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Cal Poly students likely to pay for St. Fratty’s Day damage to dorms

April 12, 2024

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By JOSH FRIEDMAN

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo students will likely receive bills for damage done to dorms during last month’s St. Fratty’s Day celebration that spiraled out of control. 

On the morning of March 16, an estimated 6,000 to 7,000 people gathered near the Cal Poly campus for what began as a street party. Students passed around plastic jugs filled with alcohol, played loud music, danced in the street and ended up breaking glass, scattering trash and damaging on-campus dorms. Police officers made arrests for offenses including public intoxication, DUI, resisting an officer, possession of an open container and climbing on a pole designed to support wires.

Currently, Cal Poly University Housing is assessing the cost of the damage to residence halls. Cal Poly has a damage charge rate schedule for dorms, which includes charges ranging from $5 for replacing outer plates or ice trays to $1,500 for replacing a door or for damage to a television. [Tribune]

The university’s Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities will attempt to pinpoint individuals who committed vandalism in the dorms. If officials succeed in doing so, the university will charge the offenders with damage fees. 

If the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities cannot determine the individual offenders, residents of the damaged dorms will share the repair costs. In that case, the total cost of repairs would be divided by the number of residents on a single floor or in a building or community to determine the amount each student would owe.

 


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WTF? The Asian kid studying for his/her Mechanical Engineering or Pre-Med exams all weekend pays for damage from the rich white-trash kid’s friends, probably business or ag majors, from San Diego who cannot be identified?


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Wow, care to throw around any other racist stereotypes in addition to the “boring studious asian kid” and the “rich white-trash party kid”? Tell us how the Ag Business major from San Diego hurt you in college.


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It’s the academic way, very similar to excusing student loans: make everyone pay even if they never went to college or paid off their student loans. How universities continue to get away with unfair financial dealings is a mystery.


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So, students who played no part in this event, and may not have even been present have no right to due process prior to being deemed guilty and fined. A few places in the US still use the constitution, but apparently Cal Poly is not one of those places.


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Good lesson, if you rent something and it gets damaged then claim I don’t know who did the damage you pay for it.


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So, students who played no part in the damage, and may not have even been present have no right to due process prior to being deemed guilty and punished. A few places in the US still use the constitution (you remember the constitution right?), but apparently Cal Poly is not one of those places.


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First off, “pinpoint individuals who committed vandalism in the dorms. If officials succeed in doing so”, that’s a big IF, so unlikely that will happen, and even if it does any fine they receive will likely just be paid by their parents or out of their aid packages, with the way things are going they will never be payed back, we actually will pay it, well not us but several generations later. Instead have any students identified by officials work off the damages around campus, some will learn a trade, possibly usable when time to get a job, obtain some work experience, learn a little about responsibility, save the college money, but something tells me President Armstrong isn’t concerned about these issues.


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I agree the ones responsible should pay for their actions, but damn you if you’re going to charge me for something I didn’t do. $75k tuition leaves enough room to not make those not involved pay.


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I think they mean it will be divided by what each parent owes.


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