Word: keying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks have elapsed since the year's first reported dormitory burglary. On Oct. 3, Matthews Hall residents in at least two separate suites neglected to lock their doors at night. A burglar savvy enough to advance passed the dormitory's strictest form of security against Harvard-unaffiliated intruders--the key card machine--invited himself into the students' rooms, and unfortunately, into their wallets. Last week, a first-year returned to his Thayer dorm room at 4 a.m. and found himself face-to-face with an intruder in his common room. Thankfully, the first-year was a member of the College...
...while the burden of preventing burglaries lies, and should lie, on the students themselves, the University could make one sensible and essential adjustment in Harvard's security system: universal key-card access. Still unknown is how the burglars entered the Thayer and Mathews dormitories in the first place. But had there been universal key-card access, it is possible the thief would have never been swiped into a dormitory building, and granted entrance into the rooms of the unsuspecting, and somewhat nave, first-years...
...this machine is downshifting for a more low-key fundraising effort aimed at helping out areas neglected in the campaign and other, new initiatives...
...personal efforts of Harvard's top officials have been key in the campaign, according to most people involved...
...been shy about fundraising," Fineberg says. "He has played a key role in the vast majority of these major gifts...