There have been a few days that are hinting at spring time and summer up here in Sterling, which have lead to spring fever and some mischief here in Herbie Hall.
A few weekends ago, our friend Drea went home to visit her family for her mom's birthday and came back to her room being T-Ped.
(I just might add that Drea actually stated this war back in February. She scared the crap our of Sydney and I one night by sliding a pipe flag under our door and swiping it back and forth really fast. I had just gotten out of the shower and was doing the "applying lotion while keep my towel on" dance when I heard this flapping noise coming from our door [I thought it was a bird or bat to be honest.] I tripped over the back leg of our futon and practically ended up in Sydney's lap, who was doing some homework on her laptop at her desk. Needless to say, revenge was in order!)
A week after Drea's little prank Sydney and I got her back! She was on the phone in our room, so while she was consumed in her conversation I snuck into her room and crammed myself into her closet cabinet. A little while later Sydney asked to borrow something from her room, and when they came into Drea's room, Sydney told her she needed to look in the mirror (located inside the cabinet) to fix her hair before they left. She opened the door and BOO! she screamed, jumped and told us how mean it was. [Revenge was sweet!]
The next week was spring break so we took a break from the pranks. But the first weekend we were back, Sydney and I didn't waist anytime to start up the prank war again. (See pictures above.)
I was in Greeley the day Drea found her new decorations and Sydney was visiting some family for the afternoon. But when we returned we found this.
She ripped apart all the paper we used in her room and spread it out all over our room! I was a pain to pick up all the little pieces, I'm sure that when we move out we will still be finding more.
Last week, some of the boys that live on first floor threatened us with some water balloons, so we went to Walmart and bought water guns. Needless to say it turned into an all out water fight. (It was way fun!)
I am sad to report, that the days of old are long gone. Sydney recently was talking to her cousin who went to NJC almost 10 years ago, about the water fights that they had, and that they would use their mattresses to slide down the stairs. Filling the washing machines with WAY to much dish soap so they would overflow with bubbles used to happen on a weekly basis.
Friends of Jeb's told him about how they use to sneak beer in in their laundry baskets and toss the bottles out the window so they wouldn't get caught.
***I'M SORRY IF THE FOLLOWING OFFENDS ANYONE***
Now, if you have a water fight, you get a sanction (a strike, you're put on academic probation for 30 days, and you have to do campus community service.)
If you remove the mattress from your room, you get to buy the dorm a new on (even if you put the old one back.)
If you mess with the laundry room at all, they lock the doors and shut it down for at least a week, and as a dorm you get fined.
If you have beer, any other alcohol, or the empty bottles (In the back of your truck, holding your change) you get a MIP (minor in possession) which involves the police.
If you have too much to drink one night and think you can get a ride back to your dorm to sleep it off, think again.
If you come back to the dorms after drinking, stay quiet, don't caught any disturbances, and walk to your room or have a friend help you to your room RA's or Hall Directors can come and knock on your door and have you do a blow test and again get an MIP from the police, take part in alcohol counseling and write a 2 page paper why drinking is bad.
If you are over 21 and have been drinking, you still have to take the blow test, and if you blow anything you have to still write the paper.
If an RA knows that you have consumed alcohol and doesn't report you, they are fired on the spot.
If you remove a screen from any window it's a $50.00 fine.
If you get caught with a coffee pot, candle or any kind of skillet or open burner it is also a strike and could get you tossed out of the dorm.
I am not much of a drinker, plus I'm still under age, I just think that the dorm should welcome students back not call the police on them. I know of students who sleep in their vehicles in the middle of winter because they were drinking and don't want to get caught.
I realize that the rules are there to protect us and keep us out of trouble. I also realize that NJC is a dry campus that doesn't encourage drinking (Particularly underage drinking), but I think the campus should be a safe place for us to be, and if someone needs a place to sober up, I think Old dorm stories are for sure going to change. No more water fights, mattress surfing, or pranks played on one another.
I know NJC has plenty of reasons for why they enforce the rules they do, and I know I am no expert. I am a college student, not a teacher, director or part of any sort of staff. (I'm really just venting)
To be honest, I don't regret the water fight at all and this prank war isn't close to being over!
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