Parents: There's Much To Learn From An Alcoholic Roommate

Parents: There's Much To Learn From An Alcoholic Roommate
With the advent of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, paranoid parents of college-bound teens now have even more irrelevant issues with which to pester the administration. As reported this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America, it seems that the new trend for incoming college freshman is to stalk their future roommates by way of these sites… and then immediately request to have their rooms changed before the school year even begins.

One mother featured on the show even uncovered photos of her daughter’s future roomie surrounded by “a lot of alcoholic beverages in the background, a lot of liquor bottles, beer bottles, kind of lewd behavior” (GASP!). Shortly after, psycho-mom filed a formal request for a room change on behalf of her (innocent and angelic, of course) daughter.

Overbearing and naive ‘Cuse parents of the class of 2011: no need to bother getting your panties in a bunch over this one. The SU housing director was quoted this morning as saying, "Our response to that is, we do not move students.” In other words, cracked out, delinquent, alcoholic roommates with a criminal record have always been around, so they're not going to start worrying about it now.

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