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No painting required • Many sizes of steps and porches Quality Ornamental iron railings to compliment your entrance Call Mr, Unit Step for your free estimate RIME LOHO UNIT STEP Seciforth 527-1320 YOUr Precast Specialists 14 — THE BRUSSELS POST, MAY 10, 1978 Boff. will check film Camp Menesetung names new directors The Board of Directors of Camp Menesetung have announced the appointment of Directors for the 1978. camping season, Mr, and. Mrs. John Patterson will co-direct three of the United Church Camps at Camp Menesetung and Mrs. Lloy Grose will direct 'The Parents without Partners' at the same camp site. John and Nancy Patterson live in Palmerston and have three children. Nancy is an experienced school teacher and youth leader. Some of her special skills are in music, singing and craft work. John is a school principal ex- perienced in coun selling and youth work. Some of his hobbies include lay preaching, wood work, model trains and sailing. Both Nancy and John are very active in the Palmersotn United Church. Lloy comes • to Camp Melville W.M.S. met on Friday afternoon when Mrs. Gerald Gibson presided and opened the meeting with a short poem. Eighteen calls on sick and shut-ins were reported. Plans were made for a special evening meeting in June when a guest , speaker and guests from other neighbouring churches will be invited. The devotional period was centred around Psalm 27 which was real by all the group, each taking a verse. Mrs. Elsie Evans Ethel Couples home Correspondent Mrs. Cliff Bray 887-6086 Mr. and Mrs: Howard tt. Ellis have returned to their home in Ebel, after spending the winter at their residence in' Sarasota Florida, where their son is minister of Saint George's Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Alf Sutton iturned home on Thursday; after spending the winter month's in Florid a. Mr, Ellis was guest speaker, on Sunday May 7th at the Nine- teetith Anniversary services at St David's United Church,. Woodstock, Ontario. Neighbours, friends and n±itiv es were present at a sflowct, for Kathryn Bremner, pitch was held in the United Church basement On Monday A:Venni g. Menesetung from Fullarton. She has had a wealth of experience and training in camp leadership. A former Secondary School Teacher, she is presently a homemaker with four children: She directed Parents Without Partners camp last year. She is active in the United Church in Fullarton in the U.C.W. and C.G.I.T. groups. Camps this year will fall on the fbilowing dates: Junior Girls and Boys, Ages -9-10, July 23-July 29. Intermediate Girls and Boys, Ag es 11-13, July 30-Aug. 5; Senior Girls and Boys, Ages 13-15, Aug. 6-Aug. 12; Parents without Partners, Aug. 13-Aug. 18. Anyone interested in attending one of these camps phone 482- 3231 or 524-7943 for further information and registration forms, or ask any United Church Mnister. led in prayer and Mrs. Harvey Dennis gave a meditation on the psalm stressing the light and sunshine experienced when people have belief and faith in God: Mrs. Joseph Martin chose the tiny island of St. Martin in - the Carribean Sea and told of its history. As in the case of many of the dozens of islands, they suffer from exploitation of slave workers by absentee own ers of Plantations' Trading, Agriculture and Tourism are their only resources. Mrs. Gibson thanked all who had taken part in the meeting, V10 elfb •-••9)- 41\, /40); Asie 41:11\ • 4.,PFT 5g1)D ON in the aiderieh Signal Star The Huron County Board, of Education intends to find out if the advice offered in the film How to Say No to. a Rapist and Survive is sound .advice before it permits. the film to be shown in county high ,sch.00ls. The board, decided to investi- gate professional opinions on the. film before it accepted a recommendation from 'the Kinsmen Club of Belgrave to show the film at the five county secondary schools. The film. recently became .a centre of controversy at the' London Board of Education when advice offered in the film was sharply criticized and the film subsequently banned by the London Board. The banning by the London board came about after a Univer- sity of Western Ontario student, who had seen the film and followed the advice offered- in it, was brutally raped on the campus of the university, The woman said she had used the advice in the hopes of escaping and. it 'didn't work. • The London board trustees did ,not seInt to take responsibility for showing the film in its schools in case students yeeing it adopted the attitude that if the board advocated the film it must be reliable. Goderich board trustee Cayley Hill raised the suggestion at Monday's Huron board meeting that the Huron board may be wise not to promote use of the film because of problems arising from its viewing. He said he was not sure' what the problems were about the film not having seen it and having only read newspaper accounts of a group claiming advice in the film is misleading. He said he has no qualms about the visual aspects of the film but was hesitant about approving its use if the advice is "contra- dictory" to that offered by police or other similar agencies. Hill said the board should find out if the film's advice is adequate and accurate. Board chairman John Elliott proposed the film be investigated by the board's school programs committee. He said the committee could find out what professionals feel about the film and possibly set up a viewing for board trustees. The filen was produced' ny Frederick Storaska. Storaska does not profess to be a professional psychologist or psychiatrist but claims ie does have formal alucation at the university level in psychology. He claims he once ,V41" Remember her with a 1978 Mothers Day Spoon ally encountered an 11 year old girl being raped by a group of boys and after coming to the girl's aid he devoted his life to studying the motives, habits, desires and needs of rapists. He discovered that little or nothing was being done in the field of rape prevention and consequently began work on the film. Storaska's advice is submission to the will of a rapist. He claims that by appearing submissive the victim may cause the rapist to relax enough to allow the victim to escape. He claims that by staying calm the victim lessens the chance of assault, bodily harm and possibly death and increases the chances of physical defence. Storaska's entire approach is to prevent physical injury rather than rape. He advocated certain defence mechanisms that may be possible if the victim is relaxed, calm and not fighting the rapist. In the film he shows two methods the victim can use to ward off the rapist, gouging his • eyes or crushing a testicle, • The Women's ReTOurce Centres in Canada, operators of a Rape Crisis Centre, condemn Storaska's approach claiming the advice is completely wrong. They claim a victim stands a chance of escaping if she screams, fights and makes as much of a distur-. bance as possible. They feel that by screaming "fire" rather than "rape" the victim has a better chance of getting help. By taking that approach the Rape Crisis people feel that the rapist may panic and run to avoid being seen. The crisis centre also conducts classes teaching women basic self defence designed to fend off attack long enough to allow escape. Storaska claims that the only reliable method of rape prevention is martial arts but points out that few women take the time or make the effort to learn martial arts. He is careful to explain that by taking the advice he offers there is no guarantee that the victim will not be raped but a ehanc she will escape bodily injury, His attitude seems to be that a woman who knows that she is going to be raped anyway, may as well make it as painless as possible. The Rape Crisis ‘Centre cringes at that attitude, They feel that the only way a woman can survive the mental torture of being a rape victim is to do everything possible to prevent it. The most serious problems in a rape incident are the mental ones according to many experts who claims that if a woman feels she did not do everything possible to avoid being raged, she will have severe emotional problems personally and socially. Rape and other sex related crimes have recently been examined by the federal govern- ment with •the intention of proposing. sweeping changes in the Criminal Code to deal with tape. The changes suggested would make rape an act of indecent assault causing bodily harm which may carry a maximum sentence of 14 years. The most important change is that no longer would penetration have to be proved to lay a rape charge. Women may not have to go through the ordeal• of court proceedings in a rape case, something that keeps a lot of rape victims away from the legal system. Statistics concerning rape and other sex crimes show an alarming number of incidents that go either unreported or result in no official charges. Police claim that 80 percent of sex crimes in the country are unreported and of the 20 percent in which legal action is taken only 1.6 percent result in a conviction, a statistic that prompted law writers to take a long, hard look at the Criminal Code of Canada. Melville WMS plans special June meeting J. ci r u c.1: •