News Scrapbook 1985

Son Diego, CA (Son Diego Co I Son Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,324) (Cir. s. 339,788)

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F.SI. 1888 Sales pitch crackdown sought Frazee bill against high-pressure calls gains panel support By Daniel C. Carson ..., CA .,,.L. Staff Writer "'-'· 19 J SACRAMENTO - The caller shut down shady operators before they create a list of victims and dis- appear.

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proved, by a 4-0 vote, a controversial measure to eliminate the state Board of Fabric Care. The measure has the backing of a Ummsity of San Diego- based organization, the Center for Public IntPrest Law The bill's author, Assemblyman Ross Johnson, R-La Habra, said the board "serves no useful purpose ... It's an agency that richly deserves to be put out of business." Johnson highlighted the case of a 72-year-old dry cleaner in his district who, for letting his stale-required surety bond lapse, was charged and sent to the Orange County jail. In- stead of showing compassion over the incident, the board acted as if "he was lucky to get off as easy as he had," recalled Johnson. Gene Erbin, of the San Diego con- sumer group, testified that until re- cently, the panel had revoked only one dry cleaners' license in 35 years of regulation. Rather than resolve consumer complaints, the panel is primarily a means for the industry which dominates it to restrict com- petition and inflate consumer prices for the service, Erbin charged. The state Department of Consum- ~r Affairs also backed the bi11 7 call- mg the board "useless."

The Frazee bill attempts to re- solve that problem by requiring tele- phone solicitors to register with the state Department of Justice at least 10 days before conducting business in California. If a phone salesman didn't have proof of registration, law enforce- ment officials would then have au- thority to close them down immedi- ately, said Fuller. AB 776 targets boilerrooni opera- tors who offer prospective pur- chasers gifts or prizes if they buy or rent certain goods or services. It also JS aimed at firms purporting to sell valuable gems or oil wells, or offer- ing discount office equipment. All such offerings frequently are misleading or outright fraudulent, said committee consnltant Jay De- Furia. The bill exempts businesses which are already under other forms of state regulation or have fixed places of business - such as insurers, franchisers, real estate salespersons, newspapers and cable companies. In other action, the committee ap-

would identify himself at the start of the telephone sales pitch as a repre- sentative of the Consumer Associa- tion Subscription House. Why not keep it simple and make- out the check with the initials, "CASH," the gullible victims were asked~ When the business operators disap- peared without delivering their prod- uct, the checks presumably were eas- ily negotiated, said Assemblyman Bob Frazee. The Carlsbad Republican yester- day cited such an incident in San Diego County as one reason why for introducing a measure to crack down on high-pressure, boilerroom tele- phonic sales operations. His bill to do that, AB 776, cleared the Assembly Consumer Protection Committee on a f>-0 vote without any public opposi- tion. Frazee called fraudulent telephon- ic sales a growing problem in Cali- forma. While fraud is already a crime, ex- plained Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey J. Fuller, law enforcement officials have lacked the authority to

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higher education over the past. two years, but none had any praise for the federal effort. Atkinson said that federal support for research had been split almost evenly between defense and non-de- fense projects through the 1970s with 52 percent going to defense a~d 48 percent to non-defense. But this year, 72 percent of re- search dollars is going to defense and only 28 percent to non-defense .con- tracts, Atkinson said. While the total research spending under President Reagan has in- creased, the amount devoted to non- defense . efforts has actually de- creased rn a "dramatic shift of focus that worries me," he said. He said that federal support for research slipped after the World War II years to only 2.1 percent of the See FACULTY on Pa1 B-10 -

San Diego, CA (San Diego to.) San Diego Business News (Cir. 2xM. 3,500)

~ Diet seminar q~~·' ENCINITAS - A semfn:lr on how to improve your health and diet will be held on Saturday, March 30 at the Sanderling Place Inn, located on Encinitas Boule- vard in Encinitas from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. 1 The workshop will answer such questions as : What are your health risks for your age? What is the relationship between cancer and diet? How can you· reduce your risks for disease? What seven health habits in- crease longevity? Participants- will have a chance to evaluate their healthstyle and to develop a health plan. Coordinator and lecturer is Kathy James, R.N., M.S.N., director of Professional Weight Management in Solana Beach. Kathy is a specialist in Family Health Nursing and received a master'(! degree from the Uni- versity of San Diego. _- For reservations, please call 481-2750.

Despite complaints from students and parents, "the UCSD faculty is not there to teach, but to split its respon- sibility almost equally between teaching and research,' UCSD €han- cellor Richard C. Atkinson told city business leaders yesterday. "Some of you may not like to hear ~his," but faculty promotions depend Just as much on the quality of re- search as on the quality of teaching be said. ' Atkins~n w~s joined by San Diego State Uruversity President Thomas B. ~Y and University of San Diego President Autho'H!;. H11gheS11J dis- cussing the plight of higher education during the San Diego Chamber of Commerce "Issues '85" symposium here. All three campus heads praised the state government's efforts to aid

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, - \\oodford& Bernard Architects is moving its headquarters from Los Angeles to San Diego. The Un.i.!;ersit) o~ Diego and Hubbs-Sea World Re earch Institute will join together to offer San Diego's first undergraduate marine studies program beginning fall semester, 1985. The partnership was announced by Dr. Author E. Hughes, USO president, and Dr. William E. Evans, Hubbs' president and execuJ,iv!~- tor, at a news conference. ,,;Z_ _,... .

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cas to Stand Tr·al in 3 Slayings D~l@A en ueu, charged with the throat-slash slayings of six women and children since 1979, was ordered Friday to stand trial on three or the murder charges and one charge of attempted murder. Lucas appeared for arraignment and plead d innocent before San Diego County Superior Court Judge Thomas Duffy, who set a May 7 trial date. The counts on which Lucas appeared Friday involve the slaylngs of Uruyernty of $an Diego udent Anne Calhenne Swanke, 22. whose body was found Nov. 20; Rhonda S g, 2-1, and Amber Fisher, a 3 year-old Miss Strang was bab} mtting when the two were slam Oct. 23. Lucas also I charged with at- tempted murder m the throat sla bing I t spring of Jody Santia- go, 30. of Seattle. Santiago Is cred- it d with providing mformation that led to the arrest of Lucas, a elf-employed Spring Valley car- pet cleaner. The three other charges involve the slaying of a female real estate agent m 1981, and lhe death of a Normal Heights woman and her on, who were found 1 n in 1979. Pro ccutors have said they will try to ha ,e the cases consolidated into tnal.

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that students and parents frequently complain that faculty members spend a lot of time on their research work, but said when seen from the national perspective, the research work is a principal role for faculty Day made a plea for more support in "deregulating higher education," which, he said, is being strangled by financial planning that can "only look backwards and refight last year's wars" over program ideas Faculty members live and work on the cutting edge of new knowledge in their respective disciplines while trying to prepare their students, he said. That means that a few risks new programs that will give those students the best chance of success. But new programs involve gam- bles and risks, and some of the pro- members. that might have failed.

gross national product. When Russian satellite Sputnik was launched, research funding jumped to 3.2 percent of the GNP, but started declining again until Presidents Ger- ald Ford and Jimmy Carter made efforts to restore it during their terms of office. It bas now slipped to about 2.5 percent of the GNP, he said. Regarding the heavy emphasis on research by the UCSD faculty, Atkin- son reminded the business leaders that, unlike other major Western na- tions, the United States puts most of the responsibility for major research on the university campuses instead of in government-funded laborator- the the basic research done in the United States is done in fewer than 50 of the nation's leading universities, and that research "develops the base of sci- ence and technology that drives this ies.

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that are virtually guaranteed to -sue- ceed, which rarely are innovative," Hughes expressed greatest con- cern over the proposed federal changes in tax laws and reductions in government aid to students. He said that in the 1958 Higher Ed- the importance of providing univer- sity access to the maximum number of academically qualified people, and then sought to provide those students with the maximum choice between types of institutions, both public and By reducing student financial aid, the cur;rent administration has "bla- tantly deleted the choice," Hughes said, adding later that the adminis- tration has publicly showed its "in- difference to the idea of choice." He said the current government proposals would cut about $8 billion he said. private.

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He said that these direct cuts, plus proposed changes in the tax laws that would make it far less attrac- tive for people to make gifts to their favorite institution, spelled serious

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is offering summer sports camps SAN DIEGO _ The University of San Diego ta.otterthg a Su111mer sporfs camp program in June, :J.µlY and August. f Day and resident sessions are o · f d 1n girls and boys basketball, ;~~s softball, girls volleyball, foot- ball competitive swim, tennis and a sp'eclal soccer camp featuring in- struction by members of the San Diego Sockers. t For more information abou these camps for boys and girls 8- 18 call or write for a free bro- chure: USD Sports Camps, Sports Center Alcala Park, San Diego 92110. The phone number ls 260/' 4803. /

financial times ahead.

Day also warned that campuses

ucation Act, Congress had stressed may see some strife in future years

as the col~es and universities in- creasingly become the melting pots for new waves of immigrant Ameri- He said that the great immigrant wave of the early 1900s brought many new people to the country, mainly from Europe, and their so- cialization took place mainly in the . streets and homes of Boston, New York and other Eastern cities. The new immigrant wave is from Asia and Mexico and their socializa- lion is taking in the schools and col- leges of the West, he said. cans.

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