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...Yard." Other victims have taken "the University administration to task for not doing enough to make students aware of the security issues surrounding Matthews and other Yard dorms." However, it seems as though many of the burglary victims have forgotten the cardinal rule when it comes to preventing robberies: lock your doors, especially at night. Harvard oftentimes may seem like a bubble disconnected from the rest of the world, but is in reality easily accessible to the urban streets of Cambridge. Common sense dictates that if you live in a big city, you need to be more careful. A person...
While the problem is clear and needs to be solved, I believe that increasing security is not the answer. Indeed, the solution is much simpler. The burglars are not picking locks or busting down doors or climbing through windows. They are simply opening unlocked doors, entering and taking the most accessible and convenient stuff they can grab. There are no forced-entries. The only way Harvard is going to be able to solve its burglary problem is by changing the locks on the dorm doors to ones that automatically lock. This way, there will be no chance of someone forgetting...
...they can lead to a breakdown of the unique community we have in Harvard dorms. The only way that we can be certain that such suspicions do not exist is to be certain that there are no burglaries. The only way to do that is to change the locks to ones that self-lock...
...that there have been three dorm room robberies on campus, I am beginning to have serious doubts about the safety provisions at this university. The way I understand it, most students have doors that have to be locked with a key. This is totally unacceptable. Does the university know how much of a student's time this wastes each time he or she has to lock or unlock the door? Seven seconds on average, that's how long (I just timed it); and so if you leave your room 20 times in a day, we're talking on the scale...
...Locks are never going to solve this crime rash--no, plague--this crime plague that is sweeping campus. We have to go to the heart of the problem. The heart of the problem is that here near Boston, we are not in small-town Wisconsin. So I have a recommendation for us all: Let's move the whole University to small-town Wisconsin. That way we can all sleep soundly, regardless of whether or not we take the time to lock our doors...