This doesn't look good -- but the university seems to be handling it well.

The senior class president at the Rutgers University campus in Piscataway, N.J., will not be graduating with her classmates next week, university officials said yesterday, after being charged with burglary in the dormitory where she was a resident adviser.

The student, Christa Olandria, 23, a biology major, was arrested along with another Rutgers senior, George Calhoun, 23, on Monday after they were discovered breaking into a room on the seventh floor of Lynton Towers, which houses about 700 undergraduate students, university officials said.

In addition, the university police are investigating whether Ms. Olandria and Mr. Calhoun may have been involved in seven other burglaries in the dormitory that have been reported since September, according to Rhonda Harris, the chief of the Rutgers University Police Department on the school’s main campus in New Brunswick, N.J.

Campus crime is covered up in too many instances. I applaud Rutgers for not sweeping this one under the ruig -- and for not trying to keep this case out of the legal system.