monday, november 13, 1978
daily nebraskan
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Thieves find UNL is an easy target
By Val Swinton
Apparently, UNL has become easy pickings for thieves
in the area. University Police report that last month alone,
over $10,000 worth of university and private property
was stolen from campus offices and residences. If that
sounds like a lot, it sounds even more serious when
broken down on a day-to-day and hour-by-hour basis.
According to police figures, an average of $322 a day
worth of property was taken, or $13 every hour of the
month.
"It seems as if there are no specific areas on campus I
can see where we're having a problem," according to
University Police Sgt. Joe Wehner. "However, we're really
getting hit bad in the offices where the secretaries are."
Wehner said the most common problem is the billfold
or the purse.
"The secretaries leave their purses under their desks
when they leave the office for a minute," he said, "When
they come back, it's gone."
Don't lock door
Wehner says office personnel don't lock office doors
when they leave for a short time, and the same problem
occurs in residence halls.
Another problem, the UNL investigator said, was with
office inventories. Referring to office personnel, Wehner
said, "They're not aware of what they got, they don't
check it on a day-to-day basis."
Wehner also said there's not an adequate inventory
system for university-owned property, and that items
worth as much as $100 often are not inventoried.
A spokesman in the UNL Inventory Department con
firmed this, saying that according to the guidelines
established by the Department of Health, Education and
Welfare, the minimum value of property to be inventoried
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However, the spokesman also said some items that are
easily stolen, such as calculators, must be inventoried even
if they are worth less than $200. Each department on
campus is re -inventoried every two years, and department
personnel must account for missing items.
Others stolen
But purses and billfolds are not the only items stolen.
Wehner said televisions, fire extinguishers, typewriters,
jewelry, stereos and records and tapes are also favorite
targets.
Thefts of bicycles were down last month, with only
three reported stolen. However, Wehner said, bicycle
parts, such as tires, account for a lot of reported thefts,
and he urged student and faculty cyclists to chain bikes
properly, through the front and rear tire, with a heavy
chain.
Who commits thefts on campus?
"We know that there are probably some students and
maybe even staff members involved," Wehner said. "But
we are convinced that the majority of the thefts are com
mitted by people who are not university-related.
"They are preying on the people at the university,"
Wehner added, "because they are such easy targets."
Wehner said arrests reveal that about 60 percent of the
crimes are committed by persons not connected with the
university.
He said he's not convinced that the crime rate on
campus is rising, but rather more and more people are
choosing to report thefts.
Wehner said the ultimate goal of the police department
is to have all thefts reported.
Woman lawyer fills
vacant council seat
Arlyss Brown, a former assistant city attorney has been
chosen to replace councilman Richard Baker, who was
elected County Clerk Tuesday.
Baker will officially resign from the council Monday,
and Brown will be appointed Nov. 20.
Brown, the wife of former clerk of the Legislature,
Vincent Brown, has said she will seek election to the
council next spring.
Her address, 5800 The Knolls, would apparently make
her eligible to run as a council representative for south
Lincoln under a plan approved by voters Tuesday to elect
four council members by district.
Brown was said to have been selected because there
were no women on the council and because her political
views are similar to Baker's.
The present city council is only the second since 1940
not to have a female member.
Brown, a Republican, describes herself as moderate to
conservative.
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