<p>is there much dorm theft with roomies/ visitors????</p>
<p>also, any suggestions as to what should be put away and what can be left out??</p>
<p>Use common sense. ex. don't leave your wallet out. </p>
<p>But don't be a loser and like put your laptop in a safe everyday. That just wastes time, and it's stupid because a laptop lock died to your desk is good enough.</p>
<p>There isn't much dorm theft with roomies and visitor, and I would hope that your room isn't just open to anyone. Have some discretion with who you let in. duh. ie, if someone has the nickname "sticky fingers mcgee", and spent 2 years in juvie, it's probably a bad idea to let him in =P</p>
<p>Roommates generally don't steal stuff (unless it's food), but if you find your stuff missing and they're the only one who could've done it, then report them and you'll most likely get a new roommate and they'll get either probation or kicked out of the dorms (if they find them to be guilty of the thefts). You should use discretion on who you (and your roommate) invites in the room. If it's people you barely know, and just met yesterday, don't leave the room while they're still in it. Obviously, if it's a best friend from high school or something, you should know whether or not your friend has klepto tendencies by then...</p>
<p>Try not to bring anything that you can't afford to lose. Check with parents homeowner's policy to see if coverage extends to dorm rooms. Alot of policies have this feature. Keep easy to pick up stuff (wallets, cash, coin) out of plain sight. Burn CD copies and leave orginals at home.</p>
<p>yeah-- with stuff like jewelry or a wallet or something nice, leave it in a drawer. i don't find the need to lock it up, but keeping it completely out of sight (under stuff in a drawer) always seems to work.</p>
<p>any small electronics are easily stolen -- stuff like CD players, CDs, ipods, lecture recorders, nice looking alarm clocks with extra options, etc. -- basically any small items that look nice/new and can either be easily used or easily sold -- not to mention a laptop if you will have one -- in this respect it is best to bring something heavy and ugly-looking or old -- also people sometimes bring new things to cook their food, like rice cookers or coffee machines, leave them in the kitchen and then these go missing -- it is best to bring something scratched and used</p>
<p>and it is not just your roommates and whoever they bring -- sometimes there are various random people roaming places on campus -- in dorms, it is likely to be someone young who looks like a student -- this person may visit your room for example if you're taking a shower and it is left open -- for other buildings it may be someone older who looks like a professor or staff -- just last quarter they caught someone in the place where i worked -- so if you're going to be working in an office or a lab, make sure to never leave your things out on the open</p>
<p>also, nice pieces of clothing have been known to disappear from laundy -- no one will go for bedsheets, but nice t-shirts and jeans do get stolen -- so while it is a drag to sit in when your clothes is drying, if you notice anything missing, you may have to start doing that</p>
<p>Well my sister goes to one of America's top 5 colleges, and I just asked her about it. She said that if you go to a fairly expensive, good school, people generally don't find the need to steal (they're well-off already). </p>
<p>But you never know, a person could have a disease where they're addicted to stealing, even if they don't need the objects.</p>
<p>Just be careful not to leave valuables lying around.</p>
<p>a friend of mine bought a 32 inch lcd tv with scholarship money and wants to take it to his dorm this fall. i told him it would get stolen but he says its too big to steal and that it wont be a problem. im not sure, what do you guys think?</p>
<p>the tv could get taken by dorm mates or a frat as a prank, especially if your friend has an <em>attitude</em> about letting others watch tv. it should be ok, though, as long as he keeps his dorm room locked at all times.</p>
<p>If people are scared of you then they will never think of stealing something from you.</p>
<p>People know not to mess with me, and I have never had anything taken. Im just in reality a really really mean person. Its how I am and its how I choose to be. I like not being liked by the majority. On the bus people dont sit next to me, they dont let there kids sit next to me, and its really great.</p>
<p>as to the stealing, people will steal from you if they know you wont do anything. This is why out of towners get mugged all the time In NYC, because well people from the rest of the USA and soft and dont know how to defend themselves. If you get something stolen and your first thoght is to call the police then you cant defend yourself.</p>
<p>if somebody was to dare steal something from me, I would break there arms, Its something not to bad as Ive done it before to the guy who has stolen my brother bike when he was 9.</p>
<p>i love how all these threads are about how to make sure your roommate/friends don't steal *<strong><em>. These are not the people you have to worry about. The only thefts that I know of were random people got into the dorms, and they would go around trying to find empty, unlocked rooms, and then take whatever they could from there. I never heard a single "dude, i think my roomie stole my_<strong><em>" or "dude, i think so and so from down the hall stole my _</em></strong>__" What is more likely to happen is 5 ipods are gone one night, and someone said they saw two guys in the hall they didn't recognize. I mean I feel like other than practical sense precuations (liking putting valuable *</em></strong> away) if you bring like a safe, and make a point of hiding all your *<strong><em>, I, as your roommate would be offended. Do you think i'm that much of a lesser person than you that I'm going to steal your *</em></strong>? Give me a break. How would you appreciate your roommate treating you like a convicted felon when it comes to his/her valuables?</p>
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<p>your right most of the thedts in my dorm last year were from random people who didnt even attaned my school. They just got into the dorm and went around checking for open rooms</p>
<p>So.. how easy is it to get on campus if you're not related to the college? Ie student, faculty, staff, etc. I live overseas so I've got no idea, but at my high school there were walls around the whole campus and security guards patrolling, so it wasn't the easiest thing to get in.</p>
<p>This is college, there are no walls. Dorms usually have some security measures at their entrances, but they're not exactly fool proof, and living off campus you're on your own.</p>
<p>Like has been said, it's not really your roommate or your friends you have to worry about stealing your stuff (unless you live in a sorority house apparently, like what happened to my friend, but I digress). I mean, where exactly is your roommate gonna go with your stuff? "I just jacked his Ipod, and I'm gonna hide.... on the other side of the room!" It's all these random fools who will take stuff, especially in a party type situation.</p>
<p>Basically, use your common sense about it. Usually showing deterrent is enough to keep things from getting jacked. Any real criminal could break a laptop lock in a second, but for your average petty thief, it's just too much work when someone else left their laptop unattended in the lounge anyway. Things that can be picked up and easily moved are likely targets. No one is gonna be able to just walk out with your nice 32 inch plasma screen TV. How would you explain that to the front desk? "I'm moving this large and delicate da Vinci painting from out of my room, and it needs to be covered to protect it from the elements" Your ipod and your DVDs? Now that's a different story. Those are things you just keep out of plain sight if you don't want it stolen. No one is going to search through your closet for that copy of "2 Fast 2 Furious" on DVD. For truly valuble things, you could invest in a small safe or lock box, but these tend to be things you should probably leave at home in the first place. But still, a small locker isn't a terrible idea.</p>
<p>Really though, the best thing you can do is to keep track of everyone who is in your room at all times and make sure the door is locked whenever no one is in the room.</p>
<p>Yeah, there aren't walls around the campus or anything. When I was in high school, we drove through my college's campus all the time when we were in town (checking out the hot guys and stuff, you know how it is). However, the dorms are pretty tough to get into on my campus, at leas for people who don't know anyone that lives there. A resident has to scan their ID for you to get in the door, unless it's 5pm-12am, in which the doors are open but then there are desk assistants who keep track of who's coming and going. Obviously, there are backdoors in which to sneak in but the one in my dorm last year was painfully obvious and very visible from the other dorms nearby (the fire exit).</p>
<p>at most dorms, it will just be a card reader or something, and often times, most people can only swipe into their own dorm, thus, when you are going to visit a friend, you often have to wait in front of the dorm for your friend to come down. What often happens is that someone else will want to go into the dorm before your friend gets down, and so when they swipe, you just walk in. This is how random people get in to dorms. They wait for someone to come, and follow them in.</p>
<p>This is my theft deterrent</p>
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<p>If a dorm entrance is secured, people will just wait by a door and try to walk in as someone exits the building.</p>
<p>Most colleges in the USA, especially public schools, are wide open and encourage visitors. Anyone can walk on campus, though driving and parking may be restricted. A few, really small schools in high crime areas may be fenced in.</p>
<p>Many classroom buildings, libraries, eateries and student unions are accessible to anyone during normal business/lecture/lab hours.</p>
<p>I used to live 6 miles from UC Berkeley and it was a blast to just go on campus and hang out, when I was in high school. There was always something happening.</p>
<p>Be careful! Yes, they can steal a 32" TV. They just took my son’s. My son just went back to Rider (NJ) from Easter break and his room was burgled. They got his 32" flat panel TV that he just got for XMAS, his playstation 3 and alot of his games. He knows his room was locked, he was the last one out. His roommate got back first and said it was gone when he got back. So don’t be lulled into thinking your stuff is safe even if you have a locked room. We just found out the hard way it is not.</p>