Security Concerns
"First-years...come - and rightly so - with the assumption that they will be safe sleeping in their beds at night," Berkow wrote in the editorial. "Clearly, this assumption is wrong."
Berkow's opinion is spreading in Matthews, where students expressed anger about the break-ins yesterday.
Several victims said they have asked for self-locking locks on their doors.
"I'd rather be locked out than risk having my door open to the world," said Corrigan's roommate, Eileen M. Walker '03.
Students in Matthews said police told them that plainclothes officers might begin patrolling the hallways of the dorm in the future.
Chief Francis "Bud" Riley said thieves are aware of the special vulnerabilities that the beginning of the school year presents.
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