i think you are paranoid. half the people on the floor prolly have alcohol in their room. i wouldn't worry about it. the liklihood of you getting busted for it is very very very slim.
We get eight "points" worth of violations till we have a "leave of absence". Under 21, being near alcohol, 1 pt. Public drunkenness any age, 2pt. Drinkng games, 5pt.
In your situation, any open canisters would get my roomie and I a point or two. They only check during breaks, so get rid of everything before them. The RAs don't care unless you're loud or walking into walls.
GoodRevrnd
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Reiterating Rallispec's points.... I think you need a drink. 
Anyway, do you know what actually happens to you if you get caught? Your RA gives you a mild talking to. Now if you actually get reported then you get to do some interactive cd-rom thing on why drinking is bad and turn it back to the student affairs person. Chill out.
Anyway, do you know what actually happens to you if you get caught? Your RA gives you a mild talking to. Now if you actually get reported then you get to do some interactive cd-rom thing on why drinking is bad and turn it back to the student affairs person. Chill out.
Its been my experience if they simply find it, no one drinking it, both will get in trouble unless one person fesses up.
flavio
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How the fsck people move out of their parents house and into a place where they worry about getting in "trouble" for stupid sh!t is beyond me. Do you need an RA as a little psuedo-parent until you can adjust to not having your parents watching over you all the time?
If you are over 18 and not living with your parents then it's NOBODY"S FSCKING BUSINESS what you keep in your fridge. If you put yourself in a situation where this is an issue on purpose then I don't know how to help you.
Grow some nuts and move to off-campus housing. Until then let your roomate do his own thing.
If you are over 18 and not living with your parents then it's NOBODY"S FSCKING BUSINESS what you keep in your fridge. If you put yourself in a situation where this is an issue on purpose then I don't know how to help you.
Grow some nuts and move to off-campus housing. Until then let your roomate do his own thing.
Don't worry too much about it, the RA's can't come in without you consenting. And if he's any good of a roommate he'll take the fall if the situation comes. Most RAs could care less since they were freshmans once also. RAs don't want the paperwork, just don't put them in a position where they HAVE to do something.
It matter how strict your RA is....or your school.
try looking up policy's.
By the way, your school moight view not saying anything as aiding and abbedding. Is he under/opver age?
My RA knew people on my floor smoked and drank and did other bad things. His policy was, "I don't care what you do, jsut don't give me a reason to do anything about it." Basically saying to keep our doors shut and be careful and no overly loud music on a "school night". Jsut be smart. If your rooim mate is runnign through the halls with beers in his hands, blow him in. If he's hiding it from the fuzz, leave him be.
What else?????
Nothing...
try looking up policy's.
By the way, your school moight view not saying anything as aiding and abbedding. Is he under/opver age?
My RA knew people on my floor smoked and drank and did other bad things. His policy was, "I don't care what you do, jsut don't give me a reason to do anything about it." Basically saying to keep our doors shut and be careful and no overly loud music on a "school night". Jsut be smart. If your rooim mate is runnign through the halls with beers in his hands, blow him in. If he's hiding it from the fuzz, leave him be.
What else?????
Nothing...
i'm an RA and here is how i would handle it.
if i saw beer cans in your room sitting there behind something or somewhere so that i could see them, i would tell you to hide them better.
if i saw beer cans in your room sitting there behind something or somewhere so that i could see them, i would tell you to hide them better.
Well for a lot of us, we're guaranteed on-campus housing first year. I wanted the convenience and experience of living on campus. Quite frankly, it's not really worth it to live off-campus just so you can drink in your room without getting having to worry about the RA finding you.
It's unfortunate that in many schools RA should now be RP (Resident Policeman), but that's the way it is right now.
How do you define this situation? It's a shared fridge in a shared room. Because it's shared areas, if one gets caught, the other might get nailed for it.
Why does one roommate have the right to risk the other's housing and academic standing just because you and a few others feel that's the "ballsy" thing to do?
I agree that you have to be a moron to get written up (I used to tell my residents--don't come to me for help if you get written up b/c if you did, it's b/c you were an idiot. You could be doing ANYTHING in your room, and as long as the RAs don't see, hear, or smell anything illegal, they are going to leave you alone), but I knew many people my freshman year who did get written up, and quite a few people who got alcohol policy violations just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Unless your RA is a total freak, they shouldn't care too much about it. It's an honest question.
flavio
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guaranteed on-campus housing? What does that mean? You can be guaranteed off-campus housing too if you go sign a lease. Not worth it to live off campus? It's not just about drinking in your room, it's about not having some authority figure keeping track of you, being able to come and go as you please, not living in an overcrowded noisy dorm, and generally just being an adult. What's the downside?
I'm simply saying that if you're over 18 it's ridiculous to think you can "get nailed" for what you have in your fridge. Why subject yourself to these rules? You are presumable an adult at this point.
You cant have alcohol in your rooms? We have drunken parties in the halls pretty much every day.
Means there is a room available to you no matter how many people get accepted to the school. If more juniors and seniors have to move off-campus in order to accommodate you, that's the brakes.
Might I ask what college you went to where you didn't have this concept, nor the concept of getting in trouble for doing things that are illegal in your room?
In the township of Ewing NJ and it's surrounding areas, it's not easy to find open and affordable apartments. Maybe where you are it's easier, but a lot of students who don't get on-campus housing end up commuting in from 30-40 min away.
As if you don't have police and the landlord coming after you break the law?
It's 2003--unless you go to one of those Christian schools, you CAN come and go as you please.
Some people like the social aspect of dorm life. In fact, that's one of the only things I miss about school--having 50 people living within walking distance of whom someone is always doing something fun. I can watch a DVD at 10:00PM and not worry about my old fart neighbor knocking on my door and yelling at me, unlike now that I live in a so-called "real" apartment....
I know a lot of people who are not capable of being adults, despite being 18 years old. I guess your college buddies are oh-so-mature, and great if they are, but they are in the minority.
Having to share rent and space with unreliable people?
Having to drive an extra hour between campus and back?
Having to miss class because you couldn't find a parking space?
Being at the mercy of a slum landlord who knows he can take advantage of you b/c you're 18 and don't know any better?
Because you are under 21 and in all 50 states it is ILLEGAL to drink if you are under 21. This isn't some whacko policy that they just cooked up one day to appease some PC crowd. The college has a responsibility to take reasonable actions to ensure that people on the campus respect the law. Now, if the minimum drinking age was back to 18, then it's a completely different story. But it's 21, the law is 21, if you are under 21 and you're in posession of alcohol, you can be busted. It doesn't matter if you live in a dorm, an apartment, a house, a motor home. The only difference is in one case the cops will be coming for you, in the other it's the RA, and in both cases you have to be about equally careless to get caught.
flavio
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I went to school in Akron and Columbus, Ohio and never considered dorms at either place. So it didn't matter what I had in my room or fridge because there were no RA' or anyone else that was going to know about it.
That sucks. In both schools I went to you could walk or ride a bike to class from the houses I lived in. Same deal at UC Berkeley that's near me now, it's easy to find off-campus housing very close by.
Most of my college years were spent in a 4 bedroom house with three roomates or a 2 bedroom house with one roomate. At both places I could have a large keg party on a tuesday night if I wanted to without some old fart knocking on my door.
Right, so live off-campus. Not to mention my off-campus housing actually cost less than what I would pay to live in a dorm.
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