Protect Your Bag

    The South Dinning Hall at Kutztown University forces students to leave their backpacks outside of the dining hall. They claim that they are experiencing food theft because students put food into their backpacks and take it back to their dorm. I understand that something has to be done to stop the stealing inside the dinning hall, but I do not believe that making students leave their book bags outside will stop theft. In all reality, it will actually cause more theft. If people are stealing food, then they will also steal unprotected book bags. I see nothing wrong with leaving your backpack outside, if it was actually protected. What is so awful about this situation is that the dinning hall had a sign last semester that read  "not responsible for lost or stolen items". They force us to leave our property unprotected. We as college student's do not have much money to replace stolen items, because all our money goes to the university. The same university that can't even protect it's students property!

        Theft is a huge problem at Kutztown University. Any property you have with you, must be glued to your side, at all times. Any person with the nerve to steal is lower then dirt, and a University that takes no action to protect its student's property is at the same level. We spend thousands of dollars to attend a university to receive a higher education. Why is it that the people running the food services are not smart enough to figure out that if there is theft inside the dinning hall their WILL be theft outside dinning hall. Of course, there is always the option that they simply don't care. In which case, I certainly don't want to attend a university that doesn't care about its students.

         I think that Kutztown University should allow students to take their bags into the dinning hall with them. The dinning hall really has no right to separate us with our property. Kutztown could always have bag checks for when you leave the dinning hall, or they could even get lockers. Something has to be done about this problem and quickly.

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