1985_05 The Daily Collegian May 1985

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Alvarado attacks abusive behavior
Dominant, abusive behavior is the norm
for Larry Alvarado, a CSUF student
working on his master's degree in psy¬
chology and a counselor at the Marjaree
Mason Center.
Alvarado deals with batterers—men and
women who exhibit abusive behavior
toward their spouses.
"They [abusers] usually have strong,
domineering personalities," Alvarado said
of his clients. "They grow up in a home
with abuse and never learn how to resolve
conflicts."
As children, the abuser may see aggres¬
sive behavior between his parents, often
without actual violence. Tension is felt but
:r resolved, Alvarado said.
"Ihe c
ild c
I feel t
didnt see a resolution through or saw a
violent resolution." Alvarado said.
Alvarado said there is not a specific
personality pattern that an abuser follows,
characteristics that many abusers possess.
"Characteristically, [abusers] are openly
dependent, have low self-esteem, low stress
levels of tolerance, impatient and are not
very expressive," he said. "They tend to
have a stereotypical attitude toward the
opposite sex and have a feeling of failure
at something in their lives."
However, Alvarado said, there are many
of us who do the same thing. The diff¬
erence, he said is the degree of intolerance
that the abuser possesses, combined with
extenuating circumstances such as child¬
hood experiences and the situation at
The victim often provides unspoken
permission for the abuser to continue his
behavior because the abuser knows he can
"get away" with his violent conduct. "It
gets easier to do it again because there are
no hugh consequences," Alvarado said.
While the majority of the abusers are
male, Alvarado has had contact with
women who abuse their husbands. Alva¬
rado recalls one client, a 60-year old
woman who burned her husband with
cigarettes, stuck forks into him and did
other "minor" things in retaliation for the
abuses she suffered earlier in the marriage.
"Over the years, he had done a little
physical abuse and an awful lot of mental
abuse," he said.
Alavarado has only had brief contact
with the men who arc on the receiving end
of the violent behavior. He spoke with
both victims over the telephone with one
showing up at the clinic for only one
Male victims tend to be more hesitant
to admit abuse, Alvarado said, "partly
because of fear and the feeling of control
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the women has over them and partly
because of the dependent need they have
for that particular person. There is a sense
of love there, but not the love that you or 1
might think."
What Alvarado attempts to do with his
clients is teach them methods for releasing
their anger through non-abusive behavior.
He does not, however, advise clients to
dissolve their relationships.
"They decide whether they should stay
together—I tell them how I think the
relationship should work, but they make
that decision themselves," he said.
"Most people at some point recognize
that they have a problem even if it ij
force," Alvarado said.
The Fresno program has been in exis¬
tence for approximately five years but
counseling programs for batterers first
emerged in this country around 1974 with
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tion, there have been disappointments."
Yonemura said, "I was chosen as sta¬
tion manager because my letter of intent
said 1 was making organizational changes
that needed to be made. 1 believe that this
denial of funds is a way to get KFSR to do
something and I think it's wrong if they
are asking us to function at a higher
capacity."
Reed explained that the IRA commit¬
tee . main concern is for the station to
make a real effort toward meeting the stu¬
dent body's needs, — not by changing the
music programming, but by changing the
informational programming.
"If they can prove to us that there will
be some changes to meet the concerns of
the students, then I don't forsee any prob¬
lems," said Whalen. "I think it would be
very drastic if they don . receive the funds."
Yonemura explained that her budget
request was "about S1.000 more than last
year — which isnt a lot — and our term is
only for ten months."
If the station is not allotted any funds,
she said she is looking for other alterna¬
tives to fund the station.
"We are going to have to go to outside
help,"she said, "because theoretically, the
station could be closed down and will
have to go off the air."
KFSR General Manager and Faculty
Adviser James Wilson said, "KFSR is
licensed to CSUF by thc tedcral govern¬
ment and President Haak is responsible.
He's the man the FCC would go to. If tht
IRA board is playing games and if it
brings the station down, it's going to put
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California Uble grapes, he said.
The second trend he said was the increa
in Chicano growth in the country, poli
cally as well as socially.
"We are filled with hope and e
couragement," said Chavez. "Once sod
change begins it cannot be reversed. You
cannot oppress a people that at
afraid anymore. Regardless of what the
future holds, our accomplishments c
be undone," he said.
Chavez placed part of the.blamel
plight of the farmworkers on (\iov. George
Deukmejian.
He said that because Deukmejian's
itical campaign received SI  millio
financial support from the growers,
[Deukmejian] has paid back his debt with
the sweat and blood of the farmworki
Chavez also said that the growers often
try to blame the union for their problem!
when in actuality they themselve
responsible, and compared  them
punch-drunk boxer "who doesn't
his prime is past."
"They have only themselves to bl.
he said. "They arc paying for their
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