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-V ’ . / -V v ' -vvf- .VV, Campus crime increasing over nation THE BATTALION Page 4 College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 23, By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Coeds on many campuses walk at night in pairs or in fear. Stu dents lock their dormitory rooms even for a quick trip to the bath room. Across the country a plague of crime is adding to the many woes of academia. The trend has been building since the mid-1960s, obscured by the drug epidemic and violent political protests, but it is still growing and it is in no sense kid stuff. “The days when the only crimes on campus were thefts of sweat ers or books are long gone,” says C. Lee Chandler, chief of campus police at California State College in Long Beach. “Today anything can happen.” Anything. Campuses that once were tranquil refuges from the troubles of the world are experi encing grand larceny, assault, armed robbery, murder and rape. A Radcliffe student was raped at gunpoint this fall, the first such incident ever reported at the Cambridge, Mass., school. Sev eral dormitories reported an armed intruder. “I don’t even go to the library after dark any more unless I have a guy along,” said a Rad cliffe sophomore. She lives three buildings from the library. Nearby at Harvard, armed rob bers stole a reported $1,500 in cash and personal belongings in a fall raid on a dormitory. Across the continent at Stanford, a lone gunman stuck up the campus check-cashing service for $610. Whether or not a school has violent crime, thefts and burgla ries are generally on the up swing. “Dormitory thefts are sky high — up 52 per cent from last fall,” said Walter Dodwell, as sociate eecurity director at Princeton. University of Texas police reported in mid-fall that 1970 petty thefts at the Austin campus totaled 691, compared to 416 in all of 1969. There are no national figures on the kind and scope of campus crimes, but those hardest hit ap pear to be the coastal, the urban and the large schools. The University of Texas went from no robberies or rapes in CASA CHAPULTEPEC OPEN 11:00 A. M. CLOSE 10:00 P. Wt. 1315 COLLEGE AVENUE.— PHONE 822-9872 SPECIALS GOOD TUBS., WED. AND THUR. BEEE TACOS. BEANS - RICE CHEESE TACOS, BEANS - RICE CHALUPAS WITH GUACAMODE CHALUPAS WITH CHEESE - BEANS HOME MADE TAMALES WITH .PRIED BEANS BEEF ENCHILARAS. BEANS - RICE CHEESE ENCHILADAS, BEANS - RICE CHILES RELLENOUS WITH SPANISH RICE AND CHEESE SAUCE GUACAMOLE SALAD - 2 CRISPY TACOS MEXICAN DINNER COMPLETE 88 FIESTA DINNER Combination Salad, Beef Taco, Three Enchiladas, Beans, Rice Tortillas and Hot Cheese Dip and Tortilla Chips. Regular $1.50 TACO DINNER Two Beef Tacos, One Chili Con Q u e s o, Combination Salad, Tortillas and Hot Sauce, Cheese Dip and Tortil la Chips. Ir Regular $1.25 99c 1969 to two each in 1970. Au thorities at Rutgers, the New Jer sey state university, reported that between September and Novem ber 1969 five students were ar rested on campus for minor of fenses; in the same period of 1970 the figure was 41, with of fenses including armed robbery, rape, heroin pushing and assault and battery. Stanford reports its serious crimes have nearly dou bled in two years. UCLA reported 40 violent crimes against persons in the first 11 months of 1970 — up 10 from 1969. Many campus security men say their crime rate has risen at about the same pace as that of society at large; others say fast er. For an oversimplified com parison, take the cases of Stan ford, 11,000 students, and adja cent Palo Alto, Calif., population 52,000: Over three years, burglaries re ported by police in Palo Alto rose about 11 per cent; burglaries on the Stanford campus went up about 228 per cent. Thefts in Palo Alto were up 56 per cent, at Stanford 28 per cent. Armed robberies in Palo Alto went from 23 to 75, at Stanford from one to nine. Rapes in Palo Alto in creased from seven to 15, at Stan ford from three to five. At Cornell, where larcenies are up 20 per cent over last school year, safety director Lowell T. George said the greatest increase in stealing began three or four year back but violent crimes spurted about two years ago. One result of such statistics is a changed atmosphere on many campuses. “The kids are getting wary,” said Stanford sophomore Don Tollefson of Menlo Park, Calif. “When you see somebody you don’t know in a dorm you’re more dubious about who he is, where as you used not to question any body.” David Fischer of San Francis co, a sophomore at the Universi ty of California at Berkley, said he barricades his apartment back door and double-locks his front door. The homemade alarm sys tem in his car paid off his first day in town. Other counter measures against crime: Alpha Phi Omega fraternity members run an evening chauf feur service for coeds at the Uni versity of South Carolina in Col umbia, where there were three rapes and several assaults during the fall. Yale, scene of one fall rape and two other assaults on women, instituted a student-run minibus service. Rutgers reports some success with four-man student patrols that have walkie-talkies and in structions to take all steps short of physical intervention. Radcliffe has installed buzzer locks on dorms, increased police surveillance — including plain- clothesmen with dogs on patrol —and agreed to offer free basic self-defense courses for all wom en students. Many schools have spent large sums on outdoor lighting. Entering freshmen at the Uni versity of Miami receive a book let advising: “Save yourself a beating or possible rape. Travel in groups at night.” The crime trend, plus the depredations of student rebels, have radically altered the situa tion of many colleges and uni versity police forces. Cornell’s George said his de partment has nearly tripled in the last 10 years. It now has 42 uniformed patrolmen equipped with revolver, chemical mace, two-way radio and night stick. It has 45 building guards, nine traffic controllers and 10 radio- equipped cars. Ten years ago the university had 10,800 students; now it has 15,000. AP science editor to address DISCI | COUPON SALE SERVICI 0F1 journalism congress, club IMONDi SI Associated Press Science Edi tor Alton L. Blakeslee will ad dress the 41st annual joint meet ing of the Southwestern Journal ism Congress and Student Press Club March 19, according to con ference director William C. Har rison. Blakeslee is the latest addition to speakers which include Apollo 13 astronaut Fred W. Haise Jr., Houston attorney Percy Fore man, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center public affairs officer Brian Duff and Jim Thompson of Taylor Publishing Co. Expected to attend the confer ence on student press problems are 175 student journalists and 25 faculty members and advisors from 15 member schools in Tex as, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. Blakeslee has personally cov ered most of the outstanding science events since joining the Associated Press in 1939. Among the highlights was his coverage of Admiral Byrd’s 1946-47 Ant arctic expedition. absorbing experience not to| missed—nor repeated too often’ As AP science editor Blafe lee coordinates the extei®. science report of the news sen ice. BROIL! He was named science ediJ in 1969 and is noted forhisilj ity to take a complicated cal, scientific finding and rept;| it in simple language for tlj man on the street. Blakeslee joined AP in Balt more in 1939 and has reporiij science news since 1946. TUESDi SI His father, Howard W. Blafe lee, was one of the earliest ne»i paper science specialists andiii first science writer for Tlieli sociated Press. He attended Duke UniversJ and Columbia College. YAK PC Pot Choice o Rol Tet Blakeslee has won numenj honors, including the 1966 Sigi Delta Chi General Report Award for his series, “TheQiJ lenge of Change.” He once described the four and one-half month voyage as “an Also in 1966 he was nam winner of a University of ] souri Honor Award for disf guished service in journalism. WE E SI | CHICKEI WITH ( Campus briefs Youth and Drugs colloquium scheduled Ro Te any t An Educational Psychology Colloquium on “Youth and Drugs” will be held Thursday. Mrs. Chris Rogers will speak at the 3:30 p.m. event in Room 406 of the Academic Building, announced educational psychology head Dr. Arthur J. Roach. He said the meeting site has been changed for this colloquium. Mrs. Rogers worked as a psy chiatric nurse at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. Colloquiums on can<»er shell models planned ’ Physics colloquium lectu^fs on 'WHEN YOU Jtawl CALL ON US FOR 846-3773 MEMBER VISIT OUR NEW OFFICE MSC! "•* V^r,"^a • A/'f-'t-'. BEVERLEY BRA1EY UNIVERSITY TRAVEL. . . A&M UNIVERSITY . . . Bryan Get the Texas A&M University Directory for your .... • Student Listings • Student Senate Faculty-Staff Listings Board of Directors Civilian Student Council University Calendar Corps of Cadets Commanders Athletic Schedule Campus Map Available At Student Publications Office cancer therapy and shell model calculations are scheduled Wed nesday and Thursday. The Wednesday speaker is Dr. Chaim Richman physics professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Pieter Brussard, Duke University visiting profes sor on leave from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, will speak Thursday. Both programs begin with a coffee at 3:30 p.m. followed by the lecture at 4 p.m. in Physics Building, Room 146. Chess team takes third An A&M chess team paced by John R. Moffitt of Midland placed third in the Region XII American College Unions tournament at LSU. Moffitt, a graduate student in physics, tied for third with an LSU chess player in the individual standings. Members of the first place LSU “A” team took the top two places among 26 players. Texas A&M’s “9” team scored 61/2 of a possible 10 points to place third in team standings behind the two LSU teams. Rice was fourth, A&M ‘B” fifth, LSU at New Orleans sixth and ninth, University of Houston seventh and tenth, Grambling College eighth and East Texas State 11th. Earth Resources program described The U. S. Department of In terior’s Earth Resources Observa tion Systems program will be de scribed at a graduate lecture Thursday. Speaker for the 3:30 p.m. pres entation in Room 121 of the Civil Engineering Building will be Frederick J. Doyle of McLean, Va., research scientist in mapping systems for the U. S. Geological Survey. EROS is designed to utilize grounds, aircraft and satellite senor data for utilizing the re sources provided by land, water and atmosphere. The 4 p.m. presentation i| Room 112 of the Plant Soil Building is entitled “Effects Air Pollution on Physioloj* and Biochemical Processes Plants.” Dr. Weinstein’s visit here sponsored by the Plant Sciei ||ITALIA^ Department. TH E S Rifle team competing this weekend The rifle team will compete Friday and Saturday in the Na tional Rifle Association sectional to be held in Houston. Timothy O. Phillips, Nederland freshman who paced the Aggies to a recent win over Texas, will lead the six-member team into the competition hosted by the Uni versity of Houston. Leabo elected head of journalism council C. J. Leabo, A&M’s Joumlis Department head, has been ele ed president of the newly-orga ized Texas Journalism Educatia Council. TJEC will work to strengtl journalism programs in Te colleges and will include schools in the state offering bachelor’s degree in the field. Leabo’s term as council presi dent begins Sept. 1. Serving «j year terms with him are via president Prof. C. E. Shufor North Texas State; secret^ Prof. James H. Herring, Tes A&I, and treasurer Wayne Da] ielson, school of communkatioi dean at UT-Austin. ITALU S’ Spiced ¥ Pan Tosse Choice c Hot Te mvA CAT T Sports Car Club schedules two events Two driving events in less than a week are scheduled by the Sports Car Club which meets Wednesday at the old College Sta tion City Hall. President Tom Wedel said a gymkhana is planned on the day student parking lot north of the engineering center after the 7:30 p.m. Wednesday meeting. He in dicated that meeting attendance is prerequisite to driving in the gymkhana. Also on the TAMSCC schedule this week is a Sunday autocross at the Research Annex. Bill Ger man said a driver’s school will be held Saturday. Further informa tion will be available at the meet ing. Harris joins basic division Mrs. Catherine Harris has been assigned in the library’s basic collection division, an nounced Director John B. Smith. Formerly in the Acquisitions Department as junior librarian, Mrs. Harris was made assistant librarian in the basic collection upon completing master’s degree studies in library science at UT- Austin. Mrs. Harris, who also has a M.A. in English from Texas, com pleted undergraduate studies at Sam Houston State University. Dean Hannigans mother dies Grand R< Ti any in Washington Air pollution topic of colloquium COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Leonard H. Weinstein, program director for environmental biol ogy at Bayce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers, N. Y., will present a colloquium Wednesday at Texas A&M Uni versity. Funeral services for Mrs. Gt'| trude R. Upson, mother of Di of Students James P. Hanniga] are tentatively scheduled fori day in Washington, D. C. 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