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[quote=Anonymous]Agree totally...the overall vibe affects everyone.

Here's my best examples from my freshman year at a famous football-focused university.

Freshman female roommate careless about locking dorm room door in mixed gender dorm.  Fall semester, RA's drunk boyfriend gets confused on way back from bathroom and stumbles into our room. Wasn't too freaked out because I'd heard him bumbling around on other side of wall.  But not pleased to have to explain to drunk man in the dark that he is lost and his warm bed is elsewhere.  He went right away but did I even get an apology from him or RA?  Nope.

Spring semester, after bowl game, am sleeping when I wake to hear my room door open and slam shut.  Hear a menacing male laugh.  Guy is leaning on the inside of the only door.  I say to "Get Out" and he just laughs.  I freak out for a few seconds that this time I really am at risk of getting raped and sit up to take evasive action when suddenly I hear my stupid roommate ask me "Who the H are you talking to...!!"  She had already come back for the evening and went to sleep leaving the door unlocked again...but at least she was there.  Mr. Menacing Laugh laughs creepily again and leaves. I get up, lock the door, get dressed and start quarrelling with my roommate about what to do next.  Meanwhile, the idiot guy goes in some other girls' room, trips over a female guest who was sleeping on the floor, and that whole room erupts in screaming.  We open our door to see floormate with some sort of makeshift club running around the corner in her granny nightie, chasing the guy.  Campus police were called but I never heard if the guy was punished.  After all, what did he do except open a few unlocked doors?    Heard he was a student's friend in town for the bowl game and not actually enrolled.  Our students tore down our goalposts that night (our team lost).  That night, also, some dorm people did thousands of dollars of damage to a dorm bathroom for fun. Perpetrators were never caught so everyone had to pay a $200 anonymous vandalism repair charge at the end of the year.

I transferred to a different, allegedly less prestigious, University for sophomore year where I could get a single room.  In general, much less idiocy going on there and the drinking culture was somehow lamer, less menacing, and never had to pay a vandalism repair fee.

People who like to drink a lot think it's all in good fun, but for the bystanders it can be boring, disgusting, and/or dangerous.  Even if it's subtle, different schools definitely have different norms about campus life.[/quote]

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