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drop in housing queues - The reason for this is not that we have been able to give these students apartments, it’s simply that we have «cleaned up» the lists, says Director of SiO Housing Tom Olstad. According to Olstad, applicants who do not get in touch within 50 days fall out of the system. This «cleaning up» is done in order to get more genuine waiting lists... Mystery
outbreak causes Canadian University to shut down Public health officials have been asked by university officials to investigate the outbreak. "They spent three hours on campus and they haven't found anything that leads them to suspect anything in terms of food, but they think that it's Norwalk-type virus," said Sheila Blagrave, the university's spokeswoman... College
students, tell your story in your words “Making our town your town” is the slogan for the College Town Web site, www.collegetownpa.com, developed by college students in the Williamsport area. Students are encouraged to submit essays or columns to their school’s public relations department on a topic of their choice... Wisconsin
retailer Fair Indigo targets 'tree huggers' Fair Indigo, a start-up retailer in Middleton, Wis., recently mailed 250,000 catalogs offering "fair-trade" apparel to a list that includes people who drive hybrid cars, listen to National Public Radio or have bought socially conscious mutual funds. Not surprisingly, a lot of those people live in college towns like Madison, Wis., Austin, Texas, Chapel Hill, N.C., and Boulder, Colo. Another mailing of equal size will go out in mid-November... Global
Cafe serves up culture Each week, a different cultural group prepares food. Lillian Odongo, a graduate instructional assistant student from Kenya, found it to be a bit difficult to find spices for a native dish for a previous African-themed Global Cafe... Residents:
College’s housing plans moving too slow "Boston College should commit to house all undergraduates on campus by 2010," the letter said. "Approximately 1,250 students live in off-campus apartments and houses. Their presence in residential housing stock plays a role in fueling escalating rents and home prices in Allston-Brighton; their presence also raises quality-of-life concerns for residents." ... "The neighborhood doesn’t have time for you to solve your undergrad housing problem," Carragee responded... UGA
to try tests for booze The university has been chosen as one of several schools to try out "Back on TRAC" (Treatment, Responsibility and Accountability on Campus) - an alcohol intervention and rehabilitation program designed for college campuses, said Pat Daugherty, UGA's assistant vice president of student affairs... New
Orleans’ Historically Black Colleges Fight to Recover The schools are renowned for producing thousands of pharmacists, musicians, and business leaders in a city that was largely Black and mostly poor. Michael L. Lomax, former president of Dillard, now president and chief executive officer of the United Negro College Fund, said, “Dillard and Xavier, in combination with Southern, have helped ensure that there is stable Black middle class, as well as professionally trained leaders who have been important not only to the African-American community, but to the city as well,” Lomax said. “And right now, those groups are at risk.”... New
urbanism promises to transform downtown Waco Longtime Waco businessman Tom Salome, who has spearheaded raising $4.7 million for the new chamber building and the hiring of new chamber staffers, said Thursday that goal is within reach. Salome remembers the teeming Austin Avenue of 50 years ago, before stores and movie theaters moved to the suburbs. He thinks it is ripe for redevelopment... Seminar
seeks to ease rifts between universities, towns They spent the day brainstorming how to ease historic tensions between the "town" -- the university host city -- and the "gown" -- the students and faculty... Apartment
complex to affect on-campus housing Kiebler Properties have set tentative plans to build an apartment complex called the Slippery Rock Quadrangle to be located adjacent to campus. But this isn't an ordinary two-bedroom shoebox with a bathroom-sized kitchen; these apartments are set to contain a game room, caf?, fitness center, study rooms, a computer center, clubhouse and visitor parking. Throwing a plethora of amenities into the mix certainly sounds tempting to all students. While freshmen must live on campus, this proposal will offer a significant number of new options to second-year students and beyond. Throughout the years, one convenience of living on campus has been access to campus facilities... President Robert Smith vowed to make SRU a more residential campus. The university is in the midst of a multi-phase, expensive housing project. The expense not only applies for the construction, but for present and future students who live there. With the new apartment complex, forking over nearly $3,000 to live in an on-campus residential suite suddenly seems less intriguing... We at The Rocket feel that SRU's plan for a stronger campus community may go up in smoke if steps aren't taken to remain competitive. Lowering the cost of the residential suites and establishing groundbreaking student participation opportunities, specific for each residential community, would go a long way in promoting stronger student interest. Competition is coming, and SRU needs to be prepared... Pet-friendly
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Dorms Being Upgraded To Attract Students One North Texas university is already ahead of the game and there are more changes in campus living than ever before. "It's very secluded and we have our own space. It's really nice," said Katie Giangreco. Her life living on campus is anything but ordinary. Luxury
dorms No, University Center in Chicago's South Loop area doesn't look much like the dorms the students' parents lived in when they were college kids... City
Could Use Eminent Domain To Take NU Land Eugene Sunshine, NU's vice president of business and finance, told The DAILY last week that the city approached him more than a year ago about the land as the potential new home for the city's aging Civic Center. They've been involved in talks ever since. Cornell
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Ivies IvyLeak was started by "two former Ivy editors," according to the site, but the writers of IvyGate won't deign to even give the most basic description of themselves. Similar in tone as well as content, both blogs focus on covering the elements that, as IvyLeak phrases it, "the publications these two former Ivy editors used to run tagged ... as off-limits.".. Some particularly creative entries: "Faculty Studs and Tenured Temptresses of the Ivy League" is Ivyate's search for the most attractive professors. In case anyone was wondering, a Princeton professor won in the "Temptress" category. Meanwhile, IvyLeak is currently holding a contest calling for photos of the worst off-campus housing in the Ivy League. Entries featuring and mocking those undergrads with famous parents or book deals are also frequent. However, the websites also address more serious news in the academic world. IvyLeak, not bound by the U.S. News and World Report's request for a 24-hour prohibition on releasing its college rankings, posted the information a full day before any official media outlets or universities themselves. IvyGate responded to Harvard's decision to end early action with glee, calling the system "the grotesque province of hypercynical applicants bent on improving their own odds at the expense of the disadvantaged."... McMaster
eyes Burlington UWM
secures $100,000 housing grant The grant, given to the UWM Real Estate Foundation, is being put toward a $28.6 million, 119-unit student dormitory in the campus neighborhood. The new dorm, which will overlook the Milwaukee River, is set to house more than 400 UWM students. Limited housing continues to be a problem at UWM due to the fact that there are only three residence halls. Although the university provides enough housing for 3,000 students each year, about 27,000 students attend UWM... Turning
Plans Into Profit: Badgers Hit it Big With more personal business experience than most college students before he even applied to UW, Breneman had no intent to slow down once he got to the university. In March of his freshman year of college, Breneman bought his first house near Vilas Park in Madison; just two days later, he was dubbed a “financial wiz kid” in a nationally televised interview on the Home and Garden channel. Since then, Breneman bought two more campus-area houses and sold one for $50,000 more than he paid for it. “For the first time ever, I have a tenant who is younger than me,” he said, adding he fields calls from 20 tenants on a daily basis, just like any other landlord. Living for free on top of making money off his houses is a better situation than most students have with Madison housing, he acknowledged. But he said he keeps perspective, reminding himself that not everything works, and not everything comes easily... Costumes
invade local stores For guys, Filkins said the most popular costume is a beer keg. "You can actually pour beer in and drink out of it, or your beverage of choice," he said... Town
and gown “ A Community of Champions” was the theme for the university’s “ town and gown” luncheon, held at the Broyles Center on the north side of Reynolds Razorback Stadium. Banners representing 31 Northwest Arkansas cities were displayed on the walls of the Broyles Center to recognize their impact on the university... U.'s
expansion just one concern for East Side neighborhood associations Still, according to some members of the College Hill Neighborhood Association, outcry from neighbors has forced University administrators to consider the ramifications of off-campus expansion more seriously. "The Life Sciences Building was built in the wrong place," said Ronald Dwight '66, a CHNA board member, citing potential toxic waste emission from Frank Hall as one reason the building does not belong in a residential area... Art
project opens door to renewal in Oakland Just talk with the woman who's helping to revitalize it. "As a student, I avoided Fifth and Forbes (avenues)," said Oakland Business Improvement District Executive Director Georgia Petropoulos, who studied at the University of Pittsburgh in the mid-1980s. "It had a lot of graffiti. It had an enormous amount of litter ... It was a different Oakland." Recent years have been more kind to the neighborhood's business district, which an estimated 100,000 visitors pass through each day on their way to colleges, hospitals, stores and restaurants. Families lounge in Schenley Plaza. Students fill bustling streets and cafes. The facades of shops are adorned with murals instead of graffiti... Clemson
town-gown relationships topic of meeting The symposium is to focus on topics such as economic development of college The event is scheduled to take place at the Madren Conference Center
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pursues student market Oodle pursues student marketOodle, which styles itself as “the search engine for local classifieds”, sees great potential in the student market, especially in the lettings and jobs sectors. The new site is www.student.oodle.co.uk and it is starting with a network of 85 campus and college towns in the UK. The service includes house share, part-time jobs, second-hand furniture and other listings from popular classified sites such as eBay and Craigslist... COCC
ponders private dorm partnerships The COCC board gave approval to explore whether there is interest from private developers to create a public/private partnership as one possibility for building new residence halls. The timeline calls for construction to begin sometime in 2008, with completion in 2009... Negritude
2.0: Walking Away From It All: The New Great American Fantasy He hosted an evening of performances on the closing night of the African American Cross-Cultural Works (AACW) Blues Jazz and Culture Fest, on the campus of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. According to the Associated Press, he told the audience that this idyllic little village, an oasis of free-spirited progressives in a sea of red-state conservatism, was where he felt like home. “I used to be cable’s hottest star and now I’m just a Yellow Springs guy,” he said while serving as the evening’s emcee. “Turns out you don’t need $50 million to live around these parts, just a nice smile and a kind way about you. You guys are the best neighbors ever. ... That’s why I came back and that’s why I’m staying.”... Sport
is no longer life-and-death for him ``I like it here," he says. ``It's a beautiful area. I can finish the whole town in five minutes, 15 minutes. I like the quiet."... City,
UC step up with 'green' building A "green permitting" process, which bypasses bureaucratic holdups sending "green developers" to the front of the line, may be soon to follow... Six days after the ordinance passed, the United States Green Building Council visited the University of Cincinnati to present them with a plaque formalizing LEED certification of the new Steger Student Center. The student center is the first LEED-certified building in Cincinnati. Three more buildings at UC are set to apply for LEED certification later this month. The new student center uses local and recycled building materials, energy and water efficient appliances, reflective roofing materials, landscaping and natural lighting systems, all much more efficient than buildings that are simply built "to code."... Shop
expects 'sweet' sales "I thought about maybe opening a bar or pizza place," Pisapia said. "But there are so many places like that around here." Pisapia then came up with the idea of opening a candy store after noticing the demand for such a business was not being met in State College... Designation
wrong move for Maple-Ash Others would rather see coffeehouses multiply across the landscape, or watch hole-in-the-wall theaters, galleries and nightclubs sprinkle style, color and a dash of rowdiness to the surrounding neighborhoods. Still others seek high-end retail to attract well-to-do students and their parents, or high-tech incubators for businesses to foster the skills or entrepreneurial drive of students engaged in the industries of the future. Largely because of this wide range of visions, most university or college towns have a little of all of these features, evolving over time with students and the society they grew up in... GMH,
Capstone Finalize $223M Portfolio Deal The properties, each in a different state, contain an aggregate of 2,214 units with 7,194 beds, which puts the price tag at $100,722 a unit or $30,998 per bed. The University Crossings assets all sit within close proximity to the campuses they serve... Advisory
body opposes Central Campus plan The city's planning commission, a panel that advises the City Council on land-use and development issues, voted 7 to 4 to recommend rejection of the rezoning proposal. "I don't believe a university ought to be in the business of running a shopping center," said Caleb Southern, a planning commission member... Rivers
touts FVSU's improvements to regents One plan for the university is to fix up the corridor on State University Drive leading to the campus. The university is working with the city and the county to create a commercial zone, demolish old buildings and improve the aesthetics of the area... Senior
apartments first of three major construction projects Choose
quality over quantity with admissions With more students, however, can come more problems. The first of these problems is finding housing for these additional students. The dorms have been packed, and the addition of halls like Lincoln, which holds a mere 320 students, just isn't enough. When students are forced to reside in their residence halls' lounges as temporary housing, there is a serious problem regarding space. Off-campus housing is also suffering. Because building more apartments is expensive, landlords instead convince students that living in a wee attic three miles from campus for some extravagant price is actually a great deal... The
main (street) man Earlier this year Bishop took on the position of executive director of the Ellensburg Downtown Association, having worked a similar job in Walla Walla for the past 10 years. For many Ellensburg residents, Walla Walla is a hopeful vision of the city's future - a college town that survived big-box retail on its outskirts and reinvested in its historic downtown core... SVSU
rushes to build more dorms The project was drafted and approved with unusual urgency for the school. Its unprecedented growth comes largely from a spike this year in freshmen enrollment. A record 1,450 of them are taking classes at the university, up nearly 15 percent from last year... 4200
Pine: New Homeownership Opportunities in University City
“Excellent,” “fabulous,” “fun,” “I like the music, the people and most of all the food,” “a fantastic celebration of Newark,” were the opinions of just a few of the 800 people who bought tickets for the third annual Taste of Newark celebration. Under clear blue skies in 74-degree temperatures, attendees sampled exotic offerings from Newark's purveyors of fine food and drink, listened to the Caribbean tunes of UD's Royal Palm Steel Band, watched the Juggling Hoffmans perform and got a cooking lesson from John Shield, author of Chesapeake Bay Cooking. There was a silent auction with 47 items, a raffle and a replica of UD's Old College building made of 3,100 carnations, mums and Gaelic leaves by the owner of Kirk's Flowers, John Mayer, and his five-person crew... Heritage
Square change backed Stewart was alluding to a pending city-sponsored replacement of the Rolling Hills townhouse complex, across Lakewood Avenue from Heritage Square, and to the Durham Housing Authority's coming sale of the 200-unit Fayette Place apartment complex to a Philadelphia developer who intends to knock it down and build privatized student housing in its place... Profiling
the Certificate Student Among the findings of “Consumer Preferences for Certificate Programs,” a survey of more than 1,800 students, is that program participants see earning a certificate as a means to a practical end. Nearly half of respondents said a certificate would help facilitate a career change or allow them to fulfill a continuing education requirement in their field of employment... Yale's
Plans Greeted Warmly Now, Yale is moving to build something big - possibly more dorms - behind Grove Street Cemetery, and this time the city is all for it. Taking a break from the campaign trail this week, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. uttered words that would have once been unthinkable: "I generally think the growth of the campus is a very good thing."... US:
Survey Identifies Baby Boomers Eager To Relive College Days The survey, conducted by Campus Continuum of Newton, Mass., is designed to gauge the level of interest in the concept of living in “a community of active life-long learners affiliated with an academic institution.” Survey results are helping the firm determine sites for campus communities which it will build and operate... Mont
Alto campus enrollment up 13 percent The increase in enrollment has pushed university housing to its limits, according to a school news release. Cieri said 451 students reside in university housing, up from 440 last spring. The university was able to accommodate more students this year, Cieri said, by forcing resident assistants (RAs) who usually room alone, to double up. While Penn State Mont Alto is at capacity for on-campus housing, Gnage said at this point, more housing facilities are not in the 10-year plan, saying, "It looks like Penn State has housing facilities."... Students
outraged with visitation regulations As of now, on-campus residents are allowed no visitation rights in their rooms by visitors of the opposite sex... The inflexibility of Grambling's policy has begun to deter students from living on-campus altogether... Bryan
council to review roommate zoning The city has been inundated with requests since the council created a new zoning classification in April. The Residential Neighborhood Conservation zoning, also known as RNC, was launched in response to complaints that groups of unrelated adults, mostly college students, were sharing homes in residential neighborhoods - causing problems with traffic, noise and code violations... Sensible
partying goes a long way It's almost a given that you attend them and expected that, if you live in an off-campus apartment or house big enough to fit even a small crowd, you host them. And that's where students run into problems... To try and bridge that gap and cut down on the number of complaints as well as the number of students finding their way into the police blotter each weekend, last Thursday as a part of the University Task Force, Justin Jeffery, Undergraduate Student Senate senator for community affairs, and Dean of Students Greg Jarvie went door-to-door to talk to students about responsible partying. They're doing rounds in three areas well known for their parties - University Drive, College Avenue and Sherman Street - and dispensing information about responsibilities when hosting parties, how to react when police get involved and the consequences that could result from either of the above... 21-only
ordinance could be back "He was surprised we didn't have a 21-year-old ordinance," Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz said of a friend from Pittsburgh who recently brought his daughter for a campus tour. "So there are other ways of doing things around the country."... Alchohol
training. Come sober. Underage
Drinking Crackdown At The 'U' (video) Last weekend alone more than 500 young people near the University of Minnesota were cited for underage drinking and noisy assembly. WCCO-TV went along when teams of officers and busted house parties on two different September weekends. "Party patrol we call it," said Minneapolis Police Lt. Travis Glampe... Busted
Teen: Party Patrol Won't Stop Teen Drinking (video) "I got caught just being in the wrong place at the wrong time," said U of M student Tyler Kiedrowski, the 19-year-old featured in a WCCO report Sunday night. The Party Patrol caught up with him near the University of Minnesota, where some students called college-aged drinking a right of passage... "I could die in the Air Force but I get underage because I drink," said Kiedrowski, immediately after getting cited by the Party Patrol. "It's crazy!" Crowd
Rallies Against Evictions Seton
Hall Welcomes Families and Neighbors to Campus On Saturday, dubbed University Day, local runners participated in the 22nd annual Farinella 5K Run, which started at 9 a.m. Katie Roberts, a biology major from Philadelphia, was the overall winner for women, with a time of 20:35, and Benjamin Owen, a graduate student from Springboro, Ohio, won the men’s race with a time of 15:32, which broke the standing record and beat his own best time by 20 seconds... Rutgers
Is Vital to Downtown Turnaround. Of particular note are Rutgers-Newark’s plans to transform itself from a commuter to a residential campus. “More and more students, and indeed faculty and staff, are expressing an interest in living in a campus neighborhood,” says Steven Diner, provost of the Rutgers-Newark campus. “This is a major change. They find the campus area increasingly attractive. Of course, the more people who live downtown, the more attractive it will be.”... Lawmakers,
students rally for minimum-wage increase The rally near the Memorial Union was the first of 16 on a 10-day statewide tour that the Arizona Minimum Wage Coalition's "RaiseIt" bus is making this month. Amid shouts of "raise it" from the crowd of about 50 people, legislators called for passage of Proposition 202. If endorsed by Arizona voters Nov. 7, the proposition would raise the minimum wage from the federally mandated $5.15 per hour to $6.75 and adjust it annually for inflation. "This is the best thing for public policy, for Arizona, for all of us," said Rep. Meg Burton Cahill, D-Tempe. "It's the right thing to do."... Group
seeks area brand That is the question some in the local business community are mulling as they attempt to market this diverse region to companies and tourists alike. Among its goals for the future, the Thomas Jefferson Partnership for Economic Development is hoping to create a brand identity for Central Virginia “to establish greater commonality in how the area is presented,” the partnership wrote in its latest five-year strategic plan... Stars
out to battle drinking issues Ferentz and Katen-Bahensky were part of a task force of community leaders that spent about a year assessing the situation... Student
vote could decide referendum Grisham's
New Pitch The asset's name, of course, is John Grisham, author of relentlessly satisfying legal thrillers... Sides
feud about proposed Milledgeville ordinance The Georgia College & State University sophomore loves his convenient location across from campus, but he has a problem: The historic home he lives in houses six unrelated people. Under a proposed ordinance, that arrangement would not be allowed, and three people would have to move out, provided that the home is not rezoned and does not receive a variance... New
noise ordinance proposed in Shorewood The police department has noticed an increase in noise complaints over the past couple of years. There were 276 complaints in 2004, but this year complaints are already close to surpassing that number... According to Shorewood restrictions, a maximum of three unrelated persons are allowed to live within one household, but some landlords are not enforcing these restrictions. “We are requesting stiffer fines for this and fines if landlords even offer to rent to more than three,” Banaszynski said. Still, others are concerned over the deteriorating behavior, often attributed to UWM students, in Shorewood. Violations for property damage, profanity, drinking and other behavioral issues have risen steadily, prompting the police department to search for answers. The ordinance is not meant to be specifically aimed at the UWM student body, however.. College
town has plenty to offer Whatever you know about Iowa State University, know this: Its central campus is as lovely as they come... Kendal
residents from Granville and Oberlin cheer on their respective football
teams About 12 residents from Kendal at Oberlin and Kendal at Granville came together to watch and cheer on their respective college teams -- the Oberlin College Yeomen and the Denison University Big Red... ''I'm a new resident,'' Breese said of her time at Kendal. ''But I'm into it.'' She cited the history, people, small town, and the college as some of her favorite things about Oberlin. ''I do like being in a college town because of the advantages and the positive things the college kids do,'' she said. ''It gives you a feeling there's hope for the world.''... Neighbors IUS
to pitch on-campus student housing He said the school feels more like a university now, with more students able to take part in campus life. Professors "love to have housing students in class," he added, because they tend to be "more engaged in the class, and more likely to participate."... Last month, the trustees approved a $20.3million proposal to house about 400 students at Indiana University South Bend, a campus Chancellor Una Mae Reck said long has needed housing because it draws students from outside the area... Alumni:
Moving frats will cost UGA donors The Chi Phi house, built in 1929, is one of five fraternity houses on Lumpkin that university officials have told fraternity leaders to vacate by June 1, 2008, to make way for academic buildings...
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