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USO 81, Texas-Arlington 64 At San Diego, Marty Munn scored 21 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead the Uni- versity of San Diego. E(re'in" Leonard a~mts for the Toreros, ·who made 30 of their 51 field goal attempts and were 10 of 15 from 3 point range m winn- mg their fourth straight game. Munn made five of his eight 3-point field goal attempts and teammate Danny Means was three of four. Means finished with 13 points. San Diego. 7-4, scored the game's first 12 points in leading all the way. It was 12-30 al halftime and Texa Arlington, 2-6, wasn't closer than mnc pomts after that Seton Hall 71, Conn. 58 James Major scored 25 points and ignited a decisive 10· 1 second-ha)( run with a 3-point basket as Seton Hall defeated Connecticut in the Big East, snapping the Huskies' five-game winning streak. Mass. 69, Penn State 51 Lorenzo Sutton tied an Atlantic 10 and school record with eight 3-point field goals and scored a game-high 28 points in leading Massachusetts. UAB 85, Miss. Valley 67 Seven foot-one Alan Ogg came off the bench to score 18 points as Alabama-Birmmgham pulled away in the second half. Tim Pollard scored 23 of his game- high 26 points in the second half for Mississippi Valley. Air Force 89, USIU 68 Mike Hammond, who was ejected late in the game along with three other pla~·ers, threw in 22 points in leading host Air Force past U.S. International.

It also leaves open questions on whether researchers dug deep enough on the site to excavate all the See Miasion on f age B-2 Mission: Archaeological study disputed Continu d from B-1 0 Raymond S. Brande , dean of the "Litigation is no fun for anybody, The history of the m1SSion is a his- igmficanl artifact/, h ai USD graduate school and one of th b_ut in my view ,!he rights of the ,:"is· ~ory of p~iests struggl!ng to surv!ve Ind pendent archaeologists asked chief authors of the report, could not s1on are clear, Worley said. The ID the wilderness while expand~ng by critics of the plan to evaluat the be reached for _commen_t. . . city no power to hold up that th~ ~ission and te~ching Chnstian r port hav term d it " riou ly d • A compromise solut1on, ID which permit. . pr1Dc1ples to the Indians. flcient" to back up it cond ions the hall could be constructed with a The city's unflattering evaluallon Those principles were not always and said It bia d by undocument- minimum impact ?n the grounds and of the USO re~rt will be t~e f~us_of accepted, and in 1775 ne~rly 1,000 In- d personal opinion. under the superv1S1on of an independ- a Jan. 27 meeting of the Hlstonc Site d1ans attacked the misswn, et 1t on drian Pr tz lh , a s nta Rosa ent archaeolog , had been under Board. . fire and killed one o~ ~he th_ree arch eolo 1 t, not d that th r port discussion. . Membei:s of the Committee _for the priests _there. A later m1ss1?n pnest ha many typographical errors and Under the compromISe, the holes Preservation of M1 s1on_San Diego_ de was poisoned to death by his Indian som unintelligible entenc . for 20 support piling for the hall Alcala say the entire m1ss1on cook. In addition th lac of m p. would he dug by hand under the su- grounds should be carefully pre- The Indians were sometimes tr~at- ver y limits 'th' use of th report as pervision of an independent archi- served because it represents one of ed harshly by the priests and soldiers a 1· ning docurn nt ' Praetzellis t ct. The ruins would be preserved the earliest locations of West~rn- at the mission. Some historians and wrtte a Jett r to th: city "!\ di • for future excavation by being filled style civilization on the Amencan Indian scholars say that as the m1s- turbmg a the omisswn noted 1 the in with sand and covered with a soil. sions grew, the culture of the Indians nJection of pe nal opmlon mlo cement floor. . _ The gr~unds of the mission_ hav_e was sto!en, replaced with disease and what 15 pr s nt d a an a ademic re- But that compromise 1s now already yielded hundreds of h1ston- starvallon.

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USO bask tball Jane Gilpm ha "oeen honoted as the West Coast Athletic Conference's player of the week. Gilpin, a 5-foot-9 guard-for- ward, scored 32 points ID two games as the Toreras opened conference ac- tion with victories over ½oyola Mar- ymount, 60-56, and preseason favor- ite Pepperdine, 62-60 in overtime. Gilpin shot 61.9 percent from the field in the two games.

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cal artifacts, including musket balls, Spanish coins. Indian pottery and bone fragments. A visitor once found an 1890 pocket knife emerging from a crack in the parking lot p~vement Serra, who may be canonized as a Roman Catholic saint, established 21 miss_ion~ along the West Coast before M1ss10n San Diego de Alea.la was originally located in what 1s now Presidio Park, ~ut was moved to M1ss1_on Va~ley m 1774 because of confhcts with Spamsh soldiers sta- he died ID 1784. .

Generally, the Indian, soldier and white residents of the mission numbered several hundred or less. Mexican independence from Spain in 1823 spelled the death of the mis- sion system in California. By 1835, the missions had ceased to function and the once-ex_tensiv~ c~op production at the San Diego m1ss10n had dwindled to nothmg. The Mexican government ordered the mission property se!zed but it was occupied by American troops

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h~s been produced, "neither the re- view nor approval by ~~yone on the sion to begin constr 1ction on the hall. . Worley said t~at the chu~ch had _a nght .to the bu1ldmg per~t, and_ 1f the city refused to issue 1t, negoha- lions or litigation were the options. report 1s a prerequ 0 1le for the rms-

SAN DIEGO-Another one of those bigger, stronger and quicker ta Kc tball trnms will auive at the ~"l .sports Center tonight to play thl University of :::,an Diego Tore- ros, who thought thty saw enough :iod athletes last weekend at Loy- " ',lary mount and Pepperdine The Toreros, who lost to Loyola, 1 -75, and Pepperdine, 92-77. p ay host to the University of San Franci6CO at 7:30 p.m. . he one thing we learned dur- tne first two games 1s t;mt--we ave to play together," said USD Coach Hank Egan, whose team is 0-2 in the 1/est Coast Athletic Conference. "If we're going to play me -against-them basketball, it's not going to work. We have to commit to us against them." USF, like Loyola and Pepperdine, is athletically superior to USO. The Dons (10-5, 2-0) will n.. n, trap on defense and try to force turnovers, of which USD had 46 in its first two conference games. Mark McCathrion, a 6-foot 8- mch all-conference forward, leads USF in scoring (15.5) and re- bounding (6.J ) "We don't have anyone who can handle him one-on-one," Egan said. "That"s why we have to commit to a team game."

USO forward Mike Haupt, who missed the first two confr:rence games because of a death in the family. will return to the starting lineup. He lead. the team in re- bounding with a 6.5 average. Craig Cottrell will contume to start at guard m place of Efrem Leonard, who played ~ome before he sprained his left ankle in the Pepperdme game. -CHRIS ELLO

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Mission: Excavation report disputecl Continued from B-2 -,ti 1968. · Diego ae Alcala, question the • ,,t.. j '7 But mce then, independent ar- church's tactics and refusal to make from. 1847 ~nil! about 1862, when chaeologists have not been allowed its findings public. P~es1dent LIDcoln returned owner- to participate or ob erve the diggmg, "It is not acceptable to withhold hip of a~ut 22 ac~es to _the c~urch. and the locatio? of the Indian grave- the location of the Indian eemetery The mis ion fell into d1STepa1r, and yard on the site has not been re- for 'security' purposes from peers ID 1924 all but six of !-he 22 acres vealed for security reasons, accord- and the city of San Diego," May were granted to the 1 t rs of the ing to church officials. wrote. ''The fact that they stopped Nazareth, wh~ today operate a day But critics like archaeologist Ron digging at a tile floor (on the building school and _retirement home t~ere May, a member of the Committee for site) means they do not know what is Restoral!on finally began m 1927, the Preservation of Mission San below." and today, modern buildings in the ::::::;:-~--~-~----~~~ California mi sion tyle surround a courtyard cont mng a rephca of the original fountain at th m 10n. One small bu1ld1Dg and a few cat- tered wall remam from the early mission buildings, and th rums o' San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 123,092)

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"Fundamentalism" will be addressed by Father Robert Kress Feb. 9 and 16 from 7-9:30 p.m. in DeSaies 209. Sponsored by the Institute for Christian Ministries. For more information call 260-4784. ' . A "Super Bowl Party" for USO gift club members will be held Jan. 27 at 6 p.m. in the University Center. Featured guest will be NBC sports announcer Dick Enberg. Cost Is $25. For more call 260-4724. •. A "Martin Luther King Memorlal Lecture" featuring author/activist Mia Angelou will be held Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m. In Camino Theater. Sponsored by the Social Issues Committee. Free. For details, call 260-4682.

few crude walls and floors uncovered durmg excavation arc preserved near the m1 on gift hop. Other r n , le d fined and ove~- grown w 1th vegetation, are scheduled to oon becom th 1te of the new church bu1ld10 Con truchon of th hall will pro- v1d a place for wo hipers and llow a small building now used as a meeting hall to be op ned for display of excavated artifact , Eagen aid The con truction would take eight month to complete and cost about $800,000, according to the church'~ architect USO ludents and faculty began excavating the mission site in

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,,Toreros back on friendly floor against torrid Dons y Kirk Ke~ir:, Egan. "We rushed to get our butts kicked (against second start of his career against the Dons (2-0, 10-

Lorola Marymount). We played better against Pepperdine. I've got a young ballclub. I can't make them grow up. We're going to fight some battles. Hopefully, we'll continue to play better."

5). USO will start freshman John Sayers and jun- ior Mike_ Haupt. Haupt, the team's r~~unding leader with 6.5 a game, returns after m1ssmg last USF arrives for tomorrow's game with' a five- game winning streak, including home wins last week against Gonzaga and Portland. The Dons are led by junior center Mark McCathrion's 15.5 points and 6.1 rebounds a game. Senior forward Patrick Clardy is averaging 11.9 points. Former Grossmont College guard Rodney Tention, who started earlier in the season, is averaging 9.9 points off the bench. week's road trip.

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La, t weekend it was the danger zone. This week it' the comfort zone. Home sweet home. USD bapes to end a two-game losing streak when it beginJ a three-game homestand tomorrow

For the third time in four games, the Toreros night at 7.30 agatru t USF. The Toreros have won will be without po1Dt guard Efrem Leonard. Leon- six traight gam s at the USO Sp0rts Center. And ard missed games against Weber State and Loyola that'~ a comforting thought. Marymount with a sprained right ankle. He came Loyola larymount made USO (0-2, 8-7) feel off the bench and played well against Pepperdine, very uncomfortable last Frida31 night in Los Ange- but sprained his left ankle in the second half. Jes, beating the Toreros 115-75. USO played better Sophomore Craig Cotrell, who scored a career- the following night in a 92-77 loss at Pepperdine. high 20 points against the Waves, will replace "We've got to stay together and not let one error Leonard. Junior Danny Means will be at the other lead to another error," said USO coach Hank guard spot. Freshman Dondi Bell will make the