Salisbury police and Catawba College security guards are looking for a college-age man. Officials do not believe the suspect is a student at Catawba.

Dr. Kenneth Clapp, chaplain and senior vice president at the college, said this morning that all students received the e-mail Sunday night. The administration is also hanging warning posters around campus to “raise their level of astuteness,” Clapp said.

The most recent incident happened Sunday about 8 p.m. as a woman student was getting something from the trunk of her car. She heard a noise behind her and when she turned around, she saw a man exposing himself, according to the police report.

The man, wearing baggy jeans and an orange ski jacket, was about 10 feet away from the woman and had a white scarf around his face. The student started walking toward her dorm at a “fast pace,” officials said, when the man came up behind her and grabbed her buttocks. The student told police she started swinging and screaming and the suspect ran off.

Clapp said the first incident occurred about a week ago, when a woman student was driving into a campus parking lot. The student called 911 and campus security after she saw the man exposing himself.

“She recognized that this was not a good situation and called 911 to report that person,” Clapp said.

Neither of the women recognized the man as a fellow student.

Clapp said the parking lots are equipped with phones that have direct access to 911.

“There are phones in parking areas, as well at each residence hall. A student would have pretty good access to phones on the campus,” Clapp said. “Students can call security directly from those phones.”