By Michael Naughton

The names of approximately 12 Northeastern students identified through pictures on the Public Safety Division’s Web site were given to the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR) Friday.

The students were identified through pictures taken during the night of the Super Bowl riots. The Public Safety Division requested anyone who recognized the individuals pictured in the photographs contact the Northeastern University Police Depart-ment.

Since the Web site first displayed the pictures, more than 1,000 inquiries were received through the site.

“[The responses have] slowed down,” said Associate Director of Public Safety James Ferrier. “Most came in within the first four or five days of the Web site’s announcement. [Thursday], there were still 2,000 inquiries on the Web site.”

The responses the Web site received led to the confirmation of about 12 students and the identification of about a half-dozen partial or full names that are in the process of being confirmed, Ferrier said.

The report filed on Friday is the second report from the Public Safety Division given to OSCCR. The first report concerned the first three Northeastern students arrested Sunday night and was turned into OSCCR immediately after the riots. The second report came almost two weeks after the incidents on Feb. 1.

“I think some level of caution is important to validate student identification,” said Student Government Assoc-iation President Michael Romano. “But I think the university needs to be significantly more public.”

The process by which OSCCR notifies students and holds hearings can take some time, but hearings for the students identified in the pictures are expected to begin before spring break.

“The Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution has begun to initiate disciplinary actions and will conduct separate hearings in each case,” said Vice President for Student Affairs Ed Klotzbier. “Some are going to be held before [spring break] and some are going to be held after.”

The students in the pictures will be held responsible for the six cars that were flipped on Symphony Road and the other destruction of property that occurred Feb. 1.

“I think they deserved [being identified],” said Jenn Rivard, a sophomore physical therapy major. “If they were afraid of being caught or were drunk, then that’s too bad, they got what they deserved.”

Several of the students who were referred to OSCCR will most likely be charged with disorderly conduct and malicious destruction of property, Ferrier said.

“There is also a strong likelihood for [charges] of theft for such things as hubcaps, license plates and stereo speakers,” Ferrier said.

The university hopes to move on with each individual hearing as quickly as possible.

“We want a speedy hearing process,” Klotzbier said. “It is a lot of work because of the process involved. Plus, [OSCCR is] dealing with all other matters from previous weekend incidents.”

University officials are looking to put the incidents after the Super Bowl on Feb. 1 behind them. Ferrier said he believes second guessing what went wrong that night is pointless.

“Second guessing the plan for Feb. 1 is not going to do us any good now. So [we] can now take on today and the future,” he said.