A university vehicle had about $1,000 worth of damage done to it sometime between last Thursday night and Friday morning, University Police said.

A 1988 Dodge Omni sedan, owned by NIU, was parked in the upper part of lot 16, behind the Stevens Building. Police got a call at about 7:30 a.m. Friday from a citizen who reported he saw the car badly damaged.

When the UPs arrived on the scene, they found that someone had thrown a cinder block through the car’s windshield, scratching the hood. The mirror on the driver’s side of the car was broken off and all four tires were slashed on the side walls.

Damage estimates total $1,000 said Bill Finucane, manager of NIU Transportation Department.

Finucane said the Health Service Laboratory rents the car from the Transportation Department on a permanent basis for its own purposes.

He said the car was parked in a legal parking space and it is normally parked there on a daily basis.

UP Sgt. Skip Taylor said the damage must have happened sometime between 4:30 p.m. Thursday, when the laboratory workers went home for the day, and 7:30 a.m., when the police were called.

Taylor said there are no suspects or motives for the damage. An investigation is pending.