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Taking back the night Women protest rape, violence that "it's OK tfor a woman) to be a victim." Even children today can see in grocery stores how women are depicted as objects on magazine covers, and this gives them a misconception about sex, Harrington continued. Harrington emphasized thedif­ ference between erotica and por­ nography by defining the former a's I literature of sexual equality and the I latter as media depicting domination and subjugation.

"Bondage ~lnd discipline" is the ! most common theme of women's pictures in pornography, said Harrington when, a slide of a tied-up t naked woman was shown. "Un­ fortunately, the lash marks all over her body were not air-hrushed on," she remarked. On one slide, a naked woman's back is shown and divided by lines· into parts labeled "chuck," "rib," "loin" l~ ... '~ " ''Itk .~. and "rump." The caption reads, -:--..... ~ "j "What's your cut?" .. :~._.;.i.; ... ;.... ; A caption stating "Make any girl do anything you mentally command - with your mind alone" might en­ ,~. courage some men to attempt rape, noted Harrington. While one slide equates liberation with emasculation, others link violence to sex, and women are always the Friday night. photo credit:Janic~ Paterson victim of battering. An advertisement in Vogue, which is no longer legal, reads "Hit me with a club" above a by Florence Chan traveled from the library's breezeway VA WM in Ayres 120 which attracted close-up picture of a woman's face. "Out of the kitchen and into the into streets south of the . The approximately 40 people. The slides Pictures frOID child pornography , street; women united can't be beat" group, which was mainly composed of showed how the media - from hardcore always imply incest by showing little , \ was one of the slogans shouted by women, was holding banners and pornography to household magazines girls with men who are their fathers or "women-take-back-the·night" rally posters on which slogans ,such as J and album covers - ~ortray women as uncles. The look on the girls' faces is "~I members last Friday night in protest "Fight back; stop rape" and "Freedom "acceptable victims' of violence and coy and seductive, whether they are of violence against women. at night is a human right" were sex objects. naked or clothed. "Again, this means The march, organized by Chico's printed. Ann Harrington, member of V A WM that they are accer,table" sexually Violence Against Women in the Media Preceding the rally wa~ the fourth who spoke throughout the slide-show, available 0 hj ects, , Harrington (V A WM), began at 9:0p .p.m. and annual slide-show sponsored by said all the photos promoted the idea commented, e ~~ ~~.~~~ choo through Chico '$ I by Mark C. Larson chairman of the depot ad- Superliner cars. Southern Pacific visory committe. .' But, traveling in Superliner luxery is Nobody can ignore them. Everybody . DeG~rmo ~ays th~t ~mc;.e Amtrak also expensive. For example, a roun!i According to Marv Keil, Southern either hears them, sees them, feels discontmued Its serVIce m Orland and trip ticket on the Spirit of Califorrua Pacific's senior sales representative, them or smells them. In Chico, trains b.egan . stoppi,?g in Chico, costs $91, compared to $73.55 on most of the trains rolling through are an inescapable element of daily life, rIdership ha~ mcreased. In Orland, Greyhound Bus Lines. Chico belong to his company. and many people are thankful for that. DeGarmo said an average of 1~ to 19 Traveling to by bus is "Chico is on our main line." says Beyond the fact that they are here, p~ple gO.t on and off the tram. But faster than Amtrak, too. A Greyhound Keil, "and we're not about to abandon few people are familiar with the three smce April 23, 1982, wh~n Amtrak was leaving Chico at 6:50 p.m. arrives in our tracks there. " railroad companies whose cars re-routed through Chico, DeGarmo Los Angeles 12 hours later at 5:20 Keil said most of the Southern regularly rumble through Chico. says an average of 33 people now Pacific trains traveling through Chico As for the Sacramento Northern board and disembark at the Chico a.m. are transporting Pacific Northwest Railroad Company (Western Pacific's station. . Amtrak's Spirit of lumber products to Southern Pacific's local subsidiary), the sounds of silence As a result of Amtrak's success in departs Chico at 3:45 a.m. and rides main train switching stations in may soon replace the familiar clickety­ Chico, the community's nostalgic the rails into Los Angeles 13 hours Roseville, CaUfornia and Portland, clack of trains rolling down the desire to renovate the old West Fifth later at 5:10 p.m. Amtrak's Coast Oregon. Esplande track. and Orange Street station will finally Starlight leaves Chico at 5:10 p.m. and Keil said Southern Pacific's trains "We're just not moving enough he fulfilled. DeGarmo says the Chico takes a leisurely 15·hour cruise down will always chug through Chico freight in and out of Chico to make a Chamber of Commerce, Amtrak and the California coast, arriving in Los because it is only a small stop on one of profit. The future looks rather bleak," many local m'erchants have collected Angeles at 8:30 a.m. its busiest bYV;ays. says Ken Jackson, Sacramento over $60,000 in cash and construction , For those who can afford life on a Conversly, Chico is at the end of the Northern's senior sales represenative. materials to refurbish the turn-of-the­ fast plane, Pacific Express' one daily line ,for the smaller Sacramento Jackson says Sacramento Northern century train station. departure to Los Angeles will. w!rl:sk Northern Railway, and it' wants to isn't hauling enough lumber - its main DeGarmo said the refurbishing work you there in two hours and 50 minutes abandon its tracks here because it freight item - into Chico to make a will begin May 15, and students are for $149 round trip. ' can't carry enough cargo in and out of profit. welcome to donate their time for such DeGarmo says the two-story Chico to make n profit. AMTRAK tasks as painting and pounding nails. Superliner Amtrak car is further Keil said up to 24 Southern Pacific But back on the fast track, Am­ "Half the people who ride Amtrak above the ground than any other form trains come through Chico every day, trak's 80 mile-per-hour passenger are students," says DeGarmo. He ofland transportation. Yet, despite its and that work crews maintain the trains have been very successful since explained many students choose train . recent success, DeGarmo said Amtrak tracks around the clock. they arrived in Chico approximately travel instead of the bus because of plans on running only two trains a day "When you're running heavy trains, one year ago, says Richard DeGarmo, Amtrak's new 1.2 million dollar through Chico for the next 10 years. you just can't let those tracks go."0 / '. '