• Roughly 500 apples were stolen from university-owned trees sometime between Sept. 24 and Wednesday, MSU police report. The apples were taken from two trees and were of an "experimental nature," MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.The loss was valued at $1,000 and police are investigating the incident, McGlothian-Taylor said.• Two Central Michigan University students were killed after a vehicle traveling south on northbound U.S. 127 collided with their vehicle at about 3:15 a.m. Sunday, a DeWitt Township police release states.One student, a 19-year-old woman from Clinton Township, was pronounced dead at the scene by police officers. A second student, an 18-year-old from Flat Rock, was transported to Lansing's Sparrow Hospital and pronounced dead at 4:03 a.m. The other two passengers suffered minor injuries. The driver of the vehicle traveling south, a 22-year-old Lansing man, was also taken to Sparrow Hospital.Alcohol was a factor in the crash, which will be investigated by the DeWitt Township police.• An MSU crime statistics report was made available to students last week. The information includes all crimes, arrests or incidents reported by MSU police for 2002, 2003 and 2004. According to the report, forcible sexual offenses on campus went from 14 in 2003 to 28 in 2004, but MSU police Chief Jim Dunlap said that is misleading."We get some level of fluctuation, but the overall trend in the long-haul picture is that they're down," Dunlap said. "It's hard to look at two years and come up with a theory."In years previous to 2003, forcible sexual offenses were in the 20s."With sexual assaults, a lot of that has to do with victims reporting it," Dunlap said.The full report can be accessed at www.msu.edu/dig/safety.Margaret Harding