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USD President Says -r1':i) . No To Independence Of S.D. Law Center By JOE NABBEFELD San Diego Daily Transcript Stall WriU-r Reaching a critical juncture, the San Diego Law Center has asked to go mdependent of the University of San Diego and the County Bar - and USO President Author Hughes has said no. Instead, Hughes has offered to inject $30,000 annually into the center, a joint venture between the Bar and USD that conducts grant-funded legal community service projects. Its current two programs are administering immigration amnesty here and

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SD gets another shot at Loyola Marymou-1t By Bill nter ") 1< expect h Toreros to top Loyola, 114.3 points, the NCAA record is Simmons are averaging 77.7 points toll w • r h hop10 they do a better job of 110.5, set by Nevada-Las Vegas in and have 123 three-point goals (al-

b !ding on to the game's tempo than they have the last two times the USD allowed a school-record 141 points to t~ Lions in last season's econd meeting, at USD. The 139 cored by the Lions last Saturday in- eluded a 35-4 run over five minutes team have met.

though Gathers has none). USD is av- eraging 68 points and has 86 three- Loyola Marymount has been fur- ther bolstered by the return of guard Bo Kimble from arthroscopic knee surgery. Kimble, who averaged 22 points last season, last week scored more than 20 in two of his first three USD, which bas lost nine of its last 10 and 13 of 15, completes weekend play tomorrow · ht, hosting conf r- point goals. games back.

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Individually, LMU features 6-7 for- ward Hank Gathers, the NCAA's scoring and rebounding leader (33.5 points, 14.3 rebounds per game). The Lions have two others averag- ing more than 20 points. Guard Jeff Fryer, who has 81 of the team's 192 three-point field goals, ranks second in WCAC scoring with a 23.8 average. Guard Enoch Simmons ranks fourth in the conference in scoring (20.4) and

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setting up community dispute res- olution centers in partner with the City Attorney's office. USD al- ready provides two officesandoth- er equipment to the center. Law Center directors on Wed- nesday rejected Hughes' offer on a 13-4 vote. They again voted to go indepen- dent, even if that means moving off campus. At this point, however, that "no" vote represents merely a request to be allowed by USD and the Bar to go independent. The center's board is strictly an advisory board to directors of the Bar and USD . Thu , the center now await Hughes' next move. Hughes objected the first lime lo the center becoming an indep n• dent non-profit entity because lhe center wanted to remain on cam- pus. He reasoned that people would ~llll view the center as a USD af- filiate and therefore associate its act10ns with the school, so he wants the school to continue to have a say in what the center does. \\ hile thu cen r wait for Hughes' response, County Bar directors on Wednesday mght ·us• pended the Bar's $25,000 contribu- t10n to the center for this year, a significant portion of the center's administrative funding. Bar directors said they want to wait to see how this all plays out, but that they have watched as USD exercised significantly more con- trol than the Bar over the center and this has become unacceptable. "We're window dressing," a,d Bar and Law Center director Mar- shall Hockett. "We're tired of that." "If we're half a partner, then we should have half a say," said County Bar President Marc Adelman, also a Law Center direc- tor. "If an executive director is hired, who does that person work for? 11 Rick Benes - a key Law Center director who made a presentation to the Bar Wednesday mght along with the center's new chairman, Dan Grindle - said, "The issue, really, is what is the Law Center and what role does it play? When I was a County Bar director, I Please turn to Pa 3A

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grFuray explained that some ants can be written to allow spending money on a m1ms ra- tion but those not written that wa , can't be used that way. The prcXilem comes chiefly in the tran- sition period, she said, for the ter has no grants now written to :~~w covering administrative ex- nses because the center had no gr d . • t While Bar directors clearly are set with their loss of authority :~er the Law Center, many of them said the strongly support the can- cept of {he center and the projects that have come out of it. "Nobody else can do these pro- • ts "Adelman has said. Je<;,N bod else will do them," said center's program director. The center's other advisory bo d members include Charles B' d Judge Michael Greer, Craig il·r ' Webster "Buzz" Kinnaird, J 'igg~renz Judge Chris Pate /and ar • pe k£ th t reason to e.s or a . . _ 0 Y Grmdle. C I Hallstrom works as the aro .

thought it was aJomt ~Y- I: m to do County Bar proJec~- n th L' w Center 1s evo v- ing to more of a lI§~ . The center this year also receives I Y . . op1mon, e a . ,, Foundation. Grindle sa1d h Id center will put that money on too pending the outcome of th ese ° director was picked not by th e aw Center board,"_ said Hockett. ·n- In an interview yesterd~y' Gri dle said, "Our preference ihs to stalty " He sent Hug es a e · ter Wednesday telhng Hug es,,,. ted the $30 000 o"er. USD Provost Sister Sally Furay is Bar director and attended the on campus. . h the . center reJec ' . $20,000 from the Coun~y ~: events. . "The Environmental ProJect . di te centers) (aka community spu L

we were ahead by only four at the half was no surprise." The_Toreros (6-15, 1-8) played some ?f their best basketball of the season m the first half. W~en Craig Cottrell made a 15- foot Jumper, the Toreros were down only 14-13 after 6¼ minutes. But LMU responded with two th~ee-pointers from Fryer and a third by Kim~le to run a one-point lead to a 10-pomt margin in just sec- onds. But behind Cottrell and freshman gua rd Wayman Strickland, the Tore~os came back on 70-percent sh?Otmg from the floor. The hosts might have led, had they shot better from the foul line. But LMU took charge as soon as the second half began. After turning 1!1e ball ov~r only nine times in the f1rst 20 nunutes against full-court ~ressu!e, USO turned the ball over 17 tu!,les m the second half. I _think our full-court pressure and nmnmg game wore them down " said ~esthead. "And we had a good out- :.~ shooting night from Fryer and

. Guards Jeff Fryer and Bo Kimble hit 10 three-point goals and Loyola Marymount forced the .versit of ~n D· into 26 turnovers last night m d~feating the Toreros, 104-88, to move mto a first-place tie in the West Coast Athletic Conference. Ahead only 52-48 at intermission before an overflow turnout of 2,500 at th e USO Sports Center, the Lions out- sc?red the hosts, 26-8, in the first 7 'k mmutes of the second half to break the game open. '·The first five mmutes of the ec- ond half killed us," USO coach Hank Egan said after the Lions beat his ~lub for the second time m six days. If we convert any of the chances we had, we might have put the pressure on them. Instead, they got a chance to break the game open." As both Egan and Loyola Marym- ount coach Paul Westhead expected ~e Toreros played much better last mght than they did last Saturday night ma 139-104 loss to the Lions at Westchester "I expected a good game ' said We;;the~d. whose club is 14-8 ~verall and 7-2 ID WCAC play. "The fact that

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What students get from Kier- kegaard are abstruse and often tu~- gid writings, a terse and caustic sense of humor and curiously pres- cient observations on the plight of modern man. They learn from this "God-intoxicated man" - to use Donnelly's phrase - that anxiety is ''a central fixture of life," not to be avoided. They learn that "suffering is blessed" and that the quest for au- thentic selfhood JS a difficult and life- long task. That's not exactly the "don't orry, be happy'' approach that for many people drives the contempo- rary quest for self. And, it differs fro the way Kierkegaard saw his o contemporaries only in degree. He was quick to skewer anyone - which turned out to be most every- one - who sought to avoid what he perceived as the essential truth about life. That i uded his fellow Christians. One of his books is called "The Attack Upon 'Christendom.' " Kierkegaard realized that it's much easier for most of us to give in to the crowd instead of embarking on the difficult, often painful task of forging our own individuality. He an- ticipated later analyses of mass psy- chology, the herd mentality, the face in the crowd. Philosophy of religion scholar Louis Pojman, who teaches at the University of Mississippi, recalled on Thursday a pr~iction that Kier- kegaard made in the 1840s. According to Pojman, Kier- kegaard foresaw a time when people will sit before a box, get all their ideas and information from that box and hopelessly confuse reality with the fantasy that the box transmits. Kierkegaard felt a special scorn for the media of his day, partly for personal reasons . A Copenhagen newspaper, "Corsair," "literally vili- fied him to death,'' James Marsh of Fordham University pointed out on Thursday. On a less personal level - if this forerunner of the existentialists would accept the distinction between personal and impersonal - Kier- kegaard believed that the press ap- pealed to humanity's lowest common denominator. It contributed to the leveling process and distracted indi- viduals from the process of forging their own lives. Kierkegaard be- lieved that the press made life "a kind of theater," USD's Donnelly said, "all form and no content." "He's always hopeful," Donnelly says of this eccentric genius he has devoted his life to studying and intro- ducing to students. Appearance, yet ,..m, .,•., ... u,,. /

• m D1 •qo CA (San [;>1Pqo Co s, \ Cir D 21 7 89 c,r S 341 840 FEB 1 1 1989 Jlllr11 '• P C B r u 18&8 Kierkegaar irrational? Get seriou ! By Christopher Reynolds ·1aff Writer Soren Kierkegaard. we hard- ly knew ye. And now that you've been in the ground 134 years, and we've had time to re-read your books nd trace down your pseudo- nyms and feed the whole me into computers - we're stlll not sure about you At the Uni- ver ity of San Diego Depart- ment of Philosophy's confer- ence on Kierkegaard, they're trying to sort it all out. "I wouldn't say that he's a rationalist. I Jlllit would say that he' not an irrational!st" offered Alastair McKinnon ~r McGill University. ''Kierkegaard hated academ- ics," said John Donnell a U philosophy professor an presi- dent of the international Kier- kegaard Society "He didn't really hate aca- demics," said Louis Pojman, a prof or at the University of Miss! lppi. And so on. "There' been a tremendous revival of interest in Kier- 111 D11H 1 o union kegaard," said Donnelly, noting that the Society now includes 500 member . "Aoy time you See Conference n Page E-5

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ursed God, and felt his family was ursed because of it You dumped our (1ancee because he interfered ;itb your work, but then you pined or her afterward. (She, no philoso- 1her but no idiot either, moved to the ~aribbean and married the gover- ior.) And you wrote a lot. "He had a high desk in every room m his heuse, about five feet high," aid Donnelly. "Instead of going to his study when a thought came to him, he could just run to the nearest desk..•. He literally mu t have put down everything that came to his mmd." These days, some thmk of you as an irrational kir.d of guy In all those books you wrote under pseudonyms, you denied that reality could be sys- tematically analyzed. You scoffed at David Wisdo, a post-doctoral researcher at Yale University, op- poses the rationalists. Donnelly has launched an assault on the irrational- 1Sts. McKinnon dismisses Donnelly as "quite silly." Pojman tends to side with Donnelly. And when Wisdo tries to point out that, really, he's neither a rationalist nor an irrationalist, well "He," said Poiman, dismissing the matter entirely, "is a quasi-irration- alist." the elaborate orgamzation of tlre r-c:::;;:___ ~---~...L=-_J ... is absolutely craz), that it doesn't have anything to do with Kier- kegaard at all ' Mc innon said. "I say you have to po ulate a single mind behind all these books.... And with the software we've developed, we can bmld models of that mind." So it goes.

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So you were wondering why it was so cold, wet and dreary on Thursday? I found out. Philosophy professors from around the country were con- vening at the Universit)' of San Diego for a three-day conference on a crotchety, eccentric Dane named Soren Kierkegaard. This week's unSan Diego-like weather was made to order for this 19th-century writer, philosopher and theologian, a man wbQ once described himself as "a free bird" locked in the "fetters of melancholy," a man whose many works include a book called "Sick- ness Unto Death." Kierkegaard last popped into the public consciousness when presiden- tial contender Gary Hart was seen to be reading one of his books at the time of bis Donna Rice demise - "Fear and Trembling," I think it was. Re bas been called one of the most important literary thinkers of the 19th century and one of the most original religious thinkers of al time. Scorned by his contemporaries or labeled a dangerous fanatic, Kier- kegaard died in 1855 at the age of 42. For more than two decades after his death, he remained in obscurity. Only as his voluminous writings began to be translated from the Danish did he begin to exert his profound influence. John Donnelly, professor of philos- ophy at USD and organizer of the Kierkegaard conference, will tell you that the melancholy Dane is becom- ing all the rage on college campuses. (Maybe rage is not quite the word; a growing enthusiasm is probably bet- ter.) Donnelly taught a class on Kier- kegaard to 37 undergraduates last fall. "I could have had 200," he said. "Once they get into it, they want "

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Jeff Fryer scored 26 points, in- eluding seven 3-pointers, as the Loyola Marymount Lions beat the UlliYersity ~go, 104-88, FruJli'yiught to move into a three-way tie atop the West Coast Athletic Conference stan- dings. Loyola joined St. Mary's and Pepperdine in first place, all with 7-2 records. The Lions are 14-8 overall. Fryer and Hank Gathers scored six points apiece in a 24-8 run during the first six minutes of the second half as Loyola ex- tended its 52-48 halftime lead to 76-56. Loyola, the nation's top-scor- ing team with a 114.3 average, took its biggest lead, 86-62, on Gathers' slam dunk with 9:41 left.

St. Mary's n, Pepperdlne 49 Al Lewis and Terry Burns scored 13 points each and St. Mary's held Pepperdine to its season scoring low in a rout that lifted the Gaels into a first-place tie with the Waves in the West Coast Athletic Conference. Erick Newman and Dan Haugen added 10 points apiece as St. Mary's led all the way to improve to 19-3 overall and 7-2 in the WCAC. Pepperdine, which shot just 31 percent from the floor and 44 percent from the free throw line, fell to 15-9 and 7-2. Craig Davis had 10 points and Rick Welch nine for the Waves.

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