Students and faculty in the School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation (SAAHP) remain vigilant after a man who was found with stolen Roger Williams University laptops and a student's external hard drive last fall showed up on campus late last month.

Allen P. Carpenter, 27, of Swansea, Mass., was seen on campus on Jan. 30, according to Public Safety. Carpenter, a student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, was arrested in 2011 by the Dart­mouth, Mass. Police Depart­ment for theft of stolen prop­erty, according to Public Safety. Following his arrest, two RWU-owned laptops, which had been reported missing, were found in Carpenter's apartment, Public Safety said.

Carpenter is described as a white male, standing 5-feet-9-inches, with brown hair and brown eyes, according to Public Safety.

Recently, RWU issued a No Trespass Order against Carpen­ter, Public Safety said.

In order to raise awareness about Carpenter's recent pres­ence on campus, posters with a picture of Carpenter and details about what to do if he is spotted were hung on campus. Many posters were put up in the SAA­HP, a building from which Car­penter allegedly stole computers and other equipment.

"I think there are eight or ten of them up around the build­ing," said Stephen White, Dean of Architecture. "We thought it went along with the strong feel­ings everyone had that we want to get this guy out of here," White said.

Students in the fall became very aware of these thefts. Ac­cording to freshman architec­ture student Cassandra Baron, the faculty has tried to keep stu­dents updated and alert.

"Since the fall, we've had meetings with the dean about it," Baron said. "They were talk ing about how we need to be more respectful of people's stuff, [we] need to make sure you lock up your stuff, and [we] need to be aware of who's around you."

According to other architec­ture students, there were about two or three of these meetings held with faculty in the fall.

Many students said that with the amount of time they spend working in the studio and at­tending classes, they felt confi­dent that they would notice a new face roaming the building, should Carpenter return.

The SAAHP did report sev­eral thefts last fall. "I think there were three or four," White said. According to both he and several students, the thefts oc­curred not only in the larger undergraduate areas, but also in the section of the building for graduate students.

"But it was not just limited to this building," White said. He mentioned that some of the thefts also occurred in the Li­brary.

However, since the posters have gone up in the SAAHP building, there have not been anymore reported thefts.

"I was actually thinking of tak­ing [the posters] down soon be­cause I think it's kind of passed," White said.

White said he believes that the posters really united the tight-knit architecture community and prepared everyone for the possibility of more thefts.

"Everybody was familiar with the situation and everybody had said so strongly, ‘Let's all get to­gether and solve this,'" White said.

"To me, it was one of the best collaborations in a situation that I recall."