Student discovers intruder in Swing
At 12:30 a.m. Saturday morning, Hayley Carpenter ’11 returned to her Swing Space suite from Thanksgiving break to find that an intruder had moved into her room. Yet despite a buildingwide search, the Yale Police Department was unable to find the trespasser.
Carpenter was with her mother, having just come back from her home in New York, when she entered Swing Space to see vulgarities — “and other juvenile things,” she added — written on the white boards and walls of the third floor.
“At that point I knew something was weird,” she said.
Carpenter had cleaned her...
It would also help if the university installed locks on our room doors in addition to the suite doors. Although I may always lock are suite door, there is no guarantee that my other suitemates will remember to lock the door when they leave too. This puts my possessions at risk because of someone else. Completely unfair and stupid of the university.
Also, room locks would prevent your suitemates from "borrowing without returning," God forbid I accuse of them stealing.
Alternatively, student safes in each room or locks on our wardrobes would also work, especially in the case of doubles. Most universities are equipped with these. I don't understand why Yale is so lax about personal security. Yes, it encourages trust, but it also makes stealing extremely easy.
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Maybe if you told them students can lock their rooms at HAHHVARD they'd hustle to match. This is how we got a better financial aid program - and indeed, this is how we finally got 2-ply toilet paper!
Re: #2-- "I may always lock are suite door"? Aaaagh.
Dear H (#2)-
Why are you living with people you think would steal from you? You can choose your suitemates, you know.
I cannot wait for the day when Chief Perrotti sends us an email about a robber sent to the hospital in critical condition. Maybe then will people learn.
#6,
It's not that you think the people you live would steal from you. It's that they might leave the door open when the go to the bathroom or to a friend's room or to class or something, which means other people could steal your stuff.
Dear #8-
I was responding to the following from H (#2)'s post: "Also, room locks would prevent your suitemates from "borrowing without returning," God forbid I accuse of them stealing." I understand the concerns about leaving the suite door unlocked. But wanting room locks so your suitemates won't steal stuff is different.
#4: YOU scored 2-ply?! Oh, man, I am SO (apologies in advance for the following prejudicial and ignorantly bigoted term) gypped!
Web cams are good, btw... So is pepper spray (esp. in Ne'HAYven).
"I may always lock are suite door"
:'( why??
Maybe the inhabitant phoned the police as a bold young lady was pushing in the door. The Police whisked the man with the hand away to safety.Wanted posters of an artists rendition of what the girl will look like in ten years will be posted in Liquor stores.
I apologize for the grammatical error. It should say "our." You can't choose your suitemates freshman year. Also not everyone is lucky enough to room with everyone they want because there are so many different suite configurations. In addition many suites get transfer students from other residential colleges as well as transfers from other universities.
In addition you can be friends with someone who you only realize makes a horrible suitemate AFTER living with them.
@H:
Sounds like you got burned by room draw.
#14...
Who said I was talking about myself? Besides, I did get the best room in the draw. =)
And there is no such thing as an SAC president... it's SAC chair. And the SAC doesn't handle rooming anyways...
I'm just pointing out it wouldn't hurt to have two levels of room security.
"It would also help if the university installed locks on our room doors in addition to the suite doors."
Swing Space does, actually, have locks on room doors--they're a little different than most because the switch is on the edge of the door. Most people don't keep them in the lock-automatically position, though, because since you don't need a key to manually lock/unlock them, it's easy to get locked out.
You are smart enough to be accepted to an attend an Ivy League university, but dumb enough to NOT lock your door? Please turn your boot upside down and read the instructions on the heel. This will aid in the removal of urine which has been building up within.