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holding on to the game' tempo than they have the last two times the u D allcwed a chool-record 141 points to th& Lions m last season's second meeting, at USD. The 139 ored by the Lion last Saturday in- eluded a 35-4 run over five minutes team have met. h If, then we did a terrible job," id. ''On ewe got caught up in E an th t mpo, 1t was over" Loyola Marymount is averaging late in the first half. ''We did good job for about a

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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Reaching a critical juncture, the San Diego Law Center has asked to go independent of the University of San Dieg~and the County Bar - and 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 USD President Author Hughes has said no.

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immigration amnesty here and settmg up community dispute res- olution centers in partner with the City Attorney's office. USD al- ready provides two officerndoth- er equipment to the center. Law Center directors on Wed- nesday rejected Hughes' offer on a 13-4 vote. They agam voted to go indepen- dent, even if that mean 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. the center now awaits Hughes' next move. Hughes objected the fir ·t time to the center becoming an indepen- dent non-profit entity because the center wanted to remam on cam pus. He reasoned that people would still view the center as a USD af- filiate and therefore associate its actions with the school, so he wants the school to continue to have a say in what the center does. \\ hile th<: c nt r "ail for Hughes' respnnse, County Bar directors on Wedne.day night ·us- pended the Bar's 25,000 contribu, t1on to the center for this y ar, a significant portion of the center's administrative funding. Bar directors said they want to wait to . ee how this all plays out, but that they have watched as USD exercised significantly more con, trot than the Bar over the center and this has become unacceptable. "We're window dressing, " said Bar and Law Center director Mar- shall Hockett. "We're tired of that." "lf we're half a partner, then we should have half a say," said County Bar Pres ident Marc Adelman, also a Law Center direc- tor. "If an executive director is hired, who does that person work for?" Rick Benes - a key Law Center director who made a presentation to the Bar Wednesday night 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 SA Thus,

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the second straight game against LMU. Freshman forward Gylan Dot- tin _scored 16 and ha~ seven assists. Strickland had 15 pomts, but strug- USD, which has lost 10 of its last 11 games, hosts Pepperdine tonight. The Waves dropped a 77-49 decision at St. Mary's last night to fall mto a three- way tie for the WCAC lead with LMU and the Gaels Pepperdine defeated USD, 68-65, Feb. 3 in Malibu. gled in the second half.

And guard Enoch Simmons' eight 12 off bis sea on nonn. Loyola's point total was 10 below its C A-record pace average of 114. "I thought we played better to- t,'' said Egan. "We didn't get any breaks The fans were great, but we didn't have a big homecourt advan- Egan was upset by the number of violation calls his club got, :ompared to LMU. points wa ni tage."

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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 th quest for au- thentic selfhood 1s a difficult and life-- long task. That's not exactly the "don't worry, be happy" approach that for many people drives the contempo- rary quest for self. And, it differs from the way Kierkegaard saw his o n 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 prediction 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 bis 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 again, bolieueality. /

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God, '"' felt h;, family wa, cursed becau e of it. You dumped with your work, but then you pined for her afterward. (She, no philoso- pher but no idiot either, moved to the Canbbean and married the gover- nor.) And you wrote a lot. "He had a high desk m every room in his heuse, about five feet high," 1d Donnelly. "In tead of going to study when a thought came to him. he could just run to the nearest desk.... He literally must have put down everything that came to his hi These days, some thmk of you as an irrational kind of guy. In all those books you wrote under pseudonyms, you denied that reality could be sys- temabcally analyzed. You scoffed at the elaborate organization of tire Roman Catholic Church. You argued that true faith always requires a sense of mdiv1dual responsibility and a leap into the irrational. But these la t 15 years, there seem to be more and more people who think you were rational after all, phi- losophically speaking. And stlll oth- are in between, wandering around in that way philosophers, in- !ants and livest~k will if you don't er McKinnon for instance, has been running Kierkegaard through com- puters in earch of hidden themes. For his trouble, he gets abuse from your fiancee becau he interfered mind." eep an eye on them

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. . . is absolutely craz~, that it doesn't have anything to do with Kier- kegaard at all.' Mc innon said. "I say you have to postulate a single mind behind all these books.... And with the software we've developed, we can build models of that mind." So it goes David Wisdo, a post-doctoral researcher at Yale University, op- poses the rationalists. Donnelly has launched an assault on the irrational- ists. 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 Pojman, dismissing the matter entirely, "is a quasi-irration- alist."

have an anniversary yea r mous person, you typically g t aca- Tb1 may be an anniversary only a philo opher could love: Kierkegaard wa born m Copenh gen 175 years nd nine months ago. Neverthele , rummatmg at USD began la t Thursday, when several dozen pro- ors and cholars gathered from th Until th1 afternoon, they'll be de- livering papers such as ''To Tell a Good Tale K1erkegaard1an R fl - tlons on Moral Narrative and Moral Truth," and arguing In their rooms at th Padre Tr il Inn. The 1 ·ues range from the mystery of faith (still unre- p eudonymJc work (more than 350). But H rr Kierkegaard, they just em to get your tory straight This much is cl ar. You w re a Danish philosopher (1813-1855). If the titles of your three dozen books are any indication, you were not a lot of fun at parties. "Fear and Trem- bling" "The Concept of Dread" "The Gospel of Suffering." You were a great believer m God, but you were al o the founder of the existentialist philosophy that Jean Paul sartre and Albert Camu made hip in the 19405. You were born mto money and didn't work a day in your brief life. Your father may or may not have tood on a hill ide, olemnly can't once d mies to focu in " I round th continent. solved at pre time) to the number the words "paradox'' and of llm "mystery" appear in the author's

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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 Unlversity 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 whQ 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 his Donna Rice demise - "Fear and Trembling," I think it was. He has 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 or 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 cored 26 points, in- eluding seven 3-pointers, as the Loyola Marymount Lions beat the lk:l.i.yersity ~go, 104-88, FrTcraynight 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' lam dunk with 9:41 left.

St. Mary's 77, Pepperdlne 49 Al Lewis and Terry Bums 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. ::.::.:..~-~ ""--al

Gathers, the nation's leading scorer and rebounder, had 25 points and eight rebounds. Bo Kimble added 22 points in as many minutes. Craig Cottrell tied his career high with 26 points and Gylan Dottin added 16 and Wayman Strickland 15 for San Diego, 1-8 in the WCAC and 6-15 overall. San Francisco 67, Gonzaga 64 San Francisco's James Bell scored 12 of his 14 points in the second half as the Dons erased a 14-point deficit and rallied for a West Coast Athletic Conference victory over Gonzaga.

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