Shouting at people and tit-for-tat posts on Facebook are pretty immature and they need to stop, but I don't see anything wrong with turning in a kid who is dealing illegal drugs out of his dorm room. Someone should probably ask her to relax a bit, but there's no reason to act like all of her concerns are baseless. She has to live in this environment too, and she certainly has a right to do so without some idiot turning the dorm into a crackhouse.

I wasn't in college that long ago myself, and it's one thing when someone occasionally lights up a joint or has a beer, but far different when the dorm building's dealer is your neighbor. Being "popular" shouldn't insulate you from the consequences of illegal behavior, nor should it exempt you from the rules. The kid knew what he was getting into when he decided to deal dangerous, illegal substances on campus.

The letter writer needs to get over himself/herself and start thinking about what it's like to live in a world with rules.

One rule is:

Call the cops on someone in your dorm that you heard you can buy weed from, and you can be about 50% sure cops will search the room and find something illegal. Evidence of underage drinking, a bong, any amount of any illegal substance, etc. Consequence--you will be hated for victimizing someone (randomly?) for something that was none of your business.

Students are at college to learn to apply rules in society.

Uh, students are at college to learn to apply rules in society (whatever that means), but they shouldn't follow society's rules?

Underage drinking is one thing, but selling drugs is a whole different level of rule breaking.

I agree with you, Sevumar.

When I was in college (some scant 2 years ago) and in the dorms, I told my friends the same thing over and over again; don't want to get caught? DON'T DO DRUGS. Don't want to get expelled? DON'T DO DRUGS.

If you do do something illegal, why be so surprised when you are caught and punished? It's illegal. Period. End of story. Someone else didn't frame you, it is no one else's fault but your own because you CHOOSE to partake in that behavior.

And if you absolutely INSIST on doing drugs, do so out of college, or at least out of the college dorms. Only the random neurotic neighbor will call the cops on you for weed outside of college dorms. For heavens' sake, if you insist on living in the dorms, is it gonna kill you to knock off the drugs/dorm drinking for, what, 1 year? Maybe 2? Until you get your own private place and can do f*ck whatever you want without interfering with anyone.