Word: cards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rubin had noticed the sneakers in the trash, but thought little of it, thinking just that they were somebody's "old kicks.") At the bottom of the barrel, Stevens found Gibson's backpack with his TI-86 calculator and history of the USSR notebook. Stevens' Harvard I.D., his debit card and all his cash--about $20--were taken from his wallet. Why didn't the robber also take Gibson's calculator? Gibson theorizes that the burglar didn't take his calculator, or the three laptops, or Stevens's stereo or television, all in the common room, because the robber "didn...
...Stevens told his proctor about the theft and then called Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and his debit card company. Trying to cancel his debit card, Stevens recalls, took forever. It was a Sunday, so banks were closed, and Stevens had to call an automated 1-800 number. "I would listen to all the menu choices, and none of them sounded like the right one, so I'd just pick one, and it would be wrong and I'd have to call again." Stevens ended up calling the company five times...
...raining. When Rubin went to get his rain shoes, he saw they were missing. He remembered he had left them by the door to dry. Says Rubin, "We think the robber has a size 11 shoe." For Stevens, "The real pain was having to get the new I.D. card. [The I.D. people told me] I had to have the police report with me, so I had to walk out to HUPD, which is all the way out near the Quad" in the rain. Stevens' troubles continued once he reached the station. "My name was misspelled on the report, and then...
...Stevens was frustrated by the bureaucracy he had to navigate to get a new I.D. card, but otherwise had no problems with the University's handling of the affair. Gibson says that the biggest fault on the school's part is not having doors that automatically lock, especially in robbery-plagued Matthews Hall. "It would be a relatively minor expense that would save a lot of kids a lot of grief," he says. All three roommates said their proctor had made it clear that there were robberies and that they should lock their doors...
Psychology Professor Richard J. McNally was surprised to learn that the lectures for his introductory psychology course share a Web site with an advertisement for the Discover card...