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This issue of the Student contains an article titled, “AWS Panel Explains Rape Defense.” The Associated Women Students is now titled F-WORD at Miami. The article is a description of the panel, in which Miami’s gynecologist Dr. Shuamacer, head of security Wallace Miller, psychology professor Mahrer, and Bob Ellis from the Blue Diamond Karate School were the panelists. When I first read the title I thought the article would be these men defending low rape statistics at Miami, even though it’s well known that what’s reported isn’t the whole story. In actuality, these men listed ways women could defend themselves against being raped, including girls, “being conservative in the way dress,” because, “there are certain women who invite attack,” (Ellis and Mahrer, 1970). Dr. Mahrer also explained that some women can’t help but invite assault, since, “although some women appear appaled at the thought of being raped, they actually have conscious or unconscious desires to be mauled or beaten. Often the women who is “rape-prone” has become oriented this was by the type of relationship she had with her father prior to her adolescent years,” (Mahrer, 1970).
I am stunned. I want to know who these men are—their backgrounds, their qualifications, positions held, where they are now, their thoughts… have their thoughts changed? And people question why women don’t report? Not only are they severely traumatized but they’d seek help only to be accused have having some subconscious daddy kink? Sure. Did AWS members know that this is what would be said? Did they agree with these beliefs at the time? What's interesting is that the article held no judgments... It simply passed the information on verbatim. I want to continue searching to see if there's been a similar panel or event hosted by AWS, or not. The information given by these panelists doesn't seem like it would line up with the AWS's ideals, so I'm curious as to ow they selected their panelists and if they knew what the content would be ahead of time. This could potentially be compared to F-WORD's Take Back the Night Survivor Speak Outs; Same organizations, same fundamental ideals- to spread information regarding sexual assaults on campus, but very different outcomes.

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Women's Center Advocates (1974-1989) interview, December 2008.

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Women's Center Advocates (1974-1989) interview, December 2008.

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This piece is an in-person interview of six former Miami University Women*s Resource Center faculty. The interview took place in 2008, but the staff interviewed were discussing their time at the Center between 1974 and 1989. The interview begins with introductions and viewers meet Mary O. Bausano (Former Assistant to the Director of Student Activities and current campus counselor), Mary Evans (Former Assistant Dean of Women), Jane Goettsch (Former Coordinator of Women’s Programs), Joanne McQueen (Former Women’s Resource Advisory Board Member), Kathy McMahon-Klosterman (Current Assistant Professor on Educational Psychology and co-founder of Oxford’s chapter of N.O.W.), and Judith Rogers (Former Women’s Resource Center Assistant Program Coordinator  and Current Associate Dean of Student’s for the school of Education, Health and Society.) The interview addresses a variety of topics, including the founding of N.O.W.—the National Organization for Women—in Oxford, the necessity for the Women’s Center/Rape Crisis Center, the first Take Back the Night march, and community response to the founding of the Center.
This interview is important to my project because it provides multiple first-hand accounts of the people taking the first bit of action at Miami to combat the lack of resources and support for survivors. This piece is a positive source, whereas many of the articles I’m using are read through a negative light, as they often encourage victim blaming and accuse the community of overreacting to the problem of assault. It’s also useful for comparison of then versus now. These women saw a need at Miami and worked to fulfill it, and this interview allows viewers to see their opinions and reactions to old stories and old events. In one instance, one of the women told a story of how the Center published an infographic with the statistic “1 in 4,” addressing the commonality of sexual assaults of college women, and was brought in to the President’s office and made to review with them her sources and prove their validity. When she told the story, the women laughed and stated how absurd it was to question and attempt to disprove and hide a statistic as to not reveal the full state of the issue. This reminded me of the counterpublic discussion we ad in class. The way these women talk about sexual assault and the need for feminist activism on campus compared to their actions in the early 80’s shows their passions haven’t changed, and neither have the issues. It is interesting to think about who this interview was intended for; it was funded by the President’s office and archived as a Miami Oral History. These women were in positions throughout the university, some staff/faculty and some professors, yet all came together under one mission when they took notice of the oppression facing Miami women, and then used their positions as staff to create and staff a center on campus.

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Rape Resource Center Newsletter, Vol. II No. 1, 1978

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Rape Resource Center Newsletter, Vol. II No. 1, 1978

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Miami University Police Department Safety Bulletin and the Women Helping Women Resource Guide

This piece is a newsletter published by the Rape Resource Center in 1978. It discusses three incidents of sexual misconduct that had recently been reported, as well as resources available to victims and a discussion on low reporting statistics.
This piece is important to my project because it is very similar to published items we see today, specifically the MUPD Safety Bulletins and the Women Helping Women resource infographics. I will compare this newsletter to a recent bulletin as well as the WHW infographic, and discuss the language used. The bulletins are well known to be victim blaming—is this newsletter the same, or is it purely factual, with no bias? If so, is this because it was written by women, or women activists? Has the releasing of incident information become more victim blaming over the years? Who writes the safety bulletins? What are the goals of these two pieces? As for the Women Helping Women graphic, it discusses available resources for victims as well as information about campus assaults. Are the statistics the same on these two sources? I will also discuss the obviously still very much prevalent need for such resources. For these sources I would also like to discuss their means of information dissemination. How do these items reach students? Who is the intended audience? With the type on information the two resources put out, was there any backlash—response from a counterpublic?