Birth Control Use by Uniyersity Wo1nen on the Rise by CATHY O'brien High School and College Students
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The Revie Vol. 106 No. 36 University of Delaware, Newark, DE Tuesday. February 23. 1982 Financial aid DUSC lobbying for outlook bleak undergrad on Board for 1983-1984 . By DAN PIPER Christie said, " we (DUSC) By TOBIAS NAEGELE Governor Pierre S. duPont are ready to provide help if he :There are about 13,200 is considering appointing an asks." i1Ddergraduate students undergraduate s~udent to the Christie said the student would probabiy have to be a tnrOlled at the un~versity, university's Board of and more than 10,000 are cur Trustees. DuPont appoints resident of Delaware, of good lmtly receiving some form of eight of the 28 board academic standing and iderally supported financial members, and is due to make "heavily involved in student ald. If the proposed cuts in an appointment in June, when government in some form, President Reagan's budget one trustee's term expires. though not necessarily pin congressional approval, Undergraduates are DUSC." ts many as 5,000 of those · presently allowed only on Many board members, in students will be forced to look board committees, and have cluding university President elsewhere for their tuition no voting privileges, ac E .A. Trabant, have been op money. cording to Chris Christie, posed to placin g an The real effects of the cuts chairman of the Delaware undergraduate on the board will not be felt until 1983-84, Undergraduate Student Con since the inception of the idea gress (DUSC) lobby commit in 1977. This is primarily analysis tee. because the board members "The governor is very in feel a student would too often terested in putting a student be subject to "conflicts of in on the board, ... and feels it is terest" when attempting to a good concept," said deal objectively with board Christie, who was directed by business concerning students, the governor to work on the such as tuition hikes. matter with Jack Varsalona, "Our counter-argument to duPont's special assistant for this objection," said Christie, education. "is that, in any form of self Varsalor;ta. Christie said, is government, conflicts of in also in favor of placing a stu terest exist - it happens dent on the board with voting everywhere, in all levels of privileges, because he feels government. Many board students should have stronger members often disqualify representation. themselves from voting for Should a student be ap the same reason." pointed by the governor, Christie said, the student Some trustees also feel that ..Pell Grants - About 2,190 amount of this reduction this year. Federal support of would be required to appear an undergraduate would not Valversity students currently would be in excess of $800,000. the program; which is before and be approved by, be able to understand, or ef wc:eive the grants, but the •State Student Incentive roughly half, would be the State Senate. fectively deal with, matters proposed cuts would pare that Grants (SSIG) - Between 600 eliminated under the Reagan Although he has no idea of the complexity and ....mer down by 40 percent, or and 700 university students plan, eliminating about 200 how the governor might magnitude that the board 111out 1,400. The total dollar received the modest SSIGs (Continued to page 9) select a student for the board, deals with. Birth control use by uniyersity wo1nen on the rise By CATHY O'BRIEN high school and college students. about it then back when I was a stu ing with 1,395 hours of use in the fall of the first five months of the With the constantly changing dent here," she said. 1981 as compared to just over 1,200 year, 271 new birth control population in Newark (because of Lomax heads the sex information hours of use in the previous fall. FtlSCriptions were given out, and university students) it is very hard to program which was started three "We can assess needs on campus new diaphragms were prescribed assess any kind of increase in the use and-a-half years ago. It is just one of through our hotline and the student It the university gynecology clinic, of contraception among college the many health-related services of response from our dorm programs," IDeated on the second floor of the women, Otto said. fered through Wellspring. Working Lomax said. "Most of the dorm pro Bealth Center, said Georgia Shanor, According to a study by Dr. Marvin with Lomax are trained student grams deal with the topic of con III1'Se coordinator of the clinic. Zuckerman of the psychology depart volunteers called peer-educators who traception. For ·a while last semester This year over 1,300 university ment, there was no change in the in help conduct various dorm programs, we were conducting about one pro.: wvmen have visited the GYN clinic, cidence of premarital intercourse for answer the sex information hotline, gram a week with up to 50 or 60 F... nor said. This past January more university males and females bet and respond to questions that appear students in attendance." came for check-ups than in ween 1972 and 1981, and there seems in the Wellspring Plato files entitled: The dorm programs on contracep previous JanuarY. in the clinic's to be little change in sexual behavior sex education notes, interperson~l tion deal with all aspects of birth con eicht years of operation, she added. over the past eight years among relationships, and contraception. trol including the choosing of a More than half of the women who university students. According to Lomax, student use of method that is right for an individual, -.e to the clinic are there for their Anne Lomax, assistant coordinator the Wellspring Plato files is increas- said Terry Harvey (AS84), a peer h method of prescribed birth con of Wellspring, who graduated from educator. trol, Shanor sa.id. About 90 percent of the university in 1973, said that today The sex information hotline, in 1be clinic's patients are using con there is much more information on ont:he operation Sunday through Thursday, bception. campus about sexuality, with the 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., is both confidential Tbe Newark Planned Parenthood university's sex education program, inside and anonymous. The number of male located on East Delaware the various dorm programs dealing and female callers is about equal, has a patient load of between with sexuality, the sex information TheRamones Lomax said, and the number of calls 9,000, said Mimi Otto, hotline, and the Wellspring notes on seem to increase after the hotline S'tDIIIIISeloJr-ec1uc~a at Planned Paren Plato. Punk tradition brought alive advertises. · She estimated that about 40 to "They (students) are more aware in Carpenter .. ...... ....... p. II percent of the clinic's_patients are of birth control and know much more {Continued to page 8) ~ 1972-1982 - . I .Two.Nights of Celebration the Starting Our lith Great Year. ' • , ( !I .&. ...... ~ " ~ • · J ) '• J f J• J Jl J. •Ja 'H .i JJ I OUR I 0 tit'ANNIVERSARY ' Tuesday,Feb.23rd '_'WITNESS''. I • VVednesday,Feb~24th ''DAKOTA'' ·. Hotline-368-2000 I . ~ Lots of surprises both nights peaker cites need for confidence .......· - ~ mong current female athletes Confidentiel medical S.IVice The volleyball players' center By GRETCHEN ZIEGLER herself as a feminist, saying birth free outpatient Lack of outside support and "they're all talkers. We need unorthodox methods were met with criticism, that pok control early detection abortion the basic psychology of winn~ doers in sports."· counseling pregna'lcy 18sting facility ing and losing is preventing Low self-confidence and ed fun at amateur sports in women from putting forth the societal pressures are major general, Gros said. (215) 265-1880 effort to be the best they can blocks to higher status of In general Gros sees a lack 20 minutn from Phi/liM/ph;. be, said Vonnie Gros, coach of women in sports, Gros ex of national support in Ute United States Field plained. "People and society amateur athletics. "We are O.KALB PIKE AND BORO LINE ROAo · Hockey Team, in a lecture don't allow women tQ com professional-oriented. Why KING OF PRUSSIA. PA 19401 Thursday night in the Student pete to the best of their abili- can't the -Olympic athlete be Center. recognized as the best in her The lecture was one in a division?" ~********************* series conducted as part of a Because the United States ~ * Women's Studies/Physical is so large, professional Education course. "Women teams are concentrated in : 2 For·1 Sale : in International Competition: many different cities, Gros said. This makes a na:tional Past, Present and Future" ~Newark~ Clothes Co. is continuing a** was jointly sponsored by the spirit difficult to cultivate in Department of Physical any single direction. Gros ~Newark tradition with a 2 For 1 Sale.* Education and the Women's believes this regional attitude To celebrate our first anniversary,: Visiting Scholars Committee. is a detriment to support of ! Gros called for women to the amateur athlete. buy any item at full price and get a* take a bigger part in upper Such commitment is dif ~second one FREE!! This includes* ficult in the college environ levels of sports competition ~ Danskin, Ocean Pacific, Dee-Cee,* and coaching, through a will ment, said Gros, due to finan ingness to change and try new cial probl.ems. Money ~Health knit, Baronelli, Maverick,* ty," Gros said too many available to pay coaches is approaches to the game. ' women succumb to feminine ~Sweatshirts, Bras, Packs·, and more.: "When ,I changed forma stereotypes by losing convic finite. Gros questioned why tions on the Iield hockey field, female coaches don't use This sale is for three days only, Fri-* tion and aggression on the lower paying jobs as stepping there was mutiny on the field.