A burglary that took place last month still has some Martha Cook residents feeling a bit less comfortable in their tightly-knit dorm than before.

On the morning of March 9, at about 3:30 a.m., a large portrait of the dorm's namesake and a few smaller items were stolen from the building. Two days before that, a window was found broken, but nothing turned up missing.

Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Diane Brown said University police are currently investigating the incident.

In an e-mail sent to Martha Cook residents on March 27, Marion Scher, the building's director, said the painting had been found in the possession of some affiliated with the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity's University of Wisconsin chapter in Madison, Wisconsin.

Scher said in the e-mail that the Ann Arbor Police Department and the Madison Police Department were working together on the case.

Taj Grewal, the president of Alpha Delta Phi's chapter at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, declined to comment on the allegations.

Jose Nunez, president of the University of Michigan's Interfraternity Council said he believed that visiting members of the fraternity were responsible for the theft.

Nunez said he didn't think members of Michigan's Alpha Delta Phi chapter were involved in the burglary. He said the University's chapter is cooperating with the investigation.

LSA freshman Erin Donker, a Martha Cook resident, said the burglaries have put members of the small, all-female community on edge.

School of Nursing freshman Daniela Bravo Corona, who also lives there, said it hasn't always been that way.

"We are all girls here, and we all trust each other," she said. "We don't have a keypad to each door, and we have regular doors which most girls keep open."

Corona said the incident caught residents of the 150-resident dorm off guard.

"I thought it was very secure," Corona said. "We just had cameras put in and saw DPS around setting up cameras. Then this happens. I was not expecting something like this."

Donker said she thought Martha Cook was targeted because it is an all-female dormitory and residents there have a reputation on campus for being more conservative than typical students.

Corona said many residents feel like the burglary disrespected the dorm's history.

The Building is named after donor William Cook's mother. When Cook donated the money for the building in 1915, Cook envisioned that the brick dormitory on South University Avenue would be, "more than a place in which to live."

"We still talk about this and a lot of the girls are still really upset," she said. "Once people took the painting, it was a symbol of the building and they took it away from us and they destroyed it. They had no right to do this."