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Chimera class teaches women self-defense BY WENDY JEFFCOAT THE GAMECOCK On Wednesday evening, 10 women gathered at the Chimera self-defense workshop to learn how to better defend themselves against potential attackers. Chimera identifies the most practical and appropriate meth ods of self-defense, both mental and physical, that women can use to better prepare for a situation in which they feel threatened. It combines martial-arts de fense with verbal techniques to help women learn to use their voices and their bodies to ward off potentially hazardous situations. “There’s been a lot of interest, for a program that was woman centered,” said Bronwyn McNutt, a third-year computer-science stu dent and the event’s organizer. McNutt is treasurer of the Women Students’ Association, the group that sponsored the event. She said she learned “that be ing nice to people is something that you don’t have to do.” McNutt said it’s OK to be polite, but that ho one has to smile and appease someone “just because they exist.” “I don’t think I’m any safer than I was before, but I am better equipped to deal with situations,” she said. Karen Sundstrom, a certified Chimera instructor and an advo cate with Sexual Trauma Services, said Chimera has existed since 1980. It was formed by a group of women in the Chicago area who were dissatisfied with the defense programs available for women. The programs mostly dealt with situations men found themselves in, and most of the strategies and techniques focused on men’s strengths and abilities, not wom en’s. Sundstrom said Chimera has instructors teaching in Chicago, Wisconsin, New Jersey, North Carolina and South Carolina. She said she has been actively involved in women’s self-defense since she was in her 20s; she has been a Chimera instructor since 1990. She said a Chimera is a mythi cal beast in Greek mythology that could change its shape. Sundstrom said the positive side of Chimera is “that women can use whatever tool, if necessary, to keep themselves safe in situa tions.” She said she wants women to realize their intuition and gut feel ings are reliable, and they should pay attention to them. “It’s not that women don’t listen to their gut instincts,” Sundstrom said; “it’s when they do listen to their gut instincts, other people tell them, ‘You’re being paranoid.’ ” Sundstrom said the dynamics and conversations in the Chimera class are used because “they’re connected to what really happens, which very seldom looks like the story that’s in the news or on the television.” She said Pauline Bart, author of “Stopping Rape,” has inter viewed women who were success ful in warding off attackers. The Chimera class uses techniques Bart found that could help stop at tacks: reacting to early behavior, reacting quickly to someone who is intruding on you or invading your space, being more forceful, yelling and not screaming, using some kind of physical response, and getting to safety quickly. Sundstrom said she tries to con nect what she sees with survivors of sexual assault with what she is teaching to the class. “I will see a situation and al ways ask, ‘Am I doing anything in my class that would have helped this woman in this situation?’ “ she said. “If I’m not connecting that, then I’m not doing a very good job.” Another Chimera workshop will be offered tomorrow from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Blatt Physical Education Center. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Parking CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 before they go to students and some are more willing to share,” he said. “The parking people are constantly trying to balance all the interests.” Wilcox said the faculty is as concerned with parking problems as students are. “Parking is always an issue that gets the attention of any em ployees,” Wilcox said. “There is the potential for controversy.” Student Government President Ankit Patel said he does not sup port the act. “I think it’s ridiculous,” Patel said. Patel said he thought the legis lation was badly written and poor ly researched. “I refuse to believe that in four pages, the Student Senate can re form the parking system here on campus,” Patel said. Patel said he suspected that up coming elections were influenc ing the Senate’s voting. Patel also said Shipman over estimated the act’s chances of suc cess when he said the administra tion’s approval is a sure thing in a speech before the Senate. “If the Senate had that kind of power, we’d be doing a whole heck of a lot more, ” Patel said. Patel said SG should work with the Board of Trustees instead of telling it what to do. Even so, Patel said his stance has nothing to do with Shipman, who spearheaded a movement to subpoena and impeach the presi dent earlier this year. “I commend J.D. for everything he’s done,” Patel said of Shipman’s efforts to solve parking problems. “I just think we need to include the administration in the process.” The act is expected to go before the Residence Hall Association and university administration in the near future. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Treasurer CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 die stressful situations,” he said. “I’m someone people can take se riously, and the job will get done. ” Billy Grooms, a second-year pharmacy student, leaves every organization he visits with the same words. “I know the job of treasurer is a big job, but I’m a big man,” he said. Grooms said one advantage he will have if elected treasurer is that his experience will make it easy for him to learn the details of the position. Grooms has served as the second vice chairman of finance for the Student Senate, and he worked on rewriting the constitu tion and finance codes. Grooms is also vice president of Christian Pharmacists Fellowship Interna tional and secretary of the Academy of Students of Pharmacy. His platform is designed to make sure money is being dis tributed to organizations that are doing their jobs and that it is not being wasted. He breaks his plans down into three parts: First, Grooms plans to create a system to allow organizations to use mon ey for good purposes — ones that would create more money for them if he is elected, he says. He intends to communicate with the Board of Trustees about the bud get cuts and design creative solu tions with students’ input. And he plans to avoid wasteful spending by seeing that money distributed comes back to the campus. Grooms, who says he has been set on attending USC nearly all his life, appreciates the area’s friend ly atmosphere. “I love the students; I love working with the students, and if elected, I would love serving the students,” he said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Bauer CONTINUED ROM PAGE 1 nancially independent. “I wasn’t a great student, but I did what I needed to get by, and while I was there, I did a lot,” Bauer said. “I was already buy ing real estate and learning a lot of business knowledge.” As a college student, he was a USC cheerleader, a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraterni ty and 1989 Mr. USC. He was also involved in selling sports mem orabilia and buying real estate, the latter of which he still does today. Bauer said he had never tak en a law or political-science class, so he knew little about pol itics when he first ran for office in 1996 at age 26, but he ap proached the field from a totally different view. “I sold and marketed Andre Bauer,” he said. “I knew about sales and business, but not much about the political side. I got the name Andre Bauer out there.” In an interview at his State House office, Bauer said he en joys speaking to students about ways to market and promote themselves. As the youngest lieu tenant governor in the nation, Bauer has faced many chal lenges. But he made it clear to students that it is up to individ uals to determine their own suc cess. “Don’t let people deter, you. Never let age or anything else hinder you,” Bauer said. “People who tried to discourage me ac tually motivated me to work harder, which made the rewards even greater. It depends on how the individual channels that en ergy.” Bauer’s message to students was to get involved with their government, whether campaign ing or just voting.. Fourth-year computer-engi neering student Amro Ragaban said he is taking Marketing 457 to learn some business and com munication skills that will help him when he enters the job mar ket after graduation. “So far, I’ve learned a lot of the top qualities of being a salesman and how to market myself,” he said. “We have a lot of speakers who come and tell us about their mistakes and, hopefully, to pre vent us from making the same.” Although Bauer said he has surpassed any expectations he ever had in college to be in poli tics, right now he is interested only in-serving South Carolina. “Happiness is the best pa rameter, and mine is to be hap py and go to work,” he said. “If I died today, I’d die happy. I live to work.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Alpha Phi Alpha John T. Foreman IV Christopher Bess Tyler K. Gibbons Terrence Harris T.C. Griffin III C. Stuart Hydrick Alpha Tau Omega E.G. Jeffords Jr.* T.K. Alexander Jr. Kristopher Knock* Joseph Canfield Davidson G. 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