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Thursday April 8,1993

Scars of childhood sexual abuse heal slowly

Editor's note. The names of Anna
and Dawn are fictitious: however.
the following stories of two central
Kentucky college students represent
accarate accounts of telephone in-
terviews arranged through their re-
spective therapists.

 

By Kathy W. Larkin
Contributing Writer

 

Anna was not yet 3 years old
when her parents divorced and her
mother's boyfriend began sexually
abusing her.

The boyfriend soon developed an
alcohol problem, and as the sub-
stance abuse worsened, the sexual
molestation became more violent.

The victimization continued until
she reached the age of 6. Then. fol-
lowing the death of her mother.
Anna moved in with her father.

When she was 7 and visiting in
another state. Anna was sexually
abused by a young friend‘s father.
Between the ages of 12 and 14, she
began having flashbacks of scenes
from her turbulent past.

And. at age 14, she was raped.

When she was 16, the flashbacks
returned. and she feared she was
losing her mind. It was then she
sought counseling.

“1 had a hard time making myself
eat. got dumped by my boyfriend.
wasn’t able to function particularly
well," Anna said.

“The dreams began first — a
string of horrible nightmares
then something in the dreams
would trigger a flashback.“

Two years later. Anna again was
the victim of sexual abuse, but this
time she found the courage to take
the perpetrator to court.

A ‘catalyst for problems'

The college years may intensify
problems that people who were
abused as children hoped to escape.

Print media
still needed,

speaker says

By Holly Powell
Staff Writer

 

 

Mass media is making strides to
improve new forms of interactive
technology. but the print media still
is necessary in society, the former
publisher and chief executive offi—
cer of the Washington Post said last
night.

"The written word is imperative
in importance." said Katherine Gra-
ham. who currently is chairwoman
of the publishing company‘s board
of directors. “Conflicting issues can
only be understood by the written
word for a democracy to exist.“

Graham explained three new
forms of interactive communication
to a filled auditorium at the Otis A.
Singletary Center for the Arts dur-
ing the 12th-annual Edward F.
Prichard Jr. Lecture.

The first was a portable computer
that would put news at the finger-
tips of its users.

"To read a story. you could press
a button. which would enlarge the
story on the screen." Graham said.
“if you were in the car. you could
listen as well."

The other multimedia option she
discussed was a compact disc
player that could store more than
600 million bytes of information.
Graham compared this type of com-
munication to a news magazine be-
cause the CD-ROM discs would be
released only periodically and
would contain in-depth information.

She said Newsweek magazine al-
ready is experimenting with the
CD-ROM. or Compact Disc. Read
Only Memory. format.

“Newsweek is working on a disk
that would come out quarterly and
he devoted to one cun'ent topic. like
the environment." she said.

This type of technology could re-
vitalize the future of news maga-
zines. which people sometimes dis-
miss as “dinosaurs." Graham said.

“With this new technology. news
magazines and journalistic skills are
alive and well.”

See SPEAKER. Page 5

Because it often is a time of blos-
soming sexuality and exposure to
compromising situations. the prob-
ability of sexual interaction dramat-
ically increases.

“College is a catalyst for mnning
into problems," Lexington psychol-
ogist Medford Moreland said.

UK psychologist Nikki Fulks
said some victims try to trick them-
selves into believing that time and
distance may be enough to stop the
memories.

As director of the University
Cormseling Center. Fulks counsels
students who need help dealing
with emotional distress. Many are
survivors of childhood sexual
abuse, whether they know it or not

It isn't uncommon. she said, for
someone to seek the center’s help
for seemingly unrelated problems
that actually have their roots in past
sexual abuse.

"These (problems) include chron-
ic depression, low self-esteem. sex-
ual dysfunction with a partner.
flashbacks of frightening incidents
and horrible nighunares with a
vaguely dangerous scene of viola-
tion," Fulks said.

Depression often strikes sexual
abuse victims when they begin to
unearth the secrets of their buried
memories, she said. The depression
may be intensified by feelings of
being overwhelmed at school and
may be marked by sleep disturbanc-
es or a drastic change in eating hab-
its. Frequently, the emotional tur-
moil leads to substance abuse.

Marion Gildersleeve. a social
worker with the Family Counseling
Service in Lexington, often begins
counseling patients at this early
stage of the realization process. Pa-
tients. she said. become fearful of
their unexplained feelings. memo-
ries and behaviors, and they often
feel helpless to control them.

“Sexual abuse is a power crime
that involves sexual acts by a perpe~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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trator. It's more complicated and
much more intense and humiliating
(titan physical abuse)." Gildersleeve
said.

Still. other victims discover that
talking about the sexually abusive
situation may trigger memories of
an incident long repressed.

Dawn’s flashbacks began at age
19 when she told her boyfriend she
had been sexually molested at the
age of 5 by a teen-age male baby

 

sitter. A little later, her father began
verbal sexual abuse. which contin-
ued until last year. She is 21.

The verbal abuse started with
sexual jokes and sexual passes. and
became more explicit as she got
older. He wanted to take nude pho-
tographs of her and recounted de-
tails of his sexual exploits with
prostitutes at massage parlors.

“i had never considered what my
dad did to me abusive until last

 

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Fifth-year architecture student Tom Hickey, of Annapolis, Md.. sells tickets yesterday out—
side Pence Hall for the Beaux Arts Ball, which is April 24.

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N .Y. governor takes
name from court pool

 

By Ron Fournier
Associated Press

 

WASHINGTON — Mario Cuo-
mo. the best-known candidate for
the upcoming Supreme Court va-
cancy. formally withdrew yesterday
from consideration before President
Clinton had narrowed his list of
prospects.

in a letter to Clinton, Cuomo said
wanted to remain as governor to
help New York's economic recov-
ery. He said staying in the political
world would allow him to “cartin-
ue to serve as a vigorous supporter
of the good work you are doing for
America and the world."

The letter was sent to confirm an
earlier telephone conversation with
Clinton. but it does not say when

the telephone call was made.

Clinton refused earlier in the day
to confirm reports of the withdraw-
al. but said. “i think he's terrific."

Cuomo‘s decision removes the
only candidate with celebrity quali-
ty from the long list of names cam-
ing speculation in Washington. It
would appear to be an indication
that Cuomo may run for a fourth
term as governor.

Aides said Clinton is at least a
month away from making his
choice. There is no hurry because
White will not retire until the end
of the court's term. usually late
luneorluly.

Cuomo‘s decision. which News-
day said was forwarded to Clinton
last Thursday. was unknown to

See CUOMO, Page 5

  

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year." Dawn said. This year. she
confronted her father regarding his
abusive behavior and is waiting for
his response.

But her recovery will continue.
whether or not her father seeks
help.

“Recovery is a process (of) on-
going work. not as easy as in the
movies or on TV. but (it) involves a

See ABUSE. Page 5

UK also ofiers
support group

; for local men

 

By Tyrone Beason
News Editor

 

It used to be that when a male
was sexually violated as a child. the
signs of abuse went unnoticed or
unaddressed.

After all. the popular belief was
that big boys weren't supposed to
cry over their pain.

A UK counselor has been work-
ing to change that.

Stephen Richey. a counselor at
UK’s Counseling Psychology Ser-
vices Clinic. has organized a com-
munity support group specifically
for adult male survivors of child-
hood sexual abuse.

The group is one of only a few in
the Bluegrass region.

Richey said the pressure society
places on men to be strong and fear-
less makes coping with painful
memories difficult.

“Society doesn't recognize men
as victims, so men feel like they al-
ways have to prove their masculini-
ty." he said.

This may explain why some men
behave aggressively in social situa-
tions. Richey said this kind of be-
havior —— characterized by alcohol
abuse. hypersexuality or violence
— often is the only way a man
knows how to “numb the pain."

“That‘s how society teaches men
to interact with other men and wom—
en “ Richey said. “You have to ex~
ercise power and control."

This thirst for control could be a
subconscious reaction to the feel-

See MEN, Page 5

Assault charges
sent to grand jury

 

By Dale Greer
Executive Editor

 

Charges against an Ohio man
who is accused of assaulting a fe-
male student at a campus fratemity
house were waived to a grand jury
yesterday.

Prosecutors are expected to seek
felony indictments against Scotty
Eugene Ratliff. 22. of Cable. Ohio.
within the next 30 days. said Gayle
Whitt, director of the Victims‘ As-
sistance Program in the Common-
wealth‘s Attorney Office.

An exact date for the start of
grand jury testimony has yet to be
determined.

Ratliff faces charges of first-
degrec attempted rape and second-
degree assault in connection with a
alleged incident March 28 at the Al-
pha Gamma Rho house.

He appeared at a preliminary
hearing yesterday in Fayette Dis-
trict Court. where Judge Gary

Payne relaxed the terms of Ratliff s
810.000 full-cash bond.

Payne's decision made it possible
for Ratliff to post 10 percent of that
amount. rather than the entire
310.000. before being released from
the county detention center.

A jail clerk said yesterday that
Ratliff was released from custody
about 4 pm.

UK Police arrested the automo-
bile service technician March 28 af-
ter he allegedly assaulted the stu-
dent in a bedroom of the fraternity
house about 4:10 that morning.

The student was treated at UK
Hospital for bruises to the face and
a bloody nose and mouth. police
records show.

Tom Chapuk. who had been ap-
pointed by Fayette District Court to
serve as Ratliff s public defender.
said the alleged assailant has se-
cured a private attomey. Tucker
Richardson.

Richardson was unavailable for
comment yesterday.

ABC correspondent
to give talk at Transy

 

Staff reports

 

ABC-TV news correspondent Ca-
role Simpson will speak tonight at
Transylvania University on the im-
plications of news gathering in the
l‘ms.

Simpson. who also is anchor-
woman of “ABC World News Sun-
day." has reported for 20 3. cars on a
variety of issues. including health
care. housing. education. the envi-
ronment and national politics. Her
1988 report on children with AIDS
won an Emmy nomination.

The journalist made the news her-
self when she was assaulted by a
South African police officer while
covering the release of African Na-
tional Congress leader Nelson Man-
dela in 1990.

Simpson‘s broadcasting career
began in her native Chicago. where
she was hired as a radio news cone
spondent ln 1065. She later became
C hicago's first black television
news correspondent and taught
journalism at Northwestem Univer-
sity‘s Medill School of Journalism.

She also has helped increase cov-
erage of issues concerning blacks
and other minority groups and has
lobbied the networks to hire and
promote more minorities.

Last year. Simpson served as
moderator for the final presidential
debate.

Simpson's presentation. which is
freeandopentothepublic.willhe
held at 7:30 pm. in Haggin Aud-
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Hank Williams Jr.
Out ofLefl Field
(‘apricom Records

 

By Dave Lavender
Arts Editor

 

Hank Williams Jr. is —~ as college
basketball scouts would say -— a
‘tweener

No. Williiuns is not too bad a ball
handler to play guard or too stnall
of stature to play forward. he is lust
in between “Young Country" (a
phrase he coined) and “old fart" (a
phrase Marty Stuart made some‘
what inhunous in his Grand Ole
Opry induction late in 1902).

Hank is no longer the king of
country radio as he was in the 1080s
when he took home the country en-
tertainer of the year award five
times. nor is he a washed-up artist
(Rod Stewart) hanging on to a
thread of a career by regurgitatiiig
old hits and habits.

He is just Hank —— still cranking
out album after album.

He doesn‘t care that he‘s had
enough gems to fill three greatest-
hits albums and two box sets or that
he and all his rowdy friends have
settled down.

And to borrow a line from the
elder statesman of whiskey-bent-
;md—hell-txrund-country. Waylon
Jennings. it doesn‘t seem to bother
Hank that he‘s “too dumb for New
York. too ugly for LA."

Out of Left Field is merely an—
other chapter in the life of “shadow-
face.“ who endured a horrible
mountain-climbing accident in the
early 1970s. relentless hard—core
partying and the burden of having
to fill the shoes of his daddy — a
man the world knew by first name.

Out ochft Field is a bit predicta—
ble in that Hank‘s recent marriage
translates into a mellow album
filled wrth flowing ballads :md love
It also lacks the Bama Band bite
that tore up such Hank recordings
as Born to Boogie and Wild Streak

The album is devoid of the Hank
dominance shown on his early re-

cordings like 1716 Pressure is On.
Habits Old and New and High
Notes. where he grabbed every in-
strument and bottle in sight. pour-
ing out his soul to prove his daddy
right when he sang about a “Lost
Highway"

But. somehow. in the name of
God and Dixie. 1 like the new al—
bum.

()K. 1‘“ .‘ttllllll I hated Hank's
Jan. 25 appearmrce on the “Tonight
Show " (This is like admitting open
animosity towards your mama
where I‘m from.)

In his first “Tonight Show“ ap-
peariutce in nearly 10 years. Hank
hiunmed it tip with a poorly pre-
pared Jay Leno before doing
“Everything t‘ornes Down to Mon-
ey and love.“ the first single off
the album. with Branford Marsalis
and the band.

i hated the song. 1 hated the ar-
rangement. And although I love
nearly anything musical the Marsal-
is family touches. 1 pondered
Hank's sanity for chucking his
wild—eyed ‘Bama boys for the To-
night Sbow band

It was like. say. a Frank Zappa
gospel album.

()r ()zry ()sboriic popping up in
a field of waving wheat testifying
to the goodness of Wheat Thins.

It didn't mix.

But the song stuck with me like
Dale Brown's defense. it wouldn't
go away.

Once I got past listening to the
first track do/ens 01' times over. I
,found the rest of the album a ma-
ture collection (unlike his last al-
bum. Maverick. which 1 didn't care
for) of Hank originals and interest-
ing old R is 8 covers.

Yes. R K it cor. ers.

Hey. this is the man who did it
up with little Richard on “if it

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"My Name is Bocephus." And he‘s
a man who's covered everyone
trotn Jimmy Driftwood and lynrd
Skytird to 7]. Top turd Fats Waller.

For triost other artists. it would
seem a paradox or down right weird
to stick great versions of Percy
Sledge's‘ 1067 hit. “Out of Left
Field." and Joe Tex's signature
song from 1064. “Hold What
You‘ve Got." alongside songs with
lines about pickups and gun racks
But Hank can get away with it.

Staying with long-time co-
producer Barry Beckett Hank is at
his singing prime on “Everything
(‘omes Down “Warm in Dal~
las" and the R & B covers.

It‘s hard. however. to digest
“Hide and Seek." Hank‘s stab at po-
litical correctness. The song re-
minds me too much of “Don't Give
us a Reason." Hank's song about
the Gulf War. Or. maybe I hate it
because I pretty much detest politics
or because 1 don‘t think he can out-
do “I‘m for Love" or “Coalition to
Ban Coalitions.“

But wading through “Hide and
Seek" is worth it to hear “Warm in
Dallas." which is one of the best
tunes Hank has ever written. It ri-
vals the emotions Hank wrung out
of “Blues Man“ and “Weatherman.”

While there will be much ado
about Hank‘s left-of~center R & B
leanings. this album is in no way a
swerving-at-70—mph venture like
what Willie Nelson did with the
landmark album Stardust in 1978.

Hank might be coming out of left
field. but he didn‘t come out wear-
ing a top hat. Willie did.

Overall. Oul of Left Field proves
that Hank is not quite old enough or
rugged enough to join Kris Kristof-
ferson. Johnny Cash. Waylon and
Willie in the Highwaymen. Nor is
be young enough. GQ enough or
pretty-boy enough to hang with the
young guns of country.

He is a 'lwecner.

And that. at this point in his ca-
rcer. just means he‘s being himself.

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Field, a collection of originals and Ft & B covers.

Local theatres open productions tonight

 

America's foremost steel band ex-
pert.

Alcxis first came to the US. in
1961 as a member of the National
Steel Band of Trinidad and 'l‘obago.
In 1985. he joined the staff of the
School of Music at Northeni Illi-
nois University and now codirccts
the band with O'Connor. Tickets
for the show are $5 for the general
public and S3 for students and sen-

Staff reports

 

Appearing in their second cam-
pus concert in two weeks. UK‘s
steel drum bands. the Steel Kats
and l’rcsh Steel. take the stage at
Memorial Hall tonight at 7:30.

(iuest artists for the concert will
be (‘liff Alexis. the builder of UK‘s
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$CHOLAR$HIP$

The Student Development Council tSDCi is
now accepting applications for two $1,000
scholarships.

Applicants must be currently enrolled full-
timc UK or LCC students who will be
enrolled full-time during the 1993-94
academic year.

Scholarships will be awarded on the basrs of
reasonable a ‘ademic success (minimum GPA
of 2.5) and service to the University as
demonstrated through campus involvement
and leadership.

Pick up applications at the Sturgill
Development Building on Rose Street (next to

the (Thi ()mega house). Applications are due
on Monday, April 19th.

Call SDC at 257-6288 for more information.

 

 

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...

in other events. The Actors’
Guild of Lexington is presenting
the Pulitzer Prize-winning play
“The Heidi Chronicles" by Wendy
Wasscrstein. The comedy. which
opens tonight. exarntnes a genera-
tion's progress from the politically
active 1060s to the success-oriented
1080s. Tickets are $13 for the gen-
eral public and $8 for senior cm-
was and students with le 1‘01
more information. call ((itlol 3“—
0663.

Tomorrow night. Phoenix (iroiip
Thcaue will open with “Shadow ol
a Gunman." a production written by
renowned lrish playwright Sean
O'Casey. Curtain is at 8 p m. in the
Lexington (‘entral Public l.1hflll’}'
Theater. 140 East Main St, '1 ickets
are 58. For resen'ations call. loom
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 Understanding and becoming
aware of our debt to Africa is cen-
tral to the understanding of Brazil.
It is central to understanding the
destiny of Brazil. This great debt
will only be paid, in part. when
Brazil solves the problem of cultu-
ral identity. As long as things con-
tinue as they are now. it will be im-
possible to redeem this debt.

— His Excellency Rubens Ricu-
pero,

Brazilian ambassador to the U.S.

GAINESVILLE. Fla. — These
were among the opening remarks
made by Ambassador Ricupero at
last week‘s 42nd annual conference
of the Center for Latin American
Studies at the University of Florida.

The theme of the conference was
“Black Brazil,“ and it included
three full days of participation in
research in sociology. film, music.
dance, art and culture — studies on
the roots of these traditions in Afri-
ca. what happened to these tradi-
tions after they were brought to
Brazil in the era of slavery, and
what has happened to these tradi-
tions since then.

Throughout the entire confer-
ence, all this information was based
irt reality —— or what these cultural
manifestations meant in the real
world of present-day Brazilians of
African descent

For me. this conference was a re-
1i gious experience.

This conference blew my brain
wide open. loaded it with new ideas
and concepts 1 had seen and heard
—- and made are aware of the im-
plications of this conference for a
better understanding of the problem
of cultural identity in our own
country.

For one thing, my suspicion that
“business as usual" is on its way
out (as far as a university setting is
concerned) was confirmed by what
I saw and heard.

I believe I saw the wave of the
future —— and it is not one of politi-
cal correctness. deference. toler-
ance or lip service to those per-
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mutual respect and appreciation of
the different contributions each cul-
ture brings to the world market-
place.

“This conference is an indicator
of the need for university net-
works." Ricupero said. “not the tra-
ditional university dominated by an
American or European superiority
type of thinking. There is no place
any more for a neo-colonial mentali-
ty. This type of world view is hope-
lessly archaic."

At the conference. l joined a large
group of respected professors, art-
ists, research experts and politicians
from the United States, Brazil, sev-
eral European counuies, Angola,
Nigeria, Mozambique, South Africa
and several other African nations.

1 was struck again and again by
the strong undercurrent of mutual
respect all persons had for each oth-
er, and for the respect for our differ-
ent cultures and backgrounds — the
way it is supposed to be in the
world, or at least the way it is sup-
posed to be at a so—called institution
of higher learning.

This tone was set from the very
beginning of the conference, as Ric-
upero (a “white" Brazilian of Italian
descent) described the culttnal, artis-
tic and actual physical-wealth debt
owed to Africans by the New
World. and especially Brazil.

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slavery was regional, slavery was
the basis of the entire country in
Brazil. he said Brazil received one-
third of all the Africans sold into
slavery — three times as many as
the United States did during the
1800s, he said.

At the time Brazil became inde-
pendent of Portugal, 1.3 million
European Brazilians enjoyed the
fruits of the labor of 3.9 million en-
slaved African Brazilians, Ricupero
said.

"They did not come to Brazil
willingly,” he said. “but they did
come — and they built a country."

Ricupero was in a unique posi-
tion to address the Brazil-Africa
connection at this conference. Be-
fore his appointment to Washing-
ton, D.C., he spent some 10 years
establishing Brazilian embassies in
African countries that did not yet
have them. He also helped establish
the Afro-Brazilian Museum in Sal-
vador in nonheastem Brazil.

His opening remarks, 1 think,
were indicative of the enormous
amount of cultural exchange that
was to take place in the next three
days.

Everything I saw and heard only
served to support and emphasize
what I already believed: that the
many different forms of culture
transported to the New World by
enslaved Africans have enriched,
changed, influenced and in some
ways dominated the growth of new
forms of culttn’al expression in the
New World — and that to under-
stand and respect who and where
we are as Americans today. we
must understand and respect our
roots in both Afriat and Europe.

In the l8405. Ricupero said, a
well-known Brazilian politician
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America"

Because this politician was
known as sort of a sarcastic wit in
those days, his remark was written
offas being kind of ajoke, he said.

Later. others saw it as meaning
that African slave labor had built
the country.

But this is not what was meant.
Ricupero said. and the fact that a
large number of people had congre-
gated at the University of Florida to
pay homage and study the African
influence in Brazilian culture and
society was proof that the comment
was true.

"Africa civilizes America." he
explained. mezms that. despite all
the persecution and hardship, what
the Africans brought to the New
World influenced and changed all
forms of cultural expression to such
an extent that today we can not ima-
gine our world without their contri-
button.

This is every bit as true for us in
the United States as it is in Brazil.

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