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----- ~---- HPC to vote on revised constitution . ·.· ;.:-··::;~::;:-:-:-:-·-·.·.· ... ....·,. ··:;:;:;:;::.:.::·::::<:::::;:;:.::::· .. by Bob vlll'ettonl loopholes." Senior StaH Reporter Byrne pointed out the five major changes the proposed constitution ·.· ...... ·.. ·. ·····························r············r··················~········ ;:; ..•·:·: . ········/······· ······················~···•·•!·•······ II·•···· ·.·· .. Beginning this week Hall Council would make. "Probably the big members will vote to accept or gest overall improvement is the reject a revised Notre Dame Stu wording of the document," Byrne. dent Government constitution. said, "it's more specific and less The proposed constitution is the pompous." work of a committee of three Another change is in the make students appointed by the Hall up of the student government's Presidents' Council (HPC) in No Board of Commissioners. Accord vember. The committee members ing to the present constitution, were Torn Byrne, student govern three of the seven positions on the ment press secretary, Tracy ¥e, Board have to be held by SLC HPC executive coordinator,/ and representatives. These positions, Bill McLean, former Ombudsman in the proposed consitution would director. be filled by an elected HPC . ·.··· . Byrne noted that the present representative, the Judicial Co an independent .. studentnewspaJier s~tvingnot~~•uame <!#4 .• st.matf•~···· }•· · i< ii constitution has been obsolete ordinator, and the Student Union since October, when the Board of Director. Trustees replaced the student Life Vol. XU/No. 69 A third change is an entirely Council (SLC) with the Campus Life revised secti.m on the Student Council (CLC) and abolished the Union. The proposed constitution University J-Board. "The consti would abolish the Student Union tution had to be overhai.,led any Board of Directors and replace it Modern midwife ~riscusses health way," Byrne added. ·"It was with a Student Union Steering outdated, scanty, and contained Committee. The Steering Com mittee would consist of three by EDen Buddy elected Student Union Commis sioners, the Director, and the The second of a five-part series Comptroller. on Women's Awareness was pre The proposed consitution would sented last night by Marta Brace, a form a Student Advisory Board to South Bend midwife, who spoke to provide outside advice and assis a small. informal gathering about tance to the Student Union. The ··women's Health." constitution would also revise the Opening the discussion by intro method of appointing a Director. ducing herself and explaining her No longer would there be a Special job as a midwife Brace turned the Appointment Board, but a nomina discussion over to the group asking tion by the Steering Committee the audience to pose questions approved by the Board of Commis dealing with women's health. sioners. During the next hour the topics A fourth change would be in the discussed ranged from what is a formation of a Judicial Council, good age for a young woman to composed of the undergraduate consider going to a gynecologist for Judicial Board Chairman from each a physical to questions concerning hall. According to the proposal, a breast feeding, RH factor and Judicial Coordinator will c:erve as abortion. Chairman of the Council, and "he Brace has a B.A. in Nursing, or she shall promote efforts that received her certification in mid will foster greater student under wifery from the University of standing of the University rules." Finally, Byrne noted that the Illinois and has recently completed '~ studies for her Masters. Brace Wlii':C~ ~ proposal would ''increase the ac previously held an administrative countability of Student Govern position at the Indiana University Marta Brace spoke last night on "Women's Health" in Stapleton Lounge as part of SMC's ment." A public record would be Medical Center in obstetrics and Women's Awareness lecture series. [photo by john Calcutt] [Continued on page 3] was at one time the only woman on the staff of the Student Health Center at Purdue. Her present position as midwife in South Bend includes caring for women during pregnancy, deliver Mrs. Humphrey appointed to Senate ing the baby and caring for the baby and the mother after the birth. She also handles other FORT LAUDERUALE, Fla. [AP] aspects of women's health such as Muriel Humphrey,, who says she physicals, birth control and educa wants to "help complete" some of tion of young women. her late husband Hubert's unfin The third segment of the Wo ished legislative business, was men's Awareness series will be appointed yesterday to his vacant presented Feb. 22 with Walter seat in the U.S. :Senate by Min Keller assistant professor of psy nesota Gov. Rudy Perpich. cology at St. Mary's discussing the Mrs. Humphrey, who will be 66 role of women and the changes it next month, becomes the only has one through in recent years. woman in the Senate. She will serve at least until a special election is held next November to fill the remaining four years of her Today ... husband's term. Humphrey died of cancer at his lakeside horne in Waverly, Minn., on Jan. 13. He was 66. The couple had been married 41 years. Mrs. Humphrey declined to say whether she would run in the special election. "That's a long time away. I haye no idea," she told reporters. She said she had never discussed with her husband the possibility of serving out his term. "I think that Hubert never once said that he was going to do anythililg but go back to the Senate. is the last day "I had no guidance, at all from him in the decision," she said. "I hope that he is guiding me today, along with a good many other fore/ass people, in this decision, because I felt it was a very, very difficult changes and Ulis Is "Be kind tto short people" filing the pass/ week. Eat your fail option. 2 the oburver Thursday, january 26, 1978 Law school research program News Briefs----~ analyzes national issues t===::::=::::::::=::::::::=::::::::=::::::::=::::::::=::::::::=::::::::=::::== 0 w rid by Kathy ConneUy problems unique to independent of Brigham Young University, Con Staff Reporter institutions. Independent instu gressman Albert H Quie, Repre o satellite radiation .found tions were previously immune to sentative from Minnesota and Lan At the first meeting of the Center state action suits, but now the drum R. Bolling, president of Lilly YELLOWKNIFE Northwest Territories - U.S. and Canadian planes for Constitutional Studies on Dec. courts are paying special attention Endowment, Inc. sweeping the skies for radiation from a fallen ~oviet satellite 11 and 12, board members were to certain cases. Board director Since its official establishment widened their seach yesterday to the Lake Supenor area of the asked to determine and discuss the Philip Moots gave as an example on Dec. 12, the Center has proven United States. but not fallout has been detected, officials of the two most pressing problems in need of the hypothetical case of a student to be an active organization tack countries said. They stressed that air samples were being taken in investigative research involving in demanding due process under the ling projects such as the prepara that corner of the northern United States as a precautionary dependent educational institutions. educational institution's code be tion of briefs for the drafting of the measure. The planes were specially equipped with gamma-rav The Center, established within fore being flunked out of a class or Tax Credit Bill of 1977 which would detectors. "There is no indication of any radioactivity so far," U.~. the Notre Dame Law School, pro school. provide tax credit for tuition paid to State Department spokeswoman Jill Schuker told reporters m vides basic legal research on "Thesecond major area of con private educational facilities. Washington. national issues affecting indepen cern" Moots continued, "is that the The Center is also working on the dent institutions of higher educa tax exempt status of some indepen preparation of a legal analysis of I============================ National tion. dent institutions is threatened." privacy and property relationships The first of three areas of study He pointed to a recent decision in between administrations of inde Cancer study to begin tentatively selected by the board Washington D.C. to tax charities, pendent educational institutions churches and pr'vate school. The WASHINGTON - The federal government will conduct a nationwide involves a basic analysis of legal and sponsoring religious groups. philosophical rationale given is that study of bladder cancer victims to see if saccharin. alone or with Moots said that one aspect of this these institutions were not paying question may be whether the other factors. causes this kind of cancer in humans as it does in rats, their fair share for services receiv it was announced yesterday. The National Cancer Institute and the sponsoring church organization Black festival ed from the government. The other Food and Drug Administration said their study will look at the cases would be liable for debts incurred reason given is that the govern of 3.000 bladder cancer patients to try to determine which factors by the university administration ment needed additional revenue. contribute to the disease. The lifestyles of the patients will be slated for Feb. should the university close due to Thirdly, Moots said, "The financial difficulties. contrasted with those of 6.000 persons without cancer to see what center may seek to do an analysis of roles such things as drinking. cigarettes, occupational exposures to by Clare Zimmerman The majority of the funding for the assertion of regulatory author chemicals. ar d the artificial sweetners saccharin and cyclamate play the Center is provided by Notre The annual Black Cultural Arts ity of the government based on Dame, though there are other in the di~ease. Festival will take place from Feb. 3 funding in private colleges and contributors. Future funding that to 9.