An unknown suspect robbed a University student at gunpoint in broad daylight Feb. 1, according to a police report.

At about 1:30 p.m. near the intersection of University and 3rd Avenue Southeast, a male suspect approached Jasmine Egli, an Asian languages and literature senior, from behind and demanded her iPod. She said the suspect then showed her a gun in his coat.

Egli said she relinquished the iPod but asked if the thief would let her keep the penguin cover she made for the device. She said the man dropped the cover on the ground and left the scene.

“Everything in my iPod was in Japanese,” she said. “I was wondering, ‘What’s going to happen to it?’ “

Minneapolis police Lt. Amelia Huffman said no arrests have been made, but the robbery unit will handle the case, checking to see if it’s related to any other robberies in the area.

Marijuana prompts police

A party in a first-floor room of University Village got a little too rowdy late Friday night.

Andrew Kurpiewski, an ecology, evolution and behavior sophomore, the community adviser on duty at the time, said he received reports of a marijuana smell.

“We have to call police immediately,” he said. “We can’t touch it.”

Police arrived on the scene but couldn’t figure out which room the marijuana smell emanated from, said Steve Johnson, University police deputy chief.

Instead, they found a room full of about 40 people partying with the door wide open, he said.

Johnson said most of the people inside had beers and some of them were underage, so police tried to break up the party.

But someone from inside slammed the door in officers’ faces, Kurpiewski said.

An officer forced open the door and the partiers dispersed.

One woman who was “pretty drunk” returned and said she left her shoes in the room, Johnson said.

Officers told her to come back in the morning, he said, because several shoes had been abandoned and they did not want the woman stealing somebody else’s shoes.

She refused to leave and got into a scuffle with the officers. Eventually, she was subdued and arrested for minor consumption and obstruction, Johnson said.

One of the officers involved strained her Achilles tendon and will be off duty until it heals, he said.

Bulletin board burned

Someone set fire to a bulletin board on the pedestrian level of the Washington Avenue Bridge late Sunday.

Johnson said a person simply lit a brochure hanging on one of the boards in the sheltered portion of the bridge.

“It’s not an original idea,” he said. “It’s been done before.”

All the fliers on the board burned, Johnson said.

These types of fires are a part of why police are trying to install security cameras in the enclosed walkway, Johnson said.

The cameras would provide a virtual surveillance for safety in the area, he said.

Computer stolen

A computer was stolen from an office in Cooke Hall over the weekend.

Johnson said it was unclear whether the computer was personal property or owned by the University, but he said serial numbers led him to believe it was the University’s computer.

The serial numbers will be entered into the automated pawn system, which tracks stolen property, he said. If the computer is sold somewhere, the sale will alert the police.