2—The Daily Collegian Monday, Dee. 8, 1986
Tis the season for easy thefts
By BRIAN HANNON
Collegian Staff Writer
Many students will leave State Col
lege for Christmas break without any
thought to protecting and securing
their homes, apartments or residence
halls.
But when they return for classes,
they may be in for a surprise if they
fail to take certain precautions.
David H. Caster, crime prevention
specialist for the State College Bu
reau of Police Services, suggests that
students take valuable items such as
calculators, televisions and stereos
home with them over vacation.
“It might also be worth their while
to engrave valuable items with their
Holiday time
Along with the holidays and finals week comes one
of the more dreaded seasons for many University
students subletting season. Numerous fliers and
classified ads are an indication that the final nail
biting days have arrived.
“It’s getting down to the wire for students who
are trying to sublet for the spring,” said Marjorie
Utt, president of the Organization for Town Inde
pendent Students.
Utt said, however, that there is still time be
cause most new students who need housing will not
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driver’s license number;” Caster
said.
Thieves tend to stay away from
items that are engraved, and there’s
“a better opportunity” to recover
stolen property when the items have
the license number on them, he
added.
Both State College and University
police have engravers who will en
grave items for residents who are
willing to take the precaution.
Robert McNichol, supervisor of
University Police Services, said the
residence halls are padlocked, and
maintenance personnel must obtain
access into the halls from University
police.
brings the subletting season
arrive on campus until the start of Spring Semes
ter.
Both Utt and Madeline Weaver, manager of
Park Forest Apartments, stressed that students
trying to sublet should check first with their
landlords about the specific sublet procedures
required by the apartment owner.
“Problems happen when there isn’t a written
agreement stating who is going to pay the rent or
when the student subletting doesn’t tell their
Caster said State College police try
to have more patrols out over the
semester break, since close to 90
percent of the students living off
campus are away.
“There are good and bad years,”
Caster said. “The number of burglar
ies is based on our availability and
what the students do to protect their
property.”
Other suggestions Caster men
tioned included stopping mail and
newspaper delivery, and making sure
all doors and windows are locked.
The Organization for Town Inde
pendent Students and managers of
apartment complexes are also trying
to help prevent possible break-ins.
Preventive efforts by OTIS have
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included handing out a crime-alert
sheet to students who enter the OTIS
office and running a crime prevention
ad in the final edition of The Daily
Collegian on Friday, Marjorie Utt,
OTIS President said.
OTIS and Kissinger, Leonard and
Brower Realtors, 245 S. Allen St.,
offer some additional suggestions to
ready apartments for holiday vacan
cies:
• Turn the heat back to between 55
and 60 degrees.
• • Move items off the floor in case
of water damage.
• Have friends who are staying in
town occasionally check on the home.
• Make the apartment look like
someone is living there.
present roommates that they are going to be
subletting,” Utt said.
Weaver recommended that students advertise in
the local newspapers and contact OTIS in order to
improve their subletting chances.
OTIS helps students by providing a subletting
bulletin board with subletting information located
in 101 HUB. OTIS also writes contracts between
the subletter and the new tenant for subletters
whose apartments do not allow leases to be signed
by the new tenant. by Brian Hannon
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