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More from StatePALO ALTO (AP) Stanford University officials have discovered a second imposter who managed to pass herself off as a member of the campus community for months.
Stanford officials were taking steps to keep Elizabeth Okazaki off campus. Attorneys were preparing a letter notifying her that she is not allowed on campus while police and university officials investigate her actions, spokeswoman Kate Chesley said.
"We consider this very serious," Chesley said. "Stanford is a private institution. We have the legal right to bar anyone from the premises, including people we reasonably believe will disrupt or have disrupted operations."
Okazaki had made herself at home in Stanford's Varian Physics Laboratory, where she used computers, attended seminars and sometimes spent the night, students said.
"I thought she was just another grad student, but then you talk to her and you realize that perhaps she doesn't really know what's going on," Surjeet Rajendran, 24, a graduate student in physics, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Okazaki could not be reached for comment.
Okazaki used to prop the building's doors open, apparently because she didn't have a card key, triggering concerns about security or theft, students said.
Earlier in the week, campus officials revealed that an 18-year-old Orange County woman, Azia Kim, had passed herself off as a freshman for most of the school year.
Both cases are being investigated by Stanford police and campus officials.
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