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* talion/p^ mbentl etc. Battalion/Page 5 September 10, 1982 l K a p e continued from page 1) c h >ur 4, “They are looking for some- c * ce i, lie to dominate,” he said. “In ‘d fue^at ^ense, sex is not very impor- P tnt as a motive.” ’’d launc “Rape is aggression expressed le test, xually,” he said.“It is not sex •.pressed aggressively. They’re °ga rodterdominance, not sex.” teofSjiv The offender who rapes be- oiuse he wants to dominate utnped "obably has had a conflict with r intospie or more of his parents dur- anddrcghis youth, is angry, confused ng Jid has psychological problems, my grouch said. the end These offenders may assault ie victim several times over a ;riod of three or four hours, or d aid, the victim captive over a edcend, Crouch said. The lance that the rapist and victim e acquainted is slight, he said, id the degree of force is likely matched > be great. . All hough many rapes are not ,—1,1/■nrted. Crouch said the num- ( ,,;|‘" Jris increasing. He attributed iii trend to a changed attitude in sex roles. “The general independence of women has led the women to feel they do have rights and if they are violated, then they ought not to suffer in silence,” he said. Rape counseling is easier now, he said, because the woman doesn’t have to feel tainted in the eyes of society. Although she never had counseling, Liz recommends it. “There’s no use for anybody to carry around that load of guilt and feel like a ‘bad girl’,” she said. Hope said women who re ceive counseling will recover from the ordeal easier. “It’s an incredibly traumatic experience,” Hope said. “And somebody who is trained in helping them through that kind of trauma can certainly help.” Methods of counseling are ta ilored to a woman’s needs and lasts only as long as a victim needs it, she said. “Some women just need sup- IC10USC provinjl Now you. know ck's; kL United Press International The largest single cell ever to taujist on earth had a volume of of fi&gallons and a length of up to MWtBches. What was it? The egg : a now-extinct elephant bird, - jgger even then the largest sown dinosour egg. The shells ere once used as jugs by natives F Madagascar. ey, 53. Mi a ait ■; j United Press International Quasars perplex astrophysi- arrersts)! because they blaze forth ationc om lo 1.000 times as much vvercr^fSy as a galaxy does from a ti 0 n a , :gipn with a diameter 100,000 a f ter pines smaller. In its lifetime, a pical quasar gives out as much iere H - idiation as it would if it com- letely converted the mass of 10 m a „ : iillion sums of energy. he chant' e we'd a ■».' proving hL aninaisT United Press International Where you live affects how fast your eyesight will deterio rate from age. A recent study found that people in warmer countries develop age-related farsightedness earlier than those who endure a colder clime. Apparently the tempera ture of the eye lens is not well maintained by the body, but is highly influenced by the exter nal environment. Thus heat may somehow cause changes in the lens that lead to farsighted ness. United Press International Women have a greater natu ral life expectancy than men, but to offset this more males than females are born. port and a person to listen,” Hope said. “Some women need help in structuring their lives again, and some women may need something else.” “We try to let them know psychologically what’s happen ing to them,” she said, “and to let them know they’re going to have some reactions which intellec tually may seem very unneces sary to them.” A common reaction of victims is a feeling of paranoia about their safety and that women are easily startled for a period of time after the rape, she said. “Some women are basically in a state of shock —just ’numbed- out’ to everything,” she said. “Some women, on the other hand, are able to talk about their anxiety freely.” The primary feeling is being overwhelmed by everything at once — fear, guilt and shame, she said. “They feel very frightened, and legitimately so,” Hope said. “They’ve had to come face to face with the fact that this is not something which happens to somebody else. There is a true loss of an easy sense of security. For some women it never comes back and for some it does.” Counselors also will meet with a victim’s family, boyfriend, hus band or friends and explain to them what the woman is going through, Hope said. The Personal Counseling Service in the YMCA Building counsels the victim’s family in 25 percent of the cases, she said. Liz said her husband was sympathetic when she told him about the rape. He was the first person she told after keeping it a secret for 13 years. The Personal Counseling Service is designed for Universi ty students. Non-students who call the service are referred to such community agencies as the Mental Health-Mental Retarda tion center, private practitioners in the mental health fields and educational psychology services on campus. Ruffino currently is complet ing plans for a rape crisis center. She d I think they will come through and accept the counsel ing knowing that the end result is that they don’t have to go to court if they don’t want to,” she said. “Giving her that option will take a great burden and press ure off her.” Hope said it is important for the woman to have medical as well as psychological interven tion because of the possibility of C regnancy, venereal desease, ruises and broken bones. This care is available on campus through the Beutel Health Cen ter or at any local hospital, she said. Because of the way rape is viewed by the legal system. broken bones and bruises rather than psychological dam age — are too often what classi fies a rape as brutal, she said. “You almost get the impress ion that the best rape victim tes timony comes from a dead vic tim,” she said. “She’s somehow got a cleaner case because she has more cuts and bruises or black eyes.” But, “Every rape is pretty brutal,” Hope said. 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