Originally posted by: DaiShan
Yeah I know its probably not like this at all universities, and even at UF it is almost imposible to be removed from housing unless you are selling drugs or something. The thing is though, at least at UF every time you get a reprimand or up it goes on your record, so even if you are wrong it is in your best interest to try to fight it, because even if it is only noise you don't want to have to apply to graduate school and have 10 noise violations, it doesn't look that bad, but also not that great. The other thing housing can do here is conduct probation, which is basically suspension for a term and if you don't act right next term you get kicked out, my friend got that for drinking, he lied and said he wasn't drinking, and no one could prove he was, so they let him off, then his ROOMMATE brings a video tape of the night in question the housing and screwed him over. What is an RD? Basically how it works here is an RA write you up you go to a hall director to have a meeting, he can issue you a reprimand if you accept responsibility or you can have a formal meeting with a judicial official or judiciary board if you like. The first time I went for noise I was just like this one isn't worth fighting because I had 3 other violations pending and I want to look like I took responsibility for my actions. After that any time I had a violation I just went straight to the head of housing as he was the only one that had the power to clear things up. He's a nice guy and he's not on a powertrip like some of these RA's are, in the end I was written up 16 times for 36 violations was issued that one reprimand and had that expunged at the end of the year, not too bad

(not trying to brag or anything, I was an idiot and very lucky with all the crap I did, but trying to help the OP a little bit because I have a lot of experience with housing, albeit not at his school.) Oh btw OP read the residential life rules, it would be beneficial even if you aren't in this situation because sometimes they have some really weird ones. In order to fight for your rights you must first know your rights heh. At my school for example you could not remove the window screens from your window, and couldn't have more than 2 people in your room. So if you are having a little get together with 5 or 6 people the screen is out and they come up for noise you are now dealing with 3 violations instead of 1.