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Curious students peer at the displays of different artists at the annual crafts fair in Alumni Park
Volume XCIV, Number 63
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University of Southern California Wednesday, December 7,1983
Abortion and the university: counseling, help is available
By Douglas Lytle
Investigations Writer
The debate over abortion has raged for years in the United States and continues with each year. Right-to-lifers oppose liberals who believe women should have a choice before an unwanted child is brought into the world.
But in every intimate relationship with a partner of the opposite sex, there is always the fear of unwanted pregnancy, and abortion has become the most prevalent alternative.
Sadly, when dealing with unwanted pregnancy, there are a number of facts and myths that appear, according to university counselors with the student health center's Sex Health and Reproductive Education (SHARE) clinic.
A sample of such facts and myths:
Fact: Many people seem to have the age-old attitude that "it could never happen to me.”
Myth: "Well, it's her problem, so I'm not going to worry about it."
Fact: According to Planned Parenthood, there were 1.55 million abortions in the U.S. during 1980.
Myth: All women who enter clinics for abortions are left-wing extremists hell bent on destroying the nation's moral fiber.
Fact: Abortion is something that can affect anyone with a particularly open sexual life.
At the university, not surprisingly, abortion is no stranger.
The debate over abortion never really comes out in the open at the university, but the prob--lem still exists, said Amy Dale, director of health education at the student health center.
She said the university clinic worries about "all the girls who don't come in."
"It's a double standard,” she added. "There are people at the university who don't want to admit to having sex, but are. They don't want to confront the problem."
The SHARE clinic is staffed by physicians and counselors who are trained to deal with touchy
subjects like contraception, abortion and adoption.
The clinic provides routine gynecological tests for women, in addition to pregnancy testing and contraception. But more (Continued on page 7)
By Mark Lowe
Assistant City Editor
The Supreme Court announced last Monday that it will rule on the constitutionality of requiring men to prove they have registered for the draft before they can receive federal financial aid, a law which university administrators have disliked since its inception.
"I think that probably our major concern is the amount of increased workload and the added burden to both students and staff, and a reduction in the timeliness in award delivery" that the law causes, said Fred Hessinger, director of financial aid.
Hessinger said those effects are "all a by-product" of the financial aid law, and said the financial services office "wouldn't be displeased at seeing it removed from the statutes."
The law, which went into effect last July, requires all students receiving federal financial aid to sign a statement that says they have registered with Selective Service for a possible military draft. Women must sign a statement saying they are ineligible for the draft.
University administrators working with financial aid have opposed the law since it was proposed by President Reagan in September, 1982. They said it made their jobs more difficult.
Hessinger said, though, that the financial aid office tries "to administer it (the law) as efficiently and painlessly as possible." Hessinger did, however, denounce the law as "another element in what is already a complicated process."
Originally, the law required financial aid offices to not only collect the statements, but also to verify if they were true. Universities nationwide decried this part of the law, and the Department of Education postponed it.
"That would be very time consuming and it would require a whole set of documents for students to produce before they could receive any financial aid," Hessinger said.
Financial aid administrators across the country also complained about the suddenness of the law, saying they did not have adequate warning to figure out how to implement it.
"There was very little preliminary lead time to put together a process and/or notify students," Hessinger said.
The future of the law was also put into doubt last June when Minnesota Federal District Judge Donald Alsop struck it down, claiming it amounted to a "bill of attainder" — a confession of guilt and infliction of punishment without trial. Alsop said the law violated Fifth Amendment guarantees against self-incrimination.
The Reagan Administration contested the ruling and asked the Supreme Court to stay it. The court did, and the collection portion of the law took effect as planned last September.
But the court announced Monday that it would hear the case and make a ruling on whether denying men financial aid under this law violates their constitutional rights.
Hessinger said that despite the "cumbersome" effects of the law, there has been little student resistance to the requirement.
"We've only had two students that I know of who have refused to sign the statement," he said.
He said one student was a male eligible for financial aid who refused to sign the statement because he is a conscientious objector to the draft and registration.
Campus plaques will remember donors
By Lawrence Toffler
Staff Writer
Attempting to increase unrestricted financial contributions, the university will honor the most generous donors to its annual giving campaign with various awards which will be incorporated into the current campus beautification project.
The gifts of alumni and friends will be acknowledged at various commemorative sites around campus. The prominence of this recognition will be based on the size of the donation to the annual giving fund.
For $500, a donor will have his name affixed on the new Trojan Columns, soon to be constructed in Founders Park. A gift of
$1,000 will accord a donor his own plaque on the cast pillars of the "Walls of Troy," which border the campus on Exposition, Vermont, and Figueroa Avenues.
For contributions of $2,500 and $5,000, donors will receive plaques placed at the base of park benches and Victorian-style street lamps, respectively. These will add the finishing touches to the current campus landscape project.
James Appleton, vice president of development, said unrestricted funds "provide (President James Zumberge) and his staff the opportunity to use discriminaton (in regards to) where funds are needed most."
However, because most donors prefer to stipulate the manner in which their donations will be used, the annual giving has typically had difficulty raising large sums of unrestricted money.
"Ninety-one percent of the donors gave 19 percent of the dollars (raised by all university fund raising organizations) last year," said Rick Nordine, director of annual giving.
Bingham Cherrie, associate vice president of development and university relations, agreed with Nordine and said, "(Unrestricted donations) are the toughest dollars to raise."
Jay Berger, assistant vice pres-(Continued on page 6)
Orwell's '1984': About to change into reality?
'Big Brother'-like manipulations becoming commonplace
By Sheldon Ito
Assistant Feature Editor
"The best books are those that tell you what you know already."
—	Winston Smith in George Orwell's "Nineteen
Eighty-Four"
Everyone's talking to computers and dancing to drum machines, or so the song goes. The English language is being twisted and abused, governments are lying to their people, history is being rewritten, journalists are being stifled.
"1984," right?
No, 1983. Here and now.
Jacobo Timerman, an Argentine journalist who was captured and tortured by his country's military government, said, "There is no such absolutely closed societies as he (Orwell) predicted because of the existence of writers and journalists."
However, Frank Snepp, a former agent for the Central Intelligence Agency, said the Reagan administration has been taking steps toward total censorship of the press.
"No president in the history of this country has attempted to block out opportunities for the press until Reagan," he said in a speech last month.
Clancy Sigal, an assistant professor in the school of journalism, said that attacks made on simple joumalis-
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tic freedoms in this country are cause for "great alarm."
He said the Reagan administration has been "extremely clever" in manipulating popular resentment against the media and using that to prevent the media from doing its job.
"What people forget these days is that nobody ever said that television reporters and newspaper reporters are pure as the driven snow," he said. "They (the re-
porters) are there to do a particular job.
"Anyone who stands in the way of even an incompetent reporter is, I think, trying to tear up the Declaration of Independence," Sigal said.
"I think that any American administration — I'm not just getting at the Reagan administration — tries to manipulate and manage news," he said. "I think the instinct of any administration is to present truth from their point of view.
"It means not to present truth at all, really," he said.
Snepp used the invasion of Grenada, where no Te-porter was allowed on the island until four days after the fighting, as an example of the Reagan administration playing "fast and loose with the facts."
"There were not 1,100 combatant Cubans on Grenada (as the Reagan administration claimed)," he said. "There were only around 100, backed by about 400 Cuban construction workers."
Mark Kann, an associate professor in the political science department, agreed.
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