Word: placing
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...Capital Campaign, which has split off its fundraising campaign from the UC after a lackluster performance over the summer that generated a paltry $700 for a student center. It’s not surprising that the UC found itself in this unenviable position in the first place: We were skeptical when we heard the campaign’s lofty aspirations last spring and have never expected much from the plan. The Capital Campaign’s goal to raise $6 million to finance the potential purchase and renovation of a property at 45 Mount Auburn Street seemed particularly unrealistic...
...first heist Connor undertook, at the Forbes Museum, he accomplished on his own. After repeated visits to the place, he realized that the young night watchman consistently left the museum for hours at a time. “I waited until he went out,” he says. Connor further writes in his memoirs that he simply pried open a basement window and carried off what he wanted. He was 20-years-old and had no prior experience of heist...
...button and the door would lock. Short of that, almost any museum in the country could be taken down in that fashion, as long as the stuff was accessible to the road.” He cites the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as one such vulnerable place...
...have an armed guard,” he says. “You don’t want a gunfight in a museum.” And as for lockdown doors, “There are some legalities involved. You can’t trap someone in a place...
...Fortunately, Harvard Art Museum—which according to Manoogian has a system of security measures in place that meets recommended practices for museum security—has never faced the embarrassment of a successful heist. Still, a few crimes have been attempted, according to one Sackler guard. One Degas showed subtle signs of being cut out of the frame, although the culprit was never caught in the act and disappeared among the crowd...