ASUN supports total divestment;
approves CFA recommendations
merits concerning South Africa, but
“as of yet, there have been no sub
stantial changes in the university’s
attitude toward South Africa.”
Because of small reforms currently
taking place in South Africa, Potter
said, some people are questioning
whether sanctions should continue.
Joseph Akpan, president of the
Nigerian Student Association, said
sanctions were “the only viable and
non-violent approach.”
He said sanctions were what brought
the government of South Africa to the
negotiating table, so sanctions should
not be removed until irreversible
constitutional changes take place.
In other action, the senate approved
three student fee recommendations
from the Committee for Fees Alloca
tion.
The University Program Council
received a 3.4 percent increase over
last year, raising its total budget to
$189,802.19.
Under UPC, the African Ameri
can Special Events and Entertain
ment budget was increased to
$6,387.45, but $125 from its request
that would have been used for cash
prizes at events was not approved.
The Daily Nebraskan did not re
ceive $10,000 it requested for a pro
jected recession loss, but did receive
$6,000 to provide for a changeover to
use of soybean ink, which is said to be
safer for the environment and doesn’t
smear.
The ASUN budget was passed with
no amendments. The recommenda
tions next will be forwarded to James
Griesen, vice chancellor for student
affairs.
Abortion
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Summarizing Urbom’s declaration,
Cathcart said the judge found that the
waiting period increased the woman’s
health risks and economic burden —
for instance, if a woman had to travel
and stay overnight to comply with the
waiting period.
Lynn Marcus, another of the seven
opponents to LB78, said she thought
the bill was an insult to women.
“A mandatory delay and forced
lecture ... is paternalistic and de
meaning” to women, said Marcus of
David City.
She said abortions need not be
regulated, and women base their
decisions to terminate an unwanted
pregnancy on "moral, philosophical
and religious beliefs.”
Bodies shifted and the room emp
tied a bit as the committee moved
onto LB84, a bill forbidding the use
of public funds and facilities to per
form or assist in an abortion.
Sen. M.L. Dierks of Ewing, LB84’s
sponsor, outlined the bill, saying public
employees also fall under LB&4 and
they may not assist or perform an
abortion. Women whose liyes are
endangered by pregnancy would be
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excluded from the bill’s provisions.
Sen. BobWickersham of Harrison
said he was concerned about the defi
nition of assisting abortions and asked
Dierks to clarify it.
Dierks said he thought that under
the provisions of the bill, assisting
abortions means that during counsel
ing, abortion may not be listed as an
option.
Peter Batallion, an Omaha attor
ney and member of the Nebraska
Coalition for Life, and one of six pro
ponents who spoke about LB84, said
he thought the bill would rid taxpay
ers of the possibility of financing
abortions. That’s something for which
Nebraska citizens shouldn’t pay, he
said.
In opposing testimony, Krynn
Buckley, a Lincoln physician, said
the assistance reference in the bill as
Dierks and Batallion defined it would
inhibit a doctor’s legal and ethical
obligations.
Buckley said she could not com
ply if the bill passed because she took
an oath to care for her patients as best
she could. In addition to that. Buck
ley said, such a law inhibits free speech
and is a “direct violation of the First
Amendment.”
Virginia Johnson, a member of the
Board of Directors for Planned Par
enthood of Lincoln, concurred with
Buckley and elaborated on the ethical
dilemma she thinks the bill imposes.
Johnson said the only way to en
sure that doctors or any public em
ployees aren’t giving advice that
abortion is an option to terminate a
pregnancy would be to question doc
tor/patient conversations.
It would betray.the confidentiality
of the doctor/patient relationship if a
doctor’s file was open to “public scru
tiny,” she said.
About 50 people were left in the
hearing chamber as Sen. Bernice
Labedz of Omaha opened discussion
on her bill, LB425, which would call
for parental notification for women
18 years and younger to obtain an
abortion.
The seven proponents of the bill
argued that a minor should not be
making a decision to terminate a
pregnancy on her own, while oppo
nents argued that the state has no
place dealing with what they called a
personal decision — whether to have
an abortion.
The committee took no action on
the bills.
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Staff Reporter
ASUN pledged its support Wednes
day to a bill in the Nebraska Legisla
ture that calls for state agencies —
including the University of Nebraska
— to divest of South Africa.
LB395 would require state agen
cies to totally divest of any compa
nies that do business in South Africa.
Current law requires divestment, but
leaves a loophole for companies which
follow certain nondiscriminatory
practices. The bill allows the univer
sity 1 1/2 years to make the changes.
College of Arts and Sciences Sen.
Chris Pottdr, who submitted the As
sociation of Students of the Univer
sity of Nebraska bill supporting LB395,
said that last fall the university had
seemed to make progressive move
