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'B-2 Santa Cruz Sentinel Friday, April 15, 1983 Students feel first effects of district's C- average rule i rrrx I A 1 '-'i He il y' a lr 's' tXjy If--''! ft J' 'f Lti Wf 4 A I i.te''r ttJ -4, Laura, a 17-year-old senior at University High School in affluent Westwood, spent eight weeks rehearsing her coveted role of Helena in the school production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." But her report card three As, one and a glaring in physiology means someone else will play Helena in the April 23 show. "I've cried myself out," says Laura, an aspring actress who doesn't want her last name used. "I've been working on the play for eight weeks, putting everything I have into it. "I think it's sad that something I'm not going to go into will keep me away from what I really want to do," she adds. Ms.

Pierandozzi is equally sad to lose Ted Wilson, 17, a senior who would have had a leading role in Los Angeles High's spring production if he hadn't flunked algebra last semester. "In my case, there's certain subjects I just can't get the hang of," says Wilson. "Every time I have homework, I do it, either backstage at rehearsal or later at home. I tried and tried and tried. No matter how hard I try, I just can't seem to remember the different steps." Wilson's friend, Alan Reed, 17, is out of the play and the baseball team.

Reed admits an acute case of "laziness" that's reflected in his report card: he skipped 18 classes of U.S. history and 14 in contemporary composition and algebra. He finds school "boring" preferring to watch TV at home but he missed Ms. Pierandozzi 's class only six times. But the two young men plan to do better.

"I'm guaranteeing you, these grades will be up" next semester, says Reed, gesturing toward Wilson. "I'm gonna help this guy with algebra and he's going to help me get to class." LOS ANGELES (AP) Things look bad for Los Angeles High School's annual spring drama production almost as bad as the grades just received by some students who, because of them, can't participate in the' extracurricular fun. Drama teacher Nancy Pierandozzi was struggling to figure out how to fit all 22 students in her performing arts class into the spring production. The report cards handed out Monday solved that problem, because nearly half the class didn't make the grades they needed to stay in the play. So goes students' first encounter with the Los Angeles Unified School District's controversial get-tough policy on academic performance, adopted last fall with mixed support from parents, teachers and athletic coaches.

Every pupil from fourth grade to 12th must maintain a average and can't receive any Fs if they want to participate in drama, athletics, debate, band or any other extracurricular activity. District officials say they won't have an official tally until April 29 on how many students have been shut out of such activities, but Los Angeles High principal Jim Ball says, "Right now, it looks like we're in trouble." About 800 of his students can't manage a average. Another 400 can, but received a failing grade in one or more subjects. Ball estimates about three-fourths of those 1,200 students wouldn't participate in extracurricular activities anyway, but he says many of the rest are "deflated." "We all face (the new policy) with mixed emotions," he says. "We're glad for the stress on academics.

But children are hurt. Some of the young people will not be able to participate in extracurricular activities which are educational and expand their "horizons. We are losing some educational value i 1 AP Laserphoto Stand on your head Sports tycoon's wife says there's another Mrs. Buss EL CAJON This duck was hatched early this week with a she's never seen anything like it in her 37 years of raising ducks, foot growing out of its head. The owner, Doris Hartman, said 'Inexcusable behavior' Frat barred from UC- Berkeley LOS ANGELES (AP) It was "a storybook romance," says the estranged wife of sports tycoon Jerry Buss, until she found out that her husband was still married to someone else.

Veronica Buss sued the multimillionaire owner of two professional sports teams and the Inglewood Forum Thursday for annulment of their 10-year marriage on grounds of bigamy and fraud. She asked for more than $100 million in community property and additional support under "palimony" laws. The 35-year-old Mrs. Buss, a model and singer, claimed her husband defrauded her by saying he was single when they tied the knot in a Tijuana, Mexico, wedding on Sept. 3, 1972.

The former Veronica Hoff said in a phone interview with The Associated Press that she was unaware that the 50-year-old Buss was still married to his previous wife, Joanne, until he revealed it to her during a heated argument late in their marriage. "We were having a very torrid fight," she said, "and he suddenly explained that he was married to someone else. That was the biggest shock of my life." Mrs. Buss' unusual dual lawsuit for anulment and palimony was filed by celebrity attorney Marvin Mitchelson, who said Buss now claims to have divorced his other wife in Mexico in 1980. They were married in 1954 and had four children.

There were no children by the marriage to Veronica. Mitchelson said he would cite laws concerning a "putative wife," one who believes she is married when she is not. He said Mrs. Buss, although claiming she never was legally married, still may seek half of the couple's community property because "she believed at the time they were married." "They lived together for 10 years as husband and wife," Mitchelson said. "So she thought that she was married to him.

The fraud is that he told her he was divorced and he was still married." pointed out they had improved their grades, bringing the fraternity to 34th out of 38. Ted Helgans, a 21-year-old senior who is president of the fraternity, said the 40 members planned to discuss the university action and appeal the chapter's dismissal from campus. The university said the fraternity would not be allowed back into the system until it develops and puts into practice "cooperative programs with campus minority groups, in particular, the Chicano, black and Asian communities." damage, property damage and irresponsible community behavior." Members indulged in such "inexcusable behavior (as) verbal abuse, loud obnoxious (activity) propelled objects (like bottles and water balloons), breaking windows, raids, retaliation in any form and irresponsiveness to complaints from neighbors." Efforts the fraternity members made to improve their behavior were "too little, too late," he" said. At the hearing, the Betas refuted few of the charges against them, although they The lawsuit is further complicated by the fact that Mrs. Buss also was previously married and was in the process of obtaining a divorce from a former husband when the Tijuana marriage took place.

"But he (Buss) knew about that, and the divorce became final shortly said. The lawsuit said the couple's community property includes Buss' Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, his Los Angeles Kings hockey team and the Inglewood Forum sports complex with an estimated value of more than $250 million. "We can make no comment at this time because we have not seen the actions filed," Buss spokesman Bob Steiner said after the suits were filed. He noted that the matter had been turned over to Buss' attorneys. Mrs.

Buss' lawsuit says, "Plaintiff acted as homemaker, companion and confidante to defendant and entertained defendant's friends, family and business associates" until they separated in December 1982. Since then, the suit says, he has been paying her support of $3,500 a month but has refused to give her any part of his properties. She asked that the support payments continue but that she also receive damages of more than $100 million the exact figure to be based on an accounting of Buss' total wealth. Mrs. Buss described the start of her relationship with the multimillionaire in 1971 as "a storybook romance." "I had a girlfriend who said she wanted to introduce me to Jerry at lunch," she recalled.

"We had a beautiful lunch at Perino's, and after that he wouldn't leave me alone. He called me every day. He sent flowers. After two weeks, he said, 'I love you and we'll get married one of these "I thought it was a joke," she said. "Maybe it was." At that time, she said, "I didn't know that he owned anything." Two months after they met in 1971, she said, they began living together and about a year later they went to Tijuana and were married.

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) The University of California at Berkeley has barred a "deviant and unacceptable" fraternity with a long history of "inexcusable behavior" from campus activities at least until the fall of 1984. The university's decision Thursday followed a series of protests against Beta Theta Pi that began after fraternity members allegedly beat and harassed a group of Chicanos last winter. The fraternity had been censured 16 times in the past nine years, and its national headquarters had threatened it with suspension, according to William Manning, who conducted a hearing on the fraternity. "From this moment on, they're no longer a fraternity.

They're just a bunch of guys living in a house," said university spokesman Ray Colvig. Because the frat house is off campus, the Betas cannot be kicked off university property, he said. But members can no longer hold rush activities or participate in any interfraternity or intersorority social acitvities. The university has not taken such strong action against a fraternity since the mid-1950s. In a report to Assistant Vice Chancellor B.

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