Practice Safe Sacks!

I am getting very excited about the group project! I really like all the members of my group and it seems that we work well together. My group chose to do our project on protecting the bags outside of the upstairs of South Dining Hall. At the upstairs of South Dining Hall you are not allowed to bring a backpack inside the dining hall with you. You have to leave it by a table outside or by the desk (where they swipe your card to get inside.) I am very passionate about being in this group because one of my close friends had her bag stolen. Inside her bag she had a Mac laptop, a digital camera, and an iPod. It is not a good feeling at all when you know something is stolen. The girl who had her laptop stolen and another friend of mine checked all the trashcans in and outside of South Dining Hall. We checked them just in case someone might have thrown away her bag. We found nothing. About fifteen minutes later we were at public safety filing a report of all of her stolen items. Luckily she had Lowjack for laptops (tracks the location of your stolen laptop when activated) on Mac and received her computer back a few weeks ago.  I’ve also know a few other people who had things stolen as well. Mostly the main reason to why you are not allowed to have a bag inside is because of students stealing plates, cups, silverware, etc. They do not care if you take fruit or a few cookies outside of the dining hall. But the bags are left outside unguarded and not protected for anyone to take. There is not even a security camera upstairs watching the bags. I think this problem could easily be solved with lockers or with a security camera.  So far my group and I have created a survey and each of us had twenty students fill it out. Tomorrow morning at 8:30AM my group and I are meeting with Aramark at the coffee shop in the Student Union building. Aramark is Kutztown University’s food services. Hopefully they can answer our questions about the protection of student’s bags outside the upstairs of South Dining Hall. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see how it goes! Hopefully we can solve this terrible problem of unprotected backpacks.