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In one general commencement ceremony that was televised live, an estimated 7,000 students graduated from San Diego State University on Sunday at Aztec Bowl on campus. Martin Agronsky, the moderator of Agronsky & Company, a syndicated public affairs program. and valedictorian Robin Joleen Shipton spoke to the graduates. After the main ceremony, the colleges of education, business adm1nistrat1on, theater, profess.onal studies and fine arts, sciences. engineering, health and human services, and arts and letters held individual ceremonies. Degrees: 7,000 diplomas awarded, including 1,500 graduate degrees. Elsewhere: • Universit of Sa O.ego: An estimated 1,000 students graduated 1n two separate e){ercises in Torero Stadium on Sunday. Ernest Hahn, shopping center developer and vice chairman of the USO Board of Trustees. addressed the 740 undergraduates Ale){ander George, professor of international relations and political science at Stanford University, spoke to the 250 students who graduated with master's degrees. Both men received honorary degrees of humane letters from the university. 7

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. --r:; No 'fanguage too obscure for UCSD lab By Lisa Petrillo taff Writer Eisya, kailan natin lininisin ang babay? Hardly a handy phrase for the wildly rich Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos. Translated, it means: Well, when do we clean house? The phrase means a lot to UCSD sophomore Marie Bartolome, since it was part of that week's lessons in her do-it-yourself course in the Philip- pm

Mortar boards, diplomas and smiles were in evidence at the Univers ty of San Diego graduation ceremony.

to live their lives with mtegrity and honesty, to have compassion for their fellow men and to seek peace. "Our challenge is to be different," she said. Pablo Mendoza, 52, one of the old- est graduates of the Class of '87, took a different challenge six years ago. After retiring as a military officer in 1978, Mendoza decided to go to the university to get a degree in rehgious studies. He entered college in 1981, the same year his son, Pablo Jr., en- rolled at USD. "I wanted to come to school. I wanted to have that feeling that other undergraduates experience," said Mendoza, who saw his son grad- uate two years ago. Since Mendoza graduated last semester and is al- ready doing his graduate work, he said he almost skipped the ceremo- ny, but he remembered the hoopla surrounding bis son's graduation and wanted to experience it for himself. "I enjoyed it immensely," be said. "Now that I have experienced it, it's a tremendous feeling.'

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th graduation ceremo- ny, with students giving a standing ovation to the winners of the Alcala Leadership Award·, Mary Therese Warburton and Stephen R. Krallman. Earlier m the day, the graduate schools of B iness, Education, Nurs- ing und Arts and Sciences held a joint commencement ceremony for 250 advanced-d gree recipients. President Author Hughes viewed the gradua on as a bitter weet expe• nence "Today 1' a triumph for gradu- tes but it's also a passage. Today you begin life anew and on your own," Hughes said. "Take time to ap- preciate the combined efforts of so many that brought us here today.'' The only student speaker, valedic- torian Toni Marie Gallo Smith, called the commencement a "time to reJ01ce, re t and reflect on your ac- complishments " Smrtl1 a fellow graduates

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even a tape on an Alabama drawl titled: "Southern No. 1: How to Serve Grits." Murphy's most passionate lan- guage shopping these days is for American Indian tongues. The lab has only Cree and Navajo so far, she said sadly.

itself looks unexotic enough, being smaller than an average McDonald's and full of Apple computers, tape re- corders, magazines, books and quiet people. But on the shelves sit texts that can teach Russian, seven varieties of Arabic, Motu and more - even Ngaanyatjarra, the language of the Australian Aborigine. When a UCSD medical student needed to learn Ponapean, to work on the Western Pacific island so small that maps ignore it, Linda Murphy, the language librarian, hunted it down. Now tapes and books on how-to- ponapean are part of the Language Laboratory's 10,000 volumes, tapes, videos and computer programs. And although nobody else bas ever ex- pressed any interest in Ponapean, Murphy hasn't lost hope that some- Murphy has become a zealous shopper of languages in order to ex- pand the laboratory, although she said the yearly acquisition budget of $6,000 doesn't buy a whole lot of new I that Telugu is spoken in Southeast Asia and Igbo in Nigeria. The Breton spoken in France's Brittany resem- bles Celtic, she said, noting that "a Welshman and a Breton really could talk to each other, if they really wanted to." In addition to foreign tongues, the Language Laboratory offers tapes of various forms of English dialect - including Irish brogue, Cockney and French-accented English. There is tongues. In her pursuit, Murphy has learned I I I I I I I I I I I one someday will.

got was Yugoslavia. The UCSD language program is now run by Tracy Terrell, and the structure basically follows Newmark's design. Traditional lan- guage classes, with teachers and quizzes, are offered for languages most in demand. Spanish, French, German, Russian, Italian, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese and Mandarin Chinese. About 1,000 students each quarter take those. The rest, from Afrikaans to Yoru- ba, are offered do-it-yourself style, -comp e e i final exams. This spring, close to 100 are taking those. The cost for the teacher-taught and do-it-yourself courses is the same. "I knew it could be done, but doing it was quite revolutionary for the time," Newmark said. San Diego State University is con- sidering but doesn't yet offer self-in- structional languages. SDSU handles huge numbers of students - close to 9,000 class registrations per semester - for classes in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Por- tuguese, Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, Latin and somet mes Arabic. The SDSU language laboratory it- self must handle the numbers, up to 130 at a time for the heavily empha- sized listening portion of the lan- guage programs, compared with the few dozen slots at UCSD. At the University of San Diego, six languages are taught, none self-in- structional. The university just beefed up its laboratory to handle the heavily emphasized oral portion of the program. The UCSD Language Laboratory

through the University of California at San Diego Language Laboratory, which offe ·do-it-yourself courses in more than 95 languages, including Danish, Igbo, Serbo-Croatian, Quechua, and both the Irish and Scots variations of Gaelic. The Language Laboratory is where you can learn languages most people only read about in National Geographic: Armenian, Slovene, Wolof, Efik, Twi. It's sort of a Smithsonian of tongues. Pull a manual from the shelf and learn that Ndiikebaanuye is how they say "goodbye" in Kirundi. The man who built the collection is Leonard Newmark, who helped de- velop the UCSD language program and ran it for more than 20 years. Newmark explained the need for such a variety: "There are 3,000 to 4,000 languages in the world, depend- ing on how you count, and here we were teaching four of them." The idea is to let students study languages that interest them, and at the same time avoid keeping on the payroll teachers for the more ob- scure languages. In Newmark's view, no language is obscure, merely lesser-known. He is on sabbatical to compile a dictionary of Albanian, a language he has spent his life studying. Newmark has never been to Al- bania and has little hope of ever going there, since its communist gov- ernment banned almost everyone from coming or going there since the Nazis left in 1944. The closest he ever

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USD Basketball Loses Asmsjant SA~'Jdri'ao-R1ck Schoenlein reSJgned Tues- day after three seasons as a Universitl of San Diego assistant asketbail coach. "It looks like I'm going to get out of it [coaching] entirely," said Schoenlein, who was m charge of re- crulling at U D ··r Ju think 1t' time t d ee what e 1s out there.~ choenlem, 33, came to USD with Coach Hank Egan ar er servmg as an asS1stant to Egan at the Air Force Academy during the 1983-84 s ason. Schoenlein a 1 o was a graduate ass1st- nt to Egan in 1976 before entering the ervice His res1gnat1on becomes effective July 1 This past season USO (24-6) lo t to Auburn m the first round of the NCAA tournament. 62-61 "My a soc1at1on with Rick goes back a long time," Egan satd "l hate to see him go; I was the one who recrmted htm [as an assistant coach! at Air Force" ·o replacement has been named

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