By Becky Snider, Blotter Reporter
The campus seems well?dead. Just take a walk through the quad and down by Rouzer past midnight any night of the week and you can tell. Useless snow and ice coupled with freezing temperatures will do that. Thus, we must prepare for spring early this year. How do we accomplish this? By drinking of course!
The hotspots on campus include Rouzer Hall (no surprise there) and the gym. Seven different incidents involving alcohol were documented between February 9 and February 21. Rouzer seems to be as lively as ever.
And that’s not just the alcohol talking either. Well, perhaps in the case of the two signs that were broken off a wall in Rouzer it was. Now tell me? What is the point of breaking signs? It just makes a mess and let’s face it: someone always has to take the blame.
Speaking of blame, can we really charge those in Rouzer who consistently discharge fire extinguishers? I mean they are only there to save your life, you know, in case of a fire.
Perhaps we should ask the students who attempted to gain entry to a room in Rouzer on February 17 sometime after 2:30 a.m. Though they probably wouldn’t have been able to tell anyone anything at that point, not after they had disrespected a college official, failed to comply with Campus Safety, violated quiet hours and caused disorderly conduct.
Apparently a similar thing happened several hours earlier when officers observed an intoxicated student trying to gain entry into Decker. The student was taken to Carroll Hospital Center (CHC) due to alcohol.
The night of February 17 must have been the night to party. In further rebellion of the coming week, someone in Blanche decided that he would streak through the halls. Officers responded to a complaint of a nude individual just after 4:30 a.m.
There must be something in the water over at Blanche. “Several students have been causing destruction of college owned property and disturbing other members of the floor since the beginning of the year.” Your guess is as good as mine on which floor that would be.
As for what has been happening at the gym, it looks like the draw of Sandella’s is just too much. Students are getting overexcited and breaking things, triggering false fire alarms. Though I suppose the accidental fire alarm could be ruled out since it was triggered by impact from a basketball. Weird, huh?
I don’t think the two students documented for property destruction, drunk and disorderly conduct and underage alcohol possession just past midnight on Saturday the 16 could be an accident though. Seems that it’s all the rage to break things now; first there were the signs and now it’s lights.
Compared to Rouzer and the gym, the rest of the campus is rather tame. The only noteworthy incidents happened in DMC and Blanche. Someone decided that DMC was rather lacking in decoration and thought that “hey why not add my own?” A report of graffiti on a dorm room door was received on February 11 at 11:46 p.m.
Well there is the rant for alcohol this semester. But wait, there is something missing, isn’t there? Correct you are. Whiteford has been inescapably quiet these past few weeks. Think they’re waiting for spring to arrive to stir things up? Could be. We’ll just have to cross our fingers and wait.