To prevent rape
Esc oris to be kirn
Tuesday, September 8, 1981The Daily Tar Heel3
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By KEN MINGIS
DTH Staff Writer
Books in hand, a blond woman steps
out of Wilson Library. It is past midnight..
Thoughts of rape or assaujt anger her as
she steps into the dark. "I'm being silly,"
she thinks.
She avoids the arboretum as she heads
for the dorm, just to be safe. The U-bus
goes by, empty. "One block ahead, turn
the corner and I'm home," she tells her
self. As she passes some bushes, a man
steps out and watches her. She dashes
through the doorway into the lighted hall.
Safe.
Beginning Wednesday this type of scene
need never take place. Any woman on
campus who wants someone to walk with
her back to her dorm will be provided a
screened escort, said Steve White, direc
tor of the Rape and Assault Prevention
Escort service.
R.A.P.E., which provides volunteer
escorts through a phone-in system, is
scheduled to operate 7 p.m.-l a.m. Sun
day through Thursday, 7-11 p.m. Fridays
and 7-9 p.m. Saturday. The service, which
operates out of the Olde Campus office in
Mangum Residence Hall, uses 933-7602
as its call-in number.
If a woman knows she will need an es
cort at a certain time when she will not be
near a phone, she can call the office be
tween 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. to arrange for
one ahead of time.
White and Ed Piskura, assistant direc
tor of R.A.P.E., stressed the safety of the
program. All volunteers are carefully
screened and are required to carry a UNC
ID card while on duty.
"When an escort arrives, he introduces
himself to the girl," Piskura said. "He
should know her name, and will have his
UNC ID with him. That way, if the girl
still feels a little leery, she can ask him for
his ID.
"We're stressing that these guys will
have their ID," he said. "They won't be
hurt if they're asked to show it."
After the escort finishes walking the
woman home, he calls the office so the
desk operator will know there have been
no problems, Piskura said. "Then he's
ready to go again."
More than 300 residents of Olde Cam
pus are involved in the service, White
said. "The screening process we have is
pretty thorough too.
"Dorm coordinators go around to peo
ple they know in each dorm and sign up
residents for one-hour time slots," he
said. The list of potential escorts then
goes to dorm resident assistants, who
look it over. If the RAs do not see any
problem people on the list, it is passed on
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to White and Piskura for a third check.
"We've never had one iota of a pro-,
blem with any of the escorts," Piskura
said. "We don't anticipate any this
year."
Piskura said R.A.P.E. was set up in
February 1980 to correct a problem that .
somehow needed to be addressed as
saults on campus. "The first year alone,
we handled 1,000 calls. It's basically pre
ventive medicine; it can never be used too
much.
"Basically, all a girl has to do is give us
a call, let us know who she is, where she is
and where she wants to go," Piskura
said.
By DAVID McHUGH
DTH Staff Writer
The School of Journalism recently
tightened its admissions requirements to
deal with a rising number of applicants
with substandard ' writing skills, Dean
Richard R. Cole said last week.
. The new policy raises the minimum
quality-point average needed for admis
sion to the school from 1.75 to 2.0 and
requires new applicants to complete
English 30, Expository Writing, with a
"C" or better or to pass the School of
Journalism's Diagnostic Writing Exam.
The new requirements take effect in
January.
Cole said the DWE, which requires
students to write about a familiar subject,
should detect writing problems so that
they could be remedied before a student
takes writing courses.
"If they have a deficiency, they're just
going to get further and further behind,"
he said, adding that more students have
had problems with writing in recent years.
Cole said he felt that the problem was
not confined to journalism students. "It's
part of a general trend in American edu
cation. High-school English is not taught
the way it used to be.
"Students are no longer taught to dia
gram sentences, and spelling is no longer
taught phonetically. Language use has
been deteriorating for a while, overall,"
he said.
The main difficulties students have are
with grammar, spelling, usage and
jargon. "They use big words that they
don't understand," Cole said.
In addition to the new requirements,
students in the basic newswriting course
Journalism 53 must pass the
school's Spelling and Grammar Exami
nation, which is different from the DWE
and has long been a requirement for a
journalism degree. Since last spring, the
school has required that students failing
this test attend a weekly remedial session
popularly known as the "grammar slam
mer" until they can pass the test.
Instructor Kathy McAdams, who
teaches the .remedial section, said that
many problems with spelling and gram
mar were not serious and that most
"grammar slammer" student naed the
test after about four weeks Of language
drill.
"Journalism students are usually better
(at English) than students in other
schools. Many problems are things
they've just never been taught. When I
explain something, they say, 'Oh, I get
it,' " she said.
McAdams said she hoped that the new
requirements would help correct! such
problems early and reduce enrollment in
the "grammar slammer," though she did
not foresee abolishing it entirely.
Cole said the new requirements were
not an attempt to limit new admissions,
although there has been an increase in the
school's enrollment. An increase of about
70 undergraduates over the past year had
caused some , problems with crowded
classrooms, he said.
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and the military problems that would re
sult from fighting a country unified in its
opposition to the Soviets. The Poles would
fight an invasion "to the end, even if it
was a lost cause," he said.
The Lees said they were not apprehen
sive about living in a volatile country
where food is becoming scarcer by the day.
"I'm kind of stoic about it. You can get
very used to deprivation," Partick Lee,
said with a laugh.
Ewa Lee summarized their feelings. "We
will be witnessing such a frank period of
Polish history that we will forget we're
hungry."
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