CBS Evening News - 1993-06-02
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[0:03] School girls, school boys, and sexual
[0:05] harassment. Some experts now say it's
[0:08] becoming an epidemic.
[0:10] >> In the southwest, another confirmed
[0:12] death from a mysterious and lethal
[0:14] disease. Is it spreading to other parts
[0:17] of the country?
[0:18] >> And eye on America. Tonight,
[0:21] chiropractors and children. What is
[0:23] safe? And who's keeping track? that I
[0:26] have to
[0:28] >> very gentle and very safe.
[0:31] >> This is the CBS Evening News
[0:36] with Dan Rather and Connie Chun.
[0:40] >> Good evening. Leading women educators
[0:42] are charging tonight that schools in
[0:44] America are tolerating an epidemic of
[0:46] sexual harassment. In a national survey,
[0:49] four out of five teenagers said they had
[0:51] been harassed in school and most felt
[0:54] there was little they could do about it.
[0:56] Correspondent Jacqueline Adams has the
[0:58] story.
[1:02] >> It happens a lot here in the school. It
[1:03] happened to me. He was talking about my
[1:05] behind and everything like that. Just
[1:07] want to like crawl in a hole and just
[1:08] stay there and just shut everybody out.
[1:12] Many students believe the fine line
[1:14] between flirting and sexual harassment
[1:16] is being crossed regularly. So much in
[1:19] fact that researchers say it's reached
[1:20] epidemic proportions.
[1:22] >> It really interferes with your ability
[1:25] to go to school, your right to go to
[1:27] school, your ability to concentrate, to
[1:29] stick with it.
[1:30] >> According to a Harris survey released
[1:32] today by the American Association of
[1:33] University Women, a staggering 81% of
[1:36] students in grades 8 through 11 report
[1:39] they have been harassed in school. most
[1:41] of them by other students. Girls aren