I The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, December 1, 1982-Page 3 Supreme Court begins review of abortion laws WASHINGTON (AP) - The Reagan administration told the Supreme Court yesterday that elected lawmakers - not courts - need greater control over abor- tions. But a lawyer for' an Ohio abortion clinic said some lawmakers want to treat women "as if they are not to be trusted to make up their own minds." MORE THAN three hours of oral arguments followed as the nation's highest court opened its most sweeping review of the explosive controversy since the justices legalized abortion in 1973. Among the issues the nation's highest court will decide by July: " Can. states or local communities require that all abortions on women more than three months pregnant be performed in a hospital rather than abortion clinics? * Can young girls, even those found to be "mature," be required to have the consent of one of their parents or a judge before obtaining abortions? * Can doctors be required to tell patien- ts seeking abortions that the fetus is "a human life?" Also at issue is whether governments can require doctors to wait at least 24 hours after a woman signs a consent form to perform the requested abortion and whether two doctors must be present when abortions are performed in a pregnancy's late stages. THE ISSUES arise out of various regulations imposed by the states of Missouri and Virginia and the city of Akron, Ohio. U.S. Solicitor General Rex Lee, arguing as a friend-of-the-court in sup- port of the Akron and Missouri restric- tions, presented the Reagan ad- ministration's first abortion-related arguments before the Supreme Court. Lee, the government's highest- ranking courtroom lawyer, said all abortion matters "involve balancing," of various dfactual and legal matters. "LEGISLATURES do it (balancing) better," Lee said. "Some will adopt laws diametrically opposed to others." Frank Susman, a St. Louis lawyer representing Planned Parenthood and others who challenged the Missouri regulations, called the Reagan ad- ministration's arguments "terrifying." Susman argued that in a 1803 case, the Supreme Court spelled out its supremacy in deciding constitutional matters and "179 years of con- Daily Photo by DOUG McMAHON Railroad Rembrandt Graffiti shouts out its loud message from a boxcar near Ferry Field. The work was painted by an anonymous member of "The Master Artists." H APPENINGS- Highlight The University Players Power Series will open the season with William Shakespeare's The Tempest tonight at 8 p.m. at the Power Center. The comedy features Nicholas Pennell and members of the Theatre Department. Tickets are on sale at the Michigan League. Films Cinema II-That Obscure Object of Desire, 7 & 9 p.m., Lorch. Ann Arbor Film Co-op-Despair, 7:30 p.m., MLB 3. Classic Film Theatre-The Wild One, 7 & 10:10 p.m.; On the Waterfront, 8:20 p.m., Michigan Theatre. A: lternative Action-The Santa Claus Action, 8:30 p.m., East Quad. Hill Street Cinema-Laura, 7 & 9 p.m., Hill St. . Speakers Center for Afroamerican and African Studies-Bamidele Agbasegbe Demerson, "Black Extended Families of the South," noon,,246 Lorch. School of Natural Resources-Michael Paluda, "District-level implemen- tation of DNR forest management policies," 3-5 p.m., 1040 Dana Building. Chemistry-Dr. Rosario D'Costa, "Studies Directed Towards the Total Synthesis of Ionmycin," 4 p.m.,1300 Chem. Bldg. The Transcendental Meditation Program-Free public lecture, 8:15 p.m., 528 W. Liberty. School of Education-Lawrence Cremin, "Public Policy for American Education in the 1980's," 4 p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre. Department of Statistics-Prof. Michael Woodroofe, "Asymptotic Expan- sions for the Error Probabilities of Some Repeated Significance Tests," 4 p.m., 451 Mason. Business Administration School-John Roach, "The Role of Microcom- puter in the Business Information System," 8:30 a.m., Hale Auditorium. The Center for Russian and East European Studies-Dr. Gavro Altman, "Yugoslav Foreign Policy Today," noon, Commons Room, Lane Hall. English Composition Board-Cheryl Johnson, "Taking Essay Exams," 4-5 p.m., 2203 Angell. Linguistics-Ann Van Demark, "Current Research in Aphasia," 4-6 p.m., 2050 Frieze. Industrial & Oper. Engineers-Dev Kochhar, "LP Application to Cable Radio," 4-5 p.m., 229 W. Engin. Communications-Howard Martin, "Images of the Presidency: Photo- Journalistic Contributions to Political Symbolism," noon, 2050 Frieze. Oral Biology-R.W. Ruddon, "Regulation of Glycoprotein Hormone Secretion by Human Cancer Cells," 4-5 p.m., 1-33 Kellogg. r Psychiatry-Joseph Noshpitz, "The Roots of Child Psychiatry: 1900-1910," 10:30 a.m.-noon, CPH Aud. Meetings U-M Bicycle Club-8 p.m., 1084 E. Engin. - University Council-"Student Code of Non-Academic Conduct and Judicial System," 3-5 p.m., 5075 Fleming Ad. Bldg. For more info. call Dan Sharphorn 764-3423. Michigan Gay Undergrads-8 p.m., Henderson Rm., League. Senior Olympics-Organizational mtg., 1:30 p.m., 1300 Baldwin. For more info, call Terry leech, 665-3625. Michigan Economic Society-s p.m., 101 Lorch Hall. Science Fiction Club-8:15 p.m., Ground floor Conf. Rm., Union. Academic Alcoholics-1:30 p.m., Alano Club. Tae Kwon Do Club-Martial Arts Practice, 6-8 p.m., Sports Coliseum. LSA Office of Study Abroad-Info. mtg., 7 p.m., 2407 Mason. Miscellaneous U-M Wildlife Society- Wildlife Art Sale, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., First floor Natural Resources. Broadway Drop-In Center-"Discovery Toys" party, 7:3Q p.m., Northside Presbyterian and St. Aidan's Episcopal Church. CEW-Resume Preparation Workshop for Minorities, 7-9 p.m., CEW Library. Department of Theatre and Drama-Drawing exhibit of Carlye Crisler, Lobby of Power Center. School of Music-Tour of Carillon, 4-5 p.m., Burton Tower. .WCBN-"Radio Free Lawyer," 6p.m., 88.3 FM. To submit items for the Happenings Column, send them in care of Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI. 48109. V Dorm residents get chance to air gripes By PAMELA MAHONEY It happens everytime your parents come to visit. You try to impress them and show them around your lovely dorm when a cockroach runs across the floor, or a toilet overflows in the bathroom down the hall. If this or any other dorm-related problems have been plaguing your life, tell the Resident Halls Association at it first annual Gripe Session. RHA representatives will have tables set up during dinner hours at each dorm to her housing complaints on Dec. 6 and 7. "WE'RE DOING this to let residents know we're here to voice their com- plaints," said programming committee chairperson Leslie Ford. "In addition to RHA representatives working, we invite dorm government representatives to sit in and listen," said Ford. Getting dorm government involved will help alleviate idiosyn- cratic problems, she said. "We won't be able to handle all the complaints, like (those about) food ser- vice, but we can refer students," Ford said. "THE RHA IS a resource group for housing," which acts as a go-between for residents and the administration, according to RHA president Brian Woolery. The Gripe Session is being held in part to show dorm residents that they do have a say in their living conditions, Wollery said. "Residents should find out what's going on in their building and get involved in seeing where they money is going," he said. "We (RHA) are a unified student voice, more specific than MSA," Woolery said."They (MSA) don't deal specifically with residence halls. The MSA goes to the RHA with questions concerning housing." The RHA is also considering holding a leadership seminar to get all the dorm government officers together and find out what they are all doing, Ford said. The major complaints will be dealt with after winter ~break, Jan. .12, Woolety said. RHA meets Wednesday nights from 7 until 8:30 in the Michigan Union. stitutional history would appear to fly out the door" if Lee's arguments were' adopted. Susman attacked all the regulations, charging, "The real purpose of all these: statutes is to thwart the woman's. decision-making process." Stephan Landsman, arguing for the Akron Center for Reporductive Health and others who challenged the city or- dinance, also disagreed with Lee. he objected particularly to what he called Akron's 24-hour "cooling off" period between the time a pregnant woman first seeks an abortion and the time when it can be performed. "This requirements treats women as if they are not to be trusted to make up. their own minds," Landsman said. The Supreme Court said in its.lan- dmark 1973 decision called Roe vs. Wad- e that a woman's decision to have an abortion during the first three months of pregnancy must be left to her and her doctor. Government statistics show that among adult women, more than 95 percent of the more than 1 million legal abortions done each year are perfor- med during the first trimester. Under the 1973 ruling, states may in- terfere in a woman's abortion decision only to protect her health during the pregnancy's second trimester and may take steps to protect fetal life only in the third trimester. School of Education Fall Lecture Series Public Policy and an Educated Society The Continuing Challenge Wednesday, December 1 Lawrence Cremin Public Policy for American Education in the 1980s 4 to 6 p.m. Rackham Amphitheatre Dr. Cremin has served as President of Teachers College, Columbia University, since 1974. A noted historian and interpreter of education. Prof. Cre- min is author of more than a dozen books. The most notable, The Trans formation of the School. is a history of the progressive education move- ment in the U.S. Currently he is working on a comprehensive history of American education, the first volume of which was published in 1970. The second volume, published in 1980, Ameri- can Education: The National Experience 1783- 1876. was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in-History for 1981. Prof. Cremin received the 1982 New York Academy of Public Education's Medal for Distin- guished Service to Public Education. Out-of-wedlock births rise "NOt MORE MR.NICE GUY'" "I'm not my old lovable self when I'm around cigarettes. I get real cranky. So I want all you smokers to quit once and for all. And who knows? You might even put a smile on my face" American cancer Society This space contritled as a public service WASHINGTON (AP)- Out-of- wedlock births rose 11 percent in 1980 to a new peak "due solely to the substan- tial rise in the rate for unmarried white women," the federal government said yesterday. The number \of births rose slightly and the overall fertility rate increased to the highest rate in 17 years, the new report from the National Center for Health Statistics said. The birth rate for women aged 30 to 34 rose 2.7 percent in 1980, more than for any other age group, continuing a pat- tern set in recent years. At the same time, the smallest increase in birth rates, less than one percent, occurred- among girls aged 15 to 17. The birth rate for teenagers under 15 declined by 8.3 percent. The data showed that births to un- married women, 665,747, accounted for 18.4 percent of all births in 1980. The number was 11.4 percent higher than it was in 1979. Court closed (Continued from Page 1) Aldridge, 20, of the army intelligence corps, was indicted at Aldershot, an army garrison town 35 miles south of London, on charges of preparing to give documents "useful to an enemy" to "another person" who was not iden- tified. The indictment said this occurred between Aug. 18 and Sept. 14. The Daily Mail reported earlier that he was quesitoned during an investigation into whether the Soviets got details of in- telligence-gathering methods used during the Falklands war with Argen- tina. in spy trial ALDRIDGE, who was not required to enter a plea, was ordered held without bail for another court appearance next Tuesday. He was the fourth person charged in three weeks with violation of the Official Secrets Act. The others were Geoffrey Prime, former senior translator at the gover- nment's communications intelligence headquarters, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for passing secrets to the Soviets; former diplomat Rhona Ritchie, who got a nine-month suspen- ded sentence Monday for slipping con- fidential information to an Egyptian diplomat who was her lover; and Ham- bleton. S 1S CMN JOSTEN'S White Lustrium Rings Special Price! $89.00 r canterburq loft 332 south state ann arbor michigan 81o 13665-0606 December, 1982 A number of us have begun to notice the emergence of what may amount to a new generation of students at Michigan. They are moved to action on social issues and do not share the cynicism and career obsession of the mainstream. They resemble college students of over a decade ago more than their contemporaries. These students want plenty of information and skills to use in the causes for which they work. They recognize the importance of well considered ideals which go beyond themselves, and they want very much to be effective, Even in the darkest times there have been a few such college students, but now their numbers seem to be growing steadily in Ann Arbor. None too soon! It is for these students, and others who might join them, that Canterbury Loft will sponsor next term a new "free university" program. Here is how it might look: " a "free" university in that the courses focus on some aspect of social change for human liberation, either presenting in-depth informa- tion on a particular subject or a set of skills. 0 "free" from grades, credits and other University formalities where all participants can be active in their learning. _m 4 I VI 1/ i S ' r t .,. e"' See your Josten's Representative I I