A man posed as a Stanford student and lived almost 10 months in campus dorms

An Alabama man pretended to be a student at Stanford University and managed to live in campus dorms for nearly 10 months, officials said from the university.

William Curry, of Birmingham, Alabama, was removed from campus last Thursday after a Crothers Hall resident found the man living in the basement of the dormitory, according to reports. the Stanford Daily.

Residents at Crothers Hall told the student newspaper that Curry posed as a sophomore studying pre-med and falsely claimed he was recruited for the Stanford men’s track team in 74.

Stanford spokesperson Dee Mostofi told the San Francisco Chronicle that Curry has reportedly been on campus “several times” since December 2020, despite having received several removal letters.

However, campus officials said they were unable to locate him until last Thursday, after he was accused of stealing a television from the dorm’s basement.

The University administrators and campus police had known of Curry’s presence for months and removed him from various campus buildings at least four times, the Stanford Daily reported.

He was previously accused of breaking into several campus dorms and harassing several students, the newspaper reported, and in a At that time he allegedly told campus police that he was homeless and “trying to get out of the rain.”

Students living in the dorm where Curry was caught said he had been living in the building since the second week of the fall semester and that “sympathetic resident assistants” regularly let him in.

“On several occasions, we requested a list of the residents who live in the basement and were told that the request could not be met because it would be a ‘violation of the privacy of the students,’” reads a screenshot posted by the Stanford Daily.

“Without that list, ultimately, we cannot verify who should and who should not be in the bedroom. This is a policy against which we have resisted and will continue to resist”, adds the capture.

In a statement, Stanford officials said that although the university has protocols and policies to prevent people that are not students enter and live in student housing, “the unique aspects of Curry’s persistence and ability to integrate with our student community have made it clear that there are gaps in those protocols.”

“We will immediately conduct a review to ensure our procedures do not allow this type of incident to occur again,” read a statement obtained by the Los Angeles Times.