Is this an IA?

[Mangocat22]

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I was an RA responding to a candle complaint at 3 am. I temporary muted the smoke detector, aired out the room, then unmuted. The students who had the candle were in trouble, so I went to an administrative hearing as the RA. I was given a verbal warning for touching a smoke detector.

Is this an IA? If it is, which schools automatically reject candidates with IAs, so I know where not to apply. My prehealth advisor says it is but the conduct officer said it isn’t.

 

[TragicalDrFaust]

I'm siding with your conduct officer here. Prehealth advisors don't always know what they're talking about. If you want to be sure, figure out if this verbal warning ever went onto your school records. Perhaps start by contacting your school's judiciary board (if they're not the conduct officer, sorry I'm not familiar with that role) to ask what their records say and the registrar to ask how IAs are recorded by your school.

Edit: Even if this is an IA somehow, it will likely not be viewed unfavorably. It will come across much better than IAs for cheating, drugs, underage drinking etc.

 

[LunaOri]

This is not the sort of IA that would affect your chances. We roll our eyes at this kind of IA. Honestly, if it didn’t violate the applicants’ privacy, I would start a thread for “silliest IAs”.

 

[Goro]

Agree 1000% with the wise Luna. This is an eye rolling IA.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Go with the conduct officer. As an RA, you should be authorized to touch the detector, or else it should have been brought up in your training. Granted if you damaged it, that may be a different issue, but I don't know why it would be a citation.