I don't know how adcom would react to any of those things. But it's a winnowing down process and every little negative knocks you down in relation to everyone else. Life really does not have infinite do overs, some things have significant consequences, maybe this will maybe it won't
I don't think damaging people's property is okay, but you also have to be proportional with your response. It's simply not something that warrants wasting the time of the police, jail and criminal courts. You can easily sue them for what they destroyed and get some type of additional compensation for your troubles. Criminalizing people over trivial things ends up hurting society.
Why are you afraid of putting your 2 cents on it? Tell us how you, as an ADCOM, would personally handle it.
No. Damaging stuff that isn't yours hurts society.
Your profile picture fits you perfectly. The food fight "resulted only in a mess to cleanup". They weren't smashing windows and tables.
You could use this same argument to say that not paying your credit card is stealing and stealing is a criminal act. However, we don't have debtor's prisons in America. Food loss is not the same as destroying someone's car windows or taking a bat to a TV.
But do you ever go soft, on judgements though?
I would make a judgement based on the overall quality of the application, just like every other case.
Society tends to forgive children faster than adults
Those staff that have to clean that up cost money. You are welcome to disagree with me but I still believe vandalism should be a crime
You'd have to ask adcoms how they behave
I believe the OP's dining hall works similar to an al la carte or supermarket. It would be the same as taking food from a supermarket in your backpack.
Heaven help the applications that make it to your desk if you ever become an adcom.
And that's why I suggest that suing them for the damages and what they wasted is a more reasonable response than to put them behind bars.
I am far more lenient towards transgressions done by juveniles. The only time I've been on the fence is with crimes against persons, not property.
Yes
Then I would suggest not scheduling your next food fight on my property
Just don't steal bananas though. That's just going too far.
I think he's saying he would be lenient. If he'd forgive a DUI, do you really think he's not soft enough to forgive stealing a damn banana?
If they got away with it they got away with it. How would they slam them if there is no record? Nothing to slam... unless for some reason you told them that you used to break the law in your application somewhere...?
The point is it's freaking unfair to go nuts over something done when someone is 19 but forgive it if they were 17 or 18 ( potential 12th graders) vs an early college student. They should be treated the same.
The question specifically asked what would happen if they "got away with it". So my point stands
It does still stand, but it's unfair that someone who happened to get away with it be luckier than a hungry kid stealing food happening to be caught. This kind of stuff makes me so mad 😡
The proper balancing of the scales there would be both thieves caught.....not more victims of theft without justice
Good people go to jail and terrible people become presidents of countries. Life is most definitely not fair, it sucks, but life is also great. Just always try to find the silver lining (and make sure to watch the movie "silver linings playbook")
I watched that movie when I was like 15 and I'm still cynical AF
Life's not fair.
Do you really think a 17/18 y/o is significantly younger than a 19 y/o?????
Yes. Me a year into college had little resemblance to me in high school
I think the only way it could come up in your application at all though is if there was a criminal record. If you were expelled from 4 different high schools, but didn't have a criminal record, and still went to college, your good. Once you break that level and get into college, medical admissions will not know you sucked as a teenager.
