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Researcher says date abuse is a growing problem in U.S.
Bv KATHLEEN J. FEIST
Staff reporter
Date beating is currently joie wife beating and child beating as a growing problem in the United States, one researcher says.
Carol Coburn, who has been researching dating violence for the Emily Tayler Women's Resource and Career Center, has found that one in five college relationships has experienced physical violence of some kind.
Surveys from Oregon State University, Arizona State University, and St. John's University in Minnesota show that victims have been slapped, kicked, pushed to the ground or punched, she said.
The physical violence usually occurs in serious relationships and is sparked by sexual jealouy, drunkenness or sexually abusing someone. It occurs in all classes and ethnic groups.
Barbara Smith, volunteer coordinator for the Women's Transitional Care Services, Lawrence, said she had seen a range of physically abused women.
"There was one woman who was beaten by an acquaintance and came in with broken ribs and a broken eardrum" she said.
When a woman is physically abused, she experiences emotional trauma as well. Smith said.
"She's in a mess," she said. "She experiences a lot of shame and disbelief. She thinks, I must not be worth anything to him."
Some men think they can "woo" a woman with violence, Smith said. Part of this thinking is due to the media.
Coburn also said that the media, including movies and advertisements, was part of the cultural conditioning that spurred violence.
"We think that violence is not only macho, but expected in a relationship," she said. "And men's media reinforces that idea."
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Studies have also shown that parents are responsible for the conditioning of physical abuse, she said.
"Parents spank children because they love them." she said. "We are taught to accept violence from those whom we love."
whom we love.
"So the woman in the relationship thinks, He wouldn't hit me if he didn't love me," she said.
love the. In the Oregon State survey 53 percent of those battered still suffered abuse in the relationship. Coburn said.
"Thirty-seven percent said that they thought it had improved their relationship." Coburn said. "That's the real kicker."
She said that for some, physical abuse was seen as a sexual stimulator. (For someone he us is somehow
"Seeing someone beat up is somehow sexy to them," she said.
day of another theory about the rise of date beating is that dating relationships have changed, she said.
"In the last 40 years, dating couples have more privacy, and there are more live-in couples." Coburn said. "It makes it easier."
The characteristics of men who abused women in dating relationships are the same as those who beat wives or children, she said.
In the past, chaperones followed along in courting relationships.
Smith, who has dealt with wife beaters and child beaters, said that some of
the characteristics in these men were a low self-esteem, the "macho" stereotype, and a dual personality.
"Acquaintances can't believe it when they fidup it," she said.
The abuser also blames others, mainly his spouse, for his actions and doesn't think the action will have any serious consequences, Smith said.
Smith said that the women who were battered shared common characteris-
Coburn that research done at the University of Manitoba and the University of California in Los Angeles concluded that 35 percent of the college-age men said they would probably not rape if they were sure that they would not get caught.
"The woman usually has a low selfesteem," she said, "and believes myths like I make him do it" and accepts responsibility for his action.
The woman is usually passive to the outside world and keeps the action a quiet one.
Coburn said that wife beating might begin before marriage.
But the help that is extended to abused dates through state shelters for battered women is in danger in at least one state, she said.
New Mexico's state shelters are refusing battered women who cannot show marriage licenses, despite the fact that half of the women who ask for their protection are single. Coburn said the reason for this is a lack of funds.
WTCS is financed by donations and local and state governmental funding.
State shelters for battered women, like WTCS, provide shelter for a maximum of 30 days and are in a confidential location.
The shelters answer crisis calls and provide peer counseling as well as familiarizing the woman with other social service agencies, Smith said.
Girl to be tried as adult for murder
A 17-year-old girl charged with the June 9 suing of her great-uncle will be tried as an adult, District Judge James W. Paddock said yesterday.
assistant District Attorney Jean Sagan said that charges would be filed by Friday.
Lisa Dawn Bigenwait has been in custody since June II for the murder of Donald Hatchell.
Bigenwalt will be charged with murder, aggravated robbery and kidnapping. Sazan said.
Hatchell's body was found partially
buried June 10 under a bridge in southwestern Douglas County.
William J. McTaggart III, 15, the other juvenile in the case, was adjudicated as a delinquent for his involvement with the murder of Hatchell. He was ordered sent to the Kansas Youth Center in Topeka until he turns 21.
Jerry Falwell was guest speaker
New Right conference aimed at family
Washington—About 630 New Right activists met at Family Forum $\Pi$, a three-day conference that featured speeches from top conservatives and workshops aimed at strengthening the American family.
Yesterday's final session was highlighted by speeches by the Rev. Jerry Failwell, lead of the Moral Majority, Inc. and Phyllis Schlafly, the key figure in the defeat of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment.
Michael Lerner, member of the Progressive party and the founder of Friends of the Family, attended the conference as an invited observer and challenged the New Right's analysis of the decline of the family.
the decline of the family.
Lerner said that one of the chief causes of family disintegration was economic and that Reagan's economic
policies, especially the high unemployment rate, "create extreme pressure on the family" and "more substantially anti-family than any in history."
"The New Right concern for the family is a fig leaf covering up the moral nakedness and bankruptcy of the Reagan administration and the economic institutions that are the real causes of the breakdown of the family," Lerner said.
Sen. Jeremiah Denton, R-Ala., in an often passionate speech at the conference, said the pro-family movement needed to understand why some women—especially those forced to divorce by abusive husbands—were driven to feminism and why they rejected the conservative view.
"When we keep coming at them
He said that he found he could cooperate with some feminists on the issue of pornography, which he called, "the men's rights movement" and the pro-family movement.
(abused women) with the nuclear family this and the nuclear family that, and they haven't got one . . we see a widening chasm," Denton said.
Denton, to "long applause, told the group that "the real goal that we should be aspiring to is to earn again the title 'One Nation Under God.'"
Denton blasted the news media for what he called inadequate coverage of the right-wing dictatorships.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan—Typhoon Andy slammed into Taiwan yesterday and raked the southern coastal regions of mills, winds killing at least 5 people.
All of the victims were swept out to sea by high waves.
The central weather bureau issued continued warnings that the typhoon carried a "long tail" and that areas of Taiwan would remain within its 192-mile-wide radius until yesterday evening.
The weather bureau said that the typhoon's center hit Taiwan's southern coast before dawn and cut a swath of turbulent waters northwest toward the Taiwan Strait.
Authorities said that the storm lashed eastern coastal harbors, where at least 36 boats capsized and communication links were disrupted, making damage reports sketchy.
By noon, however, Andy's punch had begun to weaken. The typhoon's course took it across the central Taiwan mountain range, which resulted in its maximum winds being绕回 36 mph, weather officials said.
Taipei, the capital, was littered with uprooted trees and shattered signs.
As the storm moved toward the island nation yesterday, the high winds and churning seas forced the 32-man crew of a freighter to abandon ship just north of the Philippines.
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Sutcliffe pitches 3-hitter as Indians beat Royals
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CLEVELAND -Hitter Rick Sutcliffe tossed a three-hitter over 81% innings, and rookie Carmelo Castillo belted his first major-league home run last night to pace the Cleveland Indians to a 4-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
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Sutcliffe, who authorized two three-hiters while a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers, struck out eight, walked three and gave up a single to Don Slaughter in the third after Jerry Martin was safe on an error. Sutcliffe then walked Onix Concepción to fill the bases, and Martin scored on a wild pitch. Conception got the second hit when he beat out an infield grounder in the eighth.
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