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College Station, Texas Thursday, November 15, 1973
THE BATTALION
Rapes Up on Campus
Coed Assaults Increase Across Nation
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rapes and assaults on coeds
have become a major problem on
the nation’s college campuses, se
curity officials say. They cite
coed dorms hitchiking and lack
of concern as contributing fac
tors.
Campus administrators have
responded by imposing tighter
regulations in living areas, in
creasing police patrols and in
stalling better locks and lights.
Coeds are taking self-defense
courses, and male students have
started escort services on many
campuses.
“Attacks on females have gone
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up at just about every school we
have contact with,” said Herbert
T. Voye, editor of the Campus
Law Enforcement Journal. “It’s
not just a question of more wom
en reporting it. It has happened.”
Voye is chief of security at
Tufts University near Boston.
Several female students have been
raped on or near the campus in
the past year, including one girl
raped in a dormitory room dur
ing the first week of class this
fall.
“I was looking forward to a
nice quiet year,” said Voye. “Now
the students are up in arms de
manding more security. They
want me to beg the administra
tion for money to have a man
with a dog patrolling on campus.”
Tufts has spent $30,000 to up
grade campus lighting, has a fe
male security officer training at
a rape crisis center and now has
guards stationed inside women’s
dormitories.
Like nearly all campus police
officials, Voye said nonstudents
were responsible for the increas
ing attacks on women.
“To judge from the people we
have apprehended and what I’ve
heard from other campuses, the
majority of cases don’t involve
students,” said Voye. “It’s out
siders.”
The increase of rape incidents
is not an isolated phenomenon
but part of a general rise in cam
pus crime during the past few
years. Long considered inviolate
sanctuaries, schools across the
country are now plagued with in
cidents ranging from bicycle
thefts to muggings. There are
exceptions, but not many.
The rise in rape complaints on
campus is also part of a nation
wide situation reflected in the 70
per cent jump in reported rapes in
all jurisdictions surveyed by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
during the past five years.
“Crime is increasing in our
society,” said Audie Shuler, police
chief at the University of Flori
da’s Gainesville campus. “We live
in it, so we are part of it.”
Twenty male students at the
Florida school were hired last
month to agument the campus
police force after one coed was
raped in a parking lot and an
other abducted and raped else
where. They are armed with
whistles and badges but do not
carry guns or have arrest powers.
Rape reports have mounted at
big city and small town schools
alike. Two girls were raped and
two others assaulted in a housing
complex on the Brigham Young
University campus in Provo,
Utah. City and campus police
were alarmed by reports that gun-
toting male students had taken
to guarding girls’ apartments.
rapes. Coeds are more likely now
to work alone in a laboratory at
night or walk by themselves to
the library after dark.
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The increasing independence of
women was cited by many secur
ity chiefs as an underlying ex
planation for the increase in
....“You can come out here any
night of the week and you’ll see j
a coed walking alone,” said A. L.
McCoy, security chief at Louisi
ana State University. “You just
wonder, ‘Now, she’s just not con
cerned.’ And a lot of them have
the opinion, ‘Well, it’s just not
going to happen to me.’ So I don’t
know what the answer is.”
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Graduation Speaker
The Time Fore-Ordained unto the peoples and kin
dreds of the earth is now come. The promises of God
as recorded in the Holy Scriptures have all been fulfilled.
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The Kingdom of God is here!
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Federal Trade Commissioner Mayo J. Thompson will be the
commencement speaker at graduation exercises Dec. 15, announced \
President Jack K. Williams.
Thompson, a 1941 TAMU graduate, was named to the live-
member governing body for the Federal Trade Commission earlier this
year, Filling the unexpired term of A. Everette MacIntyre. The term
runs through Sept. 26, 1975.
Prior to accepting the Washington position, Thompson was a
senior partner in the Houston law Firm of Royston, Rayzor, Cook &
Vickery. He specialized in admiralty law.
Thompson has been active in the Association of Former Students
and currently serves as the organization’s vice president for public
relations. He also is a member of the Centennial Committee.
The Fort Worth native spent five years as an officer in the Army
during World War II and was active in the National Guard until 1958,
when he retired with the rank of colonel.
Upon release from WW II service, Thompson enrolled in South
Texas College of Law and received his LL.B. degree in 1949. In
conjunction with his law practice, he served several years as a part-time
instructor at the private Houston law school.
He is licensed to practice before the U. S. Supreme Court and is a
member of the Houston, Texas and American Bar associations, the
American Judicature Society, the American Arbitration Association
and the Maritime Law Association of the United States.
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SATURDAY, NOV. 17, 1973
1:30 - 2:00 p. m. - Singing
2:00 p. m. - John Osteen, teaching & ministry. Bro.
Osteen was in Israel when the fighting broke out. God
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He will teach on the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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