The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 15, 1986 - Page 5 Quiz examines definition of rape 4 t . phi C# ra +Y } .I M , , a fijjt ; r S.rr p., d A Y ; . i bra "{ #, i By MEISSA BIRKS Last Friday, the University's Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center asked more than 300 students what circumstances would constitute a rape. The results of the survey illustrated the differing attitudes between men and women about rape. During the Festifall fair on the Diag, members of the center passed out a quiz describing four scenarios: a stranger attacking a woman walking alone at night, an ex-boyfriend threatening to hurt a woman's family if she didn't have sex with him, a man coercing a woman to have sex after a date, and a husband slapping his wife before forcing her to have sex. They asked participants to check "yes" or "no" if they thought the situation could be considered rape. "I think they're pretty blatant answers," said LSA junior Caroline Gelb. "It's pretty hard to say 'no' to any of these things." Residential College senior Pam Kisch, a student facilitator at the crisis center and one of the organizers of the quiz, said the questions were not made to be obvious, but that, "I would call all of them sexual assault." "ALL of the situations include force, violence, or coersion. We're not talking about a mutually agreed upon sexual activity in any of these situations," she said. Of the 343 students who answered the questionairre, 178 were women and 165 were men. Eighty percent of the women and 56 percent of the men said each situation should be considered" rape. The scenario to which most men answered 'no' was the one that described a date, or acquaintance, rape where the couple had been on a date, drinking, and the man pushed the woman on the bed as she tried to leave. Thirteen percent of the men who responded didn't consider the situation rape. An LSA freshman, who asked that he not be named, answered 'yes' to all questions, but added that the date rape scenario might be difficult for some people to consider rape. "THERE MIGHT be a couple people who say 'no' because they believe it's his right," he said. According to Kisch, the responses to that scenario showed that society tends to blame the woman, saying she "leads the man on." One 17-year-old man wrote on the survey that yes, it was rape, but the woman was at fault too, Kisch said. "Men have a problem with it. They're raised that when a woman says 'no,' she really means 'yes,'" said astronomy graduate student Diab Jerius, a group facilitator at the crisis center. "He thought he was overcoming a woman's tendency to be passive." Jerius added that several students answering the quiz asked about what the law considered to be rape because, "for a lot of people, what the law says defines for them what rape is." Daily Photo by JOHN MUNSON Big wheels Doris Woodward rides by Mosher Jordan Hall on her 1883 Victor tricycle in a parade of classic bikes. Proceeds from Saturday's event will go to the Ronald McDonald House. 'U' director says athletics may hurt academic image BusiNEss Questions About Computing at U-M? A .... s"s - , - - We Have Answers! Come to- An Introduction to Computing Resources on Campus Wednesday, September 17, 3:00-5:00pm Rackham Amphitheater (4th floor, Rackham Bldg.) All faculty, staff, and students are welcome. Call 764-5356 for more information. Refreshments will be served. Information Technology Division (Continued from Page 1)' covered and the public's interest in seeing the events, everybody knows about success in athletics. With non-athletics, it's not the same as football or basketball," F, .Lee says. Potter recalls meeting with an :'NBC production crew last fall as ,they prepared a segment for the 'Today Show focusing the ',University. U "They were interested in doing ''a lot of sports. They wanted to talk to Bo and Don Canham and the cheerleaders. We were concerned that if so much time was spent on what we consider the more frivolous side .of the University, it would distort the reality of the University of r Michigan as a center of academic excellence. We told the producer w -that sometimes we go for days without even thinking of sports. "THE PRODUCER SAID , -Wll that might be how you think of yourselves, but that's not r how the world sees you. The world sees you as a place extremely conscious of sports." That was a real lesson to me." "It's a two-edged sword," Potter says. "The University's name is all over the country. National broadcasts clearly draws an enormous audience. It helps in simply knowing us." But Potter views "major sports 'n and intellectual academic purposes" as an "inherent contradiction that Harvard or Northwestern don't have to deal with." HE SAYS the failure of two highly regarded basketball recruits this year to score 600 on their Scholastic Aptitude Tests to meet the National Collegiate. Athletic Association's eligibility requirements was a "major embarrassment to the ,University." Potter is concerned, for example, that a perception of the University as a sports-oriented institution may turn off prospective students more . interested in academics. Don Canham, the University's ,?athletics director, disagrees. "That's ridiculous. If Harvard ,had a great football team, their academic quality wouldn't be "overlooked." OTHER University admin- istrators are also less concerned :i'than Potter. "The executive .officers don't sit around worrying about the University's image. Our attitude is that all we have to worry about is doing our jobs ,.right," says University President Harold Shapiro. "I don't feel that athletics is a hindrance. More square feet of newspaper space and television space is devoted to sports everyday than anything else. It just reflects the interest of the public," he says. While Shapiro is concerned .about the implications Ott'.1.ll . ait 1 - l - a al 1n1 Director of Admissions Clifford Sjogren. "I don't think it's necessarily the case where academics conflicts with athletics; I think UCLA and Stanford and Duke have done very well balancing both," Sjogren says. He, adds that while some students might be turned off by the University because of its prominence in sports, "those aren't the ones we're looking for. We're looking for the clear thinkers." ATHLETICS IS actually a positive factor in attracting students, although to a lesser degree than academic reputation or cost, according to political science Prof. Jack Walker. Walker participated in a study by the University's Institute of Social Research (ISR) on how students choose a particular university. 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