We just learned of a terrible assault, rape, and near murder of a 19 year old student on the Provo Rivertrail by Branbury apartments. They left her in the bushes for dead to the side of the trail. She is too non coherent to describe her assailant other than 'he had a tatoo'. She was walking, as if going to BYU on a farily frecuented part of the trail. I'm the one always prepared for weirdness like that, but I'm stunned however, it happened--during the early afternoon--so near where there are hundreds of students who use the trail almost daily. They said she will recover from the attack, but the bones in her face are badly fractured. Makes me want to vigilante the trail packing heat. It makes me more furious than scared. | 