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...Rubin was awake and using his laptop computer at his desk when Stevens returned to the common room and asked Rubin if his hat was in the bathroom garbage. As Matthew D. Gibson '03, the third roommate, remembers, "Jake was like, 'No, it's right on my desk.'" But when Rubin checked his desk, he saw his hat wasn't where he left it. "We thought it was a prank," Gibson says. Rubin recalls: "I was very perplexed, to say the least, because at that time we hadn't realized anything else was stolen. We thought someone had broken...
...This was in the thick of the baseball playoffs, and preliminary suspects, Rubin jokes, included any Red Sox fans in the vicinity. Gibson says "We thought it was just a little bit creepy that someone had gotten into the room, but it was more like, 'Oh, shit, Jake can never wear his hat again because it's been sitting in the garbage can.'" At this point Rubin realized he probably had neglected to lock the door the night before...
...with its contents strewn around the barrel along with a pair of shoes from another room. (Earlier that morning, 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...
...HUPD sent an officer over to talk with Stevens and Gibson. He took their names down and wrote what was stolen. As Gibson recalls, "it didn't seem like there was much he could do." Stevens, who hails from nearby Braintree is a New England Patriots fan and was anxious to watch their game that afternoon. "I was willing to miss the first hour for the Fly-Bys. I ended up missing it anyway, dealing with the police." The Patriots 19-7 win over Cleveland offered some consolation to Stevens...
...Looking back on the robbery, the roommates have different perspectives. Stevens, the hardest hit of the trio, was the most affected by the robbery: "It's nothing I would expect to have happen, especially here. To have it happen in the first month of school, it jars you." Gibson says he "felt vulnerable for three days afterward" but doesn't any longer. Rubin, a native New Yorker, was the least affected of the three. "It is a little unsettling to think that someone was in our room while we slept, but I still feel safe so long as we take...