Word: rooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Incident: Tackled would-be robber in his dorm room in Thayer...
...hall, as well as a member of the Frisbee team that Rubin captains, the Matthews Fly-Bys. The team's first game was scheduled for 1 p.m. Rubin went to brunch and had a bagel and some water; he "wanted to keep it light." He went back to the room to change into shorts and a T-shirt, fill up a water bottle and walk over to the field with Stevens. As they were leaving, Stevens went to grab his Harvard I.D. card from his wallet but his wallet was gone. It had been in his desk in the common...
...Despite Stevens's complaint that "it's not much fun rummaging through a bathroom garbage pail," he did so admirably. And in the garbage can, he found his wallet 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...
...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 certain precautions...
...Rubin, who neglected to take the precaution of locking the door when he came in at night, says, "I felt a little guilty. I usually lock it. Must've forgotten. I'm just relieved not that much was taken, considering what we have in this [room]." Neither Gibson nor Stevens blames Rubin for his forgetfulness, noting that any of them could have left the door open. Gibson adds, "I don't blame Jake because I didn't lose anything." Stevens' father did find it a bit ironic that of the three roommates, it was the one from New York...