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Campus Center backpack thief apprehended
Police apprehended and arrested an individual suspected of stealing student’s backpacks from the cubbies on the lower level of the Campus Center on Nov. 15.
The man was spotted on the Campus Center video monitors taking a backpack from the Campus Center. Security Officer Danny Bell spotted the suspected thief when he entered the Campus Center.
Since the beginning of the school year, approximately five backpacks or laptops have been reported missing. Thefts are occurring more often this year than in the past, according to Director of Safety and Security Terry Gorman.
“I think that people have figured out that this is a place that they can come to and [steal] stuff,” Gorman said. “The best thing for students is to be diligent and not leave their laptops lying around.”
None of the stolen items have been recovered with the individual’s arrest. According to Gorman, stolen laptops are often sold while the other contents of a backpack, including students’ textbooks, are thrown away.
Gorman said that Security has been paying close attention to suspicious individuals on campus. Earlier in the year, a man was apprehended in Weyerhaeuser and taken away by police after the clerical staff spotted him.
Gorman suggests that students keep backups of data and that they invest in a cable lock for their computers. Students should report all missing items to security.
Brief by Contributing Writer Sophia Giebultowicz
This Week in Macalester History
By CLARA McCONNELL
Contributing Writer
All quotes taken from past issues of The Mac Weekly
Nov. 22, 1957 - The 1957 Scots football team had an excellent season, posting the highest final record of any past Macalester football team. “Not only did this squad compile a respectable 6-1-1 record, good for a second place tie in the rougher-than-ever MIAC, but they became the highest scoring football machine ever to play on the Shaw Field turf.”
Nov. 13, 1964 - The question of the week in this issue of The Mac Weekly addressed the serious issue of the dangers of pedestrian crossing on Grand Avenue. When asked what should be done about the problem, Cherryl Knox ’66 suggested, “armed WPA guards [should] watch as four anonymous Mac students start painting a yellow and white gingham cross walk.” A fellow student, Steve Van Drake ’65, in full Mac spirit, proposed “an ad-hoc committee, which shall organize a semi-militant demonstration – a human chain in two lines, which shall completely block off traffic on Grand Avenue during the noon hour of the appointed day, swaying to and fro singing ‘We Shall Overcome.’”
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