1.   As part of their training, upper-class students who are chosen to supervise dorms as resident assistants are taught how to keep very drunk students alive.

2.   Across from the ice machine on each floor of the Howard Johnson, a bulletin board lists the BU on-call resident assistant.

3.   Conversations between parents, students and the dean, counselors and peer resident assistants can help those pained by being away from home.

4.   False alarms ring so often in Boland Hall, they said, that students often ignore them or try to hide from resident assistants sweeping the floors.

5.   Go to the resident assistant, housing department, or dean of students?

6.   In addition, resident assistants are taught how to evacuate the dormitories, she said.

7.   Resident assistants say they already worry that students are trying to do too much with their time.

8.   Schools instruct their dormitory resident assistants to watch out for signs of depression and suicide.

9.   She said she and her roommates waited at their third-floor window until resident assistants came with a ladder.

10.   Taylor has been dismayed to learn of some parents asking resident assistants in dormitories where their newly enrolling son or daughter can get fake IDs to buy booze.