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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.’
