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Library security has become an even more prominent issue since a book slasher struck the Widener stacks in 1991. But secret security cameras placed by University police on ceilings, shelves and in the books themselves cost Harvard at least $50,000 andfailed to catch the vandal. The cameras have sincebeen removed...
...urged students to cooperate with securityforces and to contribute ideas for securityimprovements. "If a real proposal should be made,we would consider it," Jewett said.CrimsonHau Liu.Harvard police and security officers will beon alert during Yard rounds after a vandal damagedthe new keycard locks with glue. Officers PETERSKILLMAN and JOE BECK and pictured above...
American Modernist Barnett Newman's giant abstract painting Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III was the pride of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum before a vandal slashed it in 1986. At the time, the painting was valued at $3.1 million. Last August, after U.S. art restorer Daniel Goldreyer repaired the damage for a fee of $300,000, Who's Afraid was again put on display. Now Dutch art experts are seeing red. Amsterdam art historian Ernst van de Wetering has charged that Goldreyer covered the entire canvas using a roller rather than reproducing Newman's brushstrokes...
...addition to leaving the slur, the vandal tore down two postcards that were hanging on the door. One read "closets are for clothes, not for people." The other depicted two male dancers...
...join the president, the dean of the college, the Bisexual Gay and Lesbian Students Association and even the Council of Peninsula in condemning this unacceptable behavior. If the vandal is caught, he or she should be severely disciplined by the administration...