SectionsStudent reports sexual assault
Trysta Eakin
Issue date: 9/23/08 Section: News
A female student reported having been sexually assaulted in Hammons House early Saturday morning, according to a safety alert issued Monday afternoon by the Department of Safety and Transportation.
According to the alert, the assault reportedly happened between 2:30 and 9:30 a.m. The assailant was described as a white male of traditional college age with brown hair and wearing blue jeans.
Larry Combs, assistant director of the Safety and Transportation Department, said the incident is still under investigation.
Officer Grant Story, spokesman for the Springfield Police Department, said late Monday afternoon that he had not been notified about the investigation yet and could not comment about it.
Combs said he contacted all campus building coordinators and Residence Life administrators through e-mail to inform students.
"We made a wide as possible dissemination of the information pertaining to (the incident)," he said.
The alert also has been posted on the Safety and Transportation Web site and can be seen at http://www.missouristate.edu/safetran/51533.htm.
Denise Baumann, associate director of Residence Life, said fliers are put up in the residence halls when a safety alert is issued.
"The info is given to us and then posted on all floors and in the lobby (of the residence halls)," she said.
Katie Lappin, a freshman biology major who lives in Freudenberger House, said she frequents Hammons House but had not heard about the incident as of Monday afternoon, which worried her.
"There are so many fliers. It's hard to pay attention, even if they are brightly colored," she said. "It's just not a very friendly system."
Around 5 p.m. Monday, it did not appear the alert had been posted in common areas of Hammons House, Hutchens House, Blair-Shannon House or Plaster Student Union.
According to the alert, the assault reportedly happened between 2:30 and 9:30 a.m. The assailant was described as a white male of traditional college age with brown hair and wearing blue jeans.
Larry Combs, assistant director of the Safety and Transportation Department, said the incident is still under investigation.
Officer Grant Story, spokesman for the Springfield Police Department, said late Monday afternoon that he had not been notified about the investigation yet and could not comment about it.
Combs said he contacted all campus building coordinators and Residence Life administrators through e-mail to inform students.
"We made a wide as possible dissemination of the information pertaining to (the incident)," he said.
The alert also has been posted on the Safety and Transportation Web site and can be seen at http://www.missouristate.edu/safetran/51533.htm.
Denise Baumann, associate director of Residence Life, said fliers are put up in the residence halls when a safety alert is issued.
"The info is given to us and then posted on all floors and in the lobby (of the residence halls)," she said.
Katie Lappin, a freshman biology major who lives in Freudenberger House, said she frequents Hammons House but had not heard about the incident as of Monday afternoon, which worried her.
"There are so many fliers. It's hard to pay attention, even if they are brightly colored," she said. "It's just not a very friendly system."
Around 5 p.m. Monday, it did not appear the alert had been posted in common areas of Hammons House, Hutchens House, Blair-Shannon House or Plaster Student Union.
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