Strange things have happened in the nightlife of the campus dorms.

Situations arise in those buildings that would make your stomach churn and your eyes widen. Crickets, vomit, urine, and angry cab drivers are just a few elements that make up the bizarre college nights of UAF.

Kelly Gitter, a 22-year-old former resident assistant for Skarland and Lathrop Halls, has more than one story to top her list of her most bizarre nights in the dorms.

"Sometimes you get crappy situations that make things really hard, like fireworks, the K-9 unit, and drunk desk attendants all in the same night," she said.

In one night, she had to deal with residents that had been shooting off fireworks inside their dorm room, let the UAFPD K-9 unit in the building to search a hockey player's room for drugs, and write a situation report on an underage desk attendant who was caught drinking as soon as his shift was over.

"But sometimes you get really funny situations," Gitter said. "Like when the chronically drunk French girl forgot to pay her cabby because she was too wasted and he threatened to press charges. It's just hard to stay mad at somebody who's so drunk and happy."

Fortunately, one of the RAs in the building ended up paying the angry cab driver, Gitter said.

"And then you get things like waking up to find a trail of bright purple vomit leading down the hallway to the bathroom; it's just disgusting," she said. "It crashes you back down to reality."

Every freshman at orientation each year hears the same stories from the Residence Life staff. For instance, a freshman once allegedly kept his urine in bottles stacked in his room, until the smell was so strong that the resident director knocked on the door and discovered the unique collection.

Another story regularly told as a warning to freshman involves poop found in washing machines, pool table pockets, and plates in the kitchen microwave.

Alan Frizzel described his most memorable situation as the assistant resident director for Stevens Hall.

"There was a feud between some people in Stevens. One of them slipped crickets under the other's door one night," Frizzell said.

The entire hall was full of crickets for weeks, he said.

Rachel Polk, who lived in the building at the time, recalled the smell of the crickets.

"They were everywhere," she said. "By the second day, they started smelling and stunk to high heaven."

Adam Koegle, 24, was surprised in the laundry room of Stevens last year as an RA.

"I was going to put my laundry in the dryer and the lights were off, so I turned them on," he said. "The first thing I saw was a bare ass staring me in the face."

After ordering the two naked residents to put their clothes back on, he waited for them outside the laundry room, waiting for their explanation.

"It was a basketball player and his girlfriend screwing on a metal chair in the corner of the laundry room," he said.

The naked basketball player isn't the only incident of nudity in the dorms. Last year in Lathrop Hall a stripper walked the halls in nothing but a "tiny little thong and no shirt," said sophomore resident Xochitl Lopez-Ayala.

"We got a stripper for our friend Lexi's birthday," she said. "The only reason we got in trouble is that we were really loud and there were too many people in the room."

Two male residents approached the stripper offering $500 if she came back to their room, and ran down the halls yelling that there was a stripper in the building, said Lopez-Ayala, explaining that the yelling is what brought the RA, Blaine Dewalt, to the scene.

"Blaine kicked her out; there's even a video on YouTube.com of it," she said.

The stripper tried to convince Dewalt that she was a UAF student and a resident of Lathrop, she said.

"I got my camera out and started recording," she said. "The stripper kept trying to touch Blaine and get in his face."