Friday night several offices on the fourth floor of Wehner were broken into after being accessed from the ceiling reported KBTX.
Keith Swim, a management professor, speculates that the motives for the break-in were because of upcoming finals, although it is still unknown whether anything has been taken from the offices.
University Police Department Detective Scott Gatlin, the officer on the case, said finals-related incidents are rare on campus.
One office that was broken into belonged to a teacher’s assistant for Swim’s Management 211 class.
“I was shocked first, then mad, then terribly disappointed that anyone at Texas A&M would do that,” Swim said.
He said in a message posted on his office door that he plans on making what was once going to be a final to boost grades now a more difficult one.
In response to the message, senior sports management major and a student in Swim’s class Krystal Sneider said that the break-in is making [the test] twice as hard for people who didn’t do well on the first couple.
Sneider said that all of the students found out through the class’s Facebook group.
“I’m mad, I mean we are all being punished for one stupid person’s actions. There are no words for it,” she said.
No other information is available at this time, as the case is classified as a pending investigation.
In the message Swim posted to his students, he gave a brief description of what happened and included in his message that his TAs will not be able to have office hours this week because their office is in use as a crime scene, and the only way his students can contact him is through e-mail.
In his message, Swim said that he is “very disappointed in [the] criminal act, lack of respect to Texas A&M University and total disregard of the Aggie Code of Honor.”
The message also said that Swim hopes any student who knows about those who were involved will honor the Aggie Honor Code by turning in any information to him or Gatlin. Information can be submitted anonymously.