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sites in running for college The 100-page study reviewed by The Herald examines four locations near Stanwood, one on Everett's riverfront and one each near Snohomish, Lake Stevens and the border between Snohomish and Skagit counties ... College
students spring into community service The 14 students, all of whom happened to be women, were a part of the first Colleges of the Fenway: Boston Immersion Alternative Spring Break , whose focus was youth empowerment in Roxbury and Mission Hill. The students split into two groups and spent five hours each day volunteering at Sociedad Latina , a program that helps youths develop leadership skills, and Roxbury Youth Programs, an afterschool program at the First Church of Roxbury ... Students
struggle with debt and hunger Australian National University vice-chancellor Ian Chubb said students deserved better and called for a "radical rethink" of financial support for university students. The Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee interviewed 19,000 students across Australia and issued the study this week. It found students were increasingly relying on work, loans and family money to get by as Federal Government support declined and food and housing costs soared ... HPU’s
landlocked no longer Not anymore. Lot by lot, the university has purchased more than 70 homes and parcels of land around the perimeter of the campus, increasing the university’s acreage by 40 percent ... Life
in a college town: Have a secret? Go ahead and post it Whatever the case, fear or embarrassment can keep these people from finding the help of a close friend to cope with the situation. But now secret holders around the world have a way to ease their anxiety. All they need is a postcard, something to write with and a little creativity ... Hidden
agenda He thought that if he didn't tell anyone, or at least no one in the pesky public, about plans for the meetings until the very last minute perhaps everyone would stay home and the trustees could meet quietly ever after. He thought wrong ... MU
spring break: Hammers and nails over sunsets and sails • The Habitat for Humanity chapter is sending 11 students each to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and Beaumont, Texas. • Campus Crusade for Christ is taking any interested students to New Orleans to contribute to gutting houses, tutoring children and cleaning parks. • Alternative Spring Break is taking more than 80 students on four trips: to the Gulf region (Lake Charles, La., and Hattiesburg, Miss.); to Miami, Okla., (where the school's namesake tribe, the Miami Nation, is headquartered) and to Tijuana, Mexico, to work with children, learn about U.S./Mexico border issues and build a house for a family in need. Another Miami group, Ambassadors for Children, is sending a group to El Salvador with duffel bags full of school and healthcare supplies to give to children there and students will spend the week doing whatever is needed to help make the children's lives better ... Plans
drawn, rejected for former Oxford Wal-Mart site Planning Commission declined to approve preliminary designs for a mixed use development on the former Wal-Mart lot, which has been shuttered since May of 2005. The original plans were for a mixed-use Planned Unit Development featuring a 30,000 square foot commercial building facing Locust Street, as well as four rental apartment complexes in the back with space for up to 272 residents ... Milwaukee's
viral marketing scheme works Then, as the concept goes, they journalists would realize how cool Milwaukee is, and they'd go back to their small-town colleges and tell all their friends about it ... New
18-and-older club bounces open The question is whether Bounce will successfully transition into the workings of the younger college community’s social lives. If the fliers promoting Bounce that took over Facebook and apartment doors indicate anything, it’s that the mission has begun ... Companies
get into matching students with internships University of Dreams uses its staff's personal contacts at 500 companies to get students internships with employers they couldn't otherwise get into, said CEO Eric Lochtefeld. For interns, that's better than sending in a resume and hoping, he said. Students pay from $6,499 to $8,999 to have the company find them an eight-week summer internship, plus housing in dorms at universities, some meals, transportation to work and activities for a summer. Financial assistance, including loans, grants and full scholarships, is available ... Proposal
may weaken city, university relations Krouse said he and Milligan, both of whom represent North College Park, included the proposal on his funding "wish list" - a list of requests each council member submits every year to be included in the upcoming budget - because the partnership has rarely been transparent about what it is working on. Krouse added the city could likely find better places to spend the money when budget deliberations begin next month. "My problem is I had to go through a lot of trouble to find out what's happening," Krouse said. "I've been very disappointed with the openness." ... City
will take Campus Pointe concerns to board "The whole issue is very frustrating," said Council Member Jose Flores, adding that the university and Clovis should plan together. "This is a case for integrated planning," said Council Member Lynne Ashbeck. "The conversation is troubling." ... Construction
Starts for $30M Dorm Complex “This is a significant step in the progress of our facilities master
plan,” says college president Herman J. Saatkamp Jr. “More
students want the total experience of living on campus, and the complex
will help us meet the demand and create an environment to promote the
‘living-learning’ philosophy.” Rezoning
brings up town and gown issues This
town could use more 'third places' They ranged in age from 17 to 64. They included natives and transplants,
blacks and whites, students and professional people. Gainesville
needs new developments Just imagine, with university-sponsored housing above shops that line the street, students would be able to roll out of bed, get breakfast, shop and walk to class - all in an hour. Maybe that empty lot on West University Avenue next to Gator Beverage would be a good place to start. The University of Central Florida has already built similar housing on its campus. The new dorms have a Publix grocery store on the ground floor ... Students
tackle housing crisis The SU suggested that the Government of Alberta create more student housing, eliminate municipal property tax on residences and provide funding so that the University can deal with deferred maintenance issues. Cournoyer believes that these suggestions would reduce the overall strain on the housing market, since U of A students comprise approximately 3.5 per cent of the greater Edmonton area’s population. “[The government] could alleviate pressureson the general market by creating more student housing and investing in student housing,” Cournoyer said. “Right now, in the University area, there is almost no vacancy, and the vacancies that do exist are generally high rent and out of the reach for most students.” ... Magazine:
Burlington, Vt., Ithaca rank as nation's top two eco-friendly cities Ithaca, one of nine college towns ranked in the top 10, came in second. So says Country Home magazine, which ranked Burlington tops among 379 metropolitan areas in a “Best Green Places” survey that rated cities based on air and watershed quality, mass transit use, power use and number of organic producers and farmers' markets. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Green Building Council, the survey rated Corvallis, Ore., third; Springfield, Mass., fourth; and Wenatchee, Wash., fifth. Charlottesville, Va.; Boulder, Colo.; Madison, Wis.; Binghamton; and Champaign-Urbana, Ill.; rounded out the top 10 ... Clean
living “It’s just a fact of life,” she says. “We are running out of oil and we’ve got to make a transition.” Toward that end, Miller is working to launch High Ground Communities, a project that seeks to transform Missoula into the first of a network of 12 subsidized cities that shift completely away from oil dependence by crafting renewable energy supplies and bringing food production closer to home. Besides creating a city whose water, electricity, heat, food and vehicles wouldn’t be subjected to the whims and wars borne of oil shortages to come, Miller says the pilot project would also show other cities the way ... College,
town seek BNAS land accord Both the town and the college are looking to receive public benefit conveyances of Brunswick Naval Air Station land after the base closes, most likely in 2011. The Conservation Commission is eyeing 1,047 acres through an application with the federal Department of the Interior and Bowdoin College is requesting about 490 acres through the U.S. Department of Education ... Fee
may threaten student housing Amid the university's largest housing shortage in recent history, this bill could further discourage new housing projects by allowing Prince George's County to charge developers a onetime fee of $7,700 for each apartment in a new complex aimed at student housing, except in a small area surrounding the university. Currently, that surcharge only exists in areas that lie more that 1.5 miles away from the university ... BYU
housing complex approval ignites an outcry “This development can kill the future of the south Joaquin neighborhood,” said Charlene Thompson. “It's like looking down the barrel of a gun. A development of this scale brings too many people to an already-crowded neighborhood.” ... San
Diego State-area landlords, tenants to be fined for parties The move, endorsed Thursday by the City Council's Land Use and Housing Committee, is among a group of measures in response to homeowner complaints about so-called mini-dorms. The city and university also announced that an SDSU subsidiary will pay for a compliance officer to help catch landlords who don't keep nearby properties up to city codes ... The
new student "ghetto" EXPLAINER CHECKS INTO 515 STE-CATHERINE WEST. 1 Meet Adam Conter, a recent McGill grad who also served as Students' Society president. Conter is now applying his powers of persuasion to entice Montreal university students into a lease at 515 Ste-Catherine W., a new housing complex designed to offer students a high-end all-inclusive living space ... National
Trust Releases 2007 List of America's Dozen Distinctive Destinations In recognition of this travel trend, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the country's largest private, nonprofit preservation organization, today announced the selection of its 2007 Dozen Distinctive Destinations, an annual list of unique and lovingly preserved communities in the United States ... [Editor's Note: The majority are college towns] Massive
BYU student housing project gets green light from Provo council New
residence halls should meet the need for now Residents of the surrounding neighborhoods who have experienced the clash of lifestyles with students living in their communities are pondering the question. Capstone Development Corp. is preparing to break ground this month on the first phase of what will become 10 new residence halls and apartment buildings on the campus over eight years ... City
designates Glendale Gardens as historical district The action will impose restrictions such as limiting the number of unrelated people who can live in the 37 homes in the neighborhood off Hargrove Road. The designation had been recommended by the Tuscaloosa Historic Preservation Commission and all but one of the homeowners. James Mize, the president of the Glendale Gardens Homeowners Association, told the council that the historical designation “will help us preserve the family character of our neighborhood ... I'll
tell you where to go ... AUSTIN College town scene. Well, maybe college city. With 37,000 undergrads, UTexas has a huge influence. Coffeehouses, tie-dye, bike paths, avant garde artsy stuff. (As one friendly campus guide explained when I asked him whether the university had a downside, "there are a lot of liberals" in Austin.) ... School
of fish: East Lansing’s SanSu gives lessons in sushi Education is so important to co-owners Bong and Choon Jeon that they have relocated their family to the college towns where their children have attended school. When daughter and managing owner Rebecca Jeon was studying at Western Michigan University, the family operated a restaurant in Kalamazoo. When her sibling decided to become a Spartan four years ago, the family moved to East Lansing and SanSu debuted ... Oxford
board considers beer keg registration "The identification of purchasers or providers of kegs for consumption by underage or intoxicated persons is a major law enforcement and public health and safety concern in the City of Oxford," the draft ordinance states ... UCSC
faculty housing breaks ground The first phase of the 84-unit development off Empire Grade Road, dubbed Ranch View Terrace, calls for 45 three- and four-bedroom below-market homes by fall 2008 and aims to help ease housing costs for professors and staff. UCSC acting Chancellor George Blumenthal said the project, in the works since the early '90s, "is responsive to community requests that we develop more housing on campus" and will be key to recruiting and retaining faculty and staff ... Monumental
Film Festival showcases student films There are those, however, who know exactly how difficult the film-making process is, and how great the rewards of creating a great film can be. These student film-makers are among the most creative and talented groups of students on campus, but do not always have a forum to share the fruits of their imagination. However, on Tuesday, March 6, student film-makers get their due recognition at the 2nd Annual Monumental Film Festival ... Provo
Council to mull huge complex tonight The 5-acre property only went on the market because the Provo School District decided to shut down and demolish Joaquin Elementary School at 500 East and 500 North and sell the land for $6.5 million ... Proposed
zoning changes get mixed reaction The idea, set forth last June by photographer Michael Black, would apply to about 20 square blocks known as the mixed-use overlay districts. They sit in three spots: along West Beaver Avenue west of Atherton Street; along Burrowes Street near West Fairmount Avenue; and along the 600 and 700 blocks of East Beaver Avenue. Most of the blocks are intensely residential. About 15 years ago, the borough introduced the mixed-use concept as a means of diversifying them. Since then, small businesses in the areas have been allowed to set up shop in converted homes. Eight are in place now, helping create a buffer between high-traffic commercial zones and more quiet neighborhoods ... City
Council committee to discuss mini-dorms The city is looking at ways to restrict or blunt the effect of the trend toward mini-dorms – single-family homes converted into housing for college students. Residents in the College Area have complained that students living in mini-dorms are disrupting their quality of life with loud parties, litter and increased traffic ... Ex-bus
depot makes way for controversial student flats Plans were given the go-ahead last year to knock down the old Pullman Bus Depot, in Navigation Road, and replace it with housing for 231 students. Despite fierce opposition from locals, the plans were approved by City of York councillors in May Education
Realty Trust "neutral," estimates raised In a research note published this morning, the analysts mention that the company’s expensive variable-rate debt is likely to be reduced by the estimated 2007 asset sales of approximately $50 million. An economic slowdown would lead to an improvement in EDR's position relative to its apartment REIT peers, since student housing operations have a much lower correlation to economic activity, the analysts say ... Apartments
marketed to WestConn students The developer, BRT, will rent all of its 115-unit apartment building to Western Connecticut State University students. The building, called Brookview Commons, offers furnished studios and one- and two-bedroom apartments and is on WestConn's shuttle bus route. Condos
seek retail partner The new condos, located at the intersection of 26th and University avenues southeast, opened in September 2006. All but two of the 75 housing units are filled, but the retail space remains open. Tony Zosel, a marketing employee for U Flats, said it hasn't been filled because the building's developers want a specific match for the space, despite many offers ... No
end in sight Oxford
annexation finalized Oxford officials received spoken confirmation Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice had approved the city's annexation proposal that added 4.3 square miles and some 5,000 new residents. A chancery judge had approved the plan in December ... Oxford's new numbers Davidson
College aims to work with town Representatives of the Student Government Association, however, want to cultivate a better relationship between the college and the town. Led by Scott Buckhout, the SGA's town liaison, the student government in February held a public meeting with the Davidson town board to discuss what each wants from the other. Buckhout, a senior from Fort Mitchell, Ky., said the town liaison position has existed for years, but it has gone "dormant" of late. He said he realized the importance of rekindling open discussions with the town after hearing many students openly wonder what was coming from all the construction projects around Davidson ... UT
Dallas students helping plan $37 million residence and dining halls “Based on outside studies, we know more students would live on campus if the university had additional options and space for them, so this new facility is a very exciting development in terms of the growth of UT Dallas,” said Matthew Grief, director of housing operations. “The center will allow students additional opportunities to interact with and learn from each other, and it also will provide an alternative, transitional living option for younger students leaving home for the first time.” ... Hungry
Howie's now open on Church Street Buckley also prides himself on a dedication to the communities in which he operates. Through Hungry Howie's in Athens, Buckley is able to support local schools and churches by donating pizzas to charitable causes and sponsoring community events. Hungry Howie's has been readily involved in Relay for Life and in local homeless shelters in Athens, and Buckley looks forward to exploring community involvement in Oxford in the coming months. "I like to work with the community because the community is here year round," said Buckley of college towns. "It's about good business and enjoying what you do in helping a community." ... Uptown
eateries report varied effects of new Baker Center It also, however, created a facility that competes with uptown Athens restaurants, and is cutting into the customer base for some of them. Not every uptown business owner says his or her business has been impacted, but several say their sales are down significantly since Baker Center opened. And while the common conception in Athens is that uptown businesses have a built-in advantage because of all of captive customers from OU, another fast-food restaurant is planning to move off Court Street and onto East State Street ... SXSW:
When A&R people go on holiday? Well, you’re out of luck. Between the 13th and the 18th of March, the entire music industry ups sticks to Austin, Texas for the biggest music conference of the year. SXSW (or to give its full name, the South By South West Music and Media Conference & Festival) sees a small college town in the middle of America become the epicentre of the world. The promise is that careers are made, people are ‘reached out to’ and good things happen ... Laces
wild Kohler isn’t surprised the shoes show up on Lawrence power lines. The town he’s seen with the most shoefiti is Bloomington, Ind., another college town. Kohler says four reasons typically given for shoefiti are fairly well-founded ... Neighbors
sad to see grocery store close "It kind of sucks because this was the way lots of students would get food," Lee said. "Now people without a car will have to find a ride or take the bus to get groceries." The Fifth Avenue store's customers were a mix of St. Cloud State students and longtime neighbors, said Tim Wright, an employee at the store from 1983-1989 while he attended St. Cloud State. "Fifth Avenue always had people coming in and out, students coming and going," said Wright, 42, of Sauk Rapids. "The vibe at Fifth Avenue was that there was always something going on." ... The
fate of Melrose Place The complex dates back to the 1920s, so there is some history to the building. Elderly residents at the meeting reflected on the thrill of moving into the "lovely" complex in the 1960s or walking past it as a student admiring the beauty of the courtyard. However, it is clear that sometime in the past 85 years, the building underwent a personality change. It was once home to faculty and families but now is almost strictly inhibited by students who litter the courtyard with trash and beer-pong tables. As a current resident of the complex, I can say that the basis for the nostalgia past residents feel for the complex doesn't really exist in 2007 ... Claremont
Museum of Art to Open in April “Claremont is home to a remarkable number of internationally-acclaimed artists, many of whom settled here to teach at the prestigious Claremont Colleges,” said Executive Director William Moreno, former director of The Mexican Museum in San Francisco. “The result is an impressive body of work and significant arts community that will now have an institution dedicated to celebrating this on-going legacy.” ... Tulane
rethinks divisive project Instead, major portions of the long-proposed Tulane University Square project, which called for nearly 430,000 square feet of parking garages, residences and other university facilities, could be redesigned, delayed for years or scrapped ... Housing
in crisis Rents are high because of an insufficient supply of student housing around the university. The administration's shortsighted attitude toward the construction of student dormitories has resulted in a housing waitlist stretching into the hundreds. As a result, students are forced to look off campus in the City of College Park. Unfortunately, they are met with reluctance at best, and open hostility at worst. The city's rent stabilization ordinance eliminates students from neighborhoods by making it financially unviable for landlords to rent out their properties. The city has created an artificial price ceiling that ignores the fundamentals of College Park's housing situation ... No
room at the Inn "If I can’t get into on-campus housing, I’m probably going to transfer to Loyola or Northwestern even though I’ll be a senior. I expect more from a private university that I pay $30,000 a year to attend." Spaces at Loft-Right currently start at $1,025 per month with an estimated cost of $9,225 for nine months of rent, which is the average length of a three-quarter school year at DePaul. Spaces in the UCC can cost in excess of $12,000 per three-quarter school year, and some even require students to purchase meal plans in addition to housing costs. Currently, only one student housing option on the Lincoln Park Campus costs in excess of $9,000; most are between $7,000 to $8,000. Money is only half of the argument, though, and Kline says that being on campus and in close proximity to classes are benefits of student housing that students cannot attach a dollar sign to ... WSN
editors meet with housing officials The officials addressed the concern raised by WSN's editorial board that NYU may be unable to house all the students who wish to live on-campus. The concerns were raised after the university gave sophomores first picks for room and dorm choices, which led to dismay among upperclassmen who felt they were being pushed to move off-campus. NYU gives students a four-year housing guarantee ... On
the rise “People have moved away and now they’re coming back,” she said. “And now the college housing that has recently been built, people are buying that housing for family use.” Hartung theorizes that, while Chautauqua County has more attractions to homeowners such as Chautauqua Lake and Lake Erie, the more rural Cattaraugus County is attractive to those who work in Erie County and are seeking open, affordable space ... Campus
Plan passes through another hurdle GW proposed the Campus Plan before the NCPC after receiving approval from the D.C. Zoning Commission in early February. The approval came after eight hearings starting in September, and the final decision should be made within the next month ... Working
on relationship R&D in the valley It's a curious thing, kind of like a kitten. Unlike a kitten, it is not cute. First of all, the age bracket is just a little unbalanced. Now, I'm fortunate in that I enjoy the company of people of all ages, and people of all ages seem to like me, too. It helps that I am something of a big kid, who still finds all this grown-up stuff a little surreal. I would never, for example, seriously echo the sentiments of a good friend of mine who's about my age, in referring to the social scene in most of downtown Blacksburg as "Toddler Night at the Sandbox." That's a witty quip, but cynical and not quite accurate ... In
some campus dorms, not all the residents are students Instead, the easygoing 68-year-old professor decided to settle into a sprawling dormitory teeming with hundreds of students. Richardson's choice might seem peculiar, but he isn't alone. Educators say a growing number of faculty are moving into dorms as colleges seek to revitalize campus life and shift away from the utilitarian, high-rise halls that sprouted when enrollment soared in the 1960s ... New
shops breathe life into downtown Provo It's not just university housing either, though Provo compared itself to other college towns in the study, such as Palo Alto, Calif., and Boulder, Colo. Housing at the Wells Fargo building is all leased or under contract, said David Runells, sales and marketing manager for Prudential CRES. Glauser said that the housing has attracted the affluent, older crowd. For the most part, he said that those who live downtown are young families and young professionals, according to a study done by Dow Jones and Associates ... School
board likes magnet school idea The ArtsCenter's executive director, Jon Wilner, made his proposal to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board to place such a school in his nonprofit's future five-story building. He encouraged the board to consider the benefits to students who don't learn best from merely reading a textbook. "I believe in the value of the arts as a tool for learning," Wilner said ... Condos
proposed near Holt Birmingham-based Capstone Development Corp. has proposed building a 495-unit, upscale student community called Lakeview Cottages at the southeast corner of Jack Warner Parkway and 25th Avenue East, according to documents filed with the city’s Department of Planning and Development. Capstone already has student housing developments in the city, including University Commons apartments and Capstone Quarters Condominiums, both on Helen Keller Boulevard, and Harbrooke Downs apartments on Hargrove Road ... University
plans six new dormitories The seven-story buildings, none taller than the existing ones, are intended to add 120 beds to the 4,317 now available in all campus dorms. (The university does not record how many of its 12,822 undergraduate and graduate students live in private rentals in the borough.) ... "University Student Housing is the group that's doing the project, an affiliate of the West Chester University Foundation," Pavlovich said. As a 501c3 private nonprofit entity, he said, University Student Housing will sell $250 million in tax-exempt bonds ... Town
and Gown group plans spring cleanup The college and the city's Town and Gown Committee and Keep Charleston Beautiful division will work together to make trash pickup flow more smoothly and salvage usable items for charity, Nadel said. The college will contribute $2,000 for two additional trash pickups May 19 and 26, said spokesman Mike Robertson ... Town,
gown entwined The town, a storybook-looking place with neat Victorian homes and stores with local names instead of franchises, in many ways seems to revolve around the school, whose buildings are tucked onto a little more than 200 wooded acres. Hundreds of local residents work there. The townspeople use the university facilities. Many other residents either have worked there, or taken advanced classes there in high school, or graduated from the school. Meanwhile, students, who often find jobs locally, make up a quarter of the population in the village ... As
many flee east, area gains "We wanted to be closer to a college town," she said, preferably Athens because both the Chandleys are UGA graduates ... Housing
glut, but little of it is affordable Despite a large surplus of housing, the unique economy of a college town and the strange logic behind real estate prices keep the cost of housing high. As newspapers and television report on housing bubbles bursting in cities across the United States, rents and mortgages in Athens remain high relative to wages. There's no relief in sight for the more than 10,000 Athenians the federal government says put too much of their income toward housing ... Downtown
growing up The plan is the product of brainstorming by Sasaki Associates, a Boston-based urban design and planning firm hired by the city and MU to come up with a strategy for how the two can work together to revitalize downtown and encourage private developers to make better use of limited space. If the dream comes true, downtown would grow vertically, with high-density, mixed-use developments three to five stories tall, Sasaki representative Fred Merrill said ... Festival
gains clout in film industry "They are showing some secret screenings that are scooping much bigger festivals," Powers said. "I have a little bit of a tip to what their secret screenings are this year, and the citizens of Columbia are in for a big treat." Festival co-director Wilson said about 4,400 people participated in True/False it’s first year. That number had more than doubled to 10,600 participants last year. This weekend, Wilson expects the festival to attract 15,000 people ... No
fences here: Where I live, good people make good neighbors I loved to come home and have Mike shout from his porch, asking how my day was. I think, unfortunately, that there are many people out there who might pass up the chance to get to know a guy like Mike. Durham, however, facilitates some relationships that could be passed over in other places because people might think they have too little in common -- on the surface, at least. It seems we all are so different in Durham, and yet our lives overlap here more due to the ever-changing neighborhoods and intertwined industries. The Bull City and the City of Medicine make strange, yet comfortable bedfellows ... Renter's
Nightmare video Student Monica Praljak came home to her apartment on Kilbourn and found all of her belongings drenched. "It was literally pouring in here last night and paint was falling. We thought the ceiling was going to collapse on us," Praljak tells TODAY'S TMJ4 reporter Jonathan Vigliotti. She immediately called her landlord Jaunita Werra who came to the apartment. "She basically told me to put a bucket under it and move my things away from it and that's it," said Praljak. The buckets did not work and Werra was never heard from again ... Young
Film Buff has Dream Job Running Festival "I said, 'Let's cultivate filmmakers and have a great time showing their work,"' he says. "My focus is on using SXSW as a great opportunity. It's not about overnight deals. Our mantra is a program of the best-quality films and best people, which increases the quality of the experience for everyone." ... W.C.
strategic plan delayed “We are all thinking and talking about West Chester’s future, but we do not yet have a shared, articulated and documented vision for our town,” she said. “On several occasions, Borough Council has mentioned the possibility of exploring certain initiatives as part of a strategic planning process.” ... Young
music investors buy Majestic nightclub The new owners, two men in their 20s who are involved with the music industry, plan to restore the infamous music venue to its original appearance ... “They were both very involved in the music scene at their respective colleges,” Verveer said. “For quite some time they have been interested in opening a live music venue, and I think, in particular, in a college town.”... Konop
promotes vision of Dorr Street corridor Mr. Konop, during a news conference called by UT student Terry Biel, spoke of putting county resources behind attempts to create a student village environment along Dorr. Mr. Biel, 21, a senior who is campaigning for student body president, said he wanted to highlight how student government can contribute to the creation of an updated corridor. “Students should be leading the charge to bring about change,” ... Neighbors:
Who will live in condos? "You're talking about putting high-end empty nesters next to bar row," she said. "It seems like an odd sort of combination to me." But Ram Senior Vice President John Florian said luxury condos have been popular in other college towns, such as Madison, Wis., where he traveled with about 100 other Orange County community leaders last fall. "They were not student housing," he said. "They were professional housing." ... Princeton
council urged to name library square after a trailblazer Born in 1902, his Princeton was a small college town of unpaved streets. Horse-drawn taxis, known as hacks, clattered by, transporting professors and upper-class Princetonians past workers walking to their jobs ... MU
art class revamps cruisers Within the coming year, Oxford Police Department (OPD) will be sporting a new look on its cruisers - a black and white design tailored by a Miami University student in the graphic design program. According to Sgt. Jim Squance, students in ART 352: Identity Systems created 18 car composites that officers and community members will vote on to decide what the new cruisers will look like. The officers at OPD will pick their top three, then the top three from the station will be tallied, and those will be posted on the police page at www.cityofoxford.org, so that community members get their say in voting for the graphics beginning Friday, March 9 ... Porter
Square sheds its baggage: Cambridge locale no longer known as working-class
area City
files suits against landlords for violations City Attorney Dave Holec said, to his knowledge, the suits are the first ever to be filed against landlords for having too many tenants in one rental property ... Students
sue city for discrimination The 27-page filing seeks to block a rent stabilization ordinance enacted in 2005 that strictly limits the rent landlords can charge to tenants in single-family homes. The suit accuses seven council members who voted for the ordinance of violating several state and county statutes and the federal Fair Housing Act, asking the court to strike down the ordinance because the city has no jurisdiction. Mayor Stephen Brayman was also named in the suit. The ordinance, which can set rent ceilings of no higher than 1 percent of a single-family home's value, underscores the city's energetic attempts to limit single-family home rentals downtown in an attempt to shore up owner-occupied housing. Council members have long said the rental market inflates housing costs beyond what homeowners can afford ... Landlords
worry about zoning change She put $20,000 into the property and turned it into a money-making investment for herself and decent housing for tenants. Skamangas said she and up to 20 landlords are concerned they could be hurt by proposed changes in zoning ordinances in Annville Twp. The proposed rules would lower the number of unrelated people who can live in a house from five to three, require rental licensing and inspections, and impose penalties for tenants' disruptive conduct. The township, home to Lebanon Valley College, has many rental properties ... Housing
debate shows tensions in campus area More than 200 students, faculty, landlords and permanent residents filled a City Hall meeting room to more than capacity Thursday night. They debated the South East Neighborhood Association's petition to limit the number of unrelated people signing a lease and living in an apartment or house from five to three. Many Syracuse University and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry students seemed to believe the Syracuse Common Council was considering such an amendment to the city's zoning codes, but Bill Ryan, councilor at large, explained this is not the case ... A
Full House Over Housing University-area residents, members of neighborhood organizations and landlords also attended the two-hour meeting, which centered on the university-area housing issues ... People spoke about too many people living in one apartment, parking problems, noise and trash. Many of the comments were about a proposal by the Southeast University Neighborhood Association to reduce the number of unrelated adults permitted in a rental unit from five people to three ... Proposal
Limits Student Housing Rentals video The collation of homeowners known as SEUNA, or the South East University Neighborhood Association, formally asked the common council to adopt the legislation, at a public meeting Thursday night, where students, landlords, and homeowners spilled outside of the room waiting for a chance to speak ... Student
Housing Debate video If the council were to approve such a measure, students will only be able to live three per house, which could increase rent and make housing more difficult to find near campus ... Witte
Hall hosts mayoral debate Catering to a student audience, the debate was held at Witte Residence Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus ... The
Hoya Hood: Trashy and classy on the same block “He was gesticulating towards me and asked me to … how shall I put this … entertain him.” Not only did Radley complain to Georgetown, later saying, “I had to report this,” he demanded that the student be tracked down so that he could talk to him face-to-face. “This guy had … to [be told] what he was doing. He was so drunk he probably didn’t remember,” Radley said. A few weeks later, the student came to see him. Radley recalled the astonishment the young man displayed hearing his actions. They had a long talk, and Radley never saw the student again. Even so, “To me, I was glad to have done that … that’s what you get, living here.” ... 57
down, many more to go Last Wednesday, 34 more people were charged in connection with the Dec. 15 riot in Southwest. According to the recent press release regarding the various charges, 5 students have been expelled, 28 have been suspended, 22 received deferred suspensions, and 8 have been removed from University housing. The grand total now stands at 57 people charged and there will likely be many more to come. Every one of those charged students can thank those who put pictures of the riot up on Facebook.com and MySpace.com, and put videos of it on YouTube.com. Did you really think that law enforcement wouldn't have the brains to look on those relatively public Web sites to find evidence they can use? It's mind-boggling to think that students believed no one would think to look on three of the most popular Web sites on the internet besides them ... American
Campus sees revenue jump The Austin company says modified funds from operations, a key measure in the performance of REITs, totaled $10.1 million, or 40 cents a share in the fourth quarter, up from $6.5 million, or 37 cents a share, in fourth-quarter 2005. The company reports fourth-quarter earnings of $22.6 million, a significant jump from the $3.8 million it reported for fourth quarter 2005, resulting largely from the sale of certain assets. Revenue for the quarter was also up 35 percent to $33.5 million ... $44M
student 'magnet' envisioned at Brockport By 2011, they likely will be sitting under a $44 million, 80,000-square-foot student recreation and special events center that the school hopes will be the hub of campus and one of its most important student recruitment tools ... WCU
TO REBUILD DORMS WCU plans to tear down five residence halls, including Wayne, Sanderson, Tyson, Schmidt and Ramsey, to build new facilities, Mark G. Pavlovich, vice president of advancement, said in an interview Wednesday morning. The construction should cost at least $250 million, he added ... The university has selected to work with Allen & O’Hara Education Services, which is a subsidiary of Education Realty Trust Inc. of Memphis, Tenn. Pavlovich said the company has not done anything for the university, but the company has done work for other state universities, and it is not likely WCU will choose another company ... Local
Teens Take College Classes In the past, Harvard has come under fire for not providing enough assistance to local public schools. School Committee member Alfred B. Fantini said the program was “good news both for Harvard and for our students.” “Harvard is starting to play a very meaningful role in the lives of Cambridge students,” ... UCLA
pays price for Undie Run But administrators have voiced concerns regarding the costs and disruption recent runs have caused on campus, said Berky Nelson, director of the Center for Student Programming. During Undie Run, which falls on the Wednesday of finals week each quarter, thousands of students gather at midnight and run through campus in their underwear, beginning at the top of Gayley and Landfair avenues and proceeding to De Neve Plaza and up Bruin Walk, ending in Royce Quad. In recent quarters, Undie Run has grown to attract nearly 5,000 people. As a result of the increased number of runners, the university has had to pick up the tab for extra ... College
Students Push Limits video Recently, police in Elon took WFMY News 2 on an ride around town to get a firsthand look at the reality of what happens when students drink and don't think. Elon police are trying to increase their presence. On a typical Friday night, the town and university each have about two officers on patrol. But they teamed up with Alcohol Law Enforcement officers on February 16, putting more than 20 people on the streets to crack down on excessive drinking ... University,
town weeks from pact The university pays the town about $350,000 a year in sewer-use fees, he said. In addition, the town receives an annual payment of about $600,000 from the state equivalent to a portion of the property taxes it would receive from Roger Williams, the Rhode Island Veterans Home and Brown University, which owns land on the east side of Bristol, according to Marshall. Yesterday, Marshall would not say whether the $150,000 payment is part of the latest offer from the university. Though he refused to discuss specifics, he did say any agreement could be renegotiated by the two sides in the future ... Prospect
Park group works on student-housing policy Prospect Park East River Road Improvement Association (PPERRIA) is creating the policy to define student housing and provide neighborhood standards with a focus on safety. Housing developers usually have to work with a local neighborhood group and compromise on design and management issues to get the city's approval. Creating a policy that defines PPERRIA's standards to an incoming developer will speed up the design process because it will explicitly detail what the neighborhood wants to see in a student-housing complex ... Conquest
buy raises rent, irks tenants Students currently living at 3029 Shrine Place pay, on average, $1,450 in rent per month. Under the new management, rent per two bedroom apartment will more than double to $3,160 per month, Conquest property manager Gina Koenig told one current tenant, contrary to what is listed on its website ... Crowded
Triangle Good for them. No one should question that the owners of the tract, now zoned highway commercial, have a right to improve their property. But in asking the owners to return with a planned-unit development proposal for the property, council members put themselves in control of its disposition ... it seems a safe bet that the owners will return to the council, as asked, with a planned development proposal. Plenty of commercial services exist in the triangle already. And even at lower density, there is still good money to be made in the student-housing business. It should be possible to create winners all around with this project, and council members did well to tackle that challenge. Allendale
residents upset at planning commission meeting video What's
next next door? The school keeps a running log of offenses, such as "garbage thrown on playground against building, including rotten eggs, moldy spaghetti sauce." And "young man 'streaking' from his car." ... The
past: Breaking up Today's story:After 38 years, PSU has ended its contract with long-time property manager College Housing Northwest. After College Housing Northwest lost $400,000 and some of its employees lost their jobs, the company has moved on to other schools and other communities. The series: 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. During the first three days of this week, 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. Ending the property management contract with College Housing Northwest
should save Portland State money, but it has cost College Housing Northwest
$400,000 and around 11 people their jobs ...
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