1) The _______ building, where I work, is on the outskirts of campus. The stacks on the upper floors contain very low-use books, and the low volume of traffic undoubtedly was a factor in the use of the mens' rooms of those floors for, shall we say, clandestine encounters of the anonymous kind. Our library security guard at the time reported walking into the mens' room and seeing 10 men just standing around while activity of some kind or another was taking place behind the closed doors of the stalls...and they would just smirk at him. Despite the occasional arrests by vice cops acting as decoys, the rooms were so popular that they were listed in a local underground sex magazine as one of the hottest meeting places.

This situation continued until one day the vice cops arrested a fellow who turned out to be a faculty member (one of the most popular ones in his department). Headlines in the campus newpaper, front page in the local section of the major newspaper, etc. Our administration eventually resolved the situation by the simple expedient of removing the doors from the individual stalls in the mens' rooms, and since then all has been peace and quiet. But still, two years later, whenever someone from m the local community hears that I work in the ______ building, I'm liable hear "Oh? On the 4th floor?" (delivered with a tone of voice).

2) What is it about flashers and libraries? Are the flashers just naturally drawn more toward libraries than toward other public institutions? Or do we just notice them more? In the three years that I have been working here there have been about six reported incidents (that I know of). The scary thing is that in the last two incidents, the victims were each reporting the _second_ incident...both of them had been flashed before, but had not reported the first incident. Does anyone out there have information/estimates on what percentage of these crimes goes unreported?