Well yes, but if he's going to do something like this it's not like he's even taking advantage of the situation that he has himself in right now.
What made you reach this conclusion? Mining would take advantage of the situation, so how do you figure that he wouldn't be taking advantage of the situation?
He does have an advantageous situation when it comes to mining for free, but if he does on a bigger scale to even really make it worthwhile HE'S GOING TO SCREW SOMETHING UP PRETTY BAD -- the school won't be happy.
It doesn't seem like anybody is talking about doing it on a large scale. We are not turning the entire dormitory into a mining rig. It was simply suggested that OP build a desktop computer with a high end GPU or two, this would be a decent start to mining and there's no way the administration would disallow you to run your own computer. The school wouldn't know any different from simply running a desktop computer.
So yeah, I guess if you want to try it try it with a few cards at first. See how that goes. Let us know
You just said so much against this user mining and now your conclusion is waiting for the outcome. I'm very confused.