"He was always very cordial and friendly," Marna Schutte '01 said. "I got a good impression for him because he was always studying."
Allen was taking classes and working toward a high-school equivalency degree.
Despite hearing of the charges, many students empathized with Allen, who worked multiple jobs.
"I'm going to miss him," Kiana C. Foster '02 said.
SSI guards have become a fixture on campus this school year as Harvard's old proprietary guard force is phased out. The new white-uniformed guards are now stationed in most undergraduate Houses and other College buildings.
Harvard began using SSI to provide security at the College last summer, saying the new guard force would be larger and better trained.
A Crimson article last fall pointed to a variety of shortcomings with the new guards, including poor training.
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