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<p>HECK YEAH! I make no statement about their legal obligations one way or the other, but there is an ethical obligation to warn the new roommate that there has been an <em>unproven</em>accusation_ of XYZ offense, resulting in the room transfer. This is particularly true where assault is concerned. Better to reward the criminal with a single room than to punish an innocent third party by forcing him to live unawares with someone the school suspects is violent/a thief. Where there is some kind of conclusive proof, such as a confession, the perpetrator should immediately be moved out of university housing altogether. At private schools in particular, student housing is a privilege; “innocent until proven guilty” doesn’t make sense in this context.</p>
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<p>Yep. There’s an Arabic saying: “Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.” They can toot those honor codes till the cows come home, but you should still lock your door, windows, laptop, and suitcases. I left a treasured and expensive formal dress on the laundry line my freshman year because the sacred college honor code meant that no one would steal it. Yeah, that was my $300 life lesson.</p>