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By Mary Jo Miller
An average of three to five pregnant
women a week seek aid from the staff
of Thompson Student Center, with 87
percent eventually seeking abortions
elsewhere, a gynecologist at the center
said.
Dr. William Potts, associate director
and gynecologist for the center, said he
rirmcn't hnw r?f anvthinc that can be
done to halt this "lousy" situation that
"is especially distressing given the level
of intelligence we're dealing with."
While the center does reach three to
five pregnant students a week, Potts
estimates an equal number of pregnant
students are never treated at the center.
Many woman live in Columbia yearround
and see their family physicians
about their pregnancies, he said.
OF THE pregnancies that Potts
counsels, most of the women haven't
used birth control, which is readily
available through the center.
The women have a vague concept of
pregnancy risks and many become
pregnant after the first or second
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Potts said he attributes the high
pregnancy rate to a widely-held attitude
he said occurs when "a women
denies she's sexually active by failing
to use birth control or planning any act
of intercourse."
He sees- this attitude occurring in
areas where parental attitudes are
strongly moralistic and individuals are
raised in a repressive atmosphere.
THE WOMEN are told of various
options available after counseling at
the center. Potts said he is not
moralistic in his counseling approach,
but he holds "a concept of strict
.Judeo-Christian attitudes in which preand
extramarital sex are wrong."
After counseling, 85 to 87 percent of
the pregnant women, married and unmarried,
choose abortions performed
off campus. Seven to 10 percent get
married and have the baby. Three percent
of the unmarried students have
the child and absorb it into their
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Abortions usually occur because the
women are incapable of telling their
families they're pregnant, he said.
Other reasons given are unwillingness
to disrupt their studies and lack of
income.
Abortion affects the rest of the
women's lives, Potts said.
After the abortion, he said most
women view becoming pregnant as the
biggest mistake of their lives, but with
counseling they accept it with time.
HOWEVER, WHILE 90 percent of
the women use birth control following
the experience, 10 percent will have
another unplanned pregnancy, he said.
In the more than 10 years Potts has
hppn accnciatpH with fhp rpnter hp has
seen an apparent rise in the number of
pregnancies and sees nothing that can
be done to lessen the number in the
future.
"Sex education as we know it today
just isn't working," he said.
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The board of trustees voted Thursday to raise housing
fees 15.7 percent. Since 1976, average dorm rates have risen
more than 75 percent.
"It's kind of crashing in on students,'* Gray said, adding
that dorm fees are going up faster than inflation and the
amount students earn at part-time jobs.
i nc mosi noiaoie consequence 01 me nousing iee increase
is many people are planning to move out of USC
dormitories, Gray said.
"I'VE BEEN impressed by all the people planning to
move off campus," he said. "The more people move off
campus, the more fees rise.
"I'd like to see people stay on campus, but 1 can't blame
them for moving off.... The economics are there/'
Gray said the money raised by the sale of the Wade
Hampton Hotel, also approved by the boar'' ~hursday,
cannot go towards lowering dorm fees becaus. money
is already earmarked for dorm renovation.
First priority for the money will go toward basic
maintenance in the Towers and for a beautification project
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"A LOT of the people coming to USC for the first time
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they see is the Towers," Gray said. He added that plans are
being discussed now to make the Towers attractive to
passersby.
He said second priority for the money will go to the
women's quad renovation project.
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