Washington March Draws Crowds of Demonstrators Conference Offers Education on Rape

THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1989 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 84, NO. 129 Washington march draws crowds of demonstrators By CHRIS ENGDAHL protecting womens' fundamental and KAREN PRICE and basic constitutional WASHINGTON — One of the "reproductive rights." largest crowds ever assembled in Approximately 600,000 pro- Washington gathered near the choice supporters gathered on Washington Monument on the the mall at approximately 10:45 mall in the nation's capital Sun a.m. The grounds surrounding day to march in support of the the Washington Monument were proposed Equal Rights divided so that various delega Amendment, and, perhaps more tions could mass together in urgently, in support of the exist preparation for the march. Offi ing Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade cial estimates numbered the decision. crowd at only 300,000. The march and rally, spon Speakers and singers, includ sored by the National Organiza ing folk singer and political ac tion for Women (NOW), was tivist Holly Near, entertained scheduled purposely only 15 days and inspired the crowd prior to before the Supreme Court is to the scheduled march down the consider a Missouri case that spectator-lined mall to the Capi could overturn the Roe vs. Wade tol. case decision. This landmark College students made up a 1973 case effectively gives large portion of the crowd. CHAD HOOD/THE CHRONICLE women the right to decide Universities from all over the The National Archives provide a backdrop for demonstrators raising their American voices. whether or not to have an abor country were represented, and tion. A repeal of the court case approximately 200 Duke stu "no one has the right to push mination. Signs carried by small in comparison to the num would provide a major setback dents turned out for the event. their morals on others. I'm here marchers ranged from the bitter, ber of pro-choice supporters. for pro-choice advocates. Students travelled by chartered for the rights of women and un "If men could get pregnant abor Signs such as, "Abortion is A pro-choice activist who ad buses and by personal cars from wanted children of the world." tion would be sacrament," to the dressed the crowd late in the day the University. Another Trinity freshman, murder" and "Hitler was pro- pointed "Nine votes can't force choice," were seen along the pointed to what was probably the Trinity freshman Jennifer Susan Hatch, said she was sur nine months" and "Keep your single most important issue in Winell explained that her sup prised by the enthusiastic sup march route as pro-life sup laws off my body." porters voiced their opinions. volved in the rally: the issue of port was based on the fact that port of Duke students. "It re The crowd, composed largely of stores my faith that Duke is not women, responded with a Within the pro-choice forces as apathetic as some people resounding "boo" when told that diverse factions made a showing. think," she said. "We aren't just the march was delayed because Marchers claimed to be some country club that doesn't of "anti-choice folks somewhat "Mormons for choice," care about the rest of the world." blocking the path," according to a "Republicans for choice," The atmosphere in the capital march coordinator. However, op "Shawnee Indians for choice" was one of intense deter posing numbers were relatively See MARCH on page 15 • Conference offers education on rape Research reveals shocking date rape statistics By BOB LEVEILLE When he began to study rape at Auburn if they had been Two researchers in the field of in 1974 and 1976, the only statis raped, substituting the legal defi date and acquaintance rape tics on the frequency of rape were nition of rape for the actual word. provoked groans of disbelief from FBI crime statistics, Burkhart "We asked if they had ever had their audience with a number of said. These showed rape to be sexual intercourse with a man stories and statistics about rape. very infrequent compared to against their own will and by Barry Burkhart, a professor of other crimes. He said he decided means of forcible compulsion," psychology at Auburn Universi to test these figures in his class. Burkhart said. "I was expecting ty, gave the first part of a lecture One of his students did a study about three to five percent of the in Fuqua Auditorium that was asking each of the 10,000 women See RAPE on page 14 ^ attended by approximately 125 people, including approximately 15 men. Robin Warshaw, author of the book "I Never Called It Security measures, date rape Rape" delivered the second half. The lecture, called "I Never subjects of panel discussion Called It Rape," was part of the Confronting Rape colloquium. By MICHELE ESTRIN process of rape victims. In the first part of his speech, Although rapes committed by An audience of 25 exchanged Burkhart asked the audience to strangers receive more publicity, ideas about both date and CHAD HOOD/THE CHRONICLE imagine a good friend and then date and acquaintance rape con stranger rape with a panel in The University sent a delegation of approximately 200 to the to think about rape. He said it is stitute 80 percent of all sexual cluding President Keith Brodie; march. difficult to imagine these two assaults on women, according to Martha Simmons, Director of the concepts at the same time be a panelist who spoke Saturday Women's Center; Elinor Wil cause they seem so contradictory. morning in the Confronting Rape liams of CAPS; William Griffith, Weather "How could it be that an ac colloquium. The morning forum vice president for student affairs; Inside quaintance or a date and a rape focused on University responses Howard Eisenson, Director of to the issue of sexual assault. Cooperation: The us. Unwanted liquids: The can go together? You have posi Student Health and Ruby coast of Alaska is drowning in tive thoughts about a date. It's Date rape is exacerbated by "a Thompkins, a counselor from and the Soviet Union may be fun. It's play. It's a party," culture on campus which seems Public Safety. on the way to friendlier times, oil, but we'll be drowning in more rain today and tomorrow Burkhart said. "You have kind to reinforce this type of behav Brodie outlined action the ad says one very informed Dukie. and innocent images of a date, ior," said Susan Roth, an asso ministration has taken to tighten See page 3. with highs in the mid 40s and lows tonight in the mid 30s. and then there's rape and ciate professor of psychology who University security, adding that horror." has researched the recovery See DISCUSSION on page 14 ^ PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, APRIL 10,1989 World & National Newsfile Texas researchers duplicate fusion experiment Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Texas A&M Univer reached the scientific community. Fusion generates far less waste than fis Rebels given passage: South sity researchers have duplicated a contro Steven Jones of Brigham Young Uni sion. versial University of Utah experiment versity in Utah said recently that he had Africa agreed Sunday to allow black Pons and Fleischmann said they that reportedly achieved nuclear fusion achieved fusion in a similar experiment, produced fusion energy in a 6-inch glass nationalist guerrillas safe passage using a relatively simple process, a college but obtained far less energy than Pons jar at room temperature and normal pres from northern Namibia to Angola in an spokesman said Sunday. and Fleischmann said they obtained. sure. They said the experiment generated offer aimed at preserving plans for Fusion, the energy source that powers four times as much energy as it used. Namibia's independence. Officials at the school in College Station said they would hold a news conference the sun and hydrogen bombs, is achieved The Utah Legislature on Friday ap Monday to announce that their research by joining atoms, usually through the ap proved $5 million for further fusion re Abortion clinic burned: Ar ers had achieved the same kind of cold plication of millions of degrees of heat. search. But lawmakers said no money sonists torched one Florida women's fusion, one of the most sought-after scien Fission, the energy source for nuclear would be spent unless the experiment is clinic and may have been responsible tific breakthroughs. power plants, comes from splitting atoms. confirmed. for a fire at another early Sunday on "Other labs around the country have the eve of a huge abortion-rights been trying to duplicate this, but nobody march in Washington, authorities said. else has been able to get satisfactory results," said Ed Walraven, a spokesman 42 killed On SUb: The Soviet for Texas A&M. "Our people are con 16 killed in Soviet Georgia as Union said Sunday that 42 sailors vinced that they've got it, so as a gesture were killed when a nuclear-powered to the reserchers in Utah we wanted to submarine caught fire and exploded in announce it as soon as possible." demonstrators, soldiers clash the Norwegian Sea, and it disclosed Scientists have long sought the secrets that two torpedoes on board were of nuclear fusion, considered a possible armed with nuclear warheads. See replacement for conventional energy sour By ESTHER FEIN boys are dead. The situation is very dan page 5. ces because it would be clean, inexpensive N.Y. Ti mes News Service gerous here." and virtually inexhaustable. MOSCOW — Sixteen people were killed The Soviet press agency Tass confirmed Military begins cleanup: Mili Researchers in Utah announced March and more than 200 hurt before dawn Sun the deaths and said the square "is under tary jets flew skimmers, booms, and 23 that they had achieved nuclear fusion day, when thousands of nationalist dem army control" and that "several instiga beach landing craft into Alaska on at room temperature.

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