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...recent theft of an Oriental rug from the Straus Hall common room has led to a debate of the merits of collective responsibility. Unable to find the thief, the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) has decided to divide the cost of replacing the rug among all Straus residents. The FDO made a similar decision a few weeks earlier, charging all Wigglesworth residents for damage done to the common room. While the FDO may claim that collective responsibility fosters a sense of community among the residents, communities formed under such circumstances rapidly degenerate into factions. The students against the Faculty...
...Undergraduate Council proposed paying for the cost of the oriental rug but is still considering its options. Even if the council absorbs the cost of the rug, it will merely be robbing Peter to pay Paul. Whether the Straus residents or the council pay for the rug, many students will pay for the transgression of an unknown perpetrator...
...anonymous pair of thief and vandal might have come from within the ranks. If the perpetrators are assumed to be residents of Straus and Wigglesworth, the FDO's policy has the deleterious effect of making student police their neighbors. Rather than supporting a sense of community, collective responsibility necessitates vigilance and suspicion. Indeed the bills mailed to Wigglesworth residents told the unlucky recipients that they could avoid the charge if they were to become informants...
...last meeting of its 16th spring session, the Undergraduate Council reprimanded the administration for assigning financial responsibility for a rug stolen from the Straus Hall Common Room to the dorm's residents...
...Anyone could have stolen that rug," said Straus resident William P. Bohlen '01. "It is unfair to punish residents of Straus for something that was more than likely done by an outsider...