More than $100 of students' property was stolen from Lowell House in the past two weeks in two separate thefts, according to Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) spokesperson Peggy McNamara.

Eighty dollars disappeared from a jewelry box in Lowell House's D-entryway on Feb. 28, McNamara said.

The larceny was reported at 3:33 p.m., but McNamara said the crime is believed to have taken place anytime between Feb. 24 and Feb. 28.

Nothing else is believed to have been stolen, she said.

Three days later on March 3, another student reported a missing briefcase at 10:35 a.m.

The student had left the briefcase unattended in the dining hall the day before at 2:45 p.m., according to McNamara.

When he returned at 6:30 p.m., the briefcase was missing.

The two incidents remain under investigation and were probably committed by different individuals, McNamara said.

"The pattern doesn't indicate they're related," she said. "It's a different type of larceny pattern we're looking at."

These incidents are just two of several burglaries and robberies that have already taken place this month.

At midnight Sunday morning, police responded to a distress call of an undergraduate student, who said he was robbed outside the Barker Center. The preceding week, a business school student was robbed at gunpoint while crossing a footbridge over the Charles River.

And on Feb. 26, an Adams House senior exiting the shower surprised a thief in the process of dismantling his roommate's stereo. A television set was stolen from an adjoining room that night.

But despite the trend, Lowell House Master William H. Bossert '59 said the most recent thefts are not indicative of a new security threat.

"It's just a continuing problem," Bossert said.

Lowell House resident Alex M. Hurst '99 agreed the thefts were nothing unusual.