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A student living in West Hall called the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) at 7:50 a.m. on Oct. 23 to report a break-in in her dormitory room. Officers responded and found pry marks by a lock on a door in the room that led outdoors.

TUPD received a call at 1:45 a.m. on Oct. 24 from someone who reported seeing a person drop off someone else in a Tilton Hall dorm room. The caller did not believe the room belonged to the person dropped off. Officers responded and found two intoxicated students passed out on the floor in the room. Neither student lived in the room. Both were transported to LawrenceMemorialHospital.

A horrible, horrible end for a very beloved box

A TUPD officer smelled something burning in a stairwell on the side of South Hall facing

Lower Campus Road

at 3:12 a.m. on Oct. 24. The officer noticed that someone had lit cardboard on fire and thrown it into the stairwell, which leads to the basement of the dormitory. Officers used a fire extinguisher to put out the fire and called the Somerville Fire Department, which responded and gave the all-clear.

Sexy hospital patient > sexy nurse

TUPD officers were dispatched to

13 Conwell Avenue

in Somerville at 2 a.m. on Oct. 25 to check on a woman dressed in a French maid outfit, sitting on the steps of her house and crying.

She was wearing a costume "a week early," TUPD Sgt. Robert McCarthy said.

She woman, who graduated from Tufts in May, had difficulty speaking, smelled of alcohol and was confused.

 "She thought she was in

Harvard Square

," McCarthy said. She was transported to SomervilleHospital.