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By Michael Schaub
The Battalion
H e had not seen his
daughter in years,
the man wrote in
an e-mail message to
Chris Dennett, and he
was looking for her phone
number at Texas A&M.
Dennett, a junior com
puter engineering major,
said he sensed something
was a little strange about
the e-mail.
“I imagine he got my
e-mail address through
Dunn Hall’s web page,”
Dennett said. “I wasn’t
about to e-mail him
back. I got the girl’s
phone number off the
computer phone book
and called her.”
The student told
him she had been try
ing to avoid her es
tranged father for
years, Dennett said.
“If he’d been smarter,
he could have got that in
formation,” Dennett said.
“If he’d called student lo
cator here, it would have
been fairly easy.”
The case is not an
unusual one to some
college students. With
personal information
about students avail
able online, would-be
stalkers have a new way
to find telephone num
bers, e-mail addresses
and dorm room num
bers of students.
A&M’s homepage is
accessible to anyone who
calls it, Dennett said.
From the homepage,
web surfers can access
phone records of A&M
students and employ
ees. The records may in
clude such information
as home telephone
numbers and addresses,
•without the knowledge
of the sttidenT*. “
A Computing and
Information Services
employee, who de
clined to give his name,
said the phone records
can be changed at a
student’s request.
“They can always get
rid of it by logging into
PH,” he said.
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dresses and phone num
bers are listed on the
page, and much of the
information appears to
be outdated.
However, the Office of
Admissions and Records
would not comment on
what student informa
tion it supplies to those
who request it.
Some students do
not see the issue of pri
vacy and safety online
as a problem.
Bryan Tucker (not his
real name), a computer
science graduate stu
dent, said Texas A&M
protects students’ priva
cy sufficiently.
"Whether students do
enough to protect their
qwn.privacy is an entire
ly different question,”
Tucker saiil
But privacy and safety
on the Internet is quickly
becoming a concern to
many Americans.
Pennsylvania resident
Marlene Stumpf was
murdered last month af
ter receiving a bouquet of
roses from an online ad
mirer. Her husband is
charged in the slaying.
Last year, a woman ap
parently solicited her own
sexual torture and mur
der, allegedly by a man
she encountered in a
“chat room.”
These cases are exam
ples of what some psy
chologists call “the Mardi
Gras syndrome,” a ten
dency to believe that one
can say anything without
consequences when hid
den behind a “mask.”
But finding informa
tion about people any
where in the country is
not difficult at all, Dennett
said. Internet searches
and phone directories not
only provide a web surfer
with someone’s home ad
dress, but some print a
map showing the exact lo
cation of the residence.
There is even a “Stalk
er’s Home Page” that pro
vides scores of links to in
formation services and
search engines.
Nevertheless, Tucker
said, the Internet is not
any more dangerous
than more convention
al sources of research
and communication.
“ [It’s as] safe as walking
down the street,” he said.
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