Following Wayland breakin, DPS increases security

UNIVERSITY NEWS Students report continued anxieties following incident, lack of communication

BY CHINMAYI RAJARAM STAFF WRITER

Since the Wayland House break-in last December, building resident Lena Henderson ’25 has had to reassess her perception of safety on campus.

Nearly two months ago, Thony Greene was arrested and charged with willful trespass after reportedly breaking into Wayland House. Greene, who has a history of trespassing on University property, was caught living in Wayland unlawfully for an unknown amount of time and was spotted in students’ rooms, The Herald previously reported.

Wayland resident Sherry Zhang ’25, whose room Greene broke into, said she was shocked and unsettled by the incident. “I couldn’t believe that it actually happened,” she said.

“I don’t even feel safe going to the bathroom without locking the door,” Henderson said, reflecting on how her behavior around residence halls has changed since the incident.

In the wake of the break-in, the Department of Public Safety has bolstered its security protocols by providing lighted vests to DPS officers and implementing routine lock check-ins and community walks by community coordinators in residence halls, according to a Dec. 15 DPS email to the University community.

‘More communication is needed’

Following the break-in, DPS sent an update to Wayland residents on Dec. 6 “about a situation that had been addressed initially, with an active investigation then launched,” Chatman wrote in an email to The Herald.

“DPS sends timely warning messages to the campus (community) when there’s an active threat,” but handled the situation at Wayland House differently because the sus-