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<p>Depending on the local housing laws and the judge/jury if applicable, I’m not sure the fact the school delegated the running of on-campus apartments to a private company matters if issues of student health and public safety end up in play and come up in court…</p>
<p>I second advice to read the housing contract and consult with an attorney about this.</p>
<p>I just reread the original post and it sounds like they told the 5 girls they could move out. So, the concern is about the crazy girl? Or getting your kid into a safe place far away from her?</p>
<p>I love the line about firing up the helicopter and flying up! Priceless!
Any chance you can speak to the parents of the other girls (the ones that want to stick together) and address the dean of students as one unified group? That ca’s response is ignorant and indicates the need to go to the top. There are 5 girls whose lives are being adversely affected. This is unacceptable.</p>
<p>Sure, if the apartments are managed by an independent management company and there’s a maintenance issue, you contact the management company.</p>
<p>But if there’s a problem that the management company is refusing to address, then it becomes the school’s problem. And where, as here, it’s a safety issue (of pretty monumental proportions!), the school certainly has an interest in intervening sooner, rather than later.</p>
<p>The management company may be responsible for providing housing, but it’s the school that decides which students get assigned to that housing . . . and if, as it appears, there’s a student who should not be in student housing at all (due to safety concerns), that’s something the school, and not the management company, needs to address.</p>
<p>Of course, it’s unacceptable. And those 5 girls should move out. And it sounds like the CA told them they could do exactly that which sounds like a very good idea. </p>
<p>It also sounds like her unstable history is no secret. </p>
<p>At D’s school it is not the university who decides who lives in these apartments.</p>