Man steals cellphone from student at University of Maryland A cellphone was grabbed from a student outside the main library at the University of Maryland on Sunday in what appeared to be the first robbery on the campus this year. The student suffered a "slight scratch" on the face as the robber seized the phone outside McKeldin Library about 7:45 p.m., said Capt. Marc Limansky, a spokesman for the campus police. The student had been using the phone when the robber came up from behind. He may have asked her for directions, police said. The robber apparently fled the campus shortly after taking the cellphone. Police said they have examined video footage of a person matching the robber's description who had approached other students earlier Sunday and engaged them in conversation. The suspect was described as a black man about 18 to 20 years old, about 5-foot-5 with a thin to medium build. He was last seen wearing a light-green-and-black striped pull-over hooded shirt and dark pants, police said. Limansky said the robbery was the first on the campus this year. A robbery in November, in which a knife was used, was described by campus police at the time as the first armed robbery at U-Md. in a year. An arrest was made in that incident. In an apparently unrelated incident on the campus, a student was followed into her residence in Commons 4 about 2:40 a.m. Saturday, campus police said. She was grabbed around the shoulders by an assailant who then fled, campus police said. They said she was not harmed.