A Boston University administrator provided details about how two non-affiliated students entered a West Campus dorm in which one man allegedly assaulted two female residents Sunday morning, and said the administration has no plans to review the guest policy that allowed the men entry around 2:30 a.m.
Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore said Daniel Glaser, 20, charged with two counts of indecent assault, was signed into Claflin Hall by a resident and asked to leave shortly afterward by the same resident after he became unruly.
Glaser reportedly left the dorm and returned with his friend, Aaron Goodliss, 21, and persuaded two female residents to sign them into the dorm, though they were strangers. Elmore said the residents who signed in Glaser and Goodliss were in violation of the university guest policy and will face disciplinary sanctions with BU.
“If they’re found to violate the policy, this is not just a matter of signing someone in and not being with them throughout the building,” he said. “These are your guests that went and committed crimes in the building and there’s a higher degree of accountability for that.
“I think I’ve been clear all along that you can’t compromise the security of the building – any building,” he continued. “Whether you’ve got a key to the vestibule, to your apartment or to a small house, or whether or not you sign someone in that you don’t know; that compromises the building’s safety.”
Elmore said no official move to change the guest policy is underway, though comments from concerned parents, residents and alumni suggest the policy should at least be reviewed to determine whether it allowed Lehigh University junior Glaser and Johnson ‘ Wales University junior Goodliss to enter the building.
Elmore said the first resident who signed Glaser in will not be held responsible for Sunday’s events.
A freshman resident of Claflin, whom The Daily Free Press has chosen to keep anonymous at this time because of her connection to an on-going, sensitive investigation, said she and her roommate met Glaser and signed him into the hall Sunday morning after meeting him outside.
Shortly after, however, she said she called on her friends to escort him downstairs and out of the building because he made her uncomfortable.
“[Hours later,] I went downstairs, and I saw him around a bunch of cops about to get arrested and I saw him walk out with handcuffs,” she said. “I thought he was sketchy, but it was more serious than I thought.”
She said she had asked Glaser to leave because he started behaving erratically, taking out her wallet, throwing money and constantly looking at his reflection. She said he appeared to be intoxicated.
Claflin resident Ally Hammond, a freshman, said she was disturbed by what she heard from a nearby room at about 3:30 a.m.
“I could hear them just hanging out in their room with some people, and all of a sudden, I heard one of the girls yelling for [someone] to get out of her room,” Hammond said. “She said, ‘Get out of my room, I don’t know you,’ . . . [He] wouldn’t leave, and she was crying and really upset.”
The resident who first accompanied Glaser into the building said she was fortunate to have male friends who were able to help her remove him.
Because the resident removed her unruly guest, she will not be held responsible for his misconduct, Elmore said.
“I would encourage students that if you sign someone in whom you’ve recently met, or even another student, and then they do something that’s offensive or problematic to you, doing the best thing is [to remove them],” he said.
Staff reporter Angela Marie Latona contributed reporting to this article.