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Group combats sexual assault
The Sexual Violence
Awareness Group will
hold its first meeting
on Jan. 12 in the EMU
By Michael Hines
Student Activities Reporter
Sexual assault is being recog
nized as a problem that both men
and women must face.
The ASUO acknowledged this
early in the year by placing signs
in urinals that read: "You hold the
power to stop rape in your hand.”
And, in the face of two official
and 17 unofficial reports of sexual
assault filed by University stu
dents during the 1996-97 academ
ic year, the Office of Student Life
has created a student group with
the goal of combatting sexual as
sault.
The Sexual Violence Aware
ness Group is an organization that
students want, said Linda Hoover,
assistant dean of Student Life.
“We wanted to be the tie for the
other groups with broader mis
sion statements,” she said.
Student Life and the ASUO
Women’s Center recognized the
demand for this tie early fall term.
No group specifically addresses
sexual violence, Hoover said.
The awareness group, which
may change its name, will have its
first public meeting on Jan. 12 at 5
p.m. in the EMU Maple Room.
Greg Danielson, the Unwanted
Sexual Behavior Task Force stu
dent assistant, is helping to estab
lish the new group.
He said everyone is welcome
regardless of gender.
“This issue needs to be dealt
with by both sexes,” Danielson
said. “This will be a great way to
get students aware.”
Danielson, along with Hoover
and Women’s Center office coor
dinator Rebecca Peatow, rewrote
the unofficial sexual-assault re
port form.
The new form, which can be
found at several locations on cam
pus, is purple and has an enve
lope attached. Victims can simply
complete the confidential form
and place it in campus mail.
The report form addresses is
sues such as rape, gang rape,
stranger rape, stalking, sexual ha
rassment and public indecency.
The new report form and the
group’s expected activism may in
crease the number of reported
sexual assaults, Peatow said.
“I hope that [the group] will of
fer a dialogue to talk about sexual
violence,” she said.
Peatow and Hoover stressed
that the group will be student
run.
“It’s important for peer educa
tion to happen around any impor
tant issue, especially sexual vio
lence,” Peatow said.
The awareness group will be
working with the Unwanted Sex
ual Behavior Task Force, Greeks
Against Rape and ASUO Safety
Advocates. Hoover said she wants
the awareness group to include
representatives from diverse stu
dent groups.
“It’s a people’s issue,” she said.
“I hope the group will form cam
paigns on campus, do rallies, any
thing.”
For now, the group is not recog
nized as an. official student orga
nization because it hasn’t held the
three public meetings needed for
recognition.
Student Life is temporarily
funding the group, and it paid for
advertisements in 25 Lane Transit
District buses that publicize the
changes in the student conduct
code.
This new group is not a direct
result of recently publicized sex
ual assaults at the University,
Hoover said.
"Whether that gets more stu
dents in attendance, I don’t know
that,” Hoover said.
The group will discuss recent
cases, media representations, the
social environment and similar is
sues.
The stereotype that “men can’t
say ’no’” is not true for everyone,
Peatow said, but most sexual as
saults are committed by men.
“I think that men are in a great
place to end sexual violence,” she
said.
Senate funds environmental group
The money will fund transportation
costs, housing and fees for three
keynote speakers at a conference
By Kristina Rudinskas
Student Activities Reporter
The Student Senate approved $5,800 to help fund
the fourth annual Environmental Justice Conference,
organized by the Coalition Against Environmental
Racism, scheduled for Jan. 16 and 17 at the Univer
sity Law Center.
Erin Emmons, 22, an environmental studies ma
jor, spoke at the meeting about the effect of last
year’s conference on her career plans.
“The conference was one of the key things that
brought me into this,” she said. “The people who
spoke were compelling, and they came from the
heart through real-life experiences."
The coalition stressed the need to link environ
mentalism and civil rights through this conference.
“It is a cause that extends beyond the borders of
this campus,” said Robert Collins, associate profes
sor of environmental studies. The University has ex
perienced growing interest in environmental stud
ies, he added.
“It is important because more and more students
are taking up this major,” said Senator Kent Black.
The money will go to help fund transportation
costs, housing and fees for the three keynote speak
ers. Carl Anthony, an architect from the Earth Island
Institute in the Bay Area, will discuss new models
of sustainable communities; Pamela Chiang, a mem
ber of the Asian-American Environmental Network,
will focus on issues surrounding race, class and the
environment; and Tom Goldtooth, an active envi
ronmentalist for 20 years, will speak on indigenous
environmental networks.
“Environmental issues are civil rights issues,”
said Carla Villena and Melissa Rock, the coalition’s
co-coordinators. “Environmental justice is all inclu
sive of economic justice, race and political issues.”
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