From the Files of the GTPD...

Campus Crime

by Craig Tabita, News Editor

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Trashing Woody’s

Woodruff Residence Hall was the site of two instances of property damage during a span of 24 hours. On April 3, an employee of Housing called GTPD from Woodruff South to report that he had found ten burn spots in the carpet located in front of a kitchen on the third floor. The next morning in Woodruff North, a student reported that two tables and carpet located in the fifth-floor community room had been spraypainted green.

So, where’d you save those files?

Sometime over the past weekend, computers and a 45-inch Sharp Aquos LCD television were stolen from administrative offices of the College of Engineering located in Tech Tower.

The computers belong to the college’s director of finance and his secretary. The value of the television was listed as $7,000. The officer observed evidence of attempts made to pry open doors leading to the offices.

A security fumble

During a late afternoon football team practice at Bobby Dodd Stadium on April 4, an unknown person entered the locker room and, according to the police report, “took whatever was of value and visible.” There were no signs of forced entry.

In all, nine players fell victim to the theft. Among the items stolen were two laptop computers, four cell phones (all valued at several hundred dollars each, and two of which belonged to the same person), an iPod, a Nintendo DS, a pair of Nike Air Force One shoes, a set of silver earrings, a silver chain, a bookbag, wallets and cash. The total estimated value of the items stolen was $4,880.

Lion tipping

A member of the Phi Mu sorority reported to an officer on the morning of April 2 that someone during the night had knocked over one of the lion statues in front of their house. While the statue itself was still intact, it was broken off of the foundation from which the sorority member said it had been “cemented and liquid nailed”, and that “whoever did it had to have worked on it for a while and very hard.” The statue weighed between 300-500 pounds.

She said she was unaware of who would want to damage their property, but said that Phi Mu has had statues in the past before the lions which had been damaged by students from other sororities and fraternities.