Combating obscene phone calls
Letter to the Editor
I'm writing to all the women at Notre Dame, Saint Mary's and anywhere they may reside, whether they own a telephone or not. The Bell Telephone Company has on request a brochure that instructs all of us and especially women, how to react to obscene phone calls and the like.
The timely brochure instructs us how to react to such calls. When one receives such a phone call whether it be harassing, obscene, threatening, intimidating, threats to one's life or property, bomb threats, threats, threats to inflict bodily harm or injury, threats of kidnapping or just any type of threat.
We are instructed by Bell's brochure that when such calls are received, we should "hang up immediately," (Don't tarry with this criminal individual), note the time, the date and the day, call the police, whether campus security or South Bend Police, and follow their instructions to the letter. They are experienced at this kind of criminal behavior. Some people are afraid to be rude and may carry on a conversation. The more one talks, the more this individual will harass you. Don't listen, but as I mentioned before, hang up immediately without delay.
My nephew Doug who is employed by the Bell Telephone Company remarked to me that Bell receives thousands of such calls each day in the U.S.A. Pass the word along.
Brother Edward V. Courtney, C.S.C.
Columba Hall
November 16, 2000
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