I must agree, but then I'm in a pretty biased mood right now. See, I'm an RA at my college and the reason I'm typing this at 3:00 am is that I tried to enforce the rules and get everyone to turn off stereos, stop shouting and singing at the top of their lungs, and either bring their guests inside or send them home (it's one of those no-tell motel type dorms--all the rooms open onto walkways around the building.)
Unfortunately, the residents are upperclassmen who have been conditioned to believe that they're special because they live in "the party dorm" and don't have to follow rules or have consideration for others. So at 2:00 am, when my head resident and I tried to get people to observe the quiet hours (residents can do anything but play loud music or shout a great deal; non-residents have to leave unless they're staying with someone here. Strict, huh?) We were verbally abused, threatened, and then the security guards were verbally abused and threatened. Finally these drunken morons decided they would simply lock the door and start playing their music at top volume (which shakes my walls.)
Only one room got so much as a dinky noise ticket. The only reason that one got a ticket was that the HR had to leave for a moment and it became my call. He refused to do anything to even the people who shouted him down, threatened him, and are still making noise outside as I type this. He also refused to let the security guards take any action or call the city police in to shut the party down. So they're still out there, making noise because they can, and someone just threw a beer can off third floor balcony. But I am not going out there. I've learned from long experience that the administration and the HR WANT it this way. They don't want me to make waves, they don't want me to write tickets. When I do, nothing comes of them because the admin refuses to do anything. One night a drunken idiot kept me up until 6:00 am by shouting and arguing with me; he told me in so many words that he "(would) make sure you stay up until 6:00 am, cause I can, and you're an a**hole." He was right; he COULD keep me up until 6:00 am, and when he appeared in front of the deans to answer for his writeup, signed by the head security guard as a witness, for public intoxication, disorderly conduct, noise violations, and littering, he was sentenced to write a letter of apology to me. No fine, no other punishment. It took him four weeks to get me a one-paragraph letter.
The part that galls me is that, as someone pointed out above, this guy is RIGHT. He knows he can do whatever he wants and there is no consequence; he knows it doesn't matter what the truth is because the deans will help him make his own as needed. Same thing with the group tonight; they are convinced utterly that they are well within their rights to be as loud and annoying as they wish as late as they wish, and anyone who dares challenge or limit that right is an a**hole.
I think it's bedtime now. See this while you can because I may have to delete it in the morning. . . .
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Don
"Its not criminals that go into schools and shoot children"
--Ann Pearston, British Gun Control apologist and moron
