I have a niece on athletic scholarship at Utah. She had a frightening experience last week. I think this just as easily could have happened in Provo as SLC, so this isn't a BYU-Utah thing. Stuff like this scares me to death. Here is email my SIL sent, edited to not draw anymore attention to these poor girls:
Last night at 3:00 am K's roommate ran into her room, switched on the light, and yelled, "K! Get up! Someone's in our house!" Her roommate, C, had woken up to a man caressing her leg. She threw the covers off and onto the man and yelled at him as she backed out of the room. He hid his face, but kept coming towards her and that is when she ran into K's room. He followed C into the hall and hid in the hall closet, which K uses for her clothes. K and C closed K's bedroom door and while their door was closed they think he ran back downstairs and out of the house. The girls thought he was still in the closet, though, so C swung on the doorframe and slammed the closet door shut and took off for the stairs. K then followed and ran like crazy down the stairs. When she was woken up K had the presence of mind to grab her glasses as well as her cell phone. Once outside by the front door K's first reaction was to call a friend in the other part of the house--it is a twin home with five girls on K's side and four on the other. K then called the police. While the police were talking to C to try to get directions to the house--it was confusing for some reason--K and the girl from the other side (M) decided to go downstairs to wake up K's other two roommates who have bedrooms in the basement. K was terrified when she saw their back door wide open. She wasn't sure what they would find in the basement. The two girls downstairs were sleeping but were soon awake.
When the police arrived they asked several times if everyone was out of the house because they had a dog--a very vicious dog according to K. They entered their side of the house with the dog in front and guns pulled. K said there were about 10 officers in all. The dog was able to track the guy's scent through the backyard and partway up the street, then it disappeared.
Last night at 3:00 am K's roommate ran into her room, switched on the light, and yelled, "K! Get up! Someone's in our house!" Her roommate, C, had woken up to a man caressing her leg. She threw the covers off and onto the man and yelled at him as she backed out of the room. He hid his face, but kept coming towards her and that is when she ran into K's room. He followed C into the hall and hid in the hall closet, which K uses for her clothes. K and C closed K's bedroom door and while their door was closed they think he ran back downstairs and out of the house. The girls thought he was still in the closet, though, so C swung on the doorframe and slammed the closet door shut and took off for the stairs. K then followed and ran like crazy down the stairs. When she was woken up K had the presence of mind to grab her glasses as well as her cell phone. Once outside by the front door K's first reaction was to call a friend in the other part of the house--it is a twin home with five girls on K's side and four on the other. K then called the police. While the police were talking to C to try to get directions to the house--it was confusing for some reason--K and the girl from the other side (M) decided to go downstairs to wake up K's other two roommates who have bedrooms in the basement. K was terrified when she saw their back door wide open. She wasn't sure what they would find in the basement. The two girls downstairs were sleeping but were soon awake.
When the police arrived they asked several times if everyone was out of the house because they had a dog--a very vicious dog according to K. They entered their side of the house with the dog in front and guns pulled. K said there were about 10 officers in all. The dog was able to track the guy's scent through the backyard and partway up the street, then it disappeared.
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