Library vandalism

Anne Pat Smith <smith<-a t->ouvaxa< . >cats< . >ohiou< . >edu> writes

>Library administrators have been working closely with the
>University's Campus Security personnel in an effort to stop this
>vandalism

I do believe that fingerprints can be retrieved from paper of
various kinds.  Prints from the pages of all the mutilated books
could be studied and those found to be associated with mutilated
books in your library and others would point the finger (no pun) to
a possible source and would eliminate innocent users.  One must keep
in mind the old Roman Maxim on justice nevertheless, "Better the
guilty go free than the innocent be unjustly punished."

Niccolo Caldararo

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