Trust violated
Majority of rape incidents involve friends, not strangers
By Kristine Kennedy
Senior Staff Writer
She had every reason to trust him. He lived one block from her house, and she had known him for a year. They frequently spent time together and had many long conversations. She never expected her friend would pin her to the ground, threaten to stab her and violate more than her trust.
Heather McCann, a freshman living in Trojan Hall, was raped in her friend's Santa Monica home on April
An Act of Power.
This is the first in a three-part series on the climate of acquaintance and date rape at the university.
2, 1989 — the spring before she entered the university.
Though McCann eventually sought counseling and became a rape "survivor," she never prosecuted her attacker. She said she understands all
too well why women choose not to report rapes, especially if the attacker is a friend or a date.
A 1989 survey of 6,000 women conducted by Ms. magazine and the National Institute of Health confirmed that instances of rape are prevalent yet usually go unreported. Other facts reported by the survey about rape include:
• One in four women have been victims of rape or attempted rape.
(See Rape, page 8)
Embassy set for debut of one acts
Life / Arts, page 9
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Komix..........................
Security Roundup.....
Arts & Entertainment Sports.........................
John Urata / Dally Troian
Charlie Brown tops off a fuel tank of one of the msny university trams in the Physical Plant parking lot across from the Lyon Center.
Gasoline "
Texas blows past Trojans
Sports, page 28
weather
sunny..........64/45
Volume CXI, Number 18	University of Southern California	Tuesday, February 6, 1990
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Egypt pressured by Shamir to find, punish attackers
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir demanded Monday that Egypt track down and punish those responsible for a desert bus attack in which nine people were killed, and Israelis mourned their dead with silence and screams of anguish.
Israeli leaders said the latest Middle East peace efforts should not be thwarted by public outrage over Sunday’s attack — the worst on Israelis in Egypt since the two countries signed a peace treaty in 1979.
Newspaper editorials noted, however, that the incident would almost certainly boost support for hard-line views toward Arabs.
Israeli victims flown home by military jet from Egypt’s capital gave harrowing accounts of the several minutes during which two gunmen on a desert road raked their bus with gunfire and hurled grenades inside.
Nation: Federal judge orders Reagan to testify
WASHINGTON — A federal judge today ordered former President Reagan to give videotaped testimony in the upcoming Iran-Contra trial of his one-time national security adviser, Jon Poindexter.
U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene gave Reagan and President Bush until Friday to invoke executive privilege as part of any attempt to avoid testifying.
“Former President Ronald Reagan is claimed by Admiral Poindexter to have direct and important knowledge that will help to exonerate him from the criminal charges lodged against him,” Greene said.
Local: City settles suit with police raid victims
LOS ANGELES — Residents whose apartments were ransacked during a police drug raid accepted $3 million from the city to settle a lawsuit, one of the biggest settlements in city history, an attorney said Monday.
The 52 people who sued the city for the Aug. 1, 1988, raid on four apartments will receive between $10,000 and $100,000 each depending on the damage to their homes and their injuries said attorney John Burton.
From the Associated Press
Some senators attempt to raise funding controi
By. Paul Malcolm
Staff Writer
A heated debate is expected in the Student Senate on Wednesday regarding an attempt by several senators to control the spending of large sums of Program Board funds, two senators sponsoring the amendment said Monday.
The amendment, co-authored by James Bozajian and Steve Webber, will require an organization holding
an event that costs $5,000 or more to obtain senate approval before it is officially scheduled.
The amendment was proposed in response to a controversy last semester surrounding the lecture fees Program Board paid for the participation of Ed Meese and former U.S. Sen. George McGovern in a campus debate. The fees totaled more than $20,000, Webber said.
(See Program, page 7)
Divestment to remain a rally issue
By Dave Banks
Staff Writer
Despite South African President Frederik de Klerk's Friday announcement to bring greater political and economic freedom to the country's 28 million blacks, students from the USC Coalition for Divestment still plan to stage a rally Wednesday calling for full divestment of university funds tied to corporations doing business in South Africa.
Anti-apartheid activists fear that one result of the reform news will manifest itself in a resurgence of investment by the university in South Africa before any real freedoms are guaranteed for that nation's black majority.
"It's the biggest public relations campaign I've ever seen in my life," said John Haves, chair for the USC Coalition for Divestment and a senior majoring in anthropology and psychology. "South Africa is doing just enough to make other countries lift their sanctions."
University officials were unavailable Monday to comment whether the university will change its policy for investment with South African multinationals.
Though the white minority government in South Africa has legalized anti-apartheid groups in their country and seems close to freeing Nelson Mandela, the jailed leader of the African National Congress (ANC), some university activists are warning that South Africa is seeking to improve its image internationally so that the government can refinance its huge debt to world banks.
The United States and most Western nations imposed economic sanctions on South Africa after that nation's system of racial segregation became more prominent in the news media in the early 1980s.
The university's committee on investments and social responsibility issued a report last April that said that divestment would not cause the university to lose money. The university consented to partial divestment, but decided not to pursue an active policy of divesting funds.
"The university doesn't want to be bothered with something like this. We're under no illusions . . . the Board of Trustees doesn't care about blacks in South Africa, and they obviously don't care about blacks on campus here," said Harry Brigh-ouse, co-chair for the USC Coalition for Divestment and a graduate philosophy student.
"Legalization of the ANC is a step in the right direction, but Nelson Mandela is still in prison. 1 believe that the government in South Africa is
(See Divestment, page 18)