I'm transferring to Boulder this coming semester from Colorado Springs, and will be staying in the engineering honors dorm where I thought I would never have an issue like this. The problem is I have found out, through connections in Boulder, that my roommate-to-be is someone who enjoys drinking in the dorms.
I'm not necessarily against drinking, just because I personally don't care what others do (I find the smell of beer too bitter to try it), but I need to protect myself from potential code of conduct violations due to this roommate. In Boulder they supply a shared fridge, with no other mini-fridges allowed. Would I be considered to be breaching the alcohol section of the code of conduct (as well as potentially inciting an underage possession arrest/fine) if he kept his booze in this shared fridge? I don't want to be the hard ass telling him to drink warm beer, which I've heard is nasty, but I'll do that before I let him risk my academic or criminal record for the sake of him getting buzzed.
TLDR: Are both roommates held accountable for all contents of a shared fridge, or only their own?
Part of my concern is that he was a single occupant of a double room in a dorm that is always packed to capacity (I was very lucky to get in at semester) and doesn't house people who are going to drop or flunk out (it only houses engineering students with a 3.25 or higher GPA). Boulder has a policy of moving the person who files a roommate complaint, rather than the offender, so I have a sneaking suspicion that his roommate might have complained about him - either in a vague fashion to get himself moved or a direct complaint about alcohol where they didn't find anything. I just don't want to be wrapped up in it when/if he ends up getting caught, so I need to know how to protect myself in this case.
Submitted December 13, 2015 at 12:30AM by ThePretzul http://ift.tt/1J2UOQg college
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