Buzzard Auditorium and the math department’s computer lab and diagnostics room, both located in Old Main, were found vandalized Sunday morning.

Adam Due, University Police Department’s chief public safety officer, said he suspects the damage occurred to both buildings late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, but police do not know if the incidents are related yet.

A group preparing to use the room for a presentation discovered the damage to Buzzard Auditorium at 8 a.m. Sunday morning, Due said. A fire extinguisher had been dispensed and sprayed in the room, a computer monitor and a keyboard were damaged, two central processing units were destroyed and an 8-foot folding table was broken.

A fire extinguisher was also dispensed in the math department computer lab and diagnostics room in Old Main 3041. Nichole Mismer, a graduate assistant, discovered damage to the computer lab at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Nancy Van Cleave, a math and technology professor said Monday.

In addition to spraying a fire extinguisher, the vandals knocked books onto the floor in a connecting hallway and wrote on the walls with dry erase markers, said Van Cleave.

“People were (at the computer lab) cleaning and did an excellent job,” she said. “The marks on the wall came right off.”

Damage to the rooms has not been estimated yet, but Due said he suspects the damage to Buzzard will cost much more then damage to math department computer lab.

“There’s a lot less damage there than what happened at Buzzard,” he said.

Earlier this year, a slumping Illinois economy forced $2.3 million in state cuts to Eastern’s operating budget. For the callback, $750,000 was drained from an $800,000 equipment replacement reserve fund. The cuts also wiped out a $50,000 micro-computer fund.

Due said both buildings are locked up in the evening, but employees have access to them after hours. Because there was no forced entry, police suspect the vandals entered through a door that was either left open or not shut tight enough.

After the vandals entered Old Main, Due said they used a key to enter the math department computer lab.

He did not know how the vandals entered the Buzzard Auditorium.

Due said there were people in the buildings about the same time police believe the vandals broke into the auditorium.

“We are interviewing people to see if they saw or heard anything,” he said.

As the investigation continues, Due said police will be monitoring buildings on campus more often.