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About Eugene weekly. (Eugene, Oregon) 1993-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 2012)
OUT OF THE RED ZONE It’s been a particularly bad academic year thus far in terms of sexual violence on and around campus. In the past month, three sexual assaults were reported to the UO Police Department alone, and sexual assault prevention advocates say that’s consistent with the “red zone,” the fi rst six weeks of fall term when a high rate of sexual violence is reported. On Nov. 14, acclaimed writer, feminist and spokesperson on sexual assault prevention Jaclyn Friedman will speak in an effort to spread awareness, crack down on sexual violence and help people change what is taking place in their community. Joanna Stewart, public relations coordinator of the ASUO Women’s Center, hopes Friedman can be a light at the end of what has been a very troubling tunnel this fall. “There have been accounts at Autzen Stadium, cer- tain places on campus, so I think when we say we are in the red zone we are really in the red zone,” she says. The recent spike in sexual assaults is one of many reasons why Stewart and so many others are looking forward to the arrival of Friedman, who will discuss how college students can have safe sexual experiences. “I’m going to be talking about basically how students can fi gure out what they want from sexuality and from their sexual interactions in a way that separates them from all the messaging college students get from the media, from their families, from their churches, from their doctors about sex,” Friedman says. “It’s about creating a sexuality that’s about what you need, what your partner needs, as opposed to what everyone is telling you what you should lighten up It helps to have a sense of humor when making a transition to life in the country. My daughter Anna, her husband, Will, and their seven- year-old son Ian, moved last year from Austin, Texas, to a small farm west of Eugene. When the chores are done they bring chairs from the house and place them in front of a screened window in the chicken coop. From there they can see the birds scratch for food, take dust baths and act out their pecking order. They call it watching chicken TV. BY RAFAE L ALDAVE and should not want from sex.” Friedman will put particular emphasis on “enthusias- tic consent,” which, in Stewart’s words, “is about saying yes and really meaning yes.” Friedman will also be talking about Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power & A World Without Rape, a book she co-wrote with Jessica Valenti in 2008, and her fi rst book, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex & Safety. Friedman also has a great deal of advice for how to pre- vent sexual assault on college campuses. “We need to create a campus atmosphere where girls aren’t shamed, where girls aren’t called sluts, where girls are treated as full human beings,” she says. “What we need to do as a whole, as all of us, in any gender, is to stop accusing rape as behavior,” she says. “All of us need to stop giving this very small portion of the population an excuse to keep doing what they are doing.” Friedman will speak at 6:30 pm Wednesday, Nov. 14, in the UO’s Living-Learning Center Per- formance Hall; the talk is free and open to the pub- lic. — Nick Poust NOW BOOKING HOLIDAY PARTIES! ★ 201 2 ★ IRON EF R C W H INNE LAND EUGENE & PORT DINNER Tues.-Thurs. 4-10 | Fri. & Sat. 4-11 | Sun. 4-10 HAPPY HOUR Tuesday-Sunday 4-6 & an hour before closing! OPEN SUNDAYS BEGINNING NOV. 11 2101 BAILEY HILL RD., SUITE L 5 4 1 - 6 8 4 - 8 8 8 8 • W W W. K O H O B I S T R O . N E T Eugene’s World Class Neighborhood Grocery Store 25'(5<285785.(<12: &DOODQGDVNIRU our Meat Department to place your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eugeneweekly.com • November 8, 2012 9
