THE UNIVERSITY 'DAILY: VOLUME 46 NUMBER 59 The University Daily, Lubbock, Texas, Wednesday, November 25, 1970 FOUR PAGES • Pregnancy service opens Stangel Hall decorations Lubbock counseling office ready early Christmas decorations are on the way up in Stangel Hall, even before By JULIE McCABE The communications committee will pregnancy tests and post abortion check Thanksgiving holidays officially start. Special Reporter be responsible for disseminating in- ups. The seventh floor of the women's formation about the service to the The counseling committee will do just dormitory started early on a decorating The Lubbock branch of the Problem Lubbock community and region. what the name implies. They will at- project in hopes of winning a contest Pregnancy Counseling Service will offer Mainly, they will be trying to reach the tempt to determine what alternative to sponsored by freshmen representatives counseling on birth control and sexuality colleges and professional people in each unwanted pregnancy is best for the in the dorm. as well as the alternatives to unwanted various areas. individual. pregnancies, said Larry Boyd, executive Boyd said this counseling is important, AN UN-NAMED prize will be given to director of the incorporation. The resource committee will be as an abortion is not the answer for the best decorated floor before the Boyd spoke to a small group of women responsible for keeping in touch with everyone. However, he said, out of 600 Christmas holidays. Monday night in the Coronado Room. He social agencies. They will be able to refer women counselled at his California The seventh-floor early decorators said the revised date for the opening of women to adoption agencies, homes for tranch since June 1, only two have had chose a "store fronts" theme. The walls the service here is Feb. 1. unwed mothers, psychologists for emotional problems resulting from are being decorated in a Christmas store emotional counseling and out of state abortions. front fashion. THE WOMEN present, all potential doctors and agencies from which "THE MAIN emotion we see, though, Final judging is slated for Dec. 9. The volunteers to man the phones and per- abortions can eventually be obtained. is one of utter relief," said Boyd. "They judging was previously set for Dec. 3, but form the counseling at the center, The resource committee also will have can pick up their lives and go on. They it was decided more time will be needed learned the service will be divided into available names of local doctors who will are not burdened with any sense of by other dorm residents to complete three committees. give birth control information, guilt." decorations, Miss Julie Banks, assistant If Texas women are referred to counselor said. • California for abortions, they must meet The rest of the dorm is expected to Commission appointed the requirements for that state. The start on decorations after the grounds for abortion in California are Thanksgiving holidays. pregnancies resulting from a sex crime, pregnancies that may present a physical risk to the mother and those that may to study dormitories risk the mental health of the mother. `Dirt Band' This last ground, said Boyd, is used in A residence hall housing commission two weeks, but the members have not most tases, as a psychiatrist does not has been formed to study the basic assembled for their first meeting. have to be consulted. to replace problems of life in the dorms. The group Student Association memebers and There are no residency requirements is headed by Jim Lynch, president of student volunteers make up the com- in California. If the woman is 18 years old Men's Residence Council. mission. or over, no parental consent is required. "Our purpose is to come up with fact- singer's act Named by Mike Anderson, student Boyd said an abortion can be obtained UD pboto by Mks Ward= s," said Lynch. Ideas will come from association president, to serve on the in 24-72 hours if the woman is no more asking students their opinion of the dorm Cindy Bell, on chair; Cyn Weir, John Denver, originally scheduled to commission were: Giles Rainwater, than 20 weeks pregnant. Stangel Hall system and by making use of statistics standing, and Ann Harral, sit- appear in concert with the Nitty Gritty Tracy Eheling, Joe Semyth, Kinney and research. Dirt Band Dec. 2, has canceled his ap- Richardson, Don Garner, Christy Coff- The price, said Boyd, ranges from $375- ting. The Stangel coeds are Lynch said work is currently being decorators pearance due to other obligations. He will man, Carolyn Helm, Randy Hood, Sandy $550, depending on the doctor and the freshmen. done concerning the idea of an optional time of the week. be in London taping an appearance on the Saylors, Bill Price and Sheri Keeler. meal ticket. This will probably become a "Tom Jones Show." Several areas will receive attention reality next fall. Starting Dec. 4, the The program office of the University from the housing commission. These men's dorms will have partial open hours Center was notified Monday afternoon of include: optional meal ticket policies, for women visitors, but the commission the cancellation. They said Denver has rejuvenation of existing facilities to may make further recommendations for Laird explains POW raid offered to appear during the spring make residence hall living more com- extension of this policy. semester in a one-man concert. fortable and appealing, women's hours, The commission will work in Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, previously hall programs for residents and WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of "I intend to recommend every possible In the Senate, critics of the operation cooperation with Clif Yoder, assistant to scheduled to open the concert, will now visitation and open house policies. Defense Melvin R. Laird testified avenue of approach that can be taken to said it might have made worse the plight the executive vice-president in charge of Tuesday he recommended the U.S. raid see that these prisoners are free men," of American prisoners. perform a two hour program. The Dirt The housing commission is formed housing. on a North Vietnamese prisoner of war Laird said after Sen. George D. Aiken, R- "At a time when Americans are dying Band is not new to the Tech campus. each year to look into residential housing The findings of the housing commission camp because "our men were dying in Vt., asked whether rescue efforts would in captivity, some have claimed that this They appeared here last spring in a noon conditions at Tech. Plans for the com- will be published in a 10 to 15 page report captivity," and left open the possibility of continue. rescue attempt might have jeopardized concert in the University Center. mission have been discussed for about which will be made public next spring. future rescue attempts. Laird said he had no alternative but to the lives of American men held cap- The five members of the group can recommend the Friday raid on a POW tive," Laird said. "...It is my firm belief play through a repettoire of songs compound at Son Tay, 23 miles from that the liyes of our American prisoners ranging from the traditional "Foggy Police invited to set up on campus Hanoi. are in danger every day." Mountain Breakdown" through jug-band The raid rescued no one, but Laird Sen. J.W. Fulbright, D-Ark., the music to contemporary rock. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A new campus, that we will not be a bunch of students and police," said Mike Hobbs, defended its performance and the in- committee chairman, said no one is police substation will be opened on the snoopers," Burton told a student con- student assembly chairman. "This is an telligence behind it. questioning the heroism of the volunteer The Dirt Band has made records, gone Bellarmine-Ursuline College campus — vocation. "Our existence here will opportunity to bridge that gap." "What we have done here is show all of soldiers and airmen who raided the Son on tours and played television shows. at the students' request. depend upon you." Dave Thurmond, student body these prisoners in North Vietnam that Tay POW compound Friday morning- They have also appeared in two films- The experiment, one of the first of its The proposal, under discussion for president, was less optimistic. "I don't America does care," he told the Senate only to find that American prisoners "For Singles Only" and "Paint Your kind in the nation, was announced several months, was approved by a 507- think that there's going to be that much Foreign Relations Committee. were no longer there. Wagon". Tuesday by Louisville Safety Director 141 student vote, with more than one-half more or that much less communication George Burton. the young people participating in the with the police." "I want to make it perfectly clear that balloting. Riders, drivers talkative we are not forcing ourselves onto the "There's been a heck of a gap between He added, however, the substation will be a "good opportunity for the college to provide a public service." Riding buses educational It will be manned by one full-time officer and three others who will come By STEVE EAMES "How are yam he replied. the bus made a zig-zag pattern to get by. and go. A civilian representative of city Co-Managing Editor I decided to leave the group and catch "It's like a puzzle," he explained. One government also will be at the station at Bus drivers and riders talk a lot; about another bus. reason, the driver said, for the crowded designated times each week to field world issues, campus issues and trivia.