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By JOHN P. MILBURN Assistant campus editor
Ex-KU students had part in quake rescue
Farrol Mertes called Lawrence last night to let her family know she was OK.
Tuesday she spent four hours trying to get from San Francisco to Oakland following the earthquake. While she tried, her brother Colin and his roommate Mark Gridley, both former KU students, tried to rescue those injured by he collapse of the Nimitz Freeway.
"I kept trying to call, but the lines were busy," Farrol Mertes said. "I tried calling all over, home, Lawrence, but I couldn't get through."
Yesterday, the trio tried to regroup as Oakland began searching for bodies burried in the rubble.
Just before the quake hit, Colin Mertes's car alarm went off, though no one was near the car. His sister said that may have been some warning that the quake was coming. When the quake hit, Colin Mertes and Gridley were in their apartment taking refuge
in the door jams as the building shook.
Once it stopped, they went to see what damage had been done.
"It was like the 'Day After' when downtown Lawrence was destroyed," Colin Mertes said, "except it was real.
"we went to the bridge and stood in awe. We just stood there for awhile."
While Colin Mertes climbed up the freeway, Gridley and others ran for blankets to cover the injured. On the top deck, Colin Mertes help several people to safety.
Immediately, the climbed up to what was the second deck of the free-wait with the help of workers from the area to survey for survivors.
"I stuck my head between the decks and screamed my head off to see if anyone was still alive," Colin Mertes said. There was no response.
Mertes the quake left a space of six to 18 inches between he decks.
He said vehicles were compressed lower than their door handles, in other cases, even lower.
"It was just concrete, metal and concreet." he said.
Counseling is available for rape victims
By JIM PETTERSON Kansan staff writer
Russell said the RVSS received at least one call and often as many as three calls a day from people needing information or support following an incident of sexual assault or rape.
The bruises and scrapes may heal with time, but the emotional trauma of sexual assault and rape changes the victim forever, said Sara J. Russell, director of the Rape Victim's Support Service in Lawrence.
"Experts tell us, and research tells us, that victims of sexual assault and rape definitely should seek counseling." Russell said.
The RVSS was started in 1972 by a group of women who had been victims of rape on the KU campus. Volunteers provide 24-hour crisis counseling for victims and the victims' family and friends.
She said all victims of rape suffered
from varying degrees of emotional trauma known as Rape Trauma Syndrome.
According to the March 26, 1988 issue of The Nation, a study conducted from 1982 to 1985 by Ms. magazine has shown about 15 percent of women at U.S. colleges and universities have been raped.
"We provide the victim with a safe place to talk about what happened." Russell said. "We make no judgments. We talk about what could have been done differently and allow a person to talk about the incident and how it happened."
The same study also indicated that more than half of women at U.S. colleges and universities have experienced some form of sexual harassment during their academic careers. Harassment can range from verbal abuse to unwanted sexual contact, assault or rage.
Dennis Dailev, professor of social
welfare, said the rape problem could be attributed, in part, to the way men were brought up in this country.
"The social learning process teaches men to take whatever they want," Dailey said. "We just don't raise boys to understand sensitivity or being gentle and caring. Instead they're taught they must leap tall buildings in a single bound and catch speeding bullets in their teeth."
Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police spokesman, said 17 rapes had been reported in Lawrence in 1989.
An official at the Kansas Bureau of Investigation said there were 14 reported rapes in Lawrence during 1987 and 13 in 1988.
Russell said many more rapes go unreported.
"Date rape is a real problem," she said. "Six out of ten victims know their assaults.
"In instances of date rape, the feelings of guilt are particularly strong.
We try to get the victims to talk about it and to let them know that no one deserves to be raped. That is the bottom line."
Russell said the best way to avoid a rape incident was to use common sense.
"Listen to your first instincts," she said. "Follow the voice inside. Everyone has one. Pay attention to your first thoughts about a person or situation and trust that first instinct."
Mulvenon also advocated the use of common sense in avoiding situations where rape could occur.
"Don't travel alone after dark," he said. "Travel in well lit areas on set routes."
Russell said in addition to the RVSS, counseling for rape victims was available from the KU Psychology Clinic, University Counseling Center, Watkins Memorial Health Center and the Burt Nash Community Mental Health Center.
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