University of San Diego Digital USD Print Media Coverage 1947-2009 USD News 1996-05-01 University of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 1996.05 University of San Diego Office of Public Relations Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.sandiego.edu/print-media Digital USD Citation University of San Diego Office of Public Relations, "University of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 1996.05" (1996). Print Media Coverage 1947-2009. 177. https://digital.sandiego.edu/print-media/177 This News Clipping is brought to you for free and open access by the USD News at Digital USD. It has been accepted for inclusion in Print Media Coverage 1947-2009 by an authorized administrator of Digital USD. For more information, please contact [email protected]. News Clippings - May, 1996 Local Briefs: Baseball, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 31 . 1 ( Diane Bell: Heaven's Gate, San Diego Union Tribune, May 30 . 2 Opinion: SAT Scores Show Kids Are Trying Harder, by USD's Robert Fellmeth San Diego Union-Tribune, May 28 . 3-4 Diane Bell:Just Forget Robin Leach: Go to USD, San Diego Union Tribune, May 28 ......................................... ........................ 5 USD Losing A Provost, A Teacher, and An 'Extraordinary Person,' San Diego Union-Tribune, May 25 . 6-8 Local Church: USD Signs Accord With Tijuana's Universidad Iberoamericana, The Southern Cross, May 23 . 9 Local Church: USD Students Brighten a Building on City of God Retreat, The Southern Cross, May 23 . 10 Hosting A Presidential Debate Comes With Big Price Tag, USD Discovers, San Diego Daily Transcript, May 23 . 11 College Basketball: USD Gets Its Point Guard, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 23 . 12 ( Obituary: Elizabeth 'Betsy' Burns; Coordinated Fund-Raisers, Horse Shows, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 22 . 13 USD Women Doubling Up On Thr Fun, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 22 . .......... 14 USD Assistant Earns Promotion (Kevin McGarry), San Diego Union-Tribune, May 22.... 15 Opinion: One Solution is Publicly Subsidized Boarding Schools, by USD's Larry Alexander, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 22 ............................ 16-17 Presidential Debate Planners Study San Diego Campus, Los Angeles Times, May 21 . 18 Richardson:s Legacy Lives On Through Scholarship, San Diego Business Journal, May 20 ........................... ................................ .. 19 USD Indicators Rise For 12th Month In Row, San Diego Business Journal, May 20 . 20 Pictorial: Brushing Up On Good Deeds -- A group of USD students painted the rectory at St. Anne's Catholic Church, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 20 . 21 Steady Economic Growth Forecast, San Diego Daily Transcript, May 1 7 . 22 Area Economy Appears Robust, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 1 7 . 23 Sales & Marketing: Inexpensive Talent Pool Provides New Perspective, San Diego Business Journal, May 13 . 24-25 News Clippings, May 1996 Page2 ( Recession Worries Are Gone; Now Bugaboo Is Inflation, San Diego Businessjournal, May 13 . 26 Diane Bell: Prep Costs Prove Talk Isn't Cheap, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 11 . 27 For 22,000 It's A Matter of Degrees, Commencements are set at colleges and universities, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 11 . 28-29 In A Look Back, Padres Salute Their PCL Past, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 10 . 30 Letters to the Editor: Academic Freedom In a Political World, by USD's Dennis Clausen, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 10 . 31 Burl Stiff: Mingei Museum Party Had Special Charms, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 9 . 32 Economists See Steady Growth For State, County, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 8 . 33 · Peter Rowe: Raise a Toast To Water's New Classic, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 7 . 34 Friend Or Pupil, All Cherish Association With Gullikson, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 7 . 35 Curtain Time: USD's Art Exhibit - Andrew Uchin, San Diego Daily Transcript, May 3 36 Former USO Exec Now Stares At Task of Raising Funds For a Whole City, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 3 ............................................ 37 Report Says State Still Shortchanging Kids, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 3 ........ 38-39 Law Briefs, San Diego Daily Transcript, May 1 . 40 The Bakers Entertain USD President, Ranch & Club, May 1996 . 41 l)f~ ~-OY'l ~ --n-i·~ ~ 31 1 1~'1(, II LOCAL BRIEFS II ■ BASEBALL: The University of San Diego's Tony Betancourt was named to Mizuno's All-America Freshman Team. Betancourt was also named West Coast Conference Freshman of the Year after batting .337 and leading USO in hits (70) and RBI (43) ... ucso first baseman/designated hitter Craig Birk was selected by the American Baseball Coaches Association to the NCAA Division Ill All-America third team. Birk led the Tritons in batting average (.402), hits (53), runs (32), doubles (12), home runs (15), RBI (38) and slugging percentage (.864). He also was named to the All-West Region first team. ( Teammate Mike Bryant (St. Augustine High) earned second-team honors . .. Pitcher Juon Parmenter of University City High finished his junior season at William Penn College with a 4-1 record and 1.64 ERA. Stephen Smythe, also of Uni City, went 3-3 with a 3. 78 ERA .. Ex-Mission Bay pitcher Jason Martin was the top middle reliever for Air Force, going 2-2 with 42 strikeouts in his junior season. I ( ?'h- fyj~ U/t.ACTY) - 1-v,· ~ DIANE E:./~14/v BELL Heaven's Gates Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates not only attended USD's gradua­ tion ceremony Sunday, he and wife Melinda had the youngest Gates baptized in Founders Chapel over the weekend. Jenni­ fer Katherine Gates, their first child, was born April 26 in Belle­ vue, Wash. ( FllLMETH is Price Professor of Publi~ Interest Law at the University of San Diego, and director of the statewide Children's Advtlcacy Institute, which produced the OPINION C u ia Children's Budget Data Report. /I T scores show kids are trying hard These kids are not letting us down. His-third tactic is to realign spending to They are'~crapping with whatever we . local governments with less money and e have all read the bad news about give theri\. the failure is on t~e adult side, full knowledge of the conseq~ences -:-­ California's public schools. The with pri :ate neglect and pubhc abandon­ cuts in fragmented fashion without fingers largest classes in the nation, pub­ ment. pointed. lic disinvestment in our children by the We hav~a governor who is so afraid of The governor and Legisl~tur~'s cuts goverpor and Legislature of unprecedent­ the "tax-iind-spend" label that he has al­ hitting poor children,,espec1ally m !~rms ed dimensions (we spend less than half per lowed general-fund spendi_ng t~ fall a full of basic safety net support for nutn_tion, pupil as cfoes New Jersey), and fourth­ 20 percent in terms of Califorrua personal have been especially regrettable; aid to grade tesUcores at or near the bottom of income. These numbers are in his own these kids is now down to a record low 72 the nation. 1996~97 budget summary a~pendix. percent'of the poverty line, not enoug~ for But there is an interesting anomaly. As Needless to say, the corrections system 1s housing and food. And there are 1. 9 mil­ the California Children's Budget Data not taking the hit, not with an increase in lion of them in California. The current Report 1996- '97 recently outlined, the prisoners from 19,000 in 1977 to 132,000 proposal is to take aid down to 64 percent Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) scores now and to 341,000 within seven years below the poverty line. of the state's high school juniors and se­ - at $44,000 each in operating and capi­ The Legislature has moderated, some 0£ niors are matching the national numbers. tal costs. the cruelest parts of the governor s budg­ This performance may reflect the higher And his 1996-97 budget represents the ets, but only marginally, and those °:ow investment in K-12 during the 1980s. But larRe.l cuts and a record lightening _of ~ur­ running the Assembly are preoccupied it is more. California SAT exam-takers are den on adults in the face of substantial m­ with a zealous antipathy to government as different than those nationally. creases in personal income. It is a docu­ a concept; reality does not easily ir_itrude In California, the participation rate is 10 ment reflecting the worst instincts of the upon those with such a predetermmed percent higher than nationally. And of the body politic: tribalism, the Hessian re­ takers, twice as many have parents earn­ worldview. cruitment of the middle class to fight the In the past year, Congress has talked ing under $10,000 annually; they have poor (represented by the welfare mothers fewer academic college prep courses; and about the total cut-off of millions of poor and immigrants) and avarice. children because of anger at their parents. twice as many of their parents have not A common tactic of the governor is to gra~uated from high school. They just terminat~ all summer youth announce five to six "boutique" prevention employment spending next year - de-_ English is not a first language for 20 programs with catchy acronyms, such as percent of the California takers, vs. 8 per­ priving California kids who want to begm "CalLearn," "AIM" or "HealthyStart." Last to work of $135 million a year to get them cent nationally. Minorities taking the ex­ week, the governor proposed cutting class am mak~ up 55 percent in Ca!ifornia, but going. , hi h sizes in the first and second grades sub­ The performance of Califorrua s g 31 perceht in other st~tes. Given ~ll of.