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A bill permitting examination and treatment of minors for
venereal disease without parental consent has been moved to
general file in the Nebraska Legislature.
State Sen. Wally Barnett, Lincoln, said he introduced LB
1096 because the State Health Dept. and doctors have termed
VD at an "epidemic" rate within the state.
The bill was advanced out of the Unicameral's Public
Health Committee on a 5-2 vote following extended debata
Under existing Nebraska law, if a juvenile is determined to
have VD, the examining physician must notify the individual's
parents.
"Kids weren't going in," Barnett said. "They don't want it
reported to parents."
Henry Smith, a State Health Dept. spokesman, said his
agency endorses the bill.
Recent figures show over 4,500 cases of VD were reported
in Nebraska last year. State officials feel less than one-fourth
of all cases are reported, however. That would make VD the
largest reported communicable disease in the state.
Omaha Sen. Glenn Goodrich questioned whether the bill
wouldn't make young people "indulge a little bit more."
Barnett countered, saying the fact is "they are indulging."
"The question today is do we want to cure the disease or
do we want to tell the parents." Barnett told committee
members, "We have a way to cure the disease."
Goodrich still questioned the proposed change. "It just
grabs me when someone steps between myself and my
children," the Omaha lawmaker said. .
"Until we admit we have a problem, we aren't going to cure
it, Barnett said.
Now that the bill has been moved out of committee.
Barnett feels if fellow senators don't pass it "then they don't
understand it."
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Arbitration
Board meets
amidst lenthy
discussion
Proponents and opponents of the
proposed March World In Revolution-Justice
in America Conference offered their views to
the Interim Arbitration Board in a lengthy
open meeting last night.
Board member James Lake, Faculty
Senate president, said the board was charged
by Interim Chancellor C. Peter Magrath to
determine if the conference would be "in
the best interests of the total University of
Nebraska" and if it represents "reasonable
balance of diverse viewpoints."
Another board member. Union Board
President Kerry Winterer, said the
Arbitration Board hopes to make a final
decision Thursday.
University student, Dave Hoist,
representing the Union Board, Union
Program Council and World in Revolution
. ... Conference Committee, said the three bodies
reaffirmed their support of the proposed
conference because he said they believe it is
well balanced and well planned; student
participation in the planning has been at a
maximum level; and to allow the threat of
"possible legislative action" to change the
conference would constitute a failure to act
in accordance with guidelines in the UNL
Campus Handbook.
The "legislative action" referred to is LB
1271. a bill that would cut off state
support in any form to any Nebraska
College which asseses mandatory student
fees. ',
Dennis Confer said he did not claim the
conference was pooly planned or had an
inbalance of speakers, but it is just untimely.
HUULSJ
Verbal harassment at the University, a
December freeze on student fees, and the
close Legislative vote to take student fees
away from the Daily Nebraskan, the
University student said indicated "people
have not forgotten" the controversial
programs at the University.
He also said the successful vote to hold
LB 1271 is an indication to him legislators
want to see what steps the University will
take in correcting programs currently under
fire.' .
AS UN Legislative Liaison Committee
menber Michele Gagne said her talks with
students from other colleges facing possible
penalization said it is their consensus "other
schools should not be penalized for our (the
University's) activites," by the passage of LB
1271. .
Three World In Revolution Committee
members, including Conference Chairman
Dennis Berkheim, said great effort has been
made-to have an orderly, balanced
conference, representative of all campus
interests.
ASUN First Vice President Michele Coyle
read from the newly-passed Senate
resolution calling the proposed conference a" -"lawful,
viable form of expression" and
endorsing the plans as they are now.
Two faculty members spoke in favor of
the conference and a dormitory graduate
assistant said he believed the "average
student" also wants the conference, but not
at the expense of all student fees.
Plans to have the conference fully or
partially financed through the selling of
admission tickets were proposed.
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