Crime hits campus
By James Allen | Entertainment Editor
The University of Indianapolis Theater Department’s sound mixer in Ransburg Auditorium was stolen on Saturday, Feb. 7.
The nearly $11,000 piece of equipment was estimated to have been taken between 3 and 3:30 p.m., and was discovered missing by theater department head Jim Ream at 6 p.m. According to sophomore Mason Absher, assistant auditorium manager/sound manager, students were in and out of the building all day to set up equipment for the upcoming production of “Leading Ladies”.
“We had everything unlocked for load-in and anyone could have walked in or out since we were moving stuff all day,” Absher said. “Anyone could have walked off with it and no one would have said anything.”
The sound mixer was a Yamaha model LS9-32, which is priced currently on Yamaha’s Web site (yamaha.com) at $10,999. The mixer is relatively new to the school and was purchased just last summer.
Absher also confirmed that there was a security cable attached to the mixer that was broken off.
Detective Kurt Rincker of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said he followed a lead to an area business on Thursday, Feb. 12, where the mixer was identified and recovered. It was returned to the university on Friday, Feb. 13.
“I am thrilled that the mixer has been recovered in good condition,” Ream said. “But we still feel violated that someone would do this. I thank God that no one was in there when [the thief] was taking [the mixer].”
