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Opinion Poll: NEW The defense budget and you Sports department page7 page6 COLUMBIA CHRONICLE Vol.ll No.1 COLUMBIA COLLEGE, CHICAGO March 1, 1982 Columbia campaigns against cuts By Maryanne Giusti no Over 4,000 students received some form or aid during 1980-81 at Columbia College. and John Dyslin L etters ar e also being sent to alumni of the college encouraging Columbia College is sponsoring a the111 to contact their Congressm en letter-writing campaign, March 8- and protest the cuts. 13, in effort to protest the proposed " It's not too late to voice our opi financial aid cuts. Pre-printed nion. its not final yet.'' Steven cards will be given to students to Sellen. Director o f !Cinancial Aid sign. In addition, there is a plan to at Columbia College. sai<l. send students to Washington to In 1980-81 Columbia students present the statements to senators received aid through a variety or and representatives. program s: Basic Educational Op Federal aid to Illinois college portunity Gr ants, 1.796 students: students will be cut in hall- 65.7- Illinois State Scholarship Commit million lor the 1983-84 school year tee, 1,614: College Work-Study , 29 i f President Reagan's proposed students; Illinoi s Guaranteed Stu budget is adopted, the Sun-Times dent Loans, 634. It is esimated that reported l ast week . 800 s tudents will r ece i ve A study by the American Council guaranteed loans this year . of Higher E ducation estimates that "No student should !ail to apply 98,000 Illinois students would be af lor aid. " If the cuts don't happen, fected by the cuts. the students lose out," Bell en said. Grads confused Students !ill out petitions protest ing President Reagan's proposed cutbacks of financial aid. last Spring. Students will have a chance to protest the cutbacks M arch 8-13 at Columbia College in a letter-writing cam paign. on requirements Chronicl e photo file E very year , dozens or would-be in this needs 20 hours in core graduates from Columbia and all courses, 14 hours in one ar ea of over the United States are pro specialization, the 48 hours in bably held back another semester general studies and 34 electives. Students may protest because they simply didn't check The third option is l or students in the gr aduation requirements lor terested in not-lor-profit organiza their field or study. tions. They need 20 hours in core Several department chairper courses, eight hours in not-l or 'cuts' in D.C. sons here insist on the same thing: profit specialization, ei ght hours in a lot or stu<.lents never check to sec an additional area of specializa dent affairs, "but everything is in the more successful it would be. if they ar e taking the right courses. tion, six hours in electives !rom By Ke nneth Green the planning stages. We feel we We had some success with the peti Following is a list or requirements AEM P at la1·ge. :34 hou1·s in elec have to wake up students to the tion drive, but we think this would lor a degree at Columbia College. tives and the .t8 hour general studies requirement. To show concern over any in realization that this is something be more effective." Arts and entertainment Manage dication or student apathy, Colum that could afft>ctthem personally." Allhough the choice or students m ent - T hree options are Life Arts - Majors in this field bia College is attempting to send The trip, Moore said, would in nor the date of trip has been lmaliz available to students. The first op need: 20 hours in humanities and ed, Moore is optomistic that the three students to Washington, D.C. volve not only Columbia but near tion is that the students take 20 contemporary studies, six hours in plans will succeed and the students history and six hours in cultural to protest President Reagan's by colleges t such as Roosevetu as hours in core courses, eight hours will become concerned over the studies such as art. liter ature. budget cuts, primarily the ones al well. each in two areas or specialization, lectmgstudents financial a1 d. financial aid issue. " We want them the 48 hours of general studies re music and twentieth century "We' re trymg to make th1 s a to realize," Moore sa1d, " that th1s cullure. They also need e1 ght hours quired by the school and 34 hours in " Nothing has been finalized as or JOint thing," Moore ; aid. · because is something that is going to hit tn history and e1ght hours m electives. The second option is yet," said John Moore, dean or stu- the more schools that are involved, home.'' specialized. The student interested continued on page 3 Page2 COLUMBIA COLLEGE March 1.1982 Opinions ... Opinions ... Opinions ...Opinions ... EDITORIALS Who can decide when life begin$? The 14th amendment declares The Court's decision. Roe vs conception. If passed. the bill issues of politics and morality to become victims of the so-called that no state shall "deprive any Wade. legalized abortions during would allow states to pass laws day. The right to choose. though. is kitchen table abortions or self person ol life. liberty. or property. the First trimester of pregnancy. abolishing both abortion and some one that must be upheld if Ameri· induced abortions that leaves an without due process of Jaw.•· But and beyond that stage or pregnan birth-control techniques that work can women are to have control or unanswered question for women who is a J>Crson and when docs life cy if necessary to save the life or a rter conception. their own bodies. who experience miscarriage or begin '> health of the mother. The human life amendment spontaneous abortions and need The Supreme Court decision. Senators. who are elected to comes in a variety of forms. In its immediate emergency care. Roc vs Wade. 1973. maintained Some members or congress make budgets and fiscal policy. strictest form it would permit no Where would they · find a doctor that the word "person" in the 14th believe that deciding when life should in no way promote them exceptions for an abortion. not who believes the abortion was amendment docs not include the begins within the context or the sci ves as theologians or scientists even if the mother's life was in spontaneous? unborn. With respect to the unre· 14th amendment is a question they and declare themselves competant danger . Abortions performed as an There is a proposal though. to solved question of when life begins. are competent to answer. to answer the question ' When does eleventh-hour crisis procedure make exceptions for rape and in the Court stated. 'When those life begin'>' To declare the fertiliz· most often fail to save the mother's cest victims. Which contradicts the trained in the r espective diSCI· Sen. Jesse Helms t R.· .C. 1 and ed egg a ' J>erson ' under the Consti life. principle of the Helm-Hyde plincs or medicine and theology Rep. Henry J . Hyde t R.-111. 1 seek tution would impose a religious Each yc:ar. since 1973. approxi statute. Such an exception would are un;tble to arrive at any concen to overturn the Court's decision by belief upon some Americans. As a mately 1.5 billion unwanted preg grant some fetuses more rights sus. the judiciary. at this point or adding a human life amendment to result the fertilized egg would have nancies ar e terminated. in most than others. man's knowledge. is not in a pusi· the Constitution. The Helms-Hyde more rights than you do. cases safely. The human life There is a contradiction in an ad lion to speculate as to the answer .· measure says that life begins at Abortion is the most emotional of amendment would force women to ministration which says •we are going to get the government off the backs or the people.' An ad· ministration that proceeds to get Rx for teen-pregnancies out or people's business where money and property are concerned A dangerous program is being cent of those seeking birth control not seek treatment at all. from sexual activity until the age to want to get right in the middle of proposed by the Reagan ad items do not tell their parents. The At a time when teenage pregnan or twenty pne. the fact remains the public's family and sex lives. ministration which will seriously Reagan administration argue• cy is soaring. and the public aid that such activity will exist. This undermine our youth. and that by the institution of this roles ar e str ained. the logic of the should not be a question or morali ultimately. our society . regulation.