3 OU students sentenced for dorm pranks | The Columbus Dispatch

Three Ohio University students received suspended jail sentences this week after being convicted of twice trapping a resident assistant in his room in a campus dormitory.

[hmmm]

Must be new doors we used pennies to jamm the doors shut, but eventual could work them out

[ConcernedTeacher]

This is a huge concern. OU is known as a party school and something needs to be done before someone gets killed.

[Former RA]

Never had a problem with doors but did have issues with residents throwing their stuff all over the floors of the halls wrote some up for it and the RD let them off so what do they do? they just do it again and again and again. This person later became a RA go figure.

[Jon H]

man, we did stuff like this all the time in college.

I remember filling up giant trash cans 3/4 the way full with water and leaning it against people's doors and knocking.

[Overreact much]

ConcernedTeacher wrote:

This is a huge concern. OU is known as a party school and something needs to be done before someone gets killed.

I believe something was done...Fines and community service issued by the courts!

[Balls Deep]

Somebody doesn't have a sense of humor apparently.

[EASE UP AMERICA]

I agree with hmmmm above!! Back in the '70's we did typical college pranks and everyone took it well and no one went to court, lawyers were not needed and everyone, including the victim, had a good laugh.
LIGHTEN UP AMERICA-we need a sense of humor!!!
How many years would I get today for all of the "shortsheeting" I did back then??!!??

[Tim]

Must have been a really bad RA.

[mickno]

You have got to be kidding me!$1000 fine and 100 hours of community service for locking a guy in a room. They never even touched the guy, and you would think he was tortured. Did the "victim" not have enough common sense to pick up a phone, and call someone to rescue him from this heinous crime? Maybe the powers to be in this community should be worrying more about the upcoming riot; oops, I mean party than the issue of some dork getting locked in his dorm room.

[Martha]

Sorry. Nothing personal, but stupid is as stupid does. Glad my two daughters weren't in that dorm

[Joianne]

I understand college pranks and all, and perhaps this was a little much...but lighten up people! Don't we have more serious "crimes" to worry about? Why clog up our court systems with something so petty? What a waste...

[Me n u]

ConcernedTeacher wrote:

This is a huge concern. OU is known as a party school and something needs to be done before someone gets killed.

If you have been watching the news over the past couple years, that has already happened. Stupied/high/drunk is as stupid/high/drunk does...

[oompa]

These kids should not be punished for such harmless fun. Noone was hurt int those pranks. We did much worse than that to people when I was in collage

[Donald Eyerman]

I'm sure there has o be more to this story then is being reported. Because if this is all over just getting locked in one's room then this is like beating the child for spilling his milk.

[dude]

I saw poo dollar at OU. That one is priceless!

So what did the fines go towards?

[RA Mother]

Really? Maybe the brats need to work on studying rather than tormenting other students. Grow up punks!

[OU Grad96]

Seriously? What's happened to OU? Is that all they can come up with these days? OU sponsors a beer garten and the whole campus wusses out.

[kyle]

what a loser need to be hanged dumb white kids

[kyle]

what a loser kids they need to be hanged d#umb white kids

[continually amazed]

Stupid actions are not an affirmative defense.