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SGA senate fails to override amendment The SGA senate faile Wednesday to overrid President Carl Solomon's vet of a constitutional amendment. The amendment would hav taken the power to fill th vacant senate seats away froi the vice president, giving tf power to the Powers an Responsibilities Committee. "It can be a comDlete an people have died from 'unloaded' gun." Gun control and gun awa '> ness are necessary. 1 "Students need to realize t they bare a moral and lej responsibility to the univers -community when they owi gun," Pruitt said. "Violence >Jnot a way to solve a confl v'Properly register your weap< - with the police." ?r I ? ^ H i+f I Stop by ou ; about writi .777-7181 part of US< informatioi OVRAL ?, continued fr most fertile day of a woman's cycle, she stands only about a 25 percent chance of becoming pregnant. Because pregnancy results only when a series of perfectly choreographed events occur in an exact sequence, injecting relatively d high amounts of certain hormones e disrupts the process, o Research indicates the probable sequence of events Ovral causes re are: ie It inhibits the sperm from reaching the egg. ie If the sperm reaches the egg, the d egg's casing is changed to retard the sperm's ability to penetrate, d It changes the delicate balance ie of acidity of the uterus to prevent m the egg from implanting in the R uterine wall. 'e The side effects of Ovral and /- similar drugs are considered much 1- less severe than earlier postcoital contraceptives. Most often, women :e who take the morning-after pill complain of nausea and headaches, it while the less common side effects :o are vomiting, dizziness and breast total change of power in th appointments to the senate froi the vice president to the P+ (committee) of the legislativ branch," said Solomon, justify ing why he vetoed the ament ment. Sen. Bennett Schiller spok for the amendment. "The issue is, Do we wai one bias making the decision t fill an empty seat, or would w - -rather have seven or eight co >~4ectively with their biases inte: 1 "3/iew each and every candidal "-and make that decision," h -said. *? Also, the Vice President' Panel will meet at 7 p.n Tuesday. All campus organize tions are invited to send repn sentatives. Correction . In the Nov. 1 edition of T1 Gamecock, the story "Flag opponei discusses compromise options" coi tained an error. The state of Georg , has no immediate plans to remo\ the Confederate battle flag froi above its State House. Th Gamecock regrets this error. FIREARMS, continued from page 1 * may have been involved in m than one offense. '' "We have had two armed r beries on campus this year, i r> one case has been solve* Stokes said. "The individual \ not a university student, ant sawed-off .410 gauge shot*: ."tand /k'largo hand gun wi ' recovered. It is important tha .. a person sees someone witl weapon that should not have t . that it is reported to the univei ,ty police immediately." . t Because South Carolina considered a hunting state, p , pie on campus may own a gur . "Hunting is important beca the harvesting of animals is n essary to protect the natu resource," Hicks said. If a s dent brings a gun to camp they are required by USC pol to register and store the wea{ with I ISC nnlirp Hirkc savs I is a good policy because "e: access would breed trouble." "If there are guns on camp they are subject to being sto and used by someone with intent " Stokes said. "Guns < be accidentally discharged, c 'people can set hurt. So me rr. . ^^ ^ ir ottice n KH ng for The Game to find out how ) C's number one s i. 'e tenderness 1- Morning-after pills aren't recomr mended for women who have or te have had breast cancer, strokes, ie blood clots in their legs or lungs, diabetes or high blood pressure, s There's some controversy over 1. how freely a doctor should prei scribe the morning-after pill, but S" most recommend a pregnancy test before taking the medication to assure that no previous pregnancy already exists. Speroff said the office visit required for the test ie also gives the doctor a chance to nt screen for sexually transmitted diseases. ia I Why the silence? ie Dr. Michael Policar, vice presi dent for medical affairs at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, couldn't be reached for comment but told Glamour magazine in its September 1993 issue that one ? major reason morning-after pills ore aren't more widely understood by women is the nature Qf how drugs ob- are approved by the FDA. ind "The use of birth control pills d," for emergency contraception vas remains strictly off-label," Policar 1 a said in the article. "This means that ;un the information packaged with the ere drug can't say anything about t if morning-after use. Nor can drug i a manufacturers advertise it." 3ne Once a drug is approved for one rsi- use by the FDA, however, doctors are free to prescribe it for any conis dition they feel calls for it, even if eo- it's beyond the scope of the use for l. which the drug was approved. But use Policar said even doctors who ec- know the pills can be used as postral coital contraceptives may opt not ;tu- to prescribe them for fear of medus, ical malpractice suits because such icy usage isn't sanctioned by the FDA. >on While some doctors feel mornhis ing-after pills should be as availasy able as condoms, others such as Policar and Speroff are somewhat >us, more cautious about making the len pills available without patients conill suiting a physician first. :an One argument to making the ind pills easier to come by is that tny women may come to depend on an them as a primary form of contraception, although most admit this ire- is unlikely considering the sometimes severe side effects that hat accompany its use. A more serious gal consideration is the possibility that ;ity women who use the pill on any i a kind of a regular basis will be stakis ict. 3ns m om page 2 ing their health and their lives on j the chance that they won't contract j a sexually transmitted disease. t Doctors stress that the morning- ? after pill is an emergency contraceptive to be used only when other [ methods fail. A side issue that doctors say | isn't directly related to the use of , Ovral is the debate of when life j begins and whether, indeed, pills such as Ovral are abortifacients. i Most doctors prescribing the pills 5 as postcoital contraceptives assert i that pregnancy begins only after the egg has implanted itself in the ' wall of the uterus. In a Jan. 10 article in The New ^ York Times Magazine, one New ? ' - ! York gynecologist was quoted as j saying, "It's not contraception or j abortion. It's the gray area ? so 1 we call it interception. Research has shown that the ' process of menstruation normally sloughs of the egg, fertilized or not, at least 75 percent of the time | even during a woman's time of peak fertility. Proponents of using | Ovral as an emergency contracep- j tive say the pill only enhances a ] process that occurs naturally. But whether postcoital contra- i ception is considered abortion, t many doctors say it shouldn't be ' kept from those who find them- 1 selves in a position where using it may be an option. r "Look, people's lives are people's lives, and some of them can't cope or be as organized as some of us might like," said Dr. Felicia Stewart, an OB/GYN in New York, in The Times Magazine article. "But it's only in the area of sex that we get involved in the ethics of promoting risk-taking, the idea that we should withhold information or devices because we don't want people to need them. "Would you make the same argument about cholesterol drugs? Saying, if we give people a drug that will reduce cholesterol, they won't be as likely to exercise and eat properly like they really should?" Making the pill more widely available as a postcoital contraceptive would likely reduce the numbers of women seeking therapeutic, or surgical, abortions as indicated by a recent study published in the British Journal of Family Planning. IKq fi rt 11 ro a niimn in that otn/Jir i uc iiguieo 51 veil 111 uiai c?iuu^ suggest perhaps half of women seeking such abortions could have used a postcoital contraceptive before the pregnancy started. Statistics indicate 3.5 million American women a year experience unplanned pregnancies. About 1.6 million surgical abortions are conducted each year in the United States. In a December 1992 article in Family Planning Perspectives published by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit center concerned with reproductive health, fQpnarr>hni*o artimntaH m o L' 1 n ft t hp i u^iimaicu liicuvm^ UJV morning-after pill more widely available in the United States could conservatively reduce surgical abortions by 800,000, or roughly half of the abortions performed. The researchers also asserted such wider availability would likely reduce by half the number of unplanned pregnancies. Ere pu3lfch( 1 and ask IS icock. Call rou can be a ource of MORTAR BOA productive researchers, and sh( tlso dispelled the myth that the eacher who knows the most teach is the best. "This is about taking the time hat is essential to the interactior petween one teacher and one stu lent," Matalene said. "One senioi Vlortar Board student thinks yot tre important. You have made ar mpact on his or her life." The presentation of the award: ncluded each student giving i >hort speech about the teacher ht pominated. Kate Adams awarded Jame: Bradley, an economics professor. "He made an impact on mt jeshman year," Adams said. "Hi vas the one teacher who knew m) lame and always said hello to mt n the hall. He has always beei here for me, and he does so mucl "or each student." One reason Stephanie Parkar ?aid she nominated pharmacy pro "essor James Chapman is he know: vhen students get burned out anc ncorporates that into his teaching ityle. Jarvis Latham, a journalism pro fessor, was called one of USC'; 'inest by his nominator, Jennife: Broome. "He put so much effort intc naking us broadcast students bet er ourselves," Broome said. "Hi tas been a critic, a mentor and < Yiend." Ann Dreher, a theatre, danct Sound off MmSM J^k mjL1 . ~ .... :' .^SK,The Marine contingent of the l?@B ?l?g@OaiL???......,.v... Community Service^? Programs has a job fc YOU! Drop by the Can pus Activities Center < call 777-5780. ock is lool ve the fro I I he ranks c net YOU H lRD, continued from page 1 The following professors were awarded Mortar Board Excellence in Teaching Awards: ^*5? Ronald Atkinson History r Daniel Berman University 101 ^ David Berube Theatre, Speech and Dance 1 James Bradley Economics i Joseph Byrd Electrical and Computer Engineering Mary Caldwell Journalism - James Chapman Pharmacy Erik Collins Journalism 1 John Dean Marine Science - Ann Dreher Theatre, Speech and Dance Alan Fried Journalism n George Geckle English Shirley Geiger Government and International Studies .sJcjffiy vcwiei juuiucuianj Jarvis Latham Journalism Lester Lefton Psychology Nina Levine English Earle Lingle Pharmacy Bruce Marshall Government and International Studies 1 Rhonda Montgomery Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism i Jeffrey Patton USC Medical School Barry Preedom Physics , Henry Price Journalism Lawrence Rhu English Maribeth Schlictman Accounting ' > Donald Songer Government and International Studies 1 Walter Sowell Pharmacy , David Sumner Mathematics : Thomas Turner Air Force and Aerospace Studies Dianne Ward Exercise Science Sondra Wieland Education 5 Sandra Winecoff Education r Duane Yoch Biological Sciences Source: Mortar Board Chris Muldrow/The Gamecock ) and speech teacher, also won an make a difference to one student. ; dwcuu. i "This award means more to me We don't make a lot of money, but than any other," Dreher said as she ; hugged a student. "It's that we this is the thanks we get " Wlfr ^3|y w W& ^KLWM ] ~ - - - - - ''' Lan Tran/The Gamecock i Navy ROTC marches toward Greene Street Thursday. rv?^ Give the gift of life, i f Give blood! ^ JSL American Red Cross )r South Carolina Regional i- | m Diouu services ? L ? 1 ~ ? king for some hearty . w f I* nners or |ournansm jf the few, the proud, iififco ck Iave Our Word.