The North Idaho College Sentinel Vol 71 No 7, Feb 3, 1995

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The Cardinals struggle

to reach Reglonals. See Page15.

Student Marianne Leake challenged herself and her fear of heights by palnllng a panoramic mural for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game • Please see related stories and photo on Pages 12 -13.

Friday, February 3, 1995 Volume 71, Number 7

North Idaho College's Student Newspaper • Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Thief makes off with $3,000 in PC equipment by Rnchcl J. Willinms News Editor

Nearly SJ.000 in co111pu1cr equipmen t wns stolen from McLain Hall O\'er winter vacution. nccording lO obviou.sly 8u5incss Division Chnirm.in someone Mike Miller. ·nu: originnl police report does have filed Jan. 25 by Joanne Zimmerman suucd the IO)SCS some ut S 1.570, but Miller said expertise and Jdditiuno l equipment w:1s discovered Mokn a couple arn.und" !::>" ..,. dJy, following the ini ti:il liling According to Miller. two - Mike Miller penttum processor chip~ valued JI $500 c,1ch wer,c . ._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ taken. Jlong with a $270

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back

photo by Erin Siemers The judge (Homer Mason) and Laurel (Kalynn Raugh) discuss the gruesome details of a murder trial in Scene 2 of "The Chalk Garden.• Please see Page 18 for re/sled story. I

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video cnnJ and SIM chip, with n totnl of 32 mcg:ibytc~ of memory worth S 1.600. each individual byte or computer memory 1~ worth S50, nccording to Miller. The equipment wn~ removed from 1hc inside of two machines in Room 103 or McLai n, Miller said. According to Miller, whoever took the property had 10 hove e).tensivc knowledge about computers to know ex:ictly what to take and how to obt:tin 11. "It's obviou\ly someone that does hnve sorne cxperti~e and bnckground," Miller said. Miller added that II would have rnken a long time 10 get into 1hc machines bccouJie the machines had to be squccued out and the tops popped off 10 reach the equipment. Miller said since the computers were found replaced with all the connections hooked, the person hod some exposure with working with compu1ers and felt secure taking them apart. Miller said the person or person~ who took the propeny were very sure of themselves and they were very deliberate about it. There was no sign of forced entry 10 McLnin, the police report stated. The report also stated that there are no suspects. During winier break. workers were called in to fix a problem with the healing system. Toot was one of the rcw times th.: buildi ng was unlocked, according 10 Miller. The repon suited that NIC staff talked with I.he workers regnrding the missing propeny. He added all that is known at this time is that the equipment disappeared someti me after Jan. 2 a11d bcfor,e the second day of spring cl:isses.


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