
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, March 29, 1990                   TAG: 9003290682
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: CHARLOTTESVILLE                                LENGTH: Short

UVA HELPS SUPPORT RAPE-CRISIS CENTER

The University of Virginia has decided to help pay for a local rape-crisis center because about 20 percent of its clients are students at the school.

UVa officials this week signed a renewal annual contract to give the Sexual Assault Resource Agency $15,000 in the fiscal year starting July 1 for its 24-hour crisis center for rape victims.

UVa Vice President Ernest Ern said Tuesday that the amount reflects the school's fair share of the center's cost.

SARA gets some federal funding plus more than $10,500 a year from Albemarle County and a slightly larger amount from Charlottesville.

An ad hoc UVa committee on acquaintance rape this year convinced university officials that the school was not meeting the needs of its students, Ern said.

UVa officials say the university has a serious problem with male students raping female students that they know. About one female student in every 10 at UVa has been sexually assaulted, according to a report presented last month by a women's studies committee.

by CNB