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Do you know who’s on your side? Find out! Look tor the ODE Football Supplements, Fridays this fall. I | JADE PALACEf CANTONESE & SZECHUAN [ CUISINE Professional Wok Cooking No MSG with this coupon $1.00 OFF On any Adult or Senior Dinner Buffet offer good thru 10/31/97 ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET Soft Drink and Ice Tea Included 906 W 7th Eugene • 344-9523 • closed Monday Frequently Asked Questions About the New Student Sexual Misconduct Code 1. Do you really need to get written consent to have sex, under the new code? No! The new code does call for “explicit consent,” which means “voluntary, non-coercive, and clear communication indicating a willingness to engage in the particular act.” Verbal consent must be obtained unless the sexual act is clearly mutually initiated. The best way to give and gain consent, whether the act is mutually initiated or not, is very simple—JUST ASK. 2. Is there going to be a permission police that will barge into my bedroom? No! Of course, the university won’t create a “permission police.” The new code isn’t a regulatory measure, but will serve as a guideline for determining whether sexual misconduct has taken place in situations where someone files a complaint. In fact, these changes weren’t initiated by the university. They were originally created by a group of students after a Take Back the Night March in spring 1995. The students felt that the old code didn’t provide a safe environment for survivors. 3. Can I have sex with someone who has been drinking? There is not a yes or no answer to this question. Studies indicate that alcohol is involved in 75 - 90 percent of all campus sexual assaults. The conduct code states that, if a person is intoxicated, they are unable to give meaningful consent. Since the definition of intoxicated is different for every person, initiating sex with someone who has been drinking is risky. 4. Does the Student Conduct Code apply if an assault happens off-campus? Yes, with a few conditions. First, the perpetrator must be a currently enrolled student at the univer sity. In addition, the survivor’s grades or perfor mance at the university has to have been adversely affected or the perpetrator must pose a threat to the campus community. The new code extends jurisdiction off campus to reflect the reality of students’ lives. Eighty percent of students live off-campus in apartments, fraterni ties, sororities, or other housing. Therefore, a majority of rapes occur off-campus and this extension of jurisdiction reflects the fact that it doesn’t matter where rape happens—rape is rape! civjotv rue PAcr5! 5P££ap rue \moqjd\ Sponsored by the Unwanted Sexual Behavior Task Force For questions, call the Office of the Dean of Student Life, 346-3216, or the ASUO Women’s Center, 346-4095 For a complete copy of the sexual misconduct code, look at the policies in the schedule of classes, or go to http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~conduct/index.html All statistics from 1 Never Called it Rape, by Robin Warshaw -Reading Booksigning Helen Cnldicott Thursday, October 2 • 7:00 pm • EMU Ballroom Author of A Desperate Passion, Nuclear Madness and If You Love This Planet, Dr. Helen Caldicott will speak and sign copies of her books. A free event hosted by The Institute for a Sustainable Environment. The single most articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy environmental crises. Dr. Caldicott has devoted the last 25 year to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age, and the necessary changes in human behavior required to stop environment destruction. UNIVERSITY &95_E. 13TH AVF.. ■ 346-43.31 • OPFN DA 11Y » WWW.lJOROOKSTORF.COM Cassini craft will take new telescope to Saturn Critics fear the craft will release radioactive contamination into the Earth's atmosphere The Associated Press DENVER — An ultraviolet telescope built by Colorado Uni versity scientists will be on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft when it embarks later this month on a controversial nuclear-powered voyage to Saturn. The 33 pound instru ment, the size of a small suit case, is expect ed to help relay the most de tailed informa tion to date about Saturn’s mysterious moons, rings and atmos phere. For CU fans, a black Buffalo decal has been stuck to the side of the $12 mil lion device, which will orbit in space indefinitely. Larry Esposito, CU’s lead sci entist, plans to travel with his re searchers to Cape Canaveral, Fla., to watch the Cassini launch, scheduled for Oct. 13. But the team must wait nearly seven years to learn whether its ultraviolet imaging spectrograph works. The spacecraft won’t ar rive at its destination 2 billion miles away until 2004. Then it will spend four years sending back data. “We’re really keen to see what’s in the rings, what’s hap pening now with the rings and how they got there,” said Esposi to, who has been developing space telescopes for NASA since the early 1970s. Cassini, named after the 17th century Italian astronomer who discovered the largest gap in Sat urn’s rings, will carry 12 scientif ic experiments and 72 pounds of plutonium fuel. Critics condemn the $3 billion mission as a time bomb that could contaminate the earth with radioactivity; supporters say it is the next great phase in space ex ploration. Opponents of the mission argue Cassini could explode on the launch pad, possibly irradiating Florida. Or, the critics fear, Cassi ni could strike the Earth as it pass es by to gain momentum for the trip to Saturn. C( We can investigate, ask new questions and even reprogram our spacecraft orbits in order to answer them. The magnitude of discoveries on this mission should he tremendous. Larry Esposito Lead Scientist hsposito said the probability is minuscule of peo ple being sick ened by plutoni um accidentally released from the spacecraft. The mission “has been de signed so you don’t release plu tonium into the environment, and if you do, it’s in a non-breathable luiui, ut; &diu. NASA selected CU in 1989 to build the spectrograph, which will pick up light reflected off Saturn’s 18 known moons and rings that range in size from sug ar granules to houses. Esposito led a team of about 50 researchers and a dozen students in making the device between 1990 and last year. Scientists will use information from the spectrograph to try to answer dozens of questions, in cluding whether life could exist on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and how atmospheric storms start and die out. Cassini differs from other mis sions because the spacecraft is making more than just a fly-by of the second largest planet in the solar system. "We can investigate, ask new questions and even reprogram our spacecraft orbits in order to answer them,” Esposito said. “The magnitude of discoveries on this mission should be tremendous.” Mother Kali's Bookstore “Celebrating women’s lives in all our diversities” Invites you to check us out Music by: K.D. 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