I suspect my neighbor had some warning about Flunk Day, since he usually isn't awake or noisy that late at night. If that is the case, then it's within reason to blame the previous night on Flunk Day, since my neighbor wouldn't have started his festivities early otherwise.

My real problem with it was that I couldn't say no. I couldn't say no to the friars. I couldn't say no to my suite-mates (it's Flunk Day, could anyone really expect someone else to turn their music down or stop drinking in the suite if you asked?) I couldn't say no to them messing up the suite and the bathroom, since even if I had been present it is in my experience usually counterproductive to argue with a drunk person. There was simply nothing I could [reasonably] do about any it, and I still have to pay all of the prices for it: My bathroom is filthy, my suite is trashed and I had a less than happy day thanks to a lack of sleep because there was no way to ask the friars NOT to wake me up.

The fact of the matter is, if I had wanted to say no to any of these things; say, messing up the bathroom, I would have had to physically stand there and monitor the bathroom for the entire day in order to keep it clean, which probably would have made Flunk Day just as unenjoyable for me. So in terms of solutions, I too would be very interested to hear some ideas.

A loss of control about external situations is not tantamount to rape, and making such a steep comparison is weak at best, and utterly offensive at worst. We have a right to liberty, but not license, so in such scope the behaviors were at your cost. But you must also realize that the actions were performed by the suite and are suffered by the suite. If it were your personal bathroom, it would be an attack on you. It is, however, the suite's, and while you disagreed with the suite's actions, I disagreed with the country's election of Bush; thus the cookie crumbles. I'll vote next year and you can talk to your suitemates about this. Perhaps you will also let your hair down a bit, roll with a punch someday, and stop thinking that an early morning wake-up and a dirty sink make you as much a victim as someone who has had sexual activity forced upon them.

Flunk Day sounds dreadful to me, at least it would be if I live on campus. To start with, I hate surprises. Secondly, I hate being woken early. It was bad enough when the alumni club had toga parties outside of my window at 4 am, this sounds much, much worse. I am glad to hear that it is trending toward improving, but that would be poor consolation if I had to endure fellow students vandalizing my bathroom and disrupting my sleep. I have no problems with public drunkeness itself. My high school had a senior skip day that involved gathering in a park and drinking adn dancing. I got drunk enough to not only dance in public, but also to not notice when the line I was dancing in fell down and me along with it. The key is that that was not just planned but happened on an expected date. It was easily avoidable, if one were so inclined. No ones living area was messed up. Enough people were designated to stay sober to make sure that no one was harmed, and also to see to it that the party was cleaned up afterward. It seems like the idea behind Flunk day is to have a party that one can't ignore or avoid. I can't say as I care for that at all.

Largely, one CAN ignore and avoid Flunk Day if one chooses to. It's a day where we don't have classes and the college provides entertainment for you, if you wish to partake in it. I spent most of my Flunk Day off campus with friends (going to see Sin City, going out to dinner, bar-hopping) because I didn't care for this year's activities all that much. Also, it is true that unless you live off campus, it's impossible to not get woken up at 5:00 or 6:00 in the morning. But I don't think most people care, because they just take naps later in the day. Unfortunately, there's always some people that behave irresponsibly, and it's unfortunate that Brian has to live with them. But that is not at all a good representation of the student body.

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