News Scrapbook 1988

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Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles Co.) Los Angeles Daily Journal (Cir. 5 x W. 21,287) APR 29 1988

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UC Irvine Noteb~ok / Ann Killion

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Oie.- Patton, UC Irvine's men's tennis t·oach, should be relieved that llic Anteaters don't have a football Lca111 If they did , the rootb.ill tc,m1 n11ght have gollen lo Trevor Kro111,rnann flrst. Kron cma nn, a sop homore, doesn't <'Xattly look like a tennis player. I le looks more like a tight end. Uut Kroncmann, who 1s G feet inches tall and weighs 230 pounds, is a maJor reason for the Anteater ' success this season. The team, which will open play m the Pac1r1c Coa t Athletic Assn. cham- p1onsh1ps at Las Cruces, N.M., I-'riday, is 21 6. Kroncmann, the No. 2 sing! s player, is 23 13 ov rail and I 8 in dual in,1lches. Kronemann, who moved from 51st Lo 34th m th most recent natinnal rankings, has beaten sec- ond ranl.l·tl Scott Mclv1llc of USC, t111rd-1·anl:rd Andrew SznaJder of P >'f'lllle, I Ith-ranked Greg r'arll.i ofE:tt '.,talc Long Heach and 3:Jrd,rankcd P.itr1ck Galbraith of UC />., Kro11c11iann and Mike Briggs are the ninth-ranked doubles team in the nation. "Trevor comes on like Rambo, fmng bazookas at you," Patton said. "lie Jusl doesn't know how hard he hils the ball." When Kroncmann was younger, he did play football and also soccer. When he lived m Wisconsin and Minnesota, he even played 1cc hockey for a while. But tennis, which he started playmg when he was 3, was always his main sport. And when hi family moved to Brad 11!011, f•'Ja., wh n Kroncmann was 9, he enrulled 111 Nick Dol!et- llcn·~ T nnis Academy and con- e ntratcd on tennis. Patton r,rst noticed Kroncmann when he was a high school senior playrng 011 the Junior national team, Kroncmann was being recruited by Tennessee, but he was mlcre led m gomg to to liege m California. Kroncmann and Pallon say that mosL Caltforrua coaches were wor- ried Lhat this hulkmg player was too heavy to succeed at the college level. "Some of them thought I was crazy," Patton said. "But he has so much Lal nt and a real charisma on the court. ~'or a coach, it's a challenge," Last season, as a freshman, Kro- ncm ann earned NCAA All- Am~ncan honors by rcarhing the round of 16 al the NCAA tourna- ment. But earlier this year, Pallon was concerned about Kronemann's phys1c,1I co11d1tion. Last fall, Kro- ncmann uffcred from nagging m- 1ur1es such as pulled hack muscles because of the extra weight he was carrying. Patton was concerned that he might not last through three sets. Kroncrnann slarted the season at 250 pounds, but ,1 loss to Patrick McEnroe of Stanford opened his eyes. "J knl)W I was out of shape," he said. "J Just wasn't playmg well. I could have beat him." So Kronemann went on a strict diet and has dropped 20 pounds in the last four weeks. Durmg that period, he took over the No. 1 singles spot for a few weeks while Mark Kaplan was sidelined with an illness. Krone- mann started playing what he said is the best lenms of his life. 'Tm a lazy person, I guess," Kronemann said. "I never see what

In three reports so far to the Legislature he has criticized the backlog of uninvestigated complaints, underfundmg and "structural in- firmities" in the State Bar's system. Among his recommendations is a proposal to remove the process from the State Bar and turn it over to an independent agency. Criticized California Sy tt'm Fellmeth told the HALT convention that Cali- fornia's syste of assurmg quality legal ser- vices "has been in shambles for years," but it is "better than most states." complained that the bar exam is "shallow" in its testing; retesting, continuing education and specialty testing are not rC

~bert Fellmeth excoriated the processes by w ich lawyers are trained and regulated for committing the legal profession to "moral abdication." Felhneth, the keynote speaker Thursday at a national legal reform convention in Washing- ton, D.C., said law schools train students to find ambiguities rather than answers, and law- yers engage:: in a practice that seeks advantage for a client instead of striving to discover the truth_ "They are never taught that some answers are better than others, that some things are worth working for, fighting for and, on occa- Fellmeth suggested in an interview after- ward that the traditional Socratic method o teaching be abandoned after the first year of law school and that other teaching techniques that provide answers instead of "moral relativ- ism' be used in the second and third years. Instead of trying to create more business for themselves, he told the HALT convention, law- yers, legal educators and lawmakers should promote the use of paralegals and alternative dispute resolution to reduce the expense and delay for consumers. In addition, he said, changes are needed in the attorney-discipline system, including ag- gressive investigation of complaints, effective festing and retesting, removal from practice of incompetent or corrupt individuals and a speedier, less complicated appeal process. His address, kicking off the two-day HALT conference, was warmly received. HALT is a national nonprofit organization that advocates more affordable legal services by increased use of nonlawyers and more consumer protec- tion from dishonest or inept lawyers. Fellmeth, a la\lf professor and director of the Center for Public1nterest Law at the Universi- ty of San Diego Law School, was named to the legislatively created post of bar monitor in January 1987 to examine the California State Bar's attorney-discipline system and to recom- sion, dying for," he said. Abandon Socratic Method

Irvine's Trevor Kronemann says he has played the best tennis of his life since he lost 20 pounds. I can do until I actually do 1t. Now I'm beginning to see where tennis can take me."

San Diego State, ranked 19th in the nation, is favored to win its third straight league title. Irvine is 18-6 and unranked. • After a two-week hiatus, Ir- vine's crew will return to action Sunday in the Newport Regatta. Other schools competing include Orange Coast College, USC, UCLA, Cal State Long Beach, 1.-iyola Mar~ ...YI!!Q_unt and the Universitv of 8an The first race is scheduled for 8 a.m. at the North Lido Channel off Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach. • The Bren Center is lhe site of the NCAA West Regional men's vol- leyball selection tournament, which opens tonight. Four Western Intercollegiate Volleyball Assn. learns will be competing for an at-large berth in the NCAA semifinals in Fort Wayne, Ind., May 6-7. USC, the top-ranked team in the nation, automatically advanced by win- ning the WIV A title. Tonight, second-seeded UC San- ta Barbara will play No. 3 UCLA, the defending national champion, at 6 p.m. and top-seeded Hawaii wilrplay No. 4 Pcpperdine at 8 p.m. The wmners of tonight's match- es will meet in Saturday's final at 7,J0p.m. Tickets, available at the Bren Center and through Ticketron, are $6and $3. Profits will benefit Irvine's learn, which finished the season with a 7-18 overall record and won the Southern California Volleyball

Conference championship by de- feating UC San Diego last weekend. • The UCI Track and Field Invita- tional will be held this weekend, with the women's competition Sat- urday and the men's Sunday. Headlining lhe women's invita- tional arc Bonnie Dasse, competing in lhe shotput, and Ruth Wysocki, Regina .Jacobs and Kerri Zaleski in the 800 meters. In the men's competition, Brazil's Tom Hintnaus leads the pole vault field, Nigerian record-holder Ade Olukoju will compete in the shotput and Canadian national record- holder Kyle McDuffy will be in the long jump. • Four Irvine track athletes quali. fied for the NCAA track champi- onships at last weekend's Mt. SAC. Senior Gus Quinonez qualified for the 10,000 meters with a time of 29 minutes 9.4 seconds. Junior Beth McGrann, running the 10,000 me- ters for the first time, qualified in that event with a lime of 33,55.0. nd Judy McLaughhn and Buffy Rabbitt qualified in the 1,500 me- ters. McLaughlin, a senior, ran a personal best of 4:18.03, and Rab- bitt, a sophomore, finished in 4:18.38. The NCAA championships are scheduled for June 1-4 in Eugene, Ore. Anteater Notes

There is one unpleasant s1drs effect of Kronemann's new svehe look. Until now, his teammates had called Kronemann "Tank," an ap propnate nickname for the power player with a lethal forehand. Dut now they have taken lo calling slimmed-down Kronemann ..1'1nker" "I don't know about that mck- namc," Kroncmann said "J think I hke 'Tank' better." • The Anlealers are seekrng their seventh PCAA tennis tille this weekend. Irvme is well m front of the rest of the conference. UC Santa Barba- ra-which lost to the Anteaters, 7-2, Tuesday-is in second place with a 16-7 record. San Jose State is 13-13 and Fresno State is 12-14. Irvine has won the conference champ1onsh1p five times-in 1981, '83, '84, '85 and '87-since Patton took over as coach. "When I started [in 1980]. we were fifth in the conference," Pat- ton said. "And now we're fifth m the nation." That's the highest ranking ever for the Anteater~. who moved up from No. 6. Stanford, Louisiana State, USC and Pcpperdinc are ahead of Irvine. The conference finals will be Sunday at 1 p.m. • While liie men's team headed cast to New Mexico, the women's tennis learn flew west to Hawaii for the PCAA women's championships at the University of Hawaii.

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Bill Mulllrao, Irvine basketball coach, has signed Troy Wblleto, a 6-2 guard from Sant.J Monica College, to a leller of intent. Whiteto, who did not play baskelball last season, averaged 8 pornts and 4.2 assists tn 1986-87 al Santa Monica.... No. 3 sin- gles player Richard Lubner suffered a cul above hrs left eye when he was h1l by a racket Monday during practice. But he came back Tuesday and defeated S,ott Mone, 6-2, 6-3, and will play this week- end. . . . Lubner is • 6th in the current national rankings. No. I singles player Mark Kaplan advanced to No. 24.... Irvine freshman Mike Surkllnr finished second in last week's Nevada Reno Goll lnvitattonaJ, shooting 222 with rounds of 70, 73 and 79. . . . The Irvine baseball team has dropped four games rn a row. II was swept rn a three-game series by Cal State Fullerton and lost Tuesday lo San / Diego SI.Ile. /

Irvine Loses Despite Record for Oberdank Jeff Oberdank set a UC Irvme single-season hit record with a home run in the first inning, but Southern California College defeated the Anteaters, 4 3, m a nonconferencc baseball game Tuesday at Irvine. Oberdank, a senior second baseman from Fullerton College, has 89 hits, one more than Mike Hirano had in 1979. It was the sixth consecutive loss for Irvine (26-26-1 ). Mark Deushane threw a 6-hitter with 11 strikeouts for Southern California (20-23).

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