Rape awareness taught
Women should gain control of the situa
tion and refuse to give up when warding off
potential rapists, rape-awareness expert Robert
Sanford said in a campus seminar Tuesday.
Sanford, a former member of the Seattle
Police Department, is the creator of Personal
Protection Seminars. He now tours the United
States lecturing on personal protection and
rape awareness.
Men attack the women they see as easy
targets, Sanford said. "It’s not sex, it’s not the
most beautiful, it’s the one he sees as easily
attacked.”
While there is no guarantee against rape,
certain learned responses can decrease the
chance of being attacked, he said. Walking ag
gressively and with purpose, facing people
squarely and maintaining eye contact are im
portant, he said.
Women in an attack situation are often
trapped by their own good manners, he said.
“Women were raised to act like victims.”
The most effective ways to get out of an at
tack situation safely are to keep some distance
between yourself and the attacker and to get a
third person into the confrontation. Most at
tackers choose their victim carefully and are
not expecting a fight, Sanford said.
Most rapes occur in either the victim’s or
the attacker’s home, and there is an 80 percent
chance that the woman knows her attacker, ac
cording to statistics cited by Sanford.
Being mentally prepared to handle any
threatening situation before it happens is the
most important thing a woman can do to pro
tect herself, Sanford said.
Sanford will speak again tonight at 8 p.m.
in the Bean West Conference Room. Both
women arid men are encouraged to attend.
Program focuses on coast
By Jolayne Houtz
Of Uw Kmaratd
• The classroom is an old Coast
Guard boathouse, in which 20
students sit. listening to a pro
fessor discuss environmental
problems of the coastal area.
The program?
People and the Oregon Coast,
a University-sponsored, inter
disciplinary program limited to
40 students, which focuses on
biology, landscape architecture,
political science and
geography, according to Dave
Rusk, student coordinator of the
program
The seminar, offered Spring
term, is aimed at understanding
the nature of human social and
environmental problems and
finding ways to solve them,
Rusk says.
Classes are open to all
undergraduates, regardless of
major, and are held at the
University's Institute of Marine
Biology in Charleston,
southwest of Coos Bay.
Those involved in the pro
gram pay the same fees as
students living in University
dorms, Rusk says.
Students receive a two-week
orientation to the community
and its unique social and en
vironmental problems, after
which the major focus of the
program is independant
research in three of the four ma
jor disciplines.
Each week a particular topic
is emphasized, such as fishing,
timber or agriculture, and
teachers give their individual
perspectives.
The problems of the area are
closely tied to its environmental
problems, such as the lack of
land-use planning, and to the
fact that Charleston is an
economically depressed tourist
area, Rusk says.
Each student finishes his or
her research and presents it in
an open house where communi
ty members can come and
listen.
‘‘It was the best experience of
my education. It’s a strong pro
gram that deserves attention,”
says Mary Beth Nearing, a stu
dent who participated in the
program two years ago.
Interested students are in
vited to participate in a crab
feed on Oct. 22. There will also
be slide shows on Oct. 16-18
and 23-25. For information con
tact Dave Rusk in Suite 1 EMU.
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introduce and inter-relate members of the
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a pre-law student and a practicing attorney. The
business person hosts the student selected dur
ing lunchtime the week of homecoming -
October 22nd through the 26th.
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volunteers to be paired. The business person will
then phone the student to arrange the date and
location of the lunch meeting. It will also be the
responsibility of the business party to pay for the
lunch!
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are offenng to take part in an important and rele
vant way for the Eugene and Springfield
business community to recognize the resource
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