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Women learn safety precautions nWORKSHOP: One female’s story sparks a seminar to teach others about how to protect themselves from attack
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Daily Titan Staff Writer Carmela Ocampo went about her daily routine as most women would. After a day of classes and work, she ritually would take a casual run near dusk when the falling sun offered just enough light in the cooler evening for her to see her way through her usual route.
However, recently, Ocampo’s 22year-old nightly tradition turned into a catalyst for a shocking lesson, which she would realize two weeks later. As a part of Women’s History Month, the Women’s Center and Adult Reentry hosted Tuesday afternoon a causal one-hour workshop focused on safety for women—the same workshop that ended with Ocampo coming to a personal realization. “I wasn’t shaking then, but I’m shaking now, “ Ocampo said to the mostly female room of about 20 staff and students. With a shaky voice and a slight stutter, Ocampo shared for the second time in two weeks her encounter with a potential attacker. Ocampo was on her usual run through
her Buena Park neighborhood when a suspicious van started to follow her. At one point, a man leaned out of the side door and demanded Ocampo enter the vehicle. At the time, Ocampo believed the encounter was a prank and not a threat to her life. University Police Chief and guest speaker Judi King said that Ocampo did not consider the potential threat because of common problems victims have with habit and “comfort zones.” “Use the same tools you use when driving,” King said. “You drive defensively or you’re in trouble. You always scan your environment for who’s there. Why should walking be any different?” During her 40-minute talk about safety and defense, King focused on the importance of awareness and prepara-
tion. “Everyone should be aware of what they can do personally to not be an easy target,” she said. King went over a short list of easy things a woman needs to know to avoid becoming an “easy victim.” Some of those tips included: -When someone approaches you, your best defense is to make immediate eye contact. -Any weapons you have can be used against you. -Don’t label your keys with any identifying information. -Don’t use “I’m not home” on your answering machine, use “I’m unavailable.”
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The audience at a workshop for safety listen as a woman shares her experience of how she survived an assault while jogging.
Parties not on agenda
Election apathy
nGREEKS: Sororities and fraternities hope to improve their image with a series of events helping the community
nVOTERS: Of 100 students polled, only 23 percent said they would cast a ballot in Tuesday’s primaries
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Nineteen-year-old Robert Galvan takes advantage of the close proximity of the Cal State Fullerton voting booths at the George G. Golleher Alumni House near the Titan Student Union.
Campus sororities and fraternities will host a barrage of events this semester, aimed at crushing the common misconception that the groups are party-oriented cliques, said representatives of the Greek system yesterday. John Cedillo, president of the Inter-fraternity Council (IFC), and Patti Quinones, vice president of programming for the Panhellenic Council, outlined their plans for the spring 2002 semester during a meeting of the Associated Students Board of Directors. “We get stereotyped,” Cedillo said. “Sometimes the good things we do are overshadowed by the bad things that happen to select fraternities. We want people to see the good things we’re doing.” The IFC, which represents campus fraternities, will hold a blood drive in conjunction with the Red Cross on April 24. Cedillo said he is still working out the details, but hopes to contract radio station Star 98.7 FM to broadcast live from the event. The Panhellenic Council, which represents campus sororities, helped acquire food donations for Titan Spirit Day, in late February. Representatives from both organizations will attend the Western Regional Greek Conference in San Francisco in early April. They will share leadership ideas with thousands of other students
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Lecture explores nature of religious extremnCULTURE: Professor R. Scott Appleby talks about the seriousness of the mentality of those who act in God’s name By Michael Matter
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Comparative Religion professor R. Scott Appleby lectures to the audience about religious extremism in the Pollak Library.
Professor R. Scott Appleby could not resist one last opportunity to explain to the large Pollak Library lecture audience Monday night why religious extremists should be taken more seriously. “It would be a big mistake to think that religious extremists are not doing this (violent acts) for God’s will,” Appleby said. “The Sept. 11 terrorists
truly believed that they were acting in God’s name.” Appleby, who directs the Joan Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies program at Notre Dame University, teaches classes in comparative religious movements and American religious history. From 1993-1998 he was co-director of an international public policy study called the Fundamentalism Project conducted by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that produced a five-volume work. He has recently authored a book titled “The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation.” The Joan Kroc Peace Studies program was established at Notre Dame in 1986. Initially set up to provide an ethical response to the Cold War nuclear arms buildup, the program is now founded on the premise that worldwide
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peace cannot be separated from the resolving of violent conflicts and the promotion of social justice and equitable development of nations. The program mission calls for two types of peace. The first is a “negative peace,” whose sole purpose is the prevention of war and violence. The second, is a “positive peace,” which strives to build cooperative, just relations between people. Providing short responses to Appleby’s lecture were comparative religion professors George St. Laurent, Ananda Guruge, Muzammil Siddiqi and Chairman Benjamin Hubbard. “I am inspired by the wisdom of my colleagues,” Hubbard said. “It seems that there is a lot of injustice worldwide and it is necessary to pursue justice in all these places. We need to have the virtue
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