<p>Court documents: student stabbed in BC dorm over bleached laundry</p>
<p>By April Simpson, Globe Staff</p>
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<p><a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/02/court_documents.html[/url]”>http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/02/court_documents.html</a></p>
<p>I may rethink my encouragements to S to do his own laundry regularly. I never knew it was such a dangerous undertaking!</p>
<p>This is what this world is coming to - keeping in mind that Boston College is a competitive college (ie. selective admissions), draws from the “best” pool of high school students, etc. It is also affiliated to the Catholic Church! What’s happening to our youth? </p>
<p>Maybe I’m just in a cynical mood or down, but this just seems really discouraging. :(</p>
<p>Lets see: backpack check
ipod check
phone check
room key check
knife…what?!</p>
<p>Friday Night. Laundry.</p>
<p>Drinking?</p>
<p>^probably. </p>
<p>So far no fighting over laundry at ldgirl’s dorm, but she does tell me one had better be there when the washing machine turns off or they’ll find their wet clothes on the floor.</p>
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<p>Okay. I’m beginning to take this as a badge of honor that we are held to a so much higher standard. So thank you, ag.</p>
<p>Why would anyone have a knife on them? The sharpest thing in my son’s dorm room is probably a spork–oh no, I forgot he does have scissors that are not kindergarten proof.</p>
<p>Sounds like the fight may have started before the bleaching, that the bleaching was in retaliation for something else – maybe mixing lights with darks.</p>
<p>That is just terrible. I can’t imagine anyone going to that extreme in a dispute, let alone over the laundry. I would expect more of students of the calibur who can be admitted to BC. I guess nobody is immune from criminal acts of behavior!</p>
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<p>You do have to wonder, eh? Then again, I met my hubby while doing the laundry in my dorm my freshman year. Who knew?</p>
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<p>Pretty bad story. At my college you would find all your best clothes missing if you didn’t watch your dryer. I still wonder who stole my cotton socks, but carefully put my undies back in the dryer.</p>
<p>^lol…especially appropriate anecdote from the 'Wash’Dad… ;)</p>
<p>I find it interesting that some of the same people who are up in arms about “theme parties” and how destructive to people’s self esteems they are can very cavalierly joke about a stabbing at one of our nation’s finest colleges. I think a kid getting so out of control over some bleached items that he/she feels the need to STAB somebody else is a bigger issue. But, that’s just me…</p>
<p>Well…I think what is being expressed is more incredulous disbelief than humor ag. But it is funny that 'wash’dad had his clothes stolen which is completely unrelated to the stabbing at BC. I don’t think anyone made fun of the BC kids though. And nothing was said that isn’t true, people get rude and hostile in the laundry room for some reason…from stealing clothes to a new low of violence.</p>
<p>But I dare say, there is likely a backstory between the two girls who were fighting at BC. </p>
<p>And you are really stretching it with the theme party comparison imho.</p>
<p>More details:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/02/27/stabbing_followed_feud_over_laundry/[/url]”>http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/02/27/stabbing_followed_feud_over_laundry/</a></p>
<p>Interesting…the laundry incident occurred 8 days before the stabbing and tensions had been high for the last two weeks according to those who knew the girls. Was there no system of intervention in place?</p>
<p>ldgirl had an erratic roommate last semester and we know from personal experience how disconcerting this can be. Of course, violence was never an issue in my d’s situation, but when a roommate starts showing signs of extreme stress and unpredictability, you worry.</p>
<p>Ugh. Horrible. Glad no one was killed!</p>
<p>that seems like we must not know the backstory
in my D dorm- she often was forgetful about laundry and would find it neatly stacked on the table, after she had forgotten to either take it out of , or even put into the dryer.
I guess there are some advantages to wearing the same clothes you did in high school- certainly not covetable;)</p>
<p>Even when we didn’t have a washer and dryer- ( for over a year) while most people wouldn’t put money in the dryer so you could finish your load-at our local laundromat, they would either put it in a basket or a table- never would dump it on the floor…
When we finally bought both a washer & dryer- I think when D was a sophomore- she was so excited and told her friends- " ya … " they said… " and?" :D</p>
<p>( once I was used to going to the laundromat- it wasn’t bad- I could get the laundry done much faster- much larger dryers & I was forced to sit for an hour or so and read and relax-of course schlepping it in and out of the car was a drag- but not as bad as last summer when D lived in a house without laundry facilities and they didn’t have a car- so I believe they used a wagon 
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<p>Yes, it seems the ante certainly has been upped these days when it comes to disagreements on campus between students. Retribution is the order of the day. In my days on campus, when one guy commandeered 6 washers simultaneously for his own load of laudry, we just rolled our eyes and gave him dirty looks.</p>
<p>what shocked me the most was that the student who did the stabbing was ony suspended. Maybe that is an intermediate step before the college dismisses a student. However, I still think suspension is ridiculous – even if you assume the most positive case for the stabber, i.e. that she just happened to be carrying the knife, for innocent reasons, and that the attack wasn’t premeditated…and even if she felt threatened by the stabbed student… attack with a deadly weapon should be a zero-tolerance, no-excuse reason for immediate dismissal.</p>
<p>Spork!?! That’s hilarious!!!</p>