1991_12 The Daily Collegian December 1991

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The Daily Collegian e December 5,
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Newsline
SHE needs volunteers
Spanish Heritage Exchange, a nonprofit stu¬
dent exchange organization promoting the Span¬
ish language and Hispanic culture in North
America, is seekingenthusia stic volunteers to be
area representatives in their community.
Area representatives work to recruit qualified
North American teenagers to go abroad and
they serve as Basons for high schools, host fami¬
lies, students, and SHE offices. Volunteers are
reimbursed for their expenses.
For further information, call 1-800-888-9040.
Quintet combo
The President's Woodwind Quintet and the
Scholarship Brass Quintet will combinefor a con¬
cert this Saturday at CSUF. The program will
include works from Baroque through the 20th
century.
The concert will be presented in the Arthur
WahlbergRecitalHall in theCSUFMusic Building
at 8:00 p.m. Admission is $5 general and $3 for
students and seniors.
Simple, nutrlcious donation
Emergency Food Assistance Program is ask¬
ing for donations this holiday season. They are
requesting simple but nu tridous food including
beans, rice, breakfast cereals, canned fruits and
vegetables, soups, infant formulas and baby
foods.
Deliver donations it to their warehouse at 149
N. Fulton St. at Divisadero Avenue or call Pete at
233-FOOD and it will be picked up.
Winter session
Winter Session classes in nearly^ subject
areas will be conducted from Dec. 30 to Jan. 17
at CSUF. A free brochure listing the various
classes being offered this year is now available
through the Division of Extended Education.
Early registration for Winter Session classes
will endFriday. Students also can register on the
first day of class. Tuition for the program is $99
per unit of credit. All residence credit earned can
count toward a degree.
For a free copy of the brochure and early
registration materials, contact the CSUF Divi¬
sion of Extended Education at 278-2524.
Scholarships given for
public service
CSUF Career Development and Employment
Services is seeking to expand its summer 1992
"Community Service Scholarship Program"
which provides financial scholarships to stu¬
dents who volunteer 200 hours of nonprofit
community service agencies.
Volunteer experiences are designed so that
they are directly related to a student's major.
Program costs for the past two summers have
been underwritten by a local anonymous donor
whose intent was to provide "real world" expe¬
riences that would not only provide some type
' of financial compensation but would also help to
address some of the needs of the community at
large.
Individuals or organizations interested in
contributing to this program so it can continue to
serve both students and the community, are
asked to ca il Paul DeRuopsi or A le ta Walkowiak
USU presents dancers
Festival of Light and United Express in asso¬
ciation with USU Productions present Doug
Varone & Dancers on Dec. 10 at 8:30 p.m. in the
Satellite Student Union.
Cue Magazine said, "Thisisa poignant view of
relationships and the pain that is sometimes too
vivid to be verbalized. Varone has mastered the
harnessing of emotion that transcends move¬
ment and takes his dancers and his audience into
private places."
Varone is the artistic director of the dance
company.
The cost is $3 for students and $6 general.
Telecommunication speaker
Howard Fredrick, director of the Institue for
Global Cooperation in Palo Alto, will talk about
pWInternational Cooperation ThroughTelecommu¬
nication" at 4:10 p.m. today in Social Science Rm.
103.
Holiday Boutique
The Bulldog Foundation will hojd its Third
Annual'THmcanBuildingHoliday Boutique" from
11 a.m. to 3 pjn. Friday. Boutique displays and
complimentary refreshments will be available at
the Duncan Building at the south end of Bulldog
Stadium. For details, call 2784140.
Guitar ensemble
The CSUF Guitar Ensemble directed by Juan
Serrano will present a free concert in the Arthur
Wahlberg Recital Hall at 7 p.m. today.
Open doghouse
The 13th Annual Hobday Open House spon¬
sored by the Kennel Bookstore will be held from 3
p.m. to 8 pjn. Friday and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to
Saturday. Free caricatures, special sales, free gift
wrapping refreshments, prizes and music will be
offered.
Crafts Bazaar
The annual two-day Holiday Crafts Bazaar will
be held in the Satellite Student Union from, 8 ajjv.
to 6 p.m. today.
Free piano concert
Senior piano student Hector Reynoso will be
fea hired- i n a free program in the Arthur Wahlberg
Recital Hall at 8 p.m. Friday.
Children's author to sign books
Children's author Laura Numeroff will be auto¬
graphing her books in the general book depart¬
ment of the Kennel Bookstore from 10a.m. to noon
Saturday.
Bicentennial Mozart
The Fresno Community Chorus, directed by
LeslieGuelker-Cone, will present a Mozart Bicen¬
tennial concert at the St. Paul Newman Center,
1572 E. Barstow Ave. The program includes sel¬
dom performed choral works by Mozart as well as
the popular Brahms "Llebeslieder Waltzes."
Admission is $6 general and $4 for seniors and
students.
When a man can't explain a woman's
actions, the first thing he thinks of is the
condition of her uterus.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Frats often involved
in rapes, expert says
•90 percent of college gang
rapes occur at fraternity
houses
(CPS)- Bet-nice Sandler didn't
want to divulge too many details,
but it didn't matter — what she
did say was quite enough.
As the national expert on gang
rape lectured counselors, students
and others working in the field of
sexual assault on college cam¬
puses, the audience couldn't help
but groan in empathy and moan in
disgust
Sandler talked of gang rape
victims locked out of rooms and
left naked in fraternity house hall-
sorority and non-sorority mem¬
bers, freshmen and seniors.
Mary Kross,of the University of
Arizona psychology and psychia¬
try departments, recently con¬
ducted a study of 600 students in a
"Psych 101" class and found that
attitudes between fraternity
members and non-fraternity
members differed.
"We found that men in fratern;
ties lived in a more sexualized
environment, that alcohol was
more readily available ... that
ways, of men who videotaped the    pledges thought the fraternity
ordeal to show friends later.
Sandler, with the Association of
American Colleges, received her
first call abou t a gang rape and has
spent most of her time researching
the phenomenon.
What she found is that the vast
majority occur at fraternity houses
(90), with the rest happening at the
hands of athletes.
Alcohol or drugs are almost
always
volved and of¬
ten the victim is
elected ahead of
time and delib¬
erately given
spiked drinks or
drugs to inca¬
pacitate her.
Often, the
woman is not
conscious dur¬
ing the rape.
Often pegple other than the men
committing the rape know that it
is occurring or about to occur.
"The men are stunned when
their behavior is labeled as rape,"
Sandler said at a recent conference
on sexual assault.
Sandler has found many differ¬
ences between gang rape and one-
on-one rape.
In gang rapes, the men are rap¬
ing for each other — they want to
prove their manhood.
She said fraternity members are
primary culprits because they ha ve
a strong ideology of brotherhood
— fraternity men define them¬
selves by drinking, sexual prow¬
ess and negative behavior toward
women.
Athletes, as a group, form a
similar bond.
Sandler said additional prob¬
lems caused by fraternities espe¬
cially are that they sanction sexual
abuse, that the brothers are trained
to "cover" or lie for each other to
keep out of trouble, that they stere¬
otype women and view "gang
bangs" as part of their culture.
On the other side of the coin are
women who believe they could
never become victims of such a
crime.
"There are so many women so
frightened by the crime that they
have to distance themselves," San¬
dler said.
"They say, "Well everybody
knows fraternity parties are dan¬
gerous.' They say, I'm not stupid,
this will never happen to me."'
It does happen, however, and
Sandler said the victims are both
membership would help them date
more and that fraternity members
are more likely to have had sexual
experience," Kross said. *
Kross, however,-said that the
national Interfraternity Confer-
ence and«|fional chapters of som e
fraternities have become leaders
in rape education.
Sandler believes and said they
have a great deal of influence
among members.
VVe found that men   individual fra-
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m fraternities lived in bers are taking
a more sexualized steps as wdi.
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environment, that and s.gm«w.ch.
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Mary Kross ,hJ*Ja Egr
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Talking to Greeks about Acquain
tance Rape" last year.
The program involves manda¬
tory attendance by fraternities at
rape education seminars given by
other fraternity members.
Those who did not attend were
placed on a list given to sororities
whose members said they would
not hold parties with fraternities
on the list.
Christopher Flesoras said the
idea came about whew he served
as his fraternity's risk manager, a
position dealing with fraternity
insurance and other related mat¬
ters.
"We had information about fires
and earthquakes, but no one said
anything about rape," he said.
So he and brother Mike Fink
started their program. They
became well versed on the subject
through self-education and
reading books on how to conduct
date rape seminars.
"At least ifs showing that the
Greek system is doing something,''
he said.
Flesoras just transferred to Hel¬
lenic College in Boston where he
hopes to implement the same
program.
The IPC is offering programs to
fraternity chapters nationwide as
well.
In addition to the seminars,
Sandler said the only way to
prevent gang rape is to challenge
the attitudes of women Who think
they aren't vulnerable, of men who
watch or commit a gang rape and
of administrators who usually shy
away from the subject for fear of
bad publicity.
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