It’s time for the hand-sanitizer thief to come clean.

No, you didn’t read that wrong, WS actually has its very own string of crimes going on which involves robbing poor female students of easily-accessible personal hygiene. Walk down the halls and you’ll see them hanging on at least half the backpacks carried by girls.

From traditional non-scented cleaners to the fancy pomegranate berry kinds, each two ounce bottle of hand sanitizer never costs more than three dollars. Why, then, would a thief ever think these already opened containers would be worth stealing?

It’s happened at least three times so far. A girl goes to the bathroom, or walks out of an empty classroom to run an errand, leaving her backpack unattended for all of two minutes maximum, and comes back to find the piece of plastic that usually holds her sanitizer in place to be empty .

And that’s it. There are no missing phones or iPods, no lost textbooks or graphing calculators. Just an empty hand-sanitizer holder, taunting girls no longer able to clean their hands at will. While this may not seem like a big deal to many students, to girls like me, it’s a serious issue.

If I see a guy sneeze into his hand and not use sanitizer or go to the bathroom to clean up, you can bet I’m going to offer him some of mine and use some myself because that’s just gross. Without access to my own supply of cleaner, what am I going to do when something like that happens, sit and watch as he spreads his snot germs all over the classroom, to all of the other students? I’d really rather not.

As funny as it might seem to whoever the thief is, it’s just a nuisance to us students. Believe it or not, we actually do value personal cleanliness, and not being able to keep our hands clean ruins our attempts at maintaining hygiene.

It’s time for the thief to stop taking these and annoying us, before she gets in trouble. Oracle is calling you out. Eventually, you’ll be caught red-handed with no hand-sanitizer to wipe your slate clean with.