<p>Stupid things people do that cause hall damages and then they divide the costs out for everyone in the building because they don't know who did these things: had an exit sign destroyed, fire alarms pulled as pranks, someone went to the bathroom in the sink, ceiling tile destroyed, several bulletin boards torn down (papers torn off and whole board torn off wall), a sensor in the lobby damaged, a fire extinguisher discharged, smoke detectors torn down, someone went to the bathroom in the stairwell, chair taken from the lounge, and graffiti in stairwell. This is just this year in my hall...is this normal or are there some really stupid, immature people in this hall????</p>
<p>Wow that’s a lot of things…</p>
<p>I mean we’ve had chairs taken from the lounge, but nothing like this</p>
<p>I mean I admit I lol’d at these</p>
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<p>Man the people on your floor loves to mark their territory</p>
<p>^Not the people just on my floor, these things are for the whole building, and I’m a girl floor, all girls floor, and we’re sure most of these things are done by the boys’ floors.</p>
<p>Let’s see, one floor had their lounge taken away one semester because a kid got so mad about something that he ruined furniture, sprayed the fire extinguisher, and ripped out some lights. Also, one of my friends had to deal with people grinding dry pasta into the carpet and someone trying to flush a piece of brick down the toilet.</p>
<p>Sometime freshman antics get bad. It gets a lot better sophomore year.</p>
<p>That’s basically a normal college dorm for ya, unfortunately. Same stuff happens in my hall which is pretty much the worst hall on campus anyways. Most of the things you described also happened in my hall, but most of the damages came from the male floors. I heard someone also messed up the sink as well on the boys’ floor a while ago.
It’s really sad because it mostly has to do with a lot of these stupid ass, immature kids that have no home training coming in as freshman and don’t know how to handle responsibility. It’s also quite annoying too.</p>
<p>Yeah everyone says people really grow up over the summer after freshman year and are better about that sophomore year. Plus, I’m in the largest freshmen hall, so it’s got a lot of people that can cause problems.</p>
<p>No home training to say the least. Gross.</p>
<p>I really hope it does get better next year, after that year I’m transferring anyways…</p>
<p>I am assuming the Residence staff knows about all this but maybe you should let someone else know-The Dean of Students perhaps?</p>
<p>Yeah they know, they’re the ones that send emails informing people when damages occur and how much we’re being charged for it.</p>
<p>Wow, I’m supposedly in one of the most social and “craziest” halls on my college and the stuff my floor does is nowhere near yours. The closest stupid thing my floor has ever done was someone dropping and breaking a perfume bottle which ended up making the whole floor smell absolutely disgustingly wonderful (sarcasm) and someone stealing 90% of the furniture from our lounge, but it magically reappeared back the next day. </p>
<p>If you’re starting to get sick of it, maybe consider moving to a “better” dorm/place next semester or quarter if you can? I know one of my friends hated her hall, so she pulled some strings to get placed into the (quieter) honors hall and was much happier there.</p>
<p>I think that’s something freshmen often do…hopefully it will get better spring semester when the crazy kids have to actually buckle down and do work. Or they get sick of partying. Either one.</p>
<p>Someone in my brothers’ dorm intentionally held a lighter or something up to the sprinklers to trigger them throughout the building. Everyone living on the first floor had to be moved to another building and a lot of them had damaged electronics, etc., not to mention the damage to the building itself. I think they caught the person but I don’t know that for sure…</p>
<p>Happens in all dorms, which is why living in a dorm can suck. People don’t grow up right after they graduate after all.</p>
<p>Wow, OP. This was the exact situation in my hall during the first few months. And I mean down to the excretions found on stairwells.</p>
<p>I mean, it’s just mind boggling how barbaric, animalistic, childish, etc. these people can really be when you give them the freedom to go out and “mess stuff up”. You’d think these people actually inject themselves with pure adrenaline/testosterone. However, when you realize that you have to spend an entire semester/year with the same anima…<em>cough</em>…people all the time, you get used to it. </p>
<p>How the RA’s managed to solve this problem (as they do again and again and again and again, AND again and again and again and again): They charge you. They charged us for broken exit signs, fire alarms going off, tearing down signs, vandalism, etc. You name it, they charged us. Even if you didn’t commit the crime (because, honestly, there is absolutely no way for anyone important to know you did something like that), you were still charged. It sucks, but this was something they told us about during orientation. </p>
<p>So one could logically infer that NOT doing this would be common sense right? Well, ask the exit signs. :)</p>
<p>It works though because if we have payments due, then we aren’t able to request an unofficial/official transcript, which is a key component for academic advising week. We also wouldn’t be permitted to register for classes which, believe me, really sucks when you notice the amount of seats dropping the same exact way a feather wouldn’t.</p>
<p>When stuff gets damaged here, they go and look back the security cams. It’s pretty hard to get away with something.</p>
<p>I know a guy who punched a hole in the wall. He fessed up to it so no one else would get in trouble.</p>
<p>But seriously. That’s messed up. My freshman dorm isn’t anything like that.</p>
<p>I wonder if this is an issue at Ivy Leagues or other top schools.</p>
<p>Binders, of course it does. I went to a “top 10” school, was on a floor with a lot of engineers, and what iluvpiano described was a typical weekend at my school. People can get out of control when they’re away from home for the first time. Does it suck? Yeah. Do innocent people have to deal with it? Yeah. But it happened, it happens, and it probably will always happen.</p>
<p>someone tore the water fountain off the wall at a dorm at my uni, and the whole floor was flooded.</p>
<p>Wow that’s a lot. Only thing that happened in my freshman floor last year was someone accidentally started a small fire in their trash can but everything was fine and it went out right away. As far as being considerate and respecting property though there were never any issues.</p>