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Salinas, CA (Monterey Co.) Californian (Cir. 6xW. 23,602)

Los Ange les, CA (Los Angeles Co.) Los Angeles Da lly Journal l (CH . 5 x W. 21 ,287 R7 - 198

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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.I Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 123,064)

1838 CPIL c~ .. ~t of Interest Alleged Medical n:a~d 5 Questions Report's Objectivity in L.ight of Pending Suit By Tom Dresslar D•ily Jo•r,•I S1offRtporl,r graduated from the University of Saig?n School of Medicine after the Commumst regime assumed power in 1975. .

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Wagstaff offered no comment on whether the CPIL had a conflict of int~- est ID the strict legal sense. But he ~• "From the standpoint of personal ethics and whether it is proper in a generi_c sense it has the appearance of a genenc conflict of interest. It• s a little suspicious." Wagstaff added, "It seems to me that the lawsuit may have 1mpmged upon. th~ objectivity of their analysts" of the d1sC1· pline system. But Wheaton said, "Given that the people being sued are part of the .li..cnsing division, and given the

AND C~MING New cancer forum will have dinner .;zft!?~ 'By Nancy Scott Anderson All Hallow, Women'• Gulld wlll Tribune Society Editor have its annual Spirit of San Diego T HE RECENTL y formed fashion show April 19 at the San UCSD Cancer Center Forum Diego Hilton Beach and Tennis Re- 1 will meet for dinner Wednes- sort. The event honors voluntarism day the UCSD Faculty Club. Social in San . Diego and will feature a hour-is 6 p.m. For more infonnation Capricc10 fashion show with presi- pbone 543-3870. ' dents or representatives of local ser-

The board denies the charge, saymg the applicants were discriminat~ against because of concerns about their educa- tion, not their nationality. BMQA hjs re- jected a settlemen~ offer. . The suit is pending m San Francsco Su- perior Court. The disciphne report, the result of .a year-long investigation, was released this week. It described the BMQA system as slow lenient secretive, and controlled by doct~rs wh~ emphasize rehabilitation over punishment. Asked ifhe thought the CPIL had a con- flict of interest in pur~uing th_e di~pline report while the suit 1s pending, Bishop said, "I definitely do." He ?dded, "I~'s the same agency, and they re attacking them on a different flank." Bishop said it is •'areal possibility report is designed to make the boa;d 1oc:>k bad in an effo1;l to aid the center s s111~. Another possible motive, he ~d~e~. is that the center "would like to mturudate the board to settle the case and give them I _. .. the

SACRAMENTO - Officials with the state Attorney General's Office and Board of Medical Quality Assurance Thur day aid a pending lawsuit filed agam t the board by the Center for Public Intere t Law raises doubts about the pro- priety and objectivity of the cent~r•s scathing report on BMQA's doctor disc- pline y ·tem. Deputy Attorney General P~ul Bishop, who is ri:presenting the board m th~ s111t, accu ed the Univer ity of San Diego- based CPIL of a conflict of interest. And BMQA Executive Director Ken- neth J. Wagstaff said the suit could h_av~ "impinged on the object.Jvity" of the disc- pline report. CPIL Director R.ob4wFellmet_h and taff attomeidaroes Wheaton, who 1s rep-

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~an Diego State University' • Friends of the Classics group will have a reception and show of Gall Burnett photographs from 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday in a private San Diego home. For more information phone ' Tbe 29th annual MADcAPS show and senior presentation will be held at 8 p.m. April 14 and 2 p.m. April 15 m Correia Junior High School Audi- torium. Tickets, $8 each, are avail- able from MADCAPS members. Epilepsy Society of San Diego wlll h~ve_ an auction party April 14 at the Mission Valley Marriott Hotel. A si- lent auction and cocktail hour begins at S:30 p.m. The live auction will fol- low the 7:30 dinner, Tickets are $50 each. For more information phone 296-0161. ' . Unl~rslty of San Oiego will have its annual Deans' Ball April 15 at the San Diego Hilton Beach and Tennis ~eso!1- Cocktail hour for the black- he dinner dance begins at 6:30 p.m. ~onored during the party that will included a choral performance under the direction of the Rev. Nicholas eveles will be Bob Adelizzi Marion bbard, Liam McGee, Sally Thorn- ~o nd Alison Tibb!tts. Betty Tharp IS 1rwoman. Tickets are $125 eac~• and $300 for patron reser- vations. For more information phone 2 S. 631 or 260-4682. ' • 222-8128.

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and Spanish in Dartmouth's intensive summer program. Though the summer immersion programs are far more intensive than the rn-week-long classes offered to Dartmouth undergraduates, Furay became convinced that Rassias had a winning philosophy. She would like to see the curriculum that is used at Dartmouth during the regular school year adopted at USO at all levels of Spanish, French, German and Italian instruction, subject to the faculty's approval. "II the students are getting a stronger education in languages, it's worth every penny," she said. It is more expensive because classes are smaller, and students are required to take twice as many of them, logging at least 7½ hours of classtime a week. Upper-level stu- dents audition for jobs as assistant teachers, earning $600 and one aca- demic -credit a semester for su- pervising mandatory drill sessions. "The first day of class, you don't take attendance; you start speaking Spanish," said Russell, a Harvard- trained scholar who brims with en- thusiasm and informality, insisting that the students call him "Roberto." USO students must pass three semesters of a foreign language to graduate or take an ~r:im h..t Qhn;.,o

they are putting in so many extra hours. However, most of the students in a recent 9 a.m. session appeared to warm up to Russell's salsa-hot teach- mg style. "This guy's great," said senior Tom "Tomas" Cordasco, adding that he studies Spanish 1 for 12 hours a week, both inside and outside the classroom and language laboratory. "It's hell, but it's the best way to learn. They got it ired " However, Russell, who will return to Dartmouth at the end of the tenn, acknowledged that some students never quite get it. Sophomore Jon Lovette is one of them. "It's not working for me," Lovette earnestly whispered to a visitor. "I have a different learning style. ''They don't lecture. I learn from lectures. · "This IS practice, practice, prac- tice. I'm so far be'l:nd." Other students who have heard re- ports of the heavy workload are re- lieved that they escaped Russell's tornado of energy. "I'm so glad I didn't have to take it," said Viet ta Visosky, waiting in the corridcr outs:de Russell's class- room for a JpaniEh 2 class with an- nth.or teacher. 1e affaole freshman admitted she can't speak a word of Span- vhen she goes across the border lexico. /

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"San Diego was the first offer I accepted because it was an unusually good opportunity and an especially attractive location," said Strachan, a graduate of the Bishop's School in La

A law professor from Utah has been chosen to head the University of San Q~o School of Law, a poilln)n that maJres"'lmstine Strachan, the new dean, "absolutely excited," she said today. Strachan, 45, a professor at the h University of Utah College of Law in s Salt Lake City, accepted the USO offer this week, she said, after having been courted to apply for similar po- sitions at other law schools. 2 rn

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Visiting Dartmouth professor Robert Russell drills.USO stu- dents in tbe "Rasslas method" of language instruction Innovative class brings foreign language to life By Ann Levin TribUlle Educallon Writer M ORNI G SUNLIGHT STREAMED into, a_ Univ~rsity of SM Diego classroom as Professor Robert ' Rootirto ftUS:sdl kicked a sleepy-eyed student in the foot. . The student had made the unfortunate error o! con!us~g French with Spanish and referring to the steaming contamer m his hand as "le caf~." . . . "El caf~! El caf~!" Russell prompted in rap!d-fire ~pamsh, thus beginning 50 minutes of lively foreign-language mstruct1on known as "the Rassias method." In the next hour, Russell, 61, who is on leave from Dartmouth College, would kneel :m the floor in bis tan_ corduroy slacks, slam a band agaiost a wall to illustrate the color beige and hurl chalk across the stately, wood-paneled room. _ The theatrics are part of a technique pi_oneered 25 years ago m the woods of New Hampshire by John A. Rass1as, a professor of French at Dartmouth and a colleague of Russell's. Born in the French and Spanish departments at Dartmouth, the method has been applied to the teaching of _all languages at the Ivy League school, including Arabic, Hebrew, Chi~ese and Japanese. . Rassias, who said be was inspired by President Kennedy to tram Peace Corps volunteers in foreign languages, has ea~ed a moderate degree of fame for his flamboyant approach. H~ proi:ruses to ~urn out students in three semesters who can communicate m foreign cul-

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/ ,. 188 · irms Sponsor Summer Public Interest Jobs re thanJ~~s nationwide - ------------- California law schools, including l!CLA, dent public interest projects," she said. ing three in California - have con- L ,\1 F ScHoo,T NE s use. the University of ~iego'. ff;r.;. Among the other firms contributing to ed $120,000 to help fund summer- n\ V L W tmgs C?lleg~ of the Law, UE_Dav1s and the first-year challenge were Washing- ng jobs for law students at public- by Donna Prokop the University of Santa Clara, Feagan ton, D.C. 's Am_old & Porter and Bever- ce organizations. The donations ' said. idge & Diamond; New York's Sullivan & made as part of a first-ever fund- NAPIL had initially sought to raise Cromwell and Ska.gden, Arps;-SJate, g appeal to the nation's major law thr ee finns from each major metropolitan encugh money from law firms to match Meagher & Flom; Atlanta's King & Spat- by the Washington, D.C.-based area. A nd tbat's what we set out to do.'' annual contributions made by students - ding; Maryland's Miles & Stockbridge

and Omaha's Kutak Rock & Campbell. · Law firm contributions ranged from NAPIL's Public Service Challenge be- gan with an initial fund-raising appeal to about 250 of the nation's largest law firms in early November and was fol- lowed by a second mailing to roughly 400 mid-sized firms in December. The deadline for contributions was April 1, which will enable NAPIL to make grants to individual member schools by April 17. Feagan said that all 50 of NAPIL' s member !aw schools will re- ceive grants for fellowships. The awards are based partly on contnbutions made by students at each of the law schools. NAPIL plans to publicize the names of contributing firms through an "honor roll" to be published in the nation's major legal publications and at law school cam- $3,000 to $10,000.

which have hit more than $500,000 annu- ally since 1985. If firms had jointly con- trib11ted an amount equal to that donated by students, NAPIL expected to raise at least $1 million in 1989. The non-profit organization had requested that firms contribute $1,000 for every five summer associates hired, up to a maximum of Feagan conceded he was disappointed that more of the major finns in California did not open their checkbooks. Members ofNAPIL'sl4-memberboardofadvisers had mailed letters to the major law finns seeking their financial support. Myra Nakelsky, NAPIL's president and a student at Hastings-College of the Law, said students were nevertheless pleased with the response. "Next year and the year after we will build on this foundation until the Challenge becomes an in~titutionalized funding base for stu- $10,000.

Financial contributions by California law finns were not as strong as in other regions, NAPIL officials said. Only three state finns were among the 23 firms na- tionally contributing to the challenge. The three firms, donating a combined to- tal of$8,000, were Mu_nger, Tolles & 01- son 'and Tuttle & TayTor, both of Los Angeles; and San Francisco's Steefel, ' NAPIL will disburse the contnbutions to about 50 student-run programs nation- wide. Themoneywillfinancesummerfel- lowships for students with legal service offices or at civil rights, consumer and Because the law finn grants will be based partially on the strength of student chapters and student contnbutions, more than $16,000 of the law firm contnbu- tions raised nationa;ly will actually go to env.ironmental advocates. Levitt & Weiss. -

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