Service helps to dispel myths about rape
By HANNES DEAR
Staff Writer
Rape only happens in the late hours of the night or in dark alleys. Rape is only committed by a total stranger. Rape only happens to those who actually attempt to attackers. Rape only happens to someone else. Right?
Wrong to all of the above, according to a handbook sponsored by the Kansas Community Rape Prevention and Victim Support Project.
and an officer. Fifty-one per cent of the rapes reported, the hand-sucked, occurred in homes. One study concluded that 50 per cent of the rapists were known to their victims and the rapists tended to choose them because of their vulnerability, not because they were blonding or because the victims provoke their attackers.
Dispelling such such as these is one reason the Douglas County Rape Victim Support Service (RVSS)
exists, Casey Eke and Polly Pettit, co-directors, said. It also gives formalized assistance to rape victims.
The service began in the spring of 1972 under Women's Coalition after Pat Henry was assaulted on the University of Kansas campus and decided assistance was necessary times. In the fall of 1973, after a change of personnel, Casey Eike became director and a separate service began.
Today, the service is staffed by eight volunteers and Eike and Petit. Both hold only part time positions. The service has been extended to give assistance immediate to patients and to provide on-going support to victim deserves it.
Referrals of rape victims come from Headquarters Crisis center (841-3245). KU Information
Carrol Crossfield, detective at the Lawrence Police Department, said of RVSS "They have been real helpful by coming down with the victims, and letting them know what to expect."
(864-3506), the police department and the hospitals. The ten staff members are on call at all times.
He also said he felt that the officers respected the staff members and trusted them to assist them and the
Still, a large number of raps go unreported. The FBI reported that in 1974, there were 56,000 reported rapes. Most experts agree that the cases of non-reported rape are much higher.
Of the reported cases, Justice Department figures report that only 51 per cent are ever arrested, 60 per cent of those arrested are prosecuted and only 15 per cent of those prosecuted are ever convicted.
"These are depressing figures," Elke said, "and this
Part of the reason that such a low conviction rate is obtained, Pettit said, is because of prosecution problems. Only certain cases can be admitted as evidence, and often the victim is scoured to identify her assailant.
is one of the reasons such a low rate of rapes is reported."
"The juries who have to be convinced tend to try their victims instead of their assaults," Pettit said.
However, Elke and Pettit thought that this was beginning to change. The educational aspects of RVSS reaches into this area, Pettit said.
Eike said, "Every person that we give a program to is a potential juror."
Referrals to the RVSS are completely confidential, even when on office members, last names of clients are never listed.
"We are simply trying to satisfy the victim's emotional needs." Pettit said.
There are three stages that most rape victims go through after the rage, Pettit said.
The first week, the victim usually stays in a state of acute shock. After that, she said, there is a period of outward adjustment during which the victim doesn't even want to talk or think about the occurrence.
The third stage is the resolution stage, which is a setting cut portion she said. Hopeful that time comes up, she said, and the proper protective
"We try to let the victim know that she is not alone in going through this," Pettit said, "and try to help her
Rape Victim Support Service is basically funded through the Governor's Committee on Criminal Administration and matched through the Douglas County Judicial Board and the City of Lawrence Community Development.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87.No.152
Wednesday, June 29, 1977
Patience aids old-time farmer
See story and pictures, page three
Staff photo by RICK PADDEN
Green thumb
After devoting nearly a quarter of a century to the beautification and maintenance of the University of Kansas campus, Gene Bilchil, grounds supervisor, is retiring this week.
Wednesday
From our wire services
Carter reviews gas rationing
WASHINGTON - The Carter administration is developing a broad standby program that would allow the U.S. to have gasoline rationing on a moment's notice.
U.S. tempers Mideast stand
The project was confirmed Monday by James Bishop, an aide to presidential energy advisor James Schlesinger. The project was approved by a review of possible rationing plans.
Bishop said the rationing move was not in retaliation for congressional mauling of two demonstrators vaxing his national energy plan, Carter had warned that if onss, option could not be reduced by other means, the administration would consider developing a new program.
Bishop said Americans would use 27 billion gallons of gasoline this summer.
Jury may study GM taxes
DETROIT—A federal judge ruled yesterday that a grand jury may investigate the possibility that General Motors Corp. tried to cheat the federal government out of millions of dollars in taxes.
"We don't want to suggest either an immediate withdrawal or an immediate normalization" in Arab-Iranish relations as a precondition for peace settlement,
But U.S. District Court Judge James P.
Churchill also ordered federal
prosecutors not to turn over any grand
News reports from Jerusalem said the new Israeli government headed by Prime Minister Mersham Beg reinstated 'enforcement' to the policy statement.
General Motors said the grand jury proceeded was an unlawful attempt by the IRS to collect money in what should be a civil proceeding.
WASHINGTON—Faced with hostile Israeli reaction, the State Department said yesterday it never meant to suggest Israel should withdraw immediately from occupied Arab territories.
jury evidence to the Internal Revenue Service.
peace . . . without saying what the timetable (for withdrawal) is."
The government had accused General Motors of trying to block the IRS investigation and had said the grand jury was needed for a criminal probe.
Blitch leaving mark on campus
Today will be a pleasant contrast from yesterday's clouds. Sunny skies will prevail, according to the National Weather Service. Wind can mean an expect a 30 per cent chance of rain tonight, with temperatures dropping to the low 70s.
Weather
Department spokesman Hadding Carter III said the policy statement issued earlier represented no change in U.S. law or US policy, merely "the ultimate objective of a true
By JANET WARD Staff Writer
Detroit 3, Boston 2, Toronto 8,1 New York 5-5; Minnesota 6, Milwaukee 5, Los Angeles 3, Atlanta 2, Houston 5, Chicago 4, Montreal 4, 10 innings.
The man responsible for University of Kansas' landscaping and grounds upkeep
baseball
Keith Lawton, director of facilities planning, and a member of the committee that hired Bilch in 1944, said Monday. "A great deal of beautification has taken place on campus during the time Mr. Bilch has been with his little part has been due to his shepherding."
Harold E. Blitch, grounds supervisor,
said he's going to leave landscaping to hunt.
"He must feel a great deal of pride in the 'beauty people' and expound on this in all its glory."
BURCH, 57. A native Texan, his loved of plants came from his father, a railroad man, who liked gardening and yardwork. Instead of being told to take out the trash, for example, he said, he was often told to weed the garden.
However, attending Texas & M, where he received a B.A. in agriculture, and a M.A. in horticulture, after a tour of duty as a U.S. naval pilot, was a tenor-of-decision.
"My wife and I then sat down and had a heart-to-heart talk," he said, "and because I'm a lover of plants, I got into the business."
AFTER GRADUATION in 1951, Biltch worked at the Veterans Administration to help a position situate to the one he holds at Kluwer. After answering an ad in a trade magazine,
Blitch described his duties here as primarily grounds maintenance and interior design.
"AI Thomas (director of architectural services) instigates the plans," he said, "but we don't always agree to discuss these matters, so certainly certain people. Sometimes I win, sometimes I don't."
Bilch said his crews do all the actual landscaping and planting, install necessary water and sewer lines and build such things as irrigation systems. He also requisitions materials and equipment
But, he said, this isn't an adequate staff.
Despite that there are now more than 1,000
acres of campus, the grounds crew has the same number of men it had in 1954.
"I've mechanized as much as can I, can he," said, "but machines only can do so much." The problem with the additional help, Blitch said, is that they're not experienced. But, he added, "They do what they're told and they do an excellent job."
Thomas attributed Bilch's ability to overcome the problem of working with amateurs in an expert's field to Bilch's natural-born ambition and aggressiveness,
"He'S VERY AMBITIOUS in that he will undertake a big project in a sweep of glory, trying to get things done." Thomas said. Sandy turned up his collection up and got them done in a hurry."
The climate and the terrain of the campus also present special problems to Biltch and Garnett.
"The hills do create problems," he said. "I think every hit of the topsol was brought to the top of the hill and because of the water damage, anyone, any water just keeps going down."
Because of the recent rains he said, the low-lying areas of Potter Lake and Allen Field House are in good shape but within 10 days the top of the hill could be burning up.
"PUT THE NATURAL beauty lends itself
to your needs. You can do a half-
way decent job, it looks good."
One of the advantages of his work is the ability to go back and see the results. Biltch
Bilch has also left his mark here at the University. While living in University housing where Oliver Hall is now, he planted several trees.
"I returned to the V.A. in Waco," he said, "and could see the trees I planted so many
"The pine trees there are actually our Christmas trees," he said, "and the pecan trees are the ones that grew from pecans that I planted.
Biltch said grounds maintenance and landscaping had improved at KU in the last few years because there was more money available now. Certain areas used to wait two or three years before receiving attention.
"Now, plants and materials are already ordered for the new law building and the (Helen Foresman) Spencer museum," he said. "We're not used to this."
"WHEN YOU PLANT a tree, you plant for hostility, not yourself."
Studies show new college job market boom
College graduates of this May face a much more favorable job market this year than last year's graduates faced, according to several University placement directors and a report by a national council on college placement.
The College Placement Council (CPC), a national organization devoted to research and salary statistics of the college employment market, said in a report issued this month that the upturn in the college market had exceeded all expectations.
Vernon Geisler, University of Kansas placement director, said there were several students who were enrolled.
CPC reported an 18 per cent gain nationally in all disciplines at all degree levels. Last fall it had predicted a 12 per cent increase in hiring.
There has been an increase in on-campus recruiting because of the conservative hiring methods of companies in the past two decades. Companies had no stockage of employees.
he said another factor was the slight
turn in the economy this year.
According to Geissler, liberal arts majors have been siphoned into government organizations, marketing, personnel administration, public relations and several state and federal government social agencies.
Fred Madus, placement director for the School of Business, said the job market for business graduates was very good this year on local and national levels.
"The demand has been obvious and good (or the technical areas)," he said, "and even the basic needs have been met."
one cause tring about a liberal arts
program, many of them to go into training
programs.
2nd bonds issue would help city
Hospital issues took up the bulk of the Lawrence City Commission's time last night when commissioners heard a proposal for refinancing hospital bonds, referred an annexation request to the Planning Commission and decided against razing older, unused wings of Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Hospital officials and lawyers briefed the commission on a plan that would enable the city to save about $2.1 million over the next 25 years if a second bond issue were made. Present-day interest rates of about six per cent, compared to the 1975 rate of nine per cent, would allow the substantial savings, as well as the ordinance is scheduled for July 12.
He said the market was particularly good for accounting majors and those in the M.B.A. program. However, he said, this could be because graduates of those colleges are a business office of their employment plans sooner than did general business people.
Madaus said the number of companies that interviewed business majors on campus last spring was four or six, while the number of interviews each of those companies conducted was up.
Under such a plan, money earned from
Madaua thought this was because companies were looking more seriously for more people. Companies are hiring more people, and Madaua is finding more selective about whom they hire.
Don Metzler, placement director for the School of Engineering, said his department had sent an employment survey out to its 126 American graduates from the school.
See COMMISSION page five
Of the 80 per cent of those students who responded, more than 65 per cent reported being in an "excellent" or "very good" school.
and the remaining 35 per cent reported they
to graduate school or to military service.
Metzler said the KU School of Engineering had traditionally had a good record of job placement, and the CPC report said that, nationwide, engineering hires were 33 per cent above those of the 1975-76 season.
Dana Beilgood, placement coordinator for the School of Journalism, also said prospects for finding jobs were brighter this year.
"As far as I'm concerned," he said, "from the reports we've seen so far, it look like it'll turn out to be a favorable year for placing journalism majors."
Leibengood said he was judging the market on the basis of replies of the first of several surveys he had sent to May graduates.
Of the 89 graduates who have replied so far, he said, approximately 75 per cent were placed in jobs or had opted for the Peace Corps, military service, or a second degree.
The remaining 22 students are still looking for employment.
of eighteen employees. Lebedown said that though the number of campus interviews remained about the same as in previous years, more job listings had come through his department this spring than in the past three or four years. The problem is that people are not always willing to go where the jobs are, he said.
Several of the placement departments on campus have preliminary statistics on this year's placement, but a true picture of the employment market won't be complete several months. Geisler said. A university-wide report should be completed later next month.
Job placement at KU is done by the University Placement Office, located in the Kansas University, and through its eight branch offices in various departments on campus. All departments work together to inform eligible employees of upcoming interviews on campus and of any job openings that have come through the University.
Watina for the gun
The KU Sailing Club held its Rooki Regatta this weekend at the Perry Yacht Club on Lake Perry. In this solarized print,
movie skippers, assisted by seasoned crewes, jockey for position at the starting line. (Related story on page six.)