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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
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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.