Utah State University Residence Life Behind Closed Doors Prepared New RA 2016

Catie: I mean, yeah, sure, going through as a new RA is really kinda trippy, kind of feels like if you do it wrong, you’re gonna get fired. Which is dumb. But like, it feels very high stakes, especially since you’ve never dealt with an incident before. Well, I had, I guess, I did deal with an incident beforehand. But! That was a different circumstance.But uhm, I, they give you a list of all the scenarios that you’re gonna go through. When I did it, they gave you a list of like, you’re going to deal with quiets and a depressed resident and some other things. So, I go to take notes about what I wanted to do. And I got to pull up policies. They got that the year after I did BCDs. So when I did BCDS, I had a list of everything I got to do. And I got to prepare for it. So I wrote down my policies that I wanted to remember. And like, my, like, all my tones of voice, so I studied for it.Uhm, and then, the one I messed up the most, was uh, depressed resident? Uhm, no! It was sexual assault! And I was like, it’s up to you if you wanna report it or not. And apparently at that point in time, our policy was that we had to report it.Me: isn’t it our policy that we still have to report it? Cause Clery Act?Catie: Yeaaah. So we’re mandatory reporters. Yes. So yes, we still have to report it. And so I got in trouble for that. But like, I studied hard for those. Yeah, yeah.Me: Any other comments about going through BCDs?Catie: I remember Kassia was really terrible at acting drunk, especially since now I know how she acts when she’s drunk. But that was like, the biggest thing I remember is that I messed up my one thing, and then it’s also weird, like seeing your coworkers as like troublemakers. Because I don’t think of them as that way. Like you’re looking up to these people, and then they’re breaking the rules and you’re like, I have to pretend to have authority over you. And that was weird. That was probably the weirdest part, was pretending I had authority over these people that like, I thought of as my mentors.