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NEWS FEATURES Rape victim remembers real-life nightmare By Rita Cosby ■ The Gamecock U. of South Carolina “Your worst fears can come true,” said a 26-year-old U. of South Carolina (USC) student who was anally raped in her apartment last summer. Weeks prior to the rape, hang up phone calls occurred and her apart ment was robbed of some old clothes. Then on the first day of summer school, a 15-minute nightmare began. When her roommate left home at 10 p.m., he left the front door open as he expected to return shortly and the area was considered “generally safe." When she heard footsteps outside her bedroom door, her first reaction was to pick up the phone and loudly say, “Oh, great, so you’re coming right over!” Then she checked the entire apart ment, and since it looked empty, she closed and locked the front door. “What I evidently had done was lock my assailant inside.” She began dozing off when her bed room door swung open and a dark, hunching silhouette appeared at the foot of her bed. “It’s so weird, you always think what are you going to do if you find someone walking into your house. Scream probably? “1 didn’t. It wasn’t scream reaction at all. 1 knew . . . here it is, I've got to deal with it,” she said. She assumed it was a robber and said. “Just get out of here right now.” He reacted calmly and said, “Okay, just do what I say. Lay down on your stomach.” She attempted to act normal as he asked her for her money, which she quickly gave him. ‘“Just take the money and go’ was my thinking." She was then ordered to remain on her stomach and never to look at him. She saw movement behind her: either him taking his shirt ofTor tying a piece of cloth around his face. ‘That was the first moment I had any aggressive feelings. I really knew then he was going to rape me. That’s what he’s truly here for," she said. She struggled and he slapped her and pushed her head down to the bed “I don’t want to hurt you. -Just do what I say,” he said. “I just pulled deep inside myself and tried to maintain my sanity." To facilitate lubrication, the assailant demanded oral sex from her. He then penetrated her anally ■The whole time he never seemed sexually excited. And as soon as I re laxed and he saw no resistance, he stopped." When the rapist left her bedroom, she darted to her neighbors where she contacted the authorities. After dealing with police, whom she described as “mediocre,” the victim was taken to the hospital for gonor rhea and syphilis tests. Her ImkIv was pumped with antibiotic, and both anal and cervical cultures were taken. “I was crying and very emotional for several weeks. And everyone close to me was sick or having nightmares This guy raped me for 15 minutes, and suddenly 20 people’s lives are des troyed for a long time." The key to recovery, she believes, is to separate yourself from the crime “When somebody is invading your body and stripping you of every sense of security, you’ve got to shrink down into yourself and say ‘you can't get in here. You can rape me, but vou can't get into the center of me. ‘Sue the school’ becomes trend at many colleges By Felicia Hwang ■ The Dartmouth Dartmouth College, NH College-directed lawsuits have become a trend today among col lege students and faculty mem bers who feel their rights have been violated. Cases like the Re view suit against the college are not exclusive to Dartmouth. In March 1987, a racial con frontation at Columbia U., N.Y., resulted in the suspension of Drew Krauss, a white student. He later sued the university, saying he was discriminated against be cause he was white — he was the only student to receive disciplin ary action. In January 1988, a federal court jury found in favor of Krauss. Although U.S. District Court Judge Vincent Broderick disagreed with the verdict, he re fused to overturn the decision due to sufficient evidence. The final settlement was made privately between the two parties. Harvard U., Mass., is still wait ing for a decision on suits filed in 1981 and 1983 by former Busi ness School Associate Professor Barbara Bund Jackson, who is suing the university for tenure and $847,000 in back wages, claiming she was not evaluated based on her academic record when she was considered for te nure. James Lee at Duke U., N.H., used the tools he learned to sue his school. Lee, a law student, filed two suits against a campus policeman, his supervisor, the university and its president, claiming his fourth and fifth amendment rights had been violated because the officer had stopped him. After months of leg al battle, the case was settled out of court in a private agreement. Students ‘bullish’ on political maricet Volatile stock prices track presidential candidates’ popularity By Deborah Gluba and Mary Brill ■ The Daily Iowan U. of Iowa U. of Iowa (UI) students and faculty who want to turn a profit on the Novem ber presidential election are investing in the UI Presidential Stock Market (PSM). For an initial investment of $35, stockholders received 40 shares of the fictitious stock. They were issued 10 shares each of Bush, Dukakis and Jack son (PSM opened in June). They also received 10 shares for third-party candidates and potential newcomers. “Every cent will be returned to the participants, but some will lose and others will gain,” said George Neumann, UI economics chair and mar ket co-director. The market was designed to imitate the New York Stock Exchange, with two exceptions: Investors may not sell shares they don’t yet own, and they can’t purchase shares when they don’t have enough cash. The stock exchange provides a fun and realistic approach to election fore casting, according to UI economics Associate Professor Forrest Nelson. Nelson, a project co-founder, said the PSM is the first such presidential elec Forrest Nelson tion forecaster and may lend insight to how current events affect voters. “We are capturing attitudes about not who a trader wants to win, but rather who he thinks will win,” he said. The market determines stock prices. When trading began, a share of Duka kis stock sold for $1.29 while Hush stock went for $1.24 a share. Nelson said stock prices seem to re flect current events and the market fluctuates according to a candidate’s popularity. He said the market is super ior to polls because it runs all the time and provides instantaneous results. There has been a lot of activity with the Jackson stock, Nelson said. “It's a low-price stock and it’s an easy stin k to play with. It makes Jackson a ripe candidate for speculation, and recent behavior is typical of a speculative bubble.” Nelson said the number of stock hol ders tripled when students returned to school, putting Mush ahead of Dukakis, who had been leading until then. He said payoffs will be made Nov. 9 when traders cash in their stock at a rate of $2.50 per share multiplied by the popultir vote percentage each candidate receives nationwide. For example, d Dukakis captures 50 percent of th popular vote, his stock will pay $1.25 The stock market, Nelson explained is an educational tool. A one-credi course is being offered through the ec< nornics department this fall to study 11 market. Only a handful of student were expected to show interest hut < showed up instead, he said. UI political science professor Ja< Wright, a member of the stock market board ofdirectors, said the stock mark was a better indicator of voter prefei ence than public opinion polls. “The market should give a better it dication of who is going to win because is more than just a preference poll,” h. said. Gang Continued From Page 1 Jorge said each gang has its own form of initiation, such as fighting or steal ing, to prove future members will be an asset to the gang. But in the Latin Kings, new members had to “walk the line.” This meant Crazy had to walk slowly between two lines of gang members while they beat him, each kicking and punching him several times. “No matter what, you got to make it through the line standing up to prove you’re not going to give up in a real fight,” Jorge said. The reason guys join gangs in spite of the violence of gang life is mostly be cause of peer pressure and protection, Jorge said. “You want to belong to something . . . It’s also for protection,” he said. Jorge explained that he didn’t have to go through initiation because he was called in to be main back-up when fights took place. “Whenever they needed help to fight, I was there to kick ass,” he said. “I was terror back home — main back-up is serious fighting. I never killed anyone knowingly, though, and didn’t feel bad about beating up guys. It was some thing we all did.” Jorge explained there is a lot of press ure to fight in a gang. “It’s either kill the enemy or be killed,” he said. And it members don’t uphold their gang, this own members will go after them am hurt them worse. Fights, which usually take place in open fields or abandoned train yard' and parks, are mostly over territory oi to gain more of it. The gangs often figh until one side is outnumbered or unti the police come. “I used to love fighting,” Jorge said just wanted to hurt somebody. Who 1 you have the aggression you do era/ things. You don’tcare, there's just a cet tain kind of aggressive urge.” Jorge took school seriously and g<" good grades. He wanted to further h> education and get out of the Illinoisan' by going to UI, he said.
