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Show r. OOO by Pamela Swift Abortion Loans Students are inclined to be more pragmatic than their parents on controversial issues like birth control and abortion. Birth control pills are widely used by coeds all over the country, but abortion remains for the most part the medieval torture. traditional form of The University of Maine recently established a precedent by offering financial aid for pregnant coeds to make the trip to New York, where abortion is now legal. g The student senate on the campus at Orono, Maine, voted to put aside $5000 from student activity fees for the purpose of covering medical and travel expenses to New York. Any coed in need may apply loan to be repaid on confidentially for an interest-fre- e her own terms. Because the program is funded by student fees, the hands-of- f university administration has so far maintained a position, but the local district attorney is threatening legal measures to cut off the abortion loans. Since the fund was established last December, four loans have been granted, and the student health service emerreports a decline in the number of fly-by-ni- ght 7000-stron- post-aborti- d on gencies. & Old frontier Oh yes you can, daddy Little kids are beautiful. All they ask out of life is a little love and a lot of peanut butter. Daddies know better. They know you cant pay for a nice place to live, teeth braces and a college education with trading stamps. Mamas need a hairdo arid a new dress once in a while, too. This is why having life insur' ance is so important. Its the soundest way you can guarantee that your family can continue to live the way you want them to live. Call your New York Life Agent. Hes a good man to know. New York Life Insurance Company Madison Ave., N.Y., N.Y. 10010 51 Life, Group and Health Insurance, Annuities, Pension Plans. Hardly a decade old, John F. Kennedy s New Frontier is fading into history , out of time and out of spirit. To take one example , membership in the Peace to channel the the New Frontiers attempt Corps, voactivism and idealism of youth, is down to 8000 lunteers from a peak of 16,000 in 1966. The reason. to Youthful optimism about the future has turned at pessimism and preoccupation with our problems home The main object of youthful pessimism is the Government itself. Thirtyzsix-year-ol- d Joe Blatchfor , . We Peace Corps director, admits: are part of the Government and a part of the UrJe States political system. The fact that we work for t re Government creates lack of trust. .. .In the early days e people believed in Kennedy and they believed int bemission of the United States Government. They lieve less in this today. , c The Peace Corps credibility among young peop declined notably when, amid charges that it was rar t eu boring draft evaders, volunteers began to lose Nixon-appointe- Fora happier life Sun 6 ft Copyright IMS by MUU Muu, Inc. Copyright renewed W6, IVJ By Petnurntet d PARADE FEBRUARY 21. IS. ! ! |
