WASHINGTON – Senior Danielle Gomez took a position as an RA at George Washington University’s Thurston Hall for the first time this fall, excited to guide freshmen through a difficult transition into college. She was, however, appalled, just appalled to see so many students on her floor participating in underage drinking.

“Coming from the big city, I’m not really familiar with people breaking the rules,” Gomez explained in an email to the Ax. “But as I became an RA, I see laws broken almost every night as students throw themselves down the bottle.”

Ms. Gomez noted other rule-breaking problems across campus, including students’ unwillingness to obey basic traffic laws.

Other RAs have mentioned similar concerns to Housing Directors. Gram Haro, a second-time RA working in Potomac Hall showed the Ax a collection of confiscated alcoholic bottles. “These are 40 proof or above — nothing else is acceptable, but I’m still shocked, shocked at the underage drinking,” Haro said last week.

More freshman students around the Washington, DC campus have expressed similar feelings; student Dean Farok was flabbergasted and frightened by the copious amount of alcoholic consumption in his dorm. In a heartfelt Facebook message to his mom, he typed out: “I’m aghast at the drinking. Aghast.”

Professors too have joined the panic train. The university’s entire History department today signed a letter addressed to President Knapp listing out their astonishment at the sheer number of underage drinkers at GW and threatening a boycott until further measures are taken to prevent this in future.