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E-PrinceWhen Sierra Schelegle ’11 checked her student bill this fall, she was surprised to find a $640 charge for “painted walls.” She was confused, since no such charge had been included in her fire inspection notice.
Schelegle is one of ...
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Schelegle, Peterson, Popov, et al. are complete idiots. Read the rules, imbeciles. No one gives a damn when you get fined because you just asked some other students instead of actually looking for correct information.
For future reference:
http://www.princeton.edu/facilities/housing/und...
powwssible ??
I have to agree with '12. It sucks for them but all it takes is a little reading. I would EXPECT Princeton students should be able to do that. That's why my roommates and I read the fine lines and painted our room back by ourselves at the end of the year.
But to their point, I remember a clause in the policy about fees not being charged if the room was painted back by the end of the year. So if I were them, I would question the Housing Department.
@08 alum: How can you possibly agree with '12? You were given until June to paint your room back, which is an opportunity that Schelegle, Peterson, Popov, etc did not get.
@12: Just because rules are posted doesn't mean they're necessarily enforced. Try looking at the signs on the side of the road when you're driving.
I think that the whole point of this article is that in the past you could paint your room, leave it a new color for the whole year, then paint it back. Students being charged in the middle of fall semester is rather ridiculous- is the housing dept. going to magically repaint the room themselves any time soon (students aren't required to vacate their room AT ALL until the end of May)? I have my doubts.
It seems like Housing is now reinforcing regulations that they neglected in the past. They should have posted warnings at the beginning of the school year to be sure everyone understood the regulations before issuing these fines. There are lots of regulations in books, but people usually practice what they see as acceptable. If for years people see other students painting their rooms and then re-painting them without being fined, then Housing should announce clearly that they will now strictly re-inforce what's in the books. Is this fining some way to make Housing's budget look better in light of the University's financial condition?
The entitlement attitude and idea that the victims here are those on whom rules are enforced is very unbecoming. In twenty years will you be suing the planning board of Short Hills because you want to build an 8,000 sq. ft. house when the lot size only allows 7,200? Or maybe your suit will be against East Hampton because you want to clear a wetland in order to build a tennis court (which, by the way, you will probably rarely use.) TI Joe will probably be right in front there, using his Yale Law degree to make sure that the poor victimized Short Hills resident can have that 900 sq. ft. walk in closet.
"I went to Princeton. Rules don't apply to me."
All this painting can't be good for the rooms (or architecture)...
Who the hell has time to paint their room?
If you have the $$$ to pointlessly paint your dorm, you have the $$$ to pay the fine.
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