The Towerlight, April 29, 2010

TIBETAN MONKS CREATE SAND MANDALA IN UNION LOBBY » PAGE 17 * HOPKINS BEATS MEN’S LAX PAGE 24 Student loses $1,000 after apartment burglary DANIEL GROSS Editor in Chief Towson senior Max Faigenbaum returned to his apartment at Fairways at Towson after a class on April 14 to find $1,000 missing from a box in his closet. It was close to all the money he had. He said there was no sign of forced entry and everything seemed to be in place. "I was pretty hysterical when I got my things stolen," Faigenbaum said. ‘‘[I] always put my money in one place." After calling the emergency maintenance telephone num¬ ber, he was instructed to call the Baltimore County Police Department to report a possible burglary. He called BCPD and an officer came to the apartment building but did not go inside, according to Faigenbaum. "He took one step out of the car, he asked me what hap¬ pened," Faigenbaum said before he explained the incident. “He crossed his arms and said, 'What do you want me to do about it?”' A report was created and he asked the officer to investigate. Timeline of events Faigenbaum said this all started after coming back from Atlantic City, N.J., with his roommate and about $1,000 in cash winnings. He said they returned from their trip March 28 and realized there was a leak in the ceiling. From March 28 to 30 he said there were a few maintenance workers coming in his apartment to fix the leak and patch the ceiling. The work was completed and maintenance had left by March 30, he said. He also said that while the maintenance employees were working, he and his roommate were talking about how well they did in Atlantic City and stated that they won $1,000. Time went by without incident, but between April 13 and 14, the $1,000 was gone, according to Faigenbaum. "My front door was dead bolted when I got home," Faigenbaum said. "There was no sign at all of forced entry." After initially filing the police report, Faigenbaum sched¬ uled an appointment with the Fairways head of management Amanda Brown and maintenance manager Joe Alley. On April 16, two days after the incident, he was able to meet with Brown. “[I] went to see Amanda Brown and was supposed to see her and Joe Alley and the meeting was scheduled for 12:30 [p.m.]. At 12:32 [p.m.] she asked me to leave,” he said. According to Faigenbaum, Brown was very short with him and did not want to have a conversation regarding the incident. Brown said F aigenbaum was very accusatory to the Fairways staff, but she would not elaborate on the conversation. “We will obviously cooperate with the police 100 percent, but we have not heard anything from the police ourselves at this time," she said. “I’m not an investigator." She did, however, give Faigenbaum a key file, which shows each time someone checks out a key to his apartment, along with the name of who checks it out and the purpose. The key file report shows checkout times on March 29, 30 and April 1. See CASH, page 9 A town 'Frozen in Time' mm Christopher Curry/ The Towerlight Sophomore theatre major Madeline Hicks, left and senior theater major Jesse Herche perform in “Frozen in Time,” a story of two feuding Russian families. The production will close out the Russian Season as the last show of the semester. Last Russian performance takes stage Friday AUTUMN ROSE Associate Arts Editor Last semester Towson University’s Mainstage Theater saw "Romeo and Juliet" and the Russian Season plays performed side by side. Now as the Russian Season comes to an end, the classic play and year¬ long project are combined into the final Mainstage production of the semester. "Frozen in Time,” written by Vyacheslav Durnenkov and translated by John Freedman, is one of the final installments in the Russian Season this year. "Frozen in Time" is a sort of paraphrase of "Romeo and Juliet” put into context in middle Russia. The play has gone through translations, unexpected cast changes and hours and hours of rehearsals, but will finally premiere on Friday, April 30. Theatre major Will Dalrymple was thrust into one of the major changes the produc¬ tion saw during its preparation this semes¬ ter: the casting of its principal. Dalrymple didn't expect to perform in any theater productions until the 2010-2011 school year. "I spent last fall semester in the U.K. studying abroad," Dalrymple said. "So when 1 got back, I didn’t think that I was going to be involved in any show at all because they all cast them a semester before." Happy to be back at Towson, Dalrymple returned to the theatre department for the rest of his junior year and auditioned for Mainstage productions for Fall 2010. Dalrymple then began to hear rumors floating around the CFA that one of the principal actors in "Frozen in Time" had left the show to pursue a film shooting in New York. The rumors were confirmed when Dalrymple went to one of his professors and the director of "Frozen in Time," Peter Wray, to ask for tips and ways to improve his performance and audition. Wray asked Dalrymple to step into his office, told him that his past audition had gone very well and offered him the vacant role. "It is not uncommon in the profession for theatre artists to move on to other opportu¬ nities," Wray said. "We are fortunate in the theatre department to have a diverse talent pool from which to cast roles. Will See FROZEN, page 15