As the month dragged on, the burglar grew brazen. An encounter the following week with a member of the heavyweight crew team who wrestled him to the ground and whose roommate slammed him against the wall failed to deter the man, now dubbed "the Yard Burglar." A few days later, he began to enter students' rooms during the day.

After being spotted by a proctor in one Matthews room, the Yard Burglar turned back in and said, "See you later, guys," before sprinting down the hallway.

The hijinks couldn't last. On Oct. 22, three weeks into his crime spree, officers of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) arrested Andre K. Stuckey for hundreds of dollars worth of burglaries.

When he was released from jail in early December, Stuckey immediately returned to the Yard for a final round of burglaries--the proceeds from which paid for his trip to California. Lucky security officers at UCLA managed to apprehend him before a similar crime wave could begin.

Stuckey returned to Massachusetts in February, for good. He was ordered to serve out a two-year prison sentence, having violated nearly every provision of his probation.

The Yard Burglar proved that hospitality isn't dead in Harvard dorms. First-years unwittingly made Stuckey feel at home--until HUPD found a more fitting one.