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Well today I returned to my dorm room after lunch and to my surprise, my resident adviser and an area coordinator(AC) were in my dorm without my or any of my roommate's permission. Turns out it was an "unannounced health inspection" which is allowed by the school. Anyway, the AC points out 7 spiders in containers in my dorm, including 2 Ceratogyrus darlingi and 1 Psalmopoeus cambridgei. The other spiders include 2 wolf spiders and an agelenid, which were all found inside this same exact dorm building, the agelenid was actually found in the room we were all standing in!
Then he went on to tell me that since they are not "freshwater fish in a tank of 10 gallons or less" that they have to go immediately, even though I lack a car and home is over an hour away.
Luckily I have a temporary home set up for them until I can get them again, but seriously this is outrageous. All of my roommates were comfortable with them and even found them cool, and now they gotta go. I am very outraged at this and the campus rules. The AC even told me that ast night there were reports of a smell(which was a caterpillar given to me by a professor that died of parasitism) and tips that I may be keeping stuff(based on the fact that I disposed of this caterpillar), and those were enough to do a "health inspection." I don't know why they'd do an unannounced health inspection...do they expect to catch a cold virus snooping through the dorms? I understand that suspicious smells are a reason to be concerned, but considering the fact that the RA was right at the door last night as I explained to my roommates that it was a dead caterpillar given to me by a professor. He even laughed about it! Why no just have said something there and then? Idk...I'm petitioning this "no pets besides fish" on campus rule. There's nothing wrong with pet spiders or rats or snakes(just a few pets I've seen other people have in their dorms).
Then he went on to tell me that since they are not "freshwater fish in a tank of 10 gallons or less" that they have to go immediately, even though I lack a car and home is over an hour away.
Luckily I have a temporary home set up for them until I can get them again, but seriously this is outrageous. All of my roommates were comfortable with them and even found them cool, and now they gotta go. I am very outraged at this and the campus rules. The AC even told me that ast night there were reports of a smell(which was a caterpillar given to me by a professor that died of parasitism) and tips that I may be keeping stuff(based on the fact that I disposed of this caterpillar), and those were enough to do a "health inspection." I don't know why they'd do an unannounced health inspection...do they expect to catch a cold virus snooping through the dorms? I understand that suspicious smells are a reason to be concerned, but considering the fact that the RA was right at the door last night as I explained to my roommates that it was a dead caterpillar given to me by a professor. He even laughed about it! Why no just have said something there and then? Idk...I'm petitioning this "no pets besides fish" on campus rule. There's nothing wrong with pet spiders or rats or snakes(just a few pets I've seen other people have in their dorms).
