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Love
of reading, not profit, drives Jacksonville bookseller
Star - 19 May 2007
... JACKSONVILLE, MS - How do you make a buck at a used-book store in
the summer when students are gone and professors wander away?
Summer reading enthusiasts might pop in to grab a well-worn paperback.
Bibliophiles will breeze in as often as a midday summer wind.
But still turning a profit matters, right?
That depends, says John Henricks, owner of Recollected Books, a used-books
and antique store on the square ...
UNCG
grad credits city for personal growth
GoTriad - 19 May 2007
... GREENSBORO, NC - What I love about Greensboro is that unlike larger
college towns, Greensboro is very tight-knit. I recognized it when practically
my entire dorm walked in a huge drove to the first and only frat party
I ever went to. Or when everyone comes out to support almost every rock
show I've been to. In Greensboro, there isn't an overwhelming amount of
things going on at one time, so it brings people together.
Taking classes full time in a hip, little city near downtown with creative,
fun people hasn't always made it easy to keep my mind on my work. College
in Greensboro has been a strange mix of isolating myself in study, hanging
out with good people and doing something fun most of the week. How could
I possibly devote all of my energy to schoolwork with such a whirl of
positive distraction all about? ...
Lofty
Living
From urban chic to Euro-Asian fusion, Fort Collins’
loft culture is more than just a real estate trend
Weekly - 18 May 2007
... FORT COLLEIN, CO - while the loft tours are an opportunity for all
the owners to show off what has become the hippest trend in Fort Collins
real estate, the tours may be more about enhancing the feeling of fellowship.
“It’s about creating community understanding. These tours
allow people into spaces that they may not know,” says Jan Jensen,
who owns a loft on Mountain Avenue with her husband Eric. “We were
on the Historical Homes Tours in our old house. It was partly about creating
that sense of community and it was also about preservation. Now we are
in complete opposition to that. But they co-exist together ...
Evansville-metro
area listed with America's most livable cities
Courier-Press - 18 May 2007
... EVANSVILLE, IN - Evansville fell between State College, Pa., and San
Antonio on the book's list. College towns held the top spots, with Gainesville,
Fla., ranked No. 1 and Modesto, Calif., ranked last ...
City
ranks in national listing
Another day, another ranking
News - 18 May 2007
... ANN ARBOR, MI - Ann Arbor, ever popular on national quality-of-life
lists, has been ranked the fifth best U.S. city to live in by the newly
published Cities Ranked & Rated, 2nd Edition, by Bert Sperling and
Peter Sander.
The list is led by another college town, Gainesville,
Fla., then Bellingham, Wash.; the Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton area of
Oregon and Washington; and Colorado Springs, Colo. ...
New
program aims to keep interns in Kalamazoo after college
WOOD-TV - 18 May 2007
... KALAMAZOO, MI - A new internship program aimed at retaining more of
the area's recent college graduates could develop into a sticky situation.
Ron Kitchens hopes so, anyway.
The chief executive officer of Southwest Michigan First Corp. is counting
on the program to slow the flow of the Kalamazoo area's brain drain and
raise its "stickiness" factor by holding onto more grads. It
would substantially increase the amount that students could earn through
local internships, making the jobs more attractive to them ...
Google
shows off new office building in Ann Arbor
News - 17 May 2007
... ANN ARBOR, MI — Google Inc. on Thursday took the wraps off its
new Michigan office and shared some plans for the rapid expansion of its
advertising unit based in the university town that many see as a laboratory
for the state's economic reinvention ...
Students
driving us out, claim
Western Mail - 17 May 2007
... SWANSEA, UK - PEOPLE living close to a Welsh university claim the
“studentification” of local neighbourhoods is driving families
away.
In particular, residents of Swansea’s Brynmill and neighbouring
Uplands, where poet Dylan Thomas grew up, say the departure of local people
is leaving “ghost streets” behind ...
New
college apartments expand Lafayette's tight rental market
Advertiser - 17 May 2007
... LAFAYETTE, LA - A horde of new luxury apartments geared for the college
crowd are filling up fast, and in turn may spell relief for the rest of
Lafayette’s rental market.
Developers capitalized on the enrollment growth and housing shortage
that hit UL by hurricane evacuees in fall 2005. Now more than 1,100 new
bedrooms will be ready at The Quarters complex in Freetown, and CampusEdge
Apartments at Bertrand Drive and Eraste Landry Road.
Plans for 384 more beds at the privately-owned University House across
from Cajun Field, and about 330 new beds at UL dorms or apartments, are
in various stages of planning. In all, new student housing could add more
than 1,800 new beds to Lafayette by August 2008 ...
Student
housing plan would cut complaints: experts
Simcoe - 17 May 2007
... BARRIE, ON - Barrie has a plan to encourage private developers to
build safe student housing in Barrie’s east end, which would reduce
complaints the city’s receiving about traffic, noise and zoning
bylaw infractions from families in the area.
Known as the Georgian College Neighbourhood Strategy, the plan identifies
11 sites which could be redeveloped or intensified, to accommodate privately-run
student housing, along with commercial or institutional uses.
Barrie’s policy planning manager, Merwan Kalyaniwalla, noted the
Georgian Green development – a student housing project on Bell Farm
Road – is the model; students are provided with safe and affordable
housing close to the college, and the city receives no noise, traffic,
zoning, or other neighbourhood complaints.
“Only 10 per cent (of Georgian students) are accommodated in student
housing, which means the remaining 90 per cent were housed in the general
community, the majority in the neighbourhood around the college,”
he said ...
$77M
Town Square Project Gets Under Way in July
GlobeSt - 17 May 2007
... WACO, TX - A 17-acre parcel that is currently asphalt will be the
site for the $76.5-million Waco Town Square. The Sugar Land developers
of the project will break ground in July on the first phase, a $23-million,
400-bed student housing complex within walking distance of Baylor University.
The privately funded project's second and third phases will have 61,880
sf of retail and restaurants, 68,680 sf of class A office space and about
35,000 sf of loft-style residential units. The developer is planning to
start work on the subsequent phases by year's end ...
Wayne
residents buy shares to open store
World-Herald - 16 May 2007
... WAYNE, NE - This college town is joining the latest trend in reviving
small-town business districts - a community-owned clothing-department
store.
Efforts began recently to raise $450,000 in hopes of
opening the store, the Main Street Clothing Co., Oct. 1.
The store would be patterned after similar community-owned stores in
Wyoming, Nevada and Montana. The idea also is being studied by Alliance,
Neb., as a way to keep local shoppers from driving to other towns for
their clothing needs ...
Archives
to make room for coffee shop
Bookstore to cut space in half, downsize inventory
State Journal - 16 May 2007
... EAST LANSING, MI - The Archives Book Shop is downsizing its stacks.
The 20-year-old book store at 517 E. Grand River Ave. will be closed
today as workers prep for a sale to thin its shelves. Archives is cutting
its store space in half, to about 1,000 square feet, to make room for
a CornerStone Coffee location and major building renovations ...
Idea
To Limit Underage Drinking
Daily Nexus - 15 May 2007
... ISLA VISTA, CA - Isla Vista parties may come under closer scrutiny
if a proposed county ordinance passes.
Created to combat underage drinking, the countywide Social Host Ordinance
would increase liability for adults who provide alcohol to minors. The
law would make hosting a party where underage drinking is taking place
a civil violation, with violators facing increased fines and mandatory
classes addressing responsible hosting, as well as recovery costs for
police response and emergency services ...
Greencastle
Among Midwest Living's 'Best Small-Town Getaways'
DePaw University - 15 May 2007
... GREENCASTLE, IN - "DePauw University anchors a town near Parke
County's famous covered bridges," notes the June edition of Midwest
Living magazine, which lists Greencastle among the “100 Best Small-Town
Getaways." ...
Getting
Your Foot in the Door: Homes Across America For Under $150,000
BusinessWire - 15 May 2007
... GREENSBORO, NC - University Town: This $109,000 bungalow home in Greensboro,
N.C. features two bedrooms, one bathroom, hardwood floors, a sunroom,
a fireplace, an enclosed porch, a bright kitchen with dining area, a deck
and is on a large lot. Its close proximity to the University ensures a
young vibrant community. Details
...
Neighborhood
saved school decades ago
Capital Times - 15 May 2007
... MADISON, WI - Editor's note: Leigh and David Mollenhoff have been
fixtures in Madison's Marquette Neighborhood for four decades. David has
written extensively about the history of Madison, including an authoritative
book on the formative years of the city. The couple, along with others,
were instrumental in reviving the near east side neighborhood that had
fallen into disrepair by the 1960s, thanks to landlord speculation and
city neglect. What follows is their opinion on the Madison School Board's
decision to close Marquette School, a decision that is to be revisited
by the board this evening ...
New program
to help parents of students stay connected
UW-Madison News - 15 May 2007
... MADISON, WI - Going “off to college” no longer means falling
off the parental radar for the vast majority of today’s undergraduates.
In fact, a 2007 study found that students and their parents talk by phone
an average of once each day ...
Tenants
to Confront Landlord in His UCLA Classroom
CityWatchLA - 15 May 2007
... LOS ANGELES, CA - A group of low income tenants will attempt enter
their landlord’s real estate investment class this evening (Tuesday,
May 15) and come face-to-face with the man who is trying to displace them.
They plan to demand he stop what they say are illegal attempts to evict
them ...
Bristol
becomes Britain's biggest boomer in property
Assetz - 15 May 2007
... BRISTOL, UK - Bristol is leading the way among British cities when
it comes to interest from prospective home buyers. A new survey shows
that on average, the hilly city sees over 10,000 more online property
searches a month than any other in the UK.
According to email4property.co.uk, an internet network of local estate
agent portals, Bristol's appeal as a property hotspot has surged over
the last half-year.
Bristol University had some 17,000 students enrolled in the last academic
year, making the south-western city an ideal buy-to-let property hotspot
...
Designing
a Unified Campus
When landscape and other site designers get creative, a campus's
character can shine.
University Business - May 2007
... USA - The combination of forethought and care in execution even in
conjunction with a modest investment can yield significant results when
improving a campus. Because an institution's campus is such a strong recruitment
tool, it is important to create the texture, vibrancy, and poetry on that
campus, which students and parents dream of when they envision their or
their child's academic experience ...
Here
come the students - and there goes the neighbourhood
Noisy parties, crowded streets and huge amounts of rubbish
are driving local residents up the wall.
Guardian - 15 May 2007
... UK - The "studentification" of peaceful localities is destroying
communities, says Liz Morris, secretary of the residents' association
for the Brynmill and Uplands area of Swansea. Transient populations of
students with no long-term interest in the area turn up for eight months
of the year, party hard, dump their rubbish to fester on the streets,
crowd residential roads with their cars and make a noise late into the
night, she says. Come the summer, she adds, they disappear, leaving "ghost"
streets behind them. Many families have sold up - to private landlords
- and fled to quieter parts of town.
Is this a fair complaint or simple nimbyism? Well, nationally, the number
of students has certainly increased, with 300,000 more people in higher
education in the UK in 2004-05 than in 2000 ...
SDSU
Nearly Doubles On-Campus Housing in 2007 Master Plan
SDSUniverse - 14 May 2007
... SAN DIEGO, CA - In response to community input, San Diego State University
announced that it is making changes to its Campus Master Plan that will
substantially increase on-campus student housing. The addition of 2,976
student beds to the plan will nearly double the existing amount of housing
available on campus.
"We have listened to the community and we are responding to their
suggestions, one of which was to add more housing on campus ...
'Mini-Dorm'
Forum Offers New Solution
San Diego residents gathered last week at an open forum sponsored
by city councilmembers to address the growing problems posed by "mini-dorms."
Guardian - 14 May 2007
... SAN DIEGO, CA - — Armed with red T-shirts expressing distaste
for "mini-dorms" and signs proclaiming "Stop Global Dorming,"
San Diego residents gathered at a student-housing forum on May 10 to express
their concerns and hear about the recent progress in the fight against
what many see as troublesome rental properties.
New
apartments will replace trailers for Merced college students
KESQ - 14 May 2007
... merced, ca - Agriculture interns at Merced Junior College will soon
be getting new places to live.
Thanks to a bond measure Merced County voters passed in 2004 to raise
$$2.6 million, students will be able to in apartments instead of trailers
with peeling paint, asbestos and leaking roofs.
Construction on the new apartments should start this summer. Campus officials
hope they will be finished by January ...
Resentment
surfaces in the Wal-Mart brawl
Current - 13 May 2007
Blacksburg's South Main development might, maybe, probably will contain
a Wal-Mart Supercenter, and many residents are waging a grassroots fight
against it. Meanwhile, the rest of the New River Valley looks on and wonders
what the fuss is ...
Blacksburg is a college town in the purest sense. It
attracts people from diverse places and welcomes free thinking. Vocal
opposition to a big-box development, especially in a project originally
touted as pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use, new urbanism, should surprise
no one ...
Respect
the theme at Unity
Mayor advises students to never stop learning UMF graduates'
special bond is community UNITY COLLEGE
Sentinel - 13 May 200y
... UNITY, ME - - Sustainability and respect for the environment were
the themes Saturday during commencement ceremonies for the Class of 2007
at Unity College ...
Enter
enchanting Ann Arbor, college town of renown
Plain Dealer- 13 May 2007
... ANN ARBOR, MI - Three-and-a-half hours from Cleveland and bursting
with youthful energy, the college town of Ann Arbor, Mich., invites us
to remember those warm-weather moments -- at a street festival, in a bookstore
or paddling across glimmer-glass water -- when we lingered as soulful
teenagers ...
College is this city's year-round business, which keeps the idealistic
culture continuously flowing. Spring and summer bring the bigger festivals,
fewer students and more parking spaces ...
Kiplinger's
touts Athens
Banner-Herald - 13 May 2007
... ATHENS, GA - The May edition of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine
includes Athens as one of five college towns highlighted in an article
titled Attractions of a College Town in The 40+Life feature of the magazine.
Athens is included with Eugene, Ore.; Fayetteville, Ark.; Flagstaff,
Ariz.; and Tallahassee, Fla ...
Student
apartment oversight planned
Daily Times - 13 May 2007
... PRINCESS ANNE, MD - Tenants in housing communities reserved for university
students could soon have municipal oversight if a vision by town planners
moves forward and becomes law.
Members of the Princess Anne Planning and Zoning Commission said a student
housing liaison would screen prospective tenants who attend area universities
and opt to live in rental units at properties designated for students.
At this week's meeting, members agreed that a liaison also could monitor
student behavior and assemble appropriate university or town resources
to address problems that tend to create upheaval or serious violence ...
One
hundred years ago in Redlands
From the pages of the Redlands Daily Facts
Daily Facts - 13 May 2007
... REDLANDS, CA - "I do not believe the Redlands people realize
what they are liable to miss in the way of a college. Having lived most
of my life in college towns, I think I am in a position to look at the
situation somewhat intelligently. A college would bring an intellectual,
moral and social tone to the community which could be secured in no other
way ...
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