The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1982 Page: 3 of 20
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.BEYOND THE HEDGES/by Michele Gillespie.
Rape problem pervades
college campuses
Amidst the flurry of finals last
semester, I stood in line with nine
other students waiting to leave the
library. A young woman at the
front of the line asked the
gentleman where the escort service
was. He explained that she must
call the campos at such a late hour.
After dialing the number and
hearing a busy signal, she turned to
the seven young men and politely
asked if anyone would be willing to
walk her to her college. No one
offered to escort her. No one even
acknowledged her request, but
instead they avoided her eyes and
glanced nervously at each other or
the floor. She re-dialed the
Campos' number and asked to be
escorted home from the library.
The evidence of rape and sexual
assault on college campuses
increases year after year. Women
often do not want to walk across
campus alone. At Yale University
on December 16, a man
brandishing a knife and a whiskey
bottle walked into the Yale Law
School building where he
commenced to assault a law
professor's administrative
assistant. It was the third attack in
Yale buildings during 1981. New
Haven police acknowledge that the
incidence of rape in the city has
risen over 13% since 1970 and an
additional 8% in 1981.
December 2 marked the
conviction date of a former Texas
Tech student accused of raping
two Tech coeds, a 14-year-old
junior high student, and a
Lubbock housewife in a series of
attacks attributed to the "Polaroid
Rapist." A Texas Tech student
testified against the rapist after
finding polaroid pictures hidden in
the campus library which showed
pictures of victims during sex acts.
The University of Houston
commanded the highest incidence
of rape and sexual assault in 1980
for all Texas institutions.
University Crime Prevention
Specialist Dennis Buffington
hopes to reduce these rates with a
surveillance patrol of students who
walk around campus and survey
parking lots with binoculars.
Even College Station is reeling
from the effects of a recent rape on
campus. Texas A&M student
Scott Ortolon expressed his
concern in a letter to the editor of
the Battalion, writing "When a girl
is scared to make the trek from her
car to her dorm at. night,
something is wrong."
Princeton University currently
leads all other universities across
the country in the number of
highly publicized rapes and
assaults. On October 22, a
Princeton graduate student was
knocked from her bicycle in early
morning by her assailant. He
forced her into his car at
knifepoint, bound her, and drove
to a nearby field where "he raped
her. The assailant has yet to be
found and there are no leads in the
case.
On December 7, James Tilton
was arrested twice and charged
with harassment, possession of
stolen property, and two counts of
trespassing. Tikon originally
appeared before an undergradu-
ate's room on November 25 and
asked pointless questions of a
young woman who answered the
persistent knocks on her door.
When be finally left, she called the
Proctors who apprehended him
that evening and found that he
possessed a key to a dorm room.
Charged with trespassing and
possession of stolen property,
Tilton was then released.
Tilton later returned to the same
woman's room. "He asked me my
name, and said t? me something
like 'I just wanted to make sure you
were the one who turned me in
because I like to remember things
like that.' His tone of voice was
really ominous—I felt scared and
threatened," she said.
Proctors once again arrested
Tilton, charging him with second
account trespassing, but he was
released again after agreeing to
appear in court. Princeton
Proctors revealed that Tilton has a
long history of campus visits.
Officials warned him to stop
trespassing on university property
at least six years ago.
Ironically, when Tilton
reappeared on campus more than
two hundred Princeton men and
women, bearing candles and
flashlights, marched late at night
to protest the lack of campus safety
for womea Dubbed Take Back
the Night," a dozen campus
organizations sponsored the
march. One of the march's
organizers, Mandy Carver,
Placement Office Interviews
Date
Company
1/15
E-Systems Melpar
1/15
First Jersey Securities
1/18
Nowsco
1/18
Link-a-bit
1/18
Harris Corp.
1/18-19
PPG
1/18
Mobay PhD
1/18 «
Argo Systems
1/19
C.G. Aetna
1/19
Tamko Asphalt
1/19
Cameron Iron
1/19
Crown Zellerback
1/20
Northern Telecom
1/20
Chevron
1/20
First City National Bank
1/20
Amoco Oil and Production
1/22
IBM
1/22
Datum Structures
1/22
Motorola - Ft. Worth
1/22
Texas Eastern
1/23
C.E. Lummus Co.
1/23
Schlumberger Offshore
1/23
The Analyst
1/23
Scientific Atlanta
explained the philosophy behind
the activity, "Our goals for
improved lighting, escort services,
and more women proctors haven't
been realized. And those programs
(the administration) instituted
have been either staffed with an
inadequate number of people or
improperly trained people. What
can we do?"
A mere five days later, on
December 12, a knife-wielding
man in a ski mask attempted to
assault a Princeton junior early in
the morning near her dorm. But
the victim ground her lit cigarette
into her assailant's face and iled.
There are no suspects or witnesses.
In a letter to the editor of the
Princetonian, the victim expressed
her concern for the safety of
others, "PLEASE don't be
embarrassed to call the Proctors or
the escort service if you can't find
someone to walk with at night, and
PLEASE don't let your friends
walk home alone either."
"I'm not signing this for two
reasons. The first is that I could be
anyone. The second is that
someone is walking around with a
nasty burn on his face and he's
probably not real happy about it."
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Houston, Texas 77001. Phone: (713)527-8101 ext. 3238.
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Grob, Jay. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1982, newspaper, January 15, 1982; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245489/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.