February 14,1991
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WHEN LOVE HURTS...
A Symposium on Relationship Violence
February 14-21,1991
Thursday
Feb. 14 Relationship Violence Awareness Fair
Scott Plaza College Coffee
Join members of the symposium planning staff for a look at audiovisual and written resources dealing
with relationship violence. PostCTS and other educational materials will be distributed.
Friday
Feb. 15 Poster Campaign Begins
Look around you! Posters addressing relationship violence will begin to "crop up." Take a few minutes to
"stop and read the posters."
Tuesday
Feb. 19 Jacquelyn White, "Acquaintance Rape
Among Students: A Hidden Epidemic?"
Fine Arts Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Dr, White, a professor of social psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is an
auth(Mity on acquaintance rape. Her research has focused on date rape on the college campus.
Wednesday
Feb. 20 Ruth Pugh, facilitator, "Campus and
Community Resources."
Isabella Cannon Room, 4:00 p.m.
Ms. Pugh, coordinator for counseling services, will coordinate representatives from campus and
community agencies that deal with acts of relationship violence. The participants will share information,
distribute literature and address individual questions. Agencies scheduled to attend arc the following: Rape
Crisis Center, Family Abuse Services, Alamance/Caswell Mental Health, Alamance Memorial Emergency
Services, Elon College Department of Campus Security, Burlington Police Department, Elon College
Police, Alamance County District Attorney’s Office, Elon College Counseling Services, Residence Life
and the Chaplain's office.
Gary Ander, "An Intervention Strategy
to Stop Relationship Violence"
Fine Arts Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Mr. Ander, community services consultant with the Alamance-Caswell Mental Health/Developmental
Disabilities/Substance Abuse Center, conducts re-education groups with perpemitors of relationship
violence.
Thursday
Feb. 21 Ruth Pugh, "Signs and Symptoms:
Recognition and Referral"
Isabella Cannon Room, 4:00 p.m.
Ms. Pugh will conduct an information and training session for faculty. The focus will be two-part. First,
the session will inform faculty of behavior that may signal a student is experiencing or has experienced an
act of relationship violence. Second, the session will provide faculty with concrete steps for responding to
a student who reports that he or she is a victim of relationship violence, including referral resources.
Residence Hall Discussion Groups
Carolina Lounge, West Lounge, Harper
Center Lounge, and Jordan Center
Lounge. 7:30 p.m.
These sessions will focus on answering student questions about relationship violence. The sessions will
be facilitated by members of the residence life staff and community resource persons.
The Relationship Violence Symposium is sponsored by the Department of Psychology, Residence Life, and the
Elon College Counseling Services. Financial support is provided by the office of student affairs, the office of
academic affairs, and contributions made to the college in the name of the late Mr, Leland Atldns. , . »
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White to speak on
acquaintance rape
Deborah Durkee
The Pendulum
Acquamtance rape (x date rape
is the subject of a f^rank analysis
by Jacquelyn White on Tuesday,
Feb. 19, at the Fine Arts Theatre
at 7:30 p.m.
White, who is Professor of
Psychology at University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, has been
doing human aggression research
with a strong focus on gender
issues. She has been conducting a
five-year study funded by the
National Institute of Mental
Health.
"Acquaintance rape is the
situation where a woman is forced
into sexual intercourse by
someone who is known to her,"
White said.
White said that acquaintance
rape does not have to be violent.
She said a whole range of
behaviors exist where sex is not
consensual. The behaviors can
range from mild forms of verbal or
physical intimidation to stronger
forms, from verbal threats of
violence to force.
In acquaintance rape there arc
not usually any broken bones or
severe beatings. White said. The
woman knows and trusts the
person who just overwhelms her.
Acquaintance rape is not
normally reported as a crime. Half
the victims never tell anybody.
White said. Some victims tell a
friend, only four to five percent
report it to the police she said.
Acquaintance rape happens
quite often. White sees the reason
for this as "An unfortunate
consequence of the whole
dating/sexual scripts that men and
women learn."
Men are supposed to be the
initiator of sexual relations and are
taught not to take no for an
answer. White said. Women arc
supposed to be coy and passive.
"Men begin to feel they arc
entitled to have sex," White said.
She said that society needs to help
men learn that just because a
woman is friendly does not give
them rights to take advantages.
White said a great deal of
education is needed. "Most
important is for men and women
to define and be clear about what
their sexual intentions are," White
said.
Ander focuses on
relationship violence
Darren Benfer
The Pendulum
Gary Ander, from Alaniance-
Caswell Mental Health,
Developmental Disabilities and
Substance Abuse Services will
speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Fine
Arts Theater, on Wednesday, Feb.
20.
Ander’s discussion, "An
Intervention Strategy to Stop
Relationship Violence," is part
of the symposium on violence in
relationships. He will speak from
7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and a
question and answer session will
follow at 8:40 p.m. in the Isabella
Cannon room.
Ander is originally from
Chicago and did his undergraduate
studies at> Western Illinois
University. He receiyed His
Masters degree in counseling at
California State University at
Fullerton.
Ander will cover his treatment
program, "Alternatives", for men
who have been physically abusive
to their partners. The program, in
cooperation with the local District
Attorney's office, gives fu-st time
abusers of women the option to
attend rehabilitating classes rather
than face sentencing.
"There has been, and
continues to be, ongoing violence
in some relationships," Ander
said. He said physical abuse, like
many other social issues, is now
coming out of the closet. "What
I'm going to do is talk about a lot
of socially sanctioned attitudes
that allow abuse to continue."
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