Put the lock in locker
Students walk into the locker room, throw their bags in a locker, change into their shorts and t-shirt, and slam their lockers shut. After this daily routine, students don’t bother to lock their lockers, and they just leave. After 45 minutes of P.E., the bell rings to signal that gym is over. Finally, the students are back in the locker room, ready to go to their next period, when they open their lockers to find their valuables- stolen.
According to a survey taken by 50 East students, 23 of those students leave their gym lockers unlocked. Of those 23 students, 11 have had something stolen.
Items such as money, iPods, cell phones, and even boots or jeans have been reported as stolen throughout the building.
It’s so convenient not to lock the gym lockers. It saves at least 2 minutes by not having to re-open it again. A lot of times students don’t even know their combination. But what the students don’t realize is that by not completing that two minute process of opening their locker, it just cost them their $300 electronic. No one is supposed to be in the locker room once the bell rings, but that’s not to say that rule stands strong.
Leaving your belongings under the benches in the locker room is equivalent to not letting the lock do its job.
“My bag was too big, so I left it under the bench one day. When I came back, all the pockets were open and everything was unzipped,” said Sarah Minion (’12).
If someone leaves a locker unlocked, it is not definite that someone is going to steal the possessions, but it’s better to be safe than sorry. Or empty, like your pockets.
Technology glitch causes locker problems
The weight of the world was on the shoulders of the student body on Monday, September 14. Technically, it was not the weight of the whole world, but just the weight of all the books that should have been in the students’ lockers.
All students, except for seniors on second floor C-wing had to give up their lockers on Friday, September 11. After lugging their heavy books home for the weekend and then back to school, students arrived Monday morning expecting lockers. To their disappointment, lockers were not ready. The student body was forced to drag their books home one more time.
Then again on Tuesday morning, students anticipated receiving their lockers. To their surprise, the lockers were ready, but with a major problem. This time, the majority of the lockers would not open because the combinations were incorrect. Very few students had working combinations.
Finally, on Wednesday all students were given a locker with combinations that worked. The new lockers were located near their homerooms, and the weight of numerous textbooks was lifted off the students’ shoulders.
The reason this problem occurred in the first place was due to construction—which left no time for locker assignments—as well as computer malfunctions this past summer.
In addition, the spreadsheet which contains students’ names, their respective homerooms, lockers and combinations, lost some vital information pertaining to locker assignments.
Mr. O’Connor was in charge of the new locker assignments. He explained that the computer system “omitted the homeroom change”, so some homerooms were deleted and lockers were not properly assigned.
Despite the technology glitch, Mr. O’Connor and security helped to get almost every student a working locker. Although the locker problem was a bump in the road, the kinks have been worked out and from now on it should be smooth sailing when it comes to lockers.