senate re lution calling for a study of the propo d merg r. "We're the eventh largest community in the country, but we don't have a public law school," Deddeh lated. · He added th t 13% ol all U.S. lawyers are California practioners. The tate bar says it has 79,882 members; there are 5,580 lawyers in San Diego County, and 612,593 in the country. upcrior Court Judge Franklin B. Orlield, who is chairman of the board of tru tees of the law school, said the establishment has ,continued on Page 4A)

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"Are you creating more work fo1 work in Mira Mesa," she said. the courts by encouraging the filing of frivolous lawsuitsr' "Basically, the neighborhood "There are people who want a program will be an opp<>rtunity for legal education, and the opportunity the community to exercise greater is not being provided," Peterson responsibility for troublesome said. "I don't think lawyers are bad; behaviors occurring within its I feel good about being a lawyer." borders. Sen. Marks said, ''Frivolous "It will be a community-based lawsuits are few in number and are program for which the center will initiated by litigants, not by at- provide technical assistance, but its torneys. To sue, a lawyer must ha e (Continued on Page 6A) .,,-,,,-_ a client." "I see a growing movement to abolish bar exams. This would be a terrible mistake," the committee chairman said. "No respectable lawyers says that; most say, make exams tougher," Peterson replied.

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The following are members of a group supporting the merger: Dr. Albert L. Anderson, Stanley E. F~s~r, U.S. J?istrict J~dge Earl B. Gilham, DeWitt A Higgs, Judge Larry Kapiloff, R Barry McComic, William E. Nelson Dr. Ralph R. Ocampo, Paul A. Peterson, John S. Rhodes, Wilham B. Rte , orres Shumway, Fred C. Stalder, and formerJudgeWilliamA. Yale. A University of California regent for 16 years, Atty. Dewitt Higgs, a founder of the San Diego law firm of Higgs, Fletcher & Mack, said the proposed merger "will be good for the community, for the legal profession, for the University of . . . k F tN .

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After the hearing, SE-n. Alquist was asked what sort of a reaction he had received to his proposal to close down all UC law schools". "There were expressions of rage from UC and the bar. I just wanted them to know that someone was looking over their shoulder."

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LOS ANGELES TIMES

OCT 9

• Dr. Cynthia Pavett, associate profes- sor of organi:rational behavior, will present "f'asJtil.e Feedback and Enhancea Productivity" as part of the Update breakfast seminars sponsored by the University of San Diego. The lecture will be held from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Uni- versity Club. 1333 Seventh Ave. Admis- sion is S20. Advance registration is encouraged and may be obtained by phoning Penny Navarro at 293-4585.

Colleges F01111den Gallery: "Beasts," animals m various art forms, through Nov. 11. University of San Diego Week- days, noon to 5 p.m.; Wednesdays, noon to 9 p.m.

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!'(>UN'~~RS GALLERY ( Unive · f S Beuts, an exhibition of animalrsi_ty O an Diego, Founders Hall), patntings and etchings. Gallery shin art form, including sculpture, Monday through Friday. ours are from noon to 5 p..m.

BLADE TRIBUNE OCT 1 3 198:· Nuclear film festival to be held SAN DIEGO - The First Annual Nuclear Film Festival will be held at the University of San Diego, Oct. 16. Twelve films concerning the nuclear arms race, in- cluding "War Without Winners," "The Last Epidemic," and "No Frames, No Boundaries," will be shown without breaks, Professor Robert L. Simmons of the School of Law said. The film festival, which takes place at the Camino Theatre, begins at 1 p.m. and ends at 8 p.m. The film festival may become an an- nual event that will call attention to the hazards of an intentional or accidental nuclear war. Festival sponsors include the Peace Resource Center, CEAN, the Peace and Justice Commission of the Catholic Diocese, Pacific SANE and SAND. SAND is a student organization at the University of San Diego supporting nuclear dis- armament. Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for students and seniors. The price of admission en- titles tic~olders to see all or part of the seven-hour presentation. Call USD, 265-0730 for in- formation and mail-order tickets.

SAN DIEGO UNION OCT 7 1983

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Business seminars begin The first weekly breakfast busi- ness-update seminar sponsored by the University of San Diego School of Business Administration begins today at the University Club and La Jolla Village Ion. The series contin- ues every F day thereafter. The cost is $~40 fo the full series of eight semmars.

SENTINEL OCT 1 Z 1983

SENTINEL OCT 9 1983

-Church continues job plan

USD fundraiser is on Tickets are still available for the 27th annual fashion luncheon to benefit the University of San Diego's student aid program. The event, sponsored by the USD Auxiliary will begin at 11 a .m. Monday, Oct. 31 at the Sa~ Diego Hilton. Tickets are $25 per person. Call 291-6480 ext. 4271 for details.

The All Hallows/Mary Star of the Sea Job Program for skilled and professional persons seeking re- employment will continue its office ho~rs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Fridays and Sundays during the 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and noon masses at All Hallows Catholic Church, 6602 La Jolla Scenic Drive South. Managers are asked to call in job openings during those hours at 459-2975. The next free evening program is

Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m., at All Hallows Par!sh Center-. "Working Through Resistance to Change" will be p~e~ented by Janet M. Sims, chmcal psychologist and director of the Eating Disorders Clinic from the University of San Diego; and Debbie Hall, clinical psychologist of the Biofeedback Institute of San Diego. _Families, adult children and friends of the unemployed are in- vited to attend.

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William S. McConnor, presiden of the Union 76 division and senior vice president of Union Oil Co., is to discuss the U.S. petroleum outlook on Oct. 19 at the University of San Diego. McConnor, who will he guest speaker at USO Corporate Associates' second donor recognition luncheon, says he supply and demand dynamics of the petroleum industry are largely misunderstood, even by corporate America. L---~~-· . ·-----'....,,.. '------

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DAILY CALIFORNIAN _OCT 1 4 7983

French consul general to speak Francois Mouton, consul general for France in Los Angeles, will speak at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Hahn School of Nursing, University of San Diego. He will address the San Diego chaJ)ter of the Alliance Fran-

FASHION SHOW/Reservations are being accepted for the annual University of San Diego Auxiliary Fashion Show and Luncheon at 11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 31, at the Hilton Hotel on Mission Bay. Cost is $25 per person or $250 for each patron table. Call 29Hi480. _..-:

caise on "The Continuing Dialogue Between Franc~ and the United States." For more information call 279-5158.