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The Battalion
Thursday, November^
Injured Phillips worker dies in hospital
PASADENA (AP) — A construction worker
hospitalized since the Oct. 23 explosion at the
Phillips Petroleum Co. plastics plant has died,
bringing the official death toll to 18 while crews
continued to search for five people who remain
missing.
The worker, who was employed by Fish Engi
neering and Construction Inc., died Tuesday
morning at Pasadena General Hospital, said Phil
lips spokesman Jere Smith. Fish Engineering is a
subcontractor for Phillips. The man’s name has
been withheld, pending notification of relatives,
a Fish spokesman said.
Meanwhile, two Phillips Petroleum Co. exec
utives have been asked to testify before a House
subcommittee in Washington about the deadly
explosion and fire.
Phillips President Glenn Cox and Bill Thomp
son, executive vice president of downstream op
erations, will testify Monday before the employ
ment and housing subcommittee.
Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., chairman of the
panel, told Phillips in a letter that the subcommit
tee will examine federal, corporate and labor:
spouses to the explosion at the plastics
Pasadena.
Smith said Cox and Thompson will discuss
company’s safety procedures.
Phillips officials believe flammable hydrow^V®
bon vapor from ethylene and isobutane gases:
taped from a leaking chemical reactor,
ing a series of explosions Oct. 23 at theplastl
[ >lant. But company officials have said they del
mow how the gases were ignited.
Date rape
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gust 1989, three rapes were re
ported to the University Police De
partment and all were either date or
aquaintance rape.
Date or aquaintance rape is de
fined as forced intercourse by some
one the victim knows without her
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Studies show in 65 percent of rape
cases, the victim has met or is famil
iar with the rapist, and 70 percent of
all rapes are planned ahead of time,
which unravels the myth that most
rapists are impulisive and motivated
by uncontrolled desires.
In the past two months UPD has
been made aware of three date or
aquaintance rapes. One of the
woman pressed charges and her case
is under investigation. The other
two women opted not to press
charges.
While it is the decision of the vic
tim, society sometimes determines
whether an individual will report the
rape and press charges.
Wiatt said it’s because of the myth
attributed to a date rape scenario.
“She feels guilty and thinks she
did something to bring it about,”
Wiatt said. “Often people say the girl
asked for it because she was being
coy and led him on, so the guy went
bonkers and attacked her. But the
fact is if a girl says ‘no’ and the guy
pursues — it’s rape. Nobody asks to
be raped. Saying ‘no’ is the one in-
grediant that constitutes rape. ”
Another reason Wiatt said many
victims won’t press charges is be
cause of the standardized fear of
going to court and possibly having to
talk about past sexual experiences.
True, in court the defense attor
ney’s often tend to be harsh, but
Wiatt said this shouldn’t deter any
victim from pressing charges be
cause “the facts will speak, for them
selves in the end.”
If a victim does take it to court,
she has to prove the defendant is
f uilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
ince rarely there are eyewitnesses
to rape, as much evidence as possible
has to be gathered.
It’s critical for a rape victim to go
straight to the hospital for an exami
nation to get proper evidence, while
the victim also should tell someone
immediately so their statement can
be used in court.
Wiatt cited another reason many
woman don’t report a rape because
“they don’t like it to be known that
they were ‘suckers’ — this is plain ri
diculous.”
They classify themselves as ‘suck
ers’ because they knew the rapist, as
opposed to stranger rape.
Stranger rape gets less flack from
society because there’s no association
and the person became an unknow
ing victim, Wiatt said.
“Well, in date and aquaintance
rape it’s just as wrong and just as
painful — if not even more trauma
tic.”
Kretzschmar said violence is used
more often in stranger rape than in
date rape, while “the rapist per
suades and manipulates the
relationship that had already been
established — he exploits her trust.”
Dr. Charlene Muehlenhard, a for
mer A&M pyschology professor,
said in a March 1987 issue of The
Battalion if a woman says no, a guy
might not believe her even if she
tries to fight him off because of tra
dition says a woman will never say
yes to sex, but instead must be talked
or forced into it.
“Thus the man often doesn’t be
lieve it was rape — even afterwards,”
Muehlenhard said. “Men are more
likely to think, ‘I can tell she wants to
have sex.’ Men feel women can’t ad
mit it when they want sex so they
force it out of them.”
A pamphlet distributed by Stu
dent Affairs furthers Muehlenhard’s
point in citing that an Auburn Uni
versity survey reported that when
women were asked if they had been
raped, only three or four percent
said yes. But when asked if they had
ever been forced to have sex against
their will, 20 percent said yes.
Wiatt said it’s often hard to draw
the line between date rape and con-
centual sex.
Sometimes a person screams rape
after the incident and the situation
becomes one person’s word against
the other — those are the tough
ones.
All rape cases are tough ones,
Wiatt said, because with each case
there’s a different victim, a different
rapist, different circumstances and
different reactions.
But each time the results are the
same — the culprit has stolen some
thing from the victim that can never
be retrieved, Wiatt said. The scars
left within are deep and painful,
while the memory is vivid and long.
It’s not likely the rapists face could
ever be erased f rom a victim’s mem
ory, and in the case of date rape, the
victim has to cope with the fact that it
was once a face she might have
trusted.
Wiatt, who has worked with the
Brazos Country Rape Crisis Center
since its beginning in 1983 and
served as president for three years,
said a date rapist is an opportunist
and the best defense is to take all the
opportunities away by reducing vul
nerability in the situation.
“Women should realize they don’t
owe a guy a thing if he takes her out,
and just because she may kiss him
doesn’t give him any right to expect
anything more,” Wiatt said.
“But the woman has to be asser
tive, she has to lx* forceful when she
says no,” he said. “If that doesn't
stop him, she should scream ‘fire’ or
do something to catch the predator
off guard, and if she can, she should
aim for the groin area or eyes.”
Authorities recommend to passi
vely resist until you can actively re
sist.
Dub Oliver, a graduate assistant
who works with Student Affairs and
gives seminars on date rape two or
three times monthly, said they pre
ach prevention and protection hop
ing tney’re being heard.
“Too often a student has a false
concept of the environment they’re
in — they think it’s completely safe,”
he said. “We’re here to tell them it’s
not. Texas A&M is no different
from anywhere else and is not
exempt from crimes like date rape.”
The penalties for such a crime
have been accused of not being
harsh enough.
Sexual assault is a second-degree
felony carrying a punishment of two
to 20 years in jail and/or a $10,000
fine. Aggrevated sexual assault is a
first degree felony, bringing with it
no less than five years and up to 99
years in prison.
The district attorney’s office said
although few offenders spend a ma
jority of their sentences in jail, that
shouldn’t stop someone from re-
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porting the crime. They onlvs
court with the cases they carm|
If a student doesn’t wantio?
criminal charges, there's
routes.
While the Brazos County
Crisis Center encourages victinl
report rape, one of their main;
poses is to act as a support!
the heeling process.
If the sexual assault is behl
two siudents, the date rapeoxl
he handled by A&M.
Dr. Brent Pal erson, judicial
f airs supervisor, said on campul
legal system lor date rape is c
ent.
“First, I’m the only [jersonij
hears the case,” Paterson said.'
victim must submit a staten
me telling what happened;
they want to go tbrought thedis
nary process. I review the infon
tion to see if there will beeno
a case.
The next step involves
charges, where it is stated wh
defendant is charged with,andi
is sent to the defendent. ThesM
has an administration confen
with Paterson to review theevi
about the case, then he hearstl
fendant’s case.
"If the stories are differeoij
said, “the victim and the defes!
meet with me, and depending,
case, the accused could bt
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Then the student can appeals
sired."
But tex) oft en none of these;
sure are taken l)ecause a victim*
report the crime, for whatevcl
reason.
Instead, sometimes the victiitJ
a friend, who in turn will relat j
other friends.
Wiatt said this is what leads;
students to get the idea that,
they don’t read about the assail
the newspaper, the police, the I
versity administration and even J
newspaper are trying to “covej
assaults to protect A&M’sreputl
— this just isn’t true.
“We want public awarein
Wiatt said. “We want everyom
know it happens at A&M,
would guess it happens nearlve
day in College Station, but slat
won’t ever show this.”
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