Oregon Daily
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1992
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 93, ISSUE 108
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Nurse Gerine Snyder takes blood from Chris Lowenberg Lowenberg. who graduated from the
University last June, said he saw the blood drive signs and decided to give It's convenient
when it 's right here on campus, he said
Senate OKs new
vice president
j Bills picks former IFC member,
LGBA director will fill vacated IFC spot
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A
{struggle
Heal
j Rape by a known
attacker is still rape,
and the healing is still
hard
By Rene DeCair
Emerald Assooa;« Editor
Editor's note: This is the
first of u two-part series on
rape. Turt two will run next
Tuesday.
Sura was married to the man
who rupod her.
Mary was raped on a first
dute.
Both are among the estimat
ed HO percent of rape victims
who know their assailant And
both are evidence that vio
lence against women contin
ues to be a problem
One In four women will lie
sexually assaulted in her col
lege years, according to stalls
tus Irum bugeno's Sexual As
sault Support Services SASS
reports that 1H to 2-1 yeat uhis
have tho highest reported inn
dents of rape of any age group
Aitliough their assaults were
several years ago, Mary and
Sara not their real names
now struggle to heal the emo
tional siars that were inflicted
by their attackers
"I've been living through my
own hell," said Mary, 2M, who
wus rapes I four years ago. "1
have not been able to have a
relationship with a man 1
don't flirt anymore "
After the rape she tried to
commit suic ide, she said, and
believes she suffered a nervous
breakdown. A week after tier
attac k she joined a support
group for help but it was too
soon, and so she recently
joined another one
"Now 1 virtually have no
self-esteem," Mary said "1
>'*»vote by *>mtay
For this survivor and thousands like her, the horror ol rape is
never forgotten, but talking helps heal the scars
don't know how long it's going
to take me to heal.”
Although shu knows the at
tack was not her fault, she
said, she still is anguished be
cause she did not listen to her
instincts that told her to stay
away from the man
''Even today I think I ( aused
it by not listening to my in
sides. " Mary said "I may have
been too desperate to meet a
guy"
Mary was raped in nor (.ali
forniu apartment after her date
cooked her a meal and did her
dishes ill what vs .is supposed
to lie a friendly dinner to get to
know one another
When she first met him nine
months earlier, he asked her a
sexually vulgar question Al
though she thought his com
ment was strange, she said, he
seemed iilti! enough
I kept getting slimy, sir.mj>c
vibi's from him." slut said
"Hut I trv U) give ,i pe rson thn
positive. Ixmi'lll of the doubt "
She movi'd out of town .liter
their miti.il meeting hut then
run into him nine months Liter
when she moved bin k to the
ere,i to work .is u presr lined
teacher
"And he didn't t.dk dirty to
me then, Mery snid. end he
apologized for his e.irher re
in.ir k "it w.is nil e to see n f,i
rtiili.ir f,11 e
Thu two hod dinner end ns
the evening was winding
down he moved close to her
and stnrted to lit kle her
1 asked him to stop He
hacked oil a little tint then
started again,” she said " Then
before I knew what vs as hap
pening he laid me down on mv
Iiac k and it wasn't funny any
more lie wasn't laughing any
more and neither was I
I kept telling him, 'stop
you're hurting me, you're sc wr
ing mu ' I was so petrified,"
she said "One e I realized what
was happening to me, I
couldn't do anything I froze.
All I could do was whimper."
Me had sex on her upper tor
so. which Mary believes Is Im
portant for people to know lie
cause lor a long time after the
incident she didn't realize
what happened Was a legal
rape and not a sexual assault
She said she wants people to
Tom to RAPE Page 3