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y T • o c T o B E R 2 2 • 1 9 9 1 Local groups clash on abortion issue showers. winds Roe vs. Wade, except it would limit abortions get their abortions and have the state pay for it. 15730 mph, high Voters to decide to before fetal viability under normal circum- Millich said only people who qualify for stances. Medicaid could get abortions and those would near 60 The initiative also calls for guaranteed funds be receiving funding for maternity care instead, Initiative 120 soon for low-income women to get abortions, as which would be more expensive. long as they are able to get maternal care. Right now, the state pays about $63 million a By DennisIrwin The two groups disagree about exactly what year for maternity care and $2.6 million for A humorous look Evergreen Staff atWSU's the effects of the initiative would be. Scott abortions, according to Washington literature Schwab, from Students for Life, said because it campus Two local organizations are at odds over Ini- supporting Pro-Choice. tiative 120, the abortion initiative. provides for matching funds for abortion and Millich said she is in favor of the initiative page 4 The National Abortion Rights Action League maternal care, the initiative would raise taxes. because she believes women should be able to is a single-issue organization dedicated to solid- How~ver, Krystie Millich, NARAL presi- make their own decision about reproduction. ifying abortion rights for women. Students for dent, said there would be no change. The initia- She said women don't have access now to Life is a pro-life group opposed to the initiative tive calls for equitable funding, which the state dependable birth control and sexual education WSU club glides as beneficial to no one but abortionists. The already provides. According to the initiative, and two or three out of every four women are to victory groups are in conflict as to what would happen ~regnant w<;>menshould have equal opportuni- rap~d by the time they finish college, so women ifInitiative 119 should pass. tres to abortIOns or to live births. page 6 don t really have control over when and how The initiative would give women in this state Schwab also said the initiative would allow the same rights to abortion as are guaranteed by women from all over to come to Washington to See ABORTION on page 3 Conflictologists share Carefu I now. •• views with WSU faculty develops, other Russian conflictologists By Cathlin Donohue have developed their own school of con- Evergreen Staff flict resolution outside the established Ru~sian scientists developing the study institutional system. f conflict resolution played a weekend- Timofey Sergeitsev and Rifat Shaichut- fong igra, or game, with WSU fa.culty dinov, the analysts who developed their members from several departments In an own school of conflict resolution, pre- attempt to further cooperative efforts and sented their unique methodology to WSU researchers, Russian colleagues and mem- II bers of National Center Associates, an American negotiating firm, this weekend. At the end of the Shaichutdinov pointed out, conflictology games, we all should is not "solely a handmaiden for old pro- jects and old plans," but rather the study have a clearer picture of many complex processes and t.heir interactions, which can only be examined of what our mutual outside of established institutions. interests might be. Nicholas Lovrich, a WSU professor of - Nicholas Lovrich political science and a participant of the game, said the three-day program was designed to provide an example of the understandings between the two countries. application of conflictology to change in Members of Lengiprogor, the St. large systems as well as to provide a basis Petersburg State, City and Regional Plan- for continued cooperation and research. ning Institute ~n~ representatives of the "At the end of the games, we all Russian ASSOCIatIOn for t~e Suppor~ of should have a clearer picture of what our Ecological Issues shared their perspectives mutual interests might be and what our about the resolutio~ of c.onflict within the possibilities for collaboration among fac- remains of the Soviet Union, ulty, students and administrators might While members of Lengiprogor are be," Lovrich said. faced with the problems of resolving con- While participants from WSU were flict within an old institution as a new sys- tem of government and regional planning See GAME on page 3 In the Oct. 21 issue, a reporter's name should have Staff photo by Darren Wellington been spelled Kristin Kivland. Dave Gov~r, a SCientific glassblower, puts finishing touches on a hydropOniC apparatus in the Physical Science Building basement. tions throughout Spokane County. the Alamo Community College cation and removal of feeding theory but not in practice," said Firefighters Fires in Lincoln, Pend Oreille District of San Antonio, Texas, tubes, even for patients with living Kirk Robinson, president of the subdue flames and Stevens counties were con- which has 32,000 students. wills, according to a survey group. tained over the weekend. -Lawrence K. Pettit, a professor released Monday by supporters of "With respect to removal of (AP) - at Southern Illinois University in Initiative 119. feeding tubes, they are almost Strong, gusty winds stirred up hot Four interview for Carbondale, and a senior fellow at Of the administrators at 50 nurs- never followed," he said. spots in major fires around Spo- campus president the American Council on Educa- ing homes who were contacted by Officials at 15 nursing homes kane on Monday but a small army tion. Pettit has Northwest experi- a student intern for Washington said they would remove tubes to of firefighters kept flames inside ELLENSBURG (AP) - Four ence, serving as head of the six- Citizens for Death with Dignity, honor a living will, 16 would not containment lines. finalists for president of Central unit Montana University System most said they generally followed remove them even at a patient's Nearly 3,000 firefighters and Washington University will be from 1973-1979. patients' written desires on the request, 13 would seek a consen- scores of trucks, helicopters and interviewed next month, board -Richard B. Goetze, Jr., an use, denial and removal of life- sus of relatives and doctors and six bulldozers were arrayed against chairperson R. Y. Woodhouse said independent consultant to the sustaining equipment. would disconnect tubes with the wildfires as a storm front moved Monday. Institute for Defense Analysis and "We find they're honored in approval of three physicians. acrosS the state, packing sustained The candidates seek to replace to Congress. He is a retired Air 38 mph winds gusting to 52 mph. Donald Garrity, who is leaving Force major general and former "We're doing really quite well this winter after heading the 6,000- vice director of the joint chiefs of in keeping a handle on them," student school since 1978. staff. Lloyd Handlos, a state Department The candidates are: of Natural Resources spokesman, -Robert T. Tad Perry, associate Supporters poll Sex is nobody's business except the three said of the area's major fires. vice president of Ball State Uni- nursing homes people involved. Several new fires were reported versity in Muncie, Ind., which has but quickly contained by special 20,000 students. SEATTLE (AP) - Nursing home - Unknown strike teams assembled in loca- -Ivory V. 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