A Crack Course

BALTIMORE--Only an honors student in larceny might be able to pass the latest test at Johns Hopkins University--trying to crack a vintage safe for a $100 prize.

University officials don't know the combination of the lock and don't want to damage the safe, but would like to know what's been inside it since the 1920s or 1930s. Three weeks ago, university President Steven Muller offered $100 to any undergraduate who could open it.

Muller learned of the safe during a tour of the university's archaeological museum in the oldest building on campus, Gilman Hall, built in 1915.

Twelve students have signed up to try.