ut - university of timeouts?
tommyAn entire floor at the University of Tampa dorms got in a bit of trouble.
Prospective students and their parents were touring the honors floor last weekend, and it seems that some of the residents there wanted to give them some inside information. So they put up a note to the visitors. It detailed “what they don’t tell you on the tour,” describing sex and drinking in the dorms. Bulletin board letters were also rearranged to say something offensive.
No one ‘fessed up to it, so the entire floor was disciplined. By writing lines.
…all residents on the floor were told they had to write the 30 lines or their housing would be terminated…
What? I guess Bart Simpson is now a resident assistant at the University of Tampa. Seriously:
“I will not vandalize the floor, and I will help prevent others from vandalizing.”
“I will not vandalize the floor, and I will help prevent others from vandalizing.”
“I will not vandalize the floor, and I will help prevent others from vandalizing.”
“I will not vandalize the floor, and I will help prevent others from vandalizing.”
“I will not vandalize the floor, and I will help prevent others from vandalizing.”
Thirty times each. I assume cut ‘n’ paste was not allowed. More from The Minaret:
Several students on the floor said they first learned of the vandalism after seeing signs along their hall informing them of an emergency meeting that night.
“When I heard, ‘emergency meeting’ I though something awful happened,” one student said. “It was the most ridiculous thing I’ve had to do since elementary school.”
Hey - you better quit complaining, or you will be sent to your room without supper!
Tags: bart simpson, childish, college, discipline, ut
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February 21st, 2008 at 4:00 pm
“However, Alyssa Howard, the RA who came up with the idea, said she only told one man whose housing was under review that not writing the lines wouldn’t help his case.”
Isn’t there an opening at the Orient Jail for someone with these great conflict resolution skills?
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:41 am
Wow, 30 lines huh, that took what 10 minutes at most? Seems rather tame. If nothing else it helped the floor build some solidarity against “the Man,” and it gives them a story to tell their own kids one day. You know the kind: Uphill both ways, in the snow with broken bottles for shoes.
May 3rd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Stop complaining! You should be happy that the only punishment you had was writing a few sentences. That’s what happens when someone comes up with a stupid idea that sounds funny at the time. I would expect honors students to be more mature than to vandalize bulletin boards. The person(s) who did it should have been dropped from the honors program for being such an idiot.