At my on-campus job, I work right next to residence life. Yesterday was the last day for sophomore students to turn in their room cancellation forms into residence life. They knew about this for AT LEAST two months. Apparently, multiple emails and letters came to the students telling them they had to turn in their cancellation forms by EOD yesterday, otherwise they forfeited their $250 housing deposit. I thought that would be incentive enough to do it on time.
I saw over a dozen angry students come to the office today complaining that they didn't know about the deadline and didn't think it was fair for them to lose their deposit. One even claimed that nobody checks their Drake email or Drake campus mail, so the fact that people turned it in on time were lucky. Lucky? Wow.
I have to be honest when I say that I am pretty certain residence life can't do this legally, because I don't remember ever having any stipulation in the contract saying we lose our deposits if we turn in our housing cancellation late. However, I love this. I love that they did this. And I love that students are angry. Maybe this will teach them to turn things in on time. I mean, how difficult is it to turn in a form that takes less than a minute to fill out in a two month period? Not difficult. At all.
Ah, seeing others angry makes me happy that I do things like I am supposed to.
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