Sociology course explores rape, violence
Photo by Erich Boekelheide
Trudy Cooper
Class integrates academia, activism
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Self-defense courses taught
at the University now are being
augmented with a sociology
course that focuses on violent
crimes against women.
The course, Women and Men:
Love and Violence, is co-spon
sored by the sociology depart
ment and the YWCA.
Instructor Trudy Cooper of
the YWCA says the idea for the
course arose from “a strongfelt
need to understand, fully, rape
in more comprehensive terms.”
The 400-level Sociology
course reflects that "the issue
of violence is increasingly im
portant in the sociology of
deviants and sex crimes,”
Cooper says.
Though the class was filled by
noon the second day of regis
tration, Cooper says the class
now has room for more students
to enroll.
"The class integrates
academic knowledge with
recent questions activists have
raised about the increasing in
cidence of rape in our society "
In addition, Cooper says the
class will study theoretical ap
plications of violent crimes.
Department neglects potential
voluntary wildlife donations
By HARRY ESTEVE
Ol th« Emerald
Local environmentalists say
they’re concerned with the
Oregon Fish and Wildlife
Department’s handling of con
tributions from 1979 income tax
refunds despite the “surprising
success” of the special non
game protection fund.
Steve Gilbert, who helped in
troduce the bill that created the
check-off fund, says the wildlife
department has been less than
enthusiastic about receiving the
more than $300,000 Oregon re
sidents contributed from their
1979 state income tax refundr.
The wildlife department neg
lected to apply for federal
matching funds, Gilbert says,
which has resulted in the loss of
money that may have been
available for endangered
species protection.
“They don’t seem to want to
put out the effort,” Gilbert says.
“I got the feeling that we went
out and got this money for them,
and now they don't want it.
“Without the federal match
ing money, it (the check-off
fund) will remain just a token
gesture.”
In the past, the department
has been slow to initiate non
game wildlife programs and has
placed too much emphasis on
hunting and fishing man
agement, he says.
Oregon wildlife supporters
again will have a chance to
contribute to the special non
game protection fund when they
complete their 1980 state in
come tax forms with $1, $3 or $5
donations.
Wildlife department officials
say they did not apply for federal
money because there was no
assurance the money would be
available. And although the
department did not apply for
matching funds under the En
dangered Species Act, Oregon
will qualify for federal non-game
Students get, give grades
Distribution ot tall term
grades at Oregon Hall has been
a success this week — thanks to
student volunteers, says Regis
trar Wanda Johnson.
The registrar’s office saved
about $4,0P0 by having
students pick up their grades
instead of mailing them, John
son says.
Grades were mailed to those
students who weren't returning
— because of graduation or
other reasons. Likewise, grades
will be mailed to all non-return
ing student following winter
term. Grades will be mailed to all
students following spring term,
Johnson said.
About 60 percent of students
have picked up their grades so
far, and although there have
been "wall-to-wall” students on
the second floor of Oregon Hall,
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Johnson says tne distribution
has gone smoothly — thanks to
the "excellent help from volun
teers."
Johnson suggested discon
tinuing the mailing of grades
when Associate Provost for
Student Affairs Gerry Mosely
asked department heads for
money-saving suggestions. The
registrar's office has had to
make due with a 15-percent cut
in the budget for services and
supplies like all other University
departments.
Although this is the first time
the University has not mailed
out grades in Johnson's 19
years in the office, she says it is
not unusual at other colleges
and universities.
The cut in service helps to
"keep people working," John
son says.
wildlife funds available in Oc
tober, says program head Frank
Newton.
Spending the money they do
have presents another problem.
Because of the program’s bien
nial budgetary system, the
$300,000 contributions collect
ed last year cannot be spent
until next July.
Newton says once the money
does become available, it will be
used primarily for research and
inventory of non-game species
such as the kit fox, the great
grey owl and the ring-tail cat
Calling last year's check-off
fund “a suprising success,”
Newton is wary about predicting
how much his department can
expect this year
‘ Don’t look for it to be quite
that much this year.” he says.
"Money is tight, and people may
not want to reduce the amount
of their tax refunds.”
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vve m iook ai wnax ine causes
are and how they relate to is
sues of class, power and
racism," Copper says. "We'll
look at the social continuum of
violent crimes against women,
beginning with societal images
of femininity, in the middle with
institutionalized violence such
as media representation, psy
chiatric and medical policy, and
with harassment, assualt and
rape at the furthest extreme."
The class includes film and
slide show presentations, large
and small group discussions,
readings and a project or term
paper
r
Aner tne class s first meeting,
students discussed why they
were taking the class.
One male student said he
took the class because "I’m liv
ing with a woman, and I feel
strange about how how far my
role goes.”
"I’m glad I came,” Terry
Eden, a pyschology major said.
“I’m interested in the coercion
aspect and trying to get others
to recognize it.”
Another woman said she'd
been raped and wanted other
women and men to understand
that it’s an act of violence not an
act of sex.
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