so, Stanford has pretty bad security

http://www.stanforddaily.com/article/2007/5/24/imposterCaught


Stanford bars 2nd impostor from campus
By The Associated Press

PALO ALTO - Stanford University officials have discovered a second impostor who managed to pass herself off as a member of the campus community for months.

Stanford officials were taking steps to keep Elizabeth Okazaki off campus. Attorneys were preparing a letter notifying her that she is not allowed on campus while police and university officials investigate her actions, spokeswoman Kate Chesley said.

"We consider this very serious," Chesley said. "Stanford is a private institution. We have the legal right to bar anyone from the premises, including people we reasonably believe will disrupt or have disrupted operations."

Okazaki had made herself at home in Stanford's Varian Physics Laboratory, where she used computers, attended seminars and sometimes spent the night, students said.

"I thought she was just another grad student, but then you talk to her and you realize that perhaps she doesn't really know what's going on," Surjeet Rajendran, 24, a graduate student in physics, told the San Francisco Chronicle.

Undergraduate physics student Brendan Wells, 22, said he believes Okazaki is harmless.

"A lot of what she does is just use the computers, make tea and just kind of use the space as a place to be," Wells said. "I don't know if that's because she doesn't have somewhere else to go or she prefers it here."

Wells said he last saw Okazaki in the physics building Friday morning. She could not be reached for comment.

Okazaki used to prop the building's doors open, apparently because she didn't have a card key, triggering concerns about security or theft, students said.

Earlier in the week, campus officials revealed that an 18-year-old Orange County woman, Azia Kim, had passed herself off as a freshman for most of the school year. She had convinced students to let her room with them in two separate dorms for about eight months.

Greg Boardman, vice provost for student affairs, said the university was launching an investigation into the Kim case, including "seeking to discover where there may be gaps in Stanford's system of identifying enrolled students."

Both cases are being investigated by Stanford police and campus officials.

haha.