News Scrapbook 1989

Los Angeles.CA (Los Angeles Co .) Times (San Diego Ed .) (Cir . 0 . 50,010) (Cir. S. 55,573)

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DEC6 - 1989 s~µ vs. USD: Big Grune, Small Following By CURT HOLBREICH sand spectators, this game at 7:35 p.m. at burg, "It's important for us; it's important I Jl.lloi 1 1 P. C. 8 f,r I BBB TIMES STAFF WRITER the San Diego Sports Arena might be as for basketball in this city." good as 1t gets, The two leading programs Part of the reason the game might be

USD guard tries to get point Strickland, offense struggle together

missing some of the electricity of other

In the city playmg for the Mayor's Trophy. Of course, the fact that the mayor has never attended the game to present the trophy might say some:hmg about the significance of the event in the overall the city. Nevertheless, the respective coaches were sounding this week as if the game did have some special meaning, even if it took the coaxing of scheme of "I know this game is important to us," USO Coach Hank Egan said. "We take it questtons from the media.

SAN DIEGO-As rivalries go tonight's basketball game between San Diego State and the Uruversity of San Diego will not be confused wnh clie ones bei"g played this week on the East Coast m the nationally televised match up of Atlantic Coast and Big East conference teams. SOSU and USO are not Top 20 powers preparing to put a nauonal rankmg and postseason hopes on the line; they are a pair or 2-3 teams trymg to establish some credibility. But in a city where the average college basketball game draws a couple of thou-

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ning of lorugbt' game against San Diego State at the Sports Arena Jumor transfer Pat Ho!• bert will start at point guard in place of Strick• land Tblngs haven't gotten any better this season for Strickland, a 6-foot-2, 180-pound point guard from Riordon High m San Francisco. H ' booting 29.4 percent from the floor (10- for-34). To make matters worse, the Toreros offense bas met with limited success under Strickland' direction "I thought be would come along quicker than be bas," said U D coach Hank Egan. "He bas mom nts when you think the answer is there, nd th be bas moments when you think it's not t re at all." Strickland played sm 11 forward at Riordon, although h did cons derable ball-handling. He fits th mold of a pomt guard, and may be \lm1ted to that position since he hasn't shot well enough to play off.guard ''We've kind of settled that U Wayman's going to do it, he's gomg to have to do it at pomt guard," said Egan. "He's at a point now with thi program and with himself that I think he's either gomg to make it at the point and accept that role, or we're gomg to have to find Plea e TOREROS: D-8, Col. 1

players are from somewhere else. None of the projected starters and only five players from the teams combined are from San And while the coaches and players work to muster some enthusiasm for the game, the city has not wildly embraced the game SOSU officials are predicting a crowd of between 3,500-4,000 m the 13,741-capacity Diego County.

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will not meet USO. For the second consecutive season, there ts the possibility that no clear-cut cham- pion will emerge from among the city's major-college teams. USO and USIU were unable to reach an agreement to continue the four-year-old series. The sticking point was USIU's request that for the first time some of the games be played on its home court at Golden Hall and that USD agree to use some referees of USIU's choosing. With the USO-USIU senes dead for now, torught's game likely will have to serve as an unofficial city championship. For a city still try- mg to create a college basketball tradition, that will have to do for now. Game Not.. The game II par\ of a double-header that will ~gin al 5,15 p.m. with a game between the San Diego State and Cniversi- ty of San Die,o women·• le.ams. DSU hu won all 17 gam.. m the ,erie9... The men·s game will open the seuon'1 cover- age or SDSU buketball on KFMB radio

Contlnu from Cl contested almost annually since il began in 1962-63. The teams did not meet last season because they could not agree on an alternate date after their originally agreed upon dale al the Sports Arena was taken by the Moscow Circus. Until recently, the Aztecs had dominated the series, which began m 1962-63, wmrung 15 of the 23 games. But the Toreros had won the past three m a row before last year's break. Just because the Aztecs and Toreros are back together on the court, that doe. not mean all will be settled among the city's college basketball teams this year. There is a third party involved: U.S. Inter- national. The Gulls, the city's third major- college oro~m. will play SOSU for a f secuttve season but

Strickland won't stop trying tuauon with Wayman He's a nice rson and a good kid. He's bright We've disc thing and com- m~cated about it. But on th floor thinks is the best way. He's doing his job and I'm trying to do mme,

' It's not anybody's faulL As a mat- ter of fact, it might be my fault be- cause I'm not. making the right deci- sions. Coach IS trymg to work with me and I'm trying to get it done." For now, he wlli be trymg to get it done from off the bench. "l!.'verybody wants to play a lot and everybody wants to start " said S~ck)and. "But the most important thing IS for our team to win. If we wm (tonight), 111 be real happy be- cause we need to get on a winning streak and get some things going. "I'l! be happy if I work my way back mto the starting lineup, but the team bas to come first. I'm going to do whatever I can whether it's cheer- ing from the bench or playing on the court. I've been here a year and I know what I'm supposed to do, I just have to get a whole lot better at it." One thing is certain - Strickland never will stop trying. In th~t gam~ last year against AIA, Strickland s 13th and final shot hit the front of the rim, bounced 7· gh off the backboard and fell through the hoop as the game ended.

Something ets lost In the transla- tion when Strickland gets out on the 'Everybody wants to play a lot and everybody wants to start. But the most important thing is /or our team to win.' - Wayman Strickland courl Egan wastes no Ume letting trlckland bear about it "Coach is not yelling at me to make m look like a fool," said Str ckland. "He's trying to make me the best player I can be Coach ill a very fair man. If you do something wrong, he's going to tell ou what he

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Insurance: Gillespie changes state's rules Continued from A-1 t:J 96 were optmustic about the inclusion ticular areas. ,.;z_, "r of the regional cost factors. "That's exactly the same way we Gillespie readily acknowledged rate by territory,• said Dan Dun- that "no one is exactly sure" how the moyer, an analyst for the Personal process will work and that It will be Insurance Federation of California.

some time before any changes occur She did say with certainty that driv- ers m central Los Angeles where insurance premiums are perhaps the highest in the state - would see low rates. The commissioner said the guide- lines will not allow insurers to raise rates beyond the increase in the con- sumer price index Last year's CPI increase was 4 4 percent Yet she added that the regulations will allow insurers to raise rates be- yond that cap 1f they can prove the limit would deprive them of a rea- sonable profit, or fair rate of return. •'evertheless, she predicted the regulations would provide some bal- ance between the high city rates and cheaper premiums in less populated areas ' There will be decreases for urban drivers and protection for rural and suburban drivers from unfair rate in- crea es ' Gillespie said at a news conferenc G11lesp e was req111red to revamp the anrt: rating system by Prop- o 1tion 1 3 which seelc.~ to base rates pmnanly on drivmg safety record experience and number of miles driven rather than place of resi- dence. The landmark 1mtiative, approved by voters in November 1988, also called for insurance rate rollbacks to 20 percent below 1987 levels. Howev- er, the California Supreme Court ruled m May that any rollbarks or future rates must not deny insurers a fair return That dec1S1on likely scuttled some or all of the rol backs Gillesp e has not yet establish what the fair urn standard shoud be, even th gh 1t IS the key elemen~ that will de erm., e how the new rate-setting formula will affect Cali- fornia drivers and whether motor- !Sls will see the rollbacks. The new regulations also prohibit inclusion of age, gender or marital status in insurance rate calculation. Gillespie •d that change should benfit sing young male drivers, who traditionally have among the highest auto insurance rates.

Richard Wiebe, a representative for the Alliance of American Insur• ers, said that the underlying costs of Insurance medical fees and litiga- tion costs m particular - mcrease at a much faster rate than the cost of hvmg does.

San D1 go, CA . (S.in Diego Co ) San Dir.go Union (Cir. D 217 ,089) (Cir S. 341,840) DEC 6 - 1989

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rovide glf will be helping scientists to under- stand and conquer ills ranging from the common cold to AIDS," Robert Tranquada, dean of the School of Medicine said. Researchers at the Center for Molecular Medicine will concen- trate their efforts on basic research utiiizin·g tools of genetic engineering recombinant DNA. Hahn, who became a USC trus- tee in 1981, recently was elected Life Trustee. His previous gifts to the university have included a central campus plaza, a patient care floor and the Ernest Hahn

create a loophole for insurers to con- tmue the disputed territorial rating system while calling it something else. Insurance companies have argued that without territorial rating. rates would go up sharply throughout Cali- fornia, except in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas. Officials said yesterday it was uncertain at this point how the new rating system would affect San Diego or other par- See lnaurance on Pa e A-20

practice of ralculatmg premiums ba d primard:, on where a driver lives - so-called 'territorial rating" - and Instead requiring that rates be based primarily on a driver's record. But Gill pie said insurers could include some regional cost factors in ass ing rates 1f the factors are JUS· tl!1ed These 'optional ratmg fac- tors," as she called them, could in- clude population density, medical costs, litigation rates, accident fre- quency and auto repair costs. Some critics said those factors

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She said the new regulations 1m- pl m nt Proposition 103 by scrapp- ing th current ln.rorance industry

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