Lawton said last week that if he received such a request "the first thing" he would do would be to "get on the telephone and call Dan Steiner."
Florence Pike '80, a Currier House resident, said she complained to a tutor after she returned from classes Wednesday and found a notice on her refrigerator threatening repossession by HSA.
"I got it as a birthday present on September 24," she said yesterday. "I still have the receipt."
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said yesterday he had received one complaint about the searches Wednesday but had not had time to investigate. Dean Fox also said he had not had time to learn the facts of the case.
Del Vecchio attributed the tagging of privately-owned refrigerators in Currier House to an "overzealous" employee of HSA.
The employee could not be reached for comment