Ninety-One Years off Editorial Freedom I P Lt t iga iE3 ai g NOT AS HOT Look for plenty of sun, but the high should be only in the upper 60s with the low near 40. &oI. XCI, No. 17 Copyright 1980, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, September 23, 1980 Ten Cents Twelve Pages REACTION OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS SURPRISES HER Rape victim describes traumatic experience By LORENZO BENET It was early one afternoon in April two years ago when the 23-year-old University graduate student finished her shift at work. She was tired, and when a co-worker she had known for more than a year offered her a ride home, she accepted. "Most of the time he was friendly, sometimes he flirted," she said. "We were always kidding around at work." WHEN THEY arrived at her apar- tment near campus, they went inside. "I needed to change and get my books *or class," she explained, "He said he needed to make a phone call to his wife." She showed him to the phone, which' was located in her bedroom. She then sat down on the bed and began to fidget with her ring. Her class didn't start for another half hour. Maybe she'd make some coffee, she thought. But since she felt uncomfortable in the work clothes she had been wearing for the past ten hours, she decided she would change once he left the room. Without looking at her co-worker, she asked him to speed up his call. There was no response. She looked up and saw him standing over her, his whole body trembling uncontrollably. "What's the matter?" "I'm going to rape you." A STRUGGLE ENSUED. She tried to reach the door several times, but he kept throwing her back onto the bed. "He was too strong-I couldn't get him off me. He kept threatening to cut me up if I didn't cooperate." Twenty minutes later it was over. "I remember I was just staring at the ceiling. My room was a mess. I couldn't really say anything-I was in shock." He began to get dressed. "Now see what you made me do. If you had just let me do it, none of this would have' happened. Now go get ready. I'm going to drive you to class." SHE SLOWLY GOT UP from her bed. Her body acped. She went in to the bathroom to wash. "Now remember-you have to act as if nothing happened. Just pretend it never happened." "Okay, okay." Beth (not her real name) did not go to the police right away. "I didn't know whether to tell anyone because I wasn't sure if it was rape. I wasn't laying there half dead, beaten, or bleeding or anything. I just couldn't get away from him. I felt that maybe I was just lucky to be alive. I thought it was just something women have to put up with because they're women." , RAPE IS ANY FORM of genital con- tact a person imposes on another un- willing person by using deception, social blackmail, threat, or physical violence, according to Judy Price, education coordinator for the Assault Crisis Center, a 24-hour crisis interven- tion service for domestic violence and sexual assault. "During the center's first three years of operation 397 rape victims from Washtenaw County contacted us," Price said. "We estimate that figure is only one-third of the actual number of rapes that occurred in that time span." Price noted the Center receives the heaviest number of calls in the months of August, September, and October. 11 "WE'RE NOT REALLY sure why that is, but it's been that way for the past five years," she said. Price also said 45 percent of the cen- ter's victims knew their assailants. Fif- ty-four percent of the victims are bet- ween the ages of 14 and 25, although the center has serviced victims as young as three and as old as 90. In the past year the center has had two cases involving male victims, Price said. This past summer the center conduc- ted a support group program for vic- tims of sexual assault. The eight-week session allowed participants to share the emotions and problems they ex- See RAPE, Page 7 Iran and Iraq ' on the brink of full-scale Doily Photo by JIM KL CONSUMER ACTIVIST RALPHNADER speaks harshly against standardized tests in his lecture in Rackham Audi- WtoriumFlast night. EQUA TES TEST WIT H 'ROLL OF DICE'-: I0 a e call1s By DAVID MEYER Standardized tests designed to measure intelligence or educational aptitude-such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test-are in most cases no more accurate in predicting academic success than "a role of the dice," according to con- sumer advocate Ralph Nader. Nader, who spoke during a Detroit news conference yesterday and later to 400 people in Rackham Auditorium, said the tests, usually developed by the Educational Testingg Service in Princeton, N.J., are culturally and economically biased and are ultimately "a test of... values." "TRUTH IN TESTING" laws, which require standardized test corporations like ETS to release both the questions on the examinations and the corresponding correct answers following the 'testing period, are a first step towards SAT faulty. eliminating such imbalances, said Nader. "Truth in Testing" laws are on the books in New York, and similar legislation is pending in 12 states, including Michigan, he added. "Standardized tests reflect the cultural and economic background of the student and "proceed to perpetuate those inequities," Nader said. "If you want to do well on these tests-you must come from an affluent background." In addition to lacking accuracy in predicting future academic performance, Nader attacked the tests as having deeper, more subtle psychological effects on students. Students who did poorly on the tests "internalized their test scores as a measure of their self-esteem . . . of their self- worth," Nader said. HE ALSO ARGUED that "the tests are given a widly exag- See NADER, Page 7 By the Associated Press Iran claimed it destroyed 11 Iraqi fighters and four gunboats, and Iraq launched surprise air attacks on at" least seven Iranian air installations, in- cluding Tehrans international airport, as a border dispute between the two nations flared yesterday. Iraq said it shot down six Iranian jet fighters, and President Saddam Hussein issued a statement that Iranian threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz, meeting point of the Persian and Oman Secretary of State Edmund Muskie of- fers 'respect,' but no apology to Iran. See Story, Page 2. gulfs, constituted a declaration of war. HUSSEIN'S STATEMENT came af- ter Iran declared its coast on the Per- sian Gulf a war zone and warned ships against carrying supplies to Iraqi ports. British officials said a British merchan- tman was fired on, with no casualties reported, and other British vessels were believed trapped at the Iraqi port of $asra., Tehran Radio reported tanks battling in Khuzestan province, north of the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway, where it claimed Iranian artillery fire, destroyed Iraqi oil installations and a gas refinery at al-Faw. Months of sparring along the borders exploded last week after Iraq canceled a 1975 treaty putting 60 miles of the Iran-Iraq border in the middle of the Shatt al-Arab waterway that provides both nations access to the Persian Gulf. Iraq now claims sovereignty over the eastern shore of the passage. TOP IRANIAN LEADERS including Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr claimed yesterday that Iraq was "in- cited" by the United States and was ac- ting as an American "mercenary." The airport raids came a day after both countries said they inflicted heavy damage on each other in naval and ar- tillery battles at the head of the Persian Gulf. Iraq said its warplanes struck 11 t Students: Anderson won war of words var Iranian airstrips with a loss of two Soviet-made Mig jets. A top Iranian military official said "several" air bases were attacked, ° and a revolutionary guard commander said six MiGs hit seven installations. IRAN'S. FOREIGN Ministery con- demned Iraqi attacks on "airports and residential areas" that killed "innocent people," Radio Tehran reported, ad- ding that nine ambulances rushed to the Tehran's Mehrabad Airport im- See FULL-SCALE, Page 2 Fema-le S. Quad, resident'. jabbed with knife By MAUREEN FLEMING A University student, stabbed Friday night outside her South Quad residence, suffered only minor in- juries that required four stitches, police said yesterday. They said there are no suspects in the knifing. Police said they do not think the incident was related to the Sept. 14 slaying of Rebecca Greer Huff. "WE JUST THINK the woman startled a man trying to break into the dorm," Police Chief William Corbett said. "He probably got ner- vous, jabbed her with the knife, and took off," Corbett said. The victim of last Friday's 10:30 p.m. knifing, a 19-year-old LSA junior, said she left to grocery shop but forgot her checkbook. She retur- ned to the dorm and saw a man "fid- dling" with the lock on the door out- side Kelsey House located on Monroe Street. The woman said she didn't think anything of the man's presence because she believed the lock was stuck-a' common _occurence at South Quad. See S. QUAD, Page 2 John Anderson and Ronald Reagan debated Sunday night, but the movie Midnight Express got most University student's votes. The only sign of politics on Dooley's big T.V. screen was Carter campaign commercials. About 50 residents wat- ched the polor T.V. in the Markley Hall 'University political experts express their views on Sunday night's presiden- tial debate between Ronald Reagan and John Anderson. See Story, Page 5. lounge which was tuned to the movie, while 25 others were glued to a set downstairs broadcasting the debates. OF THE STUDENTS watching the televised debates, most said they felt This story was written by City Editor Patricia Hagen and Kevin .Tottis with files by Lorenzo Benet, Claudia Centomini, A ida Eisenstat, Wilfredo Ramirez, and Barry Witt. Andeson gave the better performance of the two candidates, according to a spot check of several residence halls, a local bar, and an Anderson campaign committee debate party. In the Markley snack bar a pro- Anderson group commented freely during the hour-long verbal match. "Reagan's problem is he's too cor- ny," said School of Natural Resources freshman Eric Richter, after Reagan made a pun with the words "conser- vative" and "conservation." "REAGAN BLEW IT," added Alison Zirn, an LSA freshwoman, after Reagan said Alaskan land should be used for oil production. Reagan suppporter Julie Salzman countered the partisan crowd with her comment that Anderson "never an- swers any questions." During Reagan's patriotic, con- cluding remarks, some of the watchers See STUDENTS, Page 5 UNIVERSITY STUDENTS (1. to r.) David Vincent, Buck Marks, and Bahman Ross amuse themselves as they tune in to the League of Women Voters' debate between presidential candidates Ronald Reagan and John Anderson Sunday night. TODAY- No. 2 tries harder STUDENTS WHO 'gain admission to Michigan's undergraduate business school couldn't do much better, according to a consensus of college deans nationwide. Yesterday's Wall Street Journal quoted a survey of college deans conducted by the Univer- sity of Virginia, and the University of Michigan un- dergraduate business school was rated below only the TT-.-- o.. ann ~ ri nnrti..c..fn the a u the I Gesfor Pres With the 1980 presidential campaign in full swing, can- didates like James Gesualdi are looking to the future. He hopes the slogan of "Ges for Pres" soon will be heard from coast to coast. "I'd like to be the youngest president ever, the greatest president ever," says the confident candidate. Although the 18-year-old Gesualdi is still shy of the Con- stitutional age requirement of 35, he has begun organizing his campaign with the hope of having a large enough staff to hold down the rising costs of running for office. Even with elections many Americans are wondering what should be; done to brighten the outlook for this year's election. Larry Cox, a radio show host in Denver, thinks he has found the answer: a fifth term for Franklin Roosevelt. Although FDR died in 1945, Cox sees him as a more deserving candidate than the living contenders. Cox cites the recent Democratic and Republican conventions where FDR was often quoted. Who would be better able to turn these quoted words into action than the man who spoke them, Cox reasons. Cox says, , "I think they (the candidates) heard he was going to be .__ ._ .. _ _ __ . _a ' .. . . . . . . . . . __ ._ l .. neighbor insists. "But that's not real coffee," Frank protests, but he is interrupted by his neighbor: "Oh yes it is. It has the full, rich flavor of the best coffee beans without the caffeine that makes you nervous," the neighbor respon- ds triumphantly. "Well, I'd rather be nervous than full of a suspected carcinogen!" Frank shoots back. Prevention magazine says the solvent commonly used to extract caf- feine from coffee beans is methylene chloride, a suspected carcinogen. The magazine says a pure water solvent process has been developed in Switzerland, but Prevention I I i