The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 6, 1980 Page: 5 of 12
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In the wake of a brutal murder
PITTSBURGH, PA (GPS)
After a review of
campus security'
precautions in the wake of
a brutal murder in a dorm
laundry room last year,
the University of Pitt-
sburgh has officially
reinstated dorm visiting
hours regulationsl Under
the new rules, most
weeknight overnight
visitations will be
prhibited.
Pitt had abandoned
hours regulations nearly a
decade ago, but a
January, 1979 murder of a
Pitt coed "clearly piqued
our concern for safety,"
says Mary Ann Aug,
director of Pitt's news
department. k
When Pitt. ad-
ministrators announced in
early February that they
proposed to prohibit non-
resident visitation after
2:00 a.m., some students
protested the university
was attempting to exer-
cise too much control over
students' personal lives.
Students went so far as to
hire their own lawyer to
represent them during
subsequent administration
discussions about the
proposal.
Aug says that students
G.K. LEWALLEN'S
GRAND ENTRY
WESTERN STORE
Soutfcloop
Stephenville, Texas 76401
have greeted the final
regulations, adopted Feb.
12 and due to become
operational; spring
quarter, much more
calmly.
The regulations allow
overnight visitations on
weekends, after the visitor
registers with dorm ad-
visers.
Relatives can sleep over,
during the week, when all
other non-resident visitors
must leave by the 2:00
a.m. curfew. Eyefl during
weekends, residents must
get roommates' approval
before entertaining
overnight guests. "We just
wanted to give over-
visited roommates an
opportunity to say no,"
Augexplaines.
'The university wants to
make no moral
judgements," she adds.
But we do need a
program that allows us to
sweep the dorms and
allows the students to
know that whoever is there
belongs there."
Dorm security became a
hot campus issue after the
1979 murder. Aug reports
that student concern in-
tensified after it was
discovered that the
murder suspect, in-
plicated in at least four
other Pennsylvania
Franco to speak to club
Telmo Franco will speak
at the next meeting of the
Spanish Club. The
meeting is planned for
afterspring break;
Franco, a TSU graduate
student, is a professional
soccer player from Peru.
He will discuss life in his
country.
; All interested people are
invited to attend the
meeting, said Dr. Russell
Peterson, club sponsor.
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TheyDuilt Themselves!
It's easy, turn your head
upside down and blow dry...
Then toss it back and shake it!
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murders, had been a dorm
resident's regular guest.
"Logistics were also
becoming a problem,"
Aug adds. Some female
residents reportedly
complained that men were
in the women's showers in
the mornings.
This marks the first
time since 1971 that Pitt
has imposed dorm hours.
That's when the univer-
sity, following a national
trend, dropped its policy of
in loco parentis. The
policy, which lliterally
nj^|ns "in parents'
place," charge^ college
officials with overseeing
students' moral and social
activities as parents
might.
But the new " "open
hours" policy made dorm
security difficult. Aug
claims Pitt has 'spent
"hundreds of thousands of
dollars" trying to protect
dorm residents from in-
truders.
Some studnets are
apparently more wiling
than others to trade open
hfttirS for better security.
4-H to discuss
activities
The Collegiate MI Club
will discuss service ac-
tivities and constitutional
amendments today at 6:30
p.m. in Conference Room
E of the Tarleton Center.
Among service projects
to be discussed are helping
county 4-H clubs by giving
?rooming demonstrations.
'ossible constitutional
amendments also. will be
discussed.
- Spring special
one 8X10 with
frame
five 4 X 5's
(different poses )
$25 reg. $45
Great for
Mother's Day
locket with one
picture $ 12
with two $ 1695
offer good thru
April 15
Call for appointment
Ask for Mary
Miller Studio
965-3519
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The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 6, 1980, newspaper, March 6, 1980; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth141448/m1/5/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.