Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to numerous cases of shredded and stolen underwear, one student claimed to have lost more than $200 worth of clothes in a theft from Holworthy laundry room last month. In another incident, a student said her clothes disappeared but reappeared a week later without her underwear...
...policeman called the underwear theft "someone's fetish," and noted that there have also been cases of theft of men's underwear and jockstraps. He added that thefts of designer jeans and shirts--"a quick $50 a whack"--may be unrelated to the stolen underwear...
Matthews proctor Christopher S. Auguste '80 said the matter was raised at a West-Yard proctors' meeting, but that proctors are more concerned about student safety than theft...
Kennedy, 51, had been an efficient and unflamboyant San Diego County prosecutor for 23 years before taking the federal job. He is intensely devout, both as a Roman Catholic and a conservative Republican. Says one colleague: "He may have felt his credibility was on the line with this car-theft case, and he couldn't live with the idea that there was a crook out there who wasn't being caught." To Kennedy, explains another coworker, "black is black, white is white, and good should triumph over evil...
...problem, Chafin said, is preventing the initial theft that gives a criminal an identification card and access to the facilities "They steal wallets containing an ID and they keep them and come back on campus and flash them," he said...