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
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