Apprehensive-Hat-494 t1_izrg2mp wrote
I find it funny that a university would make such a show of using "the risks COVID-19 poses to our campus community" to justify or contextualize decisions after ending social restrictions in campus life. Like don't they know that college students regularly engage in activities where they are close to other students? Yes, it's not some SEC school, but still. Someone from Cambridge sitting at an MIT library table is much less likely to transmit COVID or any illness than people dancing at a rager.
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I'd also like to hear more about the "security enhancements." Is there an ongoing or new threat to MIT students from a security perspective that wasn't there before COVID or in the past generally? Massachusetts in general and Cambridge in particular don't have a ton of crime, and the public access hours will probably be sufficient security, no?
liltingly t1_izrzagw wrote
Flip side is the Korean tour busses would land hundreds of tourists on campus multiple times a day and clog up the infinite for students. “Dream Tours” was the biggest culprit. Also a girl got sexually assaulted in the tunnels and another in a classroom during my time as a student — both non students assaulted by non students.
Opposite_Match5303 t1_izs4htx wrote
There was also regular theft from non-students and former students- "fabio" was a primary culprit I recall
giritrobbins t1_izskjif wrote
As a Northeastern student theft was common, but the blotter always, "student left laptop unsecured in the library for thirty minutes to go get lunch." Like yeah it's going to get stolen, it's just sitting there.
Apprehensive-Hat-494 t1_izuff70 wrote
Well if you go around acting like you're in Singapore there will definitely be lots of thefts.
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