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Sexual assault
continued from page 1
the Office of Student Life cited four cases in which stu
dents experienced sexual harassment, intimidation or
unwanted sexual attention. There were three cases of
acquaintance or date rape, one case of public indecency,
one case of stranger rape and one case of sexual abuse.
Byron McCrae, assistant dean of student life, said one
area of improvement that the University could concen
trate on is working to make survivors of sexual assault
feel comfortable and encouraged to report incidents.
“We’re challenged in terms of straight reporting,”
McCrae said. “A lot of work needs to be done if sur
vivors don’t feel safe reporting sexual assault.”
Beyond that, McCrae said there is a lot that men can
do to improve the safety of women on campus. Mc
Crae not only educates female students on campus,
but he regularly gives talks to men’s organizations to
educate them on how they can stop sexual assault.
“Men need to be aware of the issues of sexism,” Mc
Crae said. “Men need to be out there. They need to be
visible and vocal. They need to let people know that
sexual assault is not OK.”
McCrae asks men to be a part of the solution by
learning about the rape culture that exists in media
and everyday conversation. He said men need to re
duce their own defensiveness by listening to what
others have to say about the problem.
“Listen to what you hear, what you read,” McCrae
said. “Try to take in information without feeling you
are under attack, even if you are. It’s not your fault
you’re male, but once you know about the problem,
your responsibility lies in being part of the solution. ”
Janet Fiskio works as a community educator for
Sexual Assault Support Services, a service supported
by student incidental fees. SASS provides advocacy
and support for victims of rape and sexual assault. It
also works with the ASUO Women’s Center to organ
ize “Take Back the Night.”
Reported rapes
According to a 1998 National Violence Against Women Sur
vey, most victims of reported sexual assault are in thier teens
and early twenties. In most cases where the victim is under
18, the victim was familiar with the assailant
victims ages 25-29:7%
■fc^victims over age 29:6%
victims ages 18-24:23%
victims under
age11:30%
victims ages 11-17:34%
SOURCE: National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center
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“The University should try to create a safe environ
ment for survivors to speak about their experiences,”
Fiskio said. “They also need to work on holding offend
ers accountable to make sure they don’t do it again. ”
Fiskio cited a national statistic that said one in four
women will experience sexual assault during their time in
college. Fiskio also said that 85 to 90 percent of the time,
the sexual offender is known to the victim or survivor.
Although some survivors report sex crimes, Fiskio
said a lot of cases go unreported because sexual as
sault can come in many forms.
“It’s important to allow survivors to define their
own experiences,” Fiskio said. “Sexual assault can be
anything from unwanted touching and unwanted
phone calls on up to rape. Rape is just one form of sex
ual assault.”
Although education is important to combat rape on
campus, there are several services made available to
students to improve the level of campus safety. Fiskio
said SASS is available 24 hours a day, seven days a
week to provide support and advocacy to victims of
sexual assault. Its hotline can be reached at 343-SASS.
Frances Piven
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broaden its perspective of the social
policy surrounding the poor and so
cial welfare systems. The speech
was the keynote of the conference
“Work, Welfare and Politics.”
Once Piven started, she scarcely
paused for breath as she outlined
the politics that have led to major
social spending cutbacks in the
last two decades. The argument
for the cuts center around the idea
that “we are in a new economic
age characterized by globaliza
tion,” she said. The conclusion
has been that social programs
must be restructured.
Piven said people have fought
such efforts to cut programs and
“unions have stayed strong.”
Within the booming U.S. econo
my that has seen higher rates of
growth, higher profit and lower
unemployment, U.S. workers
have also seen fewer social pro
grams, lower wages and larger em
ployment cuts.
“Let’s look at the U.S. success
story closer,” Piven said.
The unemployment level is
lower in the U.S. than in Europe
and profit is up by 100 percent
since 1990. Since the sixties, the
pay of top executives is up by 48
percent while the worker’s wage is
down by 10 percent during the
same period.
Minimum wage is 27 percent
less than the poverty level for a
family of three, and 20 percent of
the working class receives no ben
efits. The richest 1 percent of
Americans own 48 percent of
America’s wealth.
Piven said there is a lot of “political
noise” to destroy welfare. The argu
ment being that welfare is bad for the
country because generous welfare
benefits are a disincentive to work,
Piven doesn’t completely dis
agree with this philosophy, but the
way it is applied was devastating
to poor women. “With welfare re
form legislation, we got a shift of
administrative authority from fed
eral to state and an increase in the
intrusiveness into women’s lives.”
Now, “we have several million
poor and desperate women compet
ing for the same jobs, ” Piven said.
Another attack on welfare is
that it promotes the number of ba
bies born out of wedlock. Piven
called the perpetuation of this
myth a “statistical slight of hand.”
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She said across the world the
number of babies born out of wed
lock has increased and it is obvi
ous that women in other countries
are not giving birth to receive
American welfare.
The number of teenagers giving
birth out of wedlock has risen be
cause fewer pregnant teens were
getting married, not because the
number of teen pregnancies have
significantly risen. “Shotgun mar
riages are down, which isn’t a bad
thing,” Piven said.
“There is an economic logic [be
hind cuts in social spending]; it’s
the logic of unfettered greed im
posed by the business class,” Piv
en said.
This leaves the working class
earning less per hour for the same
work, but working more hours.
“Think of it as an increase in ex
ploitation,” Piven said.
All of the attacks and scapegoat
ing of poor women, particularly
poor women of color, don’t leave
the situation entirely bleak. At
tackers of welfare “are not going to
have the last word,” Piven said.
“If we show the American poor
that we are not against them, I think
poor people themselves will begin
to move forward,” Piven said.
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