My roommate came back from a party last night and put a wine bottle in the fridge. If she gets caught would everyone in the room get in trouble? I’m the only one that is 21 and there is a no alcohol policy in the residence halls. I share the room with 3 other girls.
Well because you are 21 nothing will happen to you(you won’t get an MIP or anything). Honestly the chances of your friend getting caught are extremely minimal and I have a feeling the no alcohol rule is broken on a very regular basis. Don’t worry about it, it’s her wine and your over 21.
The way I understand is that nobody over 21 can have alcohol in the room if there is anyone under 21. If the wine is found out, the OP might get in trouble since it could be presumed that as the only one over 21 there, OP purchased it. Unless the actual culprit confesses, OP could get in trouble for making it available to underage kids.
@techmom99 yeah, but this is where you make a poor girl have a panic attack when about 1/2 the kids on the floor have alcohol stocked somewhere in their room…
If your that worried about it ask your friend to drink it/take it to a party or throw it away
@Futuremed17 What are you basing your info on? Are you or have you been a college student ?
A panic attack vs, possible discipline? The panic attack might prevent the discipline. My D was an RA for 3 1/2 years and I have heard all of the stories about alcohol in the rooms. What if someone gets mad at OP and tells the RA there is wine in the room? What I didn’t say was my true suggestion, what I would tell my over 21 child in this situation. Tell the roommate to get the bottle out of the room or she’s going to open it and spill it down the toilet and then pack it up and dispose of it without carrying it in the hallway like OP in the “caught drinking” thread. I honestly don’t care about the other kids on the floor, only my kid, or in this instance, the OP.
Not sure where @Futuremed17 is getting his/her info - at my university it wouldn’t matter if you’re over 21 or not: no alcohol in the halls means no alcohol, period, regardless of your age. And yes, you could be partially culpable if you’re aware of there being alcohol in the room even if it isn’t yours. There’s no reason to deal with a potential hassle when you could just tell her to take it out of the room or put it somewhere that isn’t communal space - ie, if you all have your own bedroom with a shared living space, her keeping it in her bedroom would reduce the chance of anyone else getting in trouble for it.
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Realistically, the odds of you getting caught are probably low if it’s university owned apartment. That being said, yes you can get in trouble as others have said. When I lived in an “alcohol free” suite, my roommates and I had a rule that all booze had to either be put in something like a soda container rather than its original bottle if left in the fridge or with the roommate’s stuff if they didn’t want to transfer containers.
Unless the RAs regularly do room checks, why would it EVER be found?
My university’s policy was that RAs could not open locked compartments or move items in the fridge/freezer. All anyone had to do was stick a bottle in the locked drawer under their bed or obstruct the view of it in the freezer with ice cream or something.
Also, don’t take techmom’s advice. If an older student that still lives in the residence halls has the audacity to try and do anything with my property, the situation won’t end well for the older student.
Wait, what do you mean there isn’t an alcohol policy in your residence hall?
Is that alcohol in a shared or private fridge? If it’s in a shared fridge, I’d tell her (nicely and politely) to move it to a non-communal storage space. Make sure it’s not in the open where anyone could casually spot it.
Tbh if an RA has no reason to suspect that someone in the room is hoarding alcohol, they won’t check. As long as your roommate doesn’t do anything crazy like get wild drunk in the room or start walking down the hall with a bottle in hand or make the whole room stink of booze, I don’t think you’ll be in danger of RAs checking your room.
Obviously, the ideal solution is that you persuade the girl to dump out the wine and dispose the bottle discreetly ASAP, but the likelihood of that happening and of the girl responding well is low.