[Imc] Broken window

[Sascha Meinrath]

Hi everyone,

Thanks to Mike and Clint for being on top of this last night.  You both
did a great job.  I've talked with the landlords and they'll contact their
insurance company to cover the dammages.  There's still a bit of glass
cleanup that needs to happen (if anyone has some time to spare while their
at the IMC please help clean it up).  Also, we should build a better
barrier on the front window ASAP since it would be easy to get into the
IMC right now.

The other thing Beverly Beavers and I talked about was that it is looking
increasingly likely that they will be leaving town next April (in 2003).
They are more and more inclined to sell the building -- and we would be
first on their list.  This means that we should seriously discuss whether
we want to buy the building and get a decision made; and if we do, we
should start working on a capital fundraising drive to raise the money.

--Sascha



On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Clint Popetz wrote:

> At approximately 1:15am this morning (Thursday morning, Wednesday
> night), the front window of the imc was broken.  Mike Walcher was the
> only one here, although all the lights were off and the culprits
> probably didn't know he was there.  He said they were at least three
> clean-cut males, in their twenties, likely coming from the Office
> given the time.  He ran outside and got the license plates and
> descriptions of two cars pulling away, though these may not have been
> involved as he didn't see the guys enter the cars, and everyone would
> have been leaving the bars around that time.
>
> He called me at home, and I came in, since he had to work the next
> morning.  I called the Urbana police, and Officer Sean Taylor arrived.
> I gave him all the information that Mike knew, and he filed police
> report U02-1657, and that number should probably be given to the
> landlords (Sascha?)  The officer said that the window was probably
> broken with a pipe or other blunt object, because of the size of the
> break and the spray of glass, which went up to 10 feet away inside the
> IMC.
>
> Now that the officer has left, I'm going to clean up the glass and put
> a piece of cardboard to keep the wind and birds out, and go home.  If
> someone could call the landlords in the morning to let them know that
> the police have already been called, that would be good.  Hopefully
> their building insurance will cover the cost of the window.
>
> 				-Clint
>
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