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Women's group fights tyranny of night
A woman fears the night. She knows after the
darkness falls sexual violence may be around
each blind comer and in every wavering shadow
She never knows when the hands will seize her
from behind. She sees every man as a potential
rapist. She has to be afraid and ready in the night.
If she isn’t aware the knife blade will suddenly
flash in the streetlight and he'll force her stagger
ing back into the shadows.
This tyranny of the night prompted a feminist
group, Angry Women Against Rape and Exploita
tion (AWARE), tu post a flyer on the Eugene
Downtown Mall Saturday that stated Lane County
had enacted a curfew for men.
The hoax was particularly poignant as it was
to become effective Feb. 14 — Valentine's Day.
The flyers said men were required to “remain
indoors after dark unless accompanied by at least
three female companions.” The reason,
according to the flyer, was because of “numerous
assaults on women by men.”
In the first three-quarters of 1981 the number
of rapes in Eugene increased more than any other
crime Thirty-eight rapes were reported in that
period.
Also last year six rapes were reported in the
University district — and three women were as
saulted in the dorms.
Linda Spring, AWARE spokeswoman, said
the flyer was to point out “how it feels to be a
woman on the street at night. Men don't realize
that women have a curfew already.”
Public awareness of sexual violence has even
become a plank in the campaign platform of a
gubernatorial candidate in New Mexico The can
didate, William Sego, is running on an anti-rape
platform.
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Misinformation
The editor’s note of last Friday (Feb. 12) was
another example of the misinformation and lies that
always abound in an anti-nuke article
The article says plutonium leaked during the Three
Mile Island accident That is a lie The leak was a form of
Krypton gas And the amount that leaked was truly
miniscule
Harry Esteve then begins the usual condescending
drivel about the "l-told-you-so's " He mindlessly strings
together the trite ant^technology buzz-words to come
up with his "statement
Nowhere does Esteve mention the impressive
safety record of the nuclear industry No form of large
scale power production can come close to it More than
100 people have died this year already in airplane
crashes. Why doesn't Esteve play Chicken Little to the
airplane industry?
The real problem is not Esteve's personal case of
garbage on the brain The real problem is that editors
like himself do a tremendous disservice to the public by
not providing a rational forum in their papers for the
debate of nuclear power
His solution to the very critical worldwide energy
problem is to place your head in the sand, or up your
ass. which ever is more comfortable
Doug Sheldon
GTF, physics
Incorrect quote
Your news story on Northwest Christian College
Emerald, Feb. 5, quotes an NCC representative as
saying that NCC receives no state tax revenues but
Sego has proposed a million-dollar program
that consists of a larger state police rape inves
tigation squad, more rape crisis centers and more
money for treatment of sex offenders. Sego also
advocates more funds for medical and psy
chological treatment of victims — for which con
victed rapists would have to pay.
Sego's anti-rape stance is exceptional, as
politicians go Though he becomes unique when
he says he might consider castration for habitual
rapists
Sego's comment caused an immediate outcry
among editorial writers They called the idea
“barbaric". The barbarism of rape seems to have
escaped those writers
A Playboy article last year stated that only half
of the suspected rapists nationwide are arrested;
about two thirds of those are prosecuted; and less
than 47 percent are found guilty Looking at the
odds, that isn't much of a deterrent.
A man is bewildered and ashamed in the
night He passes a woman who furtively glances
at hjm _ then averts her face He knows she is
afraid of him even though he isn't a rapist
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relies only on tuition and private donations for its
operating funds That statement, which may. of course
be an incorrect quotation, is grossly incorrect
For the academic year 1981-82, NCC is scheduled
to receive $24 876 in state funds In 1979-80. NCC
received $39,334 in state funds: and in 1978-79, NCC
received $40,620 in state funds
These monies are provided to NCC, as similar
funds are to most private colleges in the state theore
tically to assist in instruction in non-sectarian subjects
J. T. Sander, department head
Department of Religious Studies
Foolish move
I agree with your editorial opposing closing the law
school at the University, and would like to add some
more reasons to the already long list of why this would
be a foolish move
Law schools traditionally give less in financial aid
than other graduate programs This is because law
students have less to teach that would be suitable to
undergraduates, and teaching assistantships are at the
core of most graduate financial aid
Now. in addition. President Reagan's latest
proposals would make all graduate students ineligible
for guaranteed student loans With little aid. and no
loans, how will people attend law school? Answer: they
will not. Students are having a hard enough time
attending school as it is. The higher cost of private law
schools will put this dream out of reach for a huge
percentage of our undergraduates
Oregon would become the most populous state in
the nation without a publicly supported law school
Right now, only Alaska, Vermont, New Hampshire and
Rhode Island lack such an institution
Also, the law library is a necessary component of
fine scholarship on this campus, not only for law
students and professors Many members of the faculty
in C.S P A political science, journalism, and others
would be unable to pursue their chosen research
without the law school My field is First Amendment
Law Without the law school, I do not believe that the
University would have sufficient resources for me to do
my job properly
I am glad to see that of all the proposed cuts — all
of which are dangerous to the future of quality educa
tion in this state — the law school is the one people are
rallying behind
J. Marc Abrams
School of Journalism
IFC clarification
There are some points from Monday s editorial that
require clarification
The Incidental Fee Commmittee has not recom
mended a $5,000 budget for intramurals That $5,000
recommendation was the preliminary figure from the
ASUO executive
When the committee does act on the intramural
budget, the Emerald feels the IFC should transfer
$57,000 from the athletic department s budget and
back this move with a student referendum This may
discourage Johnson Hall administrators and the State
Board of Higher Education from capriciously reversing
IFC s decision as it has in past years Intramural funding
should come from the athletic department budget and
not from the ASUO program budget
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