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     There are two possible 
     
     hypotheses for the breakin. 
     
     'Ihe thieves could have been 
     
     either SU employees or their 
     
     close friends. In this case, 
     
     the thieves would have de- 
     
     tailed knowledge of the Barn. 
     
     This explains why the crooks 
     
     did not go after Mickey 
     
     Plaoe's safe and how they 
     
     knew the safe was in the 
     
     cooler. Brown estimates 
     
     that less than 5% of the 
     
     student body knew of the 
     
     safe's location (some of 
     
     the Campus Police did not 
     
     even know). A very inside 
     
     job indeed. However, this 
     
     is not a probable but cer— 
     
     tainly a possible hypothesis. 
     
    

    
     Brown was talking to pc— 
     
     lice chief Ready Tuesday 
     
     morning. Apparently the 
     
     thieves left no fingerprints 
     
     (they probably wore gloves) . 
     
     There were a total of three 
     
    
   
   
    
     break and enters that evening. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The police suspect that the 
     
     same people were responsible 
     
     for breaking into Pickards 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     Rum flavoured. 
     
    
   
   
    
     and the Occupational Centre 
     
     where money from the vending 
     
     machines was taken. Officer 
     
     Mike Quinn is presently as- 
     
     signed to the case. Thus we 
     
     came to the second hypothesis, 
     
     which is the one the police 
     
     believe: it was an outside 
     
     job. 
     
    

    
     Brown believes that thieves 
     
     broke into the Barn seeking 
     
     vending machine money. They 
     
     then noticed the bar and 
     
     broke in. They came upon the 
     
     barred cooler door and broke 
     
     in seeking liquor. They 
     
     pushed the beer rack out of 
     
     the way (full of beer) and 
     
     went in after cases and 
     
     quarts. Little did theysus— 
     
     pect that they would hit 
     
     the veritable "jackpot". 
     
     This hypothesis is the more 
     
     probable of the two, but the 
     
     participation of students 
     
     must not be ruled out. 
     
    

    
     But why were the culprits 
     
     not apprehended in the act? 
     
     The SU contracted Clyde Bell 
     
     to place two dobermans in 
     
    
   
   
    
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     the Barn every weekend. 
     
    

    
     But this past weekend there 
     
     were no dogs in because he 
     
     thought there was a. meeting 
     
     there Saturdya night. He 
     
     claimed that he overheard 
     
     student union members talk- 
     
     ing about a meeting, but no 
     
    
   
   
    
     mention was made of Saturday. 
     
    
   
   
    
     He never asked anyone whether 
     
     or not there was a meeting. ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     r Thus, through a lack of 
     
    
   
   
    
     communication, Clyde broke 
     
     the contract and did not 
     
     bring the dogs in. Also 
     
     Clyde said that when he 
     
     came in on Saturday morn- 
     
     ing, he found the east ‘_ 
     
     door ajar. He was angered 
     
     by this and decided not 
     
     to bring in the dogs if 
     
     the SU could not keep the 
     
     doors locked. This was 
     
     bad judgement on Clyde's 
     
     part and it was not his 
     
     place to make such deci- \ 
     
     sions. 
     
    

    
     On the other side of 
     
     the communication aspect 
     
     is Neil MacKenzie. As 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ‘ ting and hope for a speedy 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' guaranteed to surpass the . 
     
     $2500 mark. This is twenty 
     
    
   
   
    
      recover the moneya.’ 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Bell's boss he is respon— 
     
     sible for laying down all 
     
     of Clyde's duties. He is 
     
     also responsible for pro— 
     
     viding a scheduleof all 
     
     events and meetings in the 
     
     Barn, so that Clyde will 
     
     know when’to put in the ' 
     
     dogs. Neil has been totally 
     
     inactive in this responsi— 
     
     bility andwouId be wise 
     
     to pick up his end. A 
     
    

    
     On the night of the crime 
     
     Security only made one 
     
     check on the area surround-- 
     
     mgtheBarnfiat3a.m. 
     
     Not only did they only check 
     
     once ,Mbut they only checked 
     
     the piggery. Security is \ 
     
     supposed to make hourly -, 
     
     rounds on campus. Why did 
     
     they not check the Barn, for 
     
     if they ‘had even walked by 
     
     the place, they should have 
     
     heard all the thrashing and 
     
     banging. A.J. MaeLeod, direc—' 
     
     tor of Security, contends 
     
     that the officers shy away 
     
     from the Barn because (if the g ‘ 
     
     dogs. The SU estimates that 
     
     the thieves were in the Barn 
     
     for over an hour. If Security 
     
     had just lived up to their 
     
     obligation to protect the 
     
     premises, the thieves would 
     
     have been caught. It is the 
     
     place of a security force 
     
     to fight crime before the 
     
     fact, and the place of the 
     
     city police to fightcrime 
     
     after the fact. SeCurity 
     
     has tightened up on campus, 
     
     and they would be wise to 
     
     make hourly patrols. 
     
     The SU' building has become 
     
     a prime target fer vandalism 
     
     and theft, “and it does not 
     
     help when the two safety 
     
     precautions, the dogs and 
     
     the security patrols, fail.~ 
     
     There are grave problems in 
     
     the scheduling and location 
     
     of patrols, and in organisa- 
     
     tion and communication with— 
     
     in the Barn. These discrep- 
     
     ancies must be corrected in 
     
     order to have any degree. of 
     
     security in this, university. 
     
    

    
     The police are investiga- 1 
     
    
   
   
    
     apprehension of the culprits. 
     
     The damages and losses are 
     
    
   
   
    
     five hundred dollars of 
     
     student, money, and only the 
     
     cost of the broken doors 
     
     plus partial compensation 
     
     for the safe can be recouped. 
     
     Let us hope for a Speedy 
     
     arrest and a swift convic- 
     
     tion. It would also be nice 
     
    
   
   
    
     The SU is offering a $200 
     
     reward for-any information 1 
     
     leading to the apprehension 
     
     of the thieves. Any infor— 
     
     mation Will be held in 
     
     strictest confidence.