We've managed to do quite well (Score 1)

Actually, we've managed to do quite well at our dorm. Ateneo de Manila University has the first wired dormitory in the Philippines, and it's all because of student volunteers. We don't get paid anything for it and only the officers get free Net access, but it's a lot of fun.

We do our own software development, working with PHP, Perl, Java, and a few other cool things. It's a terrific opportunity to develop our skills in network administration and programming. We've even done some outsourced projects.

We get a lot of volunteers and we do our own training, which usually means that newbies get a quick walkthrough and some pointers about documentation.

So let's take those points one by one..

1. Be vindictive to other students in the dorm

   Who, us? Let's see. Occasionally people blatantly break the rules, like when they port-swap or download banned images, but we handle those cases rationally.

   I don't think there has yet been a case of abuse of power around here. If there were, then the other sysads would probably step in and reprimand the person. We're all in the dorm, anyway. It's rather hard to hide, yes? =)

2. Do something illegal like script kiddying themselves to a DoS

   Okay. Sysadmining is a matter of trust. Only a few people have shell accounts and (naturally) even fewer have root. Script kiddies are dealt with harshly because it's clearly prohibited by our policies. One of the sysads goes over to the script-kiddie's room and has a niiiice, long talk with him/her. People who misbehave even with the warning get taken off the network.

3. Fill bandwidth with quake and/or MP3's and have other students be completely powerless against loss of bandwidth

   Hmm. Lots of people play Counterstrike over the network, and it does tend to cause a lot of collisions. =) But the network's still pretty fast. We don't shape packets to.. discourage.. these things.

4. Be very unprofessional and unable to fix problems quickly, and finally

   You give students too little credit. =) Network problems are fixed as soon as the responsible sysad is free (we have people assigned to certain locations). Activating someone's account takes one day. Network troubleshooting - depends on the kind of problem, of course.

   We don't do computer maintenance, since the students are in charge of that. We keep the network up and running, and we look for ways to improve it. We try to avoid problems whenever possible. =)

5. Not be organized enough because of the high level of turnaround in students (every four years!).

   That's why training is very important. The seniors will be graduating soon, but other people are being trained. We place a lot of emphasis on creating a low-maintainance, hassle-free system that makes it easier for succeeding batches to admin the network.

I'm sorry, I think this would be either free labor for the university

You got that right. But it's fun and it's experience and it's a cool excuse to work with Linux and all sorts of other nifty things. I get to meet other geeks. I like that. =) or a free for all for students who wouldn't care about the users. Well, that part I'd disagree with. Although we're there to keep the network running, our job's really to help people connect.

I really don't mean to troll nor am I bitter about dorm living, I just haven't met many cool dorm student representitives.

Ah, don't worry about that. Maybe you're just looking in the wrong place. =)