Syracuse University’s Department of Public Safety and the Syracuse Police Department responded to concerns that a non-SU affiliated person was being housed in Boland Hall on Sunday night.

Officers went to the eighth floor of Boland and spoke with students in the hallway located on the left side of the floor. They entered the hall at approximately 11 p.m., said Melanie Condon, an undeclared freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. The authorities walked to the end of the hall and approached the last door on the left hand side of the hallway, she said.

The Daily Orange attempted to speak with those residents, but received no response when they knocked on the door.

Condon said Cpl. Joe Shanley of DPS entered the floor’s lounge and advised those inside to not worry. Condon said she sat next to the person she thought was an SU student at the basketball game against Fordham University on Saturday. She heard the person was ‘mooching’ off of residents in Boland, she said.

At least three vehicles from SPD and two from DPS were parked to the side of the Brewster/Boland/Brockway Complex on Van Buren Street.

Rebecca Greenblatt, an undeclared freshman in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, lives on the sixth floor of Boland and called her mother when she learned, through word of mouth, that her safety could have been compromised.

Greenblatt said she never felt unsafe until hearing about the incident, as residents of Boland are required to flash their SUID to someone in the building’s lobby any time they enter the building.

Dana Weingarten, also a resident on the sixth floor of Boland and a freshman jewelry design major, also expressed concern about the situation.

Said Weingarten: ‘It sort of hit me because my safety could’ve been put in jeopardy.’

Published on November 13, 2011 at 12:00 pm

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