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^ee^en(^ vveat*ier Fighting battle of bulge requires dreaded 'daily exercise routine' see page 3 Partly cloudy through the period with scattered showers thunderstorms P?8te' w'{^ ^'Shs near 90 Thursday cooling to F^-('ow 80s by Saturday and with the lows around 70 Thursday cooling to 60s by Reds may Still finish Second in National League West Seepages The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Wednesday Volume 82, No. 1 University of South Carolina July 5, 1989 Court suj By The Associated Press In splintered voting, the justices restored key provisions f a Missouri law that a lower court had invalidated for nduly interfering with women's constitutional right to bortion. Monday's ruling is a significant setback for abortion ghts advocates because other states may now follow .issouri's lead. But a majority of the justices said they were unwilling, . this case, to overturn or even reconsider the court's mdmark, 16-year-old decision in Roe vs. Wade. in it, me touri saiu wuincii nave a tuiiMiiuuunai "gui* rased on their right to privacy, to seek and obtain abortions. The Roe vs. Wade ruling said a woman's decision to have an abortion during the first three months of pregnancy must be left to her and her doctor. It said states may regulate abortions during the second trimester only to protect the woman's health, and may take steps to protect fetal life in the third trimester. State authority to regulate abortions after the first USC's reaction to ruling mixed By LES ALVERSON ?|gj| Photo editor $ On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court put the question of abortion to the individual states. Each state can now pass legislation to intervene at anytime during pregnancy. This almost reverses Roe vs. Wade, which did not allow the state to interfere with a woman's decision to have an abortion during the first trimester, or the first three months of pregnancy. Reaction at USC upon hearing about the decison was mixed. "It's a mistake," said Jeanmarie Todd, an international business graduate student. "No one should tell a woman what to do in this tough choice." Todd said she still agrees with Roe vs. Wade. "Before the state there is the individual's rights," Todd also said that it is a choice of personal responsibility. "it's up to her to decide. 1 don't feel nothing is to be gained by the state's decision." f?f; Computer science senior Eric Aiken said he could seeboth points. "It's the woman's choice, but the government's point is: is it their right?" Aiken added the government's question should be "When is it a child and not a fetus?" Aiken said this decision is going to cause problems in tbe future, "There's going to be lots of iegal battles." But some students and professors said they agreed with the Supreme Court's decision on the Missouri case*. "I think the control should be in the hands of tbe people in the state. I can understand why some people would want abortions in some cases, but they shouldn't he allowed to use it just as birth control," biology laboratory technician Nelida Caballero said. Cox to work at Rice History professor farewell to univi By BESSIE JONES HHHBHPM Slaff writer When he talks about his years spent teaching and researching at (JSC, the history professor has only good things to say, and when colleagues and students talk about him they talk about his wit, his good nature, and his love for teaching. ^agp Jamaica native Edward Cox will liiiP^1Z' M ' ^ say farewell to USC in the latter part of July because he has taken a WmM f'Wm Wjk teaching post at Rice University in W. Houston, Texas. ... , "I have enjoyed it all, but there is a ls ^ro cssor certain amount of excitement in fresh Cox also said h challenges and added opportunities students, to grow professionally and "Developing i academically," he said. couraging them tc become critical Fourteen years ago Cox came to teaching is all abc USC fresh out of graduate school. stress that the be He said he was attracted by the students should a possibility of teaching and resear- about." ching Caribbean history and courses He added that v on comparative slavery and African most is the int< civilization in the New World. students. He said 1 "There wasn't a time that my stay from them, and here was not enjoyable," Cox said. has been most gra "The best part was being able to in- Students interv teract with a wide range of talented agreed, saying the) people from the various disciplines Cox because he is within the university. As you learn accepts nothing 1 more and mnrp ahmu the nniversitv. fVnm ihpm you discover that you do have some Cox is author o common interests within each tides and a book discipline. It is all interrelated." the Slave Soeietie It is this interrelationship that Cox Grenada. stresses to his students. "The most wrer "I try to stress that each course is leaving friends ar like climbing a ladder, with each Cox said. "I have course you build," he said. "I want of my life in Colu them to always be looking at and ward to the ventt thinking about the total education citement of a picture rather than in a course by unknown balanc course manner." leaving." jports ab trimester was not made absolute, however. The constitutional right established in 1973 remains after Monday's decision, but it is now easier for states to interfere with that right. In today's decision, the justices ? mainly in 5-4 votes ? restored several Missouri abortion regulations. One requires doctors to determine, when possible, whether a fetus at least 20 weeks old is capable of surviving outside the womb. The court also said Missouri, and other states as well, may ban the use of tax money for "encouraging or counseling" women to have abortions not necessary to save life. The court said Missouri may ban any public employee ? doctor, nurse or other health care provider ? to perform or assist an abortion not necessary to save a woman's life. And the court said Missouri may ban the use of any public hospital or other facility for performing abortions not necessary to save life. The decision said that a declaration in Missouri law that "the life of each human being begins at conception" is not unconstitutional because it carries no enforceable restrictions on abortion. After Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist read portions of his main opinion for the court, Justice Harry A. Blackmun calmly read for nine minutes, denouncing the court's action. Blackmun, author of the Roe vs. Wade decision, said that the court had silently invited further challenges that would lead to the overturning of the 1973 ruling. "The silence is callous. It is also profoundly disruptive of this court as an institution," he said from the bench. Reactions to the decision were varied. "We are smiling. We are thumbs up all the way," John Willke of the National Right to Life Committee said i -1 - ^ shortly after tne court s aiviaea ruling inai expanueu Maic authority to restrict abortions. "Women's rights in every state are now in jeopardy," said Judith Lichtman, president of the Women's Legal Defense Fund. "Women across the country are outraged that this fundamental right can be taken away." In its ruling, the court stopped short of overturning a historic 1973 decision that granted women the right to abgrtions, But it permitted the state of Missouri to enforce several provisions designed to restrict abortions not necessary to save life, and opened the way for other states to follow suit. The court also said it would hear two new abortion cases next term. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a key abortion opponent in Congress, called the decision "a major victory for the pro-life cause." Judith Widdecombe, founder of Reproductive Health Services, the Missouri clinic involved in the court case, said: "There's a movement in this country that will not tolerate this. It will become our Vietnam of the 1990s." Molly Yard, president of the National Organization for Women, said the decision "chips away" at abortion rights. Noting the cases still to be heard, she said the court will have more opportunities to limit abortion rights until "pretty soon nothing much will be left for a.woman in controlling her reproductive life." n i|Jj Ed Cox Fi,eph0,? ^ e is demanding of ndividuality, eni use the facts and thinkers is what |HH ?ut," Cox said. "I st is always what H lways be thinking /hat he appreciates traction with his te has learned a lot that helping them tifying. /iewed said they f really appreciated use Police Officer Hobart Brooks so demanding and hjgher rafes ess than the best f several history ar- A/fucpum n , tree L oioreas in jl r m. i/ho? w i i c vf < >5 o/ 5/. X7//s and From staff reports iching experience is USC's McKissick Museum and id acquaintances," department professors have received loved every minute ment grants totalling $291,000. mbia and look for- The Institute of Museum Servic ire out and the ex- Washington D.C., awarded McKissi new place. The $75,000 grant. The grant, which is t :es the pain of amount awarded by the institute, w for museum operations, programs ar ortion res Emergency I abortions only -aaaBHaaaHBaaBHiii Current Law ||||| Eliminate |?||^i^p||p| oil oK^r+l^r?o all abortions Undecided I I I I I 5 10 15 2C PERC I S. C. against n By The Associated Press abortions throug Women should be allowed to have ths of pregnancy abortions only in cases of rape, incest to limit abortioi or danger to the mother's life, almost months of prej half the respondents in a statewide wanted all abort poll say. percent didn't ki When given several options from The telephon which to choose, 47 percent of the Tuesday througl participants in the South Carolina State by Me poll published in Monday's edition Research Inc., q of The State newspaper said women Carolinians and should be allowed to have abortions of 4.4 percent, only when the mother's life is in The newsj danger or in the case of rape or demographic b incest. figures, but said Only 7 percent favored the current be discerned b< law, which allows women to have men and women to rii By Zachary Evt Staff writer Students will morvey into pari ing further fron because of chan by USC Preside! Rates at parki ?wiu increase tc from 10 cents, I and Vehicle Monday. Also, the con ing lot at the c< Pendleton stre faculty lot, Bak Both of these to be implement August or the Some parking have already be Baker said tl the rates at o region, includi State, the Ui Carolina at CI Medical Uni Carolina, whert run from 50 c< The money g( ing meters goes . es AlverWntGamecock ^"ule'buses""' prepares (he parking meter for new, Money gener? nd professors rea ... Part of the grant will also be used to expt four overr? riculum resource materials offered to oui govern schools in conjunction with museum exhib . d in Under the program, NEA and national ckMuseum a slll,an,s "ill help the museum staff de v? nit rtlon 1 r*r tho milCPlim C T 1 11 1 1 f A nr he maximum >? ? - kill be used Consultants will advise the museum on ho id services prove space utilization, increase st itrictions i i i i i i i i I i o*; Qn An AC; c;n j w \J ww "tw ~w s/ v ww VENTAGES Poll Conducted For The State By Metromark Market Research tost abortions ;h the first six mon- Republicans. The State' did say, r; 27 percent wanted though, that people with more liberal is to the first three views, greater wealth and better >nancy; 11 percent education generally supported ions banned; and 8 greater access to abortions, low. The results show deep divisions e poll, conducted among those polled about when i Thursday for The abortions should be allowed, tromark Market The issue could be inflamed with uestioned 507 South today's decision from the U.S. has a sampling error Supreme Court on the right of women to have abortions, laper gave no When those who favored some acreakdown on the cess to abortion later were asked no difference could ? ^? nween opinions of i, or Democrats and See POLL page 6 ing meter prices >e in fall semester cost increases which are under discus>rplf tir?n wrmlrl hp iicprt to hpln fund a new parking garage, which would I be pumping more possibly be located on the eastern cing meters and park- part of the campus, said Pete Den1 their classes this fall ton, vice president of Business and ges recently approved Finance. nt James Holderman. Both Denton and Baker said the ing meters on campus change in meter rates will bring on) 25 cents per hour campus rates closer to those in the 3ill Baker of Parking rest of Columbia. Registration said USC is also looking into changing the routes of the shuttle buses in nmuter student park- order to make their use more effiDrner of Pickens and cient. One goal is to increase the use ets will become a of the commuter spaces, such as the er said. lot behind the Carolina Coliseum, changes are expected Baker said. ed fully by the end of For example, students who would first of September. no longer be able to park in the lot at meters on campus Pickens and Pendleton would be able en changed. to park in the Coliseum lot and take le university studied the newly re-routed shuttle to their ther schools in the classes. ng North Carolina While the cost of parking stickers diversity of North is to stay the same, the cost of spaces tiapel Hill, and the in parking garages will increase in versity of South January, at roughly the same time r parking meter rates fines are expected to increase, Denents to a dollar per ton said. Denton said the rates for garages merated by the park- "will still be well under city rates." ; to support parking The proposal for an increase in :neral. including fun- fines is deoendent on administrative on of the university's action, he said, and the proposal will probably be tabled until late in ited by this and other January of 1990. eive large grants ind cur knowledge of its programs and create an endow... ment fund. . ^ L "We're delighted to be accepted into the program because it shows the high level of artistic acart con- COmplishment and excellence." said Lynn Myers, vc op a director of McKissick Museum. ograms. - w to ima,e"ide See GRANTS page 5