Surviving Rape Minimum Wage to $4.55 Woman Attacked by Stranger Talks About Regaining Control
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THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1989 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 84, NO. 118 House votes to increase Surviving rape minimum wage to $4.55 Woman attacked by stranger talks about regaining control By JOHN KING than 40 Democrats defecting By MAXINE GROSSMAN Associated Press to the GOP effort. Rape is an abstract concept for WASHINGTON — The Bush has insisted his offer many people who have never I feel that there is something that I House voted Thursday to raise is his last and says he has the known a rape survivor. For them, can say that will make people stop the hourly minimum wage strength to sustain a veto of the victim is a nameless figure in from $3.35 to $4.55 by October minimum wage legislation he the background of a story that, and think about rape, for what it really 1991, rejecting a more modest considered unacceptable. But while frightening, may still be is. increase proposed by Presi the House sponsors refused to somehow unreal. dent Bush and sending the accommodate the president That perspective changes partisan battle to the Senate. and the showdown now shifts when one learns that a close The House adjourned for a to the Senate, where floor de friend or family member has want men to stop and realize quite a long time. He said he had week-long Easter recess after bate is scheduled early next been raped. Suddenly, a newspa that it could happen to their sis a knife. I never saw it. When voting 248-171 for a bill that month on a proposal to raise per account reads like a personal ter or their girlfriend — any somebody who is twice your size included compromises long re the hourly minimum wage to story, because the nameless vic woman in their life. And that says he has a knife you believe sisted by its Democratic spon $4.65. tim has taken on a life of her trivializing it, laughing at jokes him. And he said he didn't want sors but still left the Demo The Senate sponsor, Sen. own. She has become someone's about rape, is really, really to hurt me, as long as I did what cratic congressional leader Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., friend, someone's daughter or wrong," she said. he said." ship and the Republican presi hailed the House action and wife or girlfriend. While most rapes are commit "I eventually figured he was dent far apart on the issue. urged Bush to refrain from The woman in this story is a ted by people whom the survivor telling the truth, but I was . Bush proposed raising the further veto threats until he daughter and a friend and a girl knows, this woman's rape is the worried that [after the rape] he minimum wage to $4.25 an sees the final measure, which friend. Her real name is not sort of attack most people imag would kill me or tie me up in hour by 1992 provided newly is likely to undergo further Helen, but she is indeed a real ine. She was raped by a man she some fashion and go rape my hired employees could be paid changes. person, with a story to tell. had never seen before, in her roommate," Helen said. "But he a subminimum wage for six "This is an excellent oppor Her point of view is not some Swift Avenue apartment early on didn't. He eventually left, and I months. That plan was offered tunity for Congress and the thing that often appears publicly. the morning of May 4, 1988. The called the police and went to the by Republicans as a substitute administration to demon "I feel that there is something man broke into her apartment Emergency Room and the police for the bill supported by the strate that they can work to that I can say — that the survi that had been locked for the station, and so on." House leadership but was gether and in doing so achieve vor can say — that will make night, through a back door that The man who attacked her, defeated 218-198, with more See WAGES on page 19 • people stop and think about rape, sometimes did not lock properly. Lawrence Edward Hawes, was for what it really is," Helen said. Her roommate, asleep in an arrested the night of May 6, and "It's about power, not sex. It's a other bedroom in the apartment, charged for both this rape and a violation of your right to do what never awakened. They were both previous one Apr. 29, in a Giles you want and of your personal exhausted following exams, Dormitory study room. choice and freedom." Helen said. Hawes, 21 at the time, had Eight students nabbed "I want women to realize just "I woke up and I found him been paroled Apr. 26 from the how dangerous it is and how crawling on the floor beside my Harnett Youth Center, a medium over false I.D. racket careful you have to be. And I bed," she said. "He raped me for See SURVIVOR on page 10 )• From staff reports students, but so far two of those Eight Trinity freshmen have eight students have not been % been charged with replicating a charged^ Smith said. driver's license for false identifi The freshmen charged are cation, and a Trinity senior has Charles Medrano, Marcello Por- HI been charged with permitting celli, Deveraux McClatchey, Paul * :.. "*- * v the freshmen to use his driver's Hamlin, Lars Scofield, Calan license. Nelson, Antonio Rojas and John Chief S.P. O'Brien and Investi D. Robertson. Andrew Shimburg gator M.K. Smith of the Alcohol is the senior charged, Smith said. Beverage Control (ABC) Police See I.D.SCAM on page 17 • arrested two of the charged stu dents on the afternoon of Mar. 9 ~^__K**^_B B fl as they were leaving a Durham * ^__^r lH-1 H jfl photo finishing company. The Protest over students arrested had photos of % \f\ 1 driver's licenses, on which the two students' own pictures had Robeson set been cut out and glued over the BETH ANN FARLEY/THE CHRONICLE licenses' original pictures, Smith From staff reports Prospective black freshmen will attend the all-Greek step show this weekend. said. A group of students is or The other seven students ganizing a protest at the Gov charged turned themselves in to ernor's Mansion in Raleigh their attorneys after they were Saturday to draw attention to Black potential freshmen visit campus notified that the first two had claims of Gov. Jim Martin's been arrested, she said. mistreatment of Indian ac The arrested students were at tivists Eddie Hatcher and By CHRIS O'BRIEN "The visit to the campus is dents pay their transportation tempting to have artificial driv Timothy Jacobs^ said Trinity Black students from around critically important," said Joby costs and the undergraduate ad er's licenses made for eight other senior Mark Lasser, one of the the country began arriving Branion, assistant director of un missions office pays their expen organizers of the rally. Thursday afternoon for a pros dergraduate admissions. He esti ses on campus. The buses helped The group is largely made pective student weekend consid mated 95 percent of the black to bring an additional 60 stu up of members of SAC (Stu ered crucial by the under students currently attending dents this year, Branion said. Weather dent Activist Cooperative), graduate admissions office and Duke visited the campus before "We want to get as many peo but others are invited to par the Black Student Alliance (BSA) deciding to come. ple here as we can because Duke F00l in the rain: There's a ticipate. Protesters will gather in the effort to convince black The undergraduate admissions does a good job of selling itself," 10 percent chance that it in Basset dormitory at 9:30 students to attend Duke. office for the first time this year Branion said. won't rain all day today, but a.m. Saturday to organize Approximately 130 students chartered two buses, one from The prospective student week we'll bake on Saturday with before going to Raleigh. The from 23 different states are ex Atlanta and one from Baltimore, end helps black students over temps in the 60s. Partly protest is scheduled to begin pected to attend and will stay to provide transportation for come some of the preconceived cloudy for the bunny's arrival. See PROTEST on page 9 • with black undergraduate stu some of the visiting students. ideas they might have about dents through Sunday. Normally the prospective stu See WEEKEND on page 18 • PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1989 World & National Newsfile Afghan rebels make inroads in Jalalabad Associated Press By JOHN BURNS have a widespread effect here since large war when the last Soviet troops withdrew U.S. warned to stay out: Right- N.Y. Times News Service wing president-elect Alfredo Cristiai numbers of Afghans rely on the BBC's on Feb. 15. says he's willing to negotiate with lef KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan gov Persian-language service for their news, While the government has mocked fore tist rebels while warning that his gov ernment efforts to defend the strategic which carried Simpson's account in its casts that its hold on the major cities ernment will not accept U.S. interven city of Jalalabad appeared to have suf radio news reports on Thursday. would be broken quickly after the Soviet tion in the country's ongoing civil war.