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USD's Egan hasn't a thought beyond next season By Ktrfk'?n~ ue coaching) and wh n I was hesitant they group of kids that accomplished an awful they weren't nearly as good as they were that others guys' playing time was hurt. Tribune porLswriter gave me a lot of room and encouragement, lot." when they played together," Egan said. Next year is definitely a rebuilding year. It doesn't take much to persuade someone so maybe persuaded is a good word," said The Toreros completed the season with a "They were an absolute team. I think that It's going to take some recruiting and some to com to San Diego, but what is required Egan, who has been West Coast Athletic school-record 24-6 mark that included a 13-1 right now all of my comparisons will be time and some nurturing." lo make omeone leave? Conference Coach of the Year the past two WCAC record and regular-season confer- against this team. Maybe something will The Toreros' future begins with Means, !!SD cQach Hank Egan doesn't know. years and is 59-26 in three seasons at USD. ence championship. As one might expect, 7- come along in the future that will be better the team's only return~ starter. Sopho- C:,1 enjoy it here," he said. "Would I ever "I want to be a baske ball coach." -------------- than that, but up to this point I haven't had more swingman Mike H•t and junior for- leave here? Who knows? Will I never ever Eg n was rumored to be a candidate at 'R. '11 h I any team like this. ward Marty Munn, who were among the move? I can't answer that question." San Diego State whe the Aztecs' coaching 1 K t now W. at am "I hope this season builds a tradition. I first players off the bench this season, may Just what does the future hold for Hank position opened last month. But he said yes- is the basketball coach hope it builds a feeling around the USD join Means in next season's starti:1 6 lin~up. Egan and the USD basketball program? terday he is neither candidate at SDSU at USD and there's community that basketball done the right The development of freshman swingman Egan's coaching future was uncertain nor at any other sc ool. He remains the way can enhance what happens on the cam- Craig Cottrell, junior forward/center Jim three years ago. He nearly chose another incumbent at USD. nothing else in the pus. And I hope the kids up there enjoy it Pelton, sophomore forward Charlie Wick- line of work when he was dJSmissed at the "I have not been approached by anybody and it becomes important to them. And that strand, freshman forward Brian Anderson Air Force Academy in 1984. However, Egan and I have not approached anybody," said works' we can continue to get that feeling of im- and freshman redshirt Dondi Bell also will has made himself quite at home since arriv- Egan, 49, who has co, ched 16 years at the _ Hank Egan portance and excitement to help us get figure in the starting equation. The immedi- ing at Alcala Park Division I level. "Rig t now what I am is through tough times if we have them." ate impact of this year's recruiting class is Guiding a team to the NCAA Tournament the basketball coach at USD and there's --------------- It may be some time before Egan has uncertain. At least half of the players re- and leading it to the school's best Division I nothing else in the wo ·ks. foot USD center Scott Thompson, the another team like the 1986-87 Toreros. USD cruited are expected to be freshmen. Two record two straight years tend to enhance "I'd just like to win a lot of basketball WCAC's Player of the Year, was always the loses six seniors from this team - Thomp- freshmen already have been signed to let- an individual's reputation in a community. games and go back to that NCAA Tourna- first consideration of USD opponents. But son, Madden, Manor and Leonard as well as ters of intent. Taking USO to the NCAAs, where the ment and try it one more time. I feel really the cast surrounding Thompson - forwatds forward Steve Krallman and guard Eric "A lot of kids have sat over a two-year Torero were defeated 62-61 by Auburn last good about this season and these kids. Nils Madden and Mark Manor and guards Musselman, whose contributions were also period while this has developed," Egan said. week m Indianapolis, furthered the school's Where it leads I don't know at this time. It Paul Leonard and Danny Means among important to the team's success. Nearly 80 "So we've got to give guys who haven't had national reputation as well as Egan's. How was not put together with the idea of being them - is what enabled the Toreros to sue- percent of USD's offense departs. a whole lot of playing time a chance to much the image or the school and its coach a springboard (to another job) and I don't ceed. The quintet started all 30 games to- ''I've never believed in rebuilding years," develop and to create an identity for them- have been enhanced remains to be seen. view it as being a springboard. I view it as gether. Egan said, "but I've never had guys play the selves and establish some kind of a team "They gave me the opportunity (to contin- one helluva basketball season with a great "Individually they were pretty good, but dominant roles for so long a period or time that they can build for the future."

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Jl/lm'• ;:::~,r.~~~~;. f that complained about the graduation ceremony and the use of tax monies being used to maintain De ert Chri t Park in Yucca Valley have ad- mitted at public meeting to affiliated with either the American Humanist As ocia· tion or the American Atheist organizations. Here i. a par• tial list of the beliefs and goals of these organizations. In two Humanist Manifes- and their Declaration of P c 8 I ' ,s b to' themselves as "non-theists." They hold that man has no "soul" but is only a complex animal; God is a "myth," sci ence and reason are the be-all and end-all; man's purpo e on earth is to pursue his own hap- piness, sexual conduct should not be "unduly repressed;" and there are no absolute mor al or ethical values. The Humanist, the official Journal of the American Hu- manist Association, stated: "The battle for humankind's future must be waged in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly per· ceive their role as proselytiz- ers of a new faith. Humanists have influenced and/or super- vised the publication of text- books." The U.S. News and World Report of November 17, 1986 reported: "An 11th-grade health book had a favorable description of group marriage and also seemed to encourage cocaine use and approve of pornography. The message was if you feel good about it, it's OK." It's been over 25 years ago that Madalyn Murray O'Hare pulled her son out of a Balti more school because she ob- jected to prayers in the class- room. In 1963 the Supreme Court ruled against the use of the Lord's Prayer and Bible readings in public school class- rooms. Since then Mrs. O'Hare and the American Atheist organi- zation have tried to have churches taxed, to get atheist ads on TV, radio and news- papers, fought against re- ligious services in the White House, objected to prayers in space, and tried to get "In God We Trust" removed from coins. Her latest campaign is to get her book "All the Ques- tions You've Wanted to Ask an American Atheist, With all the An wers" distributed in all public schools and every military base, reported the Denver Post's November 22, 1986 edition. The present attacks against prayer at our graduation, Des- ert Christ Park and the cross on the official seal of the City of Redlands are just the begin. ning. All of these combintd roup with the help of tie Am rican Civil Liberties tin- ion plan to make this a d· less society by 1991. Larry Alexander, a pr • fes · sor of constitutional law at the Uni'<.t!:sity of San Diego, b~· lieves that such questions will long be with us as part of a na· tural tension between compet- ing concepts. In recent years legal groups Humanism they describe

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the civil libertarians, a~ong them the Rutherford Institute in Mana sas, Vir. and also lo- cally the Christian Civil Liber- ties Union of the Greenleaf School of Law in Anaheim. These groups handle only cases involving church/state If you wish to preserve our freedoms for foture genera- tions to enjoy we must all be- involved, write our elected officials, attend public meetings, and vote on all im- portant issues and candidates. It's your decision, apathy and public unawareness are their come issues.

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By Jakt> Curtis In between the TV talk of Cinderella team~ and good no-calls were 48 NCI\J\ Tournament games. M:my teams' seasons have turn- e around in the last four days. A Month Ago ... • Louisiana State got Into the Tournament despite losing five of its first six games and finishing sev- enth in the JO-team Southeastern Conference with an 8 10 league re- cord. Now the Tigers are in the final NCAA NOTEBOOK 16 and everyone is talking about Dale Brown's freak defense. Shades of last season, \\ hen LSU reached the Final Four dl •pite finishing in a fifth-place tie in ti e SEC at 9-9. • Someone forgot to tell Kan- sas and Wyoming that teams who finish poorly have no chance come tournament time. Wyoming IO!it its fmal three regular-season games to finish in a third-place tie in the Western Ath- letic Conference. Kansas finished with losses to Colorado and Nebras- ka before its conference tourna- ment. Both are still alive. Cowboy Story • Wyoming's 6-11, 275-pound Eric Leckncr has become the sur- prise star of the tournament. When he arrived from Manhattan Beach two years ago, Leckner was a lanky 6-9, 215-pound freshman. That year he split time with another fresh- man, 6-10 David Lodgins, but Lodg- ins looked to be the Cowboys' cen- ter of the future. The Cowhoys do not have a se- nior in their starting lineup. By the \\ay, Wyoming's star forward is named Fennis Dembo, not Dennis Fembo, as he was identified in a Bay Area newspaper yesterday. • Wyoming Coach Jim Bran- denburg on his team•~ victory over UCLA: "I don't think this was an upset. We thought we could beat UCLA, and I'll tell you what, a Jot of people around the country who know something ahout basketball thought we could beat UCLA too." • Brandenburg, after Nevada- Sweet Sixteen,

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BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Florida's Vernon Maxwell (right) got tangled up with Purdue's Doug lee pursuing a loose ball

• The Big East and the South- eastern Conference each has three teams left in the tournament, and the WAC, Atlantic Coast Confer- ence, the Big Ten and Big Eight have two each. Noles • Ohio St.ate fell victim to Georgetown's bench strength. You want depth? In three games against Syracuse this season, Georgetown's non-starters outscored the Orange- men reserves, 79-3. • Nevada-Las Vegas has won each of its last five games by at least 19 points. The Rebels beat Kansas State 80-61 despite making only six of 25 attempts from 3-point range. • Home-court controversy: Syracuse and DePaul were aided by the homecourt, but Alabama-Bir• mingham and Arizona, the other two t1:4ms hosting opening rounds, were first-round losers.

Las Vegas Coach Jerry Tarkanian said he has no one to match up against Le<"kner: "Tark is the big- gest moaner, cner and sniveler on the face of thP earth. You'd think his guys \\ere choirbo. ·s. · Conference Boasting • The Pac-IO finally won an NC \A Tournament game, its first one since 1984. But it was hardly a good showing as western teams from the supposedly inferior West- ern Athletic Conference put out the two Pac-10 representatives. UCLA beat Central 111ichigan, then Jost to Wyoming, the WAC's third-place team, which had a loss to Hardin.Simmons. Arizona lost at home to Texas-El Paso. The Pac-IO is 1-8 in the NCAAs the last three sea- sons. • The \,VCAC went O-for-2 (San Diego and Santa Clara) and has w0n an NCAA Tournament game the last five seasons. The WCAC is 1-10 in the NCAA since 1980.

Ereryone Is Walching • Worst insider's betting tidbit: Florida's Vernon Maxwell is doubt- ful for the Tournament because of an injury. He scored 28 points in the Gators' victory over North Carolina State and had 24 more in their rout of Purdue. Thanks for the tip. • Alabama's Derrick McKey is an outstanding basketball player, but will someone please get him a pair of shorts that fit before he em- barrasses himself on national TV? • Best TV replay: DePaul Coach Joey Meyer, in slow motion, mouthing the words, "What's he do- ing?" as DePaul's Dallas Comegys intentionally misses a foul shot with 12 seconds left and DePaul down by two. The miss led to an offensive rebound and DePaul's game-tying basket with five seconds left. • Too bad: If Austin Peay had pulled a second upset by beating Providence in overtin 1 e, Governors Coach Lake Kelly would have been known as the Peay Brain.