[PRL] do not prop the door to WVH 308 open. ever.

[Stephen Chang]

Sometimes the lock pops out by itself. This has happened to me twice.
Both times were when I was leaving and I opened the door from the
inside. Both times, I only noticed because I didnt hear the door shut
properly so I came back and investigated. Has this happened to anyone
else?



On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Felix S Klock II <pnkfelix at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> PRL-
>
> Its a new year, and it seems like its time for me to make my yearly
> plea (see subject line).
>
> Eli Barzilay mentioned to me this morning that he found the door to
> WVH 308 propped open [1] when he was in the lab late last night (circa
> 1am).
>
> This is a security hazard in two important ways ways:
>
>   (1.) someone can come in and steal equipment while the door is
> propped open (e.g. some people leave their laptops in the lab
> overnight [2]).
>
>   (2.) when the deadbolt is propped in this manner and strikes
> against the edge of the door frame, it *DAMAGES* the lock mechanism,
> eventually to the point where the door *NEVER* *LOCKS*, which means
> that we've lost all security for WVH 308 at all times, regardless of
> whether the door is propped or not.
>
> We have already had an instance of the event described in (2.) above.
>
> (Please do not e-mail me back with hypotheses about whether it is the
> cleaning crew propping the door open as opposed to members of PRL,
> unless you have hard evidence; the message needs to get out to the
> junior members of PRL regardless of whether they are the culprits from
> last night or not.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Felix
>
> [1] (By "propped open", I mean that the deadbolt was pushed out so
> that the door would not shut and thus the lock would not engage.)
>
> [2] If you do choose to leave a laptop in the lab unattended, it is
> probably best to secure it via a laptop lock, which you can buy at
> most computer hardware stores.  SamTH or I can show you an example of
> such a lock if you do not know what I am referring to.
>
>
>
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