University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 14, 1988
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Learning about rape Victims not to blame, speakers say
By Jeremy Kohn
No one expects to be raped
But a KU sociology class learned it is a possibility, even on the University of Kansas campus.
About 120 students in an Elements of Sociology class attended a panel discussion and film on rape yesterday in Hoch auditorium.
Daryl Evans, assistant professor of sociology and instructor of the course, said he hoped the program would help underclassmen become more wary of their new skills.
"If we could help to prevent one rape, it made it all worthwhile," Evans said.
The half-hour movie, "Rethinking Rape," concentrated on explaining date
rape and why women usually are the victims of rape. A guest panel answered questions for an hour after the movie.
The discussion panel comprised LJ David Cobb, Lawrence Police Department; Barbara Burrahan, Assistant Director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center; Henry Buck, gynecologist at Watkins Memorial Health Center, and Colleen Lawyer, Badbury
Law enforcement officials defined rape as forced vaginal penetration by a penis or foreign object.
Buck said he had seen two date rape victims in the past week, including one yesterday. Both victims contracted sexually transmitted diseases as a result of
One in three women will be raped in their lifetimes, according to the film. Two-thirds of the rapes are committed by acquaintances such as friends, neighbors or strangers.
In the movie, some victimized women described their experiences.
"I couldn't believe I couldn't stop what was happening," said a woman who had been raped by her boyfriend.
One possible cause of rape the movie presented was society's sexism, including advertising which depicts women as submissive to men, pernographic movies, and magazines and exploitative R-rated films that demean women.
A former advertising model who was raped said her job forced her into a role as a sexual object.
A victim's loke don't matter. Lawyer said. The rapist is interested in controlling and dominating the woman, not in sex.
"The same night I was on the cover of Seventeenth Magazine, I was raped at knife-point," she said in the film.
Evans said insecure men might rape because they believe it will increase their self-esteem.
Panel members repeatedly said rape was not the victim's fault but the choice of the attacker. Alcohol is usually involved in date rapes.
"It has very little to do with someone provoking it," Ballard said.
Because of the stigma associated with rape, the crime often isn't reported. Cobb said rape was the least reported crime in Lawrence.
Lawrence.
"I've seen two in the last five years that have been classified as date rape," he said.
The panel emphasized that the victim's cooperation was needed not only to survive being raped but also to help insure that the rainstain was punished.
report with patience.
Lawyer said, "The main objective is to
survive. Do whatever needs to be done."
Recovery depends on the victim, and
counseling is essential.
Cobb said a rape victim should go to the hospital as soon as possible after the crime.
"Don't take a shower after the rape. It will destroy the evidence," he said.
The rape examination required by the state is done by doctors and nurses. Up to 10 samples are taken from the victim's body for use in the investigation. Buck said that a prompt examination was necessary for a rape conviction.
Cobb said that the police were completely in support of the victim. In order to convict the attack, the police need to know everything about the crime, including grievous injuries to the officer and to the district attorney's office, and it takes the case to court.
Lawyer said that many victims pressed charges and then backed out.
In other instances, she said, rapists usually were convicted on lesser offenses.
Cobb said, "It becomes you're word against mine."
Senators to discuss changing vote dates
By a Kansan reporter
A bill proposing a change in the dates of graduate and law student elections for Students will be held at this semester's first Senate meeting.
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If this passes, I'm sure it will increase the election excitement.'
Pam Holley student body vice president
Paul Leader, law senator, submitted a bill Sept. 1 that would move the elections from the second week in October to some time in April. All other undergraduate elections are currently in April.
Pam Holley, student body vice president, said that generating interest in the October election was almost impossible because the voter is too young. The two proposal may improve the voter turn out, she said.
"If this passes, I'm sure it will increase the election excitement," Holley said.
Graduate and law students' two to three-year stay at the University of Kansas was the rationale for the election's October date, Leader said. Because newly admitted students would not have been allowed into the spring, it seemed necessary for the election to take place early in the school year.
Roger Tempelin, the 1987-1988 student executive committee chairman, said that filling both the graduate and the senate last year was difficult.
If the bill passes, Holley said, the students who are elected this year probably would serve from October until the election period would go into effect.
Other bills that were submitted for debate included at least four requests for increased funding. A bill finance the visit of Eile Wiesel. 1980 Nobel Peace Prize winner, also was submitted
Ditto, Koe, sophomore, and Scott Schulte, Ottawa sophomore, work with a celestial sphere during an exercise in Astronomy 191 class.
Space needs in Strong causing office shuffle
By Mark E. McCormick Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Fred McElhene keeps losing something very important for office management.
"It seemed large enough when we moved in," said McEllene, associate director of residential life, referring to his former office at the University of 1976 and 1988, the office had grown its space.
McElhenne's office is one of five caught in a reorganization shift necessary to satisfy requirements.
often move in to reaction to the merger of the housing and residential life offices now at the site of the complex.
chancellor for student affairs.
"The other offices could benefit from the vacancy," she said. "It will improve the problem of space and allow us to offer better assistance for the students."
The hopscotch of office involves shifts between the office of residential programs, the Student Assistance Center, the dean of educational services office, the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center and the dean of student life offices.
"It is kind of a domino effect." Beville said. She said that the shifting should be done by the teacher or a student, and not the
bowie said that minor renovations to accommodate new office space will be done at McColum Hall.
McElhenie, now in one of the temporary offices at McColum, said office business and personnel gradually outgrew the office in Stront Hall.
"one a person had a file cabinet and other things with to which do business, you could only squeeze a chair and a desk into the room." He said the ware were only big enough for two people.
"When we have a meeting, people would have to stand or lean. We were just in each other's way."
offer '8 way all or ob ol time.
Mellon blamed progress for the diminish.
and particularly for Strong Hall where the dean of student life's office would be expanded
ng space.
"Ten years ago, I didn't have one of the
Next summer, the housing and residential offices will make still another move to
A portion of the McCollum Hall catera-
tion and recreation area was converted to office space.
The Corbin site also will offer greater storage space and a conference room. Now, meetings are conducted in the McColum Hall library. He is behead the move to Corbin would be
He said he hoped the move to Corbin was the last move.
"Never say never," McElhenie said.
The temporary offices at McColm Hall are a welcome change. McEllenie said
in the all of the offices, he said referring to an Apple computer and printer. We have more info on all of the computers.
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