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Campua organizationa are encouraged to aubmit their newa to QunpuaUne. Contact Newa Editor, Box 103, UTSA, San Antonio, Texaa 78228 or caU t,90-S901.
Future UTSA president plans
to attend University Assembly meeting
Dr. Samuel Kirkpatrick, who will assume UTSA'a presidency in mid-January, plana to attend a University Assembly meeting on Friday, Dec. 8. The meeting will take place in the University Center's Laurel Room. This will be a special meeting, with most of the time reserved for Kirkpatrick. Students, faculty and steff are always welcome at University Assembly meetings.
Special Olympics needs volunteers
Volunteers are needed for the Special Olympics stete baaketball toumament, which will be held at UTSA the weekei>d of Feb. 16. The toumament is for mentally retarded children. Individuals and organizationa interested in helping with the event may contect Dr, David S. Katims at 691-5414.
Yearbook club searches for volunteers
TM yearbook dub. a naw atudant ntgWlMttpn.igLloOidfle lor. pao¬ pla interested in working on UTSA's first yearbook. People are needed to help with writing and designing, aa wall aa to aerve on committees that cover athletics and studant organization sectiona of the yearbook. Interested studente are wek»me to attand the week¬ ly club meetings on Tuesdays at 4 p.m. in HB 3.03.66. Although the last meeting of this semester haa ^eady taken place, meetings will start again the firat week of the spring semester, Studente in¬ terested in joining the yearbook dub can also contact Cynthia L. Ledwig, yearbook editor in chief, at the SRA office (691-4697),
Yearbooic picture taking extended, ordering for books begins
Picture teking for UTSA's first yearbook has been extended. Pictures will be taken on Wednesday, Dec. 6 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., and on Thursday, Dec. 7 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Yearbooks will be sold during the picture sessions for $25. After Feb. 1,1990 the price wiU increase to $30. Both sessions will be held in HB 2.01.04. Caps and gowns will be available for graduating seniors to wear for their pic¬ ture, if they choose. There is no obligation to buy picture packages. However, they are available. Questions may be directed to Cynthia L. Ledwig, yearbook editor in chief, who can be reached at the SRA office (691-4697).
Madrigal Christmas Dinner tickets on sale
UTSA's Madrigal Christmas Diimer performances will be Dec. 8, 9, 16 and 16. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. This year, the scene returns to Renaissance England where Queen Elizabeth will be entertained by her suitor, tlie Earl of Leicester. Tickets may be pur¬ chased by phone by calling Charge-a-tik at 226-2626, through all Rainbow Ticketmaster outlete, or at the UTSA ticket office located in the University Center. Proceeds benefit the scholarship fund. The Madrigal Diiuier will be haid in tha Kiva,
Pro-lifers bring speakers to meetings
Speakara will be featured at the last two Campus Pro-Life Move¬ ment meetings of the semester. Dorothy Berkley of the Texas Cradle Society will speak on Tuesday, Dec. 5 in the University Center's Mesquite Room. Gilbert Berdine will present his speech, "Life Before Birth: Fetal Development," on Friday, Dec. 8 in MS 2.02.24. Intereated persons ara invited to attmd both preaentetiona.
Magazine seeks student submissions
A new publication, EXIT Magazine, ia accepting the work of col¬ lage studente. Submiaaiona can include concert coverage, photographs, stories, raviewa and other creative ideas. Anyone in¬ tarested can contect EXIT Magazine, P.O, Box 2004, La Jolla, CA 92038, or caU (619) 270-6399.
Lawyer seeks student help with suit
by Melissa Muse
News Editor
Norma Cantu, a lawyer with the Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, asked students at a Nov. 15 MECHA meeting for their help in prepar¬ ing a lawsuit.
Cantu told the students the case deals with inequalities in higher education in Texas. The case Cantu discussed with the students is LULAC, et. al. verses William P. Clements, Governor of Stete of Texas, et. al., which was filed in the 107th District Court in Brownsville.
Cantu said the MALDEF lawyers could prove there was in¬ equality in Texas higher educa¬ lion and that the inequalities violate the Texas State Constitu¬ tion, but "to really bring that point home we have to show what happened to real people.
"I can show the big picture," said Cantu. "What I need are the horror stories — the things that really happen to people and how they suffer, so we can show it's a pattern.
"We have the big picture in terms of what's happening statewide. Whal we don't have are the individual stories."
"We're doing discovery against all the university systems, against the slate coordinating board. We're going to get all the big data together. But where you have to help us is — show us it's still happening." Cantu said the opposition would claim the viola¬ tions were not happening anymore.
"The more recenl the horror stories are, the more you can help MALDEF wilh the lawsuits," ex¬ plained Cantu.
The lawsuit covers resource allocation (which includes the location of programs), recruit¬ ment, admissions and retention
for both undergraduate and graduate schools. MALDEF is looking for specific incidents where Hispanic sludenls were treated differently from Anglos.
Cantu asked that sludents and former students with information pertaining to the lawsuit contect her or Jose Sanchez at the MALDEF office in San Antonio (224-5476).
The resource allocation part of the suit is scheduled to go to court on June 1, 1990.
Cantu pointed out that this case is a class action, and "we are nol promising to represent people in individual problems."
Panel debates abortion issues
by Brian Stark
Associate News Editor
The Universily Honors Pro¬ gram sponsored a panel debate on abortion Thursd- y, Nov. 16. Among the issues discussed were: when life begins, the value of the fetus, and the right's of both the fetus and the mother.
Three people represented the pro-choice group and three peopAa represented the pro-life group. David Lee Riley, SRA sspior represenlative, Myrna Von Nimilz, and the Reverend Christina Sumners, represented the pro-choice side. Pierre J. Riou, Akua Furlow, and Mark H. Crul- cher represented the pro-life side.
The ground rules for the panel debate were: each person has ten minutes for an opening state¬ ment, each side has a six minute rebuttal, each side has two minutes lo respond to a question period, and each side has a three minute conclusion.
One of the issues debated was that of when life begins. Accor¬ ding to Pierre J. Riou, pro-life, "Biologically the fetus is unques¬ tionably a human life. Only on
"Isn't it strange that the people who want the government to stay out of abortion want the government to pay foi it?"
—Mark H. Crutcher
biological grounds can the begin¬ ning of life be scientifically esteblished."
However, according to the Reverend Christina Sumners, pro- choice, a fetus "is not a human be¬ ing. No amount of impassionale speech making is going to prove that il is a human being. Can we not agree as reasonable people to call it a potential human being, and, then seek somewhere in the
grey middle area between this is nothing and this is a human life?"
Mark H. Crutcher states that "when brainwaves cease, life has ended. If that's the standard for when life ends, why isn't il a stan¬ dard for when life begins?"
The value of the fetus also became an issue. According to Sumners, "The question in all of this is if the life that is being teken is of less value than human life, there is an ancieni tradition which holds that a fetus in the womb is in fact of less value than
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the woman who carries that fetus in her womb."
According to Sumners, "The world is not black and white. Some choices are agonizing. Let's admit that the fetus is of less value than the woman who carries it."
According to Crutcher, "Some things are black and white. Some things are right. Some are wrong. Abortion is wrong. We don't value the life of the fetus more than the life of the mother. If the life of the fetus threatens the life of the mother we don't oppose abortion. A mothers right to privacy does not exceed the child's right to live."
Another issue debated was that of legislation affecting aborlion. According to Myrna Vo-^ Nimitz, "Consistently, anti-choice legislatures vote against child care programs. They vote againsi educational programs. They vote against food stamps, even for pregnant women." She adds, "The anti-choice movement of this country has nothing to do wilh compassion, love, or liberty. It has to do with control."
According to David Lee Riley, "Legislatures should stay out of women's   bodies.    Law   must
A group of pro-choice supporters rally at the Texas State Capital Building in Austin. All around the nation on Nov. 12, demonstrations were held to promote the pro-choice side of the abortion issue.
provide for the worst case because the law always applies. President Bush refusing to sign a bill which would provide public funds for abortions for women who were victims of incest or rape is completely unjustified."
Cruther responds "Isn't it strange that the people who want the  government  to  stay  out of
"My race will be ex'- tinct by the year 2050."  —Akua Furlow
abortion want the government to pay for il?"
According to Riou, "The greatest myth: a frightening no¬ tion that significant restrictions on abortion will result in thousands upon thousands of deaths  of  illegal  abortions,   in
United Way donations rise
order to find more than one thou¬ sand maternal deaths annually due to illegal abortions one must go all the way back to the pre- penicillin era in the early 1940's."
Riou adds, "Seven percent of abortions are for hard cases of rape, incest, possible defects with the fetus or health of the mother.- The other 93 percent of abortions are for birth control."
Another issue addressed was that of abortions affecting the black community. Akua Furlow states, "As a black woman I must address this issue from the con¬ text of a genocidal aspect. Because of the current rate of abortion in the black community, my race will be extinct by the year 2050. " She adds, "Today abortion is the removal of by¬ products of conception. We no longer talk about babies but the product of conception."
United Way Collections At UTSA
by Laura M. Martinez
Contributing Writer
The "successful" United Way Campaign at UTSA this year qualifies the Universily for an outstending increases award, ac¬ cording to its coordinator. Dr. Ann Eisenberg, associate pro¬ fessor of psychology.
A grand total of approximately $23,607.86 was collectedat UTSA. This is a 30.2 percent increase over last year's totel of $17,866.23.
United Way of San Antomo and Bexar County presents awards for a 20 percent or more increase in collections. According to Eisenberg, UTSA qualifies for the award this year.
This, overall success is in spite of a decrease in studenl dona¬ tions. This year's student dona¬ tion totel of $188.89 was down from last year's amount of $298.00.
Donations were collected from the   University   faculty,   staff.
sludents and sludenl organiza¬ tions. The campaign ran from Oct. 27 through Nov. 17. Faculty and steff were given the oppor¬ tunity to contribute by using envelopes which were passed out and later collected by volunteers. Donation collection cans were located throughout the campus, including food service areas.
The United Way of San An¬ tonio and Bexar County will distribute the funds among social services in the area.
17,866.23
1988
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(numbers are approximate)