The new Umrath dormitory is missing something: computers. Students going into the lab may have noticed an empty space where four Macs used to be.

Thursday just before noon, Residential Life (ResLife) officials conducted brief visual searches of rooms in Umrath, looking for four Mac desktop computers that were reported missing from Umrath.

There were still two computers left in the lab.

“This is a very serious matter and is a huge violation of the trust built within our community,” Andrew McDermott, the residential college director of the Rubelmann/Umrath/Wohl Residential College, wrote in an e-mail to his residents.

WUPD is currently conducting a full investigation and asks that anyone with any information contact them.

Students were disappointed by the theft.

“I expected better,” freshman Caroline Ross said. “And it was [a] student because you need your room key to get in. It was unfair to everyone else, and this brings a bad light to our ResCollege.”

Freshman Bobby Goelz, an Umrath resident, described the searches performed by ResLife. According to Goelz, officials knocked on students’ doors, repeatedly saying, “Residential Life, open up!” When students were not present to answer, ResLife opened their doors. In the rooms, officials conducted brief visual searches lasting a few seconds to see if any students were in possession of the stolen desktops.

“I was really surprised, but I understood why they were searching the rooms,” Goelz said. “It was very shocking and a little bit scary.”