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<p>Having the RAs announce quiet hours policies would be a good way to put all dorm residents on notice that those are the residential housing policies. At the very least, those freshmen* cannot later claim ignorance when they are called out/punished for violating them. </p>
<p>Of course, this is assuming a given university’s housing office actually enforces their policies as necessary and is not spineless about it.</p>
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<li>As someone who started college at 17 and knew several mature college classmates who started at much younger ages…it still astounds me how many 18, 19, or even 20 year olds are so self-absorbed or clueless that they make loud noises or show other forms of being inconsiderate when they start college.</li>
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