by Hattiesburg American
University of Southern Mississippi professor Marge Crowe knows how to get the attention of her students. But they aren’t the only ones. Crowe, a faculty member of the Department of Curriculum Instruction and Special Education, is credited with inspiring a would-be burglar to reconsider breaking into the home of a student in one of her online classes. The incident occurred near the end of the spring semester. Dawn Lindley of Ocean Springs, an undergraduate student in the class, said she was participating in the course’s online chat one evening when she heard a noise in another part of the house. She discovered someone had thrown a brick through her son’s bedroom window and was attempting to enter her home. While in the closet, Lindley called the police, who arrived and caught the alleged intruder in the woods behind her house. The officers told her that after giving them an alias, the would-be burglar gave his real name, then said the reason he didn’t enter the house was because he heard a voice after at first thinking no one was home.
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20120526/NEWS01/205260317
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