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The West Georgian
VOLUME 39, NUMBER 32
Coed attacked twice
in apartment complex
By Joe Callahan
News Editor
A search is in progress for an
assailant who attacked a West
Georgia College coed twice during
the last week of March.
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This is a composite sketch of the
man who twice attacked a
female student outside her
apartment in Brookwood. Police
are still searching for the
assailant.
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“We have a poor track record for success of
students who come back after dismissal because
they do the same things that got them dismissed.”
Dr. Bruce Lyon
Hickey studies serial killers in-depth
Says serial murderers seek power and aren’t crazy
By Tray Baggarly
Managing Editor
Through the interest and exten
sive research of West Georgia Col
lege Sociology Professor Eric W.
Hickey, the first data has been
compiled involving serial
murderers and their victims.
According to Hickey, who will
publish a book later this year
revealing his findings, some 150
serial killers have slain over 1600
victims since 1800. Those figures
are from six years of research
Hickey compiled through travel
across the United States and
Canada.
His interest in this area was
kindled while working on his Ph.
D. at Brigham Young University.
While there he worked in an in
stitution and had the opportunity
to talk with many murderers.
“After working in the institution,
I began noticing in the newspapers
that there was a real outbreak of
serial murders in the late 70s and
early 80s,” said Hickey, “but I just
couldn’t buy that. I felt we had had
more serial murders earlier than
that, so I went back to the year
1800 and started tracing them up
and collected 150 different cases of
serial murders.’’
That research has gotten Hickey
lots of recognition including an ar
ticle he published in the Journal of
Police and Criminal Psychology
on female serial murderers.
Hickey’s findings were also the
topic of a story in the USA Today
newspaper in late March.
When discussing the topic of
serial murders, Hickey explains
that social scientists have had
trouble actually defining what a
Carrollton Police are looking for
a man, described as 5’7" to 5’10”,
approximately 180 pounds and
about 25 years old, who attacked
the student on two separate occa
sions in a parking lot in the
Brookwood apartment complex.
According to Rita Henderson, ID
technician with the Carrollton
Police Department and one of the
investigators of the case, the latest
attack occurred on March 29
around 10 p.m. when the man beat
the 20-year-old woman with a pipe.
She was attacked as she was get
ting out of her car outside her
apartment.
The man approached the victim
from the rear, placed his hand
over her mouth and began hitting
her in the legs with the pipe. While
trying to escape from the scene,
the woman fell and struck her
forehead on a nearby stairway
railing.
“...(Serial murderers) have no concience and no
remorse for what they do —some people like to go
jogging for exercise, they like to kill for exercise.”
serial murderer is.
“I define a serial murderer as a
person who pre-selects his victims
and then kills them himself or
herself,” said Hickey. “The dif
ference between a serial murderer
and a regular murderer is that
most murders in the United States
are domestic and the person does
not plan to kill the victim.”
Hickey added that he excludes
organized crime in this analysis
and includes only those killers who
are on their own.
H : ckey has placed serial killers
in three different categories. The
first are transients who travel
from state to state seeking victims
such as Theodore Bundy did; the
second are killers who remain in a
single area like a city such as
Wayne Williams did in Atlanta;
the final category known as place
specific, includes killers who work
in places suct| as hospitals or nurs
ing homes and who kill their
patients.
Hickey said Serial murderers
have motives such as sex, money,
power and the fact that they simp
ly enjoy killing.
“The most common reason for
serial killing is the killers enjoy
the power they have over their vic
tims,” said Hickey. “Many do it
for sex, but the feeling they get
from that power is what satisfies
them. In the old days the victims
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“He has real short hair -fairjiost
a shaved head,” said HerL cr ?on.
“Sunday he was wearing Possibly
a light blue shirt, dark plants
something similar to a work type
uniform.” •-*
The assailant claimed he was
beating her with the pipe because
she kicked and injured him during
the first attack, said Henderson.
At 5:15 p.m. on Thursday, March
26, the assailant assaulted the coed
as she was returning from her
mailbox. After he pushed her to
the ground, he put one hand over
her mouth and used his other hand
to hold her down.
After the man ripped open her
shirt and exposed himself to the
woman, the coed kicked the
assailant and ran behind the apart
ment building. The victim then ran
to her apartment room, but did not
Please see ATTACK, pg. 4
Fee increase likely for next year
By Tray Baggarly
Managing Editor
If a recommendation by Presi
dent Maurice Townsend passes the
Faculty Senate next month,
students can expect to pay more
for student activity fees and other
campus services next year, accor
ding to a report given at Monday’s
meeting of the Student Govern
ment Association (SGA).
If the fee increases are adopted,
the student activity fee will go up
$5 ($62-$67); residence halls up $22
($278-$300) for regular dorm
rooms; single rooms up from SIOO
to $110; and there will be a $22
across the board increase for Tyus
suite rates.
Also, the health service fee will
increase from S3O to $33, and meal
tickets will increase $6 for one
Dr. Eric W. Hickey
WGC sociology professor
were simply shot, but today we are
seeing more sexual, torture-type
murders.”
When talking about
characteristics of serial
murderers, Hickey says they are
not crazy.
“Serial murderers are fairly in
telligent, somewhat educated, ar
ticulate, psychopathic, big
manipulators, have no conscience,
and no remorse for what they do
some people like to go jogging for
exercise, they like to kill for exer
cise,” continued Hickey. “We
might think they are crazy, but no
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Dr. Eric Hickey has received national attention because of his
study of serial killers. (Photo by Lorelle McAvoy)
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This shot of sunbathers in Love Valley was
taken late last quarter before the sudden cold
snap which brought snow to the campus last
meal, sll for two meals, and sl2
for three meals. The state
matriculation fees will also in
crease by as much as 5 percent.
In other SGA business, a pro
posal was passed concerning the
development of students readmit
ted to the school after being
dismissed for academic reasons.
President Rodney Smith spon
sored the proposal which said
students readmitted should be re
quired to meet with a staff
member of the Student Develop
ment Office. This would not in
clude students enrolled in the Stu
dent Success Quarter Project.
According to Smith, this would
involve approximately 40 students
per quarter.
more that 5 percent of killers in my
study have physical or mental
defects.”
The following are some of the
results from Hickey’s findings.
Serial murders are on the in
crease since 1800, but are on the
decrease in the 1980 s.—
Serial murders increased four
times during the period of
1950-1974 as compared to the
period of 1900-1950.
Each killer averaged nine to 12
victims since 1800; the average
since 1975 is eight to ten.
The largest number of killings
occur in the local category; second
are the place-specific murders,
and third are the transients.
Most serial murders occur in
the highly populated areas. The
northeast U.S. has the highest
rate, the west is second and the
Please see HICKEY, pg. 3
week. Surely with the imminent arrival of
warm weather this scene will soon be a com
mon one in Love Valley. (Photo by Lorelle
Me Avoy)
“We need something to give
these students a little direction on
where they need to go in their col
lege education.” said Smith.
Dr. Bruce Lyon, vice president
of student services, said the pro
posed program is a good idea. “We
have a very poor track record for
success of students who come back
after dismissal because they do
the same things that got them
dismissed in the first place. We
need to help these students.”
Lyon, however, expressed con
cern over the number of students
that might be involved during the
summer quarter. That quarter has
the highest number of students
returning following dismissal. He
also suggested using faculty
assistants with the program.
Drug testing still
in discussion stage
Although it was never discussed
at the last Faculty Senate meeting
of Winter quarter, mandatory
drug testing of WGC athletes re
mains a possibility for next year,
according to Russ Sharpe, ad
ministrative assistant in the
Athletic Department.
Sharpe is a member of a com
mittee comprised of Athletic
Department and administration
officials which began meeting in
1984 to discuss the legal and finan
cial feasibilty of a drug testing pro
gram for all intercollegiate
athletes at WGC. One of the com
mittee’s preliminary reports was
passed on from Dr. Tracy Stall
ings, director of college relations,
to the Student Activities Commit
tee of the Faculty Senate last
quarter.
The drug testing proposal pass
ed the Student Activities Commit
tee and was passed on to the Facul
ty Senate for consideration.
However, Sharp said he and other
Old Business building
receiving 4 face-lift’
By Terri Persico
Asst. News Editor
The School of Business building
on campus is currently undergoing
a “face lift” that will hopefully add
to the attractiveness and appeal
the present two-year-old annex
now has, according to Pete
Russell, director of Campus
Development and Engineering.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1987
The proposal passed
unanamously.
In position changes on the SGA,
Nancy Grant was appointed to
replace Lori Williams as
secretary. Williams is transferr
ing to another school. Also, it was
announced that three senate posi
tions are currently open and will
be filled soon.
The Spring quarter Blood Drive
has been scheduled for Monday
and Tuesday, May 11-12. The drive
had been set for the 12-13 but was
moved back because Honors Day
will be on the 13th.
Please see SGA, pg. 4
members of the investigative com
mittee were not even aware the
dated proposal was being studied
Sharp said he received a memo
last quarter saying Jerry Garmon,
chairman of the Student Activities
Committee, would be in touch with
him to discuss drug testing but
that they never were in contact.
Therefore, Sharp said, the pro
posal passed by Garmon’s com
mittee contained outdated infor
mation and incorrect figures.
“We’re talking about more
money than the proposal said,”
Sharp said. “An outside lab will
charge between sl2 and sls a
test.”
Sharp said also that the price
discussed by the committee for
drug testing equipment was too
low. He said on-campus equipment
could cost as much as $60,000, as
opposed to the $30,000-$40,000 men
tioned in the Student Activities
Committee proposal.
Please see DRUGS, pg. 4
Russell said plans for renovating
the building’s exterior had been
discussed for several years, but
construction was not begun until
March 21 because of unavailable
funds. The Board of Regents’
Renovation Fund allowed for
ground to be broken during spring
break.
Please see BUSINESS, pg. 3
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