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\ News Digest jag Irish Supreme Court allows girl to get abortion DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) — The Supreme Court cleared the way Wednesday for a 14-year-old girl to leave Ireland for an abortion, leaving divisive legal and political issues for another day. The ruling overturned the first at tempt to prevent an Irish woman from seeking a legal abortion in another country. The case attracted interna tional attention and reopened the debate over abortion, which is banned in Ireland by a constitutional amend ment that won overwhelming support in a 1983 referendum. - “From a humanitarian point of view I welcome the decision. It has been a sad and distressful case and I am glad that everything is over,” Prime Min ister Albert Rcynods told reporters. The five justices of the Supreme Court overturned a High Court order that had prevented the girl, who says she was raped and has threatened to kill herself, from having an abortion or leaving the country. It was not known whether the Supreme Court had decided that the High Court had overstepped Irish law or had acted contrary to Ireland’s commitments under European Com munity treaties calling for freedom of movement of citizens. About 4,000 Irish women have abortions in Britain each year. The girl, who has not been identi fied, says she was raped in December by a friend’s father following more than a year of sexual abuse. Her plans for a British abortion came to the authorities1’ attention af ter the family contacted police about preserving evidence from the fetus for a possible prosecution. World abortions laws When a woman may have an abortion: * To save her life Other health Masons ^ScaleiSwM OttflqMest Africa -Angola -Ivory Coast -Mozambique -Algeria -Lesotho -Uganda -Burundi ‘I000. •Benin -Gabon / -Niger -Cameroon* -Liberia*,§ -Zimbabwe*,§ -Zambia§ -Tunisia :| -Botswana -Libya -Nigeria -Congo -Morocco ' •Burkina -Madagascar -Senegal -Egyptt -Namibia*,§ £ ,,i:: Faso -Malawi -Somalia -Ettiiopia -Rwanda .... -Central -Mali -Sudan -Ghana*,§ -Sierra Leone African Rep. -Mauritania -Zaire -Guinea -South Africa*.§ -Chad -Mauritius ‘Kenya -Tanzania _____J__| 111 1 -Afghanistan -Laos -Syria -Hong Kong‘S -Malaysia*,§ -Papua New -Australia§ -China -Bangladesh -Lebanon -United Arab -Israel*,§ -Mongolia Guinea -lndia*,§ -Singapore fifKi -Burma -Oman Emirates -Jordan* -Nepal -Saudi -Japan* ,§ -Turkey Oceania -Indonesia -Pakistan -Yemen -South -New Arabia -North -Vietnam •Iran -Philippines Korea*,§ Zealand*,\-Thailand* Korea ,§ •Iraq -Sri Lanka -Kuwait§ £ ._-Taiwan*,§ ___ j .— -Albania -Portugal*,§ -Finland*,§,* -Austria* ,§,* -Former East -Ex-Soviet EWOp* -Ireland -Northern Ireland -Spain*,§ -Former West -Belgium* Germany* Union* •Switzerland Germany*,§,* -Bulgaria* -Greece* -Sweden* ...... •••* \ * -Great Britain* -Czech,* -Italy* -Yugoslavia* •Hungary*, §,* -Oewfmr** -Netherlands f «frarioa*# -Norway* | •Romania* .------1 --J.# | aioytll -Dominican -Guatemala -Mexico* -Costa Rica -Canada# -Puerto Rico jjtliirttfl Republic -Haiti -Nicaragua -Jamaica I -Cuba* -United States •El Salvador* ,§ -Honduras -Panama -Trinidad and Tobago -Brazil* _ -Colombia -Paraguay -Argentina* -Guyana -Uruguay* AlMlteS ‘Chile -Ecuador* -Venezuela -Bolivia* -Peru ‘Includes cases of rape and incest §lndudes abortion for genetic detects *Abortion allowed only within limits ranging from 10 to 20 weeks. In other countries with abortion on request, abortion is permitted through 24 weeks or until viability Note Other restrictions may apply Table does not include countries with fewer than one million inhabitants or where information is not available Laws in Poland in flux _AP Blank Continued from Page 1 worked. “Any lime a student has a parent in their school’s administration it’s det rimental,” he said. Blank said hisson went to McCook to student teach alter his student-leach ing assignment did not work out. His son was able to live at home, and McCook happened to be in a position to take in a student teacher, he said. “It was a lime press,” Blank said. “He was graduating in May and needed to gel certified to get a job.” Blank said no special attention was given to his son. “I’m sure the Teachers College would have done the same for another student,” he said. “But attention is drawn because I am a regent.” Michael Mulnix, executive direc tor of university relations at UNL, said the final decision to send a pro fessor to McCook by plane was made by Goebel’s office. Such decisions usually are made by the dean of the college involved, Mulnix said. Sometimes problems arise or stu dents think they aren’t being treated fairly, he said, and the administration is called on to make a decision. “Since we’re dealing with a com munity of 25,(XX) students, we need flexibility,” Mulnix said. “There are no hard and fast rules for this type of decisions.” He said the decision to send An drews to McCook as a supervisor had nothing to do with the fact that the student involved was the son of a regent. *Our ultimate goal is to help the particular student involved, no mat ter who he or she is,” Mulnix said. “We bend over backward to do that.” Nor is it unusual for the university to help a student in that way, he said. “Any time the chairman of the board of regents is involved, it’s going to be scrutinized more carefully,” he said. “But it’s not as (hough this is the only student we’ve ever helped out of a tough spot.” Alvah Kilgore, associate to the dean oft he Teachers College, said all students seeking certification were required to spend the last semester student teaching. Students list what schools they would like to student teach at, and they usually gel their first choice, he said. A supervisor is required to visit the school four to five times a semester to observe the student and meet with the cooperating teacher, Kilgore said. If the student’s teaching assign ment docs not work out for some reason, the student cither may be pulled from the program or sent to another school, he said. In the case of Blank’s son, Kilgore said, the first school assignment did not work out, and he was reassigned to McCook, where he completed his training. But Kilgore said he was not directly involved in the case of Blank’s son. “Students have three or more years of college invested in this,” he said. “We try to do whatever we can to make their student-teaching experi ence a success.” Gender Continued from Page 1 salaries as in 1990 — S560. He said the real issue was the rep resentation of women in faculty across campus and in the higher levels of administration at UNL. Beck agreed and said that in the past, women had been unequally represented at UNL. “Women haven’t fared very well over the last 12 years,” she said. In 1978, she said, 13 percent of the UNL faculty were women, according to a study by the commission. In 1990, the number of women at UNL had increased to only 16 per cent, and in 1991, commission fig ures showed that 19 percent of the faculty were women. When breaking down those num bers according to position, the per centages dfg Ranted even more, she said. In 1990, Beck said, women made up”30 perccrtfof assistant professors, 15 percent of associate professors, and only 7 percent of full professors atUNL. “Women just aren’t making it in the academic world as men arc,” she said. But Beck said these issues were beginning to be addressed this year. The issues are changing from salaries to recruitment, retention, advance ment and family-friendly policies. “Now we are aiming for a more inclusive climate for women,” she said. At the beginning of the 1991-92 school year, the NU Board of Regents established long-term goals univer sitywide for gender equality. Carmen Maurer, acting UNL Af firmative Aclion/Equal Opportunity officer, said these goals included achieving representation that reflected leadership similar to other institu tions. Along that line, faculty search committees are encouraged to seek out female candidates for upper-level positions, such as the vice chancellor for academic affairs position. One of the goals includes review ing sensitivity training regarding equity issues for all new NU employees. The training will be in place by next fall. Another goal aims to establish effective channels for reviewing equity issues, such as developing new griev ance procedures and more effective employment redress procedures, she said. Maurer said more exit interviews of female faculty were taking place to better track those leaving because of possible equity problems. Attitudes and the climate at UNL are starting to show a significant change toward women as well, Maurer said. Although progress is slow, Maurer said, she thinks concrete progress is being made through the regents’ goals and continuing studies and interest in the issues. “We do have a ways to go,” she said. “Bui I don’t know that that is a problem exclusive to the university.” ASUN bill to change student fee allocation By Kara Morrison Staff Reporter AS UN passed student fees appro priations for the union, health center, and recreation center budgets Wednes day night. The Association of Students of the A orrer University of y |\| Nebraska assessed student fees, per ] suidcnt/pcr semes V-'-'f fi; '''!1 '*>!j"’"fr? ter, as follows: W&SfMH Campus Rccrca BBSvWJ llon Center, *f* $36.86; Univer sity Health Center, S73.89; and Ne braska Union, S31.87. Although all bills passed as rec ommended by the Committee for Fees Allocation, ASUN President Andy Massey said he was not sure if he would sign the appropriation bill for the recreation center. Law Sen. Gene Collins introduced an amendment to cut the recreation center’s budget by $24,000 so that student fees could be lowered. In stead, the $24,(XX) should come from increased staff/faculty membership dues, he said. Compared to dues for membership Baldwin Continued from Page 1 incident. Lacey said he doubled living with other football players would be suffi cient to prevent Baldwin from having further problems. He questioned if people who had not noticed a change in Baldwin before the alleged attack would be able to do so now. Lacey said he also worried about the possibility that Baldwin could experience more stress and have fur ther problems. “It seems likely to me itcould very well happen again,” he said. to other fitness centers in Lincoln, Collins said, membership dues at the recreation center are “a heck of a deal” for faculty and staff at the Uni versity of Ncbraska-Lincoln. “I think faculty and staff are get ting a good deal because students don’t have the option to pay for this,” Collins said. “They have to pay for the facility whether they use it or not.” Collins said non-student member ship dues should be increased to lower student fees because faculty and staff earn wages and do not have to finance an education. Stan Campbell, director of cam pus recreation, said faculty and staff membership dues were approximately S90 a year. About 1,200 faculty and staff members pay these dues, he said. Campbell said he was not sure if faculty and staff would choose to pay increased dues, especially since lower paid staff comprised the majority of the faculty/staff memberships. Massey said he would decide by Friday whether he would sign the bill. ASUN also passed a resolution in support of Affirmation Day and en couraged the 1993 senate to support the gay, lesbian and bisexual human rights awareness day April 8.’