Allegations of stalking, like those against Virginia Tech gunman Seung Hui Cho, are common on college campuses, according to psychologists and police. The most widely cited national survey, published in 2000, found that 13% of college women said they had been stalked in the previous seven months, says the study’s primary author, Bonnie Fisher, a criminal justice professor at the University of Cincinnati. Stalking is generally defined as a repeated pattern of behavior or conduct that causes a reasonable person to feel fear, she says.
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