tl19840308-000 " The Towerlight Eternal nothingness is O.K. if you're dressed for it. �Woody Allen Vol. 77 No. 20 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 Rape prevention Spreading the word around a prime target By Scott Hollenbeck As of yesterday, the man Balti-more County police believe may be responsible for at least six rapes, one attempted rape and one knife at-tack since Dec. 30 in Baltimore County and the northern edge of the city was still at large. According to Katie Ryan, direc-tor of University Relations, Uni-versity police have stepped up night patrols while advising caution to those walking on campus at night. ""There is no specific reason to think [the rapist] would be on cam-pus,"" Ryan said, but she noted that the attacks, which have received a great deal of attention in the local media, were ""close by."" Nan Green Cerio, a counselor and teacher from the University's Counseling Center, cautioned that a college campus could be a prime target for a rapist because people are under the impression that a cam-pus is a safe little community. ""Some girls think its okay to walk around campus at 3 o'clock in the morning. Well, it's not okay,"" Cerio said. Cerio addressed a rape prevention workshop held last week in the old Residence Tower. She said that a non-violent approach is best when dealing with a rapist. ""You should size [the rapist] up and then take action,"" Cerio told the audience,"" but try not to commit yourself to a violent act."" Instead, she suggested that women try to avoid confrontation by being alert and avoid walking in places where you could be cornered. If possible, she said, walk in the street. ""If you feel you are being fol-lowed, go to -a phone booth and call someone,"" Cerio said, adding that it is always a good idea to carry change. Cerio suggested that women use a non-violent approach to fighting back if attacked, such as throwing up, urinating, flirting with the ra-pist, or telling him you are pregnant or have herpes. These may not sound effective Cerio said, but they may give the victim time she needs to get assistance. She also suggested that women never yell ""rape"" or ""help"" because people will look the other way. In-stead yell ""fire"" because people will look to see where the fire is and it will catch the rapist off guard. She recalled how two women used what might seem an unusual method to ward off three potential rapists. The women were walking home from a party late at night when they noticed that three men had begun to follow them�rounding corners and crossing streets when they did. These women had been drinking moderately and were hardly in a po-sition to defend themselves. So, as the men drew closer, one woman put her arm around th� ther and kissed her. The three men walked away. Cerio said that if a violent ap-proach seems necessary, the victim should go for the shin area, or use the heel of the hand and strike just under the nose. She does not, how-ever, recommend that a woman try to knee a rapist in the groin area, be-cause it is a difficult target to hit. She outlined the steps a rape vic-tim should take. * Get to, or call someone you can trust. * Report the incident to police be-cause, Cerio said, if one victim does not report the crime, she runs the risk of being raped again or of hav-ing another women raped by the same man. * Do not shower, change clothes, or clean up the area in which you were raped and get to a hospital as soon as possible for a vaginal and pelvic examination for health rea-sons as well as for clues to identify the rapist. * Have your fingernails checked. If a woman scratches the rapist, she may take some skin and blood from him that may also provide a clue to his identity. * If there are any bruises from the assault, get pictures. Also the victim should make sure there is a written report on the rape and that she gets a copy. Rapist breeds fear Stephen Hyde dissects anxiety, violence, and the Towson rapist, just up ahead at the next stop ....page 11 ECC tonight The men's basketball team faces No. 1 seed Bucknell tonight at 7 p.m. in the first round of the East Coast Conference Tournament at the Towson Center page 9 Life of the Queen A look at Homecoming Queen Linda Brown five months later page 7 March 8, 1984 The champs! By Lonnie Timmons Towson State's women's basketball team captured the East Coast Conference Championship nipping Delaware 61-58 last Sunday at Rider College. Here, Sue Trost is pressing the attack against Delaware in both team's regular season finale last week. Keeping busy in Speech-Language-Hearing By Jackie Yost and Glenn Small ""It's a professional facility that we can be proud of,"" said Joyce Schwartz, associate pro-fessor of communication sciences and disorders. Schwartz is talking about Towson State's Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, located on the ground floor of Van Bokkelen Hall, as a training facility that serves both the University community and the community at large. It has ""a two-way function�as a service (to the community) and as a training program (for the students,)"" explained Connie Lynch, acting director of the clinic. ""Essentially, we're a training facility for graduates and undergraduates who are seeking degrees in speech-language pathology and audi-ology,"" said Lynch. ""Some clients may feel awkward because they are working with a student clinician,"" she said, but ""because of the level of supervision, we feel that we can give quality care."" Every student who works in the clinic works with a faculty supervisor who is licensed by the state and certified by a national association. ""We feel that this is a notable aspect about our clinic,"" said Lynch, ""all our supervisors are licensed (by the state of Maryland) in audiology and speech-language pathology."" Besides being licensed, each supervisor is cer-tified by the American Speech-Language-Hear-ing Association. (ASLHA) ""We feel we have very strong credentials,"" Lynch said. And indeed, they do. For someone to be certified by the ASLHA, he or she must have at least the following: * A master's degree in the field of Speech- Language-Hearing or the equivalent which is 42 hours at the post baccalaureate level in the field. * 300 clinical practicum hours-150 of those hours at the graduate level. * A score of 600 or more on the National Ex-amination in Speech-Language pathology and audiology. * Successful completion of a clinical fellow-ship year�a 9-month internship of 30 hours a week under a certified supervisor. Lynch said they are kept busy. ""Right now we are filled,"" she said,"" and there is a waiting list at this time."" The clinic's clients come from various sources. Many clients are referred by their phy-sicians, while others�who recognize that they may need help�come on self-referrals. Several are pre-school children, whose pedia-tricians or parents realize that they may have a speech, language or hearing disorder. At present, there are nine Towson State stu-dents using the clinic. There are also students from Lida Lee Tall using the clinic. ""We try to give priority to Towson [State] and Lida Lee Tall students,"" Lynch said. Even with priority, though, ""they (students) may have to wait,"" she said, ""but not as long."" Whether someone gets treated immediately or not depends on ""client need as well as case load and availability of student clinicians and faculty supervisors,"" said Lynch. One reason for the broad range of clientele at the clinic is the broad range of services it pro-vides. ""We conduct diagnostic evaluations,"" said Lynch, ""to specifically identify if there is a problem, what that problem is, and what should be done to correct the problem."" ""We've had six clients who have had their speech and language impaired due to a stroke,"" Lynch said. In addition to individual care, the clinic pro-vides group therapy. The clinic has ""two groups of senior citizens who meet to discuss coping with reduced hear-ing,"" said Lynch. ""There is a big need . . . for senior citizens to come together and talk about communication problems."" ""For some,"" Lynch said, ""it is the highlight of their week."" The clinic also offers group therapy for ""par-ents who have pre-school children with lang-uage disabilities,"" said Lynch. The group meets for support and education. During regular sessions, ""the student works with clients and the supervisor observes ... and intervenes only when necessary, such as for a demonstration,"" Lynch said. ""Supervisors have an audio-video system for observing,"" she said, and this system is"" much more effective and less disturbing for the client than actually being in the therapy room to ob-serve."" ""We're watching the student to give com-ments and suggestions,"" said Lynch. The clinic also has video taping equipment set up in the treatment rooms. ""We are very proud of this (video taping) be-cause of the educational benefits,"" said I.,. nch, ''a student can watch his or her own perform-ance for self-evaluation and for educational pur-poses."" See SPEECH, page 2 Ninth ranked Forensics Union gets a $4,000 shot in the arm By Terie Wolan The Forensics Union received a financial boost of ""around $4,000"" from President Hoke Smith last fnonth. The forensics team is currently ranked ninth in the nation, and has competed well, said director Brenda Logue, despite a shortage of funds that has forced the team to cancel several tourna-ments in favor smaller tournaments that are closer to the University. President Smith said the $4,000 ""is a one-time thing, it's from a contingency fund, one of the general funds we use for specific problems. There's no guarantee I'll be able to do this again."" ""They (the team) have a very good record,"" Smith said. ""The team is one of the things that represents Towson State across the country and helps to make peo-ple aware of the University."" The money will be used for food expenses when the team travels, Logue said, which the Student Government Organization SGA does not fund. ""Our main source of funds is still the SGA, said Logue, although we had a lot of problems the first semester of this year. They (the SGA) felt they shouldn't be fi-nancing the project 100 percent. The prob-lem occurred for good reasons, she said. ""They wanted shared responsibility for fundraising and I agreed."" On the sugges-tion of the SGA, the team approached sev-eral local service organizations to try to raise money, but ""we were unsuccessful, nothing materialized,"" said Logue, so ""I was forced to go to the administration."" The SGA appropriated $9,748.40 for this year. The length of the competitive season, which runs from October to the first of April, and the amount of traveling time� approximately twelve weekends a semes ter�account for the team's expenses, said Logue. Some people have been reluctant to allo-cate money to the forensics team, Logue said, because it doesn't involve a large number of students, either as participants or spectators. The team currently consists of seven active debators and six competi-tive speakers. There are some inactive de-bators, who are not competing this semes-ter and six newly recruited debators. ""The national team is close to a dozen people, Logue said, about what a basketball team is, but they get a lot more money, probably five times as much, and they com-pete in a much more limited schedule."" Towson State is the only state university with a national debate team in Maryland. The Naval Academy is the only other col-lege that competes nationally. However, Logue said she feels there has been a lack of publicity about the debate team. ""That's one thing that in a way upsets nie . .. it just doesn't get out that we com-pete against the best schools in the country on the same level,"" she said. Logue explained that in debate, there are no divisions of different size colleges. The team plays against very prestigious schools, such as number one ranked UCLA, the number two team the University of Southern Illinois, the Air Force Academy, and the University of Alabama, all of which have larger budgets and scholarships for their debators. Earlier this year, at a tournament at the University of Southern Illinois, the team played UCLA in the finals. ""We lost, Logue said, ""but it was a pretty close round. We can compete with the best."" "
