Dangerous indeed. I’m about to turn 50, but my memories of dorm life remain crystal clear. In the room next door to me my freshman year, an idiot was making moonshine at night in his homemade woodfired still. His dad was a congressman, so when he was caught he quietly left rather than being kicked out. There was a bookie who made thousands a week on sports betting. There were dope smoking potheads who watched soaps and played electric guitars non-stop. There were thieves who would steal anything not nailed down or padlocked. Girls were easily snuck in for insane sex parties too filthy to describe. All of that and much more is largely why my daughter is still homeschooled instead of starting college early.
Yep...we’re getting old, but at least those of us that lived in dorms are now able to understand what they have become. Back when our parents went to college (if they did), many decades ago, dorms were segregated by sex and run like a military camp. Our parents likely had no clue as to what they had become by the time we went - and if they had known, many would have looked at other options. These days at least some of us do know.
By the way, we had a guy that was so into sports betting (not sure if he was a bookie or not), that I named him “Point Spread” and EVERYONE called him that afterwards - as that seemed much more important to him that which teams won or lost.