“The Battalion
Serving the Texas A&M University community
Vol. 74No. 143
^ 12 Pages
Monday, April 27, 1981
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Parents of
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■ By GWEN HAM
M H Battalion Reporter
" Ernest and Virginia Jaska, parents of eight, were named
981 Parents of the Year during Sunday’s Texas A&M Univer-
J | E f ity Parent’s Day Ceremony.
£ § c jr "Wereally didn’t expect it,” Jaska, Class of’50, said during
o g - in interview. “We found out kind of by accident that the
3 a" jPP 05 nominated us last year. We suspected that they did
c ® □ q5 ^is year when we found out some friends had written
® ® a 5|3 Btters of recommendation. It’s a tremendous honor. When
^ j^y (their children) were younger we used to tell them to
^ 0 o * Member whose children they were. Now we’ve got to start
? a o jpembering whose parents we are.”
^ ^ "t 01 ® four of the eight Jaska children are Aggies — Mike, Class
® 3 JjitS; Bridget, Class of’81; Matt, Class of'82 and Lexa, Class
□ g- 3 B3. The Jaska children range in age from 18 to 28.
< E ® 8® I Raising eight kids sometimes was an adventure Mrs. Jaska
«' s'w 02 Ly
^ T“When one of them would catch some kind of virus or
Biething, all of them would get it, ” she said. “It seemed at
J les like the washing machine never stopped. ”
W Even though they were named Parents of the Year, Jaska
^ R they don’t have any magic formulas on how to be the
0 jeffect parent.
HUnfortunately there is very little training on how to be a
■ent,” Jaska said. “We have to go to driver’s education
Bses before we can get a driver’s license but you don’t have
^ I have anything to be a parent.”
8 honored
of the Year
Jaska wouldn’t offer any advice to parents.
“I’m sure there are parents that have done better,’’ he said.
“The only thing I’ll say, not as advice, is that we’ve had to
realize that each child is different. You can’t expect one to be
just like the others.
“There’s nothing in the world that could or would have
pleased us any more than this honor,” Jaska said.
Other Corps awards were presented during the Parent’s
Day ceremony in Rudder Auditorium:
— Outstanding Freshman: Bryan D. Terrel
— Outstanding Sophomore: Mike Holmes
— Best-drilled Freshman: Joseph Sandoval
— Best-drilled Sophomore: Joseph Cronnin
— Outstanding Major Unit C.O.: Bill Jones, First Brigade
— Outstanding Battalion/Group C.O.: Mark Retzloflf,
Third Group
— Outstanding Company C.O.: Sam Hawes, Co. A-l
— Outstanding First Sergeant: Scott Jordan, Co. D-l
— Outstanding Battalion/Group Sergeant Major: Mike
Thatcher, Fourth Battalion
— Outstanding Battalion: Fifth Battalion
— Outstanding Scholastic Outfit: Squadron 12
— Outstanding Military Achievement: Co. D-2
— Outstanding Outfit (General George F. Moore Award):
Co. D-l
See page 6 for pictures on Parent’s Day and other
related weekend events.
Riots spread in support
of ailing hunger striker
United Press International
BELFAST, Northern Ireland —
to M\d VeWiT boudAngs spread to
don in support of rapidly weakening
hunger striker Bobby Sands, and
tholic firebrand Bernadette Devlin
fcAliskey warned Britain if Sands dies
we will drive you to the boats.
Conservative MP Barry Porter, a
ily outspoken IRA opponent who re
ived the letter bomb which was de
ed, fumed: “They’re damned co
rds— rats from the sewers.”
Sands’ supporters said doctors keep-
a watch at Sands bedside, on the
Ith of his hungers strike, said the 27-
par-old “almost died” Saturday even-
gand told his family “to be by a tele-
lone at all times.”
Doctors told his family he is now
extremely weak. ’ He was reported to
Ik: down to 98 pounds.
Tin Belfast, about 20,000 people mar
ched through the Roman Catholic sec
tor of the riot-scarred city in Sunday’s
wintry weather to rally support for
Sands’ demands for political status for
IRA prisoners — a demand flatly turned
down by Britain, which now rules
Northern Ireland directly and has out
lawed the IRA.
“I say to mother England, if Bobby
Sands dies, the might of the people will
demonstrate you have forfeited any
right you ever had to govern Ireland; we
will drive you to the boats,” Mrs. McA-
liskey said in a rabble-rousing speech
that served as a chilling warning to Bri
tain.
She also warned the Irish republic, to
the south, that if Sands died the ruling
Fiana Fail Party “will never govern
again.”
“Victory for the prisoners and life to
Bobby Sands,” she declared to loud
cheers.
In London, police arrested 43 people
in two demonstrations by about 600
Sands’ supporters, who charged down a
shopping street in defiance of a ban on
marches. A handful also were arrested
outside Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher’s official Downing Street resi
dence.
In an ominous development, a mem
ber of Britain’s Parliament received a
letter bomb he believed came from sup
porters of the hunger striker. The de
vice was defused and police warned
public figures to look out for suspicious
packages in the mail.
At the head of Sunday’s Belfast de
monstration, carrying a cloth banner
declaring “Day 57 Hunger strike,” was
Sands’ sister Marcella. She was followed
by 400 women headscarfed against the
wintry weather — the mothers of IRA
convicts in jail.
After them came 40 barefoot mar
chers clad in blankets, representing the
IRA prisoners who refuse to wear
clothes or use toilet facilities in the cam
paign for political status, freedom from
prison work and the right not to wear
prison uniform.
Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets
Photo by Carolyn Cole
Don Mundy deals a mean hand of Black Jack at
Casino ’81 in the Memorial Student Center Fri
day night. He and his assistant, Beth Keen, both
participated in the event sponsored by the Resi
dence Hall Association. See page 6 for more
pictures on this weekend’s events.
Dallas’ patriarch dies at 65
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Jim Davis, the
/eteran movie and television actor
vho became internationally famous as
:he tough-talking family patriarch Jock
Ewing in TV’s “Dallas,” died Sunday
In his sleep. He was 65.
A family spokesman said Davis,
who was recovering from abdominal
iurgery performed late last month,
died at his Northridge home. His wife
of36 years, Blanche, was with him at
the time.
No cause of death was given.
The silver-haired actor made
dozens of movies and more than 300
television appearances during his long
career, but failed to attain stardom un
til he appeared in “Dallas” and the
Ewing oil dynasty became a national
obsession and an international hit.
Standing 6-foot-3 even without
cowboy boots or hat and talking in a
gruff, gravelly voice, Davis played the
perfect Texas patriarch presiding over
the back-stabbing, maritial infidelities
and empire-building of his quarrel
some clan — especially the evil J.R.
Ewing.
Before his “Dallas” days, however,
Davis was a veteran of more than 150
motion pictures, including “Winter
Meeting” with Bette Davis, “El Dora
do” and “Rio Lobo” with John Wayne,
“Last Command,” “Monty Walsh”
and “The Choirboys.”
He also starred in the television
series “Maisie” with Ann Sothern,
“Stories of the Century,” “Rescue 8”
and “The Cowboys.” He made hun
dreds of guest appearances on other
popular shows.
Davis was born in Edgerton, Mo.,
on Aug. 26, 1915, and attended Wil
liam Jewell College in Liberty, Mo.
He spent a year as a rigger with a
traveling tent circus and later became
a salesman for an oil company, a job
that eventually brought him to Cali
fornia and an acting career.
MSC Council meets tonight
The MSC Council, in its final meeting for the 1980-81 year,
will hear a progress report from the Committee for Awareness
of Mexican-American Cultures.
The Council will meet in Room 216T of the Student
Programs Office at 7:30 tonight.
The proposal, presented on March 30th, is seeking permis
sion from the Council to allow CAMAC to join a statewide
Mexican-American organization. The primary purpose of
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MECHA) is to
promote unity among Mexican-American students at several
universities.
The proposal also asks that CAMAC be allowed to host the
annual state convention of MECHA in November 1981.
President Doug Dedeker said the Council will also set
meeting dates for the summer. He said the Council plans to
make some minor revisions in the constitution and bylaws to
make some ad hoc committees permanent. These committees
include the Program Study Committee and the Financial
Study Committee.
Any constitutional revisions must be approved by two-
thirds of the Council’s voting members. They are then subject
to approval by the Dr. John J. Koldus III, vice president for
student services and Dr. Charles Samson, acting president of
Texas A&M University.
Dedeker said the Council will also decide the members of
the 11 standing committees. Some of these include the Nomi
nating Committee, which makes recommendations for Coun
cil officers; and the Budget Review Committee, which re
views all budget requests from the 19 Directorate commit
tees.
Screaming, fighting may increase danger to rape victim
Expert advocates psychological defense for rape
This is the first of a two-part Battalion series
j| on the problems of rape and sexual harassment
: in the Texas A&M-College Station community.
1 1 By MARY ANN HINNANT
Battalion Reporter
Telling a woman not to scream, struggle or try
Id use something as a weapon when she is being
Ittacked by a rapist might sound a bit ludicrous
>her. But she could be endangering her life by
loing so.
In afilm entitled “How to Say No to a Rapist
nd Survive,” Frederic Storaska, a self-
iroclaimed expert on rape, tells a group of col-
ege men and women that screaming and
ing a rapist are the most common reactions,
and believing that these methods are effective is
a giant myth.
Resisting or striking the attacker can have the
ipposite effect and may provoke a rapist to harm
foumore than he originally intended,” Storaska
«lls his audience.
“Have you ever thought of reacting calmly and
retending to go along with what the rapist
Wnts?” he asks. “Have you ever thought of
rying to defend yourself against a rapist psycho-
ogically?”
Like Storaska, self-defense practitioners in
he College Station-Bryan community believe
that reacting calmly and taking a rapist by sur-
Jrise might discourage him and change his mind
about going through with the assault.
“Assuming a rapist doesn’t have a weapon,
handling a rape situation psychologically can
really be very effective,” said Dr. Eric Deudon,
French professor at Texas A&M University and
self-defense instructor.
“The rapist is expecting terror and resist
ance,” Deudon said. “If you remove that ele-
“Have you ever thought of
reacting calmly and
pretending to go along with
what the rapist wants? Have
you ever thought of trying to
defend yourself against a
rapist psychologically?”
ment of terror which makes his actions so
pleasurable by acting calm or even sexually en
ticed, the rapist might be surprised to the point
that he won’t do anything. He might just walk
away or at least give you a chance to escape. ”
Although Storaska professes the psychological
self-defense over physical self-defense, he also
explains to his audience that no method is fool
proof. No two rapists are alike, and no two rape
situations will be the same. When psychological
self-defense doesn’t work, physical self-defense
may be the only method of protection.
Passive and active methods of self-defense are
explained in rape seminars given for the citizens
of College Station by College Station police de
tective Greg Leeth.
Passive resistance includes the psychological
self-defense of trying to talk the rapist out of
going through with the assault while constantly
looking for ways to escape.
“A rapist often needs to degrade his victim,”
Leeth said. “Passive resistance reduces the
chances of doing so by treating a rapist as a
person and responding to him unafraid.”
Active resistance is the use of physical force
against a rapist and includes anything from
screaming and struggling to trying to physically
harm him by kicking him in the genital area or
putting his eyes out.
“I can’t tell a woman exactly what to do if she is
attacked by a rapist,” Leeth said. All I can do is
explain the different methods of self-defense so
that she can decide which is the best method to
use in a given situation. ”
If physical self-defense is necessary, Storaska
claims a martial art would be the most effective
method. But because no one is willing to study a
martial art long enough to become an expert,
this cannot be practically applied in a rape or
mugging situation.
“It takes hundreds of hours of practice to be
come proficient in a martial art such as judo or
karate,” said Wiley Cunigan, who teaches basic
judo techniques in a self-defense class for
women in Bryan.
“I don’t promise to teach these women the art
of judo in 10 easy lessons,” Cunigan said. “But I
do encourage women who are serious about
learning how to defend themselves to continue
to learn a martial art after my course has ended. ”
Although Cunigan teaches judo as a self-
defense tactic, prevention is his first rule.
“I try to teach my students to avoid places
where an attack is most likely to occur,” he said.
“I feel as though I’ve really taught them some
thing if I’ve convinced them of that. ”
Deudon’s self-defense class, taught on the
Texas A&M campus, uses the techniques of a
lesser-known martial art, ju-jitsu.
“Ju-jitsu is not a flashy martial art,” Deudon
said. “Unlike judo or karate, it makes no claim of
deep philosophy, nor does it require or encour
age physical fitness or strength. Ju-jitsu devotes
itself entirely to the teaching of self-defense. ”
Dressed in street clothes, Deudon’s students
are taught his method of self-defense in parking
lots, elevators, hallways and other places where
a mugging or rape is most likely to occur.
“If he doesn’t have a weapon and psychologic
al self-defense doesn’t work, a woman can use
ju-jitsu effectively because it requires no physic
al strength.”
Using the attacker’s weight against himself,
the ju-jitsu techniques concentrate on painful
nerve areas. Very little effort is needed to sprain
or dislocate a joint or break a bone.
“Women are very good at ju-jitsu because
they are not tempted to use physical strength,”
Deudon said.
“Of course, this should be used only as a last
resort. A woman’s first reaction should be to
remain calm while constantly looking for a way to
escape. But even more important, she should
take preventative measures to never find herself
in a rape situation’” he said.
A rape prevention and awareness program
was presented to the women living in Spence
and Briggs dormitories this semester by area
coordinator John White, in conjunction with the
University Police. The program consisted of
Storaska’s film on rape and a question and
answer session conducted by Lt. Josie Hoels-
cher.
“Just because this is A&M, most girls have a
false sense of security,” White said. “Things do
happen on this campus, but no one really knows
the frequency.”