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Tickets are $7.50; call Nordstrom , 740-0170. San Diego Museum of Art. Mem- bers of The President's Circle will be guests at Joyce and Gene Klein's Del Rayo Stables in Rancho Santa Fe from 4 to 6 p.m. next Sun- day, Sept. 18. Those stables are th; training home of "Winning C lors the 1988 Kentucky Derby winner. The circle Is open to those contnb- uting $1 250 annually to the muse- um; call 232-7931. . Committee of 100. Prospective members are welcome to attend the 21st annual membership tea from 2 to 4 p.m Sept. 27 in the Robert Conley home. There ls no admis- sion. but call 223-1362 for reserva- tions. · Globe Guilder . Neil Simon's new play "Rumors' will have Its world premiere Sept. 22 on the stage of the old Globe Theatre, with a black- tie dinner belorehand in the Sculp ture Garden Cale, San Diego Muse- um of Art. There will be a hosted cocktail hour at 5: 15 p.m. Reserva- tions are $30 per person, call 231- 1941. Dates ahead Uni1'el'.fitl, of Sa~ l)iego Auxifulty, "Opulent puons f~w. Oct . 26, Mission Ball- room, Town & Country Convention

and the Sqmres International Dance Band. Jan and Ed Hayman of Lemon Grove are chairmen Tickets are $15 for KPBS members, $18 for others m advance; $20 at the door Call 594-2574 SPINOFFS The Bomia League, American Cancer Society. The eighth "Eve- ning of Wine and Roses" will fea- ture Cahlornia boutique wines and will begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the home of the William Cannons. Tick- ets are $20, call 299-4200 KIN Wyk Society, Museum of M n. lhe lively Doo Ann Johnston and The Slightly Gullded Lily Re- view will provide a "Hot Time In The Old Town Saloon" Saturday at the Old Time Open Air Theatre, at Con- gress and Mason Streets. It all starts at 6:30 p.m. with no-host cocktails, and guests weanng 1888 attire, general saloon wear. or de- igner jeans at the very least Res- ervations are $35; call 239-2001 Casa de Amparo. A fall fashion how and continental breakfast at Nordstrom in North County Fair at 8:30 a.m Saturday will beneUt the eris, center for abused children.

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ond w,th 60 points behind Cal Stat(' San Bernardino's 30 USD's Sue Chen (20:07) won the individual title. The USIU women's team beat visiting Claremont, 7-1. Freshman Sally Weigand ha,d a go_al and three assists, and Laurie Chns• terisen and Erin Paterson each scored twice. USIU will host Cal Stale Dominguez Hills Thursday at 1 p.m. . . The UCSD women's _team beat Whitman College, 2-0, lo wm the Pomona-Pitzer Tournament. Soccer -

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"We're trying to ca II attention to the fact that this barrage of (televi• sion) advertising you've been seeing 1s coming out of your pocket," he said. Common Cause supports Proposi- • lions 100 and 103, which tie rates to driving records and mandate cuts of up to 20 percent. Insurance rndustry spokesman George Tye said that rates have not been increased to finance the cam- paign and lhat the $40 million-plus cost partially has been borne by stockholders. He said defeat of Prop- ·' ositions 100 and 103 and approval of the two industry-backed measures P ropositions 104 and 106, would sav~ policyholders money. Tye said the millions being spent by the insurance industry were being used to "save consumers billions." "It's a good investment," he said. Proposition 104 would mandate no- fau!t auto insurance, requiring that pohc!holders be reimbursed by their own msuranre company for damages up to a limit. Tye said no-fault would reduce litigation and cut costs. Prop- osition 106 would cap attorney con- tingency fees. .. . The fifth measure, Proposition 101, 1s backed by a maverick insurance executive and would reduce certain components of auto insurance rates. • In a related event, the "Yes on Prop. 100" campaign yesterday showed reporters two new television advertisements that claim the insur- ance industry's initiatives and cam- paign are misleading. The Proposi- tion 100 campaign is primarily fund- ed by California trial lawyers.

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Nad will debate on • insurance O'Connell also on agenda for forum here Sunday A debate between two of the nation's insurance heavyweights, Ralph Nader and Jeffrey O'Connell, headlines a high-powered, comprehensive forum this Sunday on California's complicated insurance ballot initiatives. The forum, which is sponsored by the University of San Diego Jaw school, is aimed at giving Tue vo ers a v1 1c Ur o e insurance campaign in California that may end up as one of the na- tion's most expensive ballot-box fighls But even as the war among the initiatives heats up on television sets, the forum erupted with its own controversy. The architect of Prop. 101, Harry Miller, yester- day said he withdrew from the event in protest of what he considers ,an unequal division of time among the speakers. In a press release, Miller said he has urged Nader and O'Connell to return their speaking fees, and he has asked other speakers to join the boycott. As of late yesterday, Miller was the only hold- out, and law ~chool acting Dean Grant Morris defended theobJect1V1ly of the forum, Consumer activist Nader and O'Connell, the so- called "Father of No-Faull,• will .r:,ut the insur- ance debate in historical per ·pective without tak- ing sides, Morris said. Pr nents of each initia- tive then will ask them questions, present arguments for the measures and take questions from Nader and O'Connell. "We want to make all sides available to the public" in a "fair and thorough inquiry," Morris said. "What we are trying to do is shed a little light rather than heat on the issues." Morris acknowledged that Nader has endorsed one of the initiatives, Prop. 103, but he said the consumer activist's comments will be limited to the general debate over insurance reform; he will not be permitted to expound on his support for a specific measure. See lnsuran~e ot Page 8-4

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"7111 come a bureaucrat and I saw me or the SJgns setting m." Ir bureaucratic demands were au ing paralysis m Krantz. fow 1nem rs or the legal community ol1ced Dunng his seven years on the )Ob, the hberal cnmlnal justice xp"rl was extraordmanly active, parkmg or gu1dmg a host or ~,rograms that are highly alued f x ur o the San D ego County I nd cape today. Those who worked w,lh Krantz on such projects de cnbe him as a mgly tirele s leader, an idea man w1lh the ab1hly to make things happen without even breaking a w at 'heldon ts a doer, and 1f you have any long conversation Wlth him you·11 realize he belt ve the legal profession owes something to society. that its purpose 1s not Just to take but to give," said former U.S Atty M James Lorenz_ "I don't know any other person m the egal profession who has put sur.h e

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the faculty agreed that the type of troubles Krantz encountered as dean are commonplace in acade- mia, particularly law schools. In their view, even the most diplo- matically skilled administrator can only survive so long in an environ - ment of thin-skinned scholars with competing projects and ideas. "There was an erosion of collegi- a before Sheldon go ere, 1t continued while he was here and it will undoubtedly exist after he leaves," Alexander said. As for his plans, Krantz says he's not sure -what he'll do. Private practice is a possibility, as is a return to teaching. For now, he's spending his sabbatical m an offic~ at UC San Diego, serving as "schol- ar in residence" and working on his book, "The Future of the Legal Profession." A former director of Boston University's Center for Criminal Justice, Kr<\ntz also will serve as the next chairman of the American Bar Assn.'s prestigious Criminal Justice Council. And it's unlikely his appetite for community activ- ism will peter out. . 'Tm sure I'll find things to do," he said with a wry grin. "I don't expect to be bored."

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moved l.llto town. Al that point, the Law Center Wlthdrew from that arena. In another pioneer venture, Hallstrom m 1986 gathered 20 tabor, legal, religious and social service groups under the Law Center umbrella to assist undocu- u ' applying for legali- za 100 llnder the federal 1mmigra- uon acL At the urging of Krantz, the Law Center board also formed a blue- nbbon commission that recom- mended abolishing San Diego County's widely criticized system of providing a cr1mmal defense for indigents. A search is now under way for a Public Defender to take over the indigent defense job. Great Motivator Attorney Dan Grindle, chairman of the Law Center's Board of Directors, said such accomplish- ments grew out of Krantz's skill "as the ultimate politician-and I mean that ma complimentary way. "Sheldon has an uncanny ability motivate people. Generating gran funds, mobihzmg volunteers and taking dollars to support these programs from an already over- qurdep university budget takes Herculean efforts," Grmdle said. "Sheldon made it look easy." On campus, meanwhile, Krantz built en seeds planted by Donald Weck leln, his predecessor in the dean.ship and now a tenured pro- fessor a USO. Dunng Weckstein's llln ears a d , hool's tud l body expanded, the faculty grew m size and stature, master's progr.mu m law were instituted, (nd D's highly acclaimed sum- mer e1gn programs m compara- tive la were founded. De~1te such strides, USD-part- lybecallse of its youth-remained a school with a reputation largely lJm1ted to Southern California in l-981. ,Krantz, many observers say, tiegan.to change that. "Kr ntz has great national con- nections. He brought a touch of modernism to USO and started to move the school upward, mto the big leagues,'' said John Cleary, a enmmal defense attorney who has Uiugh at USD. ''They had been in the bemgn middle, muddling along. Ac was a breath of fresh air." Dur;lng Krantz's tenure, both

about $6,000 in donations was con- tnbuted to the law school by 70 alumm, university figures show. In 1986, $60,000 was contributed by 545alumni. At the law center, about $1 million in grants and government contracts was brought in during Krantz's tenure; Grindle said all but 24,000 was raised through the efforts of Hallstrom and Krantz. Finally, the university is $2 mil- hon down the road toward con- struction of its $6 million law library expansion. One area in which Krantz feels he had the least success is curricu- :um reform. Llke many of his contemporaries, Krantz is a strong believer that legal education needs a new emphasis on ethics and professional responsibility- strengths the public rarely attrib- utes to attorneys these days. But attempts to implement that goal- al USD and many other law schools-have been resisted by faculty who believe the traditional way of moldmg legal mintls is the best way. "Our need, as I see it, is to focus more on policy and values as opposed to substantive law, doc- trine and analytical reasoning," said Krantz. "We're trying to build that into the curriculum. But there 1s resistance and a lack of agree- ment on how best to do it." Two USD committees are study- mg the question. Already, the number of hou p ot ssors devote to profesSJonal responsibility issues in class has increased. Krantz says that it was in this area of "searchmg for ways to change legal education" that he was caught in the cross fire be- tween "a variety of disagreements" among faculty members. He said there were also ongoing divisions over "whether we should empha- size internal activities or communi- ty work, whether more time should be spent on fund raising or faculty activities." Some faculty members say Krantz's leadership style-de- scribed by Prof. Friedman as "not highly consultative"-irked some professors. "People wanted him to practice the polit·cs of inclusion, a la Mi- chael Dukakis," former dean Weckstem said. "They wanted

In one ad, a man blasts an insur- ance i~d_ustry cla!m that passage of Proposition 100 will raise rates in 54 counties, while lowering them in Los Angeles, Orange, Fresno and San Francisco counties. , ; Steven Miller, one of the authors of Proposition 100, later said the insur- ance advertising message "is a big lie" because his measure will reduce rates for good drivers everywhere. Tye claimed that there is no way rates can be reduced throughout the state without the insurance industry abandoning California. In the other television spot, a farmer shoveling a dung heap criti- cizes the insurance industry's "pile of propositions." Both advertisements began airing l~t. weekend, according to the Prop- os1tJon 100 campaign.

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1rlsura,nce: Forlilti will offer Nader Continued from 8-1 A spokeswoman for the law school said Miller's seat will be held open for his reconsideration. The USD forum, which begins at 7 p.m. in the 1,000-seat Camino The- ater, is the only full analysis of the initiatives in the slate so far, accord- ing to Morns. Reservations are re- qmred and can be made by calling 260-4650. Both Nader and O'Connell have been leaders in the national insur- ance debate over the past 25 years. Nader has opposed no-fault concepts in favor of insurance reform. O'Con- nell pioneered no-fault concepts now in effect in 24 states. After the Nader-O'Connell debate the following speakers will talk about the insurance initiatives: Har- vey Levine, president-elect of the California Trial Lawyers Associa- tion, Prop. 100; Harvey Rosenfield, head of Voter Revolt to Cut Insur- ance Rates, Prop. 103; and Sam Sor- ich, insurance industry representa- tive, Props. 104 and 106. _... .....-

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