The Cost of Carelessness: One Student’s Response to JB Hall Damages

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The Cost of Carelessness: One Student’s Response to JB Hall Damages

As many residents of John Bertram Hall might know, the 2023-24 academic year has been full of so much damage that every single student living in the building was charged $50, whether complicit in the crimes or not. And there’s the possibility that we could get another charge. Now, I’m not saying this is a bad system; charging the entire building could motivate the perpetrators to come forward – stricken with guilt and begging to take full respon…