PAGE 8 — THE DECREE — NOVEMBER 8,1991
SNCAE
conducts
conference
The Student North Carolina
Association of Educators held its
fall conference in Raleigh Sq)t.
20-21, attended by from various
colleges, including a delegation
Wesleyan.
Wesleyan was represented by
NCWC SNCAE President KeUy
Best, chapter vice president
Kristie Warren, chapter secretary
Christy Wood, Faye Heustess,
Michael and Ella Hawkins, Debra
Crites, Debra Brame, and ch£^ter
advisor Janice Heming.
Brian Kirby of Appalachian
State University, SNCAE state
president, presided over the con
ference, which provided sessions
on current issues concerning
education for prospective teach
ers.
Topics of discussion included
discipline, leadership, teachers
and the law, and how to make
SNCAE a better organization by
offering support and information
to students interested in the
teaching profession.
Ella Hawkins of the NCWC
chapter was recognized as a re
cipient of the Mary Morrow
Scholarship for 1991.
Those who attended enjoyed
local accommodations at the
Radisson Hotel in Raleigh.
Another SNCAE conference
will be held in the spring semes
ter.
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WESLEYAN DELEGATION — Attending the FaU Conference of the Student North Carolina
Association of Educators from Wesleyan were (from left) Kelly Best, Christy Wood, Kristie Warren,
Debra Brame, Faye Heustess, Michael Hawkins, Ella Hawkins, and Debra Crites.
Date rapists seeking power
By AMY REYNOLDS
Maybe you know him.
He’s one of those guys who
has no respect for women — in
relationships, one of the partners
has to lose, he says. He’s a hedo
nist, known for his sexual prow
ess. Monogamy is not in his vo
cabulary. His friends support his
sexual conquests — indeed, they
are usually like him, discussing
the latest encounter in the locker
room or before class.
Wesleyan volunteers
assist with PIT Stop
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Tutor Russell Hanison agrees
that the problem will be benefi
cial. “If we can just help one kid
stay in school, then it is well worth
it,” he said.
CIS teacher Susan Littke also
thinks that this help and encour
agement is essential in keeping
students in school.
“Kids need to realize that there
is another world out there,’ she
says. “Everything is a possibil
ity; you just have to work for it.”
The N.C. Department of Pub
lic Instruction predicts that more
than one third of North Carolina’s
high school freshmen will not stay
in school to graduate. With such
alarming figures becoming a re
ality, the CIS dropout prevention
program welcomed Wesleyan’s
efforts to get involved.
‘This is really an essential part
of our program,” said Willing
ham. “It gives (the students) ex
posure to what college is about,
encouraging them to continue
their education.”
Many Wesleyan students are
involved, but more help is needed.
Says third-year Fellow Renee
M^ard, “We are a vital part of
the CIS program that is much
needed in Rocky Mount.” But she
adds that more tutors are needed
to keep the program going.
To volunteer, contact Michael
Sanseviro, director of the
Johnston Fellows program, in the
Student Development Center. It
only takes an hour a week in the
PIT Stop to help students “refuel”
and make a difference.
He’s macho. He’s a guy who
likes power, who craves danger,
who is aggressive. He sometimes
picks fights. He often drinks al
cohol and uses other drugs. He
has little respect for society.
“These are the ones that are
the pathogens, that may drop out
of school, beat their wives and
kids, and abuse substances,” says
Barry Burkhart. ‘These are the
men committing 90 percent of the
crimes.”
The crimes are sexual assaults
on college campuses — date and
gang rapes.
Burkhart knows all about the
men who commit these crimes
— he is a professor of psychology
at Auburn University who is na
tionally recognized for his re
search on the characteristics of
sexual aggression.
“Men who rape aren’t raping
for sex,” Burkhart says. “It’s a
pseudo-sexual act expressing
power and anger. Rapist don’t
rape for sex like alcoholics don’t
drink because they’re thirsty.”
Burkhart says studies show a
strong relationship between men
on college campuses who commit
date rape and those in prison for
rape.
“The primary difference be
tween hidden and regular rapists
is a difference of degree and re
lationship,” he says. ‘The surest
way to get caught is to rape a
stranger. Men who offend in a
courtship situation are rarely
caught.”
Rapists show violence and
anger, and express the need for
power and domination. They
perceive women as adversaries,
so they fuse their aggressions with
sex.
“Men as part of the masculine
sex role are encouraged to be
sexually demanding,” Burkhart
says. “But half of all men don’t
pinch, fondle, or rape — there
are cultwal factors, there are in
hibiting factors.”
Burkhart says that the college
men who say they had sex with a
woman against her will come
primarily from higher socio-eco
nomic classes. Because they be
lieve in rape myths — like “Nice
girls don’t get raped” or “She
wanted it” — they don’t see their
acts as wrong.
“They say they did it to get
laid, but the real meaning of sex
to them is power, anger, and
domination,” Burkhart says.
Other experts agree and say
they are disturbed by trends of
related anti-women beliefs held
by a growing number of men in
college.
Maiy Koss, a psychology and
psychiatry professor at the Uni
versity of Arizona, recenfly con
ducted a survey of 600 students
enrolled in a “psych 101” class.
“We found high levels of hos
tility and anger toward women.
Two-thirds of the men say that
women routinely tease and 40
percent say that women lie,” Koss
says.
“With these kinds of figures,”
she adds, “it is easy to see why
these men do not empathize.”
Tuitions up
at greatest
rate in years
Undergraduate students at
public colleges and universities
are paying the biggest tuition and
fee increases in eight years, an
annual survey shows.
The College Board reported
Oct. 16 that an in-state student at
a four-year, public institution paid
an average of 12 percent more in
academic year 1990-91 — to a
total of $2,137 in tuition in fees.
Those figures don’t include room
and board.
The cost of education at a
public two-year school rose by
13 percent, or $1,022, and a stu
dent at a four-year private school
paid seven percent more, or
$10,017.
College Board officials blamed
the increase, the highest since
1983, on tough economic times.
“The current recession has had
an impact on all sectors of edu
cation, public and private,” said
Donald Stewart, president of the
College board. “Although we
haven’t seen double-digit in
creases for public institutions
since 1983, many people expected
them this year because of the
widely publicized cuts in state
budgets.
“Ironically, the nation is cut
ting funds for higher education at
a time when its need for a well-
educated work force is growing,”
he said. “At some point we must
realize that such cuts are short
sighted and counteiproductive.”
One of the biggest increases
took place in the University of
California system, where tuition
rose by 40 percent. The Univer
sity of Oregon raised tuition by
nearly one-third.
Richard Rosser, president of
the National Association of In
dependent Colleges and Univer
sities, noted that money problems
are nothing new to private
schools, which don’t have the
taxpayer subsidy that public in
stitutions have.
“The financial problems now
being faced by state institutions
are ones that private colleges and
universities have been trying to
deal with for years,” Rosser said.
“Above all, as state governments
face tight budget consuaints they
should give top priority to funding
programs that provide financial
assistance to students so that an
individual can make a true choice
between a private or public insti
tution, based on fulfilling educa
tional aspirations and not on
price.”