University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 16, 1991
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U.S. rapes falling, study says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The rate of rapes and attempted rapes of girls and women in the United States decreased by nearly a third from 1973 to 1987, according to a study released Sunday by the Justice Department.
Caroline Wilf Harlow, who wrote the Bureau of Justice Statistics study, said most of the 31-percent drop in the rate of attempted rapes
Criminalologist Alfred Blumstein theorized that the decline could be attributed to heightened male sensibility raised by women in the last 20 years.
But Blumstein, dean of the school of urban and public affairs at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University, said he could only guess at the reasons, because many women still are reluctant to report the crime.
making statistics unreliable.
Only 53 percent of rapes or attempted rapes are reported to police, said the study, "Female Victims of Violent Crime."
The survey estimated there were 137,590 rapes and attempted rapes in 1987, down from 159,890 14 years earlier.
Women were more likely to call police if raped by a stranger than by someone they knew, the study found. Among women who were raped in or near their home, 48 percent said the attacker was someone they knew.
Rape accounted for 3 percent of all violent crimes measured by the survey, according to the report.
The study found that 24.5 percent of the women who said they had been victimized by robbery and assault said they had been attacked by someone they knew
By contrast, only 3.9 percent of men subjected to such violence said they had been attacked by a close friend or relative.
intimately.
The information for the study was collected from surveys of 49,000 households conducted twice a year by the department's National Crime Survey. It is considered a more reliable source of statistics because the data includes crimes that victims do not report to the police.
Teen-age girls and young women between the ages of 16 and 24 were three times more likely to be rape victims, the study said.
In 1973, attempted raps and rapes occurred at a rate of 1.9 out of every 1,000 women and girls 12 and older. One case had fallen to 1.3 out of every 1,000
The rate of attempted rapes declined from 1.3 out of every 1,000 girls and women in 1973 to 0.7 out of every 1,000 in 1987. The rate of completed rapes was unchanged at 0.6 out of every 1,000 Harlow said.
The survey found that women were six times as likely as men to be victims of violent crime by a current or former spouse or boyfriend.
"Men assault women far more than women assault men in relationships," Blumstein said. "Men are stronger and far more likely to be violenced in violence because it's much more associated with maleness."
The figures also showed that one in five women who had been attacked by a current or former husband reported being assaulted at least three times in the six months before the interview.
Minority affairs office appoints new director
By Michael Christie
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas has a new director of the office of minority affairs, after 19 months with an interim director.
Sherwood Thompson, 38, will start work at KU the week of Jan. 21, he
from his office at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Upon arriving at the University, his plans are to become acquainted with the Lawrence
the Lawrence area and KU he said
"I'm basically going to be on a mission to listen and to learn," he said.
Thompson said that he would try to assess what is needed at the University.
Thompson will replace Marshall
during interim direc-
tions during the year.
Thompson's appointment comes after much urging by student minority groups that the University administration choose a permanent director, although the groups said they were not displeased with Jackson.
"I'm glad that they hired a permanent person instead of an interim director," said Louis Lopez, president of Hispanic American Leadership Organization. "I like Marshall Jackson, He's treated HALO very well, and he's treated other organizations well."
Lopez said the problem with having an interim director was that he knew Jackson would be replaced if he made it hard to plan long-term goals.
As part of the hiring process, Thompson gave a 30-minute presentation last session to a selection committee comprised by students and faculty members.
Thompson has served as director of the office of third world affairs at Amherst since 1983.
Thompson said that he chose the position at KU to further his career in minority relations.
Thompson said that he stressed the importance of an office of minority affairs at a predominantly white university.
Vice chancellor for finance administration named Jan.1
Kansan staff report
William L. "Lindy" Eakin, 34 has been appointed the new associate vice chancellor for administration and finance at KU.
Eakin said he had the position on an interim basis since last March and in December was chosen to assist after a nationwide search.
Before his appointment on Jan.
1. Eakin also was the budget director.
As the associate vice chancellor for administration and finance, Eakin is responsible for the University budget of more than $235 million.
Now he will have the opportunity to focus on his new job, which he said he found much more challenging.
He also is responsible for development of fiscal policies and financial reporting procedures for the campus. He also will oversee the University's three fiscal offices: budget, comptroller and purchasing.
Eakin started working at KU in 1979 as director of the budget and
William "Lindy" Eakin is the new associate vice chancellor for administration and finance.
administrative services for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He later was named director of academic and student affairs at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita.
In 1989, he returned to the Lawrence campus as budget director.
Eakin earned master's degrees in history and business administration and a bachelor's degree in business administration from KU. He is pursuing a doctoral degree in history.
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