RE:(Vandalism in College) Topic of our choice for Francis paper because Heisman was too Vague.

Freshman Students living on the first floor of Toller Hall at Briar Cliff University last year were fined over 400 dollars each when numerous accounts of vandalism, theft and property damage that took place in the hallways, dorm rooms and on school property.  Now this year many student are wondering if the same bad behavior is going to happen again.

            Each year no matter what circumstances or amount of supervision, students at Briar Cliff University (any school really) tend to get a little rowdy in the halls during the afternoon hours.  Generally the damages that take place include broken ceiling tiles, clogged toilets, broken furniture and other simple things of that nature.  The punishments, according to the Briar Cliff University Student Handbook include: Fines, replacement costs, and repair costs for vandalism may be charged to groups, individuals, or portions of the campus community.  In some rare cases such as students, Manny Aranda and Jordon Murphy were asked to leave the Dorm Hall and find another means of housing.

            According to Carter Kruckenberg and Manny Aranda (both students at Briar cliff), there were over 400 dollars in fines assigned to every student living in the first floor of Toller Hall.  This is because of incidences such as:  Throwing machetes through dorm walls, defecation on student’s property, destruction of doors, arson and throwing rotten food through the hallways often resulting in broken windows.  It is undisclosed in alcohol may have been a factor in the students behavior.

            You might think that there would be more that fines for actions like these but there were no specification in the Student Handbook regarding actions as extreme as these.  “There was too much craziness to stay on top of things,” says Josh Hindman, the Toller floor Residence Assistant, “Whenever one incident was resolved there would be two more to replace it.”

            The behavior that you see in Toller Hall or any hall for that matter is not a rare occurrence in college.  At Sullivan County Community College, Jay Blotcher reports similar patterns involving fire extinguishers and vending machines.  The behavior seems to have no end in sight, but unless Resident Assistants change the way they punish the students, the dorm life will most likely no see any changes in the near future.