In all, 40 to 50 percent of first-year rooms contained at least one item that was confiscated, said Kathleen A. Bray, Manager of Freshman Dormitories.
Bray said a moving company had to be hired to help with the inspections because of the large number of violations.
Only items in plain view were inspected, and Yard Operations only reported violations of fire safety regulations, administrators said.
Reema Rajbanshi '03, who was in her room during the inspection, said the inspectors did not spend much time in the rooms searching for illegal items.
"It was brief and painful," she said.
Nathans said students may retrieve their confiscated items at the end of the school year.
But while administrators said the searches were justified, first-year students expressed a variety of concerns about the room inspections.
Several students who were not present when their rooms were searched said they were not told how to retrieve their confiscated items, or even that anything was taken.
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