One more bit on the "If I don't see it, it doesn't exist" rule amongst RAs.
RA's are students. They have to worry about the same things as every other student...grades, finances, etc.
Not only do they have to worry about the same stuff, they also have to deal with idiotic training requirements put on them by the college. They have to worry about all sorts of other stupid, petty, administrative crap.
They do not go out looking for more trouble. They do not go out looking for students to get into trouble.
They don't have to.
Idiotic students find the RA's, instead.
Just one example.
When I was an RA, the dorm I was in had an idiotic "check-in" policy. All visitors after a certain hour had to "check in" at the front desk and leave a signature and an ID.
The college put that stupid rule into effect after a highly-publicized "dorm incident" involving what may or may not have been a gang rape and some athletes. The question at the heart of the matter was if the alleged rape victim had or had not been witnessed dancing on a table at a local nightclub loudly proclaiming to everyone within ear shot that she was going to go home with the athletes and get her freak on with all of them.
Regardless if it actually was rape or not, after the incident, the college was covering its own ass and basically doing a big "public relations" move by putting in idiotic rules to pacify all the mommies and daddies and to convince all the good people that they weren't sending little Johnny and little Susie off to Sodom and Gomorrah where they would be regularly gang-raped in their dorm rooms.
So, there's the sign-in and leave your ID rule in effect after 8:00 pm.
When that is the policy, and you know it is the policy, it is a bad idea to be 18 years old, and check in and leave your ID while you carrying two cases of beer that you have sit down on the RA's desk while you sign in and leave your own, actual ID (that shows you are only 18) and leave the actual number of the actual dorm room you are transporting your illegally owned beer to.
Forest Gump's momma was right on. Stupid is as stupid does.
And no, I am not kidding here.
I actually had to bust somebody who was stupid enough to be an 18-year-old in public possession of two cases of beer (Busch Lite) and who publically carried the two cases of beer right up to my desk, signed his own name to the list, put down which room he was taking his illegally possessed beer to, and left his real driver's license that showed he was only 18 at the time he was toting the two cases of Busch Lite.
When I was an RA for one year, I also had to bust folks who failed to close their dorm room door while lighting up their joints....If you're gonna smoke-a da weed, at least close-a da door.
I mean, c'mon.................
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