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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<
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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\
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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
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opmental stages and We're asking for the permission to oft
their own centers. fer the doctorate, and to continue our
cost $50,000 a year five-year (bachelor of science) proyears,
and the com- gram," Fincher said. "For now, we're
/ate funding or fun- going to play it by ear."
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universites, a move USC officials have denounced. ^
JffSM thfboSa of trustees has* rejected such a
plan al$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.
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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
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