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Volume 58, No. 12
Tuesday, October 6, 1981
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UM Police Nab Pearson Cat Burglar
stuff a sock in her mouth and ran before she could scream for help
•	Five days later.he broke into Lisa Teranova's and Randy Rig-goff’s rooms He made off with a total of $1,600 in cash, cameras, jewelry, a television set and miscel-leanous items
•	The city of Coral Gables was not beyond the burglar's grasp
A house inhabited by Miguel Almeida was invaded on April 26. and the thief took off with property worth about $724.
Stolen Checks
Nabbed
The sweet-looking young lady on the other side of the bursar's counter was not affected by the charm
She took the loan check from Robinson and spotted the fraud
She left him standing and placed
a call to PSD
Detective Watson staked out the Bursar's office in the Ashe Building and arrested Robinson for attempted fraud
After searching, the police found Pat Collins' checks
Help!
Scuffle Leads	To	Six-Car Eaton Hall
By JEAN CLAUDE de la FRANCE
Head News Writer
Neil Robinson walked out of the scorching sun last Wednesday, a "clean-looking" 20 year old out to get $1,500 and temporary relief for his $.100-a-week cocaine addiction.
The young lady at the bursar's window looked prime and the altered University of Miami check would buy the youngster at least
Workshop
Motivates
two weeks of nightly relief.
He was going to pay back what he owed the University, but not before he had done some fancy bookkeeping of his own.
He had a loan check for the bursar, and they were supposed to take what he owed and give him the balance.
He was only supposed to get to a couple hundred of dollars
Robinson changed the figures so
that he would get close to $1.500.
He fidgeted impatiently. A dope pusher, he knew, was waiting for him to bring the cash.
Hot Pursuit
Less than a mile away, detective Cokes Watson defied the heat, searching clues to solve the month-old cat burglar mystery.
Watson was looking for the per-
son who had committed a number of burglaries.
• Between 6:30 p.m. and 7 a m. Sept. 10. the burglar broke into three dorm rooms on two different floors of Pearson Hall.
In that incident, the elusive cat burglar stole cash belonging to Trisha Martinez before moving to the suite next door.
Unfortunately for him, he awoke Donna Styrnes, but managed to
By TRISHA SINDLER
and
LOURDES FERNANDEZ
Residents of the 1968 Complex registered their bicycles and engraved personal property. They listened to speeches and watched films.
From noon until 5 p.m. on September 25 in the 1968 lobby was the first "Crime Awareness Day.”
Richard Dansoh, a '68 Complex Graduate Assistant and head of the complex’s Crime Watch Program,
Pat Collins received a notice from the bank saying that a number of his checks had bounced.
“I knew that this was impossible," he said later, "because I had plenty of money to cover my checks.”
The checks, six of them, were signed by a name he never heard of. He suspected his roommate.
“I was really pissed off that he took my checks but I did not tell him anything because I had no proof." he said
He said that his roomate did not look like a thief.
“He was a nice guy," Collins said, "but he kept very strange hours. He even said that he was a night person."
In fact, few could guess that Pat's roommate could have been a thief.
Rita Rana lives just a few doors down from Pat and said she was surprised.
“I was shocked," Rana said. "I just could not beleive it."
Rana’s suitemates, she said, were run so mimeor-vvng.
"One day I asked my friends what they thought of him. They said, ‘He is a nice guy, but he is a thief.' "
Rana's friends had suspected him, but the had not called the police.
“Well, he was so nice and all. he is not the kind of guy you would rat on," she said.
According to police. Robinson confessed in a signed statement to the crimes committed by the cat burglar
"He was relieved to let it all out," said Watson
He said that he had been stealing to feed a $30t)-a-week cocaine habit he developed only since coming to UM two years ago
He also admitted to cashing fraudulent checks at the Bursar s office in the Ashe Building, us well as in the Student Union Breezeway
He said since he was only allowed to cash up to $150 per day. he used both offices on the same days to cash the checks. He deceived the offices by pasting his picture onto the identification card of another student.
This has led police to believe that his addiction may be more than the $300 per week he admitted to
Roommate Collins said that Robinson snorted cocaine practically every night
Robinson, who was taken to the Dade County jail, has been charged with the passing of a fraudulent check, grand theft and burglarizing of an occupied home
Condon said that if convicted on all charges, Robinson may receive a sentence of up to 150 years
Somewhere out there, a dope dealer still waits
1968 Kicks Off Crime Watch
said he was pleased with student turnout. Things, he said, have improved.
“Crime Watch was conceived last year by Curt Ivy. director of law enforcement of Campus Public Safety, but it never really got off the ground," said Dansoh "I personally think there wasn’t enough input from residence halls as it deserves.
“This year," he said, "there's greater cooperation between Campus Public Safety and Residence Halls."
The five hours of non-stop events took about two weeks to organize; with letters written to public safety, calls made, and meetings attended. Dansoh expressed thanks to the public safety department, and to 1968 Complex Director Shirley Ingold who "was very instrumental in getting the program off the ground and very resourceful '
Ivy, interviewed shortly before 1968's Crime Awareness Day. said that residents of campus dorms have plenty of crime to he aware of.
"There were 2.487 incidents last year, the most common being theft," said Ivy. "About 30 to 40 percent of the crimes were preventable."
Ivy cited unlocked rooms and unattended property as invitations to a burglar.
Last year, over $20,000 worth of personal property was lost in thefts, usually caused. Ivy said, by not locking doors.
The widespread campus crime has led to two programs intended to combat crime in the dorms, offices and classrooms: Dorm Crime Watch and Office Crime Watch.
Dorm Crime Watch, Ivy explained. functions by setting up a crime watch committee on each floor of a dormitory. Each floor reports to its resident assistant or graduate assistant.
Dansoh said he would like to see that $20,000 figure dwindle considerably.
"The main objective of Crime Watch." he said, “is to get each student to realize that where preventive crime measures are concerned, you are your best policeman."
Dansoh said that people involved with Crime Watch several specific ideas on combating on-campus crime. One of those ideas is rumor control. i
Students
By GEORGE HAJ
News Writer
Do you have difficulty getting started on term papers? Do you ever feel like you are drifting with no future direction? Do you feel like your get up and go has got up and left?
If the answer to any of these questions is yes, you could possibly benefit from a new one-day workshop called "Self-Motivation: The Collegiate's Roadmap to Personal Success."
“The workshop is especially designed for college students who want to improve their attitude, talents, and level of motivation,” said Maureen Short, Associate Dean of Students.
Examples of students who could benefit from this program are students who want to improve their grades and athletes who are striving for better performance.
The program will deal with three major topics. The first will focus on what can be done to overcome self-imposed limitations and improve self-concept.
The next step will be to define the motivational components of a progressive goals program.
The third focus of the program is to teach a systematic, efficient approach to accomplishing goals.
The workshop will be run by George Lachat, executive director of National Self-Motivation Techniques in Pompano Beach. Lachat, a cum laude graduate of the University of Miami, served two years as a consultant on the staff of an international college fraternity and helped pioneer a new leadership and motivation program for its 6,000 members.
Short said the program has been successful throughout he country and if students like it, she hopes to have the program back. She would like to get at least 50 students to attend. The maximum allowed will be 300.
The workshop will be held Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in LC 180. The registration fee is $10. and applications are available at the Dean of Students' office in Building 21E. Further information may be obtained by calling the office at X6120.
By JEAN CLAUDE de la FRANCE
Head News Writer
Piercing screams and the grinding sound of smashing cars jolted sleeping residents of Flaton Hall in the wee hours of the morning Saturday.
A near collision in front of the 1968 complex resulted jn a physical altercation and a six-car crash in the Eaton Hall parking lot.
UM student Ray Kline and two unidentified friends were driving north on Dickinson Drive when a delivery man from D'Pizza turned in front of them to head north
What happened afterward is told in a series of confused and contradicting versions and is the subject of an ongoing current police investigation
The pizza delivery man, who would only identify himself as Joe, said that after turning in front of the car driven by the students, they yelled something unintelligible at him.
"1 thought they wanted direction °r something," he said "I stopped to ask them what they want."
He said he stopped his car and got out to talk to the students
“One of them told me. ‘Don’t look at us like that, vou motherf —
-er.’"
He said two of them jumped him and started to beat him up. He jumped in his car to get away, but accidentally put the car in reverse, s amming into the car driven by one of Kline's friends.
' When he shifted to drive, Kline
"jumped on me and started hitting me in the face," through the window of the car. the delivery man alleged.
He then lost control of the car and swerved into four parked cars in the Eaton Hall parking lot, with Kline still hanging through the window, the delivery man said.
But Kline, who suffered a mild concussion in the crash, told the police a different story.
He said the pizza man cut in front of him, stop in the middle of the street before Eaton Hall and got out of his car to argue. Kline said he talked him into going back to his car, then the pizza man purposely stuck the car in reverse and almost hit Kline.
“I was still in front of the car, so I had to jump on the hood," Kline said.
Kline said that he went after him in self-defense, but when Joe put the car in drive and lost control they ran into the parking lot.
Kline said the delivery man bit him after the car had stopped in the parking lot. He displayed tooth marks on the knuckles of his right hand
Witnesses who arrived at the scene at various points told different versions of the story.
But a spokesman for the University of Miami Police department said "au^ndependent witness' who. the spokesman said, saw the whole
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incident, confirmed Kline's version of the incident.
The security guard on duty at Eaton Hall said Joe's screams for help brought him out of the building
The Guard said he heard the crash, which was muffled through the door of the Complex, and the screaming then made him aware of the ongoing scuffle.
The Impala ran into two Toyotas. an Oldsmobile, and a Nova The owners were unavailable for identification or comment
One witness said he saw a red car in the parking lot just before the wreck, idling as if waiting. According to the witness, who prefers to remain anonymous, the car forced the pizza deliveryman off Dickinson Drive and into the Parking lot
Neither the pizza delivery man nor Kline made any reference to the car in their accounts to the police A spokesman for the UM Public Safety Department cleared the al-ledged red car of any involvement in the incident
According to Public Safety, no criminal charges have been filed pending further investigation by the Dade County state attorney's office
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