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Apprehended suspect tied to several campus robberies, security says
By Karen Castro
Assistant City Editor
University security apprehended a man Wednesday who reportedly claimed responsibility for several thefts on campus during the past year.
Raymond Campbell, who posed as a student, reportedly admitted stealing cameras, women's jewelry and bookbags from campus for a year, said Det. John Campbell, of the LAPD Southwest Division.
Campbell was booked by the LAPD for possession of stolen property after campus security apprehended him.
University Security received three separate calls Wednesday from Seeley G. Mudd building, the Music Faculty building and Waite Phillips Hall. All of the callers reported a suspicious-looking man loitering in the buildings.
"We responded to the calls and were finally able to catch up with the suspect at Waite Philips Hall," said Sgt. Steven Anderson of University Security.
Anderson said the suspect was not in possession of property stolen that day, but did have some property stolen from another day.
Det. Campbell said the suspect was "attempting to steal wallets" when security found him. He said Campbell had several telephone calling credit cards in his possession, which he later admitted to stealing previously.
Anderson said the people who reported the suspect described him, and security officials were able to apprehend him when they found him wandering around Waite Phillips Hall.
The suspect was later identified by the people who called from Waite Phillips Hall and the Music Faculty building.
Anne Mills, a secretary’ in the Music Faculty building, called security when she saw "a strange looking person ... in an area where he didn’t belong."
Mills said nothing was taken.
Anderson said the incident itself was not so unusual, but it was unusual for security to receive calls from people reporting a loiterer.
"It's not unusual that he would steal unattended property — that's the most common crime — but it is uncommon for people to call us and report a suspicious-looking person," Anderson said.
The suspect, whom Det. Campbell said "masquerades as a student and carries a bookbag," is being held by the LAPD without bail.
Anderson said theft of unattended property can be prevented if people call security when they notice a suspicious-looking person hanging around where he doesn't belong.
"A lot of times people wait and say, 'Should I call security or not?' " Anderson said. He added thefts could be prevented "if people just took the time to lock their doors, even if they're just going to be gone for a minute."
Many times people leave valuable items in their office in plain view, such as purses, wallets and cameras, which lure thieves who may be waiting down the hall for the office to be vacant, Anderson said.
"Most people (who steal) are not stupid; they do this for a living," he said.
"The sticky fingers from all over town are attracted to your campus like magnets," Det. Campbell said.
Author retells persecution of gay computer theorist
By Carol Ann Coates
Staff Writer
The death of Alan Turing capped the tragic story of "a gay man who was harshly treated," said Andrew Hodges, author of Alan Turing: The Enigma, at a meeting of the Gay and Lesbian Student Union Thursday.
Hodges' book, just released in paperback, is a biography of Turing, an Englishman who cracked Nazi war codes in World War II, and who was chemically castrated after having an affair with a 19-year-old man. Turing is also thought by many to be the father of modem computer science.
Turing's suicide in 1954, at 41, was "a great loss to society in general and to scientific research," Hodges said.
Hodges said Turing's death led to the emergence of gay consciousness.
“Homosexuality sudddenly became a political question that
had to be talked about," he said.
Bom to an upperclass family in England in 1912, Turing was the son of a civil servant of the Indian empire. He grew up in a world where women had a small role.
Turing attended public school and "stood out from his male environment in two ways,” Hodges said. He was "keen on science, which made him disassociated from all the usual social expectations," he said.
At 17, Turing acknowledged his attraction to another male student, who was a year older than he and also was fond of the sciences.
In 1930, Turing's lover died. The death had a great emotional impact on him and set into motion his scientific ideas, Hodges said. Turing began to formulate ideas on the underlying questions on the nature of the mind and the freedom of will.
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