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The Texas A&M chapter of the National
Organization for Women has reorganized
after a semester of inactivity, and plans to
focus on programs to prevent sexual har-
issment and rape.
Stacy Carter, president of NOW and a se
nior psychology major, said she believes
people misunderstand NOW and what the
organization represents, and she wants to
change any misconceptions students might
have.
“I think some people perceive us as femi
nists and man-haters,” Carter said. “None
of us hate men and we’re not mad at the
male population. We just work for equality
for women in all areas.”
Carter said the organization was founded
on the A&M campus in 1985, but dissolved
last semester because of low attendance at
meetings.
Through reorganization and a mem
bership drive this semester, NOW currently
boasts a membership of 50 students, five of
whom are men.
Carter said NOW focuses on one or two
important women’s issues per semester and
is concentrating on sexual harrassment and
rape prevention this spring.
The organization is working to get a sex
ual harrassment policy passed at A&M.
Carter said they also are working to get full
time professionals who are trained to deal
with rape victims and a full-time gynecolog
ist on staff at the A.P. Beutel Health Cen
ter.
Laura Rodriguez, a senior psychology
major at A&M and vice-president of NOW,
said she is hoping the organization can raise
awareness among students about rape and
how to prevent it through a monthly news
letter that will be distributed throughout
the campus. The newsletter will cover va
rious women’s issues each month that are of
interest to college students.
“If we can make people aware that rape
does occur on campus, maybe women will
take more precautions and not run on cam
pus at night by themselves,” Rodriguez
said. “We also hope to raise awareness for
lighting on campus so it will be safer for the
students to walk by themselves.”
Rodriquez said that although she doesn’t
think discrimination against women is bla
tant at A&M, she does believe it exists and
should be addressed.
One way it exists, she said, is through
sexual harrassment by professors in the
classroom. The harrassment usually is not
physical, but can be mental, depending on
the way the professor addresses the stu
dents.
Carter agrees that women are not en
tirely integrated on the A&M campus.
“Because A&M was an all-male school
and bases everything on tradition, it’s hard
to get women truly into the mainstream,”
she said. “It’s starting to change though,
and women are starting to break the tradi
tion so we can be part of the tradition.”
NOW will present a slide show April 25
about pornography and how it affects
women and men’s attitudes toward them.
Admission to the slide show is $1. There
also will be a fall planning meeting on April
24.
“We want people to come to the meetings
and express their ideas and hopefully we
can do something about their beliefs,” Car
ter said. “We’re working toward important
campus issues that most students would ap
prove of and want implemented.”
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A former disc jockey wanted for bigamy in
Virginia was arrested in Houston when the sister
of his newest wife saw his case profiled on tele
vision and turned him in, authorities said Mon
day.
Frank Van Dyke Hobbs, 53, and Maria Sala
zar, 41, a nurse he married three weeks ago, were
on their way back to Houston from the beach in
Galveston Sunday when his sister-in-law was
home watching “America’s Most Wanted.”
County, Va., and put him in the cityjail.
Garcia said she didn’t tell her sister about the
bigamy charges until after the officer took Hobbs
away. “I was afraid she might have defended him
and he might have taken a run for it.”
Wythe County Sheriff Wayne Pike said Hobbs
was married to three women at the same time in
Virginia and may have gotten married another
five times in Tennessee and Texas, leaving an
undetermined number of children behind.
He also was accused of stealing a car in Wythe
County, Pike said.
He was staying at a shelter for the homeless where my sister works when
she met him. I never did like that guy. He was a big fat liar.”
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Lena Garcia called the Fox network television
station in Washington and said Hobbs was living
in her home with her widowed sister under the
alias “Hamilton Van Hobbs.”
“I told the children to be quiet when I heard
that name, Hobbs,” Garcia said. “When they
showed his picture on television, we were
shocked, horrified.”
Hobbs, sought since 1984, was in the kitchen
eating a salad his new wife made him when
Houston police officers arrived two hours later,
arrested him on a fugitive warrant from Wythe
Hobbs, who worked in advertising and as a ra
dio disc jockey in Virginia but was unemployed
in Texas, has been caught several times since
skipping out on his trial six years ago. But each
time, he has tnanaged to escape or convince a
judge to let him out on bond.
Pike said Hobbs could be returned to Virginia
within a week if he declines to fight extradition.
Garcia said she was not surprised that Hobbs
had a checkered past. “He was staying at a shelter
for the homeless where my sister works when she
met him. I never did like that guy. He was a big
fat liar.”
Susan Stump Hobbs of Roanoke, Va., who was
eight months pregnant with their fourth child
when Hobbs walked off seven years ago, was glad
to hear of the arrest.
“This is great. I love it,” said Susan Hobbs, a
34-year-old secretary who appeared on the taped
Fox network show. Hobbs married Betsy Hamil
ton of Roanoke in 1974, Susan Stump in 1977
and Hazel Marie Warren of Wythe County in
1983, authorities said.
Susan Stump Hobbs said she and her four chil
dren have been forced to take food stamps and
squeeze into a two-bedroom house with her par
ents since Hobbs left her in 1982. He owes her
about $40,000 in child support, she said.
She said Hobbs had a smooth voice and ro
mantic flair on his radio shows. “He would read
poetry on the air and dedicate it to women. It was
disgusting.”
The bigamy case against Hobbs might not
seem serious to many people, Pike said, “but it is
to the people he ruined, financially and emotion
ally.”
Lena Garcia said the experience has been
“horrible” for the family. She said her sister took
the news hard at first and felt sorry for Hobbs,
but had recovered enough Monday to go to work
at the shelter where she distributes medicine and
evaluates the health of the transient residents.
“Give her two or three weeks and that is going
to turn to hate,” Garcia said. “He was just taking
her to the cleaners.”
Local police probe
area for burglars
of private schools
The Montessori School on
Roundtree Drive in Bryan is the
most recent victim of burglars
who seem to target private
schools for their crimes, accord
ing to a Crime Stoppers report.
The Montessori School was
burglarized on Saturday, March
31. Sometime
during the night,
thieves entered
the school by
breaking and un
locking a window
and climbing
through.
Once inside,
the suspects opened a door and
stole a brown Kenmore compact
refrigerator, a white Excursion
cordless telephone and a wood-
grain dual cassette answering ma
chine.
The school is near St. Michael’s
Academy, which also has been
victimized recently. The similari-
STOPPER!
ties between the burglaries lead
detectives to believe that the same
suspects are most likely in both
offenses.
This week the College Station
Police Department and Crime
Stoppers need your help in iden
tifying the person(s) responsible
for this burglary.
If you have in
formation that
could be helpful,
call Crime Stop
pers at 775-TIPS.
When you call,
Crime Stoppers
will assign you a
to protect your
coded number
identity.
If your call leads to an arrest
and grand jury indictment.
Crime Stoppers will pay you up to
$1,000 in cash. Crime Stoppers
also pays cash for information on
any felony crime or the location
of a wanted fugitive.
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