<p>I will be going to Columbia next year and I was wondering if theft is an issue. I was thinking of maybe bringing a small electric piano or a game console but I will be living in Carman which, as far as I know, is very open as people tend to leave the doors open to socialize, mingle etc.</p>
<p>Hi, as long as you lock your door when you leave your room, your valuables are fine. This is the same for any college in the United States. Residence Halls have 24 hour security so you can’t gain access unless you live in the hall or are a guest signed-in by another resident.</p>
<p>Unless your floormates are untrustworthy or NYU students (or GS) then you’re fine.</p>
<p>Material possessions should be okay (haha, what do you expect, just some scawweee city dweller waltzing into dorms?)</p>
<p>But your eternal soul? If you still have it, that might be stolen.</p>
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<p>Fellow students don’t steal your stuff, but there are plenty of staff types who have access to the buildings and they probably can’t all be trusted.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the responses. I was just worried because I saw NYU’s crime report, and it seems they have quite a bit of theft over there. I guess Columbia is different lol</p>
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<p>Good point. John Jay workers beware.</p>
<p>Columbia stole my soul.</p>
<p>No, but seriously . . .</p>
<p>Thefts do happen. Just last week a few laptops were stolen out of people’s unlocked rooms, presumably by a fellow student. Moral of the story: lock your door when you’re not around. If you do that, then you shouldn’t have to worry.</p>
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<p>Why presumably by a fellow student? Why not presumably by a CU staffer with access to the dorms? It’s far less likely that CU students are in peddling laptops on the black market.</p>
<p>There was a follow-up on Bwog about it. It was a student.</p>
<p>I think they already figured out it was a student… [Bwog</a> Laptop Thief Found?](<a href=“http://bwog.net/2010/04/09/laptop-thief-found]Bwog”>http://bwog.net/2010/04/09/laptop-thief-found)</p>