Four women living on the fourth floor of Friley Hall reported being approached by two men posing as magazine salespeople this weekend, and one woman reported being assaulted by one of the men.

Nathan James Turner, 19, of Vista, Calif., and Joshua Christopher Moran, 21, of Wildomar, Calif., were arrested by the Department of Public Safety and charged with being in violation of the transient merchant act. Moran also was charged with criminal trespassing, and Turner was arrested for assault.

Tammi Burns, sophomore in pre-journalism and mass communication, said two men dressed in “college apparel” knocked on her door late Saturday night posing as magazine salesmen. She said she let one of the two men come into her Friley Hall dorm room to ask “communication” questions.

“I’m a journalism major, so I thought they were going to ask questions for class,” she said. “They were plain, stupid questions like, `If you were a piece of candy, what would you be?'”

Burns said the man asked her to choose four magazines from a list and fill out some paperwork.

“He thanked me for ordering the magazines and said there were four ways to pay him – cash, check, car keys or hugs and kisses,” she said. “That’s when he put his hand on my leg.”

Burns said she told the man she didn’t have any money, but he wanted her to go to an ATM machine. She refused and he said “we can find a way to take it out in trade.”

“He leaned forward and kissed me and his hand wandered down the front of my body,” she said. “I was speechless and backed away.”

She said she turned around to her computer and noticed a friend who lives in Friley Hall was on Instant Messenger. She wrote a message telling her friend to come to her room immediately, she said.

“I just kept trying to move around so I wouldn’t break down and cry because that’s what I felt like doing,” she said. “I didn’t know what he’d do if I showed aggression.”

Burns said a few minutes later her friend came, and the man left soon afterward.

Loras Jaeger, director of DPS, said five female residents reported the two men on Palmer House in Friley Hall around 7 p.m. Jaeger said the names of the other four residents have not been released because their reports are in progress.

“This is not unusual for this time of year,” he said. “Lots of people come to the campus environment to make a sale.”

Jaeger said DPS has also had reports of individuals selling cosmetics and perfume.

“Nobody is supposed to sell anything in residence halls,” he said. “The reason for this is to protect students from getting ripped off.”

Jerry Stewart, assistant director of DPS, said residents should use peep holes before opening doors and know who visitors are before letting them in.

“Residents should be appropriately suspicious and realize it’s against regulation to solicit in residence halls,” he said.

Burns said she is going to think twice before letting someone in her door.

“He didn’t take away my feelings of safety, but from now on I’m going to look out my key hole,” she said. “If it’s a complete stranger I will probably end up shutting the door on them.”