Positions
open for
co-governance
participation
“One of the most important things the ASUO does is recruit and
involve students in the workings and governance of the university,”
ASUO president Greg Leo said Tuesday, “and the wily kind of co
governance currently existing is the faculty-student advisory com
mittees.”
There are positions open on seven of the committees. The amount
of commitment required on each committee varies, according to Leo.
The committees and their functions follow.
— Status of Women. Encourages women to assume greater
responsibilities for University governance and professional
scholarship and identifies barriers blocking career development of
women.
— Academic Occasions. Plans commencement and graduation
convocation exercises.
— Academic Requirements. Responsible for administration and
interpretation of academic requirements for baccalaureate degrees
and action on student petitions for exceptions.
— Equal Employment Opportunity. Advises the President and
personnel officers to insure equal employment opportunities for all
individuals solely on the basis of professional or technical
qualifications and merit.
— Student Conduct Committee. This has primary responsibility
for the student conduct program, recommends policies and for
mulates and approves rules and enforcement procedures, and
delegates jurisdiction to handle infractions of University rules.
— Scholastic Deficiency Committee. This committee is respon
sible for the administration and interpretation of University
scholarship requirements. It reviews records of students doing un
satisfactory work, places such students on probation and sets goals for
improvement, disqualifies students and passes on petitions for rein
statement.
— Assembly and University Lectures committee. Arranges
assembly programs and addresses under the lectures program.
Leo said that students who will be here in the fall will receive
preference but that anyone interested in any aspect of ASUO activities
should contact his office.
Rape victim not keeping silent
By COLMAN MCCARTHY
Of the Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Early one
morning last summer, a male
intruder broke into the
Washington home of Evelyn
Harte as she slept (not her real
name).
She awoke with the intruder on
top of her, a knife at her throat.
She knew instantly the full horror
of the man’s presence — he
wanted to rape. Afraid, she
submitted. Afterwards, the rapist
gone, she called a special
emergency line to the police
department.
So began a series of events that
led to a profound change in
Evelyn Harte’s life. She was a
victim of America’s most
frequent violent crime. Ac
cording to the FBI, rape in 1971
increased 64 per cent over 1966;
1971 rose 11 per cent over 1970.
The total in 1971 was 41,890.
Because only an estimated one in
five rapes is reported, it is
possible that nearly a half-million
American women are annual
victims. Although a major crime,
it is hardly noticed except when
an occasional trial receives
publicity. One reason for the
nation’s indifference is that in a
male-dominated culture, the
victims — by legal definition —
will always be women.
Though rapists share a com
mon compulsion, no two stories of
rape are alike. For the one who
reports the crime, though, it is
likely she will find herself at the
mercy of three establishments:
police, medical and legal. Often
the frustration of dealing with the
males in these professions equals
the harrow of the original rape.
What makes Evelyn Harte
different from most rape victims
is that she has not retreated into
silence. She has become what
society labels a “militant.” She
refuses to adjust to the abnormal.
Within minutes of phoning for
help, Evelyn opened the door to
two patrolmen. Shortly after,
other police came. She was
grateful for the quick response.
Suddenly, she says, another
appeared at the door of her house
with a suspect.
“They asked me to identify
him. I was petrified. I was at
tacked in the dark and I was not
wearing my glasses. Even then, I
was so frightened my mind was
paralyzed. Yet, the police were
asking me, ‘Is this him’ At first, I
said yes.
“But the suspect began
screaming at me. Then I realized
that I had better stay clear of
identifying anyone; he would
know where I lived, what I looked
like, all of this thanks to the
police. There was no line-up of
suspects, with my identity
protected. Instead, there I was
exposed.”
The suspect was released.
Evelyn’s attacker has never been
found. This is common. The FBI
reports in 1971 a solution rate of
only 55 per cent, down three per
cent from 1970. Of all adults
arrested for rape in 1971, only 35
per cent were found guilty.
In the hours after the attack,
Evelyn sought medical care.
It was four a.m. and the doctor
was a woman. “I was probably
lucky in this. I’ve heard from
other rape victims about the
attitudes of some male doctors.”
But she was not pleased with
hospital treatment. She says the
doctor gave her no sedatives.
There were no suggestions that a
session with a counselor might be
useful. She got a shot of
penicillin. “This was meant as a
precaution against venereal
disease. I appreciated the in
tention, but I was almost without
choice whether or not I wanted it.
I was not tested for allergy, and
was asked only routinely if in fact
I was allergic to it. I didn’t know.
‘Probably not,’ said the doctor,
going for the needle. I learned
later that some hospitals will
treat rape patients with
penicillin, some won’t.” She also
learned that her hospital visit
cost $35. She knows of rape
victims who have been billed as
much as $150.
Evelyn is a gracious and
perceptive woman who is free of
the moralizing that makes bores
out of so many of the committed.
She laughs easily.
It is almost a year since her
assault. “It has changed my
life,” she says. “I was not in the
women’s movement before,
though I had sympathy with the
issues. But my experience
catapulted me into being an
activist. Personally, I was
always a career oriented woman
— which means you’re thrown
into a man’s world and all the
challenge that that implies. I felt
that the man’s world was the
exciting one, but now, though I’m
still career minded, I have a
much greater sensitivity for
women. I prefer working with
women. When you like women,
you find that they have as much
depth and content as men sup
posedly do.”
Evelyn says that she seldom
thinks about her assailant
anymore. Not having to face him
in a court trial has helped and
thus there is no fear of revenge.
She has no regret about his not
being in jail — because the prison
would’t be helping him — but at
the same time she is concerned
because he is probably still
raping other women.
In the months following her
attack, Evelyn was luckier than
many rape victims — she sought
and received the support of other
assaulted women. “The fact is,
rape should be something the
victim can get over. Rape is
traumatic because there is so
little support after. One reason
I’ve been able to overcome the
psychological impact is that I had
the comfort of other women who
had been through what I’d been
through.”
On the question of why she
talks openly about her ex
perience, Evelyn takes the
position that sensible activism
demands it. “I am appalled when
people ask me, ‘aren’t you em
barrassed saying you are a rape
victim?’ It’s a frustrating
question. It’s as though it was
something I chose. Why should
any woman feel guilty about
being raped?”
Evelyn does not pass herself off
as a crusader — she knows how
easily crusaders are dismissed —
but she insists that the growing
interest in the treatment of rape
victims is not a passing fad. For
now, however, without pressing
her own agonies onto people, but
not hiding them either, she is
making a contribution that few
have made before.
(C) 1973 By the Washington Post
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