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Witnesses needed in fatal crash
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Burnaby RCMP are looking for witnesses in a fatal motorcycle crash on Burnaby Mountain Saturday. A motorcyclist was riding eastbound on Burnaby Mountain Parkway and lost control of the motorcycle at Gaglardi Way at about 11:30 p.m., according to police. The 51-year-old man was thrown from the motorcycle and later died. The cause of the collision is still under investigation, but police say it appears speed may have been a factor in the single-vehicle crash. Anyone who witnessed the collision or has dashcam video of it is asked to contact police at 604-646-9999. To remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 1-800222-TIPS (8477) or submit a tip online at www.solvecrime.ca. Motorcycle crashes in B.C. peak in the summer as warmer weather and conditions bring more riders onto the road, according to police. Burnaby RCMP is cautioning motorcyclists to obey posted speed limits and to always be prepared for the unexpected. Advice and tips from ICBC can be found at tinyurl.com/MotorcycleTips.
SFUstudentsinfearofsexharasser
As many as 50 women post on social media about encounters with a ‘jittery’ man trying to follow them Cornelia Naylor
cnaylor@burnabynow.com
Students at SFU are concerned the university has not taken seriously complaints about an alleged serial sexual harasser following women around on its Burnaby campus. As many as 50 women have posted on social media about encounters with a man who enters classrooms, asks women for their phone numbers and tries to follow them home – going as far as getting onto the same buses, according to Jashan Singh Randhawa, a former SFU student who this week compiled a list of the incidents reported on Facebook (and to him personally)
and forwarded it to SFU security. security on Jan. 17. Security was also proThird-year student Linh Luu told the vided with a photo of the man at that time. NOW she has been approached three times “They understood the situation and that since last September by the it was really serious,” Luu man, described as being of said. “They did ask me if I My concern is wanted to file a police report, southeast Asian descent and that security has but at the time I was just so between five-foot-three and five-foot-five. (One woman de- not been doing traumatized I didn’t want to scribed him as being “jittery.”) do it.” their role. Each time, Luu said, the After seeing a Facebook man pressed her for her phone post about the same man this number and Facebook inforweek, Luu said she regretted mation, and each time she had not reporting him to police. to escape into a washroom to “It made me so angry and shake him because he wouldn’t leave her so sad for all those girls because I know how alone when asked. scary it feels,” she said. She reported the final incident to campus Randhawa said he got involved because
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women he knows from his time at SFU have told him they are scared to be on campus because of the man. “I care about some of these girls like my own sisters and people I look up to,” Randhawa said. He said the man has been harassing and stalking women for years, and SFU security has not done enough to deal with the problem. “My concern is that security has not been doing their role in getting this guy arrested,” he said. According to SFU communications director Kurt Heinrich, however, the university first got the complaint Monday. Continued on page 4
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