<p>RA came into our room and searched our drawers after a noise complaint. What are the consequences?</p>
<p>Depends on what they found.</p>
<p>you have an issue like this and the place you turn for answers is CC? X_X </p>
<p>You need to make an appt with Student Legal at UCLA. Its free. I’m no attorney, but I don’t see how the RA had the right to search drawers. If the RA has a reason to enter like a noise complaint and sees alcohol in plain sight, that’s one thing. going thru drawers?</p>
<p>Something sounds fishy to me about this whole post</p>
<p>Next time, if you’re breaking rules, learn to do it with tact. Put your booze in innocent soda containers with matching colors. Or if you want to hedge a little, use opaque containers. </p>
<p>Also, I agree with mikemac, RAs shouldn’t be going through anyone’s drawers. If I lived in a dorm (which I wouldn’t do in a million years) I’d expect a modicum of privacy. A noise complaint probably wouldn’t be enough to start searching drawers.</p>
<p>UCLA might be a different story because it’s a public school, but at a private school I believe the RA would certainly be legally allowed to search a resident’s drawers.</p>
<p>It is absurd to search drawers after a noise complaint though.</p>
<p>I hope you file a complaint against the RA. I am doubting there was a legal right there.</p>
<p>About him writing you up…no one outside of the school will ever care. My husband and I got written up sooo much toward the end there. I mean, he had a room, I had a room, we were on the same floor, and we got written up being accused of living together. We got called in eventually by a head of the dorm who told me that she met her husband in college and she understands, but my husband should consider saying hi to his roommate on occasion, and not being in my room after hours. Schools in the south have visiting hours! Soon, we graduated and his first job after that (that was a graduate student dorm by the way, I felt it was condescending to treat us like little children) was for Texas Instruments, where he worked on defense contracts, which met a security clearance. He had no problem getting it.</p>