New evidence suggests nuclear weapon blueprints less threatening

SHAWN RICE ASST. NEWS EDITOR SMR723@CABRINI.EDU

Increased theft requires more awareness on campus

CARELESSNESS, page l building, completely avoiding our security syste·ms.It is one of the things that I am very strong on," Schaffner said.

Although it may just be a way Schaffner believes the public to get friends into the latest social safety office has been taking function, with all the best inten- many steps to ensure student tions in mind, according to safety. With an array of phones Schaffner, the road to hell is full being installed on campus at of them. "Many students will locations previously without think they are just being polite if them, Schaffner said Public they hold their building door Safety has begun a project to renopen for a person that is enter- ovate all security phone systems ing," Schaffner said. "But think on campus. It will be completed about it for a moment. You've by next year. "Those blue lights never seen this person before, you see on the road to the houses and they are now entering your will eventually be on every single phone on this campus," Schaffner said.

On a campus of little more than 2,200 students, crime can "be prevented if each student is sure to lock their doors and bring their keys with them wherever they go," Schaffner said.

"Ninety to 95 percent of oncampus theft is student to student," Schaffner said. "It is rare for a theft to be anyone from off campus."

"We plead for students to help us out in any way they can," Schaffner said. What

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The nuclear weapon blueprints that : Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan t.f provided to Libya have been deter,..~ mined to be a relatively crude design ._ ___ _, of a bomb by American and European arms experts. The investigation into the blueprints has established a new link between Khan and the underground nuclear black market while comforting investigators who see Khan's plans as less threatening in the spread of nuclear weapons, according to the New York Times.

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