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The Battalion Tuesday • October 10, Southerland hosts "Chat and Chew" Wednesday Harassment, stalking burden college campuses across natio Students will have the chance to meet and talk to Dr. J. Malon Souther land, vice president for student affairs, during Southerland's "Chat and Chew" session Wednesday. Southerland will hold the lunch meeting at the Recreational Sports Cen ter from 12-2 p.m. Southerland uses the meetings to gather feedback from students in a ca sual atmosphere. Saboteus leave manifesto at scene of Amtrak wreck o Students who receive harassing telephone calls should keep a phone log of when the calls occur and what is said, UPD officers said, and threatening calls should be reported immediately. have had in the past were be cause there were no laws to stop it.” Lemay said that most reports are not true stalking or harass ment cases. HYDER, Ariz. (AP) — Saboteurs call ing themselves "Sons of Gestapo" pulled 29 spikes from a stretch of railroad track, sending an Amtrak train hurtling over a bridge into a dry stream bed Monday, authorities said. One person was killed and about 100 were injured. A note found outside the train in a remote expanse of desert referred to the federal sieges at Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge, Idaho — both rally ing cries for right-wing, anti-govern ment extremists. "That's what leads me to believe this is a terrorist attack," said Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Amtrak's Sunset Limited, bound from Miami to Los Angeles with 248 passengers and 20 crew members, derailed while crossing a 30-foot-high bridge 50 to 60 miles southwest of Phoenix sometime after 1 a.m. Pour cars plunged from the bridge, with three coming to rest on their sides on the sandy bottom of the desert wash. By Michelle Lyons The Battalion Both harassment and stalk ing are problems that exist on virtually every college campus in cities across the nation, Uni versity police said. Christie Maurer in the records department of the Uni versity Police Department said that from September 1994 through September 1995, there were 86 cases of harassment re ported to UPD, most of which were telephone harassment. Sgt. Betty Lemay of the Crime Prevention Unit for the UPD said almost every report involved the phone. “Ninety-nine point nine per cent of the calls that we get are telephone harassment,” Lemay said. “Occasionally, we’ll get a call involving an actual stalking. “Most of the problems we “Most of it is harmless,” she said, “but we take all of our calls seriously.” Maj. Josie Hosier of the UPD said that of the 86 harassment cases, only one was a case of stalking. Hosier said a young woman was assaulted out of town. The assailant began to appear at various locations around the Texas A&M campus. As far as telephone harass ment, Hosier said many of the calls are hang-up calls and can be stopped. “We solve them by tracing the call,” she said. Lt. Bert Kretzschmar,^ of the UPD Crime Prevent;, Unit, offered advice for anji being harassed by phone. “Don’t carry on a converse with somebody,” Kretzsclii said. “Hang up immediately' The callers are often pee calling to talk to anyone. “A lot of times when people randomly calling around,! just want to see what read® are,” he said. “They call looking for conversation. “If the caller is someone;,; don’t know, it’s typicallyars dom-caller who is looking!; a reaction.” Kretzschmar said calls persist, the victim make a phone log including!) dates and times of thecal what was said and there is any particular bad ground noise. If the caller is persistent,1 line can be traced throughGl with the written permissi the victim. The police should be conta® mai immediately if the caller makes threat, Kretzschmar said. “Be sure and contact tkcp, lice if any sort of threat made,” he said. Lemay said every report:! looked at carefully. “We take harassment!!! tan stalking very seriously,” shed “We certainly will get it step' Richards says third party has slim chance □ Texas' former governor believes the growing GOP influence may hurt Perot in 1996. AUSTIN (AP) — While many voters voice unhappiness with Democrats and Re publicans, Ross Perot’s plan to create a third political party may not be the answer either, former Texas Gov. Ann Richards said Monday. The Democrat, who won Perot’s endorse ment in her unsuccessful re-election bid last year, said in an interview that she’s not sure another party would win over voters who don’t like their current choices. “It’s very hard for anyone to put a party to gether that is going to satisfy people who es sentially dissent,” Richards told The Associat ed Press. “If the time has come in this country that a sizeable number of people feel neither party is addressing what they want addressed — then so be it. Is a third party the answer to that? Lots of times people want something other than what they’ve got — but then they don’t necessarily want what they get.” Richards said she’s not sure the current two-party system leaves a broad “middle” ground between Democrats and Republicans. But the growing influence of the OOP’s con servative wing could cause trouble for that party, she said. “I do think the Republican Party increas ingly has a problem: you cannot get nominat- Tl Oct S By/ The I whe ism ope: prol I jor, sex: dor: bra all is s moi sai< 5 the Tl say ed unless you appease the right wing. “It is very much like the trials that the Demo cratic Party goes through. How do you take people of disparate ideas, ideologies and di rections and keep all the puppies in a basket? You look up and one group of puppies is running down the stairs.” Richards said Perot, as an independent presidential candidate 1992 and since then, has been effective in« ing attention to issues politicians other* might ignore, such as the budget deficit. Richards International Studies The Internationa! Studies Society cordially invites to join us in the MSC Forsyth Gallery October 10th at 7:30 pm to celebrate the international opportunities awaiting you. For more information, contact us at 862-2194 or pass by the International Studies Office in Harrington Tower, Room ill Tonight Only! University Chamber Concerts Rudder Theatre 7:30pm Kvoko Salto, soprano Christopheren Nomura, baritone Young Concert Artists International Competition Winners! Prepare yourself for a glorious evening of romantic songs and well-known duets from the solo and operatic stage. 845-1234 MSC Box Office Tickets - $10, Seniors, 65+ - $7, Students - $5 Season Subscriptions Still Available. He died to take away your sins. Not your mind. You don’t have to stop thinking when you walk into an Episcopal Church. Come and join us in an atmosphere where faith and thought exist together in a spirit of fellowship. 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