By Natalia Tomczak
Opinions Editor
The Signal and Campus Police work together on a weekly basis to inform the campus community about crime on and around campus. All records given to The Signal are public records and do not contain personal information. Some information provided may be triggering for some students.
Oct. 20: Door Decor Theft
Campus Police received a report that several door decorations had been stolen in New Residence Hall, and that someone had been tampering with them since Oct. 13. One item disappeared per day. Among the missing items were name tags, Post-it notes, dry-erase markers and a board, and command strips. The dry-erase board has since been returned, and no potential suspects could be identified after a Campus Police investigation.
Oct. 22: Trashing The College
At around 1 a.m., a building services employee found vandalism in Bliss Hall’s first-floor men’s bathroom in the handicap stall. The door and the wall both had #FuckTCNJ written on them in black Sharpie. The person who vandalized the stall has not been identified.
Oct. 23: Stranger Danger
At around 12:30 p.m., two students were threatened by an unknown man outside the Business Building.
One student reported what happened. After leaving his class in Armstrong Hall, the student walked towards the Business Building and saw his friend being confronted by an unknown man. He approached the two of them and tried to diffuse the situation. The man then left.
After speaking with his friend, the student started to walk to Lot 4, when the man approached him again by the benches near the Business Building. He threatened him, saying, “I am not a student, so I could beat you up,” and “I could stab you.”
He followed him until he reached Lot 4, where he eventually walked away towards the Football Stadium. After reviewing footage, the man was not identified and Campus Police were unable to track where he went after he walked towards the stadium.
Oct. 20: Door Damage
The Social Science Building’s door facing the Brower Student Center was found to have been damaged. The bottom bolt of the door handle was missing, and a considerable amount of force would have been necessary in order to have knocked the bolt loose. The bolt was not found in the area.
Fire Alarms
There were seven incidents of fire alarms between Oct. 20 and 25. They occurred in Eickhoff Hall, Decker Hall, Wolfe Hall and Norsworthy Hall. They were due to a hair dryer, popcorn in the microwave, a washing machine, an air fryer used to cook bacon and a curling iron.
