The men two in the common room stole five movies, but the other intruder did not get away with anything, Lee said.

"We think the guy upstairs was going to take [my roommate's] laptop, and the police took his headphones and laptop for fingerprints," Lee said.

A room down the hall from Lee's was also burglarized that night.

"There was a party on the third floor so there were a lot of peoplewandering around the building. There were these three, I assume, high school kids who were seen wandering the halls for two or three hours," said Lesley B. Townsend '01, whose room was burglarized. "They came into my room while I was downstairs and I didn't even know they were there...They took some of my stuff including my passport. Now I am supposed to go to Jamaica for spring break and they have my passport"

Lee said a false sense of security among Quincy residents may have contributed to the crime.

"We leave our door propped open a lot and our door doesn't always latch all the way," Lee said. "Many rooms here on the sixth floor use coat hangers to keep the doors propped open all the time."

The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) sent out an advisory e-mail yesterday to warn students of the theft.

HUPD urges anyone with information regarding the incident to call the Criminal Investigation Unit at (617)495-1796.