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Few attend abortion discussion
By Kari Thorene
Higher Education Reporter
It’s one thing to have an opin
ion about abortion.
It’s an entirely different thing to
get politically active about the is
sue, or so that’s what both sides of
the debate are saying.
Three students attended the
University Students for Choice’s
screening of the 1989 made-for
TV-movie “Roe vs. Wade” last
night at Gerlinger Hall.
“We, as young women on cam
pus, often forget about the other
choices out there,” said Jaimie El
lis, co-coordinator of Students for
Choice in the discussion follow
ing the movie.
The irony, said Nancy Deans,
vice president of the Oregon Na
tional Abortion and Reproductive
Rights Action League, is that
many of the restrictions placed on
abortion access through legisla
tion affect young women dispro
portionately.
“When you look at the pro
posed restrictions on abortion, it’s
the young women that get affect
ed — the lower income women,”
Deans said. Young women’s ac
cess to abortion is restricted in
other states through parental con
sent and notification laws, she
said.
Young and poor women’s ac
cess is restricted through bans on
public funding, which sometimes
forces them to travel to other
states, Deans said.
Students for Choice have had
better days, Ellis and co-coordina
tor Corina Alexander said. They
said the turnout and the involve
ment of many groups in the Na
tional Young Women’s Day of Ac
tion activities last quarter was a
victory. “The University is very
progressive in the fact that so
many people are involved in ac
tivism,” Ellis said. “It’s hard be
cause there are so many options.”
Most University students grew
up after the Roe v. Wade decision,
which is also a factor, Deans said.
“It’s difficult for the post-Roe gen
erations and especially hard to
see in Oregon. We have a pro
choice governor. We have pro
choice legislators in our area,” she
said.
Oregon remains one of the few
states where abortion access is
virtually unrestricted, Deans said.
Deans added that every year
pro-life groups propose limita
tions, so the current climate of
abortion accessibility is always
being challenged.
Campus pro-life activists face a
similar situation. The University
does not have a student group de
voted to pro-life activism.
"I don’t think there has ever
been one,” said John Collegio,
Chairman of the College Republi
can Federation of Oregon. The
College Republican Federation of
Oregon is not officially pro-life,
he said, but some members do
band together for pro-life actions.
But they’ve had their victories,
too. “Last year the College Repub
licans set up a booth to send let
ters to Senator Ron Wyden and
Representative Peter DeFazio
about the partial birth abortion
legislation,” said John Collegio.
Overall, the group sent out
about 300 letters, he said.
Nonetheless, Collegio agreed
that most students shy away from
getting involved in the abortion
debate. “People tend to want to
stay away from it,” Collegio said.
“I think most men don’t want to
be viewed as anti-woman, and
they see it as a ‘woman’s issue.’”
Student opens fire at MLK parade
A student at Southern University was
charged with murder after
shots hit innocent bystanders
By Guy Coates
The Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. — A college student was ar
rested and accused of murder Tuesday for the shoot
ing that killed one man and wounded three children
at a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday parade.
Brandon Johnson, 19, a student at predominantly
black Southern University, was booked on murder
and attempted murder charges early Tuesday for the
shooting that scattered the crowd of 500 marching
during King Day ceremonies the day before.
A grand jury is expected to hear the case against
Johnson in about two to three weeks, and District At
torney Doug Moreau said he may ask for the death
penalty if Johnson is indicted and goes to trial.
Police said the shooting resulted from a simmering
dispute involving Johnson, the man killed in the
shooting, 20-year-old James Carter, and others. The
subject of the dispute remained unclear.
Carter was the intended victim, Police Chief Greg
Phares said. Carter was watching his 17-year-old
brother, a member of the band that led the march.
Other shots hit a 7-year-old girl, an 11-year-old girl
and a 9-year-old boy. All were in stable condition.
Phares said Johnson fired after a fist fight erupted
along the parade route, but it was unclear whether
Carter was involved in the fight.
“There was no racial, political or hate crime mo
tive,” Phares said.
No other arrests were expected, he said.
When shots went off like firecrackers, Armond
Brown, a high school assistant principal attending
the march, made his way to the scene and helped
everyone calm down, police said.
Brown said the outbreak of violence during a
march celebrating King’s peaceful legacy was a re
minder that children still need to learn about King
and his teachings.
“There were few parents at the parade and that is
the problem that plagues us all today — lack of
parental involvement," Brown said.
“It’s not that children don’t care about Mr. King’s
view of non-violence. Sure, they hear about it a few
times in school. But they don’t hear about it at home.
Nothing gets solved until the parents get involved.”
Pentagon to determine soldier’s identity
The military is not sure
whether it should dig
up the remains of an
unknown soldier
By John Diamond
The Associated Press
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Viet
nam veteran in the Tomb of the
Unknowns may be known after
all.
Evidence that the Pentagon
says it is carefully examining
suggests the scant remains buried
beneath a marble slab at Arling
ton National Cemetery may be
long to Air Force 1st Lt. Michael
J. Blassie of St. Louis, whose A
37 attack plane was shot down
over South Vietnam in May
1972.
The military is faced with the
unpleasant prospect of digging
up the remains to conduct DNA
testing — and explaining why of
ficials discarded records that
may have linked the remains to
the downed pilot.
“The gravesite would have to
be disrupted if there were any ac
tion taken regarding this set of re
mains,” Navy Capt. Michael Dou
bleday, a Pentagon spokesman,
said Tuesday. “We certainly have
an obligation to family members
of those individuals who are still
missing. ... We also have an
obligation to all of those who
have served in wars in the past
and who view this site as very
hallowed ground.”
Blassie’s family, including his
mother, three sisters and a
younger brother, say the avail
able evidence points to Arlington
National Cemetery and the Tomb
of the Unknowns as their loved
one’s resting place. But they said
Tuesday they are willing to wait
while the government inquires
further.
“They are having to backtrack
on the document trail,” said Pat
Blassie, younger sister of the Air
Force pilot. “We don’t want them
to do a quick job. We trust that
they are really being serious
about this issue.”
As far back as the original se
lection of the remains to be
buried with unknown veterans of
World War I, World War II and
the Korean War, some have sus
pected that the Vietnam remains
belonged to Blassie. A South
Vietnamese recovery team found
the remains in late 1972 near a
crash site outside An Loc, 60
miles north of Saigon.
Media reports in 1994 stem
ming from the effort to document
prisoners of war and missing in
action from Vietnam examined
the Blassie case. The U.S. Veter
an Dispatch, a veterans’ publica
tion, reported in July 1996 that
the clothing, parachute fragments
and other circumstances sur
rounding the discovery of the re
mains pointed to Blassie. CBS
News reported in detail on the is
sue Monday night, touching off
the latest round of questions.
The problem now facing the
Pentagon results in part from the
increasing ability of forensic sci
entists to identify remains from
bare fragments of bone. At the
end of World War I, the military
had 1,648 unidentified sets of re
mains, 8,526 after World War II
and 848 from the Korean conflict.
Today, the number of uniden
tified remains “presumed impos
sible to identify is very, very
small,” Doubleday said.
“The United States and many
other countries have created a
tradition whereby one unknown
set of remains is going to be ac
corded the honor and respect
that all of them are entitled to,”
said Phil Budahn, spokesman for
the American Legion, the na
tion’s largest veterans’ group.
“We may be getting to the point
where technology is outstripping
the need for that ritual. If that’s
the case, that’s not bad news.”