Arassment Awareness Increasing on Campus Which Has the Fe West Number of Victims Apply to Teachers and Employers, Not Peers
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Eastern Illinois University The Keep April 1989 4-6-1989 Daily Eastern News: April 06, 1989 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1989_apr Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: April 06, 1989" (1989). April. 4. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1989_apr/4 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1989 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in April by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. .... .. ......... ·:.:::::::·::�'.:--····· .·:·:·:·:···:-:-:-··:::·:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::. :::::::·::·:::::.: ::;:::::::::::::�:�:�:::::::�: :�::: ::::::::::::::�:::�:�:� · Th ursday, · April �; '1989 tudent group wins enate recognition using the blowhorn," Castelluzzo said. The member;> of Students in nded Solidar ity with the People oT n tudents in <;::entrnl America were present at arity with the Pe o ple of the meeting and were elated after I AmencJ after recognition being recognized. denied at last Wednesday's . , "We invite anyone to come to ·ng. our meetings and want them to e group was turned down come," SISPCA President iolating the university code Brooke Webster said. g a demonstration outside Although the group did gain m Hall on March 15. The recognition it wasn't a unanimous ization then met with the vote . A division vote res ulted lative Leadership committee with six senate members voting ar the options left open to no and three others abstaining 've recognition. from the vote. The remaining 18 ndrea Castelluzzo changed senate members voted to recog previous vote to let the recog nize the group. n issue come back to the In other senate action, the r for discussion before the Apportionment Board budgets te. Castelluzzo said that she came before senate forappr oval. ged her mind after talking Martha Price. elec tions com one of her instructors. mittee chair, announced the can I checked the Student didate forum for student· govern uct Code and once the group meflt elections will be at 8:30 informed by the pol ice of p.m. on Apri l l 3 in Coleman Hall disturbance. th�y lopped lecture hall. arm Bureau. moves bail out education HEATHER FOWLER I Staff photographer om An:alone, a comedia11/impersi11ator: entertail ·d -with a rendition of'a Johnny Cash RINGFIELD, ILL. (AP) formula used to distribute state song e nesaay. He pe1formedfor about 50 people. 330,000-member Illinois school aid in what the group's Bureau on We dnesday leaders said was an effort to give ed its proposal to raise schools the money they need to taxes and lower property improve. Comedian touches the stars in routine as part of a general overhaul 'While we talk a lot about state 's school finance sys- funpi ng education, the real By MICHELLE GARREY late great Roy Orbison "You got of the Who's rock 'n ' roll hit emphasis is on the quality of edu Staff writer it", well I hope I don't catch it," "Pinball Wizard," especially group's propoSal calls for cation," White s�id. " The quali Anzalone jokingly commented. when he went to hit his guitar on percent increase in the state's ty of education is something we A crowd of about 50 students "How would Elvis act if he the stage and accidentally hit the nal and corporate income all pay for as time goes along if enjoyed the musical imperson were a science teacher." Subway ceiling. es, raising about $1.4 bil we do a poor job of educating our ations of comedian Tom Anzalone asked. "Well it's one Another crowd pleaser was and a percent cut in the youngsters." Anzalone in the Subway for helium, two for hydrogen, his impression of Slash, from the 25 · atio n-fund property tax Meanwhile, about 300 teach Wednesday night. etc ... instead 'of "One for the heavy metal group Guns 'n by local school districts. ers, students and school adminis Impersonations of musical money, two forthe show, etc ...," Roses. Anzalone put on a long, II the income-tax proceeds trators rallied outside the Capitol performers such as country he said, making fun of Elvis. black haired wig, dark sunglass be earmarked for schools, in support of increased education singer/perfomer Johnny Cash By putting on a red bandana, es and black hat and acted like about $560 million set aside funding. highlighted the show. He imper Anzalone sang the ABC's to the he couldn't see a thing. lace the lost property-tax Waving signs with slogans sonated Cash as if he were Bruce Springsteen song,"Bom in Anzalone is from New York ue , said Farm Bureau such as, "Save Our Schools singing in Spanish, Mexican, the USA." and started performing in nt John White Jr. We 're Drowning in Deficit," the Polish and Russian. The crowd reacted ecstatically Pittsburgh with Dennis Miller of e Farm Bureau also pro "Did you hear the song by the to Anzalone's classical rendition Saturday Night Live fame. an overhaul of the complex + Continued on page 6A arassment awareness increasing on campus which has the fe west number of victims apply to teachers and employers, not peers. • Self-defense as a precaution against seeking help, Sander said. Peer harassment is handled by the Sanders suggests women take a karate Counseling Center. rape and sexual assault. Page ual harassment is not spmething to 3. class for self-defense because he believes it When the problem has been recognized, --------------- secret just because a person fears · would improve campus behavior and make the victim should let the harasser know a job. Between 1985 and 1988, Eastern's the power difference disappear. their actions are not welcome, Chasteen t's the opinion of Counseling Center awareness to the problem rose 26 percent, He said some people can't tell if the said. r Bud Sanders, who defines s�xual said Rhonda Chasteen, assistant dean of the harassment is done accidentally or on pur ff this doesn't work, she added, docu ent as the "abuse of another l indi graduate school and research. Chasteen is pose. ment dates, times, occurrences and actual as a result of a power difference." also the temporary assistant at the affirma Eastern 's Affirmative Action Office tries witnesses that could strengthen the com difference can be either verbal or tive action office. to clarify this question by defining sexual plaint. In other words, ronsider filing a for l, Sanders added. "Reasons behind this (increase )." harassment as: mal complaint, Chasteen said. extent of the h.arassment depends on Chasteen said, "may be the way women in • Unsolicited, offensive behavior based If the victim does not feel comfortable ividual 's morals and tolerance, he places of power are fe wer than men. One on sexuality or gender. going to the center right away, Chasteen fourth to one third of women on college • When a teacher, employer, supervi sor, said, "dorm residence assistants and coun ers said the normal course of action campuses face harassment." colleague, or anyone in a position to con selors have training in this area. " do anything about it - is the wrong Student to student, 01 peer harassment, trol or affect jobs or grades, uses that If a professor is the perpetrator, the vic of action. "If you don 't confront it is the most frequent form of sexual harass power against someone. tim should come to the Affirmative Action tern ), you encourage it," he said. ment. However, this is also the category • However, notice these definitions only Office in Old Main.· 2A Thursday, April 6, 1989 The Dally Eastern Motorists may face new seat-belt law SPRINGFIELD (AP) - Police defends the propo�al. sa id he hasn't indicated in Illinois should be empowered "We are quite moved and quite change in his pol>ition. to stop and ticket motorists solely convinced by virtue of the awful In 1988. state trooper� iss for failing to use seat belts. a statistics. horrendous injuries and 33,253 tickets for �eat-belt committee on road safety appoint numbers of deaths that our offi child-restraint violations, ace ed by Gov. James R. Thompson cers see every week on the roads ing to state police. No comp recommended Wednesday. of Illinois that seat belts save statewide figures for citations Under current state law. drivers lives.. .. " he said. local police are compiled. o may not be stopped by police just Illinois' mandatory seatbelt cials said. because they aren 't wearing a seat law, which took effect in July The task force also rec be lt. but may be ticketed for a 1985, requires that drivers and mended doubling the fi ne to Tug boats move Exxon. oil tanker violation if stopped for another front-seat passengers in autos and for violators of the law and s VA LDEZ - Exxon We dnesday refloated its still-leaking oil tanker. reason. pickup trucks wear a seat belt or gested that all drivers who tr whose fugitive captain surrendered a fe w hours earlier to face charges State lawmakers have argued face a $25 fi ne. port children, not just their of operating the vessel while drunk. in the past that allowing traffic Asked to respond to the recom ents and guardians, be re�ponsi A judge in Hauppauge N.Y., set bail at $500.000 for the captain. 20 stops fo r seat-be lt violations mendation, Thompson spokes for minors using proper restrai times as much as prosecutors had recommended. saying "we h�ve a would give police· an opportunity woman Mary Frances Fagan Last year, 1,847 people died manmade destruction that has not been equaled. probably. since to harass motorists.