Jeannie Causey, Staff Writer
November 30, 2010
Filed under News, Top Stories
Police are investigating a theft committed over Thanksgiving break. Twenty-seven iMac computers, costing more than $40,000, were taken from the journalism and photojournalism rooms sometime during the holiday. The thieves specifically picked out the computers to take, and left printers, camera lenses, and even several iMacs were left behind.
Leaving all the rooms locked, and the computers turned off for the break, no one thought that they would be coming back to a class to do paper assignments for the first time since the year began. There were no signs of forced entry, leaving everyone wondering how exactly they got into the school.
“I just don’t understand how someone could steal the computers and not feel absolutely awful, especially if they knew how important they are,” yearbook editor Gentrie Nolen said. “It’s pretty much, if we don’t have computers, it’s going to be awfully hard to have a yearbook this year.”
The computers also included software that totaled about $1,400. Both the yearbook and newspaper staffs use the computers and those programs on a daily basis to create the yearbook pages and post online to the Summit newspaper website. Photojournalism teacher Sharon Ellman said her students spend about 90 percent of their time on the computers editing pictures using Photoshop, or offloading picture assignments that were assigned outside of class.
“We use the computers every day,” yearbook staffer Nick Diaz said. “I’m bummed because it really puts us behind.”
Campus police declined to comment about the ongoing investigation.
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