An armed robbery Sunday night at approximately 7:20 p.m. makes for the fifth on-campus robbery this year, according to Sgt. Jon Barnwell of Campus Police.

Weldon Miller, a graduate student, was shown a silver handgun, then forced to hand over his wallet near the A building of E.S. King Village. After complying, the suspects disappeared.

This is the first robbery to happen outside of the early morning hours, however. Barnwell said the other on campus robberies this year occurred between 1:45 a.m. and 3 a.m.

“Unfortunately, on a college campus, we have people that feel the need to be out on campus at that time,” Barnwell said. “A college campus is sensitive to that type of activity.”

And although the amount of robberies on campus have increased from the three last year, Barnwell said that number is still about five less than the University average, and far from the highest year, which ranged between nine and 12.

This most recent robbery is similar to one that occurred Sunday night in the nearby Method area carried out by perpetrators with similar suspect descriptions. Barnwell said Campus Police is working with Raleigh Police to determine whether or not the two incidents are related.

The e-mail was sent about 7:23 a.m. Monday, and Barnwell said that’s because Campus Police wanted to be sure they had all the right information before sending it out to the students.

“We wanted to get all the information together,” he said. “If we sent out wrong information early, what good is that going to do for you?”

Some students didn’t receive the e-mail at all, however. A technical glitch within four of the e-mail servers caused the problem, according to Dean Irving, shift supervisor with operations for the campus Information Technology division. He said IT has discovered the problem and is working on getting everything back on track.

According to Irving, each member of the University community when assigned an e-mail account, is assigned to a particular server. That server is then responsible for sending mail to the N.C. State account.

There are multiple servers so that the load is spread out over different machines.

“They are basically in the process of restarting the distribution process for those four e-mail servers,” Irving said. “Hopefully, the message will be out to everyone who hasn’t already received it soon.”