The University plans to inform Elizabeth Okazaki, the apparent imposter who has sporadically lived in the Varian Physics Lab for four years, that she is no longer welcome on Stanford’s campus.

After The Daily first reported the story on Friday, officials drafted a letter informing the woman that she has been barred from campus while the police conduct an investigation. According to University spokesperson Kate Chesley, Department of Public Safety officials attempted to find her over the weekend so they could hand deliver the letter.

Since 2003, Okazaki has made herself at home in the physics building. She attended graduate physics seminars and used the offices reserved for doctoral and post-doctoral physics students.

Lab building manager Stewart Kramer confirmed that Okazaki worked as a temporary employee in the physics department’s administrative offices for a few months in 2004. But he said she has not had any affiliation with the department since.

In an exclusive interview with The Daily, Kramer described how staffers in his office asked Okazaki to leave the building after it had closed for the night on several instances, but they never took legal action.

“We’ve asked her several times to stay away,” he said. “Each time, she claims that she doesn’t sleep in the building. We hired public safety at one time and they did, in fact, find her there and then kicked her out.”

According to a number of doctoral and post-doctoral students interviewed by The Daily since Friday, Okazaki repeatedly claimed to be in relationships with various physics graduate students during her time in Varian.

“She made comments to other people suggesting that we had been dating when we most certainly had not,” said Lukasz Fidkowski, a doctoral student in physics. “I met her at some point when she was hanging out at the physics department and I quickly got the impression that she wasn’t all there. I tried to be nice to her but at the same time I didn’t want to have much to do with her.”

When approached by The Daily last Thursday, Okazaki said she would not comment for any story about her. At the time, she would not speak about her lack of affiliation with the University. Okazaki could not be reached over the long weekend. A previous phone number had been disconnected, and she was not seen around Varian.

More than a half dozen doctoral physics students and post-doctoral scholars described what several called Okazaki’s “annoying” behavior. They said she tried to participate in their conversations on advanced physics concepts although her background in physics was obviously limited. They also told The Daily that when it became apparent she was not a research scholar, she tried to justify her presence in the lab by suggesting she was in a relationship with a doctoral student.

“She’d try to make it seem like she was attached, whether through research or romantically,” Fidkowski said. “I think everyone just assumed she was crazy.”

While almost all of the physics students who spoke with The Daily echoed similar sentiments, Kramer described her as “manipulative” and “good at convincing people to give her the legitimacy that she needs.”

“I think she’s a little socially dysfunctional,” he said. “I think she has a moral problem and not a mental one.”

Kramer added that on one instance, public safety officers found Okazaki in possession of an unauthorized card key to the building.

“We know that she had a card key in the winter of 2006 for the building that had been issued to a visiting scholar in the physics department,” he said. “I assume she convinced that person to give her the card when he left.”

While many have speculated that Okazaki is homeless, one undergraduate student, who was granted anonymity by The Daily, said he rented a room from Okazaki in an off-campus house during the summer of 2003. Over the course of that summer, the student described being puzzled by Okazaki’s odd behavior.

“She said that she wanted to date physics students,” he said, “because they could fix the washing machine when it broke.”

The student said that Okazaki — who told him that she was a graduate student in the film studies department — would describe having multiple relationships with physics students but that it appeared to him that “none of these students thought they were in a relationship with her.”

A handful of the students expressed hope that Okazaki would receive counseling. Kramer said he did not consider providing Okazaki with counseling one of his job responsibilities.

“I don’t think the University is in the business of providing help to homeless people,” he said. “I would sincerely love for all the homeless people in California to be given the help they need. But that doesn’t seem to be the priority in our society.”

Ultimately, building manager Kramer suggested that Okazaki likely was looking for somebody in the physics department to provide for her.

“I think she takes the easy way out,” he said. “I think she wants to be a housewife. I think she doesn’t want to work for a living. I think she wants a sugar daddy. If she can latch onto some grad student who’s going to become a professor at some university, then I think she thinks that the professor’s wife would be just the lifestyle for her.”