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Some of the statements Albert Hsia made in the article "More Security, Not Vigilance" (Dec. 13) are almost laughable if you look at them closely. As an undergraduate and a Harvard student security guard, I agree that Harvard's security system leaves much to be desired. However, students do indeed bear some of the responsibility for security...
...first issue that I would like to take up is letting people into entryways. Mr. Hsia states that "previously reported intruders have been better dressed than most of us." In the same breath, he states that "most of us already rely on our good sense when we let people into the dorms." He also brings up last October's incident in Hollis, in which a well dressed intruder was let into the entryway, and then entered an unlocked student room...
...Henry H. Hsia '90, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones, also said that the increase would lessen his group's profits, but that, like the Glee Club, his group could not find another space that would be adequate for them. The added costs, he said, were "sort of like someone raising the rent of your house--you've still gotta live somewhere...
...freshman year we were staying up late talking about all sorts of stuff," he says. One morning, conversation turned to philosophy: "the Heisenberg randomness principle, how it related to people's fate and religion and other metaphysical stuff," Hsia recollects. To himself, Hsia says, the notion of life's dependence on random chance posed no dilemma. But for the Catholic, intellectually committed Ocasio, the idea his actions might have no effect was unacceptable...
...Hsia also has his own image of Ocasio, againstemming from a late-night conversation, he says."We spent a whole night working out thedominance-hierarchy of Bugs Bunny and all hisfriends," Hsia recalls, not without warmth."Wendell loves Bugs Bunny...