At the end of last semester, she used a rushed SLC to push through her new Residence Life Handbook within a week, giving the people serving on the council little or no time to read through the hefty document. SGA President James McNeel and SLC Chair David Rucki have both expressed concern that the handbook was too rushed and that people on the board didn t get enough time to read through all of the policies. The item of concern on many people s minds was a new alcohol policy which would have limited beer only to rooms where minors didn t live, rather than sticking with the old policy which stated that minors couldn t be present while alcohol was in the room. This policy was soon repealed, thankfully, because of a discrepancy between the RLO Handbook and the Student Handbook. This isn t the first time in RLO history that the alcohol policy has come under fire.
Readers can draw their own conclusions.
Another item of controversy is the new group billing policy, which states that if something happens in a public area in one of the Residence Halls, everyone on a wing, floor or hall can be made to pay for repairs. When asked why she feels the need to punish people for a crime someone else committed, Hong said this wasn t meant to be a punishment. It was meant to get students mad enough about having to pay for damages that they will rat on their neighbors. The idea here is guilt by association, guilty until proven innocent. The new policy proves that RLO is more worried about filling its own bank account than the welfare of the students who are being punished for crimes they did not commit.