Sexual assault
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and tries to work with them to
help them overcome their trau
ma.
As a community educator,
Fiskio not only meets female sur
vivors but males as well.
It may seem difficult to imag
ine men as sexual victims, hut 10
percent of the victims of reported
sexual crimes in the United
States are men, according to FBI
statistics. Fiskio indicated that
Eugene’s statistics mirror this
trend, saying that about 10 per
cent of SASS’s clients in the Eu
gene-Springfield area are men.
SASS provides advocacy for
survivors who want to go to hos
pitals, make police reports or
prosecute their assaults in court,
Fiskio said. Of the 3,439 client
contacts made by SASS, 316 of
them were male, according to the
SASS annual report for the 1998
99 academic year.
“Most of the men I talked to
were sexually abused as chil
dren,” Fiskio said. She added
that the same is true with fe
male survivors.
“It makes me really sad,” she
said. “Sometimes it makes me
very angry.”
Fiskio said that she also meets
adult survivors, but she feels it’s
hard for them to talk about their
experiences.
Jan Power, a spokeswoman for
the Eugene Police Department,
said that two rape cases with
men as victims have been report
ed in the last three years. Howev
er, she said that reported cases
are very rare because many sex
crimes remain unreported. An
other factor in the low number of
male-rape cases is that male-tar
geted sexual crimes are not cate
gorized as “sexual offenses,”
Power said. Instead, those cases
are considered assault cases.
Thirty cases of male sexual
crimes were reported last year,
according to police officials.
These include 17 sexual abuse
cases, six cases of public inde
cencies, three cases of sodomy,
one rape case and three other vi
olations. This year, 13 cases
have already been reported.
These include six sexual abuses,
five public indecencies, one un
wanted sex penetration and one
sodomy charge.
Joan Saylor, the administrative
lieutenant of the University’s Of
fice of Public Safety, said that she
remembers one case of male rape
on campus in the last three years.
“Sexual assault is one of the
most unreported crimes,” Saylor
said, adding that she agrees with
FBI statistics that indicate 10 per
cent of rape survivors are men.
“More cases are out there that
haven’t been reported,” Saylor
said.
According to SASS, the majori
ty of male survivors are assaulted
by individuals of the same sex,
and in most cases, the sexual ori
entation of both offender and sur
vivor is heterosexual.
Fiskio said that in reported
cases, 90 percent of the sexual of
fenders against men are men, and
92 percent of male offenders are
heterosexuals.
While resources for male vic
tims of sexual assault are limited,
Fiskio believes this could be
changed.
“We’re here to support and ed
ucate both men and women,” she
said. “We can reform the system
to provide better for everyone.”
Law school
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rector of the California Rural Le
gal Assistance Foundation’s Cen
ter on Race, Poverty and the En
vironment based in San
Francisco.
Cole focuses his work in help
ing low-income communities ad
dress environmental issues
throughout the country. Current
ly on sabbatical from the center,
he is teaching environmental law
at the University of California’s
Hastings College of the Law.
Third-year law students voted
on Cole as this year’s commence
ment speaker.
In his speech, Cole challenged
the graduating students to live a
career where they’re “not afraid
to fail.” “You’re not afraid to
change your mind in which you
serve your community and have
a balanced life. Dream of justice
and go out and make it happen,”
he said.
Also in attendance was U.S.
District Judge Helen J. Frye, who
was awarded the 2000 Meritori
ous Service Award. Frye, a 1966
graduate of the School of Law
and native of Klamath Falls, was
nominated for the position of
U.S. District Judge in November
1979 by President Jimmy Carter.
For the presiding faculty, the
spring commencement brought
mixed emotions.
“The students have been here
for three years and they’ve
worked really hard, and we’ve
gotten to know so many of them,
so it’s a time when we’re excited
for them because they get to go
out and practice what we’ve tried
to impart to them,” Richard Lud
wick, assistant dean for student
affairs, said. “It’s also a sad time
for many people too because it’s
saying goodbye to friends.”
For many graduates, the em
ployment search has already be
gun. Merv Loya, School of Law
Career Services director, reported
that close to half of the class has
already received job offers. He
noted that if last year’s graduat
ing class is any indication, more
than 90 percent should become
employed within nine months af
ter graduation.
For the students, the time
spent at the University taught
them the value of dedication.
“You learn the ability to sit
down and concentrate and focus
and work hard. In law school,
you are just centrally focused on
your studies,” said graduate and
Wayne Morse Scholarship recip
ient Gabrielle Valdez. “It’s really
independent work.”
In addition to graduating from
the law school, Valdez also com
pleted her master’s degree in
business last March through a
program between the law school
and the Lundquist College of
Business. After graduation, she
will head to Los Angeles to focus
her energy on sports marketing
by working at the Staples Center,
a sports arena. She said her work
through the law school has
taught her the importance of hard
work in all her endeavors.
“It has really disciplined me in
everything that I do,” said
Valdez.
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