According to the SSP handbook, students are not allowed to make noise after 11 p.m. (1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights). The steps of Weld, however, were once the site for summer school frolicking into the wee hours of the morning.

"They keep on yelling at us, so now we move from dorm room to dorm room," said Christian A. Meyer, a Weld resident. "If we have more than 10 people in a room, the proctor will sometimes come and break it up."

Crime and Punishment

Innocuous revelry in front of Weld is a far cry from some other, more serious disciplinary divergences. Rumors of expulsion abound among the SSP students after one of their fellow classmates was asked to leave after violating the alcohol policy.

One resident proctor in Matthews Hall, Neiladri Sinhababu '01, found his charge vomiting violently in the bathroom after "consuming a lot of alcohol."

"When she came back here drunk," Sinhababu remembers, "we had to call the police and bring her to [University Health Services]."

Sinhababu never had to speak with the woman's parents, though he, and then the student herself, had to meet with a group of administrators. Due to the zero-tolerance policy, the student was immediately asked to leave.

"We have weekly proctor meetings," Sinhababu says. "We talk about minor odd things that happened during the week."