News Scrapbook 1986

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Dally Tranacrlpt (Cir. 0 . 7,415)

OCT 8 1986

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,089) (Cir. S. 341,840)

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CountyAttorney Plan- . v_,J~ sons employed in the Classified (Continued fro~AJ Se " d d the um- rv1ce d commi ion, forme un er The Board of Supervisors an brella of the P~t)'..-of San urchasing agents may also make Diego's Law Cente~. After study- ~uch decisions Before Prop. A, ing options in pubhc defense, the h eview was in the hands of the • • r ed a non-profit sue r . . pon commiss1on 1avor c· . 1 Service Comnu 1011 u corporation. . . kl em- r:;mmendation of the board or County supervisors quic y urchasing agent. braced the notion of domg awa~ p Luoma claimed, and the CEA with thP. current system, ~ha;a: petition alleged, that at no time has contracting out to low-bid k either the Civil Service Co~lB- firms some indigent defense wor . the Chief Administrative . di d by 21 staff s1on or . while the rest 1~ han e Office determined that an !~- lawyers in the Office of Defenders dependent defender pr~gram is Services (ODS). re economical and efficient. The combination sy tern ,s re er- m~ fact the complaint notes, ed to as a modified public defender .nk • staff' has found that a full r . • d for Hie ey s be office. It has been cnticize d public defender office would Y ears for exceeding its budget an h Staff recommendation to th Uality of c eaper. rt th failing to oversee e q supervisors has been to suppo e work by contract firms. . e anded county office ODS Executive Director Melvm xLop added that the CEA has . ·st f e Of- uma ·t Nitz and Chief dm1m ra '\bied filed an unfair labor practices s_u1 ficer Norman Hickey have lo . st the county for placmg for a third option: a full pubhc de- ~amA on the ballot withouLtumon r nder office qual in strength to op. t ,e ' ffi consen . the district attorney 8 0 ice. Hickey's staff has calculated an•~-~~~·

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.Jlll,m'• P c, B t<,. 1888 /Al ;.R!lfPOSe layer leads USD attack Man ukhani is busiest Torero By Ri<: Bucher Staff Writer A list of Jeff Mansukhani's roles on the Univec:ill.Y. of Saa Diego football team stretches almost as far as the name of the Toreros' opponent this week, Mansukhani will be available as a wide rec •iver, punt- and kirk-re- turner, place-kick holder, backup punter and occas10n,1l running back whrn USD (3-1) ho ts the Claremont McKenna-Harvey Mudd Scripps Col- lPge Slags tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in Torero Stadium. Fot the sake of brevity, Mansu- kha I is nown as ''Mongoose," and the three-c 1mpus college with the 2-1 record is refer red to as Claremont- Mudd. For the sake of the Toreros' for- tunes this season. Coach Brian J,'o- garty hopes the 5-foot-9, I 70-pound Mansukhani remains healthy. "If he went down, we'd need five guys to replace him,'' Fogarty said. "But I've nevrr been one to be con- cerned 'O much with a guy getting hurt that r wouldn't play him." After having his last two seasons curtailed by mjurie stress frac- tures and muscle problems in his shins a a freshman, a torn muscle in his left ankle as a sophomore - the junior from Capistrano Valley rarely has left the field this fall. His 23 catches for 426 vards and four touch- downs lead the Toreros' receiving corps. He also has returned six punts for 102 yards and 11 kickoffs for 273 ya rds And though it 1s more difficult to m"a~ure, Fogarty considers holding for the place-kicker as the most im- portant function of his roles. That talent also distinguishes Man- sukhani from Chris Dabrow, the Stags' 5-9, 200-pound wingback/kick- and punt-returner, who has accumu- lated 573 all-purpose yards and five touchdowns in just three games, Dabrow, a junior, ran for 199 of those yards - 11 more than he had all last year - in the Stags' 27-10 season-opening win over Redlands, In an 8-7 loss to the Toreros in 1985, Dabrow had his best performance of the season, rushing 11 times for 55 · yards and scoring h1s team's only touchdown.

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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Daily Transcript (Cir. D. 7,415) OCT 1 31986

nual cost of a pubhc defender offic, t around 10 million, or $13 m1 r10n, including transition and start-up costs . With its suggested higher staff- mg levels, the community defender office ,s estimated to cost anywhere f $ 12 million to $18 m1lhon, rom does the dependmg on who cal ulating. . Vote cast by county supervlS()rs over the summer have taken the county clo r and closer to the commumty Y tern, with an eye toward havmg it in place by next summer. . t Luoma addre d supe':' 180 rs a two of the meetings, warnmg th~m f possible fallout over awarding o .ndependent contract without ;:o~r meet-and confer with the C~~terday she aid such verbal . hould have put the warmngs board on notice that a meetmg was ested even reqmred, under rnqu - B Act the 'e ers-Milias rown regulat'ng government employee- employer relations. . "Ab lutely, I felt after urgmg twice t t it's too costly, ill gal and in v10l, tion of the charte; , that I was whistling in the wmd. . . The laWYer who filed the petition for CEA, Robert Neal, dded ~hat the Public Employ Relations Board ha r uled th t al1 aspects of contracting out servic , bemg per- formed hy .tate workers hould be the. ubJect ofmeet-and-confer. "We see no difference between state and county employees as far as this is concerned," said Neal. The CEA's second poi_nt, ~hat :he B d of Supervisors is violatmg oar · based on the county charter, 1s .. · s under Propo ibon A, prov1 ,on ap oved by voters in Junt: It lows gives contract~ng power to the Chief Administrative Office, to first determine whether service~ "can be provided more econom1- call and efficiently by an in- dependent contractor than by per-

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V Framing has begun on a $10.6 million apartment complex for resident students at the University of San Diego. .;;?Q~< The 156-unit, six-builCliKi(co'mplex will be adjacent to the USO Sports Center and will be built to alleviate a chronic housing problem for undergraduate and graduate students. "This year we had to put 240 stu- dents in the Oakwood Apatments" in Pacific Beach, said Tom Burke, dean ofstudent affairs. Schoell and Paul Inc. has designed the apartments project to conform to the Spanish Renaissance style found throughout the campus. C.A. Larsen Construc- tion Co. s general contractor. Jon McDowell, project manager for the Larsen firm, said the project should be completed in time for student occupancy next Septem- ber. The two-bedroom with two-bath apartments will be in three-story buildings that will be connected with second-floor and third-floor walkways. Each unit will have a dining area, a kitchen, a living room and a balcony. Also being constructed are four bicycle storage buildings, six tennis courts end a parking lot.

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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. o. 217,089) (Cir. S. 341,840)

OCT 1 31986

Preparation is the key, Mansu- khani said. which sometimes makes warm-ups rather strenuous, "Sometimes you 're in more of a sweat before the game than during it," he said.

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Santa Ana, CA (Orange Co.) Orange County Register (Cir. D. 271 ,281) (Cir. Sat. 264,966) (Cir. S. 302,808) OCT9 1986

Pat answers no solution for crime problem By George J. Bryjak

and biologically inferior. They disregard or are unable to understand society's rules regarding behavior, The conserva- tive solution to crime is punishment. Liberals reject individual explanations of crinunal behavior and see crime root- ed in society's institutions and fundamen- tal beliefs. From this perspective crime is the result of poverty, unemployment, racism, sexism, and poJincal disenfran- chisement. Solutions to the crime prob- lem include a more equitable distribution of the wealth, and end to racism and sex- ism, and more jobs for a growmg under- class. Radicals see crime as the inevitable byproduct of a corrupt and exploitative capitalist system. Capitalism is based on competition and greed, and measures hu- man worth exclusively in terms of mate- rial success. The ri h oppress and brutal- ize the poor, who in turn survive by prey- ing on each other. Radicals believe that some form of socialism or communism a classless society - will significantly reduce, if not totally eliminate, criminal behavior.

I n 1967 the President' s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice stated, "There has always been too much crime. Virtually every generation since the founding of the na- tion and before has felt itself threatened by the specter of rising crime and vio• Jenee." Nothing has changed. the crime rate has dropped slightly since 1980, it is still among the highest in the industrial world,costing Americans as much as $240 btllion annually Conservative, liberal and radical thinkers have offered a vanet),· of causal explanations and solutions to the crime problem. Howe\·er, given the realities of the social, economic and political climate in the l nited tales these solutions yield th same bleak scenano - a future as crime-ridden as our past. Conservatives see cnme as the result of mdiv1dual shortcomings. Criminals are viewed a.~ Jess mtelligent, morally deficient, psychologically maladjusted Even though

The one thing these explanations of crime control have in common is that they are destined to fail. The certainty of punishment will in· crease dramatically (and rates of crime decrease) only jf we hire more police - a lot more. We also need hundreds of addi- tional criminal court judges and to in- crease our correctional facilities at least threefold . But Americans are not willing to pay the billions of dollars in additional revenue this solution requires. The liberal response to crime is even more unlikely for both ideological and practical reasons. I cannot imagine any legislation being passed that would re- quire the top 20 percent of the population to give any portion of their wealth (ap- proximately 80 percent of the nation's wealth) to society's Poorest and lower- middle-income families. Other possible causes of crime from the liberal perspective do not lend them-' selves to direct intervention. While rac- ism and sexism can be controlled by law to a certain extent, these are deep-seated attitudes that cannot be wiped away by

the stroke of a pen. If young criminals come from broken homes, what can gov- ernment do? Require parents to raise their children properly just as they are required to pay taxes? The radical answer is the most unlikely scenario of all. We are as far away today from becoming a socialist society than at any time in our history. For all the prob- lems the United States faces, the over• whelming majority of Americans ( in- cluding the poor) are committed to a cap- italist economy. The lower classes and chronically unemployed don't want to overthrow the system. To the contrary, they just want to be successful like every- one else. The basic solutions to the crime prob- lem are really quite straightforward. We either control criminal behavior through punishment (rehabilitation has not worked) or alter the basic attitudes and institutions (the government, economy and family) of society. BryJak is an associate professor of sociol- ogy, Wo1vers,ty of ~n Drego ,

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