Woman honored for Holocaust help efforts
As a child raised in the Netherlands, Marion Pritchard said she was taught to obey the law and the Ten Commandments. While rescuing 150 Jews during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Pritchard said she, "had stolen, cheated and even killed. And I still consider myself the product of a good upbringing."
Task force works to help students' child-care woes
When LSA senior Rebecca Phillips enrolled in the University eight years ago, she brought her infant son Zachary with her. After years of trying to juggle her schedule to accommodate classes, Zachary's child-care needs and a part-time job, Phillips was forced to send her son to live with her parents four hours away in Alpena, Mich.
Ireland, Smith agree to share custody
Ireland, who was to have lost custody of her daughter two years ago in part because she used day care, has agreed to share custody with the girl's father. Ireland and Steven Smith agreed to joint legal and physical custody of Maranda Ireland-Smith after several hours of meetings yesterday and last Friday with a court-appointed advocate and attorney for the 5-year-old, Macomb County Circuit Judge Lido Bucci said.
Court skeptical on protest barriers to abortion clinics
The comments came during oral arguments in a case involving protester blockades of health clinics in Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y., and testing the First Amendment limits on a judge's ability to keep the peace and protect women seeking medical care. The question is how far a judge may go in shielding women and clinic staff from anti-abortion activists creaming, shoving and sometimes worse. The issue has become central to abortion-related cases at the high court since 1992, when the justices reaffirmed a woman's right to abortion, and has gained national attention as some protests have turned violent and even deadly.
Farrakhan demands action for 'Genocide'
NEW YORK - Thousands of people gathered in the streets near the United Nations yesterday for a rally called by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who demanded that the U.N. take action against the United States for the "genocide" of blacks and Native Americans.
Experts: Welfare suits will not affect system
But even if such challenges succeed, they are unlikely to achieve many meaningful results, legal experts say. That is because judges seldom go a step further and actually order a state legislature to spend more. "A court can find that a state government or a local government has violated its own laws with regard to protecting the poor," said Liz Krueger of New York's Community Food Resource Center. "But it rarely orders a legislature to change how it spends its revenue."
Panel to address adolescent girls' sexuality
"Adolescent Girls' Sexuality And Its Relation To Self" will feature speakers Cornelia Porter, associate professor in the School of Nursing, and Karin Martin, assistant professor of sociology, along with a presentation by students reflecting on their own personal experiences.
The discussion, supported by the Interdisciplinary Program In Feminist Practice, is open to anyone, and will be from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the West Conference Room of Rackham.
Britain considers banning hand guns
The sweeping government initiative immediately was subject to protest from opponents, parents of the children slain at Dunblane elementary school in Scotland last spring and even some of its own supporters for not going far enough. All demand a total ban on handguns.
Yesterday's proposal coincided with publication of an inquiry by Lord W. Douglas Cullen, a Scottish jurist, into the March 13 Dunblane incident.
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