By Alex Greig PUBLISHED: 22:15 EST, 3 October 2013 | UPDATED: 01:36 EST, 4 October 2013 Yale's hallowed halls of learning have been flush with gossip about a so-called 'poopertrator' after a student or students unknown began defecating on clean clothes in the laundry at Saybrook residential college. The matter was brought to campus officials' attention after a student brought physical evidence of the crime to the Saybrook Master Paul Hudak's office. According to the Yale Daily News, the pooper has been on the loose since early September, but it wasn't until student Lucy Fleming showed the evidence - her soiled laundry - to college authorities that Yale police joined the search.
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Someone at a Yale residential college has been throwing human feces into dryers with other people's clean clothing
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There have been more that four incidents over the past month
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Yale police are now searching for the person dubbed the 'poopertrator'
It seems that while not engaged in intellectual pursuits, a person, almost certainly a Yale student, had been throwing food and urine into dryers for some weeks before @placeholder's dryer discovery.
'We have asked our students not to leave their laundry unattended, the affected machines have been thoroughly disinfected, and we are actively seeking information about who the perpetrator might be,' @placeholder told the News.