| Show Student Life Monday January 23 1978 of Logan rape crisis center sought Establishment "riter b to Mcki Barker Thecrv of a meeting itwis staff rape drew sympathizers last week to discuss establishment of a rape center in Ugan eight USU the meeting -- students volun-iperecommittee on force task a as serve to of the rape crisis They will raiblich awareness for a rape education he making arrangements ssociated Women nresentation one dav of Week Feb 21 24 at USU Students Women s a list was drawn up of In other actnitv be will appioached to serve on a nersons who a grassroots advocacy" second task font ommunitv Several membrepresentative of the to be contacted ers of the group present asked At d c service task will be to determine what services would require of a rape crisis the commumtv lfic goals program and to set s(ec Citv Police In a letter read to the group Ixigan said the police deDetective Richard Wright some form of support s stem partment feels that sorelv needed to provide for rape victimes is emotional legal and phvsn al help who conducted the meeting Debbie W'ingert at least 15 rapes quoted Wright as saving that went unreported the past &ur quarters at USU half to Foreverv rape reported three-and-- a Salt Watters ( said hrist occur nine actually In Utah s Lake City s rape crisis n nter director 81 hours she said capital one rape occurs everv while across the nation 5o 000 rapes occur everv (or this Their ten minutes “A woman 20 chance of being vears old has an percent raped Ik fore the age of 70 Watters said adding that in this country rape increased 165 percent in the past 14 years Watters reported that Salt lake's 32 trained crisis center counselors handled 187 immediate rapes Their 80 records go back two New years in February Uni-versi- " he said but on appreciates having Utah groups clubs or organizations the whole the citv 3 physical health emergency personnel are cooperative and understanding She said utmost confidentiality is exercised in handling of rape cases It’s all very quiet In fact so quiet I may c ome in the morning and never know what happened " The woman's name is never given and the test records and doctor's counsel is put in sealed envelopes and filed immediately Hodges said She said that unfortunately the victim does have to pay the bill — $11 for emergency room and $5 for the vaginal exam Vicki Coleman minority student coordinator at USU is a resident of the Triad complex where the last reported Ixigan rape occurred I m so afraid that somebody’s watching me and I m getting paranoid” she said expressing the sentiments of their Triad residents present c c&SUSU fMONI! c i w omc n It is a problt m of society Watters said In addition to guilt and shame she said rape incidents go unieported because of fear of the rapist threat of death and fear of mistreat- ment in the police and medical processing Linda Hodges director of the Ixigan City Hospital emergency room said that though the examination procedure for rape is geared for Logan mayor discusses moved goals from Delafield Wisconsin Nickel (Continued from page 1) State she said when the center was established bv a group of ommunitv people The Unitarian Church pic ked up the tub for the telephone bill she added Watters said Ogden s rec entlv established rape crisis center was formed bv the Young Women s ( hnstiun ssoc lotion there Provo s program operates through the Timpanogas Mental Health genc and Brigham Young crisis line She said a commumtv Response to rape is the most cliff ic ult thing to asc ertain and added that she was excited to see a large turnout for this meeting I’heiewere 11 people present I think if the there awaieness were there mav be males willing to do some things to help" loin Parker a USU instruc tor and one of three males present said He said a lot of the problem in finding funding sources for rape counseling programs is that men ontrol the purse strings Parker suggested aiming an educational awareness program specifically at males since thev often are the ones who actually prevent women from rt porting rape out of guilt or shame It has been fit lpfnl to us when males are It has worked out involved W itt rs agreed bt tter when the an deal with other males in the strut ture siu ha- - polu e and doc tors Watters sntl a group called Men Against Rape has formed in salt Dike in an effort to combat this irime which thev feel does not affect only Page who four vears ago and literally walked the streets of Ix)gan during his campaign said he likes new adventures and the challenge of the office of mav or and that s what made him take the job H OPENINGS AVAILABLE FSELF DEFENSE THE FOLLOWING: j MEMORY DYNAMICS! 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