News Scrapbook 1986

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

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• • How does one live a moral life in what many people consider to be an immoral age?

never underestimate the importance of the influence of home and school in early life. So you lead a moral ~ife out of a habit of leading a moral life. Marvin Henberg University of Idaho A I dispute the premise that • we live in an munoral • age. It's not any more immoral that any part of history that I can think of. I think the real moral problems are the same as they've always been - homicides, rape, assault, theft. Most people learn ways of doing things not necessarily b what is said , embodied in people nd tlungs around them It's like th popular saying, 'People who are ab~ as children grow up to abuse tbe~ own children.' The key is the quality of moral education received from the people you grow up around. Michael Kuttnauer Mesa College A If one doesn't have a • Christian education, or If • one is a Christian but doesn' t belie\ e th t the 10 Commandment s answer every question of moral life, I su~pose that person, by intense reflection, m~t develop a moral code that gives him or her principl for guidance in life. Hopefully, that code will be consistent with traditional values of compassion and ju ice. for instance, I wouldn't want someone to say that, morally, it's all right to kill people that you don't happen 'to like. "chae a University of San Diego A For a long time, when • philosophers talked about • individual actions, it was whether actions were right or wrong. Increasingly, we're aware of the problems a person has being a good person in a world that's not perfect. One of the basic ideas of virtue is that each person takes the responsibility of answering t~e question for himself, . and 1_n particular by paying attention to his own moral character. One way to live a moral life is to be an active moralist - to try to identify the elements of a society or age which do seem to relate to improving the happiness, elfare and community of society. These ar~ the aspects of society that are positive, and that morally allow individuals a_nd groups to find some sort of elusive concept of goodness.

By Frank Green tatr Writer G roucho Marx defined "I'm right and you're wrong.'' The late corruc philosopher was far more precise on matters ?f ethics and virtue than his counterparts in academia, who have bcen wrestling for centuries over su b ticky questions as love, purity and rottenn . They still are. Over the weekend, some 65 scholar in moral philosophy from across the country got together at the Umvers1ty of San Diego for a forum on human values. Among the cosm1cally significant discussed were "Virtue m tram Circumstances," " ora Saints,' "Virtue and Narrative" and "G<-nder and V1rtue." A few arbitrarily chosen prof rs got some additional wo_rk. We asked them to ponder a question that seems to be increasingly on the minds of people in an era of rising world tensions and urban discord· "How does one live a moral life m wh t many people consider to be an immoral age?" Al Flores Cahfornia State University at Fullerton A First of all, what • constitutes a moral life? That' philosophically problemat1r, and one of the perennial problems of all civilizations. The question reminds me of a passage from Plato, in which Gyges has a nng that will. if worn, make a nvisiol ow who •ouldn't want to accept that ring? It's e same rt problem wi h morality - why not be immoral_ if other people are getting away w_1th it? It all comes down to a question of self-respect, and to what kind of life you want to lead. You do the best that you can under the circumstances in which you live. Robert M. Adams UCLA A Aperson develops a se~ • of morality by wanting • to by caring about other people, by being honest with one's self about one's successes and failures, by thinking clearly ah?ut rights and responsibilitie:i, by domg what one believes to be nght. My own moral life is f~ with religious life, although m my experience people can be rn~rally very serious· and admirable without having religious faitlt _ I don't think that one person IS morality as bemg simply a matter of right and wrong:

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A I'm not sure that the • moral characteristics of • the world today are much different than in any other age. Most people who live a moral life grow up living a moral life. One can

capable of developing a mo 1code that's worth anything thout reflecting on things that hav been passed on from society. A rson must take these various inflnences and make his own choices.

Thomas Satre Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas

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Lucas tip came from someone else, woman testifies By Mikf{/?nfn to prospective renters. Bright was testifying in a hearing Rittenhouse reported that Limbach story." Tribune Staff Wnter He also faces tnal Aug. 25 on on pretrial motions attacking a war- had gone to the Sheriffs Department Bright said she and her mother The daughter of a woman who has charges of murdering Rhonda rant issued for a search of Lucas' but that officers did not believe him. talked with San Diego police Capt. be n paid $10,000 for a tip leadin to Strang, 24, and a child she was baby- house. "I didn't believe her at first," Malloy on Dec. 14, 1984. Malloy has the arre t of David Allen Lucas has sitting, Amber Fisher, 3, in Strang's She said Rittenhouse told her on Bright said of Rittenhouse. "Theresa testified that the conversation took testified that the Information origi• Lakeside home on Oct. 23, 1984; of Dec. 10, 1984, six days before Lucas had told me stories before, but I place Dec. 7 or 14, 1984. Lucas was nally came from the sister of a key murdering Anne Catherine Swanke, was arrested, that her brother be- called my mom and told her, and she arrested Dec. 16, 1984.

told me to call Capt. (James) Malloy. "I told her to call because she knew him better. She called him, and he called me back, and I told him the

Jieved that Lucas had killed Strang, "Theresa said: 'We think we know who killed Anne Swanke,' " Bright testified. "She said her brother had come home upset in the middle of the mght and said that he knew who "He said it was a man named David. He said he also killed some- one in Lakeside and went on about Amber and wanke. killed Anne Swanke. Under questioning by Lucas' attor- ney, William Saunders of the county public defender's office, Bright said someone rolled up dropped in a lake." in rugs and

22, a U~ik_of Sa!_! Diego student la t seen alive Nov 20,""Jgs:r,-walking toward her car with a can of gasoline on Parkway Drive mLa Mesa; and of kidnapping and attempting to mur- dcr Jody Santiago, 34, a Seattle woman who survived a throat slash- in , a skull fracture and stab wounds Bright testified that the mforma- lion her mother passed to law-en- forcement officers came originally from Theresa E. Rittenhouse, sister of Matthew Limbach. He was a key mboth of Lucas' preliminary June 9, 1984.

witne against Lucas, who 1s ch rged with murdering ix people. upenor Court testimony tcrday from Diana Bright, daught r of D1 n O'Grady, who sued th San Diego Crime Cammi• 10n for ard and ettled for $10,000. rady d nied her daughter's tate- The c m y th 0 r of murdermg Suzanne .Jacobs, 31, and h r m, Colin, 3, on May 4. 1979, at their Normal H 1ghts horn · and of Gayl Garcia 29, on Dec. 8, 1981, ma w1tn Spnng Valley horn sh wa hawing murdenng real tate saleswoman ments Luca fac trial Jan. 4 on charges

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