Legally, the ex-con should be able to live in the dorms and live a free and fullfilling life. No issue there. Ethically, if you had a son or daughter aged 17-18 would you be comfortable with them living, the first time out of your house and into the "real world", learning life's basics from a 40+ year old ex and current criminal?!? Besides being creepy its just wrong. The university should have done some research and paired him up with another non-traditional student who was 30+ yrs old. True Freshman/Sophmores are still children. As such, they need their peers to mature with, not some grizzled ex-con to "show them the ropes." Everyone deserves a fair shake in life. This ex-felon guy does deserve a 2nd chance. University life did provide that. It also provided a criminal who was not reformed easy access to distractions.The university should of handled his placement better AND he shouldn't have committed more crimes. The living situations in the dorms should try to place like people (i.e. age, sex) with like people. ~Chris