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2The Daily Tar Heel Monday, March 16, 1987 Bespit By NICKI WEISENSEE Staff Writer Although most intrauterine devi ces for birth control have been taken off the market by manufacturers due to expensive lawsuits, women's health experts do not expect this to be the end of the IUD. "1 have a feeling the 1 U D w ill come back," said Karen Price, director of education for Orange County Planned Parenthood. "We're not at all happy that it was taken off the market." The IUD is inserted into the woman's uterus. Experts are not exactly sure how the IUD prevents pregnancy, but one theory is that it works by creating an inflammation in the lining of the uterus and that inflammation keeps a fertilized egg from implanting itself. The only IUD left on the market is the Progestasert IUD, which is made by Alza Corp. of Palo Alto, Calif. This IUD dispenses the hor mone progesterone into the uterus to prevent contraception for a year. "It's not any less dangerous (than other IUDs)," said Joan Corley, the Coi ege officiate dicun radkl clinmalte From Associated Press reports America's colleges, where toler ance is as essential to the pursuit of knowledge as labs and libraries, are being shocked by a wave of intol erance and bigotry. The upsurge this year in incidents against blacks, women, Jews, homo sexuals and others has spawned some harsh self-appraisal by higher education officials. Many campuses feel their racial climate is healthy. The University of Utah, for example, elected its first female black student body president this year. But campus administrators are beginning to concede that they have often been slow to react to incidents, or too quick to pass them off as isolated or insignificant, f 1 don't think there's been a great deal of leadership on the part of university presidents," said Reginald Wilson, head of the office of minor ity concerns of the American Council on Education, higher education's chief Washington lobby. The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith found in its 1986 Audit Are your abdominals ready to be exposed this spring? ' v j : v . w"".! m. if'-' WTmJ 1 1 -" a . 1 , 1 iriislkSj IUD may administrative secretary for the Reproductive Endocrinolgy unit of N.C. Memorial Hospital. "I don't know why it hasn't been taken off the market." Alza Corp. has not yet been sued by anyone. Other methods of birth control are available, including birth control pills, spermicides, diaphragms and sterilization, but the IUD was one of the least expensive methods. Price said. Planned Parenthood will not be distributing the IUD anymore because they have none left. About 7.3 percent of women aged 1 5 to 44 who are practicing contra ception use IUDs. Price said the IUD was a good method for women over 35 who have already had children and don want to be sterilized. It is dangerous for women over 35 to use the birth control pill. The risks associated with the IUD are most prevalent among younger women who have more than one sexual partner. Price said. of Anti-Semetic Incidents that van dalism directed at Jews on campuses rose from 12 incidents in 1985 to 19 in 1986. While few other overall statistics exist, many observers agree that bigotry is increasing on the nation's campuses. Some believe the prob lems on campus reflect what is happening outside academia. "It seems to me that the mood of the country, as orchestrated in Washington, D.C., has said to a lot of people that all the things we were once concerned about in terms of promoting equal opportunity don't matter any more," said Barry Beck ham, author of the "Black Student's Guide to Colleges," and an English professor at Brown University. The administration denies that it has backed down on a commitment to civil rights, with Assistant Attor ney General William Bradford Rey nolds saying last month: "We have had for the last six years the most active and energetic law enforcement program in the field of civil rights in our history." Hit Summer trim-toned & tanl m,. H -M r . -r .cr?p r i -T" r- i Its not to late to be in shape for spring but you need to start a conditioning program right now and Nautilus is offering a great student special! 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The IUD is tailored for a mon ogamous person and is not good for a person who wants to have more . children, Dotter said. Minor complications from using the IUD include heavier menstrual periods, more cramping and compli cations resulting from IUD insertion. After its supply runs out, NCMH Several widely publicized inci dents brought the issue of campus racism to the forefront. Last October at the Citadel, a military academy in Charleston, S.C., five cadets dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan broke into a black freshman cadet's room, SeeattoF to By MITRA LOTFI Staff Writer ' " , . Sen. Joseph Biden, Jr., D-Del., a potential presidential candidate in 1988, will be the keynote speaker at a bicentennial celebration of the U.S. Constitution April 1 1 at the Carolina Inn. Biden, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee since January, is the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee. "The senator could talk about anything from the legal community's responsibility to foreign policy, to the current constitutional challenges of the independent council and the ethics in government act, to judicial nominations and confirmations in the coming year, to the future shape of the Supreme Court," said Sharon Brown, Biden's deputy press secretary'. A former trial lawyer, Biden advocates arms control and is active in efforts to control the nation's crime problems, Brown said. The forum, "To Endure for Ages to Come," co-sponsored by the UNC School of Law and the N.C. Com mission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, will be free to the public. The program will review the historical background of the Con stitution and celebrate its endurance over the past 200 years, said Eugene Gressman, chairman of the event's organizing committee and Kenan professor of law. "We want to assess if it (the Constitution) is working currently and whether it is equipped to handle the problems of the future." Along with Biden, law professors from UNC, Duke, N.C. Central University, the University of Virginia t tC y C 5 I Fetara will not distribute them anymore, Dotter said, but they are still avail able in Canada. Women's Health at Student Health Services on the UNC-CH campus also will not distribute IUDs once their supply runs out, said Dr. Mary Jane Gray, a gynecologist at SHS. A.H. Robins, the maker of the Dalkon Shield, a brand of IUD, took its product off the market in 1974. Since then, theyVe paid $530 million in Dalkon Shield injury claims, with 335,000 suits still pending. In August 1985 the company filed Chapter 1 1 bankruptcy, Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp., the leading U.S. manufacturer of con traceptives, stopped producing Lippes Loop, an IUD, about a year and a half ago. G.D. Searle and Co., which con trolled 90 percent of the IUD market, pulled two , lines of copper containing IUDs from the market on Jan. 31, 1986. One of these was the Copper 7, used by nearly one million American women. shouted obscenities and left a burned paper cross. Weeks later, white students at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst attacked 10 black students in a brawl following the New York Mets' World Series victory over the Boston Red Sox. speak at and the University of Illinois will speak. Two practicing lawyers, Michael Curtis and Stanley Brand, will also speak. Proposed topics for the forum include a review of the summer of 1787, the creation of the 14th Amendment, separation of powers, the future of federal-state relation ships, religion and government, science and the constitution, and the future of the Bill of Rights. "There is a tendency to just look at the Constitution the way it was written 200 years apo." Robert Bankers ease By NICKI WEISENSEE Staff Writer Although Sen. Terry Sanford, D- . N.C.,' is co-sponsoring a bill to limit political action committee contribu tions to congressional candidates, he has accepted $10,000 from the American Bankers Association. Prior to the Nov. 4 election, the ABA had contributed to the cam paign of Sanford's Republican opponent Jim Broyhill. Kirk Willison, ABA spokesman, said the organization only contrib utes to one candidate in a race. He said the ABA contributed to every senate election campaign in 1986. "In most, but not all, cases we did provide some money to candidates who actually won," Willison said. "In the case of (former) Sen. Broyhill, the ABA had established a good working relationship." After Sanford won the election and was appointed to the Senate Banking Committee, the ABA gave him $10,000 to help retire his 1 1 u and ft" &r eft c .rvCl ' r a 1 Tamil separatists suspected in India railroad sabotage From Associated Press reports MADRAS, India Sabateurs blew up a railway bridge Sunday in southern India, derailing an express train and killing at least 22 people, police said. Police reported 150 people injured, according to the United News of India news agency. Investigators said leaflets left at the scene pointed to Tamil extremists as the bombers angry that India was not lending enough support in the fight by Tamil separatists in Sri Lanka for a homeland in that nearby island nation. "We have absolutely no doubt that this was a case of sabotage," K.K. Rajesekaran-Nair, inspector general of police, told The Asso ciated Press. About 150 feet of track were destroyed by a bomb that exploded at 4;45 a.m., police said. The total number of passengers on the train was not known, officials from the Southern Rail way office in Madras said. Police said posters affixed to bridge supports and leaflets left near the crossing hailed Tamil rebels fighting for independence in Sri Lanka, the nation formerly called Ceylon. Southern India has a large Tamil population. India and Sri Lanka are only 18 miles apart at their closest point. The leaflets demanded more official use locally of the Tamil language, rather than Hindi, and Constitution ff oraimi Sikorski, the commission's associate director for research and programs, said. The program will examine how the Constitution's meaning has been adapted through conflict and com promise, he said. William Van Alstyne, a Duke law professor speaking on religion and government, said he will speak about school prayer and financial aid to church-related schools. He may speak about the consti tutionality of the motto "In God We Trust." Sikorski said the commission will Sanford's campaign debt campaign debts. The contribution had a lot to do with Sanford's membership on the Senate Banking Committee," Willi son said. The members of the ABA will be working closely with Sanford. Willison said $5,000 was for the primary and $5,000 was for the general election. "We think a senator who has retired a debt will not be held hostage to that debt and will therefore be a more effective legislator," Willison said. "We're not trying to buy votes." Tom Lawton, Sanford's press secretary, said the ABA expects no special treatment because of the Student group budget workshop today An orientation workshop for student organizations that intend to go through the Student Government budget process will be held today in room 206 of the Student Union. "The whole thing is basically how to prepare your budget requests," ,me K,rinOVV- ,te - HOI V-lw . iui-- .i .r iw 0 lif 1 tf"lll 11 j " -rW. dcov -efflvx- 'h ,ete called for withdrawing federal troops from the predominantly Sikh northern state of Punjab, police said. Good old American hospitality NEWARK, N.J. - After a listing Soviet freighter apparently sank Sunday, leaving behind only an oil slick and some floating sacks of flour, its 37 crew members got a taste of American hospitality ashore following a dramatic helicopter rescue. The group spent the night at a Philadelphia-area motel, where their arrival created a sensation before they left for a Soviet Embassy compound in Washing ton on Sunday. The Komsomolets Kirgizii, which was carrying flour from Canada to Cuba, began listing in rough seas Saturday and was last detected before dawn Sunday by a Coast Guard cutter's radar, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Michael Schultz. HartBush favored in poll ATLANTA Democrat Gary Hart and Republican George Bush are the front-running pre sidential hopefuls in a poll of southerners one year before the "Super Tuesday" primaries. contribute $2000 and help with publicity for the celebration. Established by the General Assembly in 1985, the commission was designed to educate the public about the Constitution. The celebration will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Biden is scheduled to speak at 10:15 a.m. ' In conjuction with the bicenten nial celebration will be a retirement dinner for Gressman April 10 at the Carolina Inn. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell Jr., is scheduled to speak at the dinner. contribution. "There is nQ question of votes being bought or sold," Lawton said. The bill Sanford co-sponsored would limit the maximum contribu tion from a PAC to $3,000. Until the law is changed, Sanford is complying with the current law, Lawton said. "The senator thinks it's a bad system and needs to be changed," Lawton said. "He thinks there are better ways to finance a campaign." Alternate methods of campaign financing include taking out a personal loan and obtaining money from people, Lawton said. Neil Riemann, Student Congress finance committee chairman, said Sunday. "Well go over the budget forms step by step, and tell people what to look for." Although no changes have been made in the budget process, Rie mann said some groups, especially new ones, may not understand how the process works. "The new organizations could be at a disadvantage if they don come, because they won't understand how things work," he said. Riemann, Student Body Treas urer John Wesley Williams, Student Congress speaker Rob Friedman and a representative from the Stu dent Activities Fund' Office will conduct the workshop. Emergency test prep help for the imminent MCAXandDAX As you see below, the exams will be here before you know it. 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