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FWIW, the story provides corroboration of both the fact that her dorm was broken into and that Gu was assaulted.

But there have been unnerving moments, Koong says: their college room broken into, students taking selfies outside their door, simply because of the name on it, and an assault. “Physically assaulted on the street,” Gu said last week. Koong was the friend she texted when it happened in their first year at Stanford. “Where are you?” the text message read. “This guy just tried to grab me, I’m talking to the police.” When Koong arrived she noticed her roommate was shaking. “That was the scariest day,” Koong said.

BC

a little more in a similar article in the Daily

The situation intensified when the stalker chased Gu. Lauren Koong ’26, Gu’s close friend and roommate, recalled that “she was running away from him, yelling ‘get away from me’ and no one did anything until he got close enough to attack.” Koong is a former executive editor of The Daily.


The police intervened after Gu started yelling. “I can’t imagine what would have happened if they weren’t there,” Koong told The Daily.

Gu took legal action after the incident. According to Koong, however, Stanford had been notified of the stalker prior to the attack and did not take action because he had not made direct contact with Gu.

The following year, during winter quarter, an intruder broke into Gu and Koong’s dorm.

“Our room number had [been] leaked because people were taking selfies with her name on our door.” Koong said. The dorm and room number were identifiable based on Gu and Koong’s door signs. “We obviously took her name down from the door, but people found out.”

Williams, who lived on the same floor as Gu and Koong, was the one to discover the break-in. “I walked past the door and it was wide open,” he said. “Lauren’s room had been sifted through, Eileen’s room had been tampered with.”

In shock, Williams called Koong, who was terrified by the news. Gu was traveling at the time.

“I walked in and all the drawers had been pulled open,” Koong recalled. “The closet doors were flung open. It was just a mess. Someone had gone through every single drawer, every single thing.”

After the incident, police came to the dorm and Koong filed a report, but tracking down the culprit proved difficult. “At the time, one of the entrances didn’t have security cameras, so it’s not like we could see everyone that went in and out,” said Koong

https://stanforddaily.com/2026/02/23/eil...d-friends/

[82lsju]

FWIW, the story provides corroboration of both the fact that her dorm was broken into and that Gu was assaulted.

But there have been unnerving moments, Koong says: their college room broken into, students taking selfies outside their door, simply because of the name on it, and an assault. “Physically assaulted on the street,” Gu said last week. Koong was the friend she texted when it happened in their first year at Stanford. “Where are you?” the text message read. “This guy just tried to grab me, I’m talking to the police.” When Koong arrived she noticed her roommate was shaking. “That was the scariest day,” Koong said.

BC

a little more in a similar article in the Daily

The situation intensified when the stalker chased Gu. Lauren Koong ’26, Gu’s close friend and roommate, recalled that “she was running away from him, yelling ‘get away from me’ and no one did anything until he got close enough to attack.” Koong is a former executive editor of The Daily.


The police intervened after Gu started yelling. “I can’t imagine what would have happened if they weren’t there,” Koong told The Daily.

Gu took legal action after the incident. According to Koong, however, Stanford had been notified of the stalker prior to the attack and did not take action because he had not made direct contact with Gu.

The following year, during winter quarter, an intruder broke into Gu and Koong’s dorm.

“Our room number had [been] leaked because people were taking selfies with her name on our door.” Koong said. The dorm and room number were identifiable based on Gu and Koong’s door signs. “We obviously took her name down from the door, but people found out.”

Williams, who lived on the same floor as Gu and Koong, was the one to discover the break-in. “I walked past the door and it was wide open,” he said. “Lauren’s room had been sifted through, Eileen’s room had been tampered with.”

In shock, Williams called Koong, who was terrified by the news. Gu was traveling at the time.

“I walked in and all the drawers had been pulled open,” Koong recalled. “The closet doors were flung open. It was just a mess. Someone had gone through every single drawer, every single thing.”

After the incident, police came to the dorm and Koong filed a report, but tracking down the culprit proved difficult. “At the time, one of the entrances didn’t have security cameras, so it’s not like we could see everyone that went in and out,” said Koong

https://stanforddaily.com/2026/02/23/eil...d-friends/