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Acquaintance assaults more common
A lot of attention has been focused on the attempted sexual assaults on the
Penn State University Park campus and in downtown State College during the
first month of classes this semester, but they are only the tip of the iceberg,
according to Peg Lorah, director of the Penn State Center for Women Students.
"The stranger assaults are anomalies. They're happening, and they're horrible,
but that's not where the main danger lies for most Penn State students," Lorah
said.
Lorah is talking about acquaintance assault, which is a much more common
form of this crime. •
"That doesn't minimize the stranger assaults," Lorah emphasized. "We need
to do something about them as well, but we need to be aware of the assaults that
happen on a daily basis that nobody talks about because they're not public and
they're not high profile."
Stranger assaults are easier to speak out against, Lorah said.
"It's like the attack on the World Trade Center. We can marshal our anger
around that because it was completely unwarranted. Those people were minding
their own business, doing their jobs or sitting on an airplane, and along came
somebody and put an end to their lives.
ABC to regionally televise
Penn State-Purdue clash Oct. 11
ABC Sports will televise Penn State's Big Ten Conference road opener at
Purdue on Saturday, Oct. 11 to a regional audience. Kickoff has been set for
2:30 p.m. EST at Ross-Me Stadium in West Lafayette, Ind. Penn State and
Purdue meet for the first time since the Nittany Lions captured an emotional 22-
20 victory over the Boilermakers in Beaver Stadium during the 2000 season.
The Lions play at Purdue for the first time since posting a dramatic 31-25 vic
tory in 1999. The Nittany Lions lead the series, 6-1-1, winning all six meetings
since starting Big Ten play in 1993. The telecast is the fifth announced TV ap
pearance of the season for the Nittany Lions, who have appeared on television
in 108 of their last 110 games.
Focus on graduate research: looking
for West Nile virus in songbirds
Nearly alone among the many researchers focusing on the West Nile virus
nationally, Adam Rohnke, a graduate student in wildlife and fisheries science in
Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, is looking for the virus in song
birds. "We just don't know if West Nile is prevalent in birds across our region,
or even if songbirds are cam trig it," he says. To find out, Rohnke is conducting
songbird counts at two Centre County sites, and checking some birds' blood for
the virus in the process. "Ilig birds are easy to find when they die, but the song
birds migrate, so they could he spreading the virus," he notes.
President's Open House
welcomes community
Faculty, staff. students and the puhlic are invited to attend Penn State Univer
sity President Graham B. Spanier's Open House from 3 to 4:30 p.m. today in
Old Main on the University Park campus. President Spanier and Rodney Erickson,
executive vice president and provost. will he on hand in 201 Old Main. Light
refreshments will he ser‘ ed. Visitors can also view the frescoes and may visit
the Old Mani Tow el% where Lion Amhassadurs will give tours.
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