Women in Sports
Student Child Care Block
Grant Cut
Spotlight on Carol Menken-Shaudt
Student Parents’ educational
opportunities uncertain
Photograph from OSU Archives
By Tara Moore
Paying college tuition is hard
enough for most students, but for
student parents can be especially
By Tara Moore
difficult.
Carol MenkenChildcare costs and college
Shaudt stumbled into
tuition are often an equal strain on
the sport that took her
the budget—and student parents
around the world, and
usually have to find childcare
even earned her a gold
while in class. In this situation,
medal at the 1984
student parents can pay twice as
Olympics.
much for their college education as
Growing up in the
students who do not have children.
‘70s, Menken-Shaudt
According to the Oregon
said that she wasn’t
Student Association, which is an
even aware of
organization made up of studentwomen’s athletics.
body presidents and one additional
And under the
student representative from all
watchful eye of OSU
member schools, the annual
Women’s Basketball
median cost for childcare in
Coach Aki Hill,
Oregon for a one year-old is
Menken-Shaudt
$6,480 and $4,920 for a four yearquickly learned the
old.
Carol Meken-Shaudt was the first athlete, male or female, to
skills needed to play
score 2,000 career points at OSU.
The median cost of public
the game, and she
college tuition is $3,561 per year.
would eventually discover the
During the 11 years of its
After a year at LBCC, Menkenpossibilities that opened for her as a
existence, many student parents
Shaudt was ready to make the move
result of basketball.
up to NCAA level. Unrecruited by any depended on the Student Child
The 6’5” Jefferson, Ore. native was
other school in the state, she came to Care Block Grant to assist with
always noticeably taller than her peers.
childcare as they worked toward a
OSU to play for Coach Hill.
She said that she changed many
Menken-Shaudt remembers Hill as degree or certificate. This grant
curtain rods and light bulbs before a
was eliminated in September 2002.
“a short, little Japanese lady, but a
Linn-Benton Community College
“Without the Student Child
great teacher.”
coach asked her to play for the
Care Block Grant, student families
Menken-Shaudt says that her
women’s basketball team.
(Continued on page 2) statewide are forced to choose
between providing care for their
Honoring Women Student Leaders
By Lizanne Southgate
Members of the
OSU community
gathered in the Main
Lounge of the
Memorial Union on
November 21st to
nosh and network at a
ceremony to
acknowledge OSU's
Women Student
Leaders.
However, during
the planning stage,
Women student leaders came together from across campus to
the event took on a
celebrate their accomplishments, shown (from left) are Cadet
Colonel Judy Wynans, Cadet Lt. Col. Melissa Bruebaker, and
bittersweet flavor
Cadet Lt. Col. Shannon McCormack of OSU’s Air Force ROTC.
when the Rissers
announced their upcoming departure,
The event was sponsored by the
so the ceremony was broadened to
Women's Center, the President's
include honoring the efforts of Les
Commission on the Status of Women,
Risser on behalf of women.
the Women Studies Program and the
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Faculty Women's Network to
observe the record-breaking
number of women students in
leadership positions this year.
The student body president,
MU president, ASOSU
undergraduate and graduate senate
chairs, GPSA chair, Barometer
editor, six of seven ISOSU
officers, the Rainbow Continuum
co-chair, KBVR staff, Air Force
ROTC, and many leaders of
cultural centers and other student
organizations are women.
Les Risser paid tribute to the
student leaders, saying, "The aim of
leadership is to advance the human
spirit and human lives, and the
women we are honoring do this every
day."
Photograph by Lizanne Southgate
Women’s Intra — Campus Resource Exchange — Winter 2003
Olympic gold
medallist Carol
Menken-Shaudt to
speak at Women’s
Center on Feb. 6 th
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Page 2
This is What Coercion
Looks Like
By Gretchen Goode
Imagine the following…
You begin to date the person
whom you’ve had your eye on for
a while. This person is charming,
well liked, kind, smart and in your
eyes extremely good-looking.
You start seeing this person on a
regular basis and think this is the
person you could spend your
future with.
One evening you are lying in
bed kissing and cuddling.
This feels good just like it is –
soft, long, passionate kisses while
your bodies lightly rub together.
After a while, he begins to take
it a step further and unbuttons
your pants.
You move your hand and say,
“No, I’m not ready yet.”
“Okay, babe, but I want you so
bad.”
“I know, I want you too, but
not now. Let’s just keep right
“I know but let’s wait.”
here.”
“Come on. I want to be with
“You’re so
you so bad and you are
beautiful and you are
It has been esti- making me feel so
making me so hot.
mated that 74% good.”
Come on.”
“I know it feels
of college women
“No.”
good but I am not
have experienced ready.”
“Okay.”
sexual
coercion at
He continues trying
“Come on, it’s not
some
point in
to unbutton your pants
like you’re a virgin.”
their lifetime.
and without saying no
“So what, I’m not
you just move his hand
ready to be with you.”
away. His hand tries to move up
“Come on. I promise you will
your shirt and you let him. This
like it.”
feels good to you so you let him
“I said no.”
continue. After a while he again
“I know you want to. I can
tries to unbutton your pants. You tell.”
push his hand away although it
“Yes, I do, but not now.”
does feel good but you still don’t
“Why not? This is the perfect
want to have sex. He tries again to time.”
unbutton your pants.
“No.”
“No. Not now. I am not ready.
“Give me a good reason.”
Let’s just stay where we are.
“Because I don’t want to.”
Doesn’t this feel good?”
“But don’t you like me? And
“Yes, but it will feel better
you said you have had your eye
when I am inside of you.”
on me for a long time.”
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(Continued from page 1) Leaders
After thanking Les Risser for
her ongoing advocacy for campus
women, ASOSU President
Bridget Burns announced her
desire to personally assume Paul
Risser's vacancy since "women
are taking over the world, one
university at a time."
Once the speeches were out of
the way, excited participants
“Yeah, but I still don’t want to
have sex yet.”
“Come on.”
“No. Maybe you should just
take me home now. It’s getting
late.”
“Come on. Let’s just let me
just take off your pants first. I’ve
been so nice to you since we’ve
been going out. And you’ve been
all over me at every party and
even now. I know you want to.”
He starts unbuttoning your
pants and you try to push his hand
away but he is already pulling
your pants down.
“That’s the way babe. We’re
getting somewhere now…”
That is what sexual coercion
looks like.
Sexual coercion exists along a
continuum, from forcible rape to
nonphysical forms of pressure
that compel girls and women to
engage in sex against their will.
hovered over plates of fruit and
chocolate before introducing
themselves to other honorees or
continuing on to the newly
decorated
"Women are taking
Quiet
Lounge to over the world, one
university at a time."
view a
display of
Bridget Burns
women
students in OSU history.
score 2,000 career points at OSU.
success as a player was the result
In 1981, she led the nation in
of Hill.
scoring with a 19.6 average.
“I didn’t have any of the
During 1980 and ’81, she led the
fundamentals,” Menken-Shaudt
nation in field goal percentage
said. “She had to
(.750).
teach me
One of Menkeneverything; how to
Shaudt’s most
shoot, run…”
memorable games
Hill’s
at OSU was in 1979
investment in
at the Association
Menken-Shaudt
for Intercollegiate
paid off—the OSU
Athletics for
center spent 1978Women’s Region
81 breaking school
IX Tournament at
records for
Montana State
everything from
University. The
career total points
winner would
made (2243) to
Today Menken-Shaudt stays busy advance to Palo
field goals made
Alto for the
with a career and family.
(955). She was the
Western Sectional
first player, male or female, to
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Others crowded around Les
Risser to say goodbye and thank
the woman Burns describes as "an
elegant, gracious and altruistic
human being."
Barometer Editor Allison
Pyburn, could not attend the event
due to a scheduling conflict, wrote
"It is a positive experience to look
around myself and see fellow
women student leaders doing a
great job now, and preparing to
achieve great things in the future."
Burns concluded her remarks
by reminding the audience that
there is an obligation to pass on
the support received from other
women as she does by mentoring
at an elementary school. She
wants to teach younger girls to
"not see the top as anywhere but
the place you belong."
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(Continued from page 1) Grant
families or receiving an education
that offers long-term security,”
said the OSA.
Between 1991 and September
2002 many student parents
depended on the grant to pay
approximately 75 percent of the
market rate of childcare minus the
parent’s co-payment, which is
based upon the parent’s financial
ability.
To qualify for the grant,
student parents had to meet
government low-income
requirements, were required to be
enrolled in a minimum of nine
credits, meet the academic
standards of their university and
had to show that the child’s other
parent could not provide
childcare.
When the Student Child Care
Block Grant was purged from the
Adult and Family Services
Division of the Department of
Human Services budget with the
Governor’s 2002 final rebalance
the waiting list held nearly 1,700
names.
Since the program began, the
wait to receive the grant had often
lasted more than a year—which
was a problem for those students
who were enrolled in two-year
programs.
There have been people, such
as the OSA, working towards the
reinstatement of this grant since
the funding for it was stopped in
October 2002.
“The OSA board has chosen
the Student Child Care Block
Grant as a legislative priority for
the upcoming legislative session.
Our goal is to get state and federal
funding reinstated for the grant in
the 2003-05 biennium,” the
OSA’s Communications Director,
Amelie Welden, wrote in an email.
The Associated Students of
Oregon State University directed
$200,000
into a
general
contingency
fund to
assist
students
who
experienced
financial set
back, which
may have
otherwise
postponed their secondary
education progression.
To apply for this grant, a
student has to fill out a form that
can be obtained off of the ASOSU
website.
each other.
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coercion has on people’s
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When women do this, they are
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experience a “bad sexual
experience,” rather than name it a readily believed and is therefore
form of violence.
silenced.
They feel there must be
These myths also set up a false
something wrong with them and sense of safety leading people to
question their perception of the
believe they are safe within social
incident. That is no wonder since situations and with people they
common myths about rape and
know.
sexual assault collide with the
Sexual coercion and
beliefs that rape only involves
intimidation, no matter how much
extreme physical force and is
one person likes another, is an act
done by strangers at night.
of violence and not consensual
Anything less than this is not
sex.
If accepted, the student
receives a one-time grant of up to
$320, which varies upon need.
Parents from other schools
haven’t been as lucky to have an
alternative grant set up for
students to receive.
Bridget Burns, ASOSU
president said, “We’re the only
school who’s provided back up
funding.”
Director of the Financial Aid
Office, Kate Peterson, invites all
parents who have documented
childcare costs to bring in the
receipts, with the hope that
additional loans, grants, or work
Student Child Care Block Grant
as an additional funding
possibility for many student
parents, there are those who are
left trying to figure out how to
handle this trying time.
“As the only statewide
program that provided child care
aid for student-parents, the
Student Child Care Block Grant
both empowered student-parents
to realize their personal potential
and provided a measurable social
and economic return to the state.
It helped hundreds of studentparents achieve their educational
goals,” wrote the OSA.
In order to resurrect the
grant Burns, in association with
OSA, is currently in search for
personal stories of student
parents who were assisted by
the Student Child Care Block
Grant, with the hopes that
governmental officials would
be inclined to reinstate the
program’s funding if they were
confronted with personal
testimony of people who had
benefited from it.
study can be found.
Further information can be
Peterson said, “We anticipate obtained from Burns at (541) 737an increase in applications this
6344, or the OSA at (503) 286year because of the elimination of 0477.
the child care grant.”
With the current lack of the
Graph from www.orstudents.org
However, the most “typical”
The touchstone of coercion is experience of sexual coercion
that a woman lacks choice and
among young women in
faces severe physical or social
heterosexual relationships is
consequences if she resists sexual verbal pressure.
advances.
As seen in the script above, the
It has been estimated that 74% man’s strategy to get his partner
of college women have
to engage in sex include continual
experienced sexual coercion at
arguments, put downs,
some point in their lifetime.
intimidation, and accusations.
On a general level, sexual
Inherent in verbal pressure is the
coercion can be defined as “the
emotional side of coercion.
act of forcing, pressuring,
Frowns, sulking, silence,
or tricking persons into a
Most non- distancing, whining,
sexual act against their
consensual neediness, jealousy and
will.” Several different
sex takes anger are all part of
forms of coercion can
emotional coercion. They
place among are red flags to someone
occur including verbal,
people who not respecting their
emotional, substance
know each partner when negotiating
related and physical.
other.
Unfortunately, many
sexual exploration of any
people still believe that physical
kind.
coercion is the only type of
Most nonconsensual sex takes
coercion that constitutes rape.
place among people who know
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(Continued from page 2) Basketball
Tournament, the last regional
competition before the national
championship. That year the
strongest teams in the Northwest
league were Seattle University,
Montana State, Oregon State,
Washington State, and the
University of Oregon.
With a 23-0 season, and
ranked at No. 20 in national polls,
the Ducks were favored to win the
tournament. OSU on the other
hand, had a 14-5 record, and
already had experienced two notso-close losses to Oregon.
While Oregon drew a bye the
first round, the Beavers played a
close game against Montana
State, eventually winning 76-73.
Later OSU beat Washington State
with a final score 71-62 to
advance into the final round.
OSU faced Oregon for the
third time that season in the
trophy game. Before a meager
120 fans, they did the
impossible—OSU won 75-68.
After graduation, MenkenShaudt began playing basketball
in Turin, Italy. She has fond
memories of her time there.
“They paid me to play
basketball and eat pasta for nine
months,” she said.
Menken-Shaudt tried out for
the Olympics in 1980. She didn’t
make the team, but had the chance
to play on the 1981 World
University team.
“That was going to be the
grand finale to my brief, but
spectacular college career,” she
said.
The real finale came as a result
of the 1984 Olympics. The major
competition for the U.S. team was
Russia, but that was the year of
the Soviet boycott.
“We just took off and
dominated every game,” she said.
The U.S. women’s basketball
team demonstrated that
domination during the gold medal
game against South Korea. The
final score was 85-55.
Basketball may have taken her
all over the world, but these days
she’s back in the community
where she played college
basketball.
“I’m a local trivia answer,” she
said.
When Menken-Shaudt goes to
a game, these days she spends her
time on the bench; it gives her a
chance to watch her children
Brian and Laura enjoy the
limelight.
Menken-Shaudt praises the
benefits of team sports for the
path that her life has taken.
“It’s really opened up a lot of
doors for me,” she said. “I’m a
completely different person than I
would have been had I not been
involved in athletics.”
Meken-Shaudt has spent many
years sharing her story with a
variety of groups, which is
exactly what she will do at the
Women’s Center on Feb. 6th from
12-1 p.m. as part of the National
Women and Girls in Sports Day.
Calendar of Events
January
th
30 — 12:30-1:30 p.m. Music
and Social Consciousness
presentation with Kate Campbell.
February
4 th — 12-2p.m. Body B asics:
What do You See? A look at 21st
Juulie Downs, women’s basketball
referee will talk about being one of
the few women in her field and will
share observations about women in
sports. Molly Blue, a sportswriter for
The Oregonian will share her story
and talk about her profession.
14 — 4 p.m. Eve Ensler’s
Vagina Monologues performed at
6 — 12-1 p.m. National
Women and Girls in Sports
the LaSells Stewart Center.
Day, Carol Menken-Schaudt, former
6 p.m. V-Day Aphrodisiac
Olympic basketball player will speak
Feast, a potluck of aphrodisiac
about her life as a woman in athletics.
1-3 p.m. Ref it or Write it: a
panel discussion on female
athletes, sportswriters and referees.
dishes held between the Vagina
Monologue performances. Guests are
asked to bring an aphrodisiac dish
with them, and be willing to try
OSU Women’s Center
Benton Annex
7:30 p.m. Eve Ensler’s Vagina
Monologues performed at the
LaSells Stewart Center.
March
3 rd — 7 p.m. Independent artist
7-9 p.m. A musical performance Brenda Weiler will perform at
by local musician Mina Carson.
Century media images of women,
13 th — 7:30 p.m. Eve Ensler’s
including a viewing of “Killing Us
Vagina Monologues performed at
Softly 3” followed by a discussion led
the LaSells Stewart Center.
by Mary Zelinka, of CARDV.
th
th
others’ dishes.
Corvallis, OR 97331-2503
ESCAPE in MU East.
13 th — 7 p.m. Independent Folk
artist from Durham, NC, Jamie
Women’s Center unless otherwise
specified. The Women’s Center is
wheelchair accessible. For more
information please call the
Women’s Center at (541) 7373186.
OSU
Women’s Center
Phone
Anderson, will perform at ESCAPE
in MU East.
(541) 737-3186
20 th — 7 p.m. Independent
Portland artist, Lorna Hunt, will
womens.center@mu.orst.edu
perform at ESCAPE in MU East.
Please call the Women’s Center
at (541) 737-3186 for additional
events.
All events will be held at the
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Web Site
http://womenscenter.orst.edu
Publications Coordinator
Tara Moore