Updated 09/14/2011 09:45 PM
Hidden camera found in UAlbany bathroom stall
By: Erin Vannella
Imagine visiting a public restroom and finding a camera tucked under the stall divider. It happened in the women’s room at UAlbany. Our Erin Vannella reports.
ALBANY, N.Y. – “Unreal,” said UAlbany graduate student Leah Jakaitis. “That’s just a shame to see done at SUNY Albany.”
“I went to the bathroom there last week,” said UAlbany graduate student Ellen Tysz. “I hope it wasn’t in there then.”
A camera, hidden under a bathroom stall divider, was discovered Monday on the second floor women’s restroom in Husted Hall.
“I would’ve been devastated,” said UAlbany graduate student Vanessa Bernstein. “My privacy would’ve been violated in a school setting where I would think that that’s a safe place.”
How long had it been there? Who put it there?
UAlbany Director of Media Relations Karl Luntta said, “The University is concerned and is investigating the incident. It is isolated but we do urge students to be vigilant and aware if they see any usual activity to report it immediately to UPD.”
Faculty administrators sent an e-mail to students who most often frequent Husted Hall. But many say without more answers, they’d like to see more security, perhaps to scan the bathrooms and showers or they might take their business elsewhere.
“I’ll probably go before or after,” said Tysz.
“I’m not sure I’ll go that far but I might be more observant about using the facilities,” said Jakaitis.
Turns out it wasn’t a mounted camera but someone in the next stall over snuck a camera phone under the wall. Which led to the dean of students deciding to replace all the ladies room signs with the following:
On topic, I always wondered what good footage of girls squatting is? Maybe I spend too much time looking at ladyboys in stockings giving each other foot jobs, but I just don’t get the attraction to girls on the toilet…
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