Apparently, today’s dorm meeting revealed the worst of the recent trend in hostilities – there were apparently people near tears, and the housemaster was visibly upset. There are allegations that a particular floor embezzled $2,600 from the dorm under the guise of a particular drinking party, and a good portion of hostilities exchanged today were about inappropriate handling of an audit of dorm and floor money matters. To top it off, one of the floor chairs was successfully impeached and removed from office following his unpopular opposition to the appointment of a second auditor who was not politically linked to the accused floor in question, on the grounds of dorm constitutional law. I’ve known, ever since becoming acquainted with finances, that corruption begins here, on the small scale, justifying robbery as being “for the floor.” “For the floor” then becomes “for my friends” and then “for my family” and, at long last, “for myself.” Even if it means changing the law to do so, we have to stub out corruption – it is almost too late, if it is true that about 10% of the dorm’s budget suddenly became a bonus to the most undeserving floor.
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