Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1987-88 The thI acan: 1980/81 to 1989/90 3-31-1988 The thI acan, 1988-03-31 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1987-88 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 1988-03-31" (1988). The Ithacan, 1987-88. 21. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1987-88/21 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 1980/81 to 1989/90 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 1987-88 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. f· [Racism ... Winter concert ... Men's lax ... page page 10 page 201 THE The Newspaper For The Ithaca College Community Issue 21 March 31, 1988 24 pages* Free Sexual abuse ~expert speaks "') p, ~Most victims know offenders z~ One in four girls and one in seven ing. But distinct emotional changes boys is abused before her/his 18th bir­ may emerge such as needing to sleep thday, according to Kate Sebring, a with the light on, clinging to protec­ Child Sexual Abuse Project (CSAP) tive adults, sexual precociousness, representative. misbehavior, avoidance of closeness Sebring offered other alanning or touching, changes in schoolwork, figures during her lecture on Child mood swings and regression. · Sexual Abuse on March 22, which However, the average child abuser was organiz.ed by the Community Ser­ is difficult to pinpoint because he/she vice Comittee of the Physical Therapy usually does not fit the stereotypical School. child molestor image. Sebring stressed that most sexual "The typical sex offender is usual­ abuse does not happen to little ly competent, a functional member in children who take candy from a society, yet usually has few· friends," "scary stranger," but occurs mostly Sebring said. within families. The sex offender often comes from ~ighty percent of abuse is inflicted a strict authoritarin family, she add­ by someone the child knows and ed. Also, 90 percent of abusers have PREVIEW: Debbie Gibson a?d publicist David Salidor premiered Gibson's new video, "Foolish Beat" last trusts, such as a family member, been abused themselves thus Sunday at a press conference m the Campus Center. neighbor or babysitter, Sebring said. generating a vicious cycle of the sex­ Ninety percent of abused children ually abused and the abusers know the abuser. themselves. There are three different kinds of The CSAP helps both children and IC celebrates holidays sexual abuse, according to Sebring; teenagers who have been abused as visual, verbal, and physical. Visual well as anyone who is concerned their meal plans for the week of abuse entails exposing the genitals and about the abuse of a child. They also BY S1EPHANIE KURTZMAN supper from 6pm-7:30pm through Passover. April 9. Brunch will cost $1, and sup­ involving the child in pornography, help sexually abused girls age 12-18 Easter and Passover are both this verbal abuse pertains to obscene through therapeutic support groups weekend, and many Ithaca College Each student will be reimbursed by per will cost $2. Ithaca College for the weeks meals Students who sign up to go off the phone calls and sexual threats and and welcome the organization of students are going home to celebrate physical abuse involves kissing, fondl­ other support groups. Education and with their families. However, those about two weeks after Passover. meal plan cannot enter any of the Those on the 19 meal plan will receive three dining halls for the entire week ing, masturbation, oral sex, inter­ prevention services for the Tompkins who are remaining on campus or in course, anal penetration and penetra­ County community are also provided. the Ithaca area are still offered oppor­ $56, those on the 14 meal plan will of Passover or they risk receiving no receive $52 and those on the 5 meal reimbursement. tion with objects. Those who have questions pertain­ tunities to observe the holidays with Most abused children do not tell ing to child sexual abuse are urged to their religious peers through the plan will receive $24. Those who owe will For more information about Easter anyone about the abuse because of call the Child Sexual Abuse Project at Catholic, Protestant and fewish money to the school have t'1eir ac­ counts credited. and Passover at Ithaca College con­ threats, fear or the fear of not being 277-3203. organizations in Muller Chapel. Students can attend meals at the tact Catholic chaplain Father John believed, Sebring said. Seth Grossman Today is Holy Thursday, and Hillel Kosher for Passover kitchen if DeSocio, Protestant chaplain David Only 10 percent of child sexual tonight the Catholic Community of they wish. The kitchen will serve McDaniels or Jewish chaplain abuse cases can be detected through Ithaca College will hold a 7:3.0pm see Agency Profile page 3 brunch from 10:30am-l :30pm and Michael Faber. · physical evidence according to Sebr- mass at Muller Chapel. Good Friday, the commemoration of the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ, is tomorrow April 1. There will be an 8am prayer service. Venera­ Elderly receive student attention tion of the Cross services are at 12pm and 3pm today in which Communion BY CHARLES A. WEISS that they're the people that need the will be distributed. These are open to "The magazine that Ithaca College most care and help. There is going to Catholics· and Protestants, and will published was a marvelous be a substantial increase in the United also be in Muller Chapel. States with the old as in proportion to Saturday, April 2 at 7:30pm in magazine .. .it had exactly the right tone of looking at aging as a success the rest of the population," Torrey Muller Chapel, the Catholic Com- and as a challenge," said Barbara said. munity will hold a vigil mass in an- Torrey of the Center for International ticipation of Easter, which is the Researach of the United States Bureau Lifetime underestimated !!! following day· of Census, at a lecture she gave March Torrey went on to say that one of a On Easter Sunday, April 3, there 24 titled "Aging Around the World." the assumptions that economists are '": will be Catholic Masses at 10:15am Torrey was referring to the Oc- consistently making is that people in < and lprn1n Muller Chapel. tober, 1987 issue of Continuum, a the future will die at the same rate as ffi Some of the services are different magazine put together by the physical they did in the past. "The fact of the ~ for the Protestant Community· therapy students of Ithaca College. matter is that people have been living ~ On Thursday night at 9pm in Textor 101 was practically filled considerably longer than we're pro- ~- Muller Chapel, there will be a service when Torrey delivered her speech. jected ... social security underestimates i::: of Tenebrae signifying the betrayal of "What most people don't realize 1·s 1·t al mos t every year, ". sh e exp1 rune · d . - Jesus Christ. that it is a luxury to be able to age," Torrey continued that the United On Easter Sunday a Protestant Torrey began. States should not be as concerned with ;sunrise service will be held at the number of aged as a percent of Taughannock Falls State Park at General aging trends our population, but with the high 7am. The Easter service will be at "Most of the aging is in the speed of our country's aging. 11 :30am in Muller Chapel. developed countries of the world," She explained that it took France Passover, the celebration of the Torrey said, explaining some general 116 years to double their population exodus of the Jews from Egypt, trends in aging. "As you can see in of aged and estimated that it is going begins tomorrow, April 1, at sundown almost all of the countries, the aged to take the United States about 66 and_lasts until sundown on Saturday, are in fact decreasing as in proportion years and Japan about 26 years. April 9. to the countries themselves," Torrey Hillel is holding Seders on Friday said. "In all of the industrial countries, and ~turday night at 6:30pm in the "People who are 65 to 74 are very your elderly support ratio is going to East Tower lobby lounge. The Seders different from people who are 80 plus; go up." Torrey stressed that aging will cost $12 for Hillel members and they · are different economically, around the world is an important $15 for non-affiliates. healthwise, and everything else. The situation that needs to be addressed, · Also, Hillel is offering Jewish old is the category that most people as it potentially affects everyone. SUPPORT: Barbara Torrey of the United States Bureau of Census told .stµ~en~ the o,ppoi;tunity, tp,go, off. _Jo~1;1~-on_11;0""..~usewe_'rerealizing s~udents last wee~ that the U.S. should be concerned with our nation's . _ , __ , . _ .. , .. _ . _ --------~--------------..;....;.._________ -..;;h;,;;:1g;b~sp:;;,;ee;.;;;d~o;:=,f.;;a:g:m::g::.· _________________J 2 THE- ITHACAN- Ithaca College looks to the future I think that Ithaca College and What do YOU think Ithaca College I think it will be even bigger than All right. We'll have four new buildings and NCR will be one and 96B will be will be like in the year 2000? it is now. I think it will be a very -Bill Bunoy, maybe 2500 additional students. It will Terrace Dining Hall dish A random sampling of professors, popular college. It will expand with rerouted around the two.