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to be found at Dump and Run Find Christmas decorations, Halloween costumes, clothing, furniture — anything students couldn't fit in their cars and suitcases when they left campus in May — this weekend in Helen Newman Gym on Cornell University's North Campus ... From a one-woman effort, her project became a national nonprofit. Sales fill stadiums and gyms. Source: Dump and Run Web site, www.dumpandrun.org ... UCF's
campus makeover if the big venues weren't enough to transform the northeast corner of campus, the area is now home to four seven-story buildings housing 2,000 students ... Storrs
Housing Plans Opposed Developers see a ripe market and plan to entice students with amenities such as flat-screen TVs and tanning beds. But neighbors in the Hunting Lodge Road area are already circulating petitions over concerns about noise, traffic, drunken partiers and the impact on the already limited water supply ... 228-Unit
Student Housing Project Set For Old Furnace Road Latitude 38, the working name of the 228-unit project, consists of 19 buildings with 12 apartments each ... Projected growth at James Madison University, which now has a student population of about 16,000, makes Harrisonburg a good opportunity, Sweeney said. "Growth at [JMU] is much faster than most other schools," Sweeney said. "They’re projecting up to 20,000 students over the next few years." ... $43M
Mixed-Use Project Gets State Grant Planned for construction are a 57,800-sf, 10-screen 1,550-seat cinema, with a street-level entry. The round floor will also have 7,500-sf of other retail. The second floor will have 13,885 sf of office space, and 54 condominium units starting on the third floor. Construction will start in the spring ... £25k
property premium for top 20 university towns Across all universities, the Halifax study reveals 20 locations had a rise of at least 20 per cent, led by Queen's Belfast in Northern Ireland, which has seen its property prices soar by 47 per cent in the last year ... State
Auditors Looking Into Deal Turn
on, tune in, drop by West Medford activists are using the hand-held audio devices to do the opposite. They envision folks walking their streets, iPods in hand, to learn more about the traditionally African-American neighborhood. The idea started with a Brandeis University anthropology course two years ago. Professor Mark Auslander wanted his students to study how museums represented public memories. But he didn't want to relegate those memories to a stuffy building or glass exhibit case ... Calm
Before the U-Hauls The first U-Hauls have lumbered down side streets. Harry Pitt pointed to a red plastic cup rolling down his street, the kind purchased by the hundreds to fill with keg beer. It was like a robin, the first sign of the season: The students are coming back ... Report
recommends city contract with county police According to Matrix Consulting Group, Inc. - the group commissioned to produce the report by the College Park City Council - the "current number of regular county officers deployed in College Park is insufficient for the city's needs." ... "Our officers are only assigned overtime for events that are on-campus exclusively," University Police Spokesman Paul Dillon said. "We do contracts with the athletic department, traffic control and resident control, but these are all campus entities. That's traditional practice." The report recommended city officials discuss ways the University Police Department could "better support the City in its efforts to maintain safe living conditions for students in off-campus housing." ... On
move-in day at UA, dorms are at a premium 100 students have been assigned to temporary living spaces. On-campus
housing is full beyond capacity. A waiting list for campus housing started
on May 4 and has stretched past 650 names. 6,000 Rowan
project gets the go-ahead New Glassboro Development, LLC, which is under new ownership, signed several agreements with the borough Wednesday to construct a 120-room hotel and conference center, 30,000 square-feet of retail and commercial space, and a 238-unit Rowan University student housing and retail complex ... Planning
commission recommends adding 6 buildings to The Oaks Many of the neighbors who complained about continual problems with noise and foul language met with developer Jeff Tinervin and members of town staff Monday to discuss possible solutions ... SUNY
Brockport unveils new student housing News 10NBC was at a ribbing cutting ceremony Wednesday for the new, $18 million town home complex at SUNY Brockport ... Marshall:
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Dorm Room of the Future Is Described Now in a Book The book is based on the first stage of the competition, which sought suggestions just for individual dorm rooms. Eight finalists presented their ideas at a conference in Phoenix earlier this year (The Chronicle, February 23), and their submissions are fully described in the new volume — including that of Jonathan Levi Architects, of Boston, which a jury chose as winner of the competition’s first stage ... University
Towns see Strong House Price Rises Million
Dollar Grant Awarded to the People's Burn Foundation Since January 2000, there have been 114 campus-related fire deaths across the country with over 80-percent of them occurring in off- campus student housing. The reason is clear as noted by Ed Comeau, publisher of Campus Firewatch. "The bottom line is that an entire generation lacks basic fire prevention knowledge and with diminished access to that generation, how will we ever decrease fire-related deaths? With a new approach," said Comeau. With this grant, the goal is to reach the nearly 17 million students currently enrolled on our nation's campuses by making the fire and burn safety awareness program To Hell and Back III mandatory at freshman orientation ... Antioch
faculty members sue to stop school's closing Faculty also claim the board improperly applied its declaration of financial exigency, a statement of imminent financial crisis that allows universities to void faculty employment contracts ... Habitat
houses set for auction The four houses were donated to Habitat, three of them by AB Troy, a development company owned by Don Allen Development and University Housing Group, and the other by Joseph Kelly of Troy ... Town-gown
tax issue heats up in Millersville Now that Millersville Borough Council has passed its resolution, he said, the borough can begin renewed efforts to lobby state legislators and the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Performed by the Pennsylvania Economy League, a nonpartisan, non-profit group with offices in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Wilkes-Barre, the study found that municipalities that host a state system university consistently collect less tax revenue per capita. Released this past winter, the study also found that the presence of a university leads to a higher rate of properties being converted into rentals, which, according to the study, "erodes local government revenue capacity and harms municipal sociological and fiscal health." It also found that host municipalities seem to need to spend more on police services, primarily for off-campus student housing and issues such as vandalism ... Five
perfect college towns These five towns exemplify the best of college life: cafes, diners, cutting-edge music and art scenes, and a melting pot of individualism ... Boulder, Colorado Meet
the roommate.com She’s outgoing and plans to study nursing and psychology. Every week she tunes into ‘‘Grey’s Anatomy,’’ ‘‘Desperate Housewives,’’ ‘‘The OC’’ and ‘‘CSI.’’ Wahle learned all this on Facebook ... Blaze
scorches sorority house The fire at Alpha Chi Omega, 301 Lynn Ave., started about 7 p.m. Sunday on the third floor, possibly in a sleeping room, according to the Ames Fire Department, which is investigating the cause of the blaze. The fire caused an estimated $170,000 worth of structural and personal property damage and temporarily displaced the students one week before the start of classes ... Safety
programs aim to avoid fatal fires at ISU, IWU “Really, 2 o’clock in the morning, when a smoke detector is going off, is not the time to be taking the shrink-wrap off of your escape ladder,” said Craig Fata of the Normal Fire Department in the wake of a Bradley University student’s death in a fire Sunday ... Bradley
University sophomore dies in off-campus house fire Students
lack 1500 rooms for September Unfortunately, not everyone shares this positive view. According to the student housing cooperative, Cigue, student housing in Geneva is in a crisis. ”We have only one room for every 10 applicants,” says Guillaume Kaiser, administrator. Cigue expects the situation to get worse. The cooperative has lost some 30 rooms, in Lancy, and 30 others, in rue de Lyon, will be taken out of circulation this year for renovation. Several projects, such as the renovation of Hôtel Carlton, which should have furnished 123 studios for September, have been put on hold ... Portland's
Old Town on cusp of a revival Gazette
Investigation: Iowa City renters 'not protected' Fifty-one percent of those nearly 250 homes, duplexes and apartments bordered by Bowery, Governor, Burlington and Gilbert streets had broken, missing, poorly placed or substandard fire extinguishers and smoke detectors, according to Inspection and Housing Services reports analyzed by The Gazette ... Kent
floats idea of downtown whitewater park But whitewater kayaking on the Cuyahoga River through downtown Kent? C'mon. It just might happen ... STATE
SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF OSWEGO TOWN In his decision, Judge Hugh A. Gilbert said the petition was “respectfully denied and dismissed” due to proper and legal operations carried out by the town’s zoning board. The crux of the issue lay at the definition of the housing complex, which the two sides have argued over since the issue surfaced. The zoning board determined after multiple meetings that the complex was comprised of apartment-style suites while the town residents involved with the petition argued the suites were no more than glorified dormitories ... Downtown
Naperville a suburban success story On a sunny afternoon it would be hard to argue with Iverson's opinion. The four-block by four-block area has the feel of a well-heeled college town. In fact, the Naper Place building is being converted to a dormitory for upperclassmen attending nearby North Central College. The college also is building a fine arts center in the area ... City
gets new pitch She is concerned, Leight said, about the impact of clear-cutting the hillside that backs up on West Salem for a parking lot. The hillside acts as a filter for the creek. Under the new plan, the water would run over the paved parking lot. She has also heard from neighbors who objected to having a four-story building with vinyl materials in the middle of two National Register Historic Districts. Steven Shafer, the president of the West Salem Neighborhood Association, said he is also concerned about the environmental impact on the site ... Akron
U. growing at city's expense? But in months, no more. The 196 round rooms carved from those Quaker Oats grain silos will become the University of Akron's newest residence hall. Linked to plans for a new $55 million stadium, the swank dorm is the latest in the school's New Landscape for Learning, which has already transformed the once-commuter college into an enviable campus ... City
being touted as great location for senior living Athens might not yet be a retirement capital, but Georgia rapidly is moving up the ladder for retirees. The Institute for the Future of Retirement at the University of North Carolina Asheville recently said Georgia has moved up in the rankings to become the fifth most popular destination for retirees, which translates into an increase of some $350 million to the state's economy ... Small
businesses find big rewards The small-business climate is strong, business owners say, boosted by tourism and students and faculty from the Savannah College of Art and Design, but could use a little help from the city ... Lindley thinks that now, the chains and independents feed off each other, but the little boutiques that opened on Broughton Street when it was still dotted with boarded storefronts created the buzz that eventually drew the chains. "It's like sharks," she said. "They just start circling the cool artsy areas and the college towns to see where they should be going next." ... EDITORIAL:
UVM has role to play in affordable housing But their proposed solution -- that the university build affordable housing on the campus -- is problematic. UVM isn't responsible, nor should be or arguably can be, for housing members of the community at large on its 460-acre hilltop campus ...
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