Thanks for your message.

How interesting! We love to hear stories about bed bugs before 1998, when they were supposed to have “begun” coming back (there’s evidence, in fact, they were never really entirely gone).

I would not judge Simon’s Rock poorly because of this, though. Any college is prone to bed bugs (as is any place where people sleep or sit) and the most important factor is what the response is when they are detected.

Proactive searching is a good thing, too, and I hope more colleges will do it.