Police say laptop users at Northeastern can rest a little easier
By adamg - 2/11/10 - 8:48 am
The Huntington News reports Northeastern University Police plan to charge a Wilmington man with some 50 laptop thefts over the past year. Dude would steal laptops out of lockers at the law school and from classrooms, then sell the purloined computers at other schools.
The arrest is already paying results. The News also reports a student who left a backpack containing his laptop, some clothes and a bottle of water in the library returned a few minutes later to find it missing. The backpack was recovered the next day - with the laptop still in it it, but the clothes and water bottle gone (several other students, however, were not so lucky).
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Students will never learn
When will the NU population figure out it's a bad idea to leave their laptops, backpacks and anything of value unattended in the library? The crimelog in the NU News/Huntington News has been peppered with these thefts since I attended the school over a decade ago.
Snowflakes
Are conditioned to think he world revolves around them. No one would ever do something like that to them. And even if they did, Mommy and Daddy have deep pockets and will buy them a new one.
Hell, you still have people leaving laptops, GPS system, wallets, ipods and $1000 handbags along streets in the SE/BB who then get upset when someone smashes and grabs em. Little snowflakes grow up to adult snowflakes.
Yeah, but
Snowflakes grow up.
is Snell Library open to the public?
It was a decade ago when I last used it (before laptops were common), but I don't know if it still is.
It's not supposed to be, but
It's not supposed to be, but all we have to do to get in is very briefly flash a student ID so I could see it not being the most secure method.
Snell is open to the public
Non-students, professors, or alumni without Husky Cards are required to "sign in" at the circulation desk. Anyone with a photo id has access to Snell Library.
This didn't take place at Snell -
It took place at the law school library, which is at 400 Huntington Avenue, across from the Qdoba. There is no security whatsoever at the law school. Why should there be? It only costs $65,000 a YEAR to go there; that's certainly not enough to provide a modicum of safety (or a functioning career services office). However, the law school locker room is infamous for hosting a variety of rodents and cockroaches.
The NU crime log that is linked here
mentions "Snell Library" four times and "the library" two other times.
Break-ins
Yeah the problems for the law school have mostly been locker break-ins, they require an ID to get into the Library now. The thief cuts the locks off, but mostly books have been stolen since people don't leave their laptop in their locker. The school has at least put some cameras in and stuff in the locker room, although ther thefts still occur.
Also, tuition is $39k, where are you getting 65?
Tuition =/= cost
http://www.northeastern.edu/law/financial-aid/budgeting/expenses.html
Upper-level student budget: $65,032. Unless you can make it through the year homeless without eating, you will owe more than the amount of your tuition.
In my pre-renovation days, there was no security for the law library. I believe the administration said it would be "demeaning to the community" to have a guard.
More likely demeaning to
More likely demeaning to their fat profit margin, eh?