How bad does your dorm room have to stink for you to not notice the smell of a rotting corpse across the hall? I would also ask the dorm RA why he didn’t notice or care. In the dorms that I lived in, the campus cops would also do random walk-throughs. What about the maintenance superintendent? Lots of people not doing their job here.
I can only imagine what the room must have smelled like when they finally opened the door...................