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cabrinicollege,radnor,pa. 19087
friday,february27, 1987
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vol. xxxiii,no. 16,
XavierHallscarredby vandals by Debbie Ferrar Christy Mason Monica Palko
Their next and final stop, Doyle said, was the second floor study lounge where one ceramic lamp was broken and two lamp shades were mangled. Again bottles were smashed and trash was strewn about.
They said it was a "great party." "It would have gone down in Cabrini history if all this hadn't happened," John Berenato, senior, said. On Sunday morning, however, the day after that "great party," areas in Xavier Hall were found vandalized - extensively vandalized.
On their way out of Xavier, they allegedly ripped two trash bags apart, scattering the rubbish in the main foyer.
According to Sean Mitchell, assistant director of security, all RA~ were notified concerning the radios. Joanne Goebel, resident manager of Woodcrest, was on duty that night and was informed that the raios were not working, but did not inform Doyle until the following morning, Doyle said.
Berenato said he was hesitant to leave his room to get Doyle or a resident assistant because he was unsure of what the three men would do. At approximately 7:30 a.m. Berenato awoke to a ruckus. Looking out his window, he witnessed the three tampering with the ice cream machine. At this point, Berenato woke McGonigle's friend and asked him to leave and to take the three men with him.
According to John Doyle, resident manager, Berenato approached him after Sunday brunch and informed him that three male Villanova students had vandalized the TV loUJ,1.ge, the Great Room, and the study lounge in Xavier Hall.
The three vandals then returned to Berenato's room to collect their things and, according to Berenato, said, "If we ever see you guys off campus, we'll beat the shit out of you. It's cool you kicked us out, but not that you called security."
Doyle said the vandals most likely started their destruction in the TV lounge. Here the three men tore the metal pipe railing from the wall, which they may have used to smash the light switches, thermostat, exit sign and furniture.
Apparently, Berenato said, the three were probably listening outside the door when he called security earlier that morning. .-
The refrigerator door was dented on the outside and the interior looked to have been also smashed with the railing.
'It (the party) would have gone down in Cabrinihistory if all this hadn't happened.' -John Berenato,senior
A wooden table was also dismembered, and its legs, since found with dents, may also have been used in smashing the fixtures and the refrigerator. Doyle said that it appeared as though the three men stood at the entrance of the lounge and threw room causing them to shatter.
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Paint was poured behind the wide screen TV in the Great Room and in its console. The paint was "borrowed" from the security cage, across from the Great Room. It was put back there after it was used by the vandals. (photo by Rob Yackel)
Broken glas" hdS also found in the hallway to the right of the lounge in front of the vending machines. Doyle said the ice cream machine was moved, but not damaged. According to Doyle, the vandals probably then made their way to the second floor Great Room. Here, more beer bottles, one used in an attempt to break a window, were smashed. Trash was thrown and a trash receptacle broken. A deodorant stick had been smeared on the window and the arm of a couch was broken. Apparently this did not satisfy the vandals, as they then proceeded to break into the security cage across from the Great Room and "borrow" a large bucket of paint. Evidence suggests that they then returned to the Great Room with the paint and poured it on the rug behind the large screen TV and in the console. They also spit several times on the screen. They then returned the bucket of paint to the security cage. _
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Lastly, they ripped the facing off the electrical outlet in the main entrance, Doyle said. Maintenance estimates the damage to Xavier to be approximately $ 7188. According to Berenato, his suite decided to have a party Saturday night, February 21. The party, which did not have an approved guest list, was confined within suite 120, Berenato said. Berenato said that Patrick McKenna, senior, resident assistant, who was not officially on duty that night, asked Berenato and Greg Beck, junior, to break up the party at approximately 1:30 a.m. McKenna said that he was forced to write the party up and submit a report to Doyle because the party was loud and was continuing after hours. "It was just kind of blatant," he said. "The doors were all open." According to Berenato, the party eventually broke up. Everyone had left the suite except Berenato, Beck, an invitd guest of Marty McGonigle, sophomore, and the three alleged vandals. McGonigle had invited his friend from St. Joseph's University. The three alleged ' vandals came with the friend, although uninvited. I Up to this point the three had not caused any problems. It wasn't until approximately 3:00 a.m. as Berenato and Beck were trying to sleep that the three men became loud and obnoxious. "Several times Greg (Beck) and I asked them to leave," Berenato said, "but they refused." According to Berenato they then got in touch with McGonigle several times to help convince the three men to leave. Eventually the three left Berenato's room and were locked out by Berenato. Berenato, who heard them causing a commotion in the suite, called security five times to inform them of what was happening. Berenato, like the majority of the campus that early Sunday morning, was unaware that the radio's used to contact security were not functioning.
r•---•-.. The ceramic lamp in the study lounge was broken by the vandals. (photo by Rob Yackel)
Doyle thinks that security should have had an alternative number where they could be reached since no one but the RA's knew that the radios were not working. "These guys (Berenato and crew) had no way of dealing with the proble._..,_," he said. "There's no one really to blame. It ·.vasjust a breakdown in communications."
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had been trashed with toilet paper and shaving cream. Two glasses had been broken as well. They then sized up the damage of the rest of the dorm, cleaned up what they could, and informed Doyle, who then called the Radnor Police. Doyle was unaware that the party had taken place. He said the vandals had to have struck after 2:45 a.m. since that was after he made his last rounds.
'Theseguys (John Berenato and crew)had no way of dealingwith the problem. There'sno one reallyto blame. It was just a breakdownin communications.' -John Doyle,resident manager
Monday afternoon, Berenato ·and McGonigle were ased to go to the Radnor Police Department to verify the police report Doyle had filed.
The interior of the refrigerator in the TV lounge was probably smashed with the pipe railing from that same room. (photo by Rob Yackel) Berenato assumed he was leaving a message with security since when he called, the tape .recorded message still played. According to Rob Yackel, junior, he saw the three ripping posters off the walls of suite 120 and then saw them go into the TV lounge with blankets, apparently to go to sleep. •~11through the night I heard breaking bottles and cursing," Berenato said.
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According to Radnor Police, no names or information on the suspects will be released until an arrest has been made. Doyle said that as a result of this incident tighter restrictions will be implemented at Xavier. RA's are going 'to have to keep tight records of who is in the dorm at any given time. Additionally, there will have to be an RA posted in the security cage at all time. James Fitzsimmons, dean of students, who was out of town at the time the vandalism occurred, could not be reached for comment.
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