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Campus profit rises on acquisitions Net profit rose to $22.6 million, or 98 cents a share, from $3.9 million, or 22 cents a share in the same period a year ago. Funds from operations rose to $12.3 million, or 48 cents a share, from $8.1 million, or 47 cents a share ... Student
flats for the 21st century But when Gordon Brown came to open the £39.7 million development on Friday he faced protests from students who say the new superdigs have forced up rents. Both the National Union of Students and Unipol, the student housing charity, say a lack of affordable housing is causing real hardship among students. And they warn that the "privatisation" of student halls of residents and a trend towards luxury housing is forcing up costs and driving poorer students out of education ... Beyond
the Dorm Room "This study is intentionally comprehensive," said University Planning Associate Christine Thompson. "It is not a study of residence halls (or) graduate housing. That's the big difference of this study versus other improvements and things that have been done in the past." ... UniverCity
Connections making progress But after four meetings, the potential outcomes of UniverCity Connections have begun to materialize. The project, created by the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado and supported by the city, Colorado State University and the Downtown Development Authority, is intended to grow the connection between campus, downtown Fort Collins and the Poudre River area. How that goal will be achieved is up to the UniverCity volunteers, 120 to 150 of the area’s most successful entrepreneurs, university officials, local politicians, city leaders and culturat ..i. New
ordinance assigns value to every resident We're a university town. We value students. We also value families, young professionals and retirees. To meet the needs of each and be responsible environmental stewards, it's time to update some ordinances, and a draft has been proposed. It also stipulates fines, but for most nuisances, we expect to continue issuing warnings and compliance opportunities before citations ... Tuttle
appointed to national town-gown committee Under the umbrella of the National League of Cities (NLC), the oldest and largest organization representing municipal governments in the United States, UCC is a voluntary group of elected officials from municipalities with a university or institution of higher education within the city limits or nearby ... Baylor
University students should have another housing option by this fall
Video Brooks Village off I-35 in Waco will include flats and the new Brooks Residential College. The 252,000 square foot addition features a chapel, library and an 800 car parking garage .... Wilberforce
was a hero Duke
Should Reduce Campus Drinking, Change Culture The committee report said that social life at Duke is too often organized around drinking, and that the ``risk of another alcohol-related death in the Duke community is very real.'' It suggested the Durham, North Carolina, university should alter campus social life to include more non-alcohol events and venues ... Caretakers
of the past Like a living time capsule, the neighborhoods north of Oregon State University have managed to retain old-fashioned traditions such as family dinners, close-knit communities and popping next door to borrow a cup of sugar. Walking through College Hill, College Hill West, North College Hill and Cedarhurst, the emphasis on friendliness is evident ... QPac
grows in North Haven As Yale mulls over how to build new colleges while not ruffling any neighborhood feathers, a few miles up Whitney Avenue, Quinnipiac is in the midst of doing the same — and for Hamden residents, it can’t happen quickly enough. As the school’s size has grown, so have the concerns of its increasingly vocal neighbors. But Quinnipiac administrators, town government officials and local residents said that those concerns, bubbling steadily over the years, have finally started to recede. As the university moves to build new dormitories, students living off campus will be allowed to move back into school housing and restore peace and quiet to local neighborhoods in the process ... Adapting:
The changing face of housing near PSU The series at large: Alongside the departure of College Housing Northwest from PSU housing, the university is working to expand University Housing to accommodate an increased demand for housing close to Portland State. Over the next three days, the Vanguard will examine the current state of downtown housing, the future of University Housing, and the history and departure of College Housing Northwest at Portland State. Portland State students are increasingly being forced out of affordable apartments near the university because of luxury condominium conversions and construction ... Off-campus
real estate still booming audio Furor
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Die in BU Fire, Candles Blamed After battling the blaze, firefighters found two people in apartment 621, later identified to be BU undergraduates Rhiannon L. McCuish of Mashpee, Mass., and Stephen Adelipour of Great Neck, N.Y., dead at the scene. Both were 21 .... 'Raising
the bar' brings in the bank Sometimes customers tip her with spare change or don't leave anything, but she takes it all in stride. "I think Penn State students think they are good tippers," she said with a laugh. "I don't think people think about it too much. They don't realize that this job is helping pay for me to go to school." ... They're
seeing red over blacktop Landlord Michael Mazzola recently black-topped the front lawn of the single-family home to provide off-street parking for his tenants, a step he says was necessary to comply with an ordinance designed to keep renters' cars from clogging neighborhood streets ... Jerry
Springer U. The university hasn’t issued any statement about the event because — however upsetting the incident was to many — doing so could undercut education efforts, Crisp said. “I think a lot of this is generational. These students live in a very different generation, and a very public, open generation, with Facebook and other sites,” he said. “We don’t want to do something so we just have the students coming out and saying that we are the old people who don’t understand anything.” ... Burlington
Zoning Expands Housing Limit The Buell Street area adjacent to the downtown is known as a student neighborhood and has some of the highest density housing in the city. But Burlington's new zoning and subdivision rules could cut down some of that density. It would allow no more than four unrelated adults to live in a single-family house in the "RH" district, standing for residential-high density. The rule already applies to other neighborhoods. City Councilor Tim Ashe and his fellow Progressives oppose the expansion ... UB
officials concerned over plans for Amherst off-campus housing To show their concern, UB representatives will offer testimony on the proposed student apartment project at a public hearing scheduled for 7:30 p.m. today before the Amherst Town Board, Dennis R. Black, UB vice president of student affairs, said. University officials were not asked to appear at two earlier public hearings on similar projects that now house more than 2,200 students a short distance north on Chestnut Ridge Road. They did send written comments ... Preserving
roots This is the second installment in the Gazette-Times’ yearlong series, “Where We Live,” focusing on Corvallis neighborhoods Having a father who’s a journalist and avid photographer has distinct advantages, as evidenced by the albums upon albums of snapshots, cards and poems Barbara Weber has chronicling her childhood. Weber, whose maiden name is Burtner, was born at Corvallis General Hospital in 1931. She grew up north of campus, in the area now considered College Hill. “There were lots of children in the neighborhood. We all got along really well. We used to play games in the evenings, especially in the summertime. We played kick the can and jump rope,” said Weber, 75. With its maple-lined streets, compact lots, pedestrian-friendly atmosphere and eclectic architecture ranging from Tudor to Colonial to bungalow to whatever was popular at the time, the area abutting campus to the north was as popular a place to raise a family decades ago as it is today. Weber spent her first years living on Northwest 23rd Street and Jackson
Avenue, which today falls within the North College Hill neighborhood boundary
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Battlefield heritage West
Village plans in place The West Village housing complex, along Towsontown Boulevard and Osler Drive, will eventually house 3,000 students, according to the campus master plan. Phase one includes two residence halls with a total of 650 beds. They are expected to open in Fall 2008 ... Phase two of the village includes another traditional residence hall and one apartment complex. The four buildings will form a central quad for the complex. If the village is completed as planned it will take at least eight years and will almost double the current number of on-campus residents (3,400) ... University
Village—a concrete beginning A new project manager has been hired to oversee the development of the faculty and staff housing project. Local architects Mogavero Notestine Associates have been hired for preliminary site planning and concept sketches, and Economic and Planning Systems are on track to release a feasibility study of the potential type, size and cost of the homes. The 25-acre, Ramona Avenue site will eventually have several hundred new single- and multi-family homes, as well as parks and community facilities. Demolition of peripheral buildings occurred at the site at the end of January ... Students
give service agencies a hand This year’s theme was “Service Is Good.” CSI is a project of the College Town consortium, a collaboration of the institutions of higher education in Spartanburg County ... A
Whole Block On Fire "At 1:22, the entire block was ablaze," Bricknell said. Residents of the neighborhood just north of Wichita State University were evacuated as firefighters battled the blaze throughout the afternoon ... In
search of the proper niche Even college towns like Athens haven't been immune to the trend. The Hobbit Habit, Old Black Dog, Books Galore, The Book Center and Blue Moon Books, all colorful chapters of Athens long history of book businesses, succumbed to market pressures ... Apartment
businesses find success by catering to niches Many of those apartments market and cater to Ball State students, and that's good news to neighborhoods closer to the university, said Eric Kelly, a professor of urban planning. "There's been a tremendous increase in apartments in the past few years as there's been a shift in the market," Kelly said. "We've seen a lot of students who used to rent houses near campus move to these complexes with clubhouses and wireless Internet ... Columbia
launches land-grab plan But the elite school isn't the only party worried about its future. Faced with the threat of forced evictions, eminent domain and the wrecking ball minority residents and employees in the thinly populated neighborhood are fighting back ... Drinking
policy yet to deter The vast majority of the 651 UGA student arrests in 2006 were for underage drinking, having a fake ID, DUI or public drunkenness. UGA and Athens-Clarke County police records obtained through the state's open records law show that officers arrested UGA students just as often at the end of the year as at the beginning, when UGA administrators launched new strategies to curb bad behavior. Though they haven't seen overwhelming results yet, UGA officials still think tough sanctions - along with old-fashioned tattle-telling to students' parents - can shrink the number of hard-core partiers ... Popular
zoning ordinance lacks bite Since a new zoning designation was created in April, almost 30 Bryan neighborhoods have petitioned for the residential neighborhood conservation zoning, also known as "RNC," which says no more than two unrelated residents can share a single-family home. Supporters of the zoning say it's "self-policing," and it doesn't matter that it's difficult to prove how many people reside in a residence. It sends a message that Bryan won't tolerate the nuisances that sometimes arise when several college students rent a home in a residential neighborhood, according to a councilman who championed the ordinance ...
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