Three weeks ago, Angela Vo, music industry junior, was sitting in the library studying for midterms when her friends pointed out an older man watching pornography on a nearby computer.

 “We all just turned around and he was blatantly watching porn,” Vo said.

Vo decided to pull out her camera and make a video of the man watching porn and post it on YouTube. The video was taken down shortly afterwards after being flagged as inappropriate, but that was not the last she heard of him.

Throughout the weeks, Vo began seeing Facebook status updates from friends who were posting that they had seen the man return to use the computers to watch pornography.

On Monday, March 14, Loyola University Police Department came to escort the same man who appeared on Vo’s video off campus.

According to Roger Pinac, captain of Loyola University Police, the man, whose name could not be released, was not a member of the Loyola community.

“The officers responded to a complaint from the library staff,” Pinac said.

English writing freshman Kylee Mclntyre was at a nearby computer when the man was being escorted out of the library. Although Mclntyre had not seen the man before, two friends said they had seen the same man masturbating on the second floor of the library on another day.

“I was at the computer, not really noticing anything. I had thought that the guy’s age was interesting when I sat down, but I didn’t think too much of it. Then the two officers came up behind him and were like, ‘Sir, please take your hand off the mouse and place it on the table beside you,'” Mclntyre said. “They told him they needed to take a walk and walked out.”

Pinac also said LUPD had been receiving similar complaints prior to escorting the man off campus. Though they believe him to be the same man who they escorted off, they were not able to identify him the first time they received a complaint.

“It would have been nice if someone called us. We weren’t notified until after the guy left,” Pinac said.

Although Monroe Library is public, it is still on private property, meaning the university is allowed to ask someone to leave the building at their discretion.

Angie Hernandez can be reached at [email protected]