Adams Senior House Party Marred by Missing Phones

At least three students believe their cell phones were stolen at the same party on Saturday evening, held in Adams’ Senior House.

Harvard University Police Department spokesperson Steven G. Catalano said there is an “open and ongoing investigation” into an incident that took place in Claverly Hall on Saturday, but declined to comment further. Senior House is located next to Claverly.

Dominique J. Erney ’19 said she could feel her phone being lifted out of her pocket as she left the building into the crowded outdoors, but could not identify who took it. She said she filed a police report the following morning.

Another attendee, Alina Crouch ’19, said she believes someone may have grabbed her phone through a window while she was in the building.

“I didn't realize there wasn't any netting on the window so someone could just stick their arm through, but I thought it was safe,” Crouch said. “We were near the couches, no one was behind us. No one could have gotten in between us and gotten the phone—it had to have come from outside.”

Since the disappearances, Crouch said her credit card and multiple forms of identification, which were with her phone at the time of its disappearance, were found the next day in a mailbox outside where the party was held.

This April, a series of petty thefts in the River Houses spurred the Undergraduate Council’s Student Life Committee to issue a memo expressing support for exterior security cameras outside of College dormitories.

A party invitation was sent out by someone who identified himself as an Institute of Politics Social Chair, and the invitation featured an old photo of now-Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump and now-Democratic nominee Hillary R. Clinton standing together.

—Staff writer Graham W. Bishai can be reached at graham.bishai@thecrimson.com.

—Staff writer Brandon J. Dixon can be reached at brandon.dixon@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @BrandonJoDixon.