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. wwfwwt y W , WW v f uulliuuuvn Funding student abortion By College Press Service CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA ? What began as a "mysterious omission" in the brochures describing the University of Virginia's student health insurance has turned into a campuswide fray over funding student abortions. Some students now want to make insurance coverage for abortions an option at Virginia, although efforts to "split" insurance have failed at other campuses. A group of University of California students lost an eightyear battle to withhold the portion of their student health fees that went toward abortion counseling when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against them in 1983. AND THOUGH it is common for colleges to have separate coverage costs for pregnancy insurance, it is illegal, according to Margaret Dunkl of the Equality Center in Washington, D.C. Students who challenged separate pregnancy coverage at Stanford this past spring, she says, successfully forced the university to cover pregnancy and pregnancy complications. Dunkle said all such separate coverages are vulnerable to Board authorizes music cl By John Dsiner in December 198 A board of trustees subcommittee approved by Borl unanimously agreed with a request In a memo sei yesterday to change the name of the James Holderma music department to the School of lege Dean Chest Music. new designation Music Department Chairman recruiting out William Moody told the Academic Af- members and th fairs and Faculty Liaison Committee graduates of thes< iiivjsi iiiuMi \n uyi ciin.s lumparaoie 10 in uuici atuoii, the university's in size has the designa- in favor of establ tion of "school." center at USC. study of aging, an "When the programs are as complex be the first of its as ours, the term 'school' has a special significance," Moody said. Although THE CENTEF it is now a school, Moody told the the promotion committee there were no plans to research, kno secede from the College of Humanities dissemination of and Social Sciences. start gerontology sity. A number PROVOST FRANK Borkowski eluding Clemson said the School of Public Health was USC in the devel an example of a school within a college will eventually ge and told the committee there should be The center will no problems. for the first three Moody suggested the name change mittee hopes pri\ I j // 920 S. Main Open 12-2 am \ I ' FEATURING * i Pool Tables Top Video Games | Big Screen featuring us in Stereo I As Always No Cover! EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT (S LC FREE BEER FOR LADIES 9: I (ASK MANAGER ABOUT PARTI1 3CSX3ww35yRX35SRWv355WiSW53l3W5S53RWfS5yJ5WOK5J3{X8KXX3JSW if) ROSSINI'S ICE | \^p) Freshly Churned on ^?5 GET A LARGE I | for the price of a | J good with this coupon thru S 2019 Devine - 5 Points I 1:30 a.m.-1 I 799-5070 11:30 a.m. is remains controversial student appeals. "Where it has been raised, it has generally been fixed" because of Title IX of the Higher Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX forbids schools receiving federal funds to discriminate on the basis of gender. ANTI-ABORTION Virginia students, oddly enough, are challenging the university's coverage of abortion on Title IX grounds. They say it discriminates against men, who must pay for coverage they'll never use personally. Student Council members John Doyon and Rory Clark introduced a measure to make abortion coverage optional "so that those not wanting to directly support abortion don't have to," Doyon said. "I was personally uncomfortable with the fact that no one Knew (abortion was automatically covered)," he explains. SO DOYON and Clark "took some initiative" by writing a letter, to be included in all insurance mail students receive, alerting students to the automatic coverage. They also asked university lawyer George -Gratton, who, Doyon says, told them Title IX doesn't cover student insurance because the insurance is optional. lepartment name change 3, and the plan was ding from the state Legislature will <owski. pick up the cost after that time. it to USC President "A large amount of expertise in this n, Humanities Col- field exists in South Carolina, and I er Bain wrote "the can't see how it will be anything but should be helpful in beneficial to USC," Borkowski said, standing faculty The committee also approved a ree placement of the quest by the College of Pharmacy to e degree programs." establish a pharmacy doctorate. Bor the committee voted kowski said it would be a "capstone lishing i gerontology degree" and that previous qualms Gerontology is the about the degree had been erased, d the USC center will kind in the state. THE PROGRAM will begin with a limited enrollment until the faculty can I will be formed for adapt to the new degree, said College of aging-related of Pharmacy Dean Julian Fincher. wledge transfer, He said the five-year bachelor of information, and to science degree will eventually be phascourses at the univer- ed out, but he docs not know when, of other schools, in ?iu uci|^ wc rc piaying 11 saie rignt now. opmental stages and We're asking for the permission to oft their own centers. fer the doctorate, and to continue our cost $50,000 a year five-year (bachelor of science) proyears, and the com- gram," Fincher said. "For now, we're /ate funding or fun- going to play it by ear." ;aturday night Rrino vnur tirkpt after the game ^ ; iDIES NIGHT I 1 30-1 1:00 1 5 2S FOR DORMS) 1 j / tUFAM 1 !(\m | s \ uv ?evl?e j | \ (QSUNDAE I i ^ SMALL | | Gi 2-7-84 j | | 1:00 p.m. Sun.-Thurs. S -Midnight Fri. & Sat. K$6X36XX%?36X%363SX)W6S63i? universites, a move USC officials have denounced. ^ JffSM thfboSa of trustees has* rejected such a plan al$o, a* have the governing boards of Clemson University and Winthrop College, The recommendations were made in a study, requested by the Genera! Assembly, on the costs of higher education to students and to the state. , . ' THE STU0Y says most southeastern states have set a uniform fee structure for their colleges and universites. It further savs that if South Carolina is to diminntp disparity in fees, such a uniform fee structure for educational operations is needed. J An 41 indexing" system that sets tuition as a specific amount of educational costs was implemented this year. The commission recommended continuing the system* The commission also recommended establishing minimum and maximun amounts students should pay for educational and general operations at the institutions. Those amounts would be a percentage of the total financial needs of each institution, determined through the "indexing" formula. That percentage should be between 17 and 22 percent, the study says. USC IS to provide 20 percent of its total unrestricted educational and general operating funding for 1984-85, according to the study. This revenue would be generated primarily through student fees. v The commission also recommended that, when full- * formula funding is achieved, institutions collecting fees in excess of the maximum would receive reduced allocations. The commission also recommended that school's governing boards ? such as USC's board of trustees ? set fees subject to CHE approval. The fees would be deposited with the state treasurer to be used to renovate facilities. In South Carolina, tuition and student fees go primarily toward educational operations, debt service and auxiliary services, including student activities, athletics and health | au miuiuing ii> uic Muuy, HBBBHnRnBB J jjjgljl r r^xjKsrxiiL J PATifur I S 1 111 <W | ^\OUTl ' J Jwaxch | -?for the j unecock's guide i , i to eating out f Wed.. Feb. 8 j ( a