While most of October passed by relatively quietly on at U of T (with two reported assaults and breakand- enters), the end of the month saw a bit more excitement.

A bomb scare last Monday, which turned out to be a prank, affecting residents of 89 Chestnut who were not evacuated, but told to use an alternative exit. On Halloween, the next day, Toronto and Campus Police responded to a report of a second bomb threat at Falconer Hall, which also turned out to be a false alarm.

On Sunday, Oct. 28, Hart House was the scene of a man breaking windows with a baseball bat and a couple engaging in “sexual activity” outside the building.

Elsewhere on campus, students had trouble holding onto their bicycles, as 14 bikes were reported stolen this month, despite the efforts of the Bait Bike program, which rigs a decoy bike with a GPS system to capture would-be thieves.

A total of 95 alarms were triggered on campus, in addition to 47 incidents of trespassing.

An attempted theft of a television and DVD player from Woodsworth has police looking for two males in their 20s. At the Nursing building, a male, also in his 20s, with a shaved head, a scarf bearing the Jamaican flag, and a grey Che Guevara camouflage jacket, is suspected of trying to steal a computer. In total, 26 thefts were reported to police.

The first of the two assaults this month took place on Oct. 2 around Queen’s Park crescent, involving someone grabbing a person who was walking to St. Michaels College. The suspect is described by police as a white male, 5’8”, with a medium build, sporting gelledback hair and a black jacket. The second assault occurred last week on Oct. 25, near the residence at 89 Chestnut Ave., though no description was provided by police.

During the month U of T’s Campus Community Police also helped an elderly person who was lost and disoriented, investigated a vehicle that was driving erratically on King’s College Circle, and responded to two particular complaints at the Medical Science building—musicians playing in the cafeteria and an “unattended package” left outside.