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              made sexual comments to her you just get used to it it's some thing you just accept regits said stories like regits are reported nearly every week off-campus stu dent houses are a primary target for break-ins said bethlehem crime prevention officer don sabo but sabo does not directly relate the break-ins to houses being student occupied he said most theft is due to carelessness yes student houses are easy unlocked doors or windows he police have not found any clues or motives in the june 29 shooting deaths of two bethlehem girls at the lookout but the victims have not been forgotten friends and relatives of jenni fer grider 17 and mary orlando 15 joined members of the lehigh community at a tree dedication and memorial mass held thurs day evening rev alfred schlert director of the newman center captured the feeling of the crowd when he said they can kill a body but they can never ever kill a spirit the dedicated tree was donated to the girls memory by university please see tree page 9 faculty and staff schlert officiated the blessing of the cherry tree which was adorned with pink ribbons and planted 30 feet from where the bodies were found we plant this tree as a remem brance that good always triumphs over evil that resurrection and eter nal life as evidenced in the flower ing of this tree each spring shows that death has no hold on us schlert said he also hoped that the lookout could once again be a place of honor and dignity after the dedication more than 75 people attended the mass in packer chapel among those who when michelle regits 96 one of the housemates heard the news after returning from break her only thought was here we go again this incident was not the first nor the last for regits and her three hou semates . last f all , a ho u semate ' s convertible was slashed in novem ber another car had its front wind shield smashed by a baseball bat in january after the break-in another car had all of its windows smashed again this summer another car had its windows smashed and was bro ken into the radio was tampered with and couldn't be taken out of its holster so it was left broken the garage walls were scratched and marked with graffiti regits de scribed a time when just before she entered her house boys between 15 and 16 years old harassed her and bethlehem police came and found finger prints on the banister that led to four bed rooms the bed room doors were locked and nothing else was stolen brian van lieu 95 left his girlfriend's home on carlton av enue to be with his family on christ mas eve in 1 994 three days later he returned to the house to tie up loose ends before graduation but his motivation for work turned to shock when he found bro ken glass on his girlfriend's porch and kitchen floor he entered the living room and noticed the stereo was missing bought stolen goods for less than 7,000 until oct 1 1 . suspects who sold goods to the police gave only their first names or nicknames since all transactions were re the undercover police only gave him 100 shupp said the van was not taken from lchigh property shupp said miller and shupp said they did not yet iw whether any of the len property was taken from off-campus student residences miller said he is pleased with the investigation'sresults this was a definite success he said criminals must be aware of police power this will hopefully give a mes sage to criminals that they never know who they're by lindsey ellison senior news editor off-campus students find problems with crime and neighbors please see pawn page 9 going to deal with although miller hopes the bust will reduce crime a person will steal something take it to a pawn shop and will take any kind of money for it for instance a 25,000 van was stolen and this will hopefully give a message to criminals that they never know who they're going to deal with randy miller bethlehem detective t corded by a hidden camera suspects names and pictures were then matched by police as of oct 12 21 suspects had been arrested and 12 more have not yet been found campus police lt edward shupp ex plained the process of a pawn shop an undercover police pawn shop located at 20 w fourth st ended its five-month investi gation wednesday as it recovered more than 120,000 worth of stolen merchandise muchof it being lehigh property items found belonging to lehigh included computers telephones calculators two electric clocks stolen from the bookstore vcrs and televisions a few mountain bikes were bought but none of the serial numbers have been matched to those stolen at lehigh marv's place the pawn shop was vacant before it was set up in may under the command of the attorney general bethlehem police and state police for an experimental investigation said bethlehem det randy miller the store was run by undercover police who the brown and white vol 103 no 10 lehigh university's student newspaper founded in 1894 tuesday october 17 1995 stolen goods found in police pawn shop all the lehigh news first tree dedication held for murder victims biwpholo by peter sayer pink ribbons decorate the tree planted at the lookout by david butler news writer please see crime page 4 look for indica tors that no one is home it's about taking simple pre cautions to your home greg kendall 96 a resident on summit street found that keeping his door locked even when he is home could have saved his micro wave one night kendall came home withhisgirlfriendaround 1 1:45p.m they made food in the microwave and then went upstairs around mid night twoof kendall's housemates were at the tally ho and another was at a concert the last housemate arrived home at 12:45 a.m and noticed the microwave was missing kendall said his housemates thought that since kendall's girl friend owned the microwave she might have taken it home with her kendall said they usually left the door u nlocked when they were home the men's soccer team lost friday to lafayette college 3-2 on the road the loss eliminated the team from any possible postseason play see page 1 8 sports 1 6-20 women's soccer 19 cross country 20 field hockey 20 football 20 the brothers of zeta psi fraternity are holding the sixth annual good scholar election to support cancer research this year's goal is to raise 20,000 see page 8 news 1-9 real world 3 student senate retreat 5 pi lambda phi 6 fallfest 7 scientists who injected fruit flies with a homosexual gene found the flies exhibited homosexual tendencies based on this study these scientists say they are 95 percent certain that homosexuality is genetic see page 13 there were 324,665 logins on the network server last month the average was 10,822 per day source the network server