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Volume XCVIII, Number 52
University of Southern California
, March 27, 1985
Rape discussed by former professor
Sexual victimization of women leads to less intimacy in society
By Charisse Jones
Staff Writer
"Traditional women's socialization in society has taught women to be rape victims rather than rape avoiders/' said Pauline Bart, a lecturer and teacher of women's studies, who spoke Monday night on intimacy and sexual victimization.
Bart, a UCLA graduate and former USC teacher, spoke at Seeley G. Mudd Monday night at the third lecture of the Barbara Streisand Series of lectures about women and men in society.
One major reason many women have a problem with intimacy is they have been "sexuallv brutalized," both physically and mentally.
If 20 to 25 percent of women nationally have been sexually assaulted as children, how is there going to be intimacy in our society? she asked.
Of the 25 percent of sexual assaults, Bart said 18 percent of them were incestuous. "As someone once said, the taboo is not on incest but on talking about it," Bart added.
A questionnaire in Viva magazine found that if a’ woman was attacked by the stereotypical stranger "jumping out of the bushes," she would call it rape. But she would not call it rape when the attacker was the victim's father, brother, or acquaintance.
In these cases, she said, not only was the victim's body violated, but also her trust.
The women's movement persuaded her to use
her knowledge and experience in sociology' to help "demystify the world to women."
In her first project, Bart collected data to see how women could avoid rape and — after waiting nine months — she received a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Bart did not deal with women under 18 because she did not want to have to get parental permission for interviews, and the institute told her she could not interview women raped over two years before "because they would have forgotten it."
During her project, Bart interviewed 94 women in Chicago who had escaped a rapist or had been raped. She found those rape victims who had used some type of physical strategy were less depressed about the attack than those who had not fought back at all.
To illustrate her point, Bart cited a rape victim who wrote her and said she felt worse about pleading "than about the actual sex act."
The woman ended her letter saying, "Next time (he) will have to kill me."
Bart said women are taught that men cannot control their sexual needs but women can, so they must bear the responsibility of sex. As a result, rape victims who fight back feel they proved "I didn't want this."
Women in her study who fought back were usually enraged that the attacker was trying to
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U.S. policy in Nicaragua a 'disgrace'
By Dina Heredia
Staff Writer
How are the American people supposed to believe the Reagan administration's statements about Nicaragua, when it continues to accuse the Nicaraguan regime of sending arms to overthrow its Central American neighbors without any substantial evidence to support their arguments? asked a former analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency'.
On Tuesday afternoon, David MacMichael, a CIA analyst who monitored the alleged military arms flow from Nicaragua to El Salvador from 1981 to 1983, criticized the administration's present policy of supporting the contras in their war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government, labeling it a disgrace.
MacMichael's appearance was sponsored by the Policy Alternatives in Central America group, the Stone Endowment fund, and several other university groups.
The administration cannot continually insist on the evidence of a organized effort by the Nicaraguan government to supply military aid to justify its support of the contras, MacMichael said, when there is no observable evidence supporting their views.
He said using such flimsy evidence to support its position only questions the credibility of the rest of its charges against the government.
For the past four years, the Reagan administration has been supporting contra rebels based (Continued on page 6)
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The Kappa Alpha Theta sorority sponsored an Easter egg hunt in Alumni Park Sunday for the kids who will be going to Troy Camp this summer.
PHOTOS BY PATRICK GILMORE
The brothers of the Sigma Nu fraternity held their annual Bakersfield to Los Angeles Charity Run Saturday. The event was first started as a puntative measure against the fraternity for pledge hazing violations.
Sigma Nu Relay nears $4,000 goal
By Pablo Lopez
Staff Writer
Something happened in 1981 for the Sigma Nu fraternity house that has become somewhat of a tradition.
Two pledges, singled out for hazing by the active members of the fraternity, were strapped to a lamp post in a remote comer of town.
Not only were the victims drunk, the area supposedly had the highest crime rate in the country. Clad only in their underwear, the two pledges were told to make it back to the fraternity on their own.
The only catch was that the lamp post was in Bakersfield.
Now, four years later, with one semester spent on probation for that incident, the ordeal continues. But this time the Sigma Nu fraternity members don jogging shorts over their underwear and run back from that same lamp post for charity.
The Sigma Nu fraternity completed its third annual Sigma Nu Fraternity Bakersfield Run for Charity on Sunday. The relay run is Sigma Nu's statement against hazing and is designed to raise money for local charities in South-Central Los Angeles.
The relay started Friday morning at 4:30 at that lamp post in Bakersfield and ended Sunday afternoon at 12:45 at the Sigma Nu house on 28th Street. The fraternity has already made $1,500 in donations and expects another $3,000 within the next two weeks.
"We wanted to make a statement to the university and to the Greek system," said Patrick Gilmore, a sophomore majoring in cinema, who participated in the 192-mile relay race this year.
"We don't pretend there isn't any hazing going on among houses on the Row, and we don't turn our backs on it. But we just don't believe in it any more," he said.
Six organizations will benefit from the relay race, with most of the money going to the Committee to Halt Useless College Killings (CHUCK), which began after an incident several years ago where a fraternity member in New York was killed in a hazing incident.
At Alfred University in New York, a pledge was locked in the trunk of a car and told to drink a pint of whiskey, a jug of wine and a six-pack of beer
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