The Eighth U-S Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling Fridaycalling Iowa’s law banning so-called “partial birth abortions”unconstitutional. The Iowa Right to Life Committee responded to the decisionwith a short statement by spokesperson Samona Yentes. She says abortionproviders overturned the law by arguing that partially delivering a livingfetus before killing it applies even to first trimester abortions. Yentessays providers aren’t telling this to women who go in for a first trimesterabortion.Yentes says while the decision is disappointing, a decision by a VirginiaAppeals court to uphold a similar law gives hope.
Students get a jump start on college
September 25, 1999 By
Several thousand freshman adjust to college life each fall at the Universityof Iowa — but for ten new U-of-I students, college life started before theygraduated from high school. A new program called the “National Academy forthe Arts, Sciences, and Engineering” allows exceptional high school studentsto get a head start on their future. Nicolas Colangelo oversees the program.The ten students came from Colorado, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Iowa for theNAASE program. Colangelo says they are very intelligent students who wereready for more than high school had to offer.The NAASE students are a part of the honors program, and live on the honorsfloor in the dormitories. He says they are handling college nicely.The students can pick any major, but Colangelo says they lean toward thesciences. He hopes they will stay at U of I all four years and throughoutgraduate school. Their high schools are coopering with the program — most ofthe students will return to their high schools for prom and graduation nextspring.
UNI volleyball continues on a roll
September 25, 1999 By
The Northern Iowa volleyball team continues a Missouri Valley conferenceroad trip today at Southwest Missouri State. U-N-I coach Iradge Arabi-Fahdon Southwest Missouri State, which was picked third in the Valley.Arabi-Fahd says the key will be who controls the net.
