I don’t understand how he was destroying your course material. Don’t you have a password on your computer?
Report it. Even if you can’t prove it. Just understand you may not recover anything. Your roomie will have to explain his side and he might lie. However, if something happens again (to you or maybe someone else), a second offensive is harder to explain away.
Tearing out pages from textbooks and notebooks…
Under these circumstances, do you feel safe in your dorm room ?
First, how do you know he was actually going into your files to spy on your work? Second, how does he know your password? Third, accidents happen anyway, especially in college. Laptops get dropped, stolen, slid into swimming pools, run over by mascots, you name it. Do you have a protection plan? You could ask your parents if they purchased one when they bought you the computer. I’m betting there’s a lot more to this story than I’m reading.
That being the case, you need a laptop and it doesn’t look like his parents are going to pay for it. You can buy an inexpensive laptop at an electronics store. Be sure you save all your work on Google drive, so if it gets damaged or stolen, you can retrieve your work from any computer.
If this roommate situation is as hostile and malicious as you describe, I’m confused as to why we’re here on CC having a conversation about it, vs. you (and your parents if necessary) having already escalated the situation through channels at your school, including insistence on being separated immediately. If you had already been relocated and were just seeking advice about recourse re: damages, then I guess the thread would make some sense. But remaining in a toxic situation while engaging strangers on the internet in a conversation about the reimbursement dispute seems… cognitively dissonant at best. Either it’s as bad as you say and you should be dismantling the living situation ASAP, or it isn’t and we’re all wasting our time.
I am moving out today!
Was just seeking advise on damages
Well, it doesn’t look like there’s much you can do about the broken laptop. You’ll have to go to an electronics store and buy another one. For college, you don’t need an expensive Macbook. Any Windows computer with 8 gb of memory should be more than enough.
You can still retrieve your files. A dropped computer will crack a screen, but it won’t break a hard drive. You can open your old computer and pull it out. On Amazon, you can get a USB hard drive adapter for $10. You just plug in your old hard drive and plug the other end into your new computer.
Glad you are moving out-again, have you told your parents about all this?
And I don’t agree with the above; whether by accident or on purpose, your soon-to-be ex-roommate broke your laptop.
So start with the RA with a formal complaint, and take things from there. Nobody has the right to destroy your property-this goes for your textbooks, too.
When I first read this thread, I thought “Why the heck are you focusing so much on your laptop when you said your roommate attempted to ruin your grade by destroying your homework? That’s an awful thing to do!” Now that you said you moved out already though, I understand why this thread is more focused on getting the laptop issue resolved than what to do about your roommate attempting to ruin your course material. Good for you for moving out 
Windows 7 expires in January, so if you do buy a laptop, make sure it has Windows 10 (or Windows 8 might work too). Otherwise, if you do buy a laptop with Windows 7, you will have to upgrade to Windows 10, and I don’t think Windows 7 users can upgrade to Windows 10 for free anymore so it will probably cost you money.
Thanks for the advise. We have actually made up since and the roommate is my best friend now.
Wow @Brokee , thanks for posting an update, I don’t know that anyone expected that!!!