Anger, Power Top List of Motivations for Rapists Editor's Note: During Sexual for Power, Or Sadism
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Thursday, April6, 1995• Vol. XXVI No.l17 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Casey to visit amid rumors Former governor touted as Clinton opponent in '96 By BRAD PRENDERGAST Associate News Editor The speculation continues: Will Robert Casey make a run for the 1996 Democratic presidential nomination? Casey, the former governor of Pennsylvania who will be speaking tonight on the Notre Dame campus, has kept his intentions quiet. But by establishing an exploratory committee two weeks ago to assess the feasibility of a pres idential run, he has indicated that he is considering the pos The Observar/Nicky Batill sibility seriously. Helen Suzman, former South African parliament member and foe While the task of challeng of apartheid, was the 1995 winner of the Notre Dame Award. ing an incumbent for the party nomination can be daunting, Casey will be able to distin guish himself from Bill Clinton Suzman receives on at least one party plank. A rarity in the Democratic politi cal machine, Casey is Notre Dame Award adamantly pro-life. Casey's stance on abortion By EDWARD IMBUS for the Progressive party has created waves between Associate News F.diwr from 1953 until retiring in himself and other high-profile 1989. distinguishing herself Democratic power figures. At With great fanfare and a by consistently opposing the 1992 Democratic National The Observer/Pat McHugh standing ovation, University apartheid. even though she Former Pennsylvania Governor Robert Casey will be speaking tomor PresidP.nt Father Edward was the sole anti-apartheid see CASEY/ page 4 row night on the challenge of remaining pro-life in the political arena. Malloy presented the 1995 member from 1961-74. Notre Dame Award to Helen She regularly clashed with Suzman. a former member of prime ministers supporting the South African parliament the apartheid regime and Young to flout Atlanta success .and staunch opponent of averaged 200 parliamentary apartheid. questions per session, most of By ETHAN HAYWARD Andrew Young, former U.S. the Ollice of Student Affairs, the "For many ynars the princi them embarrassing to the Assistant News Editor ambassador to the United Mentoring Program involves 46 ple export of South Africa government. Nations, congressman, and faculty and staff who provide was shame. No more. Now Suzman stood out among In an effort to promote diver mayor of Atlanta. informal counsel and advice to the name evokes a sense of anti-apartheid advocates as sity on cam- Young will discuss the issue Notre Dame students of color. hope," said Malloy. well by not supporting pus, the of diversity and how community Young last appeared on campus "(Suzman) doesn't fit our pro international sanctions Offices of in Atlanta showcased that city's as the principal speaker at the file of a (stereotypical) free against her country because, Student diverse culture to strengthen 1988 Commencement exer dom lighter, but that is pre she said last night, she feared Affairs and their successful bid to host the cises, during which he was cisely what she is ... We are "killing the disease but also Student 1996 Olympic Games. awarded an honorary degree. honored by her presence." the patient, which nearly Activities are The address will follow a pri A graduate of Howard Uni Suzman was a member of sponsoring a vate speech to participants in versity and Hartford Theologi- campus-wide Notre Dame's new Mentoring the South African parliament see SUZMAN/ page 4 address by Young Program. Created last fall by see YOUNG/ page 4 Anger, power top list of motivations for rapists Editor's Note: During Sexual for power, or sadism. The "Rapists see rape as a mental the penis," Franko said. Assault Awareness Week, The anger factor usually stems from SEXUAL ASSAULT] chess game," Franko said. "We need to make it less than Observer will examine various a cause completely unrelated to "Their sole purpose is to guilt manly to rape," Norberg-Bohm aspects of sexual assault on the victim. ON CAMPUS woman into having sex." said, "and the way to do that is college campuses. This is third "The rapist expresses anger The third motivation for rape by social change through ad in a four part series addressing through sexual acts," Franko - sadism - is different from vertisement. Presently, adver the problems and issues of rape said, "which is caused by PART 3 OF 4 the first two motivations in that tising in the United States glori Cl.lld sexual assault on campus something frustrating him." L the mindset of the sadist is not fies the idea of owning another The frustration can arise The lust for power motivates grounded in reality. person. If we could separate By BRAD PRENDERGAST from either of two sources. Be students on college campuses to "Sadists enjoy inflicting pain," sexuality from dominance, then Associate News Editor cause a person's caregiver is commit rape more than any Franko said. "They use sex as I think you would see a traditionally the mother, a other social factor, Franko said. a method by which to torture decrease in the number of The scenario is all too famil rapist who is upset with his pri "The power rapist enjoys the victims." rapes." iar. mary caregiver may taken his challenge of subduing his vic Because rape is generally But the problem remains that Every year. about 130,000 anger out on another woman, tim," Franko said. "He doesn't considered to be derived from - in television, movies, and women are victims of rape or Franko said. know the difference between social factors, many doctors be other media - violence toward attempted rape. That comes to Public humiliation is a second consent and submission. His lieve that the problem of rape men and women is tolerated. a rape every four minutes, source of frustration. Whether sole desire is to conquer." can be eventually curtailed. "Violence has been glorified which raises the question: embarrassed by a woman or by Power rapists believe that "Rape is fundamentally envi so that men have seen taking Why do men rape? another man, rapists tend to getting their victims to submit ronmental," Norberg-Bohm control of women as part of Answers are mixed. but the think that by assaulting a is a romantic maneuver, said. "We were born wanting their ascent to manhood." consensus among experts who woman, they will be able to re Franko said. But rape is rarely to love and share. We weren't Crowley said. "Rape is one of help both victims of sexual as establish their manhood. sexually motivated. born with the tendency to those ways of taking control." sault and sex offenders is that "Men are fundamentally inse "Rape is not about eroticism rape." Norberg-Bohm suggested that the drive to rape is motivated cure," said Dr. Craig Norberg or sexuality," said Red Crowley The solution is to ehange the increased legal reform be con by a number of soda! factors. Bohm, a member of the Ending of the Men Stopping Violence attitudes that some men have tinued, but he also noted that Aeeording to Dr. Mick Men's Violence Network in organization based in Atlanta. toward asserting their man the law can only change atti Franko, a sports psychologist Boston. "For many men, they "It's about violence." hood, said Franko and Nor tudes so far. for the Notre Dame Athletic De constantly have to reassert con Moreover, a rapist often shuts berg-Bohm. "Making rape more of a partment, rapists commit as trol, and that sometimes means out the severity of the damage "We need to relate to men felony won't make much differ sault out of anger, the desire rape." he causes. that power doesn't come from ence," he said. page2 The Observer • INSIDE Thursday, April 6, 1995 • INSIDE COLUMN • WORLD AT A GLANCE N.J. wildfire burns 20,000 acres in the pine barrens Land of the Fire is part of the normal ecology of WARETOWN, N.J. the Pine Barrens, a million-plus acre free and home A wildfire that investigators said forest extending through parts of may have been set swept through seven counties in southern New nearly 20,000 acres of southern New Jersey. Periodic fires enable the for of the brave Jersey's Pine Barrens and came with est to regenerate by causing pine in 50 feet of some homes before it cones to burst and release their We live in the most was stopped Wednesday. spores. powerful nation in the In two days of battle between fire But development has distorted the world. Most of the stu fighters and wind-driven flames that natural cycle and when fire does dents and faculty at this raced through parched woods of pine break out, homes and businesses are university were born and scrub oak, no houses were in the way. Some 700,000 people live here. As an American destroyed and no injuries reported. in the Pinelands region, on the child, I remember every Huge plumes of smoke rose hun fringes and scattered through the believing in this country dreds of feet into the sky. National woods. as the greatest place in Weather Service radar showed one Wind blowing at more than 50 mph the world. Not only was Margee Husemann plume stretched 20 miles off the New Tuesday swept the flames through this country beautiful and Associate Viewpoint Jersey coast. woods that have received about 2 filled with peoples of Editot Firefighters stopped the fire's inches less precipitation than normal many countries and many cultures, but it was spread and hoped to have it under this year. strong and, more importantly, free.