I live in residence at the University of Windsor. My class schedule is horrific, occasionally going from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. with only a 1 hour break for lunch. On tuesday night, I prepared myself for this horrible ordeal by trying to go to sleep early.
No chance of that.
People were up, their drunken screams penetrating the paper-thin walls until 1:30 a.m.
And that's not the worst of it.
Somebody decided to liven up the look of the common-room by spitting huge gobs of spit all over the floor. You had to see it to believe how much spit there was. It was disgusting.
And,
A guy and a girl who had been together for about a week got into a huge, screaming breakup fight that lasted half the night.
And worst of all...
A fight broke out. It ended up that someone had pulled out a knife, and was chasing someone around the dorm. Do you know how harrowing it is to hear "Oh my God, he's gonna stab me!" and hear somebody chase someone else around the hallway? Not pretty. The police were called, and someone was kicked out of residence for posession of drugs.
This weekend, I came home to the small town of Leamington. There was a grade school dance. Apparently, a fight broke out there too, between a couple of girls. Again, police were called, and guess what:
The girls had heroin and crack on them! This is at a dance for grade 5-8's. My little grade 5 cousin was there. My sister works at the place.
This is a little bit too close to home.
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Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Holy @*&%!
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
Time to move Posted by andi330 (Member # 8572) on :
Wow. When I was in college we had Quiet Hours during the week. They were even enforced. Midnight or later and if someone came to your door and said, "Please be quiet," you had to be quiet. If it took multiple attempts, you could be turned in to the Civitas Council for violation of quiet hours. You could be fined or punished in some other way.
Posted by Dr Strangelove (Member # 8331) on :
How old were the girls who had heroin and crack on them? Were they chaperones or were they actually in 5-8th grade?
Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
Boy, am I glad I went to BYU.
Those poor grade-school kids. So many of them totally innocent and caught up in this trash. They deserve better. You deserve better. Sorry for your rough week!
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
My brother and a friend both went to the University of Windsor and neither reported such craziness in the residences. Can you speak to your RA and perhaps get some rules enforced? If not, is there a quieter or building you can move to?
There must be someone you can talk to.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Things like this thread and my own experiences growing up tend to make me give more credence to films like American Beauty than other people do, I think.
Posted by Tresopax (Member # 1063) on :
Standard college quiet time: 2:00 a.m.
Although seriously... how many classes are you taking that you can have 12 hours of class time in a day?
Posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick (Member # 9302) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tresopax: Standard college quiet time: 2:00 a.m.
Although seriously... how many classes are you taking that you can have 12 hours of class time in a day?
General engineering. My schedule worked out to almost nothing on T, Th, and F, and a whole crapload on M and W. Quiet hours start at 1:00 a.m., with 24 hour courtesy hours. The campus security is all right, but when someone pulls out a knife, what really is there to do? And the walls are paper-thin, with tons of reverb, so everything is amplified.
quote:Originally posted by Dr Strangelove: How old were the girls who had heroin and crack on them? Were they chaperones or were they actually in 5-8th grade?
I've only heard second-hand reports, but they all point to the 8th-graders. Although the end result is the same. Crack and heroin at a grade-school dance.
quote:Originally posted by Telperion the Silver: Holy @*&%!
My sentiments exactly. Posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick (Member # 9302) on :
Dude, something's wrong with the server.
Posted by Shanna (Member # 7900) on :
Is there another dorm you can transfer to? I was in a special honors dorm and it very nice about maintaining quiet hours (less because of enforcement and more because we were all overworked in classes). We had instances, of course. One night the boys snuck up on our floor and used my suite's door as a launching pad for a big game of shampoo-and-soap hallway slip 'n slide. And then there was the time a girl caught her roommate and a boy in their room, doing what college kids do, and she proceeded to break down the door and throw them naked into the hall. They slipped on their sheets and came right through our open suite door. Then there was the once a week midnight fire evacuation by some Physics major who couldn't work a microwave.
The knife thing is scary. Noise on the other hand is a part of that grand ole college experience.
I don't know what to say about the drugs at a school dance. Back at my 8th grade dance, I was still horrified at the choice in dance styles (interpretive coitus). How naive we were!
Posted by BandoCommando (Member # 7746) on :
This weekend, something happened in my old hometown to a graduate of my old high school. Apparently, a recently graduated person got drunk, depressed, and went home to his parent's house with a knife, threatening to kill himself.
Full story is linked here, but here's the short version.
His mother called the police, presumably in hopes that they could intervene and calm the young man down. But the young man became more agitated, screaming "Either I kill me or you kill me!" After about five minutes of this, the police fired bean-bag rounds at him, trying to get him to desist. The young man then made his way toward the front door of the house, apparently with the intention of harming those inside.
It was at this point that the police shot him dead.
The 911 call is also available here. The first 15 minutes of this file are an interview with the mother of the young man, but the last 8 minutes are a recording of the 911 call between the mother and the operator. In the background, you can hear the altercation, followed by gunshots, then not much else.
Truly heartwrenching to listen to.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Yeah, I think I'll be giving that one a pass.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Bando's story reminds me of a shooting that happened in Lawrence, Kansas in 1991, when the mother of a 22 year old man called the police to report that she was afraid that her son, Greg Sevier, who was drunk and sitting in his room holding a butcher knife, was suicidal. She requested that a specialist be sent to "talk him down". Officers were dispatched, and shot him fatally. In the process they wounded his sister, who had been in the next room (bullets passed through the wall and struck her). The officers claimed that Sevier had lunged at them, though family members claim that he simply stood up from the bed he'd been sitting on.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
I posted a link from Cato where they had mapped the U.S. with a ton of incidents like that. I can repost it again,if needed.
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