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national international ikaltlfboni Jlfformr Tuesday, July 31, 1979 Page Sexual Abuse of Students by Teachers Outlined news in brief students of their rights and a Marty Goddard, director of the public education program, statute defining harassment and Citizens Committee for Victim without scaring them to death, coercion of students and setting Assistance, testified students designed to be more than Dont penalties. must have some written or oral take candy from strangers. Sexual Harassment at Work Charged and threatened the pupils until they dropped their charges. Ann Benedict, who resigned after teaching in the Chicago public school system for six years, said she received a report of such an incident while teaching at a high school. Six female and one male students came to a colleague and myself with a report of a male teacher harassing them and finally coercing them into having sexual relations with him.

After the sex act, he reportedly pushed at least one of them up against the wall with his hand around her neck and threatened her with physical harm if she told anyone about this act. This coercion had been going on for a period of three years before a student had courage to speak to someone about it, said a statement read on her behalf. A survey of city college students, who recently graduated from high school and felt freer to respond, showed more than 25 percent knew of or were victims of sexual abuse during high school, Ms. Benedict said. However, Ms.

Champagne, who said she transferred to another school as a troublemaker and later joined Stop Sexual Abuse of Students, indicated a much higher" incidence. Mary Gerace, president of the Chicago Council on Crimes Against Women, said sex abuse is pervasive, hidden, ugly and swept under the rug. Students have no idea their rights are violated. Documentation is a problem, Ms. Gerace said.

Students keep quiet because they are frightened about what their friends will think, that the teacher must be right because he is an authority, or that their parents will blame them or wont believe them. Its time to start believing our daughters when they tell us theyve been abused, she said, adding parents also are afraid to get involved because the administration might take it out on their kids. Ms. Gerace recommended the committee establish a public information program advising By SHARON RUTENBERG CHICAGO (UPI) A high school swimming coach picked his female competitors on the basis of their breast sizes. A male teacher harassed and finally coerced several of his students into having sex with him.

Such sexual abuse of students by their teachers is reaching epidemic proportions in the United States and involves pupils from preschool to high school age, witnesses told the Illinois House Rape Study Committee Monday. Susan Champagne, a former teacher at a Chicago high school, told the panel that fear of lower grades or failing a class often makes students hesitant to report the incidents. She said students told her a swimming coach selected his swimming team members not on swimming ability, but on breast size or on the sexual favors that might be granted by the potential team member. She said the coach was transferred to another school following complaints from three but kept his teaching job because he tracked down CLEVELAND (UPI) A 29-year-old clerical instructor quit her job with a labor-related organization because of advances her supervisor made to her. She said when she refused a date with the supervisor, she had to do typing that she was not supposed to do.

Thats an example of sexual harassment at work Cleveland State University researchers found when questioning some 400 male and femals office workers in the Cleveland area. The survey found that more than half the women and a quarter of the men said they have been victims of sexual harassment at work. Dr. Lucille Wright, CSU education professor, said 57 percent of the women and 25 percent of the men reported some type of sexual harassment on the job at least once every four days. However, only 1 percent said they were actually threatened with dismissal if they failed to comply with sexual advances.

The survey, conducted by graduate students, also revealed that young, inexperienced workers are most likely to be harassed. A 29-year-old clerical instructor who quit her job with a labor-related organization because of advances made by her supervisor also said her supervisor demanded she do typing, a job she was not supposed to do, when she refused his invitations for a date. She also said her application for a raise was rejected because her supervisor gave her a poor evaluation for refusing to do typing. "At first I just joked it off and ignored him, she said. I really loved that job, but finally I had to leave.

Dr. Wright said women reported they are quietly harassed on a day-to-day basis. But she said the men said they were blatantly harassed by disgruntled women seeking revenge for rejection. Men told researchers disgruntled women telephoned their wives and told them their husbands were having affairs at the office. One man said his wife almost divorced him before he discovered who was harassing him and transferred her out of his department.

Dr. Wright also said men were more reluctant to talk about harassment. If a man were to tell another man about this problem, he would probably joke and say, how come Im not so lucky, she said. But actually, harassed men feel humiliated and helpless. THE BRATTLEBORO REFORMER is published Daily except Sundays and New Years, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Christmas by the Reformer Publishing Corporation, 71 Main Street Post Office Box 802, Brattleboro, Vermont 05301 Second Class Postage Paid at Brattleboro, Vermont 05301 Business Office 254-2311, Classified 257-0553 Single Copies 20c Delivered per week $1.20 Motor Route Delivery $5.60 per month Compromise On Rhodesia WASHINGTON (UPI) -Negotiators for the Senate and House have reached a compromise requring President Carter to lift sanctions against Zimbabwe Rhodesia unless he finds it would harm the national interest.

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Sidney Yates, D-Ill. floor manager of the bill, said if synthetic fuel technologies prove feasible, they can replace foreign oil and save the nation billions of dollars. If the synfuels ever get cheaper than oil, then the federal program would not be needed and would cost nothing, he said. House members also defeated attempts to end the federal price control program on gasoline, and to delete money for further drilling of exploration wells in the federal oil reserve lands of Alaska. The House approved a Yates amendment increasing conservation spending by $6.5 for electricity generation by industries that could share the power, by $5 million for converting municipal waste to fuels, and $9 million for improving transportation fuel efficiency 1 In addition to the $1.5 billion for synthetic fuel subsidies, the bill contained hundreds of millions of dollars for research and demonstration of such things as coal gasification and liquefaction, better coal mining methods and enhanced oil recovery.

Wheat Aid Urged KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) The Senate, apparently concerned about possible wheat surpluses and a collapse of prices, passed a resolution Monday urging the Carter administration to offer farmers price supports in exchange for a voluntary 5 percent wheat set-aside program. The 20 percent voluntary wheat set-aside has been in effect since 1978, and many farmers credit the program with helping boost farm prices. Prices this month reached their highest levels in five years and there has been pressure-within the adminstration to chop the wheat program altogether. However, Midwestern grain farmers say if the wheat production controls are abandoned, fence-row-to-fence-row planting could become widespread and likely initiate a price crash to rival that of the mid-1970s.

Hearing Restored RICHMOND, Mich. (UPI) Adam Schneiders parents thought he had a hearing problem and he probably did. It seems somehere about the time he was 2, he and his twin brother got into a box of ball bearings at his fathers shop and evidently Adam, now 8, put one of them in his ear. The bearing was found when doctors took a skull X-ray of the boy after he had hurt himself and discovered there was a piece of metal in his head. The Schneiders doctor investigated and found the bearing.

It was not the first time such a thing had happened. Again when Adam was 2 he gained local renown for having shoved 40 watermelon seeds up his nose. i Thatcher Blasted LUSAKA, Zambia (UPI) British Prime Minister Margaret Thatchers Royal Air Force jet arrived in Lusaka from London Monday night for a week-long meeting of Commonwealth heads of government, just hours after Zam- bian President Kenneth Kaunda and two leading Zambian newspapers blasted Britains stand on Zimbabwe Rhodes. They accused Mrs. Thatchers government of racism and I arrogance.

I The issues of whether to recognize the Zimbabwe Rhodesian government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa and whether to lift economic sanctions against his government were expected to dominate the meeting. Mrs. Thatcher has hinted her Con-servative government will move toward rapprochement with the former British colony. I Sentencing Due Today in Bundy Case MIAMI (UPI) The seven men and five women who found Theodore Bundy guilty of the Chi Omega murders decided he I should die because they feared he might break out of jail and do it a second time. Bundy goes before Circuit Judge Edward Cowart today to be sentenced for the predawn rampage through the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University last year that left two coeds dead.

Most observers expect Cowart to follow the recommendation the jury made Monday and sentence Bundy to death in the electric chair. Other options are a life term with no possibility of parole for each of the two murder counts. Cowart could make the sentences consecutive so Bundy could not get out of prison before 2029. He would be 82. Juror James L.

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