Campus Attacks

Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 1-13-1978 The aB tes Student - volume 105 number 01 - January 13, 1978 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 105 number 01 - January 13, 1978" (1978). The Bates Student. 1766. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1766 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ' VOLUME 105, NUMBER 1 ESTABLISHED 1873 FRIDAY, JANUARY 13,1978 CAMPUS ATTACKS: A Report On The Facts in an incident with a Bates sk^y incapable of resisting, and BY CLAIRE BOUSQUET woman, the episode occuring in has Ml consented to the seiaal front of Cheney House. After the contact; |Chapter II, Section 225, In an effort to deal with the attack, the female student report- Title 17-A of the Maine Criminal confusion surrounding the recent ed the crime to Bates Security. Code, P. 79]. sex oriented crimes on or in the While searching the area with As a result of the arrest vicinity of the Bates campus. THE Security Guard Williamson, the Detective Morin and his colleague STUDENT interviewed Detective student spotted the assailant, her decided to review all such assault Roland Morin of the Lewiston identification of the man allowing cases occuring since September Police Department in order to for the issuance of a summons. of 1977. Interestingly. the obtain the facts on the matter. Detective Morin believes that the description given by another According to the detective who "co-ordinated effort" undertaken Bates female following an attack has handled these cases along by Bates Security and the LPD on the corner of Lafayette and with his partner Jerry Baril. the following the incident is Russell Streets fit that of the man first incident of this type to arouse responsible for the hasty arrest of arrested and charged with unlaw- the concern of the LPD occurred the attakecr. Charge with unlaw- ful sexual contact. The victim of in early December. In the course ful sexual contact, the man has this crime was notified and asked of one evening an intoxicated since made his initial appearance to identify her assailant who was local male made three separate in court. This crime is described to appear in a live line-up. As a attempts to "pick-up" Bates in Title 17-A of the Maine result of the fact that the man's women; twice on Campus Avenue Criminal Code. The definitive lawyer instructed him not to DANGER! and once on College Street. passage reads as follows: appear for the line-up. the LPD Although Detective Morin A person » gaily of Hli.fd acquired a search warrant for his be seen across the Quad? And mentioned that this man was of seiaal contort if he inientioaaUy body—the first such maneuver in By Robyn Gnzowski what about the few days the snow little danger to the campus com- subjects another person, not Us this state. Following positive had melted down to a reasonable munity, he did admit that the spouse, lo any sexnal contact, identification the charge was Notice any new shrubbereis on level? Unfortunately (?) the Main- "crude tcchniqe" employed en- A. And. the other person has Ml changed from assault to attempt- the campus lately? Actually they tenance personel number 107 and couraged the LPD to investigate. expressly or JinliriMy acqaiesced ed rape with the man being are not planned additions at all, most of the men now are spend- Approxiamately one week in such sexnal contact; or released on bail. Court action in but merely the spiny tokens left ing their time keeping the walks later, noted Dectective Morin. B. The other person is this second Charge is currently as a reminder of another main- clear. Mr. Hunter does promise to another local male was involved unconscious or otherwise pby- pending. tenance job done for the college clear the limbs away as soon as by the Goodall Tree Co., possible. Portland. The concern about the Speaking of the side walks... potential safety hazard these have you slipped lately? I'm sure BOTTLE BILL UPDATE stray limbs present is warranted. you will remember the skating The boughs are statigically locat- rink in front of Chase Hall finals by Peter J. Brann alter an acrimonious and pro- the deposit should only increase ed (i.e. at key shortcuts) and have week, or perhaps your own longed debate between environ- the cost 30 cents. However, the been well hidden under a layer of residence's ramp-like stairs and The advent of the new year in mentalists and distributors. distributors claim that the higher snow since before Christmas. front walks. Of course no one can Maine brought, amoung other The controversy is unlikely to costs of picking up the bottles, Walking, running, let alone fall- expect the continual chopping of things, a mandatory bottle bill. subside for quite a long time. The storing them, and possibly re- ing in the areas where these such large patches of ice (with the The new law. which is being distributors claim that the new- using them, increase the handling branches lay may lead to certain exception of stairs), but is it too phased in over a one month law is poorly written and will charges an additional 20 cents. impalement. The trees had not much to ask for more sand and period, requires a 5 cent deposit cause financial hardship for many The bottle bill does not require fteen cut before the snow, Mr salt than the sparsely tossed on all medium size soft drink and people. As people may have that distributors use re-usable Newell of the Goodall Co. says. grains of the past? Unfortunately beer bottles. Maine joins a select noticed already, the price of an bottles: they just have to charge a because regular maintenance of Frye Streeters will endure more number of states which require average six-pack, with deposit, deposit. Consequently, the envi- the trees is systematic and only so than other campus residents be- such a deposit. The measure was has increased from $2.00 to S2.S0. ronmental advantages of re many trees are cut at one time cause Frye Street is a public passed into law in November 1976 As any math major can figure out. usables will not be felt in the near due to cost. This does explain why street. future. Eventually, because it is the particular trees were not While you are trying not to lose cheaper to do so. distributors will taken care of before the snow. your footing and/or land on the switch to re-usables. Mr. Newell, has' informed the branches, try not to suffer any "Student" Has New Editor Beyond the simple economics "Student" also that the clean up crashing blows from the fallitii, of the issue, the effects of the new was to be handled by the Robert Cohen was named the ice. Signs have helped to wan- became Feature Editor of the law should be forthcoming quite Maintenance Dept. Why are the new editor of the Bates Student at people near Hathorn and Coram, "Student". He now continues soon. The Maine Department of branches still lying there nearly a a December meeting of the P.A. but do not trust your house or leading the Hubcaps, is a Transportation expects to see a month later? Mr. Tom Hunter of Board. Rob is a Junior majoring dorm past the threshold. The member of the Budget Com- noticeable effect upon the litter the Maintenance Dept. says they in both English and Sociology. He Maintenance Dept. is handicap- mittee, and will be serving until problem along the highways. As :annot get to the limbs because of had been active in his years at ped here however, with only December as the new Editor of any Cub Scout knows, "tliar's the snow. Logical of course; no Bates serving on the Residential 11-12 men working on the crew the "Student." mekles in them there bottles." one can be expected to clear away Life Committee his Freshman and only 3-4 of them willing to Rob hopes to experiment with Both Oregon and Vermont found vhat he cannot see, but what Year, and singing with The several ideas for columns, climb in the winter. So until significant decreases in their about the boughs large enough to warmer days...caution! Deansmen his Sophomore year. features, and other types of litter problems after they adopted During his Sophomore year, he articles that will, hopefully, im- a bottle bill. ■»#* ■W ■MF w also undertook the task of rebuild- prove the caliber of the The long-term environmental ing the Hubcaps which had "Student." He hopes that anyone effects will not be felt until the degenerated as a result of most who is interested in any facet of distributors switch to re-usable INSIDE: of its members' graduation the newspaper work will contact him bottles. Until that time, it is previous June. Rob was the so that we can have a college ironically less energy efficient to author of the controversial newspaper that informs and en- collect the bottles, crush them, WINTER CARNIViL "Campus Complaints" and later tertains us. cont. on 12 Pk» =*> a* —«-« 10 2 THE BATES STUDENT. January 13. 1978 "SEE A DEAN- ANY DEAN" It has come to the "Student's" attention that Bates students EDITORIAL (particularly upperclassmcn) are CETTER having difficulty in adjusting to the new structure of the adminis- tration.

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