<p>Having been on the end of that particular problem, the answer is no, not only do you and your student not have a right to know any details about the roommate but worse, the school will actively try to protect the rights of the perp if the perp has rich parents who have threatened them with legal action. Welcome to PC Gone Crazy.</p>
<p>I feel for the school because where the heck do you put a kid like that? In our case, they stuck him with my son in order to avoid giving him a single as a reward for the alleged assault. They probably figured my 6-2 steady Eddie son could handle himself. He did try to handle it for four weeks and then got stung by the theft but in the end, I should have made a bigger stink at the get-go. (I made a little stink in the Housing Office because son wouldn’t and I wanted them on notice–but I should have gone right to the Dean and insisted on a room change). Oh well. Armchair quarterbacking. My guy got a nice hotel room and a steak dinner out of the whole thing.</p>