Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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sexual responsibility among themselves and were more likely to attend programs including women. Part of the problem has been approaching men and finding a way to get them to a program on this topic without them coming in already defensive, she said. Freshman orientation was the best time to address campus date rape, Davis said, students were not yet at college and their parents often came along. If you put this discussion in the middle of orientation, that says not that the Women ' s Resource Center is interested in this, but that is interested, Davis said. That invokes all that power and credibility of Anderson Hall. Housing staffs also spoke to parents about campus security, Proite said. It isn ' t always the big, bad bully that students have to look out for or the dark behind the bushes, Proite said. There are other ways of being hurt. Providing straightforward about date rape was essential for incoming students, Davis said, they were trusting and anxious to be accepted. Many women come here never contemplating the possibility that anybody would betray them t hat way, she said. Nicole quietly left K-State for her hometown after was convicted of raping her. Nearly a year later, few students still recognized his name. Updates on the case five times in the but mostly in the Briefly section during the summer. Date rape was still an uncomfortable and confusing issue. It ' s still such a quiet issue, Proite said. It ' s not like the hysteria evoked when somebody has been raped by a stranger. (Photo illustration by Scott Boyd)

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STRANGER (Continued from page 22) the individual, Proite said. Then we take them by the hand to Judy (Davis), because Judy is just so good it doesn ' t make sense (not to see her). When rape victims came to Davis, she first inquired about the woman ' s well-being and tried to judge how comfortable and stable she was. Next Davis tried to establish trust by assuring the victim she didn ' t have to say anything, but if she did it would remain confidential. I try to affirm what I know they ' re feeling, she said. I give them to hurt and be angry. I try to alert them to what some of their needs are going to be so they ' ll forgive themselves for being an insomniac or not being able to concentrate. Though reports were low, Davis estimated date rape here was very high. It ' s foolish for us to just because it ' s our students are less at risk than students from any other institute of higher to be raped or to commit a rape, she said. Rape victims at K-State who chose to take action could either go to the campus police or invoke the University ' s Prohibiting Sexual Violence. The policy stated, No form of sexual violence will be or condoned at Kansas State University. This policy thus prohibits not only those acts commonly understood to constitute ' sexual assault, ' but all attempts to coerce activity as well. Under the policy, an assaulted student had to file a complaint with the Dean of Student Life ' s Office; it did not have to be written. The dean then convened a review panel consisting of faculty and to interview both parties and decide if the policy had been violated. In effect for just a year, the policy helped Nicole take action against Davenport and get him dismissed from school. However, Davis said he was also on his way out of academic trouble. The policy was a long time in the works, Davis said. And then we finally get an to use it and ... it worked. Things happened as they ought to have happened. Only a handful of universities had such a policy. Davis said it gave her something to use when giving rape prevention programs. It ' s one thing to talk to them in a meeting about acquaintance rape as a crime, she said. It ' s another thing to be able to say, ' We know this goes on and we don ' t want it. Though Housing and Dining Services had presented rape prevention seminars in the past, the department no such programs this year. Proite said this was because none of the residence hall staffs had been trained in rape education. However, even when programs were given they usually focused on women ' s in prevention even though men were the Proite and Davis agreed that targeting men in rape education was difficult. Rape is not a women ' s problem. It ' s men ' s problem and they ' ve got to stop it, Davis said. If I go talk to a fraternity house or a men ' s hall ... it sort of feeds on this notion that rape is a woman ' s responsibility. Proite said men were uncomfortable talking about Acquaintance Rape Statistics Ms. Magazine ' s Campus Project on Sexual Assault (1985) randomly surveyed students at 32 U.S. colleges. Here are some of the results. Out of 3,187 college women surveyed: 15.3 percent had been raped 11.8 percent were victims of attempted rape Rape Victims Only 5 percent reported their rapes to police 42 percent told no one 41 expected to be raped again Out of 2,971 college men surveyed: 187 had raped a woman 157 had attempted rape Rapists 85 percent knew their victims Over half the assaults occurred on dates 84 percent said what they did was definitely not rape, though by legal definition it was Source: Robin Warshaw. I Never Called it Rape, 1988. ERIN PERRY STAFF 24 DATE RAPE

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Union Station ' s electrical wiring system gets finishing touches from Steve Hemphill, Wamego. A three-day program of activities kicked off the Union ' s newest social offering. (Photo by J. Kyle Wyatt) Outside the main room of Union Station, Anneliese Snyder, executive director of Smith Scholarship Hall, chats with Brian Mulch, graduate student in regional and community planning. The non-alcoholic bar had its grand opening in January. (Photo by J. Kyle Wyatt) 26 UNION STATION