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Monday, June 03, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i39/39a03501.htm Tending the Net: Computer-discipline offices offer a human touch when investigating student complaints SCOTT CARLSON A female student at the University of Maryland at College Park has been getting unsettling, unwelcome e-mail messages from an anonymous admirer for the past two years. He had been sending these messages to her Hotmail account, but just recently he sent his first note to her student account. That was the last straw. A few weeks ago, the student went to see Kara Reuter, who deals with a variety of online problems for the university -- problems like theft, threats, deceptions, and obsessions. "This person seems to think that he has a relationship with her," Ms. Reuter says, adding that she tracked his e-mail messages -- she calls them "creepy" -- to a computer lab on campus. Right away, Ms. Reuter met with the student to tell her where the e-mail messages were coming from, where she could go for counseling or protection, and that she might consider talking to the student judiciary or the police....
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