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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University is conducting a week-long campaign to educate and alert the campus community against hazing. The university’s second annual Hazing Prevention Week began yesterday (Sept. 27) and runs through Oct. 3. The week includes a town hall forum and an anti-hazing pledge drive. Educational initiatives will culminate with the Interfraternity […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue police are encouraging the university community to register for an online program aimed at helping get lost or stolen laptop computers and bicycles back to their owners. “If a person registers, we have all of the information on file in case their computer or bicycle is stolen,” said Purdue police […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University police will have extra officers patrolling the streets from Sept. 20-26 in order to curb aggressive driving and speeding. The extra police presence is an extension of the education and enforcement campaign that has been under way for pedestrian safety on and around campus. Since Aug. 23, Purdue and […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University police arrested a student on two felony drug charges Tuesday (Jan. 12). According to a report, police were called around 10:30 p.m. because several people were seen going to a second-floor room at First Street Towers. Purdue police K9 Nicky was brought in and indicated the possible presence of […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University police are investigating the theft of 60 computers from Stanley Coulter Hall on the West Lafayette campus. Lt. Fred Davis said Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) alerted police around 5:30 a.m on Saturday (Dec. 26) that computers in Coulter Hall had gone offline around 1:30 a.m. Purdue police were […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue University student was beaten and robbed outside Tarkington Hall around midnight Saturday (Dec. 19). According to Purdue police, a man approached the student and asked to use his cell phone. After the man had the cell phone, he struck the victim before fleeing the area in a black SUV […]