Story

Dan Oltersdorf Colorado State University -------------------

I was in my room and heard some people yelling outside. I went out and they started talking to me about how they got "set up" by an RA. One of the residents had a flask and was sitting in our lounge. When an RA came by on rounds, she noticed the flask and asked if it had alcohol in it. He said yes, and offered her a drink, at which point she had to explain that she was an RA. The residents later swore that she was drunk, when she was actually just trying to be friendly while making the contact!

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This occurred around the middle of the fall semester. I have to say this so you understand that most residents knew how to find their way around the dorms. Also our building is rather small, so it doesn't take long to figure out....anyway, I was on the 3rd floor and a resident of that floor is frantically wandering around , she stops me and says, "How do you get to first floor?" Me, wondering how on earth she could not understand this, simply stated "you go down the stairs"

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An Ra on staff with me was making her last round of the night when she heard a males voice coming from a resident's room. This was a problem because visiting hours were over. She knocked on the door and everything fell silent. No one came to the door so she went down the hall and got another RA to help. Both being first year RAs thought they may need the assistance of a more experienced person so they called a third RA (half of the staff). They thought about it and decided what to do. One RA went to the office and called the room while the other 2 stayed outside the residents door. The call was made and sure enough the young lady answered the phone. The RA identified herself and asked the girl if there were any guys in the room. The resident assured her that there weren't and agreed for the RA to check the room. Just as the phone was hung up the door opened and out came this guy and the resident. Of course the other 2 RAs were there waiting!

Name:

Katie Partington

School:

UCLA

Story

Okay so this is actually a bit quirky, but the funniest incident report I ever wrote involved people throwing cheese. I was on duty, and in another RA's room when a resident knocked on his door asking where to get some ice because a girl had been hit in the eye. When I asked what happened, I was told that two guys had been throwing small cheeses (those red ones) in the hall and had pelted a girl in the eye with a misthrow and then taken off. We have a strict policy against throwing things in the hallways so I had to document the situation, even though I was unable to locate the "alleged cheese throwers". In the report, I had witnesses commenting on how far the cheese was being thrown and the speed of the cheese upon impact with the girl's eye. I almost died laughing when I read my report. It was like a Wisconsin police scene.

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During Fall Check-In a freshman resident walked up to me at the desk and asked me for his room number even though he had been living there for about three days. I looked up his information and told him that he lived in 321. He then proceeded to ask me if that room was on the 2nd Floor. Surprised, I looked at him and simply told him to try the 3rd Floor.

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One night Fall semester my duty partner fell asleep and forgot to meet up with me for rounds. I ended up checking the floors myself, which includes checking the fire door/stairwell. There are 2 stairwells, one on each side of every floor. One side is used by students to go from one floor to the next, and the other is only a fire exit --it's locked. So we check these doors to make sure they're locked. I was checking the door on one floor and a girl was sitting out in the hall. She gave me a really strange look because I don't think she knew I was an RA and thought I was trying to use the stairs. It was an awkward moment. I was laughing as I walked away.

School:

A college in Virginia

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OOPS! Well, I'm a new RA and have been trying to get to know my residents. To do this, I've been trying to get a lot of face time with them. I was going door to door to say "HI!" and to tell the residents about an upcoming program. I knocked on the FIRST door and heard, "Come in. No! Wait! Who is it?" I paused and said my name. Then I heard, "Um....Just a minute!" About two minutes later they came to the door and would only open it part of the way. We chatted for a minutes and they gave me some excuse about not being dressed, etc... I finished up with them and moved to the next door down. The two girls I had just spoke to went into their suitemates room. Mind you, the door was WIDE open and I was only about 10 feet away from it. And I hear, "Oh my god! You guys won't believe what just happened. We were sitting there studying and the RA came to the door. We only had like 6 or 7 candles burning!" (which is a violation at our school). She went on to say, "Yeah. And I spilled one of them all over me as we tried to hide it. I went to the door and I had candle wax all over my shoes, hands, and sleeves! I couldn't believe it!" Well, I couldn't believe it either! Hadn't they ever heard of SHUTTING THE DOOR?! I walked back around the corner and said, "Hi ladies!" I thought one of them was going to pass out!

Name:

Kristen Glin

School:

Northern Illinois University

Story

This incident happened when I was a new RA. I had been hired in the middle of the semester on a floor of Engineering students. One night I woke up to shouts in the hallway at 3 am. I opened my door to see a stream of water running past my door. I looked to my left and saw water gushing out of the bathroom which was five doors down!!! There was water gushing everywhere like a fire hydrant! I began trying to wake up residents to warn them that their rooms were flooded. The rooms across from the bathroom had an inch or two of water in them already! Anyway we finally got the water stopped. WE found out later that one of the residents had gotten drunk and tried to take the sink off the wall to put it in his friend's room! It did 7000.00 worth of damage!

Name:

Kevin

School:

Rhode Island College

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I was doing rounds one night when I heard screams of help coming from the elevator. Alarmed, I pressed the button and the door opened. Apparently, this freshman was new to the elevator concept: She was trying to get to the 3rd floor, but the elevator was on the 3rd floor, so the door wouldn't open...she thought she was stuck!!

Name:

Erik Hart

School:

Western Illinois University

Story

It was the first weekend of school and everyone was out looking for parties and all the new students were wandering around campus. I was sitting in the lobby at 12:30am when a freshman walked by carrying a large duffle bag. The bag seemed heavy, suspecting alcohol, but as I looked at the bad I noticed someting. There was this trail of water and it was coming from the bottom of the bag. I asked the person to stop and open the bag, he complied and I saw 20 cans of beer. The reason the bag was leaking was that the person covered the beer in ice to keep it cold. When I asked him why he said he did not like warm beer; I almost busted out laughing.

Name:

R.

School:

San Jose State University

Story

My very first morning as an RA I had tons of energy and decided that I would get up early and put good luck signs on everyone's door. I opened my door at 6am to find a resident there saying that someone was passed out in the bathroom. Upon checking I found a person (since residents had only been there 24 hours I didn't know his name or what floor he lived on). I couldn't wake him so I called the University Police. He had black crust on his forehead and, being naive, I thought maybe he had electrocuted himself. After the police arrived and woke him up we realized that he had gotten so drunk the night before that he had passed out and gone to the bathroom on himself (hence the black crust). He had drunken so much that he was still drunk, not just hungover... I still consider that my initiation.

Name:

Richard Santangelo

School:

William Paterson University Of New Jersey

Story

We have a hard time delivering Judicial notices to our residents. They either look through the peep hole and see that it is an Ra and do not answer the door, or if they do answer the door they say that they are someone else and that the person we are looking for is not home. So The Resident Director came up with a good idea. They get a slip in the Mail box saying that they have a very important package in the mail. When they come to pick it up they find themselves signing for a judicial slip instead?

Name:

Katie McGranor

School:

Hocking College

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I was standing in my doorway one evening, just watching the halls, when a gentle man came through the door and stopped at every door for some reason. I wasn't wearing my glasses, so i wasn't quite sure what he was doing, until he reached my door and attempted to steal my dry erase marker. I asked him what he was doing and he said "ah, nothing." I looked at his hand and he had at least 4 dry erase markers, that he had stolen off the doors. I asked him why he was stealing markers and he replied "I was just being stupid." I made him replace all the markers and write an apology on everyone's door. What a way to start a life of crime!!!!

Name:

Meg Murray

School:

University of Illinois

Story

I had gone to bed early because I had pulled an all-nighter the night before. I must have been super tired or something, because I forgot to put on any pants! well, wouldn't you know, but someone pulled the fire alarm that night. So, i jumped out of bed and ran into the hallway to get my residents to evacuate the building...well, nobody would leave the hallway cause they were too busy laughing at me!! there i was standing in a t-shirt and underwear! it was very funny. now everytime i walk down the hallway i get cat calls and everything!! my residents will never let me forget that one :)

Name:

Paul Osincup

School:

University of Northern Colorado

Story

There was a call to the front desk that there was a man downstairs going through peoples' clothes in the laundry room. When we brought him upstairs, he was wearing a mechanic's jumpsuit. When the police arrived, they unzipped the jumpsuit, and found that he had some pot, and cocaine on him. They also found that he was wearing several articles of women's lingerie. When the police took him back to the station, they noticed that he was walking funny, so they did a body cavity search, and found that he had a potato wrapped in a condom up his butt. It was a cool night.

Name:

Melisa

School:

Baylor University

Story

One of my friends rented the movie Color of Night one night because she heard it was a good plot. We didn't have time to watch it that night so the next day we decided to watch it. I was busy with some other things at the time so I didn't realize that a really scene had started. At first it was playing music while the scene took place but then the music stopped and the actress started moaning. Now in our hall the walls are really thin so a couple of my residents and their guy friends heard it (It was during visiting hours) and came to my room. The first thing they said was "Are you watching a porno?" My friend and I jokingly said yes and then one of the guys asked if he could come in and watch. It was so embarrassing. To clear the record I am not that kind of girl.

Name:

David Chambers

School:

Millsaps College

Story

During the spring parties of the fraternities on campus (which can be a little crazy), the guys in my hall decided to "redecorate" the hall bathroom. I come in at one time, the one of the two stall walls in the bathroom and been broken and parts of the stall wall were all over the floor. So picture this, a hall bathroom with 2 stalls and 1 urinal. ON of the stall walls is missing and so you see a stall wall and then an open toilet. I leave for 30 minutes, come back in and notice that the guys finished their decoration of the bathroom. The second stall wall was now down and parts all over the floor. If the first one was not funny enough, now we had a bathroom with 2 open toilets and one urinal. If I could only upload a picture of this. Since this happened about 2 weeks ago, the hall has had endless number of people coming to see the "open air" bathroom. The guys on the hall have talked about starting to charge people to see the bathroom inorder to raise enough money to pay for it.

Name:

School:

Story

Let me just tell you a little about our dorm -- it is sure to make you laugh, just because you don't have to live with it! Anyways -- our dorm is fairly large (400+ people), it is a tower (8 stories) and it is known as a party dorm. People who live there are largely athletes (VERY big guys) and freshmen. We have had many, many incidents this year, but let me just share a few: we had a sink ripped out of the wall, causing a flood on the floor; we had several bathroom mirrors "mysteriously" broken as they fell from the wall; we had a toilet AND THE ENTIRE SURROUNDING TOILET STALL ripped from the wall and thrown out a window; we have had feces in showers, feces on RA doors, etc.; two arrests; a variety of medical emergencies; yet another toilet stall vanished; study lounge tables thrown out windows; tv's thrown out windows (yes, our guys are obsessed with their windows all of a sudden); stereos thrown down the stairs; study lounge windows punched and shattered; residents tied to chairs and placed in the elevator to ride helplessly up and down; I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff, but you get the idea. So next time you think that your building is bad, think about us! We survive with a lot of close friendships among the RAs and big smiles on our faces. If your dorm IS worse than ours, take heart, we feel your pain!!! :) (ps -- please don't get the idea that we are not doing our jobs -- we are! I guarantee that if YOU lived here, it would be just as chaotic! it's not a reflection on us, sometimes things just get a little wacky!)

Name:

Michael

School:

University Of Idaho

Story

I always put the date up on my board. Well, April 20th came around and I had written on my board, "Don't forget the date, 4-20. Well, this was an innocent reminder of the day. That night a drunk student comes up to me as I was standing in the hallway. He looked both ways, and then quietly asked if I could get him some weed. I looked dumbfounded at him, and then replied. Do you realize who your talking too. I showed him my badge and he turned so red. I laughed and told him I didn't have any weed, but I sure do have an incident report I'll need you to sign.

Name:

School:

RIC

Story

I was on duty and a resident said "hey Chris can you come downstairs for a minute?" I went to get my keys and then followed the girl downstairs. On our way down I asked her what the problem was. She said there is a girl passed out on the bathroom floor. (nice of her to tell me sooner) I proceeded down to the suite and she said "you may not like the way she is." I asked her to elaborate and she told me that she had no clothes on and was laying in a pile of vomit. She apparently passed out while taking a dump and puking. She was laying in a pile of vomit and shit, with no clothes on. I was shocked. I checked to see if she had a pulse and called the hall director. This was by far one of my worst situations.

Name:

Sean Favreau

School:

Johnson & Wales University

Story

The Vomit experience: I don't know how it is for RA's at your school but at JWU we sometimes get the great honor and privilege of cleaning up someone else's vomit. Well here's how my encounter goes... i got a call at 2:00 am that someone had vomited in the main stairwell. This wasn't my first time dealing with vomit so I went right for the bodily fluid cleanup kit. I headed to the stairwell thinking, just get it done and go to bed. I opened the stairwell door and there was more vomit than I would have thought possible for five people to throw up, it was the nastiest thing i had ever seen. It started up two floors from the lobby and was everywhere (walls, floors, rails you name it, it was there) It looked like they were filming a scene from the exorcist or something. Being the professional that i am i rolled up my sleeves and got to work, one and a half hours and three bodily fluid cleanup kits later i finished.

Name:

Emily

School:

Indiana University

Story

I am an RA for a 4 floor unit. While making a visit to the floor above mine, I heard some girls yell really loudly, "Crap! Emily is on the floor!" Of course I knew immediately that they were up to some rule-breaking! I went to their door and knocked and waited.... A few minutes later, they opened the door where I saw smoke coming from freshly-burnt candles (a big no no). So I just said, "If you guys are doing something that you don't want me to know about, don't yell so loud that I can hear you!" Seeing how foolish they felt, i decided to just give them a warning about the candles! :)

Name:

John Malonson

School:

UCLA

Story

One day I was on duty responding to an emergency call. When I arrived there was a girl sitting on the floor with a bloody gash on her head. Concerned, I radioed for the EMT's (Emergency Medical Team). While I was waiting for them to arrive I asked some of her friends what happened. One the friends proceeded to tell me that they were bored and decided to make a bet. The bet was that the girl could not jump from the top of one bunked bed to the top of the other lofted bed on the other side of the room. Well, the girl succeeded in making the jump but miscalculated her velocity and acceleration due to the fact that she hit her head on the wall which caused her to fall backwards out of the bed. Imagine me trying to be calm and reassuring when I just wanted to explode with laughter. When the EMT's and police finally arrived, I went into the stairway for a second and laughed hysterically. John

Name:

School:

Story

I was working the desk when one of the residents walked up to me. He asked if that was all the mailboxes, pointing to the hall's mailboxes. I told him yes. He had been looking at the code on his key for his correct mailbox instead of the room number. I told him that you didn't go by the code. Then, I proceeded to ask him where he lived, and he started to tell me where he lived before he came to college. I then stopped him, and told him that I needed his room number.

Name:

Jessica Frank

School:

Augustana College

Story

I had the supreme misfortune to be on duty Homecoming night this past year. On 8 pm rounds, the other CA and I walked past a door as the person was coming out--holding a can of beer. We had to go in and take care of the situation. While we were in there, the other guys were giving us total attitude (I should mention that they were freshmen) and just plain not cooperating. I had to laugh out loud, though, when one of the guys tried to reason with me with a 'tude by saying, "It's homecoming weekend and all the parties are closed. Where ELSE were we supposed to drink??"

Name:

MO

School:

Penn State University

Story

alright, so it's the night before Halloween and i got back (around 2am) from one of my friend's costume parties and was sober (i swear) and i went down the hall to talk to one of my residents and came back to my room about a half hour later to go to sleep. as i am clearing off my bed (covered with clothes and random junk) i see a mess of vomit on my pillow, blankets... carpet.. out the hallway and down to the men's restroom! i freaked. then i saw a pair of sneakers and a water bottle sitting on the floor next to my bed. i then put up a sign asking if someone lost their sneakers and to see the RA if they did. after some wondrous help from some of my residents, i did some laundry and slept in my comfy chair. the next day i found out that they belonged to one of MY residents. he didn't remember a thing! needless to say i put him in an alcohol intervention program (the ADVANCED class!).

Name:

Paul

School:

San Jose State University

Story

My second semester as an RA, my staff and I were used to filling out duty logs and some of them got pretty interesting. One night I opened up the log book and read the report, which read, "saw residents on the 7th floor drinking, smoking, playing loud music, with underagedstudents. Could not document...not enough evidence."

Name:

Andy Beyer, RA

School:

Moorhead State University

Story

During the 1998/1999 school year, my first year as an RA, I caught my residents watching a porn movie out in the lounge. Not very funny, but hey, THEY BONDED!!!

Name:

Don Francis

School:

Ripon College

Story

I and the other RA for the building were doing those dreaded Room Condition Report forms before the students arrived. We had a good system down where I would write everything down (because I had good penmanship) and he would look at everything in the room, from the dresser drawers to the closet shelves to the smoke detector's battery (he was 6'5"). The last room was upon us. We were excited to finally be finished. As I wrote down the last "good," I noticed the smoke detector's cover was missing. I asked my RA partner about it. He said it was there. I looked on the RCR... it said it was there, too. He looked under the bed, I looked under the other bed. He looked in the closet, I looked in the desk drawer. Then I saw it. It was in his hand the whole time.

Name:

Fred Ramsey

School:

University of TN at Martin

Story

It was my first year on staff. On of my better residents, had asked me to call his girlfriend and ask her to deliver his clothes. I had tried to call her, but I could not reach her. I later found out that the couple had a falling out. She had taken his clothes and just threw them somewhere. The police was called and we threw a manhunt for some underwear and socks. We found them later out in front of another residence hall. In retrospect this whole episode was quite funny. The girl later caused some roommate conflicts and was sent to another residence hall anyway.

Name:

School:

WKU

Story

One day during the first week of school while I was working the desk one of the girls in my hall, which is predominantly freshmen, called. She asked me if they needed a TV cable. When I told them yes, they then asked what they should do if theirs wasn't long enough. I said that they would then have to get a longer one. The next thing they asked was if the front desk had TV cables for them to use. After they were told that they would have to go buy one, all they said was oh.

Name:

trey

School:

southeatern louisiana university

Story

I was in my room and another RA came to get me to help with an open house bust. He told me that when he was leaving the restroom he saw a guy peeking through the window in the door at the end of the hall and knew that the resident had a female with him. He saw her duck under the door and go outside while he came in to get the phone for her. The RA went upstairs and stood on the ledge on the second floor above them and was watching and waiting. The resident said to the girl, "Wait here while I see if he is around the corner." He came back and told the girl to hurry and they ran in and my friend followed and saw what room they went into. He then came and got me and we went to the room. I knocked on the door heard shuffling and the resident opened the door in his briefs. I asked ,"Is there a female in the room?" The resident responded, wide eyed," No sir." I asked again and the resident lowered his head and said not looking at me or my fellow RA, looking disgusted, "Yes sir." He shut the door and when he did the other RA and I laughed at the look of shock that was on his face when he saw us there. They followed us to the desk and filled out paperwork and she was very pissed at the resident that they had been caught and I asked," Where did you hide her?" The resident responded, ashamed, "Under the bed." We assured him that he was not the first open house violation and definitely not the last. My fellow RA and I were laughing out asses off after they signed their paperwork and left cause of how shocked he was at getting caught. It was funny as hell.

Name:

Brandy

School:

Ohio University

Story

It was my 2nd quarter as a RA. I was on weekend duty and had just finished 2:30am rounds. Well, I asked the women in the room next to me to turn their radio down so that I could get some sleep, and while I was there, I reminded them to lock their door because we had had some vandalism occur in some of the rooms the previous night.

Well, the next morning, I got a knock on my door at about 9am. I opened it to find my resident (who I had warned the previous night) standing there. She asked me to come look in her room, so I followed her. It turns out that she had gone out after I had talked to her and had forgot to lock her door when she came back. While she was sleeping, someone had entered her room and had used the bathroom (#2) on her floor. It was so disgusting. I don't think she ever forgot to lock her door after that.

Name:

Nathan Lee

School:

Texas Tech University

Story

Early one Saturday morning, about 3 a.m. I was awakened by a girl yelling in the room next door. It was well past visitation and this had been a continuous problem on my floor. Fed up with it and too tired to walk room to room, I stood in the middle of the hallway and yelled at the top of my lungs, "It is now 3 a.m.! If you are a female and in my hall you should have been out two hours ago. I will give you thirty seconds to leave and after that I start pounding on doors!" Nine young ladies immediately exited from different rooms all along the hall. I escorted them out and returned to bed.

Name:

Maggie

School:

Towson University

Story

I'm an RA in a high rise building, on a floor of mostly freshman, that is fully equipped with trash chutes on ever floor. It was during the 1st week of school and I heard a lot of commotion out by the elevators I open my door and there are all my residents with huge bags of trash waiting for the elevator. I asked them what they were doing and they said going to throw their trash away. They were all going to ride the elevator down 13 floors in order to throw their trash away in the lobby!!

Name:

Karen McManus

School:

University of Alaska - Fairbanks

Story

One day I was getting ready for classes with my sister, who loves to come and borrow my clothes. I was on duty the night before, so my door sign said "On duty - come in!". My sister went out to use the drinking fountain and I heard a faint knock on the door moments later. I yelled "Sheesh, Colleen, come in!" and in walked a male resident - and I was in my bra! He looked at me, his eyes got huge and then he looked at the floor and mumbled "ugh...locked myself out?" I was mortified!

Name:

School:

Story

I was the first floor RA in a building of four floors and whenever I did rounds in my building my friends on other floors would ask "Don't you belong on the first floor?" so one day I stepped out of my room without my glasses on and with my unaided sight I shouted to my pal "Hey! What are you doing here? This is my floor!" to my surprise the guy turned and ran out of the building. I gave chase, wondering why he had reacted so strangely at the front door I asked the DA if my pal had just gone outside and she said, "NO, but that guy just ran in here without checking in, good job scaring him off!"

Name:

Ryan McCrea

School:

University of Southern Indiana

Story

Hi, My name is Ryan I am an Ra at Greek Court at my college. I know what you are thinking Greek Court. Despite one night while a fellow Ra Jared was on rounds he received a strange phone call. The phone call was from one of the frat houses on campus. The frat guy on the phone was telling Jared he really needed to come to this party they were throwing. Jared told them he would be there in a minute. He was with three other Ra's and security. Sucks to be that guy. His frat brothers are looking for him til this day.

Name:

A nony mouse

School:

SHSU

Story

It is generally understood that RAs could be called on at anytime day or night by residents. Unfortunately, this courtesy is extended to the idiotic residents too. And when I say idiotic, I mean a resident knocking on my door at 3 in the morning to ask if she could get a coke from the machine in the lobby.

Name:

Enrique

School:

WVU

Story

I was on duty one night, and I received a call from a resident on a different floor that one of the rooms on their floor had some strange sounds coming out of it, when i went down to check it out, it turns out their where some strange sounds coming out of the room. All I know is there was a lot of praying going on in that room, because I heard "oh God", and "oh my god" screamed a few times coming out of that room gotta love my coworkers.

Name:

TE

School:

Averett College, Danville, Virginia

Story

One night while I was on duty, I was standing in the stairway at around 12:10 (visitation ends at 12:00, but stairways are neutral ground) and two women walk past me onto my male hall. I followed them and asked them to leave, which they did. When I was doing rounds about 15 minutes later, I found them in the room of one of the guys on my hall. I wrote them up because I had asked them to leave 15 minutes earlier. I did rounds again and came back to my room only to find that one of them had left a signed note on my door asking me to call her to clarify why she had been written up. (so she broke visitation again by coming onto my hall to leave a note) When I got back into my room, the phone rang and sure enough, it was them asking why they had been written up. I tried to explain it to them, but they woke up their RA and had me talk to her and explain the situation. I thought that my fellow RA had fully conveyed the message, but the girls decided to break visitation a fourth time by coming onto my hall again and knocking on my door at 1am. I escorted them to a stairway where it took me about twenty minutes to explain the visitation policy to them once again. What is surprising is that one of the two girls is a junior and knows the rules very well.

If someone is dumb enough to break the same policy four times in one hour, one has to wonder how they even made it into college.

Name:

School:

Story

After several incidents of vandalism only after the second week of school I put up signs around the dorm saying, "NOTICE: ACTS OF VANDALISM ARE SUBJECT TO DISCIPLINARY ACTION." Well, one day I was walking out of my room when a friend (who doesn't attend the university) was with one of my residents noticed the sign. He read the sign, laughed, and then kicked the chair that was in the lobby (with me right behind him). His friend just looked at him and looked at me and said, "um..... that's my RA." He felt really stupid, and I just had to laugh :)

Name:

School:

Story

I was planning to meet with my RD in my room. I asked him to wait outside before I let him in so I could clean up my messy bedroom. He looked kind of suspicious and insisted that it couldn't be that bad. I didn't want him to think that I was hiding anything terrible in my room so I let him in warning him that he would soon know way too much about what I had done the night before. When I opened the door he looked in to find my mattress on the floor and several empty condom wrappers on the ground. All he said was, "Well, at least you safe." and he walked out of the room.

Name:

Chris

School:

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Story

Every week at our staff meetings we nominate a staff member as "Geek of the Week." This is the person who had done the stupidest thing that week. One of our female staff members came out of her room and noticed that only every third light was on in the hallway. She immediately freaked out and started to write up a work order to get the lights fixed. She had written a rather extensive note to the other RA on the floor as well as the Hall Director. When her co-RA read the note she went down to the other RA's room and said I can fix this problem for you and proceeded to flip on the light switch.

Name:

School:

Story

I was on duty one weekend when I received a call from the campus police, they had received a call from someone who heard a girl screaming help from a room on the 2nd floor (a guys floor). I went to check it out, it turned out to be a guy watching Titanic and what the person had heard was the people on the ship screaming help as the boat went down.

Name:

Jeffrey C. Aiello

School:

Western Illinois University

Story

I was going to take a shower in my bathroom, but first I wanted to go to the bathroom. After I finished my business I stood up and flushed the toilet. Well, the water was turned up to high and everything shot out over me. I ran to the shower and cleaned off. Later that week I heard a residents scream while in the bathroom and so I rushed in. I was greeted by a soaking wet resident who had lost the same fight I did with that toilet.

Name:

Jeffrey C. Aiello

School:

Western Illinois University

Story

I was going to take a shower in my bathroom, but first I wanted to go to the bathroom. After I finished my business I stood up and flushed the toilet. Well, the water was turned up to high and everything shot out over me. I ran to the shower and cleaned off. Later that week I heard a residents scream while in the bathroom and so I rushed in. I was greeted by a soaking wet resident who had lost the same fight I did with that toilet.

Name:

Ken

School:

University of Hawaii at Hilo

Story

My dorm is an alcohol free dorm. As me and my partner were sitting in the front desk. We observed one of our residents carry a 1/2 case of beer and couple of bottles. We approached the resident and he told us that they were not his and he was delivering for a friend in the apartment building. We told him that he was going to have to dump all the alcohol on ground. We told him according to our dorm rules all alcohol must be dumped out. As we were dumping out the alcohol, he began to cry. I asked him why he was crying. He said he was crying, because he was going to have pay everyone back, since he did not deliver the beer. Approximately 15 minutes later, we saw the individual come to our desk and said in a low tone of voice, if one of us could unlock his door. I opened his door for him. Through out the walk to his room, he never lifted his head once.

Name:

School:

Story

This was just before winter break and the building was almost empty. My staff and I were hanging out in the lounge and heard noises from the window. When we look out the window, there are about 8 naked pledges (Well, they weren't completely naked, they had on socks) outside the frat house across the street from our dorms. They're running in the street yelling and stopping traffic. Then they run off into the night. We thought it was over until about 20 minutes later four them come out of nowhere and run back into the frat house. Wondering where the rest of them were we sat and waited. By this time one of my staff members had already called campus security and when the last four guys showed up, so did the cops. Three of the guys made it into the house but one of them got stuck on the wrong side of the street. He was hiding behind a camper while the cops were questioning the frat guys. He was out there so long that people began to gather and laugh--He even asked a girl that was walking by if he could borrow her coat. At this point, there were so many people laughing that finally campus security realized the guy was there. As the poor naked guy was peeking around one side of the camper, the officer was walking around the other. Caught and cold, the guy goes with the laughing officer back into the frat house.

Name:

Mike "Oz" Osborn

School:

Western Illinois University

Story

One night while on rounds, I came across a sleeping bag in the hallway. I knocked on the closest door a couple of times before I heard someone say "I think there is someone outside." After knocking again, someone replied "What?" I then asked them to get the sleeping bag out of the hallway. He said he could not. I restated that I was the RA on duty and I needed him to remove the bag. He then said a moment later "I am having sex." I then just walked away so that both of us could finish our jobs!

Name:

Um...I choose not to say.

School:

I choose not to say that either.

Story

We were having staff meeting one night and one of our RA's (who had a tendency to park in the fire lane for hours at a time with his hazard lights on) complained to our director that he had gotten two tickets. Our director chose to inform him that He is the the one who called public safety for the second ticket. Well, John got really angry about it, but calmed down when our RD said that he wasn't the one who called in the first ticket. After staff was over, Robert (another RA) said to another RA under his breath, "Sure won't tell him that I'm the one who called the po-po's the first time."

Name:

Sarah Zenk

School:

Carleton College

Story

I was making my usual "hey, does anybody wanna go swing dancing?" rounds the other night. I stopped in one resident's room and asked if he wanted to come swing dancing with me. He thought for a moment, and said, "No, thanks. Do you want to take a bath with me?" I said, "yeah, sure!" and smiled.

An hour later, I had a meeting with the swing club officers. The aforementioned resident came in and asked, "Do you have any D batteries? Cause I need to set the mood for our bath." I promptly pulled a package of 8 D batteries out of my desk drawer. "You're amazing, Zenk," my resident said. "I know," I said. My co-swing-officers just gaped.

Later that night, I left a note on this resident's door that said "Thanks for the bath...Sarah xo". About ten minutes later, the resident's roommate came into my room and said, "It's not fair. You'll take a bath with my roommate, but not with me." I told him that I'd take a bath with him the next night.

The next morning we all went to lunch together (about ten residents and myself) and the first resident said "so are we taking a bath tonight?" and I replied "yeah... same time, same place" and gave my best flirtatious smile.

Now everyone on my floor wants to "take a bath" with me.

It's funny how you don't actually have to DO anything to create a floor joke.

Name:

Joe

School:

Central Michigan University

Story

During the first few weeks of school my sophomore year my duty partner and i decided to do a round outside of the building to ascertain that everything was okay. As we walked around the building i commented that the screen had falen out of my window that day.

He turned to me and asked (quite seriously) "Don't you get cold with the screen out?"

Name:

School:

Story

Well i am an RA in the largest all MALE dorm on the East coast. So you can imagine what goes on in here. Our reputation far exceeds any other Residence Hall this side of the U.S. Anywayz, so one day im walking outside the main entrance and happen to see someone on the 4th floor throw a big bag (of liquid), turned out to be urine, right out our lounge window. It struck the poor fellow walking in front of me. Needless to say the guy was pissed off.....or should i say "Pissed-on" ??? It was really funny and i couldnt stop laughing, but it was a horrible prank. Now every time i walk by my dorm, i make sure im looking skywards.....in case i get hit by any of these "flying objects".

Name:

Jennie "the klutz" Mills

School:

Baylor University

Story

For all you folks that don't know me, I'm the klutziest (is that a word?) person in the world. At our dorm we have tables that campus organizations can borrow to advertise certain events. These are pretty heavy tables, and we ask the organizations to put them away whenever they leave. One organization failed to put their table away, so it became my responsibility. As I was kicking the legs in, the table slipped and the corner landed right on my foot. My Director came out of her office when she heard the noise and proceeded to take me to the hospital, because I had broken my foot. How many people can say they broke their foot in the lobby of their residence hall?

Name:

Michelle Grana

School:

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

Story

This was my funniest incident so far this year. I was working at the desk when another R.A. told me that there were rumors of a snake on the 8th floor. I said that I would go deal with it. I went up there and saw a bunch of people screaming in the hallway. So, I look in this room and I see a snake a foot and a half long, black and skinny- it was being whipped around in the center of the room by this buy who was trying to shove it in an empty Pepsi box. Another guy was jumping up and down on his bed- screaming like a maniac. I was also screaming. I finally calmed everyone down, and I told the resident of the room that I was going to have to write him up an incident report. He starts yelling at me screaming, "the snake isn't even mine! How can I get an IR for that!" I said, "Well if the snake isn't yours, why was it being whipped around the center of your room?" He replied that he had come home from class and the snake was coiled around his heat vent hissing at him. He said it was the guy's 2 doors down, and he must have not locked it up. Therefore we figured it crawled through the heat vent. Meanwhile the guy with the snake in the Pepsi box takes it down the elevator and ran into the owner of the snake. He said to let it go by the tennis courts, because it was only a garden snake. The owner of the snake came upstairs and I told him what happened- and that he was going to receive an IR. I also told him to get rid of the rest of his snakes. He responded with, but those are my babies. He asked what kinds of pets were appropriate to have in the residence halls, and I told him fish were acceptable. I also told him that his snake freaked out everyone because it was hissing and acting violent. Life is never dull as an R.A. I love you, all you res lifey people!

Name:

Colleen Morse

School:

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Story

One night when my duty partner and I were on rounds, we passed through a suite where a girl was giving her boyfriend "oral pleasure" in the middle of the suite. They stopped when they saw us and we just kept walking on. The next night we passed through the same suite and the couple was sitting on the couch watching TV. The boy said, "So what time do you guys do rounds on the weekend again?" Pretty sad considering it was the middle of second semester. My duty partner and I were laughing for days.

Name:

Kate

School:

UW-Oshkosh

Story

Okay, this story was serious, but it's kinda funny looking back at it!

It was a Sunday night and I had gotten off of my weekend duty marathon and was getting ready to head out for the evening. I headed off to the bathroom to brush my teeth. Then, as I walked back to my room I saw a young man laying on the floor face down with one of his friends dragging him by one arm across the carpet. I asked "What are you doing!?!" Followed by "Is he okay?" The friend kicked his passed out buddy and simply replied "He's fine, he just had too much to drink, can you help me get him up the steps." Then he dropped the guys arm, which fell like a rag. Needless to say, I replied, "No, but I can get him the University Police and an Incident Report." Turns out though, the passed out guy spent the night in the hospital! And to think, the guy that was dragging him was upset that we got emergency personnel involved!

Story

It was my first night on duty for the year. Me and the other Ra (both new RAs) were doing rounds on the fourth floor which is the smoking floor. We got to the short wing and smelled pot. Well we called the police which is what we were supposed to do. The funny part is that the guys we busted hadn't even been in the building for 24 hours and they had been busted 2 times in the previous year.

Name:

School:

Story

The first weekend of fall semester me and a few other RA friends of mine were sitting in the lobby of our building...

We work in a freshmen building so you can imagine some of the situations that occur the first weekend that they are there. Most of the freshmen were coming in drunk. It didn't bother us too much because our school doesn't really have anything against drunkenness unless it's excessive. Anyways...the elevator was broken and there was a sign on the door saying so. Well on kid came in and tried to key the elevator. My friends and I said to him that it was broken. He didn't pay any attention to us and kept trying to call the elevator. We kept repeating that it was broken until finally he realized someone was talking to him. He turned around and we said, again, "The elevator is broken. Can't you see the sign?" So he looks at the sign and rips it down. I said, "Hey, do you mind putting that back up!" He whips around... stumbles a little, and says in a snotty voice..."Who are you, the RA???" My friends and I all chimed in at the same time with a very strong..."YES!!" He quickly put the sign back up and said, "I'm not drunk; I am not drunk" He went up the stairs and we all had a good laugh!

Name:

Caryn Grundle

School:

Bridgewater State College, MA

Story

Here's one for the books! I was on rounds at 12:30am, my badge in clear view, when I heard loud shouts and clapping coming from a male residents room. I knocked on the door and one of the two residents living in that room opened the door just enough to see me. I could see from where I was that there was a female stripper in the room! She had not started to take off her clothes yet, so I escorted her out to the front door, and bid her a fond adieu! Boy were those guys mad at me!! Tee-Hee!

Name:

Meghan Dorn

School:

Arizona State University

Story

Here's a lil' funny I found! :p

The Perfect RA 1. Bob Smith, Resident Assistant, can always befound 2. hard at work on his floor. Bob works proactively, without 3. lying to his Hall Directors or drinking with residents. Bob never 4. thinks twice about helping his fellow RAs, and he always 5. finishes his assignments on times. Often he takes extended 6. measures to complete his work, sometimes skipping 7. vacations. Bob is a Resident Assistant who has absolutely no 8. vanity in spite of his time, accomplishments and profound 9. knowledge in his field. I firmly believe that Bob can be 10. classified as a high-caliber RA, the type which can not be 11. dispensed with. Consequently, I duly recommend that Bob be 12. named Resident Assistant of the Year, and a proposal will be 13. executed as soon as possible. * * * * * Addendum: That idiot was standing over my shoulder while I wrote the report sent to you earlier today. Kindly reread only the odd numbered lines.

Thank you.

Name:

Mark

School:

University of Southern Indiana

Story

This is my first year as an RA. The main difference between my school and a lot of others is that we live in apartments instead of residence halls. Well, it was the middle of the beginning of the year check-in when I had an exited father come to my apartment with a problem. He said that I needed to go to his daughter's apartment and check the electrical sockets because the bottom sockets did not work. When I got over to the apartment in question, I went into the room and saw that he had a lamp plugged into the bottom socket and he started to show me that the socket was not working. After he showed me the problem, I asked him if he tried the light switch. He said no. So I flipped the light switch up and sure enough the lamp worked.

Name:

School:

Story

So we were on rounds one night when we ran smack into a guy with a plastic bag with a sixpack minus one inside. We asked him what was in the bag and he replied beverages for that night. After we informed him that since this was a dry campus alcohol was not allowed and no it didn't matter if he was 21 (he was 18)he was quite upset. He then asked:" so just where exactly am I supposed to keep it cold if I can't keep it in the fridge in my room?" I had to let my partner respond as I was attempting not to laugh out loud. If only all alcohol docs were that easy

Name:

James

School:

Central Washington University

Story

We had a guy vandalizing the men's bathroom all year; soap, towels, etc. Anyway the last week of the school year I was hanging out in their room, at this point I didn't know who was doing it. They then got the bright ideal to go into the girl's bathroom and throw their old hot dogs from their fridge into the girls showers, right in front of me. I guess they thought they couldn't get in trouble that late in the year.

Name:

School:

Story

This happened to me near the end of my first year as an RA. I had a good group of guys on my floor, they weren't angels, mind you, but they were smart about things. Well, one night when I was duty, I was sitting in my room, when one of my residents came to my door and told me he was locked out of his room, I said cool, and got my master key and went to let him in. Well, as I unlocked his door, he turned to me and said, "Do you mind if I put my beer in my room?" and preceded to take a bottle of beer from inside his coat. I just looked at him completely dumbstruck (he was 18) and said no, and that I would have to write him up. He put up a small argument and then decided it wasn't worth it, but also decided that he wanted to go out with a bang, and told my to put in the report that he was completely unruly, and that he hit me.

Name:

Melissa Watrous

School:

Central Missouri State University

Story

One night, I was on duty. It was a Thursday and a rather slow night. I was so bored that I was almost excited to hear the phone ring. Well, it was the Office Assistant at the front desk telling me that there was a resident locked out. So, I ran downstairs so I could let her in. This girl was wearing her bra and undies (well, it's an all-girl's residence hall, but still!). She was SO embarrassed -- I guess she opened her door and stepped out to talk to her friend for a second and the door slammed behind her. She can't look at me anymore without blushing. :)

Name:

Dog

School:

????????

Story

Last week a friend and I were on duty. We went with two of the coordinators to visit our boss. After a deep conversation about nothing I noticed a male walking out on the front lawn. He was facing the main road. I yelled to the student in front of three bosses "hey are you pissing on the lawn" this student replied in a drunken voice "yup" As he said this the poor boy turned way too fast splashing himself. The other RA then yelled out did you piss on yourself? The poor boy replied "I don't think so" We could see him looking at the mess he made on his pants.

Name:

James

School:

Central Washington University

Story

I was in the room of the other RA on my floor and we were chatting. A while later three of our residents walked out of the room next door and instead of turning left to go down the stairwell, they turned right and walked right in front of us and all said hello. Well I got up a minute later and for some unknown reason, the hallway smelled like pot. And after a few discrete sniffs we narrowed it down to the room the three people had just come out of. Well needless to say we contacted the authorities and they were reprimanded for the pot, but not for being idiots and smoking pot in the room next door to the RA.

Name:

Eusebio Garcia

School:

California State University Northridge

Story

I caught a resident smoking on the balcony while doing outside rounds. I asked his name, he said "Jeff". I told him I'd be up to speak with him when I finished my round. When I went to the room, the residents had their door open so I peep in and asked for Jeff. A different guy said "Yeah, I'm Jeff", I said "No your not, the guy on the balcony is Jeff". I asked to search the balcony but to my surprise, no Jeff. The Jeff I saw was of Mexican decent, the guy claiming to be Jeff was African-American. I asked to see ID on the guy who claimed to be Jeff and lo and behold he was Jeff. I double checked the roster and this guy did live there. I figured I was in the wrong room. I quickly went down one floor just to make sure, then I realized I wasn't in the wrong room in the first place. So I went back up the room. I heard arguing in the hall, I stopped and noticed that the "Jeff" I was looking for was in trouble with the real Jeff. The fake Jeffs' real name is "Jeremy" . Jeff was really mad at Jeremy and told Jeremy never to come back to his apt. I didn't write up the situation 'cause I figured Jeremy got enough punishment from his friend. I don't think he'll pass himself off as someone else ever again.

Name:

Don Baumgatner

School:

Western Illinois University

Story

Well it was a Tuesday night around 9:00 p.m when we all piled into the room where we have the staff meeting in. The meeting went well but around 9:30 the smell of pot came lingering in. We all thought it was just cigarette smoke, but it got very strong so we decided to investigate. We found a male resident smoking some pot right out side one of our Assistant Complex Directors apartments. Talk about the wrong time and place.

Name:

Serenity

School:

Central Connecticut State University

Story

I know that all my friends are going to laugh at me for submitting this, but I think this website is the BEST! My funniest story happened my first semester as an R.A. My Residence Hall is a Co-ed building, divided up by floors, every other floor male then female. So I was new and still wet behind ears, so while I was doing a round on one of the female floors I heard a lot of giggling coming from a corner room. They had their door open so I poked my head into the room, what I saw was four of the girls had hooked all of their bras into a chain and were lowering them out the window to the guys that lived below them. They were so startled by me coming to the door they dropped the bras and they fell down two floors onto another resident's window. We were all laughing really hard after that!

Name:

M

School:

UW-Oshkosh

Story

After having a sleepover on my floor the night before, which most of my wing did not attend due to their desire to drink, I was pretty tired. After I finally crawled out of bed, I stumbled into the bathroom. To my surprise I was surrounded by pictures of nude men. One of the girls that had gone out the night before decided to get up and add to our bathroom decorations. Unfortunately, these decorations could offend someone, so I had to do a little CYA by ripping them down. They took it pretty well, so I am sure that they knew I would probably remove them. All I know is that after seeing all those pictures, I have no desire to see the more intimate parts of the male anatomy again for a little while.

Name:

Erin

School:

Story

I got a knock on my door one Thirsty Thursday night (technically Friday morning) at one am. I was told that one of my residents had been "partying a little too hard" only to find her on the floor in her room, non-responsive and laying in a pool of her own vomit. It was a long night and when, after splashing water on her face several times, she began to talk, she would speak only in Spanish. At first, we thought she was speaking in tongues, but somebody who knew some Spanish (it was VERY slurred....we aren't completely stupid) recognized it. It was kind of amusing, but also scary. We had to call an ambulance and ask somebody to watch her all night. Not my idea of a good time since I didn't get finished with the IR until 4am, but it's definitely one I'll remember.

Name:

??

School:

Could be anywhere!

Story

Ok. Picture this. finals week...24 hour quiet hours. Predominantly first-year hall. (See any trouble brewing???) Anyways. I am on duty hanging out with the hall director (he is a good friend of mine) and it is late. So I get called to go to a floor for a noise complaint. I go and document a resident who is making too much noise. I figure it is over and go back to the director's apartment. About an hour and a half later, (2:30am) the director gets paged because someone called 911 from our hall. Guess who... YEP! The guy from the situation I documented earlier had called the POLICE @ 911 for a NOISE COMPLAINT. So the police get there (FIVE of them) and they show up at this guy's door. We can hear music playing and they begin knocking. The guy refuses to open the door. Then I hear it....this guy is playing a RAP SONG "F#$K the police"! Can you believe it? Needless to say, by the time we left that night Mr. Noise Complaint had been handcuffed in his boxer shorts and almost arrested for a prank 911 call....maybe you had to be there -- but just PICTURE IT!

Name:

Jenr

School:

Illinois Wesleyan University

Story

My best friend is an RA in another building at my school. One night, I was talking to her on the phone when the fire alarm went off. She swore and told me she had to leave. About 20 minutes later, she called me back laughing. I asked her what had happened. Turns out, she had burned some popcorn and thrown it away, which smoldered so much that it set off the fire alarm! She thought it was one of her residents trying to be stupid, but it was her all along!

Name:

Rob Crowley

School:

Roanoke College

Story

I was on rounds in a freshman building when I passed a room had a smell of burning chemicals or something coming from it. I figured the smell must have been from a candle. Candles are not allowed in the residence halls here. I knocked on the door and the resident opened it widely holding a sweater in one hand and a lighter in the other. I was very confused by this. I asked "are you burning candles?" He laughed and said "no, I'm lighting my sweaters on fire." I just stared at him trying to figure out what he said. He continued "yeah, you spray hairspray on your sweater and light it and it burns all those little balls off." I asked if he thought that might be a fire hazard, and proceeded to give him a citation (for being stupid??). As I turned to leave his friend came walking down the hall with an arm-full of sweaters.

Name:

Jenn

School:

Purdue University

Story

I finally made it to bed at about 3am, Sunday morning. Dead to the world, I slowly came around and realized that my phone was ringing. It was, oh…about 6am. One of my ladies was calling to tell me that a male was just knocking on her door for a long period of time. Now, this is an all female hall where males are SUPPOSED to be escorted by their lady at all times. Anyhow, the resident then proceeds to tell me that when she opened her door, he took off down the hall and darted into our bathroom…again, strictly off limits to males. Ok…so I figured I would go down, find the guy, and take care of the situation. Well, this isn’t all…my resident THEN tells me that, oh yeah…he appeared to be naked. Wonderful…so I pull myself out of bed and start searching throughout the building for some naked boy. Not until I searched all of my floor did I start to really wake up and think, "What in the world am I going to do if I find a naked boy running around??? Excuse me sir, can I see your i.d.??" Well, whether it was lucky or not, I never ran into our naked boy visitor. =)

Name:

Jenny H

School:

Framingham State College, Mass

Story

I was on duty with an RA and it was her first night. She was new to our building, which is kind of maze like till you get used to it. We were doing rounds when we came upon a huge puddle of vomit. She was so grossed out by this that it made her have to vomit! The only problem was that she didn't know where the ladies room was (we were in a male hallway). She went running around with me chasing after her and finally made it to the bathroom!!

Name:

School:

osu

Story

My experience as a first year RA brought many challenges to me. But there is one incident that sticks out to me. I live in an all female residence hall so males must be escorted at all times. Well this one gentleman had a lot of friends on my floor and so he would make surprise visits to the girls. I warned him the first time and it did not work so I had to precede and write him up. The second time I caught him was faced to face when the elevator doors opened and he tried to slide in unnoticed off my floor as I was returning from class. Boy was he shocked to be face to face with me. He commented and I quote "Aren't you suppose to be in class? I thought you had class right now." Well I quickly realized that Jboard (judicial board) was not going to clear him of being unescorted, so I had to get a little creative. I went and spoke to some of my residents and asked them how they felt about his surprise visits. They replied that they did not like it and that they had asked him numerous times to call them and they would go get him from downstairs. That they knew that his actions could get them in trouble, but he did not seem to care. I asked them if they would be willing to help me cure him of his surprise visits, and my residents said they would help. SO here's how I handled it. My residents called him at home and told him that I had just come and talked to them about the escort policy and that they almost got in trouble because of him. He preceded to tell them that he could handle me and that next time he was on the floor that he would have "words" with me, and so forth and so on. You all get the picture. Well little did he know but he was on speaker phone and I heard everything he said. The girls told him after he was done talking that if he really wanted to talk to me that I was sitting right there and that I had heard everything he said. He was so shocked because I had gotten him and he knew it. I talked with him and let him know that his being unescorted on the floor would not be tolerated and that then the girls informed him that they did not appreciate his surprise visits any longer. Well from then on he was always escorted. And now as a second year RA when I see him he still shakes his head and smiles and says you got me, and then kindly motions to his escort and says see I am escorted. I just have to smile and laugh. Sometimes people have to learn a rule in unusual ways.

Name:

Ryan Deeter

School:

Purdue University

Story

I have a resident that is usually kinda quiet and he doesn't usually say much. We have three sinks in our side of the bathroom and one Monday I was at the left sink and my resident was at the middle sink, I was shaving and he was washing his face. I said good morning and he replied and that was pretty much the conversation. The next morning at about the same time we were back at the same sinks doing the same things the same "good Morning" and that was all of the conversation. The next day it was the exact same time and sinks and everything but this time as I when I was heading back to my room he said kinda soft and slow "I guess I'll see you tomorrow morning" mostly you just have to be there for this one to be that funny but it absolutely cracked me up because it was so un expected.

Name:

School:

Story

Great way to start off a new job. During fall RA training all of the new RA's at my school go through a program called "behind closed doors". This always takes place in a residence hall on the far end of campus so most of us had to walk about fifteen minutes to get there. When I arrived at the meeting place in one of the halls I noticed that all the lights were out. I was so tired at this point that I really didn't think about it all that much until I noticed that the staff of the nearest hall was not present. Everyone was tired and complaining that the other staff was holding things up, needless to say we all wanted to be back in our beds. One of the RD's announced that the other staff would be late because two of them were stuck in an elevator (as a result of the power outage) and one had accidentally locked herself in a residents room, which was odd because all the rooms lock from the inside.

Name:

School:

The Ohio State University

Story

One afternoon my hall director called and told me I needed to come get the key for the fuse box on my floor. A resident on my floor called the front desk and said that she thought the electricity in her room had gone out. So I went ALL the way downstairs (from the 10th floor) and ALL the way back up. I ran into my co (the other RA on my floor) as I was getting off the elevator. I told him what was going on and he decided to assist me. While I was in the hallway trying to see which fuse was blown. My co was in the room telling me to flip the switches. Finally my co told me to stop because he'd found the problem. He came out of the room trying not to laugh. Finally when he composed himself, he told me that the girl couldn't turn her stuff on because her power strip wasn't on!

Name:

Phil McHenry

School:

Gordon College  (Wenham, MA)

Story

While on a round i heard noises coming from a room. I busted down the door to discover TWO feet on the floor, in direct violation of the three feet on the floor policy. Upon further investigation, i determined that there was only one person in the room, and my entering had then increased thee foot total to four, well within the legal limit for proper number of feet. we then had a prayer circle and went to bed. God Bless.

Name:

Jennifer Sillix

School:

Pittsburg State University In Kansas that it!

Story

One night while my fellow RA was on duty I had decided to keep him company so that he would not be as bored while waiting on rounds. Just as a little side note this is finals week and it is 24 hour quiet hours here. My friend had went on the midnight rounds and I was playing this wonderful stress relieving game on his computer. When all of the sudden there was this horrible beeping sound coming from outside. My friend lives in the basement of our hall, so in order to look out the window I had to stand on his bed. Just imagine the look on his face when he returned from rounds and there I was standing on his bed. Of course I can not see anything that could produce such a loud and annoying sound. At this point we decided to go outside and check out this sound. I made it outside before my friend and I noticed that there was this small mechanical unit lying in the grass, right outside of my friends room. My first reaction was BOMB! Once he got there we looked it over and he thought the same thing, so we headed in to get our ARHD and called the HD to come over and help us check this out. There was also another RA from our building that had came out to discover the same thing that we had. So just imagine 5 people hovered over this small mechanical unit that is lying on the ground, with residents that were screaming turn that thing off, well they added some other words but we will leave that part out. Finally we decide that we need to figure out what this is and how to turn it off. So our HD kicks it, and low and behold someone had decided to play a practical joke on us and take apart a fire alarm and toss it our their window. However they must have gone to a lot of work because our fire alarm system does not run off of batteries. I guess that you can always find a lot of other things to do rather than study for your finals.

Name:

Cela

School:

CMU

Story

This past weekend, I walked into a "normal" alcohol situation. I took a moment to smell a cup that had brown liquid in it. I then asked the people in the room who the Rum and Coke belong too. One of the men in the room piped up and said "first of all it's Pepsi and Rum". At that point I knew who that cup belonged to.

Name:

Kelly

School:

Plymouth State College

Story

Last fall a fellow CA of mine was sitting in his first class of the semester. The teacher had each student say there name, year, were they lived, and one thing that know one knew about them. My fellow CA just sat back and listened because he was the last person to go. The person before him was a female and she said she lived in Pemi Hall and had a hamster in her closet. My fellow CA said, "My name is Robert, I'm a jr., I live in in Pemi, and I guises the one thing that know one knows about me, at least in this class that I'm a CA in Pemi, and you my dear are busted!" The girls fast was bright red and her hamster sat in the hall office for the night till her parents could come pick it up. But our staff got a good laugh about it. Some people just can't figure out what they should not say in public.

Name:

Kimberly Jones

School:

Penn State

Story

I was woken up at 3:30 a.m. by loud screaming and shouting at the opposite end of the hall. As I was walking down to the wing, I hear doors slamming and girls shrieking. When I finally got to where all of the commotion was coming from I realized that three girls were burning ants off of the wall with hairspray and a lighter. I was taken completely off-guard. Looking back, I find it funny but during the incident I was not amused.

Name:

Laura

School:

Story

One Tuesday night while on duty I received a strange phone call from a fellow RA in another building - she seemed awfully upset and wanted me to come over so she could show me something. Our Head Residents were in their weekly meeting and thinking that she had a real situation to deal with I went on over to her building. When I arrived she simply said "you won't believe this". She then proceeded to press play on her VCR. Up on the screen came a homemade porno of one her residents having sex on the bike rack outside the building the night before. 2 of her male residents on the 4th floor had taped it and turned a copy over to her. Not knowing exactly what to do, we called the University Police. 2 male officers responded to our call and we just couldn't explain it so we showed them the video. The look on their faces was hilarious. It took every ounce of strength I had not to bust out laughing at the young lady on the video tape when she was brought to my fellow RA's room and was showed the video. She said she was proud of herself and then proceeded to ask for a copy of the video from the officers. I think this must be the strangest thing I've encountered since becoming a SRA.

Name:

Don Bradshaw

School:

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Story

Somebody pooped on my door.

Name:

School:

Story

Name:

M. Robinson

School:

SUNY New Paltz

Story

I was on a round when one of my residents called me into her room to meet her sister. They were all drinking so I gave them the benefit of the doubt. She went on to explain how they were going to go out but and I quote, "we were to young to get into any of the clubs in town(-21) so we decided to come back here and drink. Left without a choice I had to ask them both to pour out the beers. Her sister was shocked to find out I was an RA.

Name:

M. Robinson

School:

SUNY New Paltz

Story

I was on a round when one of my residents called me into her room to meet her sister. They were all drinking so I gave them the benefit of the doubt. She went on to explain how they were going to go out but and I quote, "we were to young to get into any of the clubs in town(-21) so we decided to come back here and drink." Left without a choice I had to ask them both to pour out the beers. Her sister was shocked to find out I was an RA.

Name:

Zach

School:

University of British Columbia, Canada

Story

One night I returned to my floor in Totem Park residence after a hard night of studying. The floor was in high spirits, as my dragon boat team had won our division and were in the finals the next day. I entered the floor lounge, which was packed with some very "jolly" residents. They were acting strangely and I figured that they must be trying to hide something, but I couldn't figure out what. The lounge sink was full of suds-an odd occasion in our usually disgusting lounge. I was just about to leave when a resident entered the room with a mug, casually walked over to the sink, and scooped out a full mug of beer!! It turns out the guys had stolen a half-empty keg of beer from a local beer garden, and with no tap for the keg, had simply stuck a key inside and sprayed the beer into the sink! They had fooled other RAs into thinking they were doing dishes, but they finally goofed up! Those crazy guys.....

Name:

Tara

School:

Fitchburg State

Story

One of my residents came flying into my room with a plate of sour cream, salsa, mayonnaise, and taco chips. She had it all over her face. Apparently, someone knocked on her door dressed in black and threw it inn her face....I couldn't keep a strait face while looking at her. I felt bad, but it was soooo funny!!!

Name:

J.Vermeire

School:

Illinois State University

Story

Name:

Lina Montano

School:

Colorado State University

Story

Some of the residents use floors in our complex as trash receptacles for pizza boxes (I guess they are too lazy) and expect others to clean up after them. Well, as a responsibility to prevent fire hazards we are to dispose of the potential fire hazards. Our staff had decided to begin collecting the pizza boxes and by using the order tag, return them to their rightful owner for proper disposal. Residents caught on to this and began ripping off the tag or scratching their name and room number off of the box. Well, While on rounds one evening my duty partner and I ran into a nice little pile of pizza boxes with the name scratched off, but they left the room number and phone number. We knocked on the door to return the box, but they would not open the door. We knew that they were in there so using our phones we called the number on the pizza box. Standing outside the door, we could hear the phone ring... We let them know that we knew it was theirs and they had to throw their own trash away. I was laughing so hard because all of the hassle trying to be sneaky so you don't have to throw your pizza box!! well they took the box and we headed down the hall when the resident opened his door and proceeded to pick up the rest of the pizza boxes in the hall. It was hilarious.

Name:

Lina Montano

School:

Colorado State University

Story

Some of the residents use floors in our complex as trash receptacles for pizza boxes(I guess they are too lazy) and expect others to clean up after them. Well, as a responsability to prevent fire hazards we are to dispose of the potential fire hazards. Our staff had decided to begin collecting the pizza boxes and by using the order tag, return them to their rightful owner for proper disposal. Residents caught on to this and began ripping off the tag or scratching their name and room number off of the box. Well, While on rounds one evening my duty partner and I ran into a nice little pile of pizza boxes with the name scratched off, but they left the room number and phone number. We knocked on the door to return the box, but they would not open the door. We knew that they were in there so using our phones we called the number on the pizza box. Standing outside the door, we could hear the phone ring... We let them know that we knew it was theirs and they had to throw their own trash away. I was laughing so hard because all of the hassle trying to be sneaky so you don't have to throw your pizza box!! well they took the box and we headed down the hall when the resident opened his door and proceeded to pick up the rest of the pizza boxes in the hall. It was hilarious.

Name:

Dan Nugent

School:

Seton Hall University

Story

I work in a residence hall for first year students. I was a little nervous on the day that the residents moved in because I am a first year RA and I was also on duty that night. I had no idea how easy the freshmen were about to make my job. I was doing rounds at about 2am when I got into an elevator that was already occupied by two female students. After about a minute one of the girls turned to me and said "you're cute, wanna come to a party"... I had my clip board in my hand, documentation forms attatched and I just stared at her. Eventually I said "sure" and followed her to a room. I got to the door and asked if I could enter. I walked in and identified myself as an RA and asked for the party-goers ID's. Everyone on my staff still laughs about it when we see the girl who invited me. She'll never make that mistake again!!!

Name:

Lori

School:

University of Iowa

Story

This happened last year, my first year as an RA. All year long we had problems with a certain floor I fondly referred to (in private) as the "Hell Floor." These guys had ripped their drinking fountain off the wall, flooding their own lounge, and had the gall to complain later that they couldn't use the lounge. Poor babies! The place was always trashed, they were constantly drinking and could be really threatening. I would never go up there alone to confront violations. One night it was just horrible. We had a fire alarm and constant noise problems. On my way back inside the building I stopped in the office to write up a report (along with two other RAs who were also having a lovely night). Another RA radioed down that she was up on the hell floor and needed assistance. I volunteered (stupid me!) to go up and help. It was probably 2-3AM at this point. I went up and saw a sight I will never forget. The fire hose was on the floor, running the length of the hallway, there were four public safety officers, two in the hallway and two in a room, broken glass on the floor, tons of residents standing outside their doors, watching the proceedings, and the other RA, yelling at residents to get back in their rooms. DPS finished arresting a guy, whom they had seen carting large pieces of broken glass to his room, for all the alcohol they found when they followed him. I dutifully wrote down names and SSNs, and when all seemed calm, inquired about the fire hose. The other RA told me the story. Apparently after coming in from the fire alarm, the guys had broken the glass on the fire hose cabinet (the only glass cabinet in their hallway that still had the glass intact) and had dragged the hose along the hallway, with the intent of turning it on in the stairwell (the 3rd floor stairwell). Apparently as the one guy got to the stairway door he yelled back to his friend to turn on the hose and then opened the door to find DPS right in front of him. (DPS started coming directly to this floor after alarms in order to head off this kind of thing). They had only gotten the hose partially turned on and so didn't manage to flood anything. After DPS took off and the guys had returned to their rooms for the most part, I turned to the other RA and asked her what to do about the hose. We both knew the minute we were gone that hose was going to be turned on. She radioed for the hall manager to come up. We gathered the hose close to the cabinet, picked up the glass and waited. Eventually the hall manager came and looked at the hose, too. We all stood staring at it for a moment until she suggested we just try to put it back for now. We tried our best, but we soon realized the dumb hose was leaking. Unable to get it to stop, she was forced to call Emergency Maintenence to help. (Now these guys are always incredibly grumpy and seem to enjoy punishing us by arriving as slowly as possible). I was lucky enough to be the one elected to stay and wait and "guard" the hose until maintenence came. During this time I think every guy in the hallway came by at some point and asked me what happened (as if they didn't know) and what I was doing. A few guys really got into complaining to me about not being able to use the lounge. I explained that it had been flooded and was ruined. One guy told me his uncle was a lawyer and he was thinking of suing the University because he was guaranteed certain things - like a lounge - when he paid his housing. I don't remember what I said, but I think I wished him good luck. Around 5am the guy finally showed up, did exactly the same thing we did and used his wrench to turn off the trickle of water. He beligerently explained to me that he couldn't do anything more and when maintence came in (at 8am - three hours away) they would have to deal with it. I slowly walked back to my room and thanked God that my girls didn't seem compelled to act like this.

Name:

Mark

School:

Shenandoah University

Story

A resident came to me as I was about to go to bed and asked me to look at something in his room. Being the good RA, I followed him to his room where he shut the door and turned off the light. I was a little worried at first, but he directed my attention to the wall opposite his sink mirror. The word 'VAMPIRE' was written in glow in the dark paint backwards so it appeared correctly in the mirror. He swore that neither he nor his roommate had put it there, and it was definately not there the night before. I asked him to turn the light on, which he did, and I looked at the wall. I couldn't see anything in the light which freaked me out a little and after making sure that they were not trying to be funny (I didn't think they were because they were two of my least troublesome residents) I painted over the word. We had their locks changed the next day.

Name:

Josh Penna

School:

Alfred University

Story

One night while on call I was making my rounds and stopped to talk to some of the female residents about how their day and week was going. Our rounds start at 10pm. Well one of the rooms at the end of the hall were getting ready to out for the evening. While chatting and doing my rounds I found it peculiar that the room at the end of the hall would open about 8 inches and people were coming in and out. Some times the girls would only stick their heads out just to see where I was. Several times one girl got bold enough to come back to her room smelling of alcohol while I was standing in her doorway talking to her roommate and friends. Now the only people in my building old enough to drink are all on the res life staff. Finally at midnight I went to finish my rounds for the night. I walked down to the end of the hall where the room was and the whole end smelled like a bar. I stood in front of the room waiting for the girl to finish her conversation with a hall mate about going out that night. Needless to say I was planning on ruining her plans. I confronted her and I asked if she had been drinking. Her immediate response was NO but quickly changed to YES. So then I asked if she had been drinking in her room. Again the NO YES response came. So I informed her of the University alcohol policy (which is zero tolerance for underage consumption) and told her I needed her ID card and those of all of those in the room. I went into the room and all this time she kept trying to rationalize her way out of the violation. In all I made them dump the remaining beer and confiscated the 27 empty bottles and 4 pint cans. After all this I went down to the staff office which is right next to the RD apt to document the situation. Well my RD came in to say hello and we talked about the situation. Well while writing up the report the accused walked by the staff office griping about what had happened. Well me RD was not going to stand for the crying about what they had done, so she asked them what they thought would be fair. Well since they were honest and cooperated with what they had done wrong that nothing should happen to them. Well the RD asked if it was alright to drink in her room if she was honest about it and the girl replied no. Then my RD asked if it was ok to drink off campus and then come back to her room and the girl replied yes but it is not legal). Finally my RD asked is it legal for you to drink even if you are honest about doing so and you are under 21 anywhere, and the girl replied no, so my RD said "so what's your problem." The girl realized she had been fooled and huffed away out of the building. In all I documented 7 people for underage drinking and recycled the confiscated bottles. Later that night I had a marijuana bust but that is another story altogether.

Name:

School:

Story

As we were having a sweep during our fire drills a girl was found in her room reading. When I asked her why she was in her room she said she did not know what the noise was for. I instructed her that there was a fire drill and that she needed to evacuate the building. The girl proceeded to go to her closet and decide what she wanted to wear. I instructed her to evacuate immediately but she still did not get it..

Name:

staff

School:

Easten Il University

Story

During my second week as a Resident Assistant, one of the ladies on the floor came to my door. She told me that she had a basket stuck on her finger and it wouldn't come off. I didn't believe her at first, but then I looked down at her finger and sure enough! It was bright purple and swollen. I asked her why she did that and she told me that she was just bored. So, we tried everything to make the swelling go down: water, soap, conditioner, lotion. You name it. We tried it. Well, nothing seemed to be working, so I decided to burn off the rest of the basket (it was plastic), so the force on her finger would lessen. After that was done, there still wasn't much hope of the finger coming out of the basket hole. So, off to the emergency room we went. The nurse at the hospital laughed at the situation and cut the plastic basket with a pair of wire-cutting scissors. Talk about one crazy, unusual experience.

Name:

Perhaps I shouldn't say

School:

San Jose State University

Story

Okay, here goes. Roundabout midway through the semester, I received a noise complaint on the second floor. I went up there, told them all that I was going to write them up for being so noisy at 3am. Stupid me, I write the incident report right after I told them to be quiet. Being that it was 3am I wasn't exactly coherent at this moment either. Anyways, when the girl called me up to complain, she told me she didn't want to be identified in the report. Here's a line taken from my report (before I rewrote it) "Witness *Stephanie* who did not want to be identified called RA at approx. 2:48am and complained of excessive noise in RM 238. Needless to say, I had to rewrite the report.

Name:

Adam

School:

Lewis-Clark State College

Story

One night while one duty I came to a situation that required me and my fellow staff to call the local police. Three police cars were sent out to our location. While standing and talking to four police officers I looked to a parking lot no more than 100 yards away from where we were standing. I could not believe what I saw. The parking lot is used for drivers education so there were a few city traffic cones in it. Although there were four cops and one security guard standing with me a young man was running across the parking lot steeling the traffic cones!!! Needless to say, he didn't get anywhere!

Name:

Jordana

School:

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Story

One night I was on rounds with my duty partner, and we stopped in one suite to talk to some people she knew. While we were standing there, I heard one resident say, "I think I need another beer." I looked at him and said "What did you just say?" At this point he figured out that I was an RA, and replied "Uhh...I think I feel queer?" I asked him if I could see what was in his cup, and he tilted it towards me, but it was empty (probably why he needed more!). I asked him if i could smell his cup. He responded with an emphatic "No!" I asked him why not. "I'm sick," he said. I told him that I would probably not get sick from smelling his cup. He said, "No, it's airborn!" Pretty quick wit from a drunk person, eh? By then I was laughing so hard that I let him go. I laughed for the rest of the night.

Name:

Brian Conner

School:

University of Evansville

Story

It was about 12:30am on a Sunday night. I was in my room talking with one of the residents from across the hall when all of a sudden I hear this banging on a door down the hall. The next thing I know, I have one of my other residents running into my room. He says that the guys that live 2 doors down from me are locked in their room. At this point, I don't really know what to think, I mean how can someone get locked IN their room! So i go down and check it out, and sure enough they are locked in, the door handle is starting to fall off and they can not turn the knob to unlock the door. So I went and got the master key thinking maybe I could open it with that, but that failed. I then got on the phone to campus security to send over the maintenance person, instead they sent over two of the security guards (probably to see if this was a false call). So the guards arrive and take one look at the door handle and start laughing. Meanwhile I am trying to keep all the residents on the floor away and in their rooms till this is all under control (because naturally they all need to put in their jokes about the matter), but to make matters worse, one of the guys locked in the room has to make an urgent trip to the restroom. So the guards tell the guys in the room to take a butter knife and try to push the latch open. Next thing that we hear is the knife snapping, the plastic knife was not strong enough. I don't know if the guards were joking now or not, but they said that the same thing happened the night before in the female hall and the girls got the door open in 5 mins. We then got a real butter knife and after about 30 mins. the door is open. This was an interesting experience. The guys on my floor never cease to amaze me one way or another.

Name:

Dusty Kurtz

School:

Montana State University

Story

One of my best friends, who is also an assistant director of a neighboring hall, left his e-mail account open one day. Another RA and myself decided we needed to have a little fun with him. We sent an e-mail to his staff (excluding he and the Hall Director) saying that the Board of Regents would be in for a visit the following day and the hall needed to be in prime condition. We asked all of them to wear their staff shirts and assigned groups of people to make welcoming banners and purchase doughnuts for the Board. We weren't sure if they would by the story or not, but we submitted the e-mail and almost forgot about the joke, that is until the next day when my friend called me and said "Dust, you want to explain to me why my staff is down in the lobby in their staff shirts with a box of doughnuts and a welcoming banner?"

Name:

John North

School:

Wentworth Institute of Technology

Story

One night while on duty with two other RA's, we were doing rounds as usual. Coming down the stair well to the last floor, we noticed someone tossed their empty pizza boxes on the floor in the stair well. We picked them up and noticed the receipt stuck on the boxes by the Pizza Company which included the customer's phone number. If the students were smart, they would have ripped their receipts off the boxes before they littered. So we called the student and had him come down to the RA office to throw them out. If kids are gonna do these things, at least be smart about it!

Name:

School:

Somewhere in the South

Story

It was about 10:30am on a Wednesday when the fire alarm went off. I live on the 9th floor, the top floor of my building, so I began to clear the floors. When I got to the 6th floor I met a fellow staff member from the 8th floor. She and I cleared the 5th and 4th floors. When we walked back into the stair well we smelt something very odd. Concerned because of other incidents regarding fire across the nation we both quickly got to the first floor. When we got there we heard residents laughing outside. We moved them to the parking area. She and I were both assisting another staff member fill out paper work when the fire man came down from the second floor with a cup in his hand. It seems that one of our "BRIGHT" residents had tried to boil water in his metal travel mug. You may think, well that is kind of funny, BUT the funniest part was he was nice enough to have his name and room number on the cup.

Name:

Lynne

School:

Clark U

Story

Being a second year RA im all too familiar with residents abilities to have the absolute worst timing for things...however i believe this was the all time worst...

Last semester i had gotten a concussion and having had numerous ones before i decided there was no need to go get checked out (my advice for others is always quite the opposite) anyways a week later i ended up loosing my eye sight for about a half hour and i had extreme pains in my head so i called the school's EMTs....they came into my room (and left my door open) and checked me out and decided i needed to be taken by ambulance to the local hospital....city EMTs arrived in the ambulance to pick me up and came into the room....at this point i started to vomit and my wastebasket took on a whole new responsibility. While i was bowing to my basket a resident came to my room and told me she was locked out and asked me to let her in....now i had 3 school EMTs in my room, 2 city EMTS and im bowing to a bucket....i told her im sorry but i was a little busy and she should go find another RA....

the kicker? she found another ra and said "can you let me into my room, i asked Lynne but she said no...i think she is lazy"

hahahahahahahah

Name:

Joe Incognito

School:

The Harvard of the Midwest

Story

Note #1: At my school, there is a strict policy about driving nails into the walls of the dorm rooms. All of my residents know this and we have never had any problems with people banging nails into the walls. Note #2: I always keep a tool kit in my room for those small repairs that would take the handyman two weeks to get done when we can do the same thing in about ten minutes. Now for the story. One Saturday afternoon, I was sitting in my room writing a paper. Two of my residents come to my door and ask to borrow a hammer. Since I had never ever had any problems with these guys in the past, I handed them the tool kit without a second thought. After about ten minutes, it finally sunk in what I had given them. I walked down to their room, knocked on the door, and walked in to find two large holes in the wall where they tried to drive nails in but ended up creating craters in the very old walls. Instead of making them pay the $20 fee for patching up holes in the wall, I made them fix it themselves -- at their own expense. The hammer is no longer in the tool kit. It has been hidden somewhere in my room.

Name:

Joe Incognito

School:

The Harvard of the Midwest

Story

During her freshman week here, a girl on my floor went out partying a lot. The 18-year-old freshman went out one night and had way too much to drink -- so much that when she came back, she fell face first into a concrete stairwell and broke out her front teeth. I felt sorry for her UNTIL she informed me that this was not the first time she had fallen into stairs in a drunken stupor and broken her front teeth. It's one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen in my life.

Name:

Matthew McNutt

School:

Gordon College, MA

Story

I attend a Christian liberal arts college in Ma; while compared to most Christian schools our rules aren't bad, we are still pretty conservative in some areas. Anyway, I was a new RA and eager to get to know the guys on my floor. It was my first week on the floor, and I had just found a cool website and rushed into my neighbor's room to show the two freshmen who lived there. Without realizing so, I mistyped the addressed, and moments later the three of us were shocked as images of naked women filled the screen. I immediately clicked the close button, but the damage was already done. They proceeded to tell EVERYONE that their RA shows them porn! I was so embarrassed! It's almost two years later now, and I still hear about it every once and a while ... <sigh>

Name:

?

School:

Gallaudet University

Story

Well, this isn't exactly a funny experience, but my fellow RAs thought it was. My "experience" happened when all the residents had gone home for Christmas Break. Most of the other RAs in my dorm had left for home, also. One morning, I woke up and rushed to the bathroom. Well, the freshmen dorm bathrooms are always locked. I didn't bother to bring my key since I knew the janitor left the door open for her to clean. I just walked right in, went to the bathroom and walked up to my door. I turned the handle...the door didn't budge. I was locked out of my room!!! Locked out of my room with nothing BUT a robe. My glasses and underclothes were on the other side of the door!!! I went to another RA's room to see if he was still there...nothing. Then another RA who lived on another floor...again, nothing. I ran to the Coordinator of Residential Education (my boss). No one was there. I even went to the Graduate Assistant's apartment (inside the dorm)! Feeling down, I walked to my floor and started to watch t.v. Since I left my glasses in my room, I had to sit close to the t.v. For 14 hours, I waited for someone to come rescue me...I could have walked to the Dept of Security and Safety (DOSS), but with ONLY a robe on (no shoes, no underclothes, nothing), who would go out in the FREEZING cold? Certainly not I! I was finally "rescued" by my boyfriend and a DOSS officer.

Name:

Chris

School:

RWU

Story

I just thought this was so funny when it happened, this kid had been drinking for a while when i happened on to him, I asked him what he was hold (can of bud or something) he quickly realized i was an RA and that he was holding a beer and cleverly put it behind his back (ok seen that one many times but it gets better) i asked him what he was holding he said "nothing why do you ask", his hand then emerged from behind his back with nothing in it, i knew it went somewhere so i asked him to spin around he did and the beer was in his back pocket, he was so surprised i saw it there and so "puzzled" on how it got there, he asked people around him, "did you put that there?" i just thought it was incredible funny when it happened

Name:

HHWNM

School:

Lee U.

Story

I have a resident on my hall who is always finding ways to seek attention. One night I was awakened by the sounds of someone vomiting. I went to check it out and it was him. what he was actually doing was throwing beef stew around to make it look like he puked to try to get some attention (psycho huh?). I decided to play along with him, so naturally I handed him some Windex and paper towels and made him clean it up. He then tries to play off the sick routine and goes to his room for the night and says he is going to bed early. Most of the guys on my hall pick on him because he is always trying to seek attention. I decide to go to sleep. About an hour later I get a call from him asking me to come and let him out of his room because he could not get his door open. A little baffled, I went over to his room and come to find out the other residents jammed a bunch of pennies in his door and jammed his door shut. I bust out laughing and had to go back in my room to try to look somewhat professional. I got the pennies out. I wasn't happy though because I had to get up in the middle of the night. I found out who was involved and I gave them the option of doing some in-dorm community service or go see the dean of students and get some demerits. I told them that they created a fire hazard. They chose to do dorm community service so they had to clean the bathrooms and vacuum the whole dorm. I thought it was funny, I hope you did to.

Name:

Cassandra Mitchell

School:

A State School in Florida!!

Story

An RA who is no longer on staff would always do his laundry at odd hours, like 4 AM. His reasoning was that he wanted to get ALL of his dirty clothes clean, so he could start with a completely fresh wardrobe (hint, hint) Incidently, one night toward the end of his term as an RA, one of his female residents walked in on him in the laundry room - and him not wearing a stich of clothing. Luckily, she covered any embarrassment or shock well and held a brief conversation with him before leaving the laundry room. After he told us this story, our staff couldn't help but laugh at his amazement that she would only look at his face during the encounter.

Name:

Stephen Farina

School:

Teikyo Post University

Story

Last year i had the opportunity to be a women's RA. It was exciting when i go the news. On the second night of classes, I heard a knock on my door. I was scared something went wrong, on the other hand, i was wrong, The girl standing at the door asked me this" My roommate is sleeping, should I still go into my room, or should I sleep in your room, The RA...

I laughed and told her to go to her room..

Name:

School:

Story

I was on a round when I ran into security. So, we decided to do the round together. We walked into the freshman lounge and heard a crash. Someone had fallen off the couch. He was 21, mind you so that wasn't a big deal... except he was in freshman housing, so I had to assume he had supplied. Anyway, he was so drunk he tried to walk into the closet, thinkning it was the bathroom. Then, he went outside and was staggering around. Security went after him and he kept insisting he was sober. We wrote him up and to this DAY he insists he did nothing wrong

Name:

Stephen M. Farina

School:

Teikyo Post University

Story

Last spring semester I was in one of my fellow RA's rooms. She and I were discussing some gay issues and some people on campus. She is fairly aware that i am a gay male and she asked me the question," Steve, can women get pregnant from gay sperm?" I laughed hysterically in her face and we never looked back..

Name:

Andrea Ibarguen

School:

Teikyo Post University

Story

One night, it was late, like 5am, and my resident knocked on the door and says, I threw up what should I do... I went back to bed thinking Oh god another freshman 2 hours away from home.

Name:

Sally Smith

School:

ISU

Story

I was walking through an all male resident hall one Sunday morning going to pick up an R.A. friend so we could go to church together. I realized I was following a couple down the hallway. The woman had obviously spent the night since she was wearing P.J.'s and sporting a lovely bed head hairdo, even though co-habitation is not allowed. As they reached the door to the male bathroom of the floor the guy turn to go in. He turned around and looked right at me and then invited his female friend in as well. Mind you, this resident knows me as an R.A. from another building and also know that I am friends with his R.A. yet he still does this in fornt of me. Once I reached my friends room I informed him that there was a female in the restroom. He grabbed his tooth brush and tooth paste and headed into the bathroom as well. Sure enough the resident carried on a conversation with him but failed to warn the girlfriend that the R.A. was now in the bathroom as well. So, when the girlfriend came out of the stall they were both caught. The really stupid part is the female restroom for the building is located just down the hall a little further. If the residents had not been lazy they would have saved themselves a lot of trouble.

Name:

Crystal

School:

UVA

Story

I just LOVE being an RA and I LOVE this website! It's the GREATEST! Staff love all around! I have, like, such a funny story to tell you! I was on duty one night and this guy came by the office with three cases of beer! Yeah, so I ran out as fast as I could and said "Hey Mister! Stop right there! I need to see some identification! Why do you have so much alcohol?" And he says "I'm thirsty." And I say "Well are you of a legal age to drink all that alcohol?" And he says "Yeah" and showed me that he was 21. But I didn't believe him so I made him show me two other forms of ID. He was SO mad at me! I thought it was so funny. So I had to let him go to his room but I told him before he left that I was going to keep my eye on him and he'd BETTER NOT try to distribute any of that alcohol to minors! It was the most fun I had all year!

Name:

Crystal

School:

UVA

Story

I just LOVE being an RA and I LOVE this website! It's the GREATEST! Staff love all around! I have, like, such a funny story to tell you! I was on duty one night and this guy came by the office with three cases of beer! Yeah, so I ran out as fast as I could and said "Hey Mister! Stop right there! I need to see some identification! Why do you have so much alcohol?" And he says "I'm thirsty." And I say "Well are you of a legal age to drink all that alcohol?" And he says "Yeah" and showed me that he was 21. But I didn't believe him so I made him show me two other forms of ID. He was SO mad at me! I thought it was so funny. So I had to let him go to his room but I told him before he left that I was going to keep my eye on him and he'd BETTER NOT try to distribute any of that alcohol to minors! It was the most fun I had all year!

Name:

Melissa

School:

Randolph Macon Women's College

Story

I am an African-American RA who wears sponge rollers to bed. My story occurred last semester while it was still warm outside. I live on the 2nd floor but I was on duty one Friday night and I got a call from a resident on the 1st floor who said she was drying off after a shower and saw a young man looking at her naked through the window. She was totally flipping out so I called campus police, grabbed a broom, and ran outside to see what was going on. And I was only wearing a bathrobe and pink curlers! So I walked around the building quietly and saw a man peeping in the 1st floor windows. I called out to him and he turned toward me, revealing the fact that his pants were unbuttoned and he was "pleasuring" himself. I screamed and began to hit him with the broom. He ran as fast as he could with his pants around his ankles right into 3 police officers! He was arrested and we haven't had that problem since.

Name:

Melissa

School:

Randolph Macon Women's College

Story

I am an African-American RA who wears sponge rollers to bed. My story occurred last semester while it was still warm outside. I live on the 2nd floor but I was on duty one Friday night and I got a call from a resident on the 1st floor who said she was drying off after a shower and saw a young man looking at her naked through the window. She was totally flipping out so I called campus police, grabbed a broom, and ran outside to see what was going on. And I was only wearing a bathrobe and pink curlers! So I walked around the building quietly and saw a man peeping in the 1st floor windows. I called out to him and he turned toward me, revealing the fact that his pants were unbuttoned and he was "pleasuring" himself. I screamed and began to hit him with the broom. He ran as fast as he could with his pants around his ankles right into 3 police officers! He was arrested and we haven't had that problem since.

Name:

Jennifer Strole

School:

Davenport College

Story

At the beginning of the year I held an all-hall meeting for residents so they could have a chance to learn residence life policies and ask questions. One topic we discussed was that residents could not nail anything into their walls. About an hour later I was in my room and heard this loud banging. Then some books started to fall off of my shelves. I went next door and asked the residents if they knew where that noise was coming from. They were so dumb...the girls just said "Duh, we were hanging things on the walls!" I was laughing too hard to be mean, so I just told them that if they were going to break the rules they should at least wait until I was gone, since we share a wall!

Name:

Bob.  Just Bob.

School:

A Large School in the South

Story

My first night ever on duty, another RA called me up and said that he had a problem. He had encountered an extremely intoxicated resident and brought him to the office to write a referral. While his back was turned, the resident bolted and went up in the elevator. (The elevator and the office are side-by-side) All he knew was a first name - call him "Bob". He had seen "Bob" hanging out with a few of his residents earlier in the evening so we went to ask those residents if they knew where "Bob" lived. They said that they had only just met him and had no earthly idea. We tried to get any information about "Bob" they could give us, but they were no help. When we left the room, the other RA asked me "did you look at their bulletin board?" I replied that I had not. He said that on their board was a post-it note containing the name "Bob" and a phone number. We went back to the office and looked for all of the "Bob"s on the roster and found one with that number. Sure enough, it was our "Bob". It would seem that the residents knew him better than they thought. :^)

Name:

Jason

School:

University Of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

Story

Well it was an ordinary friday afternoon. I just got back from my 2 o-clock class when there was a message on my dry erase bord from a fellow staff member. Well this staff member was havin some car trubles so I said I would take a look at it and see what was wrong. So as the both of us are walking down a hall to exit our facility we both see a resident struggling to open his door. We also notice a larg package under his coat. I turn to look at my fellow staff member in shock and get the same look that was on my face - we were just shocked. So I approched the resident and asked if he wanted some help with the door. He said yes, so i asked him to give me what was under his coat. With a look of relife from his stuggle he handed over a 30 pack of bud ice. At that time I came to the understanding that he did not know who I was and I felt it was my duty to introduce my self. So extending a hand I began to ask him if he knew who I was. With hesitation from him I took it to be no, so i shook his hand and gave him my name and informed him that I was an RA. The look on his face was absolutly priceless - the jaw hit the floor - the eyes buged out - and a face of happyness and appreciation of help turned to dismany and dissapontment. Now things ened up ok, there were no hard feelings and he understood what he did was wrong, and proceded to dump the 30 beers. But I am sure that he never in a million years expected his RA to help him in his door with contaband.

Name:

Melissa

School:

Story

I agree with the other Resident Assistant who wondered how in the world some of you got into college with such bad grammar and spelling. I also want to let Crystal from UVA know that she needs to calm down and get a life.

Name:

Dave

School:

Washington State University

Story

I work in a building that only has 4 floors, but was built in 1935, so it has actual fire escapes down the back side. However, the dumpster sits behind at the bottom of the fire escapes. I was waiting for something stupid to happen. So of course I was walking home from lunch when I notice a resident out on the fire escape. He yells to me "Can you make sure my trash bag makes it in to the dumpster?" So I stand there and he throws it. I laugh and when he makes it in he starts yelling and cheering. Needless to say I went up to his room and talked with him and wrote an incident report on this.

Name:

Bob.  Just Bob.

School:

A large school in the South

Story

Last night, I went to deliver a citizenship award certificate to a resident. I knocked on his door and he yelled "come in". I handed him the certificate then noticed a large case of beer on his floor. (And yes, he is well under 21.) Maybe the award committee should find someone who obeys the law next time.

Name:

Sarah

School:

Somewhere in the wilds of PA

Story

Okay, so this is not so much an actual story as a suggestion. We're in the of hiring new RAs for next year, and this is my first year on the selection committee. My idea is that the selection process should be made up of only one stage...in a format resembling MTV's Real World. For one week, the candidates, selection committee members, and a few professional staff members live all together on a floor. What a better way to see how people really act!? I really like this idea, but my professional staff members and fellow RAs don't think it would work. They're probably right, but can you imagine how many funny stories you'd get from this?!?!

Name:

Thomas A Hadfield

School:

Lake Superior State Univ

Story

This is unfortunately not very humorous but I think you will get the point. This is comming from a senior resident @ LSSU Any comments directed to Thadfield@student.lssu.edu

Again, I find myself in a dilemma. As business manager of The Compass, I try not to put my opinions into the paper. However, I have reached a time of such discontent that I have to say something. As a fifth year student at LSSU, I have seen many changes for both the good and the bad. For all the good I applaud, but one such category that I consider to fall under the bad is the Resident Assistants (RAs). I know I have a preconceived notion as to what an RA is supposed to be, but this comes from my experiences with good RAs over the past few years. Many of the RAs I have seen this year I think were molded in Hitler’s SS training camps, or maybe it’s just a case of all work and no sex makes RAs dull people. Whatever the reason, this new breed of RA is not what this school needs. I know a lot of you are thinking this is the Greeks ranting about the RAs again, but not really. One of the worst RAs, in my opinion, was Joe Throneberry, a former Greek and fellow brother of Lambda Sigma Beta (LSB) Professional Fraternity. I am not saying that all RAs are bad people, but we need RAs that are willing to participate and help the over all quality of life on campus. There are many groups out there working together to promote school spirit and fun activities on campus, but the RAs do not appear to be cooperating. How many RAs helped sell tickets to the SnowBall, as the Activities Board asked them to do? Even with a $50 prize going to the RA who sold the most tickets, only one RA sold any tickets. Then Sunday, while waiting to start the Snow Games, people went around banging on doors in Brady trying to find participants (which we did). While we were gathering in the lobby of Brady, we were harassed about having 2 empty kegs with us. These two empty kegs were for an old tradition that has happened for many years here at LSSU — The Keg Toss. Well, after a heated discussion, we held the Keg Toss although the RAs that were present were threatening to enforce the rules (which is to charge us $1,000 per keg on campus). This was petty, especially when the RA felt it necessary to call in Campus Security because of these violators in his lobby. To Campus Security, I apologize for anything that might have been said. It was not directed at you because I know you were called over and were just trying to do your job. But, to Joe Molnar and Reg Madeline (RAs of the Year) and any other Hitler youth, just lighten up and live a little.

Thom Hadfield, president LSSU Inter-Greek Council

Name:

Buff

School:

Berea College

Story

Ok, some the funniest stories happened last year before I was an RA and involved some of the RA's. My RA on my floor decides to get one of those Stone Cold Steve Austin Punching Bags. Well a few of us was taking a break from doing papers and decide to blow up Mr. Austin. Then you was suppose to fill the bottom of it with water so it would stand up and all. The only way that it could be accomplished for us was to take him in the shower. As you can imagine, 3 girls and Stone Cold Steve Austin taking a shower together. The bad thing about it is, another RA saw us and just cracked up by what they saw. Also last year, I was known as the biggest aggie (agriculture major) in my dorm, even though I've changed majors this year. I had to work on the farm last year and had to do midnight, 2am, 4am, whatever time checks on the cattle and sheep during calving and lambing season. I got tired of some girls being loud around 2AM so when it came time for me to do my 4AM check, I went to the door, yelled out "CATTLE CHECK" extremely loud and ran. The RA said she was laughing as those residents that were up came stumbling out of their rooms, thinking we were having some kind of fire drill....

Name:

Ted Bellezza

School:

Kent State University

Story

My first weekend as an RA in the First Year Experience program at KSU, One of my residents viewed me entering my room without a key, he was like, how did you do that? Im like what, I unlocked the door, hes like you can do that here? im like yea, its a lock man, use it!

Name:

Thom

School:

Lake Superior State Univ

Story

Sorry I was told I put the wrong address up. and after review they were correct. My Email is Thadfiel@student.lssu.edu sorry to anyone who might have tryed to email me.

Name:

Laura Palkoner

School:

Northern Illinois University

Story

In the beginning, of the Spring semester 2000, I was woken by one of my residents at 2:30am. He came down to tell me that his roommate had gone to the bathroom on their floor. Woken out of sleep I asked him if he missed in their bathroom or if he had gone in their bedroom. He said that he got out of bed and made a clear path between the bed and the fridge that is in their room. First being grossed out then wondering "HOW THE HELL AM I GOING TO WRITE THIS ONE UP?" I did the write up but the bad thing is that it has happened again and the funny thing is that I still laugh when I write it up because I can never figure out what word choice in order to do the write up. The first time I did it I was laughing because I could not think of how to word the situation on paperwork.

Name:

Dave Machado

School:

UC Davis

Story

In my first year as a resident advisor, I decided to bake a cake for my great residents. It was going to be a glorious chocolate cake that would be a surprise to my residents who didn't expect me to bake unless it was someone's birthday. After only having placed the cake in the oven for less than ten minutes, smoke started to fill my floor's kitchenette and lounge. As I deperately tried to fan the smoke away from the fire alarm the alarms began to blare. Within minutes the fire department had arrived and the building had been evacuated. Once the reason for the fire alarm had been realized many of the residents in the building began to poke fun at me and I soon became known as the RA that almost burned down his own building. Oh well, no harm, no foul.

Name:

RMH

School:

one of the SUNYs

Story

I am a resident assitant in one of the quad towers. The towers are 22 floors. On the top floor was a computer lab. We often have trouble with the elevators - people being trapped. It's a pretty frigtening experience. One day, I was in the computer lab and heard a slight banging. It was very faint and being the Ra that I am - I went to track down the noise. I went out into the hall and realized it was coming from one the elevators. "Hello?" I called out. "Oh good!! You can hear us. Please help, We're stuck!!" I went back into the computer room to call campus secruty. Another RA, who was also in the computer room, over heard my call and came out to see what was going on. She's an EMT and any situation she encounters she treats as if it were a life threatening emergency and she were the doctor on scene. She started asking the people in the elevator if anyone had any medical conditions or was clausterphobic. finally she asked "Is any one in there pregnant?" A female voice yelled back "Not yet!"

Name:

Brian Kelley

School:

University of Central Oklahoma

Story

On rounds one night, I overheard female voices coming from one of the rooms after visitation hours. Rather annoyed, I knocked on the door. "Who is it," said the voice from within. "East Hall staff," I replied. At that point I heard what sounded like a heard of elephants piling into the closet. The door opened and I had to try really hard to conceal my laughter. The guy actually looked me in the eye and told me that there were no girls in the room.

Name:

G. Vincent

School:

U of Washington

Story

We've got a building of 1,000+ residents and 20 RAs, That's 10 floors (and 120 balconies) of pure unbridled energy. Being the largest, talest, and only building on campus with real balconies, many residents occasionally feel the need to see if gravity still affects various objects. This includes everything from bottles and dishes, to bags of spagetti, to a bowling ball. Anyways, recently someone decided to see if they could launch a room chair into low-earth orbit, but probabily to their (and NASAs) dismay, they only managed to get it into a nearby tree. With so many balconies and possible "launch locations", we were trying to figure where it came from. Normally, we'd notice the lack of a chair in a room at the end of the year when we do our room checks, but much to our dismay we realized that anyone can steal a chair from the study rooms. We didn't know how we were going to find it's owner. So, anyways, one of our staff climbed up the tree and retrieved it. When he walked into the office with it, his only words were, "Confusious says, do not chuck chair when room number is written on bottom of chair." Needless to say, someone's not getting their damage deposit back. Silly residents, tricks are for kids.

Name:

Kevin Mierzejewski

School:

Loyola College in MD

Story

While on rounds, my Co RA and I rounded the corner to find some very distraught residents. When they saw us, they ran up and told us that someone had shit in their room. Of course they had to show us, so we relucantly followed. Sure enough in the back room, watching tv, was, well the shit. Apparently one of his roommate's had left the door open and someone had wandered in and had done their business. The residents had called campus police also, and sure enough, they showed up. So now there was three people documenting a pile of human feces, one resident declaring that he wants a new room, and about five more people heckling the poor guy. Word of wise, always lock your door, or you may get some unwanted house guests!

Name:

School:

Story

I was on rounds with my duty partner over Halloween. We were going through our building of 1,000 freshmen handing out candy to the residents who were studying and just hanging out. We happened upon a room with the door open, and about 8 students inside talking. We aksed them if they wanted candy, and noted that they were making the "mature"decisoin not to drink that night. The residents responded that they wanted the candy, but insisted we come into the room, as they were too lazy to walk the five feet to the door. We walked in, and dicsovered two cases of beer sitting behind one of the beds. One of the residents wisely remarked "This is why you dont take candy from strangers." We wrote them up for being stupid.

Name:

Rob Shaffer

School:

Marymount University

Story

My first year as an RA I lived on a very diverse floor. We had freshmen thru senior all living on the same floor and lots of athletes. The morning after an off-campus lacrosse party, I was getting up to shower early in the morning before work. As I started running the water to shave, I heard a toilet flush. (No one on that floor was ever up that early). One of my resident's stepped out and said..."Thanks Man, I guess I fell asleep!" He had passed out when he came back the nite before...I laughed all the way through my shower that day.

Name:

School:

Upper Michigan

Story

In the lobbies of our floors we have globe lights that hang from the ceiling. One of them had been burn out for days, and when we asked the RA who's lobby it was why it had not been changed she stated that she could not find one of the big light bulbs to replace it with. She had called housing, our boss, and maintinace. We had to explain that the lightbulb was normal size, just the outer globe was big! She has never lived down the "big lightbulb"!

Name:

Chris

School:

Marist

Story

THE FINAL ANSWER!

This might not be a funny story but it tells everyone out there that Marist is a type of college that has community development in their residence halls. In our 9-story residence building every night when "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" is on, every freshman door is opened yelling out that "final answer". Residents are at the edged of the seats and very excited to call 1-800-433-8321 to be in that hotseat. Well I decided if students love to watch it out television they would probably enjoy it if they were there in person. So i decided to write to Regis and he sent 47 tickets to us and we are going to be part of the studio auidence of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire at ABC Studios in NYC. It is going to be a great trip and all RA's out there - this is a great program off campus! GO MARIST AND GO RED FOXES! Good Luck and enjoy the rest of the semester to all RA's - LOve you guys! Marist loves everyone!

Name:

Amy

School:

Story

The other night one of my fellow RAs and I were on rounds together. Also with us was one of our friends who is also and RA. On one of the landings on the stairs in one of the dorms there is about a nini inch space between the window and the landing. The RA that I was on duty with wanted to see if he could slide down the opening. He is a relatively small person. He gets in the opening and at about his waist he stops moving and screams out that he's stuck. At first my friend and I couldn't do anything because we were laughing so hard, but then I wenmt onto the next landing and pushed his legs up (good thing I'm tall!). My friend was laughing but once she went down to the next landing she was crying because all that you saw was his feet dangling. We eventually got him free and we went on with our rounds....his lower abdomin was al bit sore, but he was all right!!!

Name:

Peter

School:

Lewis & Clark College

Story

Ahh, what a night. The RD was gone for the weekend, and I was on duty. Rounds went rather uneventfully (no write-ups, as usual), and I settled into my room to go to sleep. Well, at about 2am, I'm awakened by the fire alarm, so I head out and pound on all of my residents' doors. Only a few of them are home yet (it's a Saturday, remember?), but we head out with the other 300-odd residents of the hall into the rain (we're in Portland, OR). Campus Safety shows up, with the fire department, and they go in. Meanwhile, my duty partner and I wander around outside the building, looking for rooms that might still be occupied. Our duty cell phone rings, and I answer. Someone complains about a loud noise that won't go off. I inform them that there it's a fire alarm and they need to evacuate the building. I got two more calls before the fire department found me and told me that it was a false alarm. Apparently, someone had set off a fire extinguisher in a hallway, and the fire alarms are sensitive to the chemical, so they went off. Everyone went back in, but when the residents of the hall where the extinguisher went off, they stirred up the chemical dust, and the alarm went off again. It kept happening until 8 am when a guy from the alarm company could come to disable that section of the alarm. So who sat up turning off the alarm every five minutes? That's right, me, your friendly RA. Interestingly enough, as I was wandering around the outside of a building, I looked over at an adjacent residence hall and there was a line of people screaming and carrying chairs out onto a bridge and tossing the chairs, whooping it up. Seems like it was a pretty mischievious night in all the halls.

Name:

JC

School:

UNO

Story

When an RA caught her resident having sex on a bed with no covers on the day of check out.

Name:

Officer Barbrady

School:

Indiana University

Story

We get a call at 1:30am that a big crash was heard at the center desk area. We go to check it out. When we get there we find someone totally drunk who has ran through a 8 foot by 4 foot solid glass window which almost cut him in half. Now the funny part. Of course we have to call the police. When the police arrive they ask for the guys ID. I guess he though this was a bar or something and proceeded to give the police officer his real ID and his fake one.

Name:

Melanie

School:

University of Missouri

Story

Okay, so this was my first semester as a CA (Community Advisor, but the equivalent to a RA). I had just gotten home from a Saturday afternoon at the mall when another staff member came to my door. One of her residents had walked past the door of one of my residents and had seen beer. We go check it out and sure enough, there they were with the door wide open. Mistake #1. We told them we had to take their alcohol and as we were doing so, I noticed one of my residents moving two large Adidas bags to the back of the room. They were full of beer as well! They ended up having a total of 107 cans of beer in their room, only 4 had been open. It took my fellow CA and I close to a half hour to dump them all out and then we had to start writing up the documentation. The best part was as were were walking away from the room with the bags full of beer, one of the girls yelled, "Can I have my bag back?!"

Name:

Melanie

School:

University of Missouri

Story

Okay, so this was my first semester as a CA (Community Advisor, but the equivalent to a RA). I had just gotten home from a Saturday afternoon at the mall when another staff member came to my door. One of her residents had walked past the door of one of my residents and had seen beer. We go check it out and sure enough, there they were with the door wide open. Mistake #1. We told them we had to take their alcohol and as we were doing so, I noticed one of my residents moving two large Adidas bags to the back of the room. They were full of beer as well! They ended up having a total of 107 cans of beer in their room, only 4 had been open. It took my fellow CA and I close to a half hour to dump them all out and then we had to start writing up the documentation. The best part was as were were walking away from the room with the bags full of beer, one of the girls yelled, "Can I have my bag back?!"

Name:

School:

Story

Last Halloween, I went on rounds with the other RA on duty. As we walked through the third floor of our building, we heard loud yelling from the lounge. When we got there, we found a large crowd of people having a festive party. In the center of the room, there was a huge carved-out pumpkin filled with beer! A totally trashed dude standing near the pumpkin with only his boxers on looked up, saw us, and yelled, "Shit! The RAs are here!" and then proceeded to dunk his entire head into the beer-filled pumpkin! Of course, we had to document the situation, and we couldn't stop laughing when we wrote down the details.

Name:

Dani Cantrell

School:

University of california, Santa Cruz

Story

Our campus is in a pretty rural area. A new resident from the city called in terror to report a giant dog outside her window. I checked it out and found a deer quietly grazing.

Name:

School:

Story

I'm not a RA myself but I remmy back then when I was a frosh, one nite, there were a HUGE party going on the campus. I went bed like at 2am and woke up like 5 mintues later by a doorbell (later on I found out it was hit by a drunken resident). I went back to bed and another 5 minutes later, I had to go the restroom and I opened my door and amazingly, I saw a puddle of vomit on the floor and on the water foundation! I had to step over the vomit to go to the restroom. After that I went back to my room but I saw RA just looking at the vomit with that pathetic look on his face. I told him, "It's beyond gross" Let me tell you, it's on a early Saturday morning and the cleaning crew won't come till Monday. He says, "Hey, this happens." I had to suffer all of those gross looking and gross smelling vomit for an entire weekend. Nedless to say, it was not the best weekend of my frosh year.

Name:

Tim Slade

School:

Colorado Mountain College

Story

It was during RA training at the beginning of the fall semester 1999. The staff from the three resident campuses were at the Leadville campus. We were doing room confrontation role playing. I was to be backup to another first year RA. We had come to a room to confront loud music. As we opened the door we observed several candles burning and several alcohol containers (we are a dry campus plus candles are a no-no). We played the whole thing straight. We advised the "residents" that they were violating several policies and that we would have to confiscate the candles and that the booze would have to be poured out. At which time our Coordinator (playing the part of one of the residents) grabbed a beer bottle and saying, "hey I can take care of this one right now" turned the bottle bottom up. Unfortunately for her what she thought was an empty bottle has about an ounce or two of stale beer still in it. The small amount of liquid spilled out and right into her mouth and down her neck. The whole exercize ended right there as everyone cracked up. You see the coordinator hates alcohol of any kind and nearly becomes ill at the smell of beer. She did a good job of not vomiting but her face looked a bit green. He kid her to this day about the experience.

Name:

Tim Slade

School:

Colorado Mountain College

Story

It was during RA training at the beginning of the fall semester 1999. The staff from the three resident campuses were at the Leadville campus. We were doing room confrontation role playing. I was to be backup to another first year RA. We had come to a room to confront loud music. As we opened the door we observed several candles burning and several alcohol containers (we are a dry campus plus candles are a no-no). We played the whole thing straight. We advised the "residents" that they were violating several policies and that we would have to confiscate the candles and that the booze would have to be poured out. At which time our Coordinator (playing the part of one of the residents) grabbed a beer bottle and saying, "hey I can take care of this one right now" turned the bottle bottom up. Unfortunately for her what she thought was an empty bottle has about an ounce or two of stale beer still in it. The small amount of liquid spilled out and right into her mouth and down her neck. The whole exercize ended right there as everyone cracked up. You see the coordinator hates alcohol of any kind and nearly becomes ill at the smell of beer. She did a good job of not vomiting but her face looked a bit green. We kid her to this day about the experience and she becomes embarassed every time.

Name:

Anonymous

School:

Central Washington University

Story

I was on a round one night and I came across quite a scene. Somebody had tied nylon cording around a door-handle and then to the fire-exit. This was work of two neighbors who had been having a prank war all year. Because the residents were trapped in the room and because the line in the fire-exit was a saftey hazard, I got a pair of scissors and cut the cording. I knocked on the door and nobody answered. I knocked again and nobody answered. I figured they thought I was the prankster so I went to the office to try to call them. No answer. So another RA and I went up and knocked again, identefying ourselves as RAs. When the door finally opened, it opened the wrong way, ie the hinges had been taken off. Barely containing myself I told him to fix it and come out to talk to me. I could barely hold it when I heard the sound of the pins being hammered back into the hinges. I decided not to write him up, since everything was in it's orignal condition, but told them the pranks had gone to far. They shut the door and my colleague and I ran to my room and shut my door so we could laugh. We were laughing so hard all my residents thougt we were drunk.

Name:

Penny

School:

Philadelphia

Story

I was in the office when a resident came by. She came to borrow the vacuum, then turn and walked out the door. Five minutes later she came back with a smile on her face and took the vacuum.

Name:

Rocky Wenskus

School:

SUNY at Stony Brook

Story

One of my very first nights sitting in the office on duty, a first year resident came up to me and had stated that his roommate's bed had been made since he moved in. He then proceeded to ask me "When will you be making my bed?" and "Where can I pick up my pillow and blankets?" I then told him that he could go to the mall in order to purchase these things. He then proceeded to ask me "Isn't it your job to provide these to me?" I then replied in the nicest way possible "Unfortunately, this is not a hotel so therefore it is not my responsibility to provide these things to you. I can though, refer you to the least expensive store."

Name:

Lluvia Mulvaney-Stanak

School:

Castleton State College

Story

During my first semester as an RA at CSC I awoke after a tough Saturday night to a knock on my door. It was one of my residents who told me that there was a cat in the hallway---a dead cat. I told her to leave me alone and that it wasn't funny. She repeated that there was a dead cat in the hallway. To humor her I put on my slippers, grabbed the radio and walked down the hallway in a grogy mood. As I neared the "object" I thought, "that looks like a fuzzy.....oh my god!" It was in fact a dead cat leaning up against one of the resident's doors. I had no idea what to do, what was the procedure for this? So I radioed to Public Safety. After about 10 minutes of exchanging blank stares with the dead kitty a work study public safety officer came. We argued for awhile as to what we were going to do. We agreed that we would use 17 bio-hazard bags and 3 pairs of rubber gloves each to pick it up and take it to the dumpster. Then it was a showdown as to who would hold the bag. After a long silence it was me. So with the officer holding the cat by it's tail, he dropped it into the bag that I was holding. After that, he took it outside and we never spoke of the dead cat again. Needless to say, this pet was breaking code.

Name:

Sara

School:

University of California at Davis

Story

At Davis, we do rounds through all the buildings in our area when we're on call. I was on call with a friend of mine and we were going through a building. There was some loud music coming from one room and we knocked to ask them to keep it down and remind them that quiet hours were in effect. Well, in a break between songs (they weren't answering our knocking), we heard some noise from the room next door...My fellow RAs, you know the noises I mean... I'm talking moaning and groaning, of the illicit kind. Well, my friend and I just looked at each other and cracked up! We couldn't believe that someone would be so...loud...about their activities in a building with such thin walls and doors! I'm sure that most RAs have had a similar experience, but whenever I think about it, it just makes me laugh a little. Even though the people in that room were being really loud, my friend and I didn't confront them about their policy violation...We wanted to leave them with a modicum of dignity, you know? But from then on, I've always said that if you're a screamer, a squealer, a moaner, or a groaner, you shouldn't be doing it in the dorms.

Name:

Rita Rai

School:

UC Davis

Story

Last year, after the end of fall quarter, a fellow RA on my staff and I were closing the Halls. We were going through al the rooms, and making sure that everything was unplugged, and that everybody was gone by noon. We knocked before entering each room. If nobody answered after knocking a few times, we would yell out "we are coming in!" and then open the door with the master key and go inside. Well, we were doing this for a while, and pretty much everybody was gone. We came down to the first floor and knocked on the suite door. Nobody answered, so we went inside. We went thorough one of the two rooms inside, and everything was fine. We went to the next room, and knocked, and nobody answered, we yelled out "we are coming in," and I proceeded to open the door with the key, while my fellow RA was standing a little ways away. I opened the door and a waft of really rauncy smelling, stale air hit my nostrils. I yelled "it f****** smells like s*** in here and totally threw out the door wide open. It hit something soft and bounced back. I went inside and peeked behind the door to see what it had hit. To my surprise, I found my female resident and her boyfriend in bed together completely naked. It was his feet that were sticking out of the bed frame that the door had hit! I turned completely red with embarrassment while my fellow RA was standing outside the door cracking up like crazy. I tried to mutter an apology and stood there stammering for about a minute and then ran back outside and shut the door. I couldn't look my resident in the eye for the rest of the year.

Name:

School:

UW-Stevens Point

Story

My Co-CA and myself are on rounds when we come across a guy who is stealing a chair. My CO asks him if he would please put the chair down. The perpetrator responds with a Jedi mind trick by waving his fingers past us saying; "This is not the chair you are looking for."

Name:

Bob

School:

UW-Stevens Point

Story

At approximately 3am I am awakened by some noise in the hallway. I enter the hallway to discover that two of my more "active" residents are engaged in a squirt gun fight....with squirt guns filled with tobacco chew spit.

Name:

GOLDBERG

School:

DEFIANCE

Story

I am a first year RA AND I AM A FROSH....well here is a really good one not as good as some others but itll get you going....here goes. Ok i was sitting in my room watching tv when i heard some kids yelling for me to come out in the hall. i go out there and they said lex was locked in his room....weird but the door lock was jammed. i went to get the master key and it wouldnt unlock....i became a little frustrated so instead of thinking "HEY---TELL LEX TO TAKE THE PINS OUT OF THE DOOR TO LET IT FALL OUT"...I DECIDED TO GO THROUGH A 7 FOOT 200 POUND DOOR... well he was able to come out but i felt really dumb when my RD and other buddy came up.....lets just say i made a bonehead freshman mistake...i did put him a door up for the night though.........

Name:

Nick Luchko

School:

Cabrini College

Story

Well this one night on duty, i was walking down the whole way when i saw a bunch of people drinking, i ask then politely to get rid of the beers, when all of a sudden this kid comes out of the room with a clear white trash bag full of beer in it. I was like no way is this getting by you dumb ass, so anyway he gave the beers to me. When ask later why he did, he said that he lost his school bag. just pathetic

Name:

Anonymous L

School:

SUNY Albany

Story

One of my fellow staff members told me this incident that happened to her. This story is too much. Last year, she was working on her quads on duty. At 1:30AM, She hears a knock on her door, and gets up and answer. There is this weird, stoned guy standing in front of her reeking of stale alcohol. Obviously not noticing the huge RA sign on my door, he asks her, "Yeah, I heard you got some drugs. What do you have?" She's looking at him for a minute and says, "Ok, you're looking for drugs? Hold on a sec," and shuts the door, while the guy took a seat in the hall. My friend calls the director on duty and the director calls University Police. Needless to say, he was answered by being questioned by UPD and facing arrest with the authorities.

Name:

John Summerlot

School:

Mississippi State University

Story

I am on one of two freshman floors in a nine story upperclass mens hall. We have open balconies that watch over the main street to and from the football stadium.

My first year our football team won their last home game and everyone rushed the field to tear down the goal posts including myself. As I returned to the hall from the stadium, I saw much to my surprise, that several of my residents had stolen the cheerleader's flags that spell out "STATE" As I began to hurry up the steps knowing the police could not be far behind I realized they didn't have all of them. They were madly yelling off the balcony and waving just the word "ATE". They only got the last three flags!

Well the next year (this last season) our football team won our last home game against our big rival Ole Miss. Our residents are famous for throwing things off the balcony and being pretty rowdy in such cases. So as the last second, game winning field goal went through the uprights, I sprinted outside to the balcony. Judging on last year's performance I began confronting anyone I saw and yelling wildly "They are tearing down the goal posts! Quick go help them!" Pretty soon their was a mob of about 40 residents running full speed up the street to the stadium to help out. After I was relatively sure all the rowdy guys were out I went back to my room and turned on the television and guess what? There were three of my residents hanging on the goal post trying madly to tear it down! They did succeed and they cut it up outside the stadium and even brought me back a piece! Why let them be delinquents at home, let them tear up something else for a change!

Name:

Shannon

School:

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Story

In late September, our school has a Homecoming-type of weekend called Starvation Gulch. Like every other Homecoming, it's a time for great partying. This weekend is kind of considered the new RA's initiation. Well, one night that weekend, during my first month as an RA, I literally ran into a girl crawling out of the women's bathroom. I located the friend she was with and told her that she needed to put this girl in bed and stay with her because she had obviously had enough to drink for the night. But when the intoxicated girl heard this, she freaked out and ran outside. Then I heard a great commotion coming from the lobby. Apparently, the girl had collapsed onto the floor. Her friends were trying to pick her up off the ground when I entered the lobby. When she saw me, she became violent, swinging at her friends, trying to get away. So, I called the police to have her taken to De-tox. Only one officer arrived. That evening was too busy to send two. When the officer contacted her, she became even more violent with him, screaming and hitting him. So he yelled at me to help him out. He told me to hold her down while he handcuffed her. That was a crazy night.

Name:

Matt

School:

Clemson

Story

I was on duty for my area of 5 buildings (3 male, 2 female) and was doing the last rounds alone since my duty partner had an early class. I was getting ready to enter a female building when the night security guard stopped me and started to tell me that I couldn't go in since it was long after visitation hours. I tried to explain to him that I was the RA on duty but he wouldn't believe me. Not only did I have to show him my badge saying that I in fact was the RA on duty, but I had to show him my student ID, RA ID, and list off the phone numbers for other RA's and the RD. Finally after getting into the building and doing rounds, I was about to go into the other female building when yet ANOTHER security guard stopped me and almost made me go through the entire thing again! (after all of this, back in my building some incredibly durnk guy tried to physically threaten me for thanking the girls that brought him home. It was a fun night let me tell you!)

Name:

Gretchen

School:

Story

We have three building in our complex. One night another RA was doing laundry and saw our MA walking around in the building. Since the MA didn't live there the RA asked her what was going on. She said that she was picking up another RA to go to a lecture. The RA doing her laundry thought that it was strange because the RA that the MA was looking for lived in another building in our complex. As she was returning to her room on the first floor, she saw the MA knocking on one of her resident's doors. When the door opened, the MA asked for the RA she was going to the lecture with. The girl in the room looked a little confused and the other RA informed the MA that she was in the wrong building.

Name:

William

School:

Western New England College

Story

I was on duty one weekend, and at around 1:30 the HD on duty was doing his rounds to check in with all of the RAs on duty. Well he had just arrived at my room when we heard a call over our radios that a couple of floors of one of our buildings was flooding. We just looked at eachother and started laughing, and he said something about going with the flow, and that he would try to stop by later. It turns out that a student was trying to "flush" the toilet, and had inadvertently ripped the pipe out of the wall.

Name:

School:

University of Richmond

Story

It was my first year as an RA and I had a hall full of first year women. I was trying hard to be friends with all my residents, so for the first few weeks I was a softie when it came to writing my residents up for noise and other violations. One Thursday night towards the end of the first semester, I was doing homework in my room and hanging-out with a bunch of my friends when the music from the room next door became very loud and unignorable. Finally at my breaking point, I grabbed my RA binder, knocked on the door, and asked that it please be opened. When the door finally opened, I not only found my three residents, but their moms as well listening to music and drinking, along with about seven guys. After I wrote the residents up, they came to my door with their moms begging me to rip-up their write-up form, saying that it was the mothers' faults because they asked the girls to show them "how they party." Needless to say, I did not.

Name:

Jessica Barker

School:

Seattle University

Story

It was the beginning of the year and my first weekend ever on duty. I was in the floor lounge with my RA partner when I looked out into the hall and saw a guy in women's underwear taking a drink from the water fountain. Just for clarification, I'm an RA on an all-girls floor, so this was doubly odd. He said hi and came in to watch TV with us and I silently excused myself to call Campus Security. Security arrived very quickly but the guy had disappeared! I knocked on some doors that I had seen him lingering around and it turned out that he had just walked into one of my resident's rooms! Later we found out that he had just met her roommate (who was not present at the time) and had stolen her roommate's underwear for like, no particular reason! He was escorted off campus and given a criminal trespass. They never covered that one in RA training!

Name:

Mr. FSC

School:

Framingham State College

Story

One night in my room about 11:40 i went into the lounge to close the doors because two of my residents decided to play their guitars. Just as i closed the door and walked out in the hall i saw on of the RA's on duty. The both of us were right on both sides of a door when the people in the room opened the door yelling ooh shit and slamed the door when they saw two RA's. As we were about to open the door residents tryed to start leaving when we saw all the alcohol in their room out in the open. We would have never known if the person did not yelled out and slamed the door when they saw two RA's outside their door.

Name:

Leah

School:

USM

Story

This happened to a fellow staff member...one night, he was sleeping quite soundly when someone sat on the bed with him. Thinking it might be his girlfriend, he didn't grapple the person to the floor, but instead turned on the light. It was a fairly drunk guy...in his underwear. My friend was like, "What are you doing in my room??" The drunk guy slurred, "I think my friends played a trick on me..." Apparently they had told him he was on the wrong floor when he went to his own room, that he was a floor lower than he needed to be, and had directed him to the 8th Floor RA's room as a joke.

Name:

RA Lady

School:

Story

I'm on duty with my friend Tony and this guy wanders into the building. We ask him if he lives here, and he mumbles something, and starts walking away from us. Five or ten minutes later, he comes back and sits down in our lobby, and falls asleep. Forty five minutes later, we think we should maybe wake him up or something. So we yell, scream-nothing. We call the University Police, they come down, and try all the same stuff we did...yelling at him, eventually picking him up and setting him down, shaking him. Nothing. After twenty or so minutes of trying like hell to wake him up, he finally opened his eyes. Turns out, he was smashed, didn't live in the building, was visiting a friend who wasn't around, and had decided to take a nap.

Name:

School:

Story

I am a Graduate Hall Director at an all male Residence Hall. By the way, I am female :). It was right after finals, a couple of days before the Halls closed for winter break when this happened. The guys in the Hall thought that they would have a spur of the moment "community builder" in the lobby. They checked out the VCR from the front desk to watch a mocie on the Big Screen TV. To my surprise, as I walked out of my apartment (which opens into the lobby)I happened to catch the movie they were watching..... It was a porno!!... There they were; half the residents glued to the TV having a great time! I didn't say anything at first, I just let my door close behind me. When someone heard my door close the crowd slowly began to look behind them and realize that I was standing there. Someone yelled that the Hall Director was in the room and the place was cleared out in a matter of seconds.... Of course no one wanted to admit to being in the lobby or claim tape after that.. Needles to say, we haven't had anymore "community builders" like that again.

Name:

I plead the fifth

School:

(same as above!)

Story

So my friend and I (both of us are RAs) were sitting outside on her building's patio one night and we looked across the way when we heard a thump. We saw a book fall out of a third-floor window onto the sunshade and down into the bushes below the window. At first, my friend and I were just laughing as the girls who dropped it peered out the window, but then I got it into my head to go over and hide the book. So I put it in the bushes by my friend's patio and we went inside just as the girls were coming out to look for their book. Well, we sat in my friend's room listening to them search the bushes and all the while, I was getting a little worried. I knew they wouldn't find it where they were looking, but they saw us, so I knew they might think it was us. Anyway, they stopped looking at about 1:10 AM (after starting to look at about 12:45). I was getting worried because they had my boss and another staff member (one of the RAs from their building) out there looking! Then the sprinklers went on, so I started really freaking out! It was just supposed to be a joke because the girls weren't even supposed to have their screen open (because we have a policy here that makes it illegal for them to have both the screen and the window open at the same time). Anyway, it was resolved okay because I retrieved the book before it got sprinkled and returned it to another RA in the building and told her not to say who it was...but I still feel kind of bad about it. All goes to show you why I'm an RA instead of a regular resident, I guess. I feel so guilty that I can't even pull silly pranks!

Name:

Terrapin

School:

umuc-sg

Story

It was about 3 or 4 in the morning and there was some door slamming and loud screaming going on. On the side of the building where it was coming from almost everybody had woken up and went to get there RA. SO all the RA's are walkin around in their pajamas trying to find where this noise was coming from. We thougt we had found it because there had been a problem with a room that had loud music playing from it earlier. SO we knocked on the door and there is no response but we hear people moving. We knock a second time and tell them come on open up, we just want to ask you something. So the 3rd time we tell them look we will have to get the RC and key in if you don't open up. So they don't, we get the RC and key in and all of them are in different areas of the room pretending to be asleep. SO we are laughing our butts off. We a re like guys , kill it and get up. We here somthing coming from the shower so we go over to the shower open the and one other person was in there hiding. Needless to say we all got a big laugh because when they did get up, they were still trying to pretend that they had been asleep the entire time.We wrote them up and then we found the true source of the noise.

Name:

Jennifer

School:

UW-Whitewater

Story

During my first semester as an RA I had many experices that I'll remember. Perhaps one of the funniest ones occured during one of the weekends. I was on duty with a male RA. As we were approaching the lobby of the main floor we could hear a lot of noise coming from the elevator. It was after quiet hours, so we went to find out what happened. When the elevator door opened no one was there. We decided to just go to the fourth floor and begin our rounds. When we got into the elevator I pushed the button for the fourth floor. We were talking as the elevator doors closed. Soon it stopped on the second floor. I looked out the door to see a male resident mooning us! The male duty RA chased him down the hallway and made him open the door. The kid opened the door. The other RA began to write him up but quickly excused himself. He went to the bathroom but asked me to finish documenting the situation. I could not keep a straight face. I kept laughing as I was asking this poor kid for the information that I needed. How was I suppose to write up a mooning incident? The poor guy was just trying to play a joke on his friends and we were the ones who were in the elevator instead. It took until the start of the Spring Semester for the student to even talk to me again. Even at that he is still rather embarrassed by the incident.

Name:

J

School:

MC

Story

While on duty at the beginning of my first year as an RA myself and my duty were on duty in our high rise freshmen building. There was loud music coming from a room on our first round (We were an hour and a half late for the round because of several things that happened earlier) Quiet hours had begun so when loud music was coming from a room we knocked to ask them to turn it down. Keep in mind it is early on a weeknight in the beginning of the week. They asked who was there. We announced the RAs on duty. We heard someone say OH Shit and then someone yelled just a minute. We heard alot of movement and things opening and closeing. We knocked twice more and then used the duty keys to open the door. When we entered we found several people. Dixie cups with a yellow liquid in all over the room. (Beer) We asked what was going on and they said nothing. We said that we knew they were drinking and to take out the beer. They started pulling it from everywhere and in all we ended up with like 2 cases. We called for the RD on our radio and they said it would be awhile untill they could get there. (We have to have the RD ok before anyone can leave and the RD almost always visits.) After an hour of sitting in the room with all these angry residents the RD finally comes to the room. He talks to them and thells them that if they] have anything else to give it up and says some other things. THey end up giving us even more. It was the longest incident that I had and it was horible to sit there for so long but was very interesting.

Name:

Ian

School:

Western Michigan University

Story

It was April 1st, or april fools day if you will. Funny how it also happened to be litte sib's weekend, but thats not the story. I had my little bro up, and the night before we had done our 3 sets of rounds and it was suprisingly quiet, thank goodness. Well it was 11.30 am when I get a page from the reception desk that an electriction was here to fix the lights on the 2,3,4 floors! Funny, that I didnet call them, and being the AD on duty, I would have been the only one to call on a weekend. So Im lik ok, lets go take a look. It seemed as though some one between 4a-6a had unscrewed EVERY liughbulb on the floors! So I called DPS to file a MDP report so that I could have a custodian come and screw all these bulbs back in. Well the officer was SO upset that I had called him, I dont know, did I interrupt his donut break, that he screwed in everyone while I watched--like hell I was going to do that, but I followed him for 1.5 hours doing that!

Name:

Jason

School:

University of Rochester

Story

I had two really funny stories happen during this past year. The first happened during the always crazy freshmen move-in weekend. I was working the desk with all the keys and this female freshman approaches me. She wants to have one of the door stops for her room. I explained to her that the door stop is there to help all the people move in. She is not happy with this reasoning and walks off. Next thing I know she grabs it and takes off the staircase. I really did not care that much about the door stop but I did want to scare her a little. So I just over the desk and take off after her. When she sees me behind her in the staircase she nearly falls a couple of times and runs into a friend's room. I just stop and walk away laughing. The even better thing about this story is that later on I realize she lives on my floor and I then get to tease her about it all year long. The other story has to deal with one of my residents falling for the old lean the garbage can full of water against the door and knock loudly and run away. He comes to my door all upset saying that this incident happened. I told him I will be right down the hall to check it out. I had to close my door first because I knew I would start laughing which I did. I then left to help him.

Name:

Tony Montgomery

School:

Ball State University

Story

OK, I don't find this very funny but everybody else did.

One night while our Hall Council was doing a Ice Cream sale/delivery, I was helping out. The phone rang and someones else answered it. It happened to be for me. The girl said it was a "Special Order" (it was just my friend). I was explaining to her the toppings we had and my Hall Director said it "It nust be a booty call". I turned and did the famous "suck it" gesture, but I kinda hit myself down there. I collapsed while the others practically died laughing. Then my hall director said , "Don't forget to tell 'em about the chopped nuts!!!"

Needless to say that was the topic for rest of the night and week...I'm ok if you're wondering.

Story

I work as a security aide for residence life at my school. My first confrontation was on Mother's Weekend. Campus Safety called on the radio and advised of a disturbance on the 4th floor of one of the freshmen halls. It was nearly the end of duty, so all five aides decided to see what the problem was. When we walked into the lobby we found a drunk mother smoking a cigarette. We advised her of the rules against smoking in the hallway, but she didn't understand that we meant business. She thought that we were the parking police, and gave us her thoughts on the parking situation on campus. After some coaxing from my partner, the mother finally put out her cigarette and decided to be quiet. Drunk students are one thing, but drunk mothers are another!

Name:

Shelly Hopper

School:

Eastern Illinois University

Story

In our building, the elevators open on random floors at random times, for no reason at all. The residents on my floor kept asking my why they were doing this and I had no real answer for them. So, the week of Halloween, I decided to make up a legend about a Building Service Worker who died and "haunted" our building and he was the one who kept opening the elevator doors. Some of my residents fell for it, but the funniest thing is that over Christmas Break, I had left the story up and one of the University Police Officers was making rounds through the building. He had stopped to read the story, which was posted by the elevator, and right when he got to the bottom, where it says that the ghost opens the elevator, the elevator opened! He said he jumped so high! I wish I could have been there to see that!

Name:

brooke

School:

depauw university

Story

this is about something my RA did for me my freshman year...now that i am going to be an RA, i hope i can have close relationships like this one with my residents! so anyways... my birthday falls during winter finals which is really not cool! i also happened to be born on my mom's birthday. we had never been apart on our birthday before, but due to finals, that was changing. early in the day, i went in to my RA's room just to hang out. i noticed one of those small tubes of icing used to write on cakes. well, curious as to why she had that, i of course asked. she told me she had a project for her spanish class and she was in charge of the food section. she told me she had made some sort of dessert. there was a little left over and so she was eating it (hey, i eat icing sometimes too). well, she was convincing enough that i believed her. that night her and my roommate walked into the room with a container of cupcakes. it turns out she had actually used the icing to write happy birthday on them. of course, she said "the next time i saw that kind of icing sitting on someone's desk on my birthday, don't ask questions. that kind of icing happened to be nasty tasting by itself and i couldn't believe i ate it...all cause you were asking questions!"

Name:

brooke

School:

depauw university

Story

this is about something my RA did for me my freshman year...now that i am going to be an RA, i hope i can have close relationships like this one with my residents! so anyways... my birthday falls during winter finals which is really not cool! i also happened to be born on my mom's birthday. we had never been apart on our birthday before, but due to finals, that was changing. early in the day, i went in to my RA's room just to hang out. i noticed one of those small tubes of icing used to write on cakes. well, curious as to why she had that, i of course asked. she told me she had a project for her Spanish class and she was in charge of the food section. she told me she had made some sort of dessert. there was a little left over and so she was eating it (hey, i eat icing sometimes too). well, she was convincing enough that i believed her. that night her and my roommate walked into the room with a container of cupcakes. it turns out she had actually used the icing to write happy birthday on them. of course, she said "the next time i saw that kind of icing sitting on someone's desk on my birthday, don't ask questions. that kind of icing happened to be nasty tasting by itself and i couldn't believe i ate it...all cause you were asking questions!"

Story

I'm an RA on a sorority floor at the college I attend. Well, sometime after spring break a couple of the girls decided to bring "home" a pet kitten. OF course, pets are not allowed in the dorms unless they pet fish. They had this kitten for at least a week before I found out. The funny thing is, is how I found out. I usually don't go to bed until well after midnight most nights. This particular night, I had my door cracked open. Some of the girls had just come back after 'going out'. One of them took the kitten from the room it had been staying in and was walking down the hall. I looked out my door as she was passing to say 'hi' and...low and behold, she was carrying a kitten. It was a cute and quiet kitten, which prompted me to go easy on the kitten keepers. When I asked the girl about the kitten she told me that she found it outside and was going to post lost/found signs the next morning. Knowing full well that that was not going to happen, I started down the hall to talk to some of the other girls that were up. I found out who was the keeper of the kitten and talked to her the following day. I gave her a few days to find a home for the kitten, if she didn't get rid of it I was going to write her up. The girl who told me she was going to post signs was so drunk that night that she didn't even remember talking to me, or telling me about the signs.

Name:

School:

NY

Story

I was sitting in my room when all of a sudden there was a knock at my door. One of my residents was there frantic stating that he didn't do it. About a minute later, I got a call from the resident in the next section of the building explaining that he was not going to pay for the broken window that had been shattered by a flying golf ball. Apparently, my residents had been golfing out of their windows and had a misdirected ball.

Name:

Jennifer Gentusa

School:

USC

Story

My first year as an RA I was on the Cinema Floor- let's just preface the story with that. I was in my room one evening when a resident came in to tell me that the ceiling in the boy's bathroom was bleeding. Not knowing if this was some twisted joke or what I followed him to the bathroom where, sure enough, blood was dripping from the ceiling. Not entirely sure the policy on bleeding ceilings I went an got my floor partner. By now word had spread like wildfire that the bathroom was bleeding. 70+ residents were all trying to squeeze into the bathroom to get a closer look. One said that he couldn't stand the smell anymore and was going to leave the building for a while. "You're the first to die!" came the overexcited reply, "You're the first to die because we won't think to look for you!" Suddenly everyone had a theory about where the blood was coming from- dead bodies, aliens, mutant animals, you name it. My floor partner, donned in overalls and a handkerchief to cover his face, came in with a large screwdriver. Very slowly he unloosened the bleeding ceiling tile. A group of brave residents watched silently from the safety of the sinks. As the tile came loose there was an unholy slurp sound and then nothing. No movement, no increase in smell, no more blood. Then suddenly, out of the ceiling, swung a three foot gutted catfish tied with a rope. The fish swung back and forth spraying blood and decaying fish juice all over the bathroom. My floor partner made a dash for the nearest shower stall while the spectators screamed and piled out into the hall. The fish came to rest right next to the shower stall, dripping blood and trapping my partner. I called maintenance to explain that we needed a large fish cut down from the ceiling while everyone ran to get their cameras. Our maintenance man came, took one look at the fish and said, "I'll be back with a bigger bag." It turns out that the 2nd floor, who had been at war with the Cinema Floor, had placed the fish in the bathroom ceiling during the middle of the night about a week earlier. We had figured that the awful smell in the bathroom was just from the guys. The fish story made the front page of the college paper. To their credit the Cinema Floor did not try and seek revenge on the 2nd floor. Instead they bought a small stuffed fish and all signed a card that read "Good joke, you got us!". They then left the gift in front of the resident's door whom they suspected was the culprit.

Name:

JT

School:

APSU

Story

WE HAD A STUDENT COME TO US AND SAY THAT HIS ROOMMATE HAD WHAT APPEARED TO ME WEED. WE CALLED CAMPUS POLICE AND THEY CAME OUT TO TEST THE LEAFY GREEN STUFF IN A BAG THAT WAS PLACED IN THE BACK OF A DRAWER. THE CP TESTED THE LEAFY GREEN LEAVES AND THE TEST SAID IT WAS POSTIVE, SO WE WROTE HIM UP AND WENT ON OUT WAY. LATER WE FOUND OUT THE THE LEAFY GREEN STUFF WAS PEPPERMINT.........LOL

Name:

Brandon Frantz

School:

Northern Michigan University

Story

I had heard rumors that there was going to be a kegger in one of our hall's rooms, so trying to stop this before it ever happened, i put out fliers for the keggar, and sure enough over 70 people showed up, of course, they showed up to the wrong room. My fliers said that the party was going to be at the Rd's apt. So i killed two birds with one stone, pulled a great joke on the RD, and thwarted a freshman keggar....

Name:

Dennis Goshorn

School:

Berry College

Story

During training, we were discussing the top violations, beer and sex. At that moment, one of the RAs blurted out, "That reminds me of my most embarrassing moment!" She actually was thinking of when her mother came to her high school for a sex education program!

Name:

Ryan Heisey

School:

University of Tennessee

Story

During Fall check in, a Freshman student and his mother approached me at the front desk. The mother proceeded to ask me if her son could change rooms. I explained to her the policy which stated that he would have to wait two weeks before university housing would even start looking at room change request forms. She said she understood, and then asked me what the chances were of her son getting the room with a whirlpool spa and a kitchenette.

Name:

School:

Story

Perhaps one of the funniest incidents I was ever party to as an undergraduate RA had to do with a bale of hay, some evil upperclasswomen and a couple stupid freshmen. I was an RA on an integrated upper/lower class hall and some of my upperclass girls decided to teach the younger girls a lesson about leaving your door unlocked. After a particularly crazy party night they made their way back to the hall with a bale of hay, which they promptly dismembered all over the freshmen's room. The youngsters, upon returning from their night of imbibing, pound down my door to report their hay-and-run. After dragging campus security and a couple administrators into the mess it turned out it was all a prank. The perpatrators came strolling up, totally ripped, to find the "crime scene" they'd left behind and panicked. They confessed their "crime" and as punishment, since it was 2:30 in the morning they had to clean the mess up with no more than a push broom while the freshmen slept peacefully in their beds (I came up with that idea!) That has to go down as the stupidest thing I've seen thus far.

Name:

Louis

School:

Emerson College

Story

I walked in to an area of one of my buildings and there in front of me was one resident standing on a chair while the other one had the funnle in her mouth. I stood there and watched the girl on the chair pour the rest of the beer into the funnel. At this time they saw me and slamed thier door shut. Of course they got a violation for under age drinking... they also deserved one for STUPIDITY!

Name:

David Pontious

School:

Hiram College/ Hiram, OH

Story

Well, I think it was the third day of First Year Student Institute Week, a new resident who just happens to live above me openned my door and exclaimed, "This isn't my room. Where the heck am I?" I quickly corrected the misguided student and sent him on his merry way. A couple of nights later, I hear a key slide into the lock around 1:30 am. Finding this a little strange seeing as I am an RA which means I have a single, I listened for a while. I could hear the visitor trying to force open the door, the key being pulled out and pushed back in several times. The level of disgust was clearly rising as the visitor started knocking on the door. Finally, after all of this I answer the door to find the same resident from before with a confused look on his face. This may have been embarrassing at first but it has turned out to be an ongoing joke between the two of us.

Name:

whoever

School:

franciscan univ

Story

There was this one incident were i was randomly knocking on resident's doors just to stop in and say hello. well one incident i knocked on a certain individuals door and preceded to open his door only to catch him standing up on his bed twirling his shirt over his head screaming go free willy go. needless to say i shut the door and did not confront this individual.

Name:

Gabby Watson

School:

Keene State College

Story

At our first official staff meeting is when it happened. My staff had reserved the factualy dinning room for the meeting. We ate dinner and started the meeting. After a while we ended up taking a break, so I needed to go to the little girl's room and used the single bathroom in the faculty dinning room. When I went in I didn't read the little sing on the door. Well when I was done and tried to get out, I could only get the door open so far, I had to yell to my other staff members to come and let me out. When I got let out the rest of my staff was already sitting around the table read to start the meeting laughing hysterically. What happened was that the sing on the door said that when there is hot and humid weather the door will get stuck because it swells up. Needless to say until the weather is a little less humid I won't be using that bathroom again.

Name:

School:

University of Southern Indiana

Story

Our school has a really unique housing set up, instead of dorms we have apartments for our sophomores, juniors and seniors. During check in for the athletic teams I was approached a mother and asked how often house keeping would clean her son's apartment. My only answer was "one the day he moves out". She just stood and looked and me and said "Oh, well, ok. Can you tell me how to get to Walmart?"

Name:

School:

Marymount University

Story

This is actually my RD's story. We live in an all female residence hall that is a mixture of classes, but predominately freshmen. Early in the semester last year, one of the residents came up to her apartment at about 2:30a.m. My RD had a friend visiting that night. Her guest heard the banging at the door and got up to answer it. My RD also woke up. When they answered the door, the resident asked if she could have a cup of water. Funny thing was the resident was fully aware of what she was doing. The RD did give her a glass of water, but only because she had a guest over. She then told the resident that there was a water fountain ten feet from the door. And they say college students are adults!

Name:

Brett

School:

Texas A&M

Story

Large all-male hall (500 residents)...suite style: two rooms that share a connecting bathroom in the middle. My fellow RA and I were doing our post visitation hour round when we heard a "girl giggle" from a room 4 doors down. We approached the room and confirmed that it was a girl and not a pre-adolescent resident. We then knocked on the door. We got the typical “just a second” response followed by 45 seconds of silence. Silence…. except for the sound of the bathroom door opening. I went to block off the connecting room in case the tried to sneak her out. The other RA went in and when he asked about female guests the resident replied that he had none this evening. Partner RA asked to search the room…while he did; I kept the other 2 residents busy. Partner RA made his way through the bathroom into the adjacent room where he saw the female guest. He then began to just talk to her and started by introducing himself as Marc and asking her what hers was. She then replied, “shhhhhh..there is an RA outside.” You can then only imagine the fun that followed.

Name:

Becky

School:

Viterbo University

Story

Near the end of RA training this year, before any of the residents had moved in yet, our entire RA staff (being only 16 of us, we're a tiny school) went on the bi-annual "Tour of the Floors" to see what everyone else had done as themes, door decs, etc. Our first destination was the top floor of the tallest building, and a unanimous decision was made to take the elevator. Now you must understand that this particular elevator, affectionately named Otis, is about as old as dirt. Not particularly trusting Otis's stamina, I figured we'd go up in shifts, but someone said "Oh come on, it'll be a bonding experience, we'll all fit". So we piled in. I cracked some joke about the headline in the paper the next day like "16 RAs Perish in Tragic Elevator Accident--Students Run Amok". Haha, funny, right? Well, the indicator light tells us that we've reached the top floor...but the doors won't open. A panic starts to sweep the Res Life Staff, and someone begins banging frantically on the emergency button, sounding the alarm. Someone else realizes the futility of this effort and says "Why are you even bothering?! WE'RE all HERE, who's going to hear it?!?!" After a few more minutes of panicking and brainstorming, two people managed to pry the doors open, when we realized there was a three foot step up to the next floor. A few people climbed out, and once some of the weight was out of old Otis, he was able to make it the rest of the way. Let's just say that the capacity numbers displayed in the upper corners of elevators aren't always the best judge of how many people you should logically cram in there :)

Name:

Amber Berarducci

School:

UC Davis

Story

My first year as an RA (it is now my third) I worked with the regent scholars of the freshmen class. While I can't say I really ever made any serious documentation, my residents did make me check the rules constantly. They prided themselves on finding the loopholes. On the first floor they made "The Great Key Throwing Game," or throw a key in a hole cut out of cardboard for different point values. "The Great Rope Contraption" was used to hoist backpacks up the stairs using a pully (I think another RA in the hall was responsible for its removal). The ultimate was "The Whiz Wheel." UCD housing had released a CDrom for the residents to review for quality and my residents decided it had another function. They attached fishing line to the CD and then attached it to the urinal so that when guys used the urinal, the wheel would spin. =)

Name:

John Lingrel

School:

Millersville University

Story

It was about 12 a.m. on a Friday morning and I was just calling it a night after working a crazy night in the office. I turned off the T.V. in my room and all of a sudden I heard the phrase "A%@hole, A%@hole, drink, drink" coming from the room right next to mine. At that point I called my partner RA and she met me at the room this alleged incident was occurring. We knocked on the door and the whole fiasco turned out to be a major bust. By this point we had a few residents in their doorways checking out the situation and there was enough noise that those who didn't have their doors open knew what was going on........except for one lucky fellow. This guy had already been known not to use his brain on occasion, but he walked out of his room to see what was going on with a half drunk 16 o.z. bottle of Rolling Rock. All that came out his mouth once he realized what he just did was "Ah, Man! Not again!"

Name:

Becky Morphew

School:

Viterbo University

Story

This is quite the amusing story as related to me by one of my RA predecessors (it happened the year before I even came to school here). So for the story--in our largest res hall, there are convenient trash chutes at the end of each hall, approximately three feet off the floor, with doors that are hinged at the bottom and pull out. My friend is doing his final round of the night, and as he's walking down the hall, he hears this strange clanking sound, along with some grunting and struggling. When he reaches the garbage chute, he finds a very, very inebriated girl who has managed to open the door, climb on top of it, squat, and, ummm...use it as her own personal toilet. The irony of the situation is that the trash chute is located directly next to the bathroom...figure that one out :)

Name:

Jennifer

School:

RC

Story

I was doing room inspections with the head RA and everything was going smoothly until we got to this one room. She knocked on the door and announced that it was the Head RA and the RA coming around to do room inspections. No one answered so she unlocked the door and opened it a crack and froze. The only thing I here is "Oh my God" and the faint ticking of an alarm clock somewhere in the room. Convinced that there is a dead animal or something on the floor in front of the door. I anxiously nudge the head RA and ask her what is so horrible. At this point she has relaxed and starts laughing. turns out that she thought the ticking clock was a bomb of some sort just waiting to blow up!

Name:

Joe T

School:

Umass Dartmouth

Story

At our school the way they print out the days of the week are as follows M monday T tuesday W wednesday R thursday F friday

If you have a tuesday thursday class on your schedule it would look like this Class name TR time ...

While on duty the RA's walked into a loud suite late at night and asked what everyone was doing up so late when the next day was the first day of class (Tuesday). They all exclaimed joyously that they did not have class on tuesdays. (They were all freshmen). It took the RAs a while to get what the problem was a whole floor not having class on Tuesday? You should have seen the poor freshmen's faces when we told them that "T" was for Tuesday and "R" was for Thursday. They all ran to their rooms like a bullet and went to bed.

Name:

School:

Story

I am an RA in a female hall, and during our first month of school we had a few accidents (including myself being on crutches for a few days). One of the girls on my floor had dislocated her elbow and was having a hard time with it. She had spent a lot of time crying and was just plain out depressed, so one night when we were hanging out in the lobby, she decided to tie my shoes together while i was laying on the floor reading the newspaper. I didn't really care too much because I was glad that she has having fun and being happy. Her and her roommate didn't stop there though. Her roommate ran upstairs to get the duct tape and proceeded to duct tape my legs together and my arms to my legs. As if that wasn't bad enough, then they taped me to the front desk and taped my mouth shut. It was quite a spectacle for my Hall Director to see and any guests coming into the building. The icing that topped the cake though was when they gave me a sympathy call. I called an R.A. in the building next to mine. Him and another staff member came over and showed the girls how the should have taped my arms. Talk about humiliation, but at least it made the one resident feel better about her day.

Name:

Jenifer

School:

Western Oregon University

Story

This is my first term as a RA. During first rounds on the first night of check-in, I was on duty. I was back-up and my primary was a returning RA. As we are doing rounds a freshman walks up to us and asks us "When is curfew?" I really wanted to tell him that bed checks begin at 10pm. FRESHMEN!

Name:

Kristopher

School:

Indiana U. of PA

Story

I was awakened at about 9:30 on a Sunday morning by a knock at my door. I wasn't on duty so I decided to roll over and go back to bed (bad RA <slap>). Well after a minute or two I heard my doorknob turning and the door opening. Figuring that it was either one of my friends coming to screw around with me or my girlfriend coming to pay me a surprise visit I decided to act like I was sleeping, just to see what they'd do. After a little while nobody had done anything and I was starting to wonder what was going on so I opened my eyes and rolled over to see a pair of female legs climbing into my top bunk (I had bunked beds). Figuring it was my girlfriend trying to avoid waking me I got up and was going to tell her that I was up and she could come down. What I found in my top bunk was NOT my girlfriend. It was an extremely scantily clad, very drunk female whom I did not know. While most of the time this would probably be good, I was caught very off guard. I asked her what exactly she was doing, to which she replied "I'm locked out, I'm waiting for the RA to come back". I told her that I was in fact the RA and that she needed to get the hell out of my bed before I got angry. She was really confused as to why I was upset, as if randomly crawling into a stranger's bed is normal. So in attempting to determine where this resident lived she told me 238 and proceeded to walk down the hall and sit down in front of room 438 which I knew was empty AND on a men's wing. So I sauntered down the hall and let the resident know she was on the wrong FLOOR but that I would meet her down at 238 with the key at which point I went downstairs, unlocked the door and called Campus Police who enjoyed a good laugh. I'm not exactly sure what part of her impaired thinking amused me the most, knocking on the RAs door at 9:30am still very drunk, coming into the RAs room to wait, or climbing into the RAs bed. An amusing side note, apparently the girl felt she was wearing too many clothes when she came in originally because I found a pair of itty bitty PJ bottoms on my floor when I got back to my room. I had a really good time returning those, neatly washed and folded, when her parents were in the room. :-)

Name:

School:

UT

Story

I live in a coed wing in Jester. At the start of the year the guys across the hall were excited about all-you-can breakfast at Jester. One morning before classes started a whole group of us got up and planned to have breakfast. I could not understand why they felt the need to get up before noon just to eat the scary food at Jester but I went with them. The first problem we encountered was that Jester Cafeteria had discontinued breakfast for the year. This was a minor set back, but the guys decided we would walk all the way across campus for continental breakfast at Kinsolving. No matter how many times I explained, it they did understand what a continental breakfast was…so needless to say they were rather disappointed when we got there. One of guys found this huge bowl of yellowish mixture that had a brush in it. This guy insisted that it was pudding. For most us the brush would have tipped off you that it is not pudding. He spent a good 5 minutes brushing this so called pudding into a bowl and then proceeded to top it off with this thick chuck of white cream, which he claimed, was whip cream. Everybody told him that bowl was just not right but he proceeded to take the largest spoon you could find and eat a spoonful. That child just ate straight butter topped with cream cheese! Only a freshman.

Name:

Amanda

School:

Johnson and Wales University

Story

It's not a story, more like an ongoing situation. We have two students living in my hall that have taken the names Woodchuck and Woodpecker. Every night they come downstairs to the lobby dressed in comfy bathrobes and slippers with mugs of coffee and a touch lamp. They plug the lamp into the wall, put it on a table, touch it, and proceed to warm their hands in front of the "campfire".

Name:

Amanda

School:

Johnson and Wales University

Story

I was in my room, on the phone with my parents back home when I heard about 50 people in the hallway yelling "GO! GO! GO!" and cheering. I thought the freshmen had started doing shots in the hallway or something so I said goodbye to my mom and ran out my door... Just in time to see one of my residents ride by on his unicycle while juggling colored pins. I told him I was seriously impressed, but he had to go outside and have his fun there.

Name:

Kimberly Bodner

School:

Duquesne University

Story

you won't believe this...seriously...this is unreal. alright...this is how it started...the mother of one of the freshman girls that lives on my floor comes up to me yesterday and asks if she can bring some things in to decorate the floor. i said sure, no harm in that. so today....i come out of my room around 8 pm...and there's a bail of hay in my hallway...right in front of the elevators...where my bulletin board is ...i was like...interesting... where'd this come from? so...that was alright, not bad... my mom calls, and I'm talking to her outside my door...the elevator doors open and three of my girls, and a mom come out of the elevator carrying three huge bundles of corn stalks...real live corn stalks...with ears of corn on them!! what the crap?!?!? it was incredibly funny...especially watching the looks of the people getting off the elevator. my floor smells like a farm!! my lord what was that mom thinking?! i called a few of the other ra's, asked them what they thought about the whole hay and corn in the hall deal...we decided that it wasn't good. so i had to get the mom to get rid of them...and she was pissed. seriously...she brought corn to my floor!! funny funny stuff...i never know what to expect from my girls or their parents...

Name:

M

School:

AU

Story

One Friday night on duty, my co and I had just finished a bust and were bringing the alcohol containers down to the staff office. We ran into a girl on the elevator who proceeded to tell us how much she admired us for having the guts to walk around with the containers in the open like that. She told us how nervous she gets about walking around the halls... I almost didn't have the heart to tell her that I was an RA, and that not only had I not consumed the alcohol, I had just dumped it out! Her friends had a really good laugh about that one!

Name:

Bill Lenarz

School:

Iowa State University

Story

On the Sunday night of Labor Day weekend I happened to be awake yet at 1:15AM and walking through my floor. I walked up to a room that was being pretty loud and being that it was well past quiet hours I knocked. As soon as I knocked the noise stopped and I could hear someone say "Oh no, it's your RA, quick get rid of it, dump it out the window or something." So hearing this I knocked again and the door was finally opened. I told him that it was now quiet hours and the room was being pretty noisy and that he needed to bring the volume down. While I was talking to him I looked around the room for what they had been trying to get rid of while I was waiting at the door. The first thing that had caught my eye when the door was opened was the 15 people in the room. As I was surveying the people in the room I noticed a few beer cans in the back of the room. I asked the resident of the room to come into the hallway with me so I could talk to him. As soon as he shut the door behind himself someone locked the door. I didnt think anything of it at the time. When I got through explaining to him that I would be documenting the situation due to underage drinking he went to open the door again. He couldnt get in of course since it was locked. He knocked on the door and asked to be let back in. When the door was finally unlocked and opened the first thing I noticed was that there were only two people still in the room. I peered into the room to see if they were all hideing somewhere but then I noticed that one of the screens was laying on the floor. The room that I had confronted was facing a court yard and the majority of the people who had been in the room jumped out the window and fled into the night with the beer.

Name:

LJO

School:

University of South Dakota

Story

It is amazing how your view of things changes once you become an RA. One of the funniest things I have seen as a resident is now one of the scariest things as a Resident Assistant. One beautiful Monday morning while walking to class at 10:00 I noticed a figure sprawled out on a picnic table. On closer examination I realized that it was one of my neighbors who had passed out the night before in nothing but his boxers. It was quite a site for everyone that had class before 10:00 that day.

Name:

Bill

School:

Iowa State University

Story

On the Sunday night of Labor Day weekend, I happened to be awake yet at 1:15AM and walking through my floor. I walked up to a room that was being loud and since it was well past quiet hours I knocked. As soon as I knocked the noise stopped and I could hear someone say "Oh no, it's your RA, quick get rid of it, dump it out the window or something." So hearing this I knocked again and the door was finally opened. I told him that it was now quiet hours and the room was being noisy and that he needed to bring the volume down. While I was talking to him I looked around the room for what they had been trying to get rid of while I was waiting at the door. The first thing that had caught my eye when the door was opened was the 15 people in the room. As I was surveying the people in the room, I noticed a few beer cans in the back of the room. I asked the resident of the room to come into the hallway with me so I could talk to him. As soon as he shut the door behind himself, someone locked the door. I didn’t think anything of it at the time. When I got through explaining to him that I would be documenting the situation due to underage drinking, he went to open the door again. He couldn’t get in of course since it was locked. He knocked on the door and asked to be let back in. When the door was finally unlocked and opened, the first thing I noticed was that there were only two people still in the room. I peered into the room to see if they were all hiding somewhere but then I noticed that one of the screens was lying on the floor. The room that I had confronted was facing a courtyard and the majority of the people who had been in the room jumped out the window and fled into the night with the beer.

Name:

Jen Rencher

School:

William Paterson University

Story

I was doing the midnight rounds with my partner when we noticed the craziest thing! You know the dry erase boards residents put on their doors so they can leave messages? Instead of having a pen attached to the string, there was a crab. Yes, a real crab! But no, that isn't the end of the story. I was doing rounds on the other side of the building when we noticed there was a lobster sitting on top of the fire alarm. Yes, a real lobster. Not only that, but it's claw was on one of the resident's doorknobs. All we needed was some shrimp!

Story

It was freshman check-in day on our campus this year so, as the RA in an all girl's dorm, I was spending the morning watching girls moving in and talking to parents. Around lunch time there was no one around so I was sitting on my computer, but left my door open so I could listen for more people in the hall. Suddenly I heard a card being swiped over and over and over again. I decided to go out and see if I could help. A lot of freshmen have problems with card keys. I walked out to the hall and there was a teenage boy standing with parents trying to open the door. I introduced myself and asked if I could help. He said that he was just trying to get into his room. I told him that it wasn't his room. He assured me that it was, and his mother started to argue with me because that is where they were told to go. I asked him what his room number was. He said 203 and showed me that the number above the door was 203. I asked him which wing it was in; B or C. As he checked I told him that B-wing was a girl's dorm and that's how I knew they were in the wrong place. His mother apologized quietly as they went to find his real room.

Name:

Gregg

School:

University of Connecticut

Story

Ah, Freshmen... My second year as an RA was in dorm made up of mostly freshman. One of the first evenings on campus on of my freshmen was getting all dressed up and ready to go out. I asked him where he was headed and he replied, "I got invited to my first college party." I could see he was terribly excited and I wished him a good evening. later that evening, before he left he stopped by my room and asked how I thought he looked, "fine," I replied. He said, "Gregg, I am really excited about tonight. I got invited to a sorority party and I want to look my best." "That's nice," I said. He continued, "I got all dressed a to impress and I was wondering if you thought there would be any girls there?"

Freshman innocence, it makes the job so amusing.

School:

Purdue University

Story

I live in a coed high-rise residence hall where there are three floors of men above mine (female floor). Being tipped and ticked off by someone in the elevator playing with the emergency button, it emits a loud high pitched sound, I went to investigate. It's about 2am on a Thirsty Thursday night, and as I'm standing there I hear loud male voices coming from that particular elevator from below. I pressed the up button, knowing that their car was going to have to stop on my floor before going upstairs. The door opened, and three very drunk gentlemen asked me to come on in. I held the door open and proceeded to tell them what an extreme nuisance, and total misconduct they were performing. They just laughed it off, until it sunk in that I was really a counselor! They went their way with hurt faces, but since the elevator shafts echo, I could hear them talking to each other. They just couldn't figure out how I had caught them. I just love how you can get into college with little amounts of common sense!

Story

My school has a really lax alcohol policy but the one thing they are strict about is open containers. One night one of the RA's was on rounds and walked up to a party where several people were standing outside with open containers. However, she didn't know one guys's name, so she flirtatiously asked "So... What's your name?" The gentleman with the open container began flirting with her, not realizing that she was an RA and she was going to write him up!

Name:

Rhett Towles

School:

Clemson University

Story

During opening weekend, one of the new RA's came by my room and told me something one of his resident's parents, presumably the mother, had asked him. I don't know how other colleges' policies are, but the answer to her question was," No, maam. We do not do bed checks or have a lights out policy."

Name:

Jeremy James

School:

University of Tennessee at Martin

Story

I was doing rounds with my duty partner, when we heard a loud bang come from a room on the floor. When knocked on the door to see if the resident was okay. He answered the door, and it was pitch black inside the room. He said that something just fell off his desk, and he was okay. Then, I hear a female voice from the other side of the room say, "Yeah, we're okay." I looked at my duty partner, and said, "Is tonight visitation night?" She responded, "Not on this floor." So we had to write up the resident and his girlfriend. If she would have kept her mouth shut, we'd have never known she was there. But, she just had to say something.

Name:

Vinny "Jigga" Calderon

School:

Hofstra University

Story

One day someone pulled the fire alarm in normal fashion at about 930 at night. everyone came down the 14 floor high-rise as usual waiting for public safety to give us the ok to go back in. as my staff and i waited we noticed a Chinese food guy in the security booth waiting for someone to come down to claim their dinner, no sooner than i could tell him everyone that is in the building is required to evacuate the building and therefore his customer should be outside somewhere, does one of the residents stroll down the stairs a good 15mins into the fire alarm. My staff and i could not stop laughing that this dork would come down for his food but not if he though he would be burned in a fire.

Name:

John

School:

Story

Well, I was walking down the hall one night, with no particular problem in mind, when I helped one of my residents into the building. He was holding a brown paper bag wrapped around a bottle. Stupidly, I joked with him, asking if I could see what was in the bag. He joked back, and pulled a bottle of Jack Daniels out. I was a little dumbstruck, but told him I was the RA, and I had to take it. He seemed perfectly fine with that, and gave me the bottle. I never had anymore problems with him until he told me to @#%$ off a few months later.

Name:

Kimberly

School:

duquesne

Story

i had a resident wake me up at 8 am on a Saturday morning, because someone stole the marker from her white board...

Name:

Cj Svela

School:

Southern Oregon University

Story

This happened to my fellow RA in my Sister Hall. She was taking a shower and shaving her legs while a resident decided to barge in with a full 40 oz. bottle of Old English and persisted to have to come to this party and was wondering if there were any other hot girls shaving her leg at the same time. The resident later told some of his friends in his room that there was a girl shaving her legs in the bathroom and for them to grab a camera. Well, later at the Hearings board the residents tried to appeal the IR that was written and they got to see the photos taken of the RA shaving her legs as evidence that the incident really happened.

Story

The first day this resident moved in he blasted his music so loud I could hear it in my room one floor below me and literally around the courner. I confronted him to tell him to turn it down he said okay. about two or three weeks later he blast his music agian. This time I tell him it is too loud and didn't I tell you this the first day you moved in. He says what ever man and gets an attitude. He later tells security that I was picking on him and it wasn't his music. Mind you he had to turn it down to hear what I was saying. He then goes on about how I came straight to his room and didn't stop at anyone elses room to find the noise. Mind you his door was wide open. He then say he was in the shower so it couldn't have been his music. Mind you agian He was in the room and had to turn it down to hear me. finally he siad it wasn't his music but it wasn mine and that I was just picking on him. I live on the floor below him and around the corner. I live below him and nine doors down around the corner. His friend showed up later and said it was his music, he was the roommate and don't write him up. Me thinking this was his roommate told him okay I will add that to the report. He kept on asking don't write him up it is my radio. This is a huge radio with cd changer something you would not move. So I wrote him up and his room mate up. When they called me in to ask who it really was I find out that he lived acrossed the hall. I said why did you tell me you were the roommate he said I didn't, I said it was my room that was blasting the music.

Name:

Samantha Brady

School:

University of Central Arkansas

Story

I live in an old residence hall, and two of my girls live in a room where the doorknob is always falling off of the bathroom door. Well, I guess they got tired of keeping it in their room so one day when it fell off, they decided to give it to me. I wasn't there so they put the knob in a wal mart bag and hung it on my door....like I know what to do with it! =) I put it in my room and had to leave,so when maintenance came by to fix it, they had to key into my room to get the knob....it was pretty funny at the time anyways. =)

Name:

Lacy

School:

Story

One night I got a call at about 10:30..First I am an RA in an all girls dorm, so that alone causes some problems- but anyhow- the call was about 4 girls that were outside our building- ok- so I went outside and there they were- streaking. I went back in and called campus security- who the RA's have a good relationship with, but are all males. My favorite officer came to the scene. I have never seen an officers face so red! The girls didn't even seem to be embarrassed! They recieved educational sanctions- but I think the point was to get campus security to come! To this day when I see that officer he turns bright red!

Name:

Le Commuter

School:

Boston University

Story

Just a few things you can do at a dorm: 1) Set everyone's clocks ahead 12 hours. 2) Steal everybody's mouseballs and hide them somewhere. When they find out, blame it on the commuter. 3) If somebody is in their room studying, tape a wall of newspaper on their door to seal them in, then take pictures of them when they try to get out. 4) Pitch a tent in the elevator, sit in it with several other people, sing Kumbaya and offer marshmallows at every stop. 5) Put petroleum jelly on the bathroom door, floors, and toilet seats. 6) Play porn loudly in someone else's room when they're not there. 7) Secretly switch all the message board dry-erase markers with permanent markers. 8) Take a shit in the shower and leave it there 9) Fill a WELL CLEANED motor oil bottle with chocolate syrup, then consume it and claim that it aids in digestion. 10) Steal stuff from the dining hall, then tape it on the walls of 7B. 11) Write "I LIKE SNIFFING MARKERS" on the white board outside your door and walk around the hall with black marks on your nostrils. 12) Play punch buggie in the elevator. 13) Assemble a small marching band and parade through the other floors early in the morning yelling "Long live the Emperor!" while playing the Star Wars Imperial March. 14) When talking to someone in the hallway right in front of the elevators, tell them to wait there. Then run down the stairs and come back up in the elevator. When they ask you why you did that, insist that the person they were talking to wasn't you, but a shape shifter in your form. 15) In the middle of the night, ask your roommate "Are you awake?" until they respond, then ask them to tell you a story because you can't sleep. 16) Kidnap your roommate in your room and ask for ransom from their boy/girl friend.

(WRT 12C)

Name:

School:

Story

I accepted this job! Thats pretty funny, what the heck was I thinking?

Name:

School:

Story

I had a scarvenger hunt for my residents and one of the things they were supposed to get was "LEGAL" alcohol. Since this is a dry campus, I expected rubbing alcohol etc, but I bet you know some residents had to bring beer.

Name:

mr jones

School:

a southern one

Story

In our residence hall we have 150 students and 40 something parking places. So there were never any spaces to park. I, the RA thought that this was a problem, especially when I had to go out to get materials for programs and would come back for the program and have to walk about a half-mile. I took the liberty of painting 2 reserved RA spots for the 3 RA's in the building. Funny, right? Apparently not. I fixed it 4 days later but, was still "immediately terminated" from my position, a week later. Does that get an award for RA of the year?

Name:

Lisa

School:

UW

Story

I once identified a resident using his senior picture, which was taped to his nametag on his door.

Name:

Krug Hall 1st floor RA

School:

Gallaudet University

Story

I experience my most embarassing moments happened the 4th week of school. It all started when two of my residents came to complain abut another redsident leaving her unmentionables in the bathroom for the world to see. i advised them to go door to door and ask if anyone left in the bathroom. They went door to door, but no one claimed it. So they came back to the RA office and said they no luck, so i advised them to hang it on the bathroom door for the world to see. I started thinking, so I asked them to described the unmentionables items in the bathroom. The description fit what I wore the night before. I told themt o wait, let me check it out myself. To my and their surprise it was mine. I was sooo embarassed and they were just as embarassed as I was. I violated the rule that I created.(Keep the bathroom clean) TALK ABOUT WANTING TO JUST GO UNDER A ROCK AND HIDE!!!!

Name:

Krug Hall 1st floor RA

School:

Gallaudet University

Story

I experience my most embarassing moments happened the 4th week of school. It all started when two of my residents came to complain abut another redsident leaving her unmentionables in the bathroom for the world to see. i advised them to go door to door and ask if anyone left in the bathroom. They went door to door, but no one claimed it. So they came back to the RA office and said they no luck, so i advised them to hang it on the bathroom door for the world to see. I started thinking, so I asked them to described the unmentionables items in the bathroom. The description fit what I wore the night before. I told themt o wait, let me check it out myself. To my and their surprise it was mine. I was sooo embarassed and they were just as embarassed as I was. I violated the rule that I created.(Keep the bathroom clean) TALK ABOUT WANTING TO JUST GO UNDER A ROCK AND HIDE!!!!

Name:

A

School:

California State Univesity Northridge

Story

One of the funnies Incicdents that I had to deal with as a veteran RA was a Female resident who was some what promiscous around the halls had gotten on the bad side of another mael Resident. So as retatliation this male Resident decided to hand flyers around the dorms and on campus about this women and when the RA turned in the Iincident Report they included a copy of the Flyer it was a riot.

Name:

A

School:

California State Univesity Northridge

Story

One of the funniest Incicdents that I had to deal with as a veteran RA was a Female resident who was somewhat promiscous around the halls had gotten on the bad side of another mael Resident. So as retatliation this male Resident decided to hand flyers around the dorms and on campus about this women and when the RA turned in the Iincident Report they included a copy of the Flyer it was a riot.

Name:

A

School:

California State Univesity Northridge

Story

One of the funniest Incicdents that I had to deal with as a veteran RA was a Female resident who was somewhat promiscous around the halls had gotten on the bad side of another male Resident. So as retatliation this male Resident decided to hand flyers around the dorms and on campus about this women and when the RA turned in the Incident Report they included a copy of the Flyer it was a riot.

Name:

not important

School:

suny

Story

I had just returned for the day back to my dorm and I was talking to a fellow RA. As I started back to my room, I noticed that the hallway smelled like pot, so I went back in and said to the other RA, "your hall smells like weed again". So the two of us went to investigate and found one room in which there was a VERY strong smeel eminating from the crack in the door. The other RA went back into his room and called the RA on duty, while i ran to get our RD b/c she had noticed the smell coming from this room before and wanted to be there when we confronted the person. UP was also called...as our RD walked down the hall, a guy came out of the room along with a strong smelling cloud. I followed him outside and pretended to chill, and he came back in two minutes later. OUr RD confronted him, but he wouldn't fess up, he claimed that the smell was the liquid incense he was burning on his lamp. Finally UP came, and although they didn't find any pot, they did find a huge tub of cream cheese that the resident had stolen from one of the dining halls. he claimed that his roomie had taken it and that he hadn't even seen it in there. WE were all discussing if it was still good, so one of the UP guys asked him how long it had been in there, and then said, "oh wait, you didn't see it, isn't that right" the UP guys gave the kid such a hard time, and he was later convicted of possession of stolen property.

Name:

GREG

School:

MU

Story

I CAUGHT TWO RESIDENT HAVING SEX WHILE I WAS EVACUATING THE BUILDING FOR A FIRE ALARM

Name:

GREG

School:

MU

Story

I CAUGHT TWO RESIDENT HAVING SEX WHILE I WAS EVACUATING THE BUILDING FOR A FIRE DRILL. I TOLD THEM TO FINSH UP AND COME OUTSIDE. ANOTHER RESIDENT SAW THEM AND TOLD EVERYONE ELSE. THEY NEVER LIVED IT DOWN.

Name:

Cary

School:

LaGrange College

Story

I was a student Resident Director at LaGrange College while working on my M.Ed. at Auburn University. I had the building where most of the scholarship athletes and all freshmen men were assigned; a volatile combination at best. We had a newly formed baseball team in its second season made up of players who could not get picked up by any of the big Division 1 schools such as Ga. Tech, Georgia, Auburn, Bama and so on.

Over the Spring Break, the baseball players were not permitted to leave campus since they had a series of games to play during this period. Most of the guys grumbled and moaned about not being in Panama City and Ft. Walton and enjoying the sun and the company of women.

Well, to make up for the lack of quality beach time, the players took things into their own hands. I supervised a three story building and while making rounds on the first floor, I noticed water leaking from the ceiling onto the ground floor. I continued walking the entire building until I made my way to the top floor where I encountered several students spread out on blankets laying out in the hallway. When asked what they were doing, they said they were sunning themselves. I asked if they had seen a water leak and a couple of muffled comments such as "oh, sh--." I ran to the community bathroom which was nearby. There I found the bathroom stall doors removed and a crude "dam" had been erected with the doors to hold the water back. The large community shower had been stopped up and approximately ten shower heads were filling the shower area up with water. One student was doing a breast stroke across the shower when I started yelling to get out. The water was at least three feet deep, and yet the knuckleheads didn't realize the water pan only went up the first 18".

The end of the story is the walls on the third floor leaked for this next several weeks. The baseball players had to put up with an awful mold smell. Served them right.

Name:

School:

Story

Name:

The Calli Twins

School:

Oregon State University

Story

We were chatting in the hall one night after two oclock rounds, and one of our residents came home with a black eye, and a bunch of scratches. We asked him what happened, and he decided to give us the long version of the story, so we sat down in the hall to hear this wonderful tale, and hear it we did.. a strange clinking noise.. text books? We think not. So we had a rousing "recycling party" it the kitchen for him. He isisted it was good stuff, and thought that if we were going to pour it all out, we should at least try some. No thanks.

Name:

KC Terwilliger

School:

Ferris State University

Story

Well one night I was at the front desk and another RA from the hall across from ours came over and said he could smell alcohol in one of the rooms on first floor. So I grabbed another RA and we went to knock on the door, he opens the door and we see a beer can sitting on top of the TV the other RA with me goes "what's that" the guy picks it up and shakes it "oh nothing" then he was asked if he had anymore alcohol in the room he said nope. Then I ask would you mind opening the fridge he's like yeah no problem we have a little bit in there though, he opened it and pulls out 12 beers, I ask could you dump those out in the sink. He then stacks them up carrying all 12 of them to the bathroom and dumps them all on the ground. It was rather funny you would have had to been there :o)

Name:

School:

Story

It was the first week of school, my first week as a RA. I walk down the stairs and see smoke coming from a room. As I go towards the fire alarm I see where it is coming from and stop. My residents had a BBQ in their room. Their rational for the BBQ is the funniest bit ever. Students are allowed to smoke in their rooms, and students are allowed to cook in the hall. Therefore they should be able to cook on a BBQ (which is smoking) in their rooms!

Name:

School:

Story

One weekend night, around 2 am, I was just getting ready to got to bed when the RA on the other side of the floor called and told me that a man had been stabbed and was downstairs in our lobby. Well, of course, I leaped out of bed and told her to meet me downstairs (I wasn't even on duty!). Sure enough, when I got to the lobby, there was a man down there (not a student). His back was to me, so I asked him if everything was ok. When he turned around, I saw there was blood all down his leg and a rip in his pants near the crotch. So, wondering how on earth he was still standing up, I led him into our lobby while the other RA called 911 and had him sit down. I started talking to him to figure out what had happened, and quickly realized that he was quite intoxicated. Since the blood hadn't stopped flowing from his wound, I asked him if he would mind if I took a look at the wound. He starts to unzip his pants, stops and looks at me, and says, "I'm not trying to be fresh, but you did ask to see it" and (somehow) got his pants off...needless to say, it was difficult to keep a straight face throughout the rest of the situation, but I had quite the laugh when he was gone!

Name:

Emily

School:

Texas A&M

Story

This isn't the funniest of stories, but it really irked me at the time, and I think from the outside is pretty amusing... We had firemarshall inspections recently...I had to escort the guy through two girls floors and note any contraband to pick up later. Our school does not allow toasters etc, and this one chick, who wasn't home, had a nice monster of one out on the sink. I went by to pick it up later, and she bitched about the firemarshall, the fact he came when she wasn't in, the fact I was taking the toaster, and "I hate all the damn rules here". I told her she could pick it up the next day from the office (she gave me the im-going-home-this-weekend-and-ill-take-it-then line). I shut the door and bend down to get my stuff and hear "I HATE THIS DAMNED DORM!! I HATE HER!!" (I'm guessing she's refering to her mom or whoever hasn't ler her move, I'd never seen the chick before). I went back in to see if I could help (her poor roommate was ont he phone cracking up!) but was told there were too many problems w/ the place to address right then. So I take the toaster and some (really nice) candles from other rooms down tot he office. I'm just starting her incident report, and low-and-behold...pounding on the door. I open it up and reveal the girl, who I shall refer to as Ms. Anorexia Zeta (her notoriously snitty and slutty sorority, and this chick looks like shes been living on dry toast for months), is standing there w/ her confiscation slip. No hellos, just "Can I get it back now?" I reply: "Nope. You're going to have to talk to the hall director first." "Is she in?" "No." "Well, where is she?" "I don't know, but I'm sure shell be in later and she's got office hours tomorrow morning." "Well, shouldn't she be here ALL THE TIME??" Sheesh. What, reslife staff has no life??;) So Ms. Zeta stomps off. No update from there, all I know is the toaster is still where I put it in the office over a week ago.

Name:

Mark

School:

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Story

At the begining of My first year as an RA, I found a Dead Moose leg in the hallway. Yes a Moose leg, from the knee down. Only in Alaska.

Name:

John Wheeler

School:

Fort Lewis College

Story

My first semester being an RA started off great, because of the fact that I hadn't had an incident and we were going into the third month of the term(which even surprised me being new at this and all. Anyway, on a Thursday night after making a round, while sitting in my room, the phone rang and it was the RD and she asked if I would meet an RA from another building at our door, because he needed my assistance. So, I went to the door and let him in, he proceeded to tell me that when he was sitting in his room, he looked out his window and happened to see into one of my resident's rooms. He said that they were drinking beer so, we went to the room, when I saw what room number it was, I realized who's room it was...The two guys in that room are probably the most well-behaved guy I know, and it bloggled my mind that they were drinking in their rooms and leaving the blinds open. As you can imagine the whole situation had my adrenaline pumping, so we got a note pad and went back to the room, we knocked on the door and with no problem the door was opened, so we walked in and the other RA said,"hey gentleman what's going on?" Than he immediately stopped, with a baffled look on his face and said,"You made me come all the way over here for IBCs!!" They were drinking, but what they were drinking was IBC root beers. So, after all that, the other RA walked away looking rather frazzled and maybe just a little imbarrassed, and I walked away glad that I was a good judge of character,and that my streak was still intacted.

Name:

John Wheeler

School:

Fort Lewis College

Story

My first semester being an RA started off great, because of the fact that I hadn't had an incident and we were going into the third month of the term(which even surprised me being new at this and all). Anyway, on a Thursday night after making a round, while sitting in my room, the phone rang and it was the RD and she asked if I would meet an RA from another building at our door, because he needed my assistance. So, I went to the door and let him in, he proceeded to tell me that when he was sitting in his room, he looked out his window and happened to see into one of my resident's rooms. He said that they were drinking beer so, we went to the room, when I saw what room number it was, I realized who's room it was...The two guys in that room are probably the most well-behaved guy I know, and it bloggled my mind that they were drinking in their rooms and leaving the blinds open. As you can imagine the whole situation had my adrenaline pumping, so we got a note pad and went back to the room, we knocked on the door and with no problem the door was opened, so we walked in and the other RA said,"hey gentleman what's going on?" Than he immediately stopped, with a baffled look on his face and said,"You made me come all the way over here for IBCs!!" They were drinking, but what they were drinking was IBC root beers. So, after all that, the other RA walked away looking rather frazzled and maybe just a little imbarrassed, and I walked away glad that I was a good judge of character,and that my streak was still intacted.

Name:

Sandy

School:

small town in NY

Story

Two of my girls thought that it would be nice to have a pet so they went to the pet store and bought a kitten..... they knew that they werent allowed to have them but they kept leaving little notes and pictures on my door saying things like "Meow" and "Our friend loves you!" and putting pictures of cats all over my door....finally they came and brought the kitten into my room in a paper bag.....it was very cute, but they took it to their parents house once it started smelling up the room and being loud....it was quite entertaining!

Name:

Trina

School:

University of Alberta, Canada

Story

This didn`t happen to me, but to my colleague (and it`s way too funny to not mention) - a resident came up to him in the first week in the kitchen (we have communal kitchens and cook for ourselves) with a 12 pack of hot dogs and asked him if the way she should cook them is to cook all of them, and eat the one she wanted, and put the rest in the fridge as leftovers.

Name:

Kyle Chizek

School:

University of Northern Iowa

Story

There was one night that I got bed at about two in the morning and there was a knock at my door at about 3am. I went to the door to answer and there was one of my boys, in his boxers, with a friend behind him, and his girlfriend down the hall. I could tell that "John" was a little drunk, but he was in near tears. I was sleepy and asked him what was wrong, he looked at me honestly and dropped his drawers and there it hung. He said "My girlfriend doesn't like it, what do you think?" his very drunk friend thought it was funny and then proceeded to drop drawers and whip his around saying "Hellicopter Hellicopter". I had to reassure my boy that everything was all right and that his penis was nice, get them to put their underware on and go to bed. That had to be the most interesting night of my first year.

Name:

School:

University of Alabama

Story

During fall check-in, I was working the front desk and I got a phone call. I answered the phone and the girl on the other line asks me, "Can I get a wake-up call?" I couldn't even answer the girl for laughing. I had to force a "no" answer, but what I really wanted to say was "What does this look like, a Holiday Inn?"

Name:

Steve Rayford

School:

Illinois State University

Story

I was confronting an alcohol violation. There where three guys in the room, but neither of the female residents were there. I saw through the crack of the door, someone in the closet. She was in the laundry basket pulling clothes from the hangers above to cover herself. I got in the room, and the closet door had been shut. I told her to come out and give me her ID. She came out, and about knocked me over trying to get out the door. Shee ran down the hall, and down the stairs. One of the males in the room told me her name. She really got busted by the RHC.

Name:

Jennifer Crockett

School:

Ohio State University

Story

I had a resident who bugged me from day on about an out let in her room that was not working. I filled out numerous service requests trying to get the outlet fixed for her. Days went by and the outlet still wasn't fixed. I was tired of her bugging me so I went to my Hall Director an informed her of the problem. She put in another service requests and eventually talked to the head of mantenance about it. Turns out that the light buld in the lamp she was using to check the outlet was burned out.

Name:

G-off

School:

MLC

Story

Nothing can be more embarrasing for a resident than getting locked out of your room. It's so hard to knock on an RA's door and admit your mistake, talk about feeling "sheepish!" However, as a staff member, there will NEVER be anything more embarrasing that locking your own self out of your own room...trust me on this one, I have learned from experience!

My first year on staff at MLC, I was so excited about being an RA. My hall director was the best, and I had some of the greatest guys to work with in my hall and on my floor. One evening early in the year (about mid-October), I was working on some homework. It got to be really late, and I decided to go to bed. For some odd reason, I didn't sleep all that long. When I woke up the next morning I proceeded to take a shower like I normally would. Upon attempting to open my door, I realized that I had made a huge mistake. Yes, my keys were locked in my room.

This also happened to be the one day that all the other RAs weren't around, so you can imagine my embarrasment as I called my hall director and asked if he could let me into my room. He of course agreed, because he had no idea what I had done. I knocked on his apartment door, and turned as red as a cherry. Not only was I just in my boxers, but his wife came to the door first to see what was going on. After my hall director snickered a little bit he let me in my room. Of course, my keys were never left in my room after that moment!

Name:

J-Dawg

School:

Somewhere in the state of Texas

Story

This was in the middle of last summer, myself and a few other RA's decided to stay around and work summer conferance crew. The job wasn't difficult, but we were stuck living on the top floor of the tallest building on campus. We were told that if we were on the tenth floor, conference guests would not accidentally go to the top floor of the building. One weekend, when there were guests in the building, we decided to play Lazer tag. The Conferance assistant on call for the weekend owned most of the gear so we just couldn't leave him in the building. So we decided to play on the eigth floor, which was kind of funsince the floor was shaped like a big doughnut. After gearing up, we switched off all the lights on the floor and placed a strobe at every hallway corner. Along with the strobes, we placed radios blaring techno music. The music was to keep us from hearing one another run about. Once we began running about on the top floor, we completely began to loose track of time. Around an hour or two later, I was moving down the far hallway near the elevator lobby, when I spotted about ten conference guests(high school students) club dancing to the music. They had heard it from the elevator on the ninth floor and come up to see what all the noise was. After gathering all of the other ca's, we switched on all the house lights and demanded to know who was in charge. Instantly, we were pointed toward one of the conferance guests that was standing by the elevator. A young entrepenure was taking a five dollar cover from everyone stepping off of the elevator. He stared at us, in our laser tag gear and then had the gaul to ask us for our money. After telling him who we were, and what floor he was, we removed his money and sent everyone home. We didn't turn the kid in, and the money bought us pizza, drinks, and some movies for the evening.

Name:

J-Dawg

School:

Somewhere in the state of Texas

Story

This was in the middle of last summer, myself and a few other RA's decided to stay around and work summer conferance crew. The job wasn't difficult, but we were stuck living on the top floor of the tallest building on campus. We were told that if we were on the tenth floor, conference guests would not accidentally go to the top floor of the building. One weekend, when there were guests in the building, we decided to play Lazer tag. The Conferance assistant on call for the weekend owned most of the gear so we just couldn't leave him in the building. So we decided to play on the eigth floor, which was kind of funsince the floor was shaped like a big doughnut. After gearing up, we switched off all the lights on the floor and placed a strobe at every hallway corner. Along with the strobes, we placed radios blaring techno music. The music was to keep us from hearing one another run about. Once we began running about on the top floor, we completely began to loose track of time. Around an hour or two later, I was moving down the far hallway near the elevator lobby, when I spotted about ten conference guests(high school students) club dancing to the music. They had heard it from the elevator on the ninth floor and come up to see what all the noise was. After gathering all of the other ca's, we switched on all the house lights and demanded to know who was in charge. Instantly, we were pointed toward one of the conferance guests that was standing by the elevator. A young entrepenure was taking a five dollar cover from everyone stepping off of the elevator. He stared at us, in our laser tag gear and then had the gaul to ask us for our money. After telling him who we were, and what floor he was, we removed his money and sent everyone home. We didn't turn the kid in, and the money bought us pizza, drinks, and some movies for the evening.

Name:

School:

Story

I was hanging out in our hall office talking with another RA late one night, when suddenly the duty RA came running into the office and shouted "Dude, You gotta come see this!" He led me up the stairs to a male resident who had passed out in the stairwell, immediately after he had mistaken it for the bathroom. Unfortunately, the resident didn't manage to tuck everything back into his pants before he passed out. When we found him, he was still out of it, lying in on his back, sexually aroused, in a pool of his own urine with a cheek to cheek grin. He apparently had been having some good dreams. We got him woken up, he tucked everything in, and sheepishly went to bed.

A few days later, I was telling the story to another RA in the cafeteria, immediately after I had finished telling the story, I looked behind me and realized that the guy that we had found passed out in the stairwell that fateful night was sitting right behind me, engaged in another conversation. I don't think he heard me telling the story about him, but I was about as embarassed as I've ever been, and taught myself a pretty good lesson about talking about situations in common areas.

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Story

I was hanging out in our hall office talking with another RA late one night, when suddenly the duty RA came running into the office and shouted "Dude, You gotta come see this!" He led me up the stairs to a male resident who had passed out in the stairwell, immediately after he had mistaken it for the bathroom. Unfortunately, the resident didn't manage to tuck everything back into his pants before he passed out. When we found him, he was still out of it, lying in on his back, sexually aroused, in a pool of his own urine with a cheek to cheek grin. He apparently had been having some good dreams. We got him woken up, he tucked everything in, and sheepishly went to bed.

A few days later, I was telling the story to another RA in the cafeteria, immediately after I had finished telling the story, I looked behind me and realized that the guy that we had found passed out in the stairwell that fateful night was sitting right behind me, engaged in another conversation. I don't think he heard me telling the story about him, but I was about as embarassed as I've ever been, and taught myself a pretty good lesson about talking about situations in common areas.

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William & Mary

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My area director called me one day to let me know that I had an incident to deal with. It seems two of my men (I'm an RA on a co-ed hall) had very big hearts. They saw a cat at the local pound, and it was going to be put down the next day. So they did exactly what they shouldn't have done, they bought it and took it home, making their residence hall room its room too! They did the whole "Who is it -- just a minute!" thing when I knocked on the door and gave them my name. They stood shoulder to shoulder and said "Yes?" I explained I needed to talk to them about their cat. "What cat?" "Why do you think we have a cat" "We don't have a cat!" Of course, by this time, I can smell the litter box too! I can't believe these men lived with this litter box as long as they did! I explained to them that everyone knew they had a cat, and that as most cats do, it was curious. I informed them that the little ball of fur took to sitting on the window sill watching people walk by outside when they were away at class. "Oh, that cat," they answered. Like most residence halls, we can have fish, and only fish, as pets. They seemed to not know this, which is awfully strange after living on campus for three and four years each! We made a deal and they gave the cat to off-campus friends.

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Kristine Zeznick

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Nazareth Colelge of Rochester (NY)

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I had a resident come to my room all in a tizzy because she todl me the power was out in her room. She explained that she moved her room around and couldn't get her alarm clock to work again. When I looked at the alarm clock it was obvious why it wouldn't work. She had the alarm clock plugged into an extension cord, which was plugged into itself!!! She just laughed and said she didn't realize that it had to go into the wall.