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One-fourth of CAPSA calls come from campus
By Lizzy Scully
Domestic violence is a problem on campus. According to Jill Anderson, the executive director of CAPSA, about 25 percent of calls come from USU students. The violence is primarily from married students, but also includes dating violence and roommate violence. Ninety percent of the calls are from females and 10 percent from males. Anderson guessed that about 50 calls came directly from the police in 1999, but that many students call CAPSA first. According to USU police Cpl. Shane Sessions, there were eight domestic violence calls to the university police in 1999, with four of them resulting in arrests. Most of the complaints come from the married side, he said, and 99 percent of the calls that involve any violence are referred to CAPSA. "We know what we get reported to us is far and away lower than what actually occurs," Sessions said. "I don't think we see near the roommate conflict that CAPSA probably does because students don't see it as domestic violence." When reports do come in about men fighting men it usually relates to a sporting event, rather than violence between roommates. "As for a female beating up a male, I can't think of any in recent
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