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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Once again, do not expect ANY supervision from colleges regarding social or even criminal behavior. The US Supreme Court discouraged "in loco parentis" in the 1970s. Now colleges are advised not to set any precedents by setting or enforcing rules on conduct. It's gotten much worse since 2000.
Your college kid is on their own - totally.[/quote]

Maybe because they aren't 'kids'. If you're in college and staying in college housing you're an adult/18. Since they were sophomores these women had to be 19 or 20. Smart enough for at least ONE of the 8 housemates to note this wasn't right.

And where was this felon's parole officer in all of this?[/quote]

I still think the school had some responsibility here.  Even if they all were technically adults, [b]if I am a tenant in a building and some unauthorized person has moved in, I can complain and I think my landlord has a duty to evict that person.  Is it not a violation of the rules of the dorm?  Isn't there some rule that tenants must be students?[/b]  I know some students who dropped out/left school and the schools were quick to kick them out the dorms on the grounds that they were no longer students.  [/quote]

This. I don't get why some posters are saying that these are all adults and there was nothing the school could have done. People are paying money for room and board. With that payment comes some expectations of the building being appropriately managed. I tend to think people tend to be over-protective about their college students, but I honestly would have serious qualms about my kid attending that school at this point. There's a lot that is beyond the control of a school, but this was, and they utterly failed due diligence. Shame  on them.[/quote]

+1 to both the above PPs.

I posted before about how we visited Sarah Lawrence last fall. I noticed there are some "dorms" that seem to be suburban houses that maybe were part of the residential neighborhood surrounding the college, and which now are college property. I can picture how these houses, on the edge of campus, might have relatively few students in them and might be easy to squat in without anyone from the college noticing other than the students actually living in that one house. Really wondering if the dorm in question is one of these small house dorms (any SLC alums know?) and wondering why the college so blatantly ignored the complaint(s) by the one girl's parents. The article claims the college just said that said parents are allowed to visit. I'd bet no one from the administrative or security staff ever visited the dorm to check the claim this man was living there. [/quote]

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