News Scrapbook 1988

n Francisco, CA San Francisco Co.) ecorder (C,r. 6 x W. 5,346) JUL 5 1988

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..Att~.. ·• , C I ,,u Democrats on U.S. Senate Committee Kills· an Ninth Circuit Nomination ~95 Prcs1dc11t Re,,gan nominated Siegan for the inth ( ircuit U.. Court of Appeals. , .,

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h, court ha, jurisdiction over California, la! ka, Ariwna, Hawaii, Idaho, Mon- tana, vnda, Or gon, Washington, (,uam nd th orthcm Mariana Islands. The r j tion ol a proli fie writer on the law, who expr trong conservative vi w , was reminiscent of Robert Bork' un ucce ful attempt to win confirma11on to the Supreme Court last year. Although the wntings of Bork and S1egan do not always coincide, both provoked an uneasy feeling among Dem- ocr 11 that they might try to impose their p r on I view 0\Cr Supreme Court prcccd nt . Although the Amencan Civil L1berues Cnion opposed Bork's nomination. there was no reaction to Thursday' develop- ment by the organ1zat1on' San Franc1 co-h cd 'orthern California

lJNION-lllillUNf PUBLISHING CO BERNARD SIEGAN: "If a case comes where r can"'t ob·erve the law of the land I would resign."

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( Jones' college p edge is making 'Believers' By John Gaines Staff Writer

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son. "You'd be a fool to tbrow it away." Getting youngsters like Marlon - a capable boy who in· the past has been known to run with the wrong crowd, his mother says - in a p()Si- tion to take advantage of that oppor tunity is wbat Year One of "Project I Believe" has been all about. The project, announced in 1987 by See College on Page f:t-4

Sandra Huff knows what it's like to see opportunity slip away. About 17 years ago, as a San Diego High School senior, she won a college scholarship. She was six months pregnant at gra uation, however, and never earned that coveted uni- versity degree. Now the Southeast San Diego woman's youngest son, Marlon McWilson, has an even grander op- portunity: at the age of 12, Marlon • has a guarantee that his college edu- cation, like those of his former class- mates at Kennedy Elementary School, will be paid for. All Marlon has to do is stay out of trouble, and make the kind of grades college re- quires.

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The San Diego Union/Scotl Llnnett Coordinator Jeff Carroll, left, talks to stu- work. The students, formerly of Kennedy-Ele- ents Shanita Duncan, Joanna Whitley and mentary, participate in "Project I Bereve," Shannon Jones about next year's school which promises them a college education.

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"It's there, on a silver platter," Huff, a single parent, has told her CollegJ: Jones plan is making 'Believe s' ~(Is~ ..,....,.~~i:'l'""~-........ students recommended that Jones intended to provide support for the Continued frnm B- 1. /' _ "work out a schedule" whic'h would youngsters and get them through -former San Diego City Councilman help him get his work done and ease high school successfully, there is the William Jones promised t? pay for the pressu~e and Jones agreed that matter of money be post-secondary educa~1on of 68 he certainly should. Prior to the money raised from students in last year's sixth-grade As for the youngsters, Carroll has ticket sales for Saturday's dinner, dass at Kennedy, a Southeast school seen most of their report cards and Project I Believe had spent slightly in an area plagued ?Y a high dropout says that all of those students were less than, $10.000 in the past year and ate and gang act1v1ty. sue ·.ssfully promo ed to the eighth had $124,000 in its coffers. Schultz This Saturday at the Town and grade. There have been no problems says the latest estim~te is that it will Country Hotel th? rema1m~g 67 stu- -~-, at juvemle court, be said. take about $2 m1lhon to see the d~nts of Kennedy s class of 87 - one And Edward Cain, the principal at promise through, although a number girl has moved out of the area - will Kennedy says he was encouraged of variables - whether to include lbe hon?red at a dmner that. should L._...:::::,____.______._ __,,.. when a f~w parents of the class of '87 room and board, for example - are help raise art of the substantial sum File photo called for help in finding tutors for undetermined. of money ttll ne_eded to back up their youngsters. Cain referred them In the meantime, a few parents Jones' grand promise. William Jones to the proJect, and a tutor was found. say they are seeing a small change in Jones, 33, who. spe~t the year ~t Project founder Jones and bis organization have their cbildrens' lives. Marlon's fami- Harvar_d Umvers1ty m th_e _sch~ls several plans for Year Two. Con- ly, with Carroll's help, bas _moved Masters of Busm: .t\dm1mst_ration officer who is now the project's coor- tracts are being drawn that reflect away from some of the kids his _pro~~• says he JS satisfied with the dinator. "They're going from the both what the project expects from mother didn't want her son bangi_ng prpJect s progress. prestige of being at the top of the line parents and students and the finan- around. Marlon says he bas more m- "Jt's been a big year, for the stu- at Kennedy to being low man on th e cial commitment the organization is centive to perform well, in school ents and for me," says Jones, a soft- totem pole" on a new campus. making. and out. _ poken man who currently is work- Some of the Kennedy families Barry Schultz, a project trustee Ard, as a smgle pa!en~, Huf~ _says mg wit4. an investment finn in San moved - th e neighborhood is highly and an attorney, says the docu~ents the help the organization 1s prov1dmg Francisco. transient - but did not notify th e are intended somewhat as friendly IS mvtiluable. ' Some students have been at every project of their new addresses. Car- agreements but says also they will "We are communicating better, single event we've had," he says. At roll operating at times by wo rd ·Of- have some clout. Proje_ct officials and I'~ oomg _more 'mother stuf;, be- the same time ''There are some par- mou t b, had to track th em down. add that the contracts will help bol- cause Im feelmg less pressured, she ents who I don't think have recog- Kennedy has become a more e th ni- ster their credibility with any skepti- said. "I have someone - I can pick rDized the importance of this for the cally diverse school since Jones at• cal parents. up the phone - who cares about my student... tended there more than 20 years ago. Tutorial and support efforts for child." About !2 percent of the class is Lao- d t d I be. Efforts like that of Jones and the tian While Carroll says those fami- parents an s u ents a so are mg organization have become wide- lies are among the project's most ar- sought, and Jones says he wa~ts the spread since New York multimillion- dent supporters, a language barrier students to have more say m the a1re E•1ge e Lang launched the "I slowed the work. The project has workings ~f the group. . . Have-a Dream' Founda ion at his old mce hired a translator. And while the effort is pnmanly elementary school in Harlem seven During the year, the "Believers,' years ago. Tony Lopez, director of as Carroll calls them, bad several ac-~'- --~ support services for Lang's Founda- tivities. They bad a retreat at the tion, says there are at least 62 simi- University of San Diego to get a first- tar projects m cities throughout the band sense of life at college, and country today some of the students had never been The most difficult :;ears in. those on a university campus before. endeavors are the early ones, Lopez There were parties and picnics, says. ''The first years are when the and a study skills workshop to im- bonding . . takes place," Lopez says. prove the students' work habits. A In San Diego, the early signs have family support group was inaugural• been good, but 1t bas been anything ed, because getting parents involved • but easy "is winning more than half the bat- When the students graduated from tie," Carroll says. And the students Kennedy they spread out to junior also heard a talk by a teen-ager who highs across the city. Most attend was involved in gang activity - and nearby Gompers Secondary School caught himself in time to become a or Standley Junior High, but together good student. the 67 students are scattered among All the while, Jones flashed in and 11 schools. That bas made it more out of their lives on whirlwind visits difficult to create a sense of camera• from Cambridge, or telephoned the dene for which the project is striv- youngsters with advice. Sometimes, mg. the advice traveled both W

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