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Domestic violence campaign increases awareness Lora Wahrgren and Megan Friedow Staff Writers Are you - or is someone you know - a victim of domestic vio lence? You may not even realize what domestic violence is. If you have ever experienced or been threatened with physical harm, been sexually assaulted, been afraid of your husband or someone you have dated, backed down from an argument in fear of another persons anger, or had sex when you did not want to be cause you were afraid, then you have been victimized. President Clinton has de clared October the month for Do mestic Violence awareness. A national campaign has been organized to help the public become more aware of the vio lence against women. The Body Shop, the Young Women’s Chris tian Association (YWCA), and Outward Bound USA are all par ticipants in educating the public. Outward Bound is a program that is set up for survivors of do mestic violence. With the YWCA being around for over 90 years, it has a lot of successful power to help victims of domestic violence. The passing of the Crime Bill in 1994 allowed shelters and or ganizations to get financial sup port to help fund community pro grams. The goal of this current campaign is to urge Congress to live up to its commitment, by pro viding the full 1.6 billion dollars in federal funding over six years, including the $306,650,000 that was promised for programs to stop violence against women in the next fiscal year. This goal has not been met and these facilities are still struggling. Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop Inc., has added the support of her company to the campaign. “Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted," Roddick said. "In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the work place without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.” One way that the Body Shop helped this effort was by having customers sign post cards to Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole. This will enable Congress to realise that there is still a need for funds all across America. The campaign was held Oct. 8-20, but even though it is over the public needs photo by Tim Countryman Retired Costa Ricans on exchange visit the ELC with Cariota Holley as their guide. ELC hosts 'Autumn Open House1 Pamela Sirianni Staff Writer The Environmental Learning Center is presenting its “Autumn Open House” this Saturday, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The theme for this open house is Fall Harvest Halloween. The open house will be a great opportunity to meet the new Ex ecutive Director of the ELC, Vaughn Brown. The entire Environmental Learning Center will be open for tours and to answer questions. Sandy Fox, board of directors member for the ELC, says that this will be a great opportunity to leapt about the “new” ELC. There will be a description of the types of memberships and their benefits to members and ELC. There will be a Birds of Prey show at 2:30 p.m. This show will introduce several species of rap tors that reside at the John Inskeep Environmental Learning Center’s Birds of Prey facility. Everyone will have the opportunity to meet Arapahoe, the new Golden Eagle. The tour of ELC will be ex panded to the Native Plants Nurs ery, which will be open with many plants available to purchase. The Composite Lumber Shop will be open with a display of materials and products made from recycled materials. See the new composite lumber picnic benches. The Haggart Memorial Ob servatory, the only year round public observatory in Oregon, will be open. The construction of Haggart Observatory began in the summer of 1988 and was finished and opened in time for the solar eclipse on March 7,1989. If you have not seen the observatory this will be a good time to see what it is like. A light buffet, sponsored by Lacey’s Bomber Catering, will be served in the Lakeside Education Hall. RSVP 657-6958 ext. 2351. The members of ELC en courage everyone to come see what is new at their facilities. They will be there to answer ques tions and describe their programs. The Clackamas Print Staff Editor-in-Chief: Chad Patteson (Ext. 2576) Managing Editor: Amy K. Hanson (Ext. 2576) Feature Editor: Jon Roberts (Ext. 2578) Sports Editor: Jesse Sowa (Ext. 2578) Photography Editor: Josh Kehler (Ext. 2578) Copy Editor: Vicki Welch (Ext. 2578) Opinion Editor: Brendon Neal (Ext. 2576) Business Manager: Cori Kargei (Ext. 2578) ♦ ♦♦♦ Staff Writers/Photographers: Eric Eatherton, Dan Anderson, Megan Friedow, Lora Wahrgren, Linda Barr Batdorf, Andrew Beck, Pamela Sirianni, Paul Ulmen, Lisa Marie, Ryan Humphris, Dylan T. Hutter Secretary: JoAnne Gale (Ext. 2309) Advisor : Linda Vogt (Ext. 2310) The Clackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased, pro fessional manner. The opinions expressed in The Clackamas Print do not necessarily reflect those of the student body, college administration, its faculty orThe Clackamas Print's advertisers. Products and services advertised in The Clackamas Print are not necessarily endorsed by anyone associated with The Clackamas Print. The Clacka mas Print is a weekly publication distributed every Wednesday except for finals week. to know that the problem isn’t solved and that this campaign is only the beginning of the educa tion process. U.S. Department of Justice statistics show that three out of four women will be victims of vio lence in their lifetime. Physical violence is the most obvious form of abuse. It can range from push ing and shoving, to hitting, beat ing, rape and murder. It can hap pen in the home, on the streets- anywhere. Every nine seconds a woman is physically abused. It continues today, partly because it is tolerated and even has been condoned for centuries. A major misconception is that violence only happens to cer tain people of low income and lack of education. Violence does not discriminate. According to Health Response Ability Systems, two to four million incidences occur every year. Men can be victims of bat tering, but 95 percent of victims are women, according to U.S. Jus tice Department statistics. Many of these studies further confirm that more than one million women seek medical assistance every year for injuries caused by battering. "Battery is America’s great est problem - probably worse than breast cancer,” says Anne Jones in her book, Next Time She'll Be Dead. In addition to being victim ized by obvious physical violence, women are also frequently victim ized by other forms of abuse and control. These contributing fac tors, such, as emotional psycho logical abuse, sexual harassment and rape, continue to degrade and promote the isolation of women. There is a wide range of tac- tics to undermine and lower women’-s self esteem. Abusive language, insults, humiliation in front of others, emotional black mail, financial abuse and accusa tions of blame disempower women, especially women with children. Domestic violence affects children, and research shows that battering is a learned behavior. Twenty percent of survivors' chil dren are injured during an assault on the mother. One study shows that as many as 80 percent of abusive males grew up in homes where they saw, or were victims of physi cal, emotional, or sexual abuse. As a result of continuing abuse, women suffer psychologi cal and emotional damage. Sexual harassment humili ates, intimidates, and embarrasses the victim. It can be anywhere from verbal, sexist remarks, to obscene phone calls or sexual propositions. Studies estimate that 20 to 30 percent of women experience some form of sexual harassment while in college, yet only 2 out 3 percent ever report these instances. Sexual assault is another way of demeaning people. It can take the form of spousal rape, in cest, date rape, or acquaintance rape. 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