Preventing Sexual Assault at the Citadel
LIN: A quick update on a story we're following this afternoon. CNN has learned that former President Gerald Ford underwent an angioplasty procedure yesterday at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Now an angioplasty if designed to reduce or eliminate blockages in the coronary arteries. Ford's office described the procedure as successful. The former president, who is 93 years old, is said to be resting comfortably. A black eye for a proud institution. Almost 20 percent of the female cadets at the Citadel say they have endured some form of sexual assault. CNN's David Mattingly is in Charleston, South Carolina.</s>DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Ten years after the first female cadet appeared on campus, the Citadel is calling sexual assault front and center as a problem to be dealt with. And here's why. The results of a student survey show that over a four-year period, one out of five female cadets say they were sexually assaulted. That's a rate five times greater than the men who say they were sexually assaulted. Sixty-eight percent of the women said they were sexually harassed, compared to 17 percent of the men. Citadel president Lieutenant General John Rosa says he is disappointed, and cadets here will be seeing much more intense training on how to act appropriately and how to respond when someone doesn't.</s>LT. GEN. JOHN W. ROSA JR., U.S. AIR FORCE: What we found from that survey, which is just one data point out of many, was disturbing.</s>MATTINGLY: The survey showed just a little over a third of the female cadets who were sexually assaulted ever reported their crime. And of all of those cases, almost all of them occurred right here on campus involving another cadet. Campus officials say they will be cutting into time traditionally used for a military drill to spend more time with the cadets instructing them on issues of character and sexual behavior. David Mattingly, CNN, Charleston, South Carolina.</s>LIN: After the bloodshed, after the manhunt, the mourning. Hundreds, including the governor of Virginia, paid their respects yesterday to a sheriff's deputy and a hospital security guard killed near the Blacksburg campus of Virginia Tech. The two allegedly were shot by a robbery suspect, William Morva, who overpowered a deputy at a hospital early Sunday and gunned down the guard as he fled. Police say Morva shot and killed another deputy the next day before he was captured just a few hours later. Hurricane Katrina was a disaster, no one would argue that one, but would you compare the recovery effort in New Orleans to rebuilding at Ground Zero in New York City. Hear why Mayor Ray Nagin is catching some heat again for what he said. More LIVE FROM, next.