Guilford students and professor provide a new twist to the traditional Serendipity activity of
hoppin' in the sack.
Guilfornlian
Vol. LXV, No. 19
Rape: an ever-present problem
By Wendy Barkley
Rape is a crime of incredible
abuse, both physical and men
tal, a violation of the mind and
soul, capable of leaving emo
tional wounds which may never
totally heal. It is a crime that is
too often misunderstood. So
many women have been raped
or sexually abused, and many
more will be. (According to the
Rape Crisis Center, in Greens
boro, reported rape and attem
pted rape increased 35% from
1979 to 1980.) Victims of rape
come from all racial, ethnic,
and social backgrounds; they
are of all ages. Women are
raped by strangers as well as by
acquaintences, such as cowor
kers, bosses, boyfriends, or
people who are somewhat fa
miliar to the victim.
Rape of a woman by an
acquaintence ' is termed,
simply, acquaintence rape. Of
all the rapes committed,
acquaintence rapes account for
an overwhelming number. Ac
cording to Janet Bode in her
book, Fighting Back , 60% of
the teenage victims were at
least vaguely acquainted with
their assailant, 40% of the adult
victims were acquainted, and
80% of the child victims knew
their assaillant.
Dr. Bobby Doolittle states,
"People just don't realize how
frequently rape occures. Most
males have no conceptual un
derstanding of the seriousness
of a rape incident for a woman
in terms of future psychological
implications." Acquaintence
rapes are capable of leaving the
same emotional scars as "tradi
tional" rape, and the fact that
the victims know their assail
lants often adds to the trauma
even more. A victim of acquain
tence sexual assault on the
Guilford campus relates her
feelings of betrayal following
the incident: "From a stranger,
you are left to deal with his
invasion upon your body, pri
marily, and you can readily hate
his unknown face afterwards.
But from a friend, I felt less
'We don't escape rape
on this campus
because we all know
each other."
-- Kathy Adams
upon my body than from in my
heart at such a gross betrayal of
my faith." Another victim of
acquaintence rape remembers
her shock and confusion:
"There was such an amazing
transformation from the guy I
knew at school and the animal
that raped me. He became so
violent, so insane, so brutal. He
stole my humanity - I was not a
person, I was his object."
Neither of these two women
are alone in their experiences or
feelings. Hundreds of women
each year are raped by people
they are at least vaguely
acquainted with. Virtually no
place is safe (the rape crisis
Guilford College, Greensboro, NC 27410
center reports that in 1980, 68%
of all the rapes or attempted
rapes in Greensboro occured in
the victim's home), and accor
dingly, the Guilford College
campus is by no means shel
tered and protected. Kathy
Adams, Assistant Professor of
Psychology at Guilford cau
tions, "We don't escape rape
on this campus because we all
know each other."
Many rape victims exper
ience embarrassment and guilt
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New concentration proposed
Learning of peace and justice
By Steve Harvey and
Mike Sieverts
A new concentration in Peace
and Justice will probably be
offered beginning next year.
Pending likely approval after
Wednesday's faculty meeting,
students will have the oppor
tunity to create with their
advisor a six-course concentra
tion emphasizing "the complex
interdependence of human life
and its connection with a fragile
habitat, both natural and socio
political."
The concentration has been
developed by a committee of
concerned faculty members un
der the leadership of Cyrus
Johnson and Paul Zopf. It was
Another one bites the dust
Serendipity
This year, Serendipity turned
out pretty much the same as in
all years, people wearing less,
drinking more, and falling just a
little farther behind on that
work due on Monday.
Except for a few grim and
determined souls hidden away
in the recesses of the library or
the Guilfordian office, Guilford
students past and present drank
beer, listened to live bands,
threw frisbees, drank' more
beer, ate bagels, danced, ob
served members of the opposite
sex, and drank even more beer.
Most students (except those
in the library or on the Guilfor
dian staff) did these and other
things during the many sche
duled ,and more in the spirit of
If you need help. ..
RAPE can happen to anyone, anytime, anyplace What if it
happens to you? Here are special numbers to call and places to
go in case it does happen to you.
For Medical Care:
TO REPORT THE CRIME: Moses H Cone Memorial
1200 North Elm Street
RAPE CENTER 379-4040
273-7273 Greensboro Hospital
1501 Pembroke Rd.
Greensboro Police 373-8555
373-2222
Sheriff's Office VD Clinic
w?7 301 N. Eugene St.
Greensboro, 373-3184
Switchboard Crisis Center Women's Pavillion
275-0896 273-3371
Dr Johnson, however who took
on the concentration as a "first
priority project," a few years
ago.
Dr Johnson sees the major
goal of the concentration as
trying to "sensitize students to
the interdependence of humans
on our planet as demonostrated
through consideration of pro
blems of the expanding popula
tion, the finiteness of many
resources, the tremendous
amount of violence in families,
within communities and be
tween nations, escalating nu
clear arsenal, human rights,
issues of race and sex, politics,
culture, and general proglems
of ethno-centricism, limited in
ternational structures to work
with world problems, and the
will to bring some degree of
the name, spontaneous events
on campus.
For example, late Friday
night, while many students
danced in Sternberger, others
busied themselves by ripping
toilet paper holders from the
walls of the English dormitory
bathrooms, watched the flames
rise in a fire behind the library,
or simply watched the clouds
drift by the stars through glassy
eyes.
But for most, Serendipity was
a lot of fun, and in an effort to
recreate for you the signs and
sounds of the ninth annual
Guilford rite of spring, we are
happy to direct you to this
week's center spread
April 7, 1981
peace and justice to our world."
The concentration would con
sist of six courses, two required
and four determined with the
help of the student's advisor.
The two required courses in
clude a revised Sociology 102
dealing with peaceand justice as
social problems, and on IDS 401
"capstone" course tying toge
ther the themes pursued in the
previous five courses.
While all department will be
encouraged to contribute
courses to the concentration,
the committee will not have the
power to create any new courses
other than the IDS 401.
Scott Gassier of the econo
mics department is planning to
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