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FRIDAY, APRIL 26 to SUNDAY APRIL 28, 2013 VOLUME 108 ISSUE 80
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ROB BER S ST RIKE AGA IN NOELLE F UJII Staff Writer
Two reported break-ins and thefts of computers have occurred at Moore Hall within the past week. On Tuesday night, multiple rooms were broken into on the third floor of Moore Hall, which houses the East Asian Languages and Literatures department. According to a UH alert issued by Campus Security, two computers were taken. Campus Security received a report of a suspicious couple outside of Moore Hall and a second report of a male described to be in his late 20’s with dirty blonde hair running from the building. He was accompanied by a female with long blonde, straight hair in a vehicle fronting East West Road. The vehicle fled west bound on Dole Street with the two inside. Last Friday, seven offices were broken into, and six computers were taken from the Language and Literatures of Europe and the Americas department on the fourth floor of Moore Hall. Campus Security received the report of the robbery at 6:30 a.m.
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S evera l computers, mostly Macs, were stolen. Christina Gerhardt, an associate professor of German, said the perpetrators used a tool to pry open the door frames. “I think that the problem and the concern is that, aside from questions of security, is that faculty members might have information on the computers that identifies them or their students,” Gerhardt said. “The other concern is that this kind of theft has squandered resources, and since we’re a public university that relies on student tuition and taxpayer money, that’s a real shame.” Gerhardt said the chair of the department is working with the affected people along with Campus Security and Honolulu Police Department to take steps from here. “I think one needs to take steps to ensure that this doesn’t happen
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again, e s p e cially preventative measures,” Gerhardt said. “Recovery is really important, but prevention in the future is very important too.” Honolulu Police Department is handling these investigations. Anyone with information is asked to call them at 911 or Campus Security at 956-6911. The break-ins have already spurred changes aimed at preventing similar thefts. Personnel from the Center for Language and Technology, located on the second floor of Moore, are already working to reinforce doors on the LLEA Department’s adminis-
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trative offices, as well as those that still have more expensive Mac and laptop computers in them. The reinforcement will initially include strengthing the frame of the doors with screws, making it harder for robbers to pry them open, according to information sent to LLEA faculty Thursday.
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