Summer residents said they were disturbed by the incident.

"After the robbery I definitely made sure to have someone always walk me back ... to Mather every night," summer Mather resident Roxanna N. Curto '00 wrote in an e-mail message.

HUPD did not issue a community advisory about the incident until this Wednesday because of a problem with their e-mail distribution lists, according to HUPD spokesperson Peggy A. McNamara.

Students living in Mather said they were upset by the low publicity the crime received--some were unaware that a robbery had taken place until days after the incident.

"I was glad to see the posters," wrote Mather resident Brandon K. Walston '01 in an e-mail message. "However, I just wish that they'd been put up sooner--the day following the actual robbery rather than almost a week afterwards."

Eun Soo Kwak '02, campus coordinator for Project Heath, said that she felt the delay in warning students about the robbery was symptomatic of what she perceives as Harvard's generally neglectful attitude towards summer programs.

"The fact that they didn't tell us about the incident right away speaks to the general level of treatment that we get during the summer," she said.