Attack in the Village
To: Georgia State University Faculty, Staff and Students
From: Carl V. Patton, President
I write to inform you of an incident that occured yesterday (Dec. 2) in the Georgia State University Village. Shortly before 3 p.m., a male knocked on a door in the Sparta building of the Village. A resident opened the door and the male forced his way into the apartment. The women in the apartment were held against their will and the intruder sexually assaulted two of the residents. The other women were not physically harmed. The intruder then left the premises. The victims were able to give a description of the intruder. The police are currently investigating the incident.
I strongly encourage all members of the university community to take precautions whether you work on campus or are a resident of one of our housing units.
If you do reside in the Village or Lofts, please follow these measures to help assure you safety:
1. Lock your doors at all times.
2. Look through the peephole in the door to make sure you recognize the person knocking.
3. Do not open the door to anyone or let anyone in the apartment who you do not know.
4. Call the Georgia State University Police if someone unknown attempts to gain entry to your apartment.
5. Do not allow unknown persons or persons who are not residents of the Village to follow you into the Village.
To the entire Georgia State community:
Be aware of your surroundings. Also, you don’t have to walk alone. You may request a safety escort on campus by calling the Georgia State University Police at (404) 651-2100 or you may contact the Village Police station at (404) 206-5900. An officer or a cadet will drive or walk you to your destination.
If you see suspicious persons or activites, please call the Georgia State University Police at #. Also, I encourage you to contact Crime Prevention at # for safety tips and programs.
Thank you for your time.
As all of you know, I live in the GSU Village. At the time of this unfortunate incident, I was on my way home. The Sparta building is the Freshman building and is on the opposite side of the Village complex from where I live. Getting in a room is very difficult: you must go through steel gates that require an access card; you must enter in the individual buildings that can be unlocked with either a key or an access card, and then you must open up a room with a key.
The news has been around the state paper for the past few days now. From what I read, the intruder was allowed in the Village, Sparta, and then in the girls’ suite.
I already detailed the amount of security someone needs to get through in order to attack someone. You’re not supposed to leave the door open for someone. However, everyone does it without second thoughts. For me, I’ll leave the door open only if the person is about 3 steps behind me (tentatively).
There have been questions about how they could increase security. As I said, security has been pretty good because there hasn’t been a ton of attacks since it was built. However, the Village was built before the 1996 Olympics to house the Olympic athletes. Anyway, the security officials have to decide whether to keep security the way it is, or increase it. The only problem is that they wouldn’t want it someone to feel like the Village is a fortress.
Thanks for the feedback on the poem. The only reason why I say it sucks is because I’m more comfortable writing stories than poems. Poetry is kind of like a foreign language to me in a way. Thanks for all the compliments though :-).
RYN: I’m about 3/4 of the way through with the study guide so sure if would like to. My test is on Wednesday, so sure. I wondered what your opinion was about what happened. I would leave the door open when they were near me, not to slam it in their face but you just have to maintain some caution. I would rarely open the door for anyone. And you are right, it wasn’t meant to be a fortress.
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It’s kind of a toss up. I only lived there for my first year and there were just minor instances, most of them aquaintance situations. I think that people are more knowledgeable of how things work and therefore can be more prone to doing that sort of thing. I dunno. It’s too hard to say. Sorry to write a book about it all. I’m a bit long-winded on the thing.
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when you think bout it, no matter how safe you think a place is.. it isn’t there is always way and someone always willing to find that way.
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My god, those poor girls. That’s so terrible Joe, make sure that all you’re female friends at College take extra care of themselves.
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man im so sorry to hear about what happened i do not understand how someone would just violate someone like that I know what is like for those women and I just hope that they can make it talk to you laters Jocelyn
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RYN: sure you can email me at tiggers_blue_banana@yahoo.com if you would like. I also have aol so if you want to email me you can do it at that address and I’ll get back to you w/aol.
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i know how it feels to be forced to do something you don’t want to know and it is scary as hell man i know how they feel i am soo sorry for them and feel there pain. well last night i thought someone wa sin my back yard but luckily it was just someone that own the building behide us whoohoo..well gtg hey joe i put a new entry in my diary about the real me you might want to check it out bye me
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This is so scarey
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OMG i guess my friend was right that if they want to get in they will get in wow i should be more careful and i am in oklahoma thank God i dont live in georgia right now
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