AUSTIN, Texas (CH) — A woman here is fighting a battle against forces she believes to be more powerful than the students who took to the streets in protest of the Vietnam war — drunken football fans who are turning her Saturday nights into a personal “hell.”
The woman, Lynn Goodman-Strauss, lives near the part of Austin known as the “Drag,” where football revelers gather following every Longhorn home game. Goodman-Strauss says that she has been prevented from going to an early Saturday night mass from intimidation, the noise, the crowds, the drunken revelers who frequent the restaurants and theaters on the Drag, and has been “approached menacingly” by drunks. The conditions have been so bad, she says, that she has been forced to evacuate the area for the night, taking her two sons with her.