DeKALB | Michael Sunderman, freshman biology major, lost his room key on the circle left Huskie bus.

“I called the Huskie Line immediately after I got off the bus,” Sunderman said. “The operator at the Huskie Line then found out exactly which bus I had been on and radioed the driver.”

Items left on the Huskie Bus Line are not necessarily lost forever.

“If a student calls in their item missing immediately after they discover its absence, the Huskie Line has about a 95 percent chance of getting that belonging back,” said junior Marcus Cox, a bus line employee. “The more days a student waits to report the lost item, the likelihood of retrieval lessens”.

The operator told Sunderman where the bus would stop next, and Sunderman raced after it and got his key back.

“The most useful information the student can provide is the specific number of the bus they lost their belonging on,” Cox said.

Not everything is so easily recovered. Expensive items such as newer phones, iPods and cash are rarely returned, Cox said.

NIU Police Sgt. Alan Smith suggested after checking with Huskie Bus personnel, the next step would be checking with the police to see if the item was found and file a missing report on the item. Smith also mentioned the police’s online lost and found. Many of the items posted on the website are never even looked at, Smith said.

Smith warns against posting any reward signs around campus, as they would attract as much positive attention as it would people looking to take advantage of the situation.