When getting ready to leave a party with my friends and heading out into the frigid cold on Saturday night, the last thing I wanted to hear was that my coat had been stolen.

My friends found their coats strewn across the floor while mine was nowhere to be found.

I know for a fact that this happens all the time in State College, and I am both sad and angry that people don't think twice about taking something that belongs to someone else. If someone came to a party without a coat in the dead of winter, that was their fault. Why should I have to suffer?

I can understand someone being in a hurry to leave. It was dark and maybe they grabbed the wrong coat. If that was the case, why not return it?

You can always take it back to the place where the party was held or turn it in at the HUB Information Desk. If there are people that make a game of stealing people's coats, that's just cruel. My friend even tempted me to take someone else's coat as a sort of compensation, but why would I want to put someone in the same rotten mood as myself? I hope that people start to understand that stealing is wrong. We are in college, after all.