The Curious Cabot Case of The Knocking in the Night Time

It's Saturday night, and you're sleeping in your cold, lonely bed in Cabot. Then you hear someone panting outside your door at 4:30 a.m. "My first impression was that someone was having sex in front of my door and I thought it would stop," a Cabot student related on Cabot-open. The sex-like noises then turned into "vigorous knocking," so the student asked who it was.

"Please open the door," the person on the other side said. "It's not even about you, just open the door." But the Cabot student did not relent:

The police did arrive in 15 minutes but dismissed the issue. The Cabot student, who in a later e-mail dubs himself the "Alfred and Melinda Prufrock Professor of Common Decency," concludes his e-mail by declaring:

Ummm...OK. The Cabot community's response, including a final intervention by Cabot House Master and Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris, after the jump.

After one student relates how she had also heard knocking on different doors that was "really endless" between 4:30 and 5 a.m. and again at 7 a.m., the first Cabot student introduces himself again by listing three lessons for how to ask for help.

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