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r June 28, 2 c Vol. 44 No. 32 THE UWM] POST June 28,2000 NEWS r womens By Analisa Drew Beloit—All over Wisconsin, students are and networking. attendance to speak to the activists on Supreme Court decision which recognized becoming more and more politically active. Laura Telwerp, campus organizer ofthe women's rights and activism. that the Constitution protects the right of From issues such as sweatshop labor to Planned Parenthood chapter at the University "The right to take care of our own bodies women to choose abortion, said Berceau. corporate control of universities to diversity of Wisconsin-Madison, attended the is basically the right to privacy. It has fallen .Over the last decade, the Supreme Court and women's issues, students are organizing. conference because the issues were important on deaf ears in our assembly. We can only has granted states more power to place That is why some of Wisconsin's student to her. hope this will resonate with the public. The restrictions on the procedure. leaders took part in the NARAL Foundation "Freedom to choose what I want to do battles need to come from you and all Olenchek and others stressed that the need pro-choice activist training here June 3-4. with my body is a fundamental right," said women," said Representative Terese Berceau for abortion won't go away until the United NARAL's stands for the National Abortion Telwerp. (D-WI). Berceau represents the 76th States can achieve two of NARAL's goals: Reproductive Rights Action League. Jennifer Olenchek, president of the Assembly District. better access to more effective contraceptive NARAL's main goal is to help find sane, Milwaukee chapter of the National "We need to let women know what is options and better access to other kinds of workable answers that will ultimately reduce Organization of Women, agreed. going on with issues that affect them. Media reproductive health care and information. the need for abortions. It focuses on "To be pro choice is to believe that women isn't doing it. We have compromised too "Being pro choice means working toward contraception, reproductive health care and have a basic right to control their own bodies much on the right to control our bodies. a world where all women's reproductive sex education. and the right to decide for herself when and Respect of rights should not mean a lack of options-whether its motherhood, abortion or "NARAL's focus is not just the issue, but whether to have a child. It means believing rights for women," concluded Berceau. adoption-are safe, legal and accessible," said the skills to organize. Organizing gives people that women are moral decision-makers. It Currently, the women's movement is at a Olenchek. a sense of their own power, changes the means believing that women can decide on crossroads, argued many ofthe speakers. A In the two decades before abortion was balance of power, and makes concrete their own, based on their personal beliefs, woman's right to control her own body and a legal in the U.S., nearly a million women each improvements in people's lives," said Paige health and life circumstances, and without woman's right to privacy are under attack they year sought out illegal abortions. Of those Shipman, a regional organizer for NARAL. government interference whether or not to said. women, 10,000 died and tens of thousands The activist training, which took place at have an abortion," said Olenchek. Many are not aware that events are were mutilated each and every year. Abortion Beloit College, focused on education, Elected representatives were also in happening today which could seriously must remain legal or women will die," building strong leaders, organizing, lobbying, threaten to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Olenchek concluded. Editor-in-Chief Bryan G. 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August Cover Photo By Sachin Chheda SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 8;30 8:30 8:30 8:30 8:30 dosed to to to to to Closed 6:00 6:00 6:00 6:00 4:00 Msriber of: 2000 Kenwood Blvd., Suite EG80 PO Box 413, Union Box 88 __JE Milwaukee, WI 53201 _-_a_ __S Phone: 414.229.4578 Fax: 414.229.4579 Email: [email protected] UWM NEWS June 28, Har aims hturai (Ms business moves in at UWM By Analisa Drew Can universities form an alliance between be looking for part-time work or internships education and big corporations, without any during their undergraduate studies will be US. and II repercussions? The University of Wisconsin- placed in temporary positions. By John Catalinotto Milwaukee School of Business thinks so. When asked what was the best benefit of Following the local and national trena of the contract with Manpower, Krejci New York—A panel of 16 judges from Taken together, the judges decided, public institutions signing contracts with large responded: "The nice thing about Manpower 11 countries at a people's tribunal meeting in each single part contributed to construct a corporations, UWM and Manpower, Inc. is that it will help students who want to New York June 10 before 500 people found proof that beyond a reasonable doubt signed a partnership in May. relocate. Manpower will be of tremendous U.S. and NATO political and military leaders proved the guilt ofthe accused, just as the This contract will give Manpower the help to those students. Also, the employment guilty of war crimes against Yugoslavia in proper placing of single tiles can build a right to supply the UWM School of Business to relocate upon graduation. This relationship the March 24-June 10, 1999 assault on that mosaic. Administration with services such as on-site will elevate our career services to a new level." country. The witnesses described how NATO career guidance, job information, and career All this comes with a price, however, Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey forces used the media to spread lies to development programs. The company plans according to Lawrence Soiey, Professor of Clark, the lead prosecutor at the International demonize the Serbs and their leadership in Tribunal on U.S../NATO War Crimes Against order to prepare public opinion to prepare "What it [the UWM-Manpower partnership] represents is an erosion ofthe power of academics and the academy to determine the cumculum." -Lawrence Solev on designing a training program to teach Communication at Marquette University, and students "the skills that will help them succeed author ofthe book, Leasing the Ivory Tower: in the classroom, and, ultimately the work The Corporate Takeover of Academia, a force," according to the press release critique of corporate and university announcing the partnership. connections. Critics of this contract say that it is a "What it represents is an erosion of the conflict of interest, since increasing corporate power of academics and the academy to Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and the International panel of judges at the involvement in universities seriously determine the curriculum. This policy seems U.S./NATO War Crimes Tribunal - June 10,2000, New York Photo: Bryan G. Pfeifer influences what is taught and how it is taught. to be pandering to businesses that have Critics also question a relationship between exploitative policies. These companies Yugoslavia, urged those present and those for war. Then they showed the reai economic UWM and Manpower, because they say exercise inordinate power once they get inside they represented from the 21 countries and geopolitical interests of the imperialist Manpower has a reputation of exploiting the universities. Ultimately, their money participating to carry out a sentence of powers—the U.S. and Western Europe—in workers and weak labor laws. talks," said Soley. organizing a campaign to abolish the NATO seizing economic control ofthe area from the According to Greg Krejci, Career Services Throughout my university career, I have military pact. Balkans to the oil-rich Caspian Sea. Coordinator for the School of Business consistently seen fellow faculty members Ben Dupuy, former ambassador from Finally they demonstrated how Administration, Manpower will have an silence themselves to these golden cows. They Haiti, Rev. Kiyul Chung of Korea, and auto Washington rigged the "Racak massacre" and office in the school beginning in the fall 2000 are silencing academics who should be worker Martha Grevatt, who heads the AFL- then used the so-called Rambouillet accord— semester.