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A LOOK BACK--AND AHEAD--AT WOMEN AND THE LAW -- Legal and social issues that have impacted--and continue to impact--women will be the focus of Women and the Law: Retrospective-Prospective, a day-long conference next Friday, Oct. 15, from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., in Temple's Student Activities Center, 13th St. and Montgomery Ave.
"We'll be examining both where women have come the last 25 years and what our strategies are for the future," says Rebecca Alpert, co-director of the University's Women's Studies Program. "We'll also be asking the question, 'Is the law the best vehicle for social change?'"
Presented by both the Women's Law Project and the Greater Philadelphia Women's Studies Consortium, the symposium, which coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Women's Law Project, will include workshops on issues such as gender equity in athletics, education and employment, violence against women and regulations against reproduction. Legal scholars will participate in the symposium along with practicing attorneys and leaders of women's service organizations, including Women Against Abuse, CHOICE, and the National Women's Law Center. The conference ends with a roundtable discussion focusing on emerging issues and trends in the law l
MOST SEXUAL ASSAULTS COMMITTED BY ACQUAINTANCES -- As Philadelphia police continue to search for the man linked to five--and maybe six--rapes and a murder in the Rittenhouse Square area, Temple clinical psychologist Brian Marx notes that the case is somewhat atypical in that the rapist apparently does not know or have a personal relationship with his victims.
"These types of incidents definitely do get the press because of the nature of the crimes and the way they're committed, but most sexual assaults actually occur among people who know each other," says Marx, who has done psychological studies on victims of rape and is just beginning to conduct similar research on rapists. "Eighty to 90 percent of the time, the rapist is someone the victim knows--a friend, a former date, a friend of the family, or even someone they just met. That's the more typical type of perpetrator."
Reach Dr. Marx through the News Bureau.
This Week at Temple
Sunday, Oct. 10, 3 p. m.: TEMPLE SYMPHONY CONCERT -- Under the baton of Luis Biava, Temple's Symphony Orchestra caps off the week-long Homecoming celebration with a concert featuring Irina Yurkovskaya, piano, and the music of Ravel, Rachmaninoff and Sibelius. (Tomlinson Theater, 13th and Norris Sts.)
Tuesday, Oct. 12, 4 p.m.: RIBBON-CUTTING -- University officials formally dedicate the state-of-the-art cyber-age Tuttleman Learning Center with a ribbon-cutting and demonstrations of the advanced technologies that are transforming teaching and learning at Temple. (13th St. and Montgomery Ave.)
Tuesday, Oct. 12, 8 p.m.: AN EVENING WITH NIKKI GIOVANNI -- The renowned poet and author will be speaking on a wide range of subjects and reading poetry from The Love Poems of Nikki Giovanni, which was awarded the NAACP Image Award for 1998. She is also the author of The Sun is so Quiet, The Genie in the Jar and Peppermint Dreams. (Great Court, Mitten Hall, 1913 N. Broad St.)
Friday, Oct. 15, 9-3:30 p.m.: LATINO CHILDREN TELECONFERENCE -- Temple will host the "Los Ninos de los Barrios," a satellite teleconference examining the impact of changes in federal welfare policy on Latino children and families. The program will be down linked to sites in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Illinois and Puerto Rico. The day-long teleconference will also feature policy-makers, activists, workshops, panel discussions and a Puerto Rican style lunch. (Ritter Hall Annex, Kiva Auditorium, 13th St. and Cecil B. Moore Ave.)
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