To follow up on the Homecoming Res Life issues, as I have been posting about, I want to share with you a complaint from my fellow classmate.
I was talking with my classmate today, who was very upset because she had gotten "written up" by Res Life for underage drinking, when she was not even present in the room. She lives in a Centennial Suite where her roommates were getting a bit rowdy, so she went into her single room and went to sleep. A few hours later the RAs came in and "wrote up" her roommates. Now, this morning she has also received an email saying that she has a conduct hearing for underage drinking.
Ultimately, she was not doing anything wrong, so is this fair that she got "written up"? Is the system flawed? Is this just a routine for RAs to accuse everyone who lives in the room?
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To defend my fellow RA's, protocol is that we 'document the situation' whenever we suspect a rule is being violated. In this case, the RA would report EVERYTHING he or she sees, even if some individuals are not doing anything wrong. This is just to get a better idea of what the situation is.
We have no control over what happens after we report that a violation may have occurred. It is very possible that nothing will happen after the hearing to this individual. Just because she was in a documentation does not mean she is automatically in trouble.
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