Oregon
DAILY EMERALD
Friday. October 26, IWO
Hugcnc. Oregon
Volume l>2, Issue 44
Members of Students
for (he Ethical Treatment
of Animals are not
pleased that they are un
able to view animal hold
ing facilities in
Streisinger Hall.
See story, Page 3
With just 12 days left
until the Nov. f> election,
and with the fate of the
Trojan nuclear power
plant hanging in the bal
ance. two nationally
known experts warned
students Thursday of the
dangers surrounding the
plant's continued opera
tion.
See story. Page 4
Entertainment
Avalon is a first rat**
him that r.aptimrs the lii
uls ami triumphs of an
Eastern European immi
grant family in Baltimore
in the 1940s and Mis.
See review. Page ft
Sports
The Stanford Cardinal.
2-5. invades Autzen Sta
dium Saturday to take on
the 5-2 Ducks, hoping to
improve ori an inconsis
tent season.
See Oregon Football
Roster. Section B
Almanac
Today is the last dav to
change grade options or
to change credits in vari
able-credit courses with
out a $10 fee It is also the
last day to submit do< tnr
al oral defense applic a
tions (Graduate School.
Room 125 Chapman).
Parents speak out against measures
Bells say daughter died
because of Indiana law
By Daralyn Trappe
Emerald Reporter
The parents of an Indiana teen-ager who died
in 1*188 after obtaining an illegal abortion urged
students on Thursday to vote against Oregon slate
ballot measures 8 and to
William and Karen Boll, appearing at a Stu
dents for Choice Rally in the KMU Courtvard.
said their daughter Her ky was a victim of an Indi
ana law that requires parental notification before
an abortion can be performed on a woman under
the age of 18
On Nov t>. Oregonians will vote on Ballot
Measure 10 whii h. if passed, would put a similar
law into place. Measure H would make all alror
lions illegal, except in cases of reported rape or
incest or to save the life of a pregnant woman
Proponents of Measure 10 sa\ it would improve
communication between a daughter and hei par
ents William and Karen Bell disagree
''Becky Bell is proof th.it these laws don't
work." William Bell said.
Proponents of the measure "think this will
make our daughter come to us.' but they re
wrong.'' he said
"We would have voted for it two years ago
Karen Bell said "But we know it didn't force her
to tell us
"I wish I didn’t have to be here today to tell
you this. Iiul I don't want this to happen to any
one else.
Karen Bell said Becky became pregnant at 17
When she went to a women's olinit for an ahor
tion. she was told that tier parents would have to
lie notified Because Becky didn't want to disap
point tier parents she did not tell them but in
stead had an illegal abortion. Karen Bell said
Within a few days of the illegal operation, she
became ill Six days after the abortion. William
and Karen Bell took their daughter to a hospital
She still refused to tell them what had happened
She died later that night A coroner i ailed to tell
them the cause of Becky's death
"We couldn't believe this happened to us,
Karen Bell said " We're a good family We com
municate ''
Turn to ABORTION. Page 6
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K.irvn Hell and her husband William spoke on campus Thursday, urging stu
lents to vote against ballot measures 8 and 10.
South African urges support for sanctions
Phulit b\ Sr tin I'irtliiii
fatinui Meer. a visiting South African st.hol
ar. said the world should maintain its pres
sure against apartheid.
Says apartheid, racial injustice are weakening
By Cathy Peterson
Emerald Reporter
With the entire non-white South Afri
i .in population inhabiting It percent of
the c ountry 's hall a million square miles
land redistribution is potentially one of
the biggest issues fai ing South Africans,
an internationally regarded human rights
authority said Thursday
South Afric an l atima Meer told a Wil
lamette Hall audience that Westerners
might v iew black South Africans as ' c al
Ions" for wanting a share of the country's
land, but to bear in mind the inequalities
in c urrent land distribution The average
black peasant has three ac res, while the
average white farmer has more than
1.000, she said
"We have a rac nil structure in terms of
vvhic h every amenity exists in .1 state of
gross and intolerable imbalance." Meer
said.
Meer. vs bo is of Indian descent, is the
t'mversitv's fifth Carlton and Wilberta
Kiplev Savage Visiting Professor in the
International Relations and Peace Depart
men! She is teac long two courses at the
University this tall "Women in South
Africa" and "Current Issues in Peace
in,iking I in us tin (-onfli< t and (change in
Southern Afru a the Middle, lntliti and
Trinidati
University President Myles Brand. who
introduced Mctir called her t omhinution
ul academics and activism "a model ttir
us at llif 1 'niversitv
Meer tlcsi ribetl a history ut rat ism anti
separation in Smitli Afrit.i tfating to
coloniali/ation She said European mis
sinnaries in Afrit a draint'd the iimtinriit
til culture. and were tile lirst III believe
that "tlie heathens could not be raised
They also introduced violence anti prop
ert\ rights, neither ul whit li the < ultiire
had seen Indore Meer saitl
The African philosophy ol Ubuntu.
whit h weaves together humans anti the
natural environment in a halani e, t lashetl
with ndigious Calvinism, t apitalism and
inilivitliialism, all |)hilosophies hrtnighl
to Africa by European colonists
“Survival of the fittest bet amt* the real
itv ol the Afrit an continent." she saitl
"Prom that bat kground we approat h rat
ism in South Afrit a today."
Turn to MEER. Page 11