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Church falls victim to thievery
■ Stolen items include
coins collected for a Spring
Break trip to Mexico and a
statue of the Virgin Mary
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Virgin Mary is missing,
and police suspect foul play.
Congregation members of the
St. Thomas Moore University
Parish, on 19th Avenue and
Emerald Street, were shocked Fri
day to find the ministry’s two-foot
tall white statue of the serene
mother of Jesus Christ missing
from its pedestal in the church’s
outdoor garden.
The statue “is a symbol of ven
eration to her presence in the
church helping us be closer to her
son, Jesus,” associate pastor Juan
Carlos Diaz Flores said. “This
[theft] shows a lack of respect for
our beliefs. It’s an offense toward
God and toward the church.”
But the symbol of purity and
motherly love wasn’t the only
item stolen from the church last
weekend.
Between Friday and Sunday,
two cars were broken into and
several desk drawers were broken
open and ransacked. Cash from a
purse left in the church, a wallet
and a jar of coins collected to
fund a spring break trip to Mexi
co were also stolen.
“People have felt safe here and
felt they could trust leaving their
stuff here,” peer minister and
University junior Laura Saffer
Az!e Malinao-Alvarez Emerald
The St. Thomas Moore University parish was shocked Friday to find a two-foot tall
white statue of the Virgin Mary missing from its pedestal.
said. ‘ Now all of a sudden it’s not
so.”
Julie Smith, the Eugene Police
Department officer on the case,
said she suspects the thefts were
done by a local resident, some
body who regularly passes
through the nearby alley or one of
several transients she’s seen in the
area.
Because of the relatively small
size of the stolen statue, which
Flores valued at about $200,
Smith said it probably won’t be
found.
“It’s possible somebody saw it,
liked it and took it. It could be in
somebody else’s garden,” she
said. Smith also said the statue
could have been pawned.
Smith said police have no leads
except for some fingerprints lifted
from one of the cars broken into
last weekend.
Prior to last weekend, Flores
said a pair of cat food bowls were
stolen from his front porch,
which is adjacent to the ministry,
and an outdoor thermometer was
stolen but later returned.
“Somebody must be playing
games,” he said.
Flores said the ministry7 will be
gin locking its office doors more
regularly and that if the statue is
replaced, it will be secured to its
pedestal.
Mom shares story of daughter’s rape
■ Kristin Fuller Cooper s
story of rape, depression
and suicide have inspired
her mother to speak out
By Simone Ripke
Oregon Daily Emerald
Like many mothers, Andrea
Fuller Cooper had always been
concerned her 20-year-old daugh
ter would die in a car wreck. Lit
tle did she know, Kristin would
take her own life, after being raped
by a friend.
About 800 students filled the
EMU Ballroom Wednesday night
to listen to Fuller Cooper share
Kristin’s story about date rape and
depression.
The event was sponsored by
Delta Delta Delta, Fuller Cooper’s
sorority, and Alpha Chi Omega,
Kristin’s sorority.
Fuller Cooper told the audience
how Kristin had been home for
winter break in 1995 after her first
love had broken up with her.
When Fuller Cooper and her hus
band Mike returned from a New
Year’s Eve party, they found
Kristin’s car parked in the drive
way.
They entered the house and
found that lights were on in every
room and music was blasting
through the house. Then they
found Kristin lying right next to a
speaker in the family room and
noticed she was not breathing.
Fuller Cooper said she saw a gun
by Kristin’s legs and realized her
daughter had shot herself.
Two days after Kristin’s death,
the police called and said Kristin’s
diary had revealed she had been
raped.
After talking to Kristin’s friend
in her hometown in Littleton, Col.
and her sorority sisters at Baker
University in Baldwin City, Kan.
Fuller Cooper learned that while
Kristip had kept the rape a secret
from her family, she had confided
in a few close friends.
“I was so hurt that she wouldn’t
Kevin Calame Emerald
Andrea Fuller Cooper shares her daughter Kristin’s story about date rape and de
pression with University students Wednesday night.
tell me, but I talked to so many
rape victims, who just said ‘no
way would I tell my mom,'” Fuller
Cooper said.
Kristin’s friends told Fuller
Cooper that Kristin had been
raped after a friend’s party in Au
gust of 1995. Kristin had wanted
to stay for a movie, and her friend
raped her. And although Fuller
Cooper said she knows the name
of the rapist, police can not take
action against him without
Kristin’s testimony.
But Fuller Cooper would not
give up. “When I found out there
was nothing the police could do, I
started thinking ‘what can I do?”’
she said.
Nine months later, Fuller Coop
er started telling her daughter’s
story.
“I just feel that when something
terrible happens in your life, you
have two choices, ” she said.
“You can crawl up in a hole and
stay in bed all day and cry, or you
can get out there and try to make
some changes.”
Fuller Cooper has shared
Kristin’s story at 47 college cam
puses nationwide, educating stu
dents about rape and depression,
which Kristin suffered after the
rape.
She said 27 percent of victims
raped by a stranger and 46 percent
of date-rape victims never report
the crimes.
Fuller Cooper said one of
Kristin’s friends later told her she
had tried to take Kristin to a coun
selor. She had even set up an ap
pointment and promised to go with
Kristin. But Kristin never went.
“I feel that if Kristin had gone to
that counselor, she would possibly
be alive today, ” Fuller Cooper said.
But Fuller Cooper also said if a
victim refuses seeking help, there
is nothing one can do besides of
fer comfort and shelter, listen and
be available to the victim at all
times.
Ben Horton, a sophomore dou
ble-majoring in German and busi
ness said he gained some insight
into how to help a rape victim and
how rape can afreet an entire family.
“It made me aware of the grief
that rape brings upon not just the
victim,” he said.
Jesse Brown, Interfraternity
Council Greeks Against Rape co
efrair, was involved in organizing
the event.
"I think our main concern was
for people to see the effects that
rape can have from a mother’s per
spective,” he said.