News Scrapbook 1969-1971

Birth Control Clini eTo Tke I s15 ~-11•7" Su pe rvisors Tell Health Director To Draft Procedures ThP Board of upen 1 ors \CS- terday di1 ected Dr. J B. Askew, county health di cctor to pre- pare procedure• for admitting girls 15 year~ old or older to county birth control clinics. In a ~-1 policy decision last month the board opened !Is clin- ics to unmarried women who have not had children and to women without a private physi- cians referra:. In an opinion on that decision County Counsel Bertram McLees Jr. told the board that minors who live separate and apart from thP;r parents or le- gal guardian and manage their own financial affairs mav re- ceive birth control . rvices without parental consent. OTHERS !';EEO ~o,sE. r Other unmarried mino must obtain the consent of their par- ents, guardian or other author- ized person b fore obtaining the birth control scrv1c~s from the county, he said. :\lcLees told the board that the county must establish '-reason- able procedures" for deter- mining the age and status of mi- nors seeking the services. The board directed Askew to work with McLces in developing the adrr.ission procedures for minors. Askew said the clinics will not be opened to unmarried girls under 18 until the board ap- proves a specific plan he will submit soon. At yesterdav's meeting the ev. William Shi Icy. chairman o t e Univers1 v of San Diego's philosophy d~partment, raisea: possible legal conflicts in the proposed program. MAY BE CO-'IFLICT Father Shipley said the county may be in 'onfhct with the state's statutor • rape laws if it opens its c ni<'S to 15-year-old girls. "How contribut o the d linqucnc} of minor ? he askell the super- visors . Father Slupl y. who said he was representing the Catholic Diocese of San D1tgo, told the board. "It isn't ju t Catholics who have doubts aliout the pro- gram." He said a state aw allowing phy icians to give medical treat- ment to emancipated minors without pmental consent, l\hich McLees used a, the basi for his opinion, had been taken out of context bv the counsel. CITES REPORTED DANGERS The priest rrferred to report- ed medical dangers m taking birth control pills and he said he does not think 15-year-old girls can give '•informed consent." The possibility of la ·suits against the county exist , he said. Father Shipley also questioned the contention that the coun 's new birth control policie ·u reduce the number of illegiti- mate birth~ among the poor with a resulting savings in gov- ernment funds. '·All I war.I to know is how are vou going to prove this?'' he askad, suggcsl ing the program instead will be •·counter-produc- tive" Supervisor Jack Walsh, who led in the decision to liberalize the family planning policies, told Father Shipley the county will go no further than the law allows.

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Kathleen Dunn a junior at the UPiversity 1,1£ Diego. will begin a ye r of tudy this week al the t n11ers1t) of Con- ccpc1on, Ch Pi updct a Rotary Foundation s·cho1ar. hip. "On my wa to Chile I WI I stav with a family in Guadala- jara. Mexico. 1vith whom I lived during the summer of 1966 and 1968," said :\Iiss Dunn. 20. She \\Ill ma · in Spanish and political c:ience at the Chile11,n institution, in the city of Concepcion 'GRATEFUL FOR HELP' ''We had never had a USO student apply for Rotary scholarship. .'' said Robert Sheeran, a USO College (or Men trustee and a Rotary member. •·so the academic deans of the two colleges were asked to submit e names of candidates." ;\liss Dunn 11 as nominated for the Rotary s holarship by Sister Sally Furay, academic dean of USD's College for Women "I am grateful for the en- couragement given me by th';! sisters at the college," said :\liss Dunn. "It's great to ·ee how the College for Women alumnae have helped me, too . They have a real spirit of working together." COLLEGIATE WHO'S WHO Spon:,orcd eY the La Jolla Rotary chap.er, l\liss Dunn will have a Chil an law pro- fessor at the 'L'nJ\ersit) of Concepcion as her otar) counselor. Harold 1tchen is her counselor from the La Jol- la chapter. So ' Nun Heads Committee For League Sister Na ncy Morris , president of the University of San Diego College for Women, is serving as chairman of the San Diego Ur ban League 's annual meeting committee to be held a t 7:30 p.m. F riday, February '1:l, in Lincoln High School auditorium. Rober t Matthews, league president, will preside at the sessions. They will include a brief business meeting followed by a discussion of community questions and problems_ Guest speakers will be Congressme n Lionel Va n Deerlin and Bob Wilson, who will give their views on the "New Federalism." Further information may be obtained from John Johnson, executive director, 263-3115.

named in American Colleges and uni- , crs1ties." and is a member of the Spanish honor society. Sig- ma Delta Phi Sh · also has served as chairman or the USO model United Nations de- lega t1!'.ln. ne is the daughter of ~fr and Mrs. Thomas F. Dunn of 4678 Van Dyke Ave . to "Who's Who

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r Racial Amity \ / .t :, u.,.,... ? 0 • Californians must work to- Ir gether to i1d the "expectation 1 gap" bet n mrnorittes and the white ma :ily Gov. Reagan's as istan fi community rela- tions said y terday "We need a mas: mobilization of will and effort by all our citi- zens to tear down the barriers of' race and verty to give every- one the sa e expectations for the future " said Robert J. Keyes. "The mioorities should have the same qght to do as they please with themselves and the fruits of their labors as the ma- Jonty does, 'he said. Keyes was appomted by the governor in 1967 as a liaison to the minority communities for la- bor relat10ns, housing. race rela- tions and antipoverty pro- grams. He addressed a group of about 150 persons in More Hall at the University of San Di.ego. Hts talk was spon- sored by the USO Political Sci- ence Club. After his brief talk, Keyes fielded questions from the au- dience. Most concerned what the Regan administration is doing about taxes. the grape pickers nke, improved education for 1 uunorities and instituting new I programs to aid the poor. He referred the questioners to var10us government agencies for more specific answers.

he University of San Diego's non.science m ors has received a grant of $2, oo from the Gulf Oil F oundation The departmental a. s1stance gra nt, presented to Dr. Jack D. Opd) eke of the department of ch m try, will a ·sist in the furt h r development of the pec1al program, said Msgr. JohnE. Baer, president ci USO. The program is de:;igned to give non.science majors a knowledge of the fundamental principles of ijie physical and biological scienc David L. Marks, Gulf nager for marketing plan- tiln and development, said the foun dation upport higher uca llon through assistance to ml projects such as the lJ'. O c1 nee progrum. interdepartmental scicnce progr am for

Campus Conference Pla nned b Siste~' ·'c? A Conference on "Religious Communities: Planning for Change" will be sponsored by the Diocesan Sisters Senate at 9 a.m. Saturday, Febru ary 21, at the University of San Diego College for Women. The all-day meeting will be conducted by faculty members of the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, lnd.

small group discussions. Registration for the seminar will be $35, which includes a luncheon and dinner. Deadline for registrations is February 18. Checks may be made payable to the Sisters Senate of the Diocese of San Diego and sent lo Sister Bremner , RSCJ, USO College for Women, Alcala Park .

Speakers Include Dr. Edward Trubac and Dr. Paul Conway of the university's Department of Finance, and Dr . William Sexton and Dr. C. Joseph Sequin of the Department of Management. Following each talk there will be a discussion of topics covered. Sessions will conclude with dinner at 5:30 p.m. and