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The Gamecock
Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Wednesday
Volume 82, No. 1 University of South Carolina July 5, 1989
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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.
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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|
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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
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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."
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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
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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."
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id acquaintances," department professors have received
loved every minute ment grants totalling $291,000.
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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,
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By Zachary Evt
Staff writer
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Monday.
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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
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run from 50 c<
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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
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ckMuseum a slll,an,s "ill help the museum staff de
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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.
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