Clean up on fourth floor. This is a task that many custodians know too well. Students return from their party ventures at the No. 3 party school in the nation, Ole Miss, along with drunken minds.
It’s their first time being away from home with no curfew and constant nagging from parents can get ignored with no physical consequences. Attending class becomes completely optional. Welcome to college.
Although parents are not present, students still have to abide by rules. Residential assistants are paid to live in the dorms and regulate student residents. Although the residential assistants do not control their curfew they do control their noise level.
Residential and community assistants for example experience drunken residents. According to the University policy, residential assistants are to report residents who are caught intoxicated or with alcohol. Martin Hall RA (residential assistant) Shan Williams said,
“When they’re caught, it never ends well. As an RA, we try to give them a second chance.”
Williams says she has experienced the most trouble from girls attempting to sneak guys up after 2 a.m. during the week. The residents are allowed visitation until 12 a.m. weekly. On the weekends, it is extended until 2.am.
“If this problem continues, the residents will be punished with no visitors,” Williams said.
Kwanza Boone, a community assistant says,
“The guys are rowdier that girls when intoxicated, Boone said I try not to judge them after the first time, but after the second time, consider yourself judged.”
RA’s kind attitude and maturity lands them the job, but it’s strictly business once the students arrive.
Community assistants witness many of the same things Resident assistants do. However, their job may be easier. They’re job is to sign visitors in. Community assistants are usually doing homework or watching movies on the laptop in the wee hours of the morning at the desk.
According to the RAs, being a residential assistant is time consuming, but they do have a life outside of being “responsible” for other students.
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