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upscale Georgia dining destination proves that Southern cuisine is more
than soul food and cornbread. The
evolution of Toad's “The only reason it can exist with as much success as it does is because music has no single market,” said Jon Abrams, the Wayfarered, ungoateed Billy Joel of The Strangers. “It must change and transform to please a population, and reaching as many people as possible, as Toad’s does, is the smartest decision a club owner can make.” ... Move
to halt ‘studentification’ in Dylan city Residents of Swansea’s Uplands district blame the increasing number of multi-occupancy houses for the state of the Dylan Thomas Trail, which leads through the area to the poet’s birthplace. They claim it is now marred by broken curtains, rubbish-strewn gardens and vomit-splashed pavements. Branches of the HMO (Houses in Multiple Occupation) Lobby Campaign have already sprung up in university towns like Birmingham, Nottingham and Leeds, and have recently spread to Bangor and Cardiff. The organisation is calling for a 25% limit on the number of HMOs in one area ... SDSU
Expansion To Be Decided Frommer's
list of hot places to visit It also has an impressive amount of first-rate restaurants, with several perennial entries on Gourmet magazine's 'America's Top 50 Restaurants' list -- including the excellent Fore Street, which builds its menu around local ingredients. The weather can be extreme, but Portland is an eminently walkable city, with the downtown area is compact enough to explore thoroughly ... College-Town
Property May Reap Reward for Rehabber The pitfalls: After observing how many students were living in Raleigh, Minor says that he was tempted to explore renting out the duplex. He learned, however, that Raleigh operates a program designed to keep landlords accountable for problem tenants (who are loud and destroy property, etc.) and could be fined for infractions at the property. The policy reinforced his decision to sell, he says ... Amherst,
UMass ink historic pact And Amherst has agreed to stop charging UMass for wastewater that it uses to produce steam in the campus heating plant, and in the new power plant due to open next year. The 'strategic partnership agreement' also addresses Mark's Meadow elementary school, which is owned by UMass and used by the town rent-free. For the first time, the agreement acknowledges the cost to taxpayers of educating the children of UMass students who live in tax-exempt housing. New
breakfast restaurant opens in Uptown Oxford The College View Restaurant opened its doors to a new breakfast diner on High Street Aug. 16. Though the restaurant itself is new, owners Lori Hoelle, Joshua Francis and Mary Higgins are in no way new to the breakfast business. Lori Hoelle owned Uptown Café, the popular breakfast diner located just down the street from College View Restaurant, before she sold it seven years ago ... Students
just plain revolting Eventually, of course, the universities came under the jurisdiction of the centralised secular state, but since, by this time, the average university student was almost without exception a son or daughter of the ruling class, the age-old protections against town- inspired retribution persisted. Until the 1960s. It is here, in the social history of mid-20th-century tertiary education, that the explanation for New Zealand's 30-odd years of student idealism and political engagement may be found ... City
looks at changes for housing limits Over the past year, complaints have intensified, which prompted the City
Council to form a committee to investigate the claims and ultimately to
create a new ordinance, Belknap said. Parents
should add fire safety to the “back-to-school” list for Campus
Fire Safety Month™ So often, fire safety is not something that either students or parents consider when looking at a school or for housing. Almost two-thirds of the students in this country live off-campus, and over 80 percent of the fire deaths happen in these occupancies. Students can learn about how to protect themselves from fire while living in the residence halls and carry these messages with them when they move into a house or apartment ... Mellencamps
buy Walnut Street building John and Elaine Mellencamp recently purchased two buildings at 350 S. Walnut St. and 110 Smith Ave. The buildings are on the corner of Walnut Street and Smith Avenue. According to workers at the building this morning, the Mellencamps plan to make an art gallery of the space, which is across the street from Chocolate Moose ... Wrong
contract forces students to scramble The projects are all called The Grove and located near universities. They are similar in that students rent a room in a unit with a shared kitchen. Each resident has their own bathroom and there are three residents to a unit. Other Campus Crest projects have had problems opening on time ... Number
of students living downtown could reach 1,000 Bernards says his representatives have also conducted field studies in the Flint area indicating that students would be inclined toward living in a downtown facility that had amenities such as a movie theatre, workout area and state-of-the-art electronics. And it is these studies that Bernard says has him moving ahead with the project to turn this building into a 580-bed student housing facility by next fall ... Morgantown
ramps up WVU student housing inspections The increased enforcement comes after five houses were condemned earlier this month because of structural problems. One of the houses was condemned after two WVU students were hurt when a porch roof collapsed underneath them. Five others fell but were not seriously injured ... Whole
lot of building going on in town & on campus On campus, the biggest change is the addition of Alvin C. Adams Hall, a new residence hall on the South Green that from hereon will be informally known as "Adams Hall." The 350-bed residence hall is located on South Green Drive near Nelson Commons and OU's golf and tennis facility ... Town
and gown recruit new volunteers CCPS sponsored the fair along with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce and The Chapel Hill News. "It's a good chance for our members to come out and recruit volunteers," said Meg Branson, member relations specialist for the chamber. "Students offer a lot of the manpower that is necessary." ... It's
town vs. gown on Carolina North But activists who gathered Wednesday night think individual citizens, neighborhoods and other municipalities must band together to back the council. "[UNC-CH leaders] need to know that they are talking to 50,000 of us," Town Council member Jim Ward said at a forum on Carolina North sponsored by Neighborhoods for Responsible Growth ... UA
students drum up film shorts Campus MovieFest loaned out cameras, microphones and laptops equipped with editing software, and briefed students on the contest rules ... Online
Business Inspires College Town Store "By beginning online, we were able to test different products at a very low cost," said Frank Brown, co-owner and founder of AuburnArt.com. "There were not enough products to fill a store when we started AuburnArt.com in 2001. The synergy between the 'click and mortar' business model allows us to cover a much larger geographic region while at the same time servicing our local clientèle." ... Students
in financial aid limbo due to uncertain state budget As of June 27, the state stopped dispensing financial aid to low-income students because the state budget hasn't been finalized, according to a Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers report. Nearly 3,800 college students around the state are still waiting to hear what kind of financial aid they will receive because of the delayed state budget ... Resident
Life waitlist surges past 1,500 Rooms that once housed two students now house three, and rooms that were once lounges are now housing as many as four students, Deb Grandner, the director of Resident Life said. Grandner ordered lounge and room conversions that opened up 180 more spaces, but the waitlist is still the longest since 1980.... The outlook for students on the waitlist is bleak, she said, and is unlikely to brighten in the spring. Most years, Resident Life depends on about 500 spaces opening via graduating seniors leaving the campus in December and study abroad students leaving the country. This year, Resident Life can't even estimate how many spaces will open because seniors were shut out from housing in March ... Local
students create united front The U of A, NAIT and Grant MacEwan College launched the Edmonton Alliance of Students at City Hall yesterday ... Deluxe
dorms don't emphasize academics College is now an experience, not a place to get an education. The experience emphasizes the superficial -- how your dorm is decorated (oops -- designed), campus gym/spa and TV size ... College
kids know thrifty and nifty "It's all good," says Encomienda. "The pricing, everything. Plus it's helping the environment. We're keeping things in circulation." Encomienda is not alone in passing stuff around. Thousands of college students are returning to school, looking for not only a place to sleep but a place to sit, too ... James
Cook Uni plans Townsville campus facelift Vice-chancellor Sandra Harding says the revamp is to occur over a 20 year period. She says the aim is to make the university a fully integrated part of the city in a similar way to universities in Oxford and Cambridge. "That is what we're driving at, that fully integrated idea of a university town in their cases, but in our case it will be a university city, but ... we'll do it a whole lot better than that because what we want to have here and develop here is a unique Australian tropical campus and I think because we're in the tropics we can do this in a natural way," ... Festival
kicks off with classical concert Beginning tonight, 17 of the best high school musicians in America will be joining Mercer University distinguished professor and renowned violinist Robert McDuffie as part of the McDuffie & Friends Labor Day Festival for Strings. The festival will feature two concerts - one tonight and one Monday - that are open to the public. The festival, marking its third year, is serving as a coming-out party for the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings, a new department under the umbrella of Mercer's Townsend School of Music that officially opened this fall semester ... Putting
the 'festival' into the AJC Decatur Book Festival DBF organizers admit they borrowed ideas from Miami's festival, including the 2007 field-trip day that brings area schools into the square, and the Promenade of the Book Krewes, a parade of dressed-up book clubs. But because of Decatur's unique civic flavor, the DBF leaves a different taste in fair-goers' mouths ... New
Program Boosts Cycling at University at Buffalo Bicycling at UB features the university's first bicycle-registration program, the installation of additional, user-friendly bike racks to securely store more than 300 bikes across the campuses and the addition of bike racks to all UB Stampede buses. It also marks the start of the university's first on-campus bicycle borrowing program as part of a partnership with Buffalo Blue Bicycles (BBB), the city-wide bicycle-lending program ... Columbia
Great Place To Invest An investor website says Columbia is among the top college towns for starting a business. Nu-wire.com reports Columbia has a low cost of living and real estate prices compared to the rest of Missouri. The average price of a home is just under $150,000. The website may be right - the city has many businesses springing up. And new business owners say Columbia is a great place to invest and to live ... 20-year
plan nears completion The majority of the discussion focused around Macomb’s northwest quadrant, an area ripe with WIU students living in off-campus houses and small apartments. The plan calls for the area to remain home to medium-density housing. Some members pointed out those houses are old, in disrepair and the area should be a future consideration for large apartment complexes to better suit student population. The argument that there are still many nice houses and non-student domiciles in the area won and the plan will suggest the area is suited for medium-density housing. Hoffman said he has personally spoken to several non-student, long-term residents in that area who led him to classify the area the way he did ... Judge
orders UC Santa Cruz to deal with city's concerns about growth Superior Court Judge Paul Burdick said UC's environmental study of its Long-Range Development Plan doesn't sufficiently deal with the impact of traffic, housing and water use on the city. The university now can either re-do its environmental impact report or appeal the decision. The judge urged both Santa Cruz and university officials to mediate — rather than spend more money to litigate disputes about UCSC growth. He went so far as to offer the names of mediators ... If
These Old Walls Could Speak According to Waites, the main historic districts in Columbia are the city’s core: Elmwood, Earlewood, the University area, Waverly, Old Shandon, Lower Waverly and Melrose Heights. The problem is, she says, that it takes too long for the city to approve other neighborhoods seeking historic status because the city only has a two-member staff for historic preservation ... Relaxed
rules ruin neighborhoods. Don't let it happen at Washington School. College
towns are still being counted as deeply poor he Plain Dealer last year exposed this college-town poverty phenomenon. It results from the Census Bureau's methodology of counting young adults who live off-campus and attend college fulltime. As long as their annual incomes are beneath the poverty line -- $10,294 -- they're counted among the impoverished, even if their parents pay their living expenses. The Census Bureau confirms it has not changed its methods ... We
can help WMU attract, keep students And that has been unfortunate for both. The city, especially downtown, misses out on the vitality that students bring to the towns where they go to school. The students may miss out on all the cultural and entertainment opportunities that the area has to offer beyond campus ... Hanover
School Board won't seek leniency for accused exam thieves Board members voted against asking Hanover Police prosecutor Christopher O'Connor to reduce charges against the students from misdemeanors to non-criminal violations. Four students are accused of taking the exams while others served as lookouts ... "This is a disaster, and I think you have to address it as that. This is a college town where intellectual honesty is a cherished commodity," ... New
Laurel Village offers comfort, security Laurel Village is the second UTSA-owned and operated student housing facility. In November 2006, construction began on the $39,182,000 project. This month, the first phase of the project opened with living quarters for 206 residents. In Summer 2008, Phase II will be complete with an additional 470 beds and a total project covering 185,000 square feet ... Mount
Holyoke College Residence Hall Renovation Wins Award for Outstanding Design Cutler Associates, an east-coast architecture and construction firm headquartered in Worcester, Massachusetts, offered a single-source, design-build solution to renovate the century-old Mead Hall student housing complex. The 42,000-square-foot project reconfigured underutilized spaces to create new common areas, add student beds, address accessibility concerns, and restore the facility to its original historic grandeur. The team was able to implement the award-winning design while also meeting the college’s goals for schedule and budget ... Students
are facing rent crisis “There is no accommodation turnover as graduates are no longer vacating their student housing once they have completed their degrees. Instead they are choosing to stay on and this is making the housing situation problematic for current and first time students.” ... Housing
Crunch at Skidmore One-third of the rooms at the Adirondack Inn in Saratoga Springs are blocked off in case Skidmore needs to house students there. The college is also turning 130 campus doubles into triples ... ... hat more upperclassmen are choosing to say on campus because of new housing and dining options and that's compounding the housing problem ... Programs
help warm relations between Cornell, community This annual, effective initiative, organized by the Campus-Community Coalition every August and May, is made possible with support from law enforcement, businesses, neighborhood groups, and student organizations ... Study
takes dim view of expanded Univ. Police With recent housing shortages sending more students off the campus, city officials say now is the time for the university to change police polices to help ensure student safety ... New
apartments face major problems More than 150 students moved into their new apartments Saturday, creating an overwhelming responsibility for a property that is still largely under construction. Four apartment buildings within the complex opened on Aug. 21, and another three opened Aug. 25 ... City
looks to offer 10-year outline for development Updated every 10 years, the comprehensive plan is the strategic visioning document for Oxford, according to Oxford Mayor Jerome Conley ... Oxford
summers cast college town in different light Summer Saturday mornings bring a charming farmer's market uptown, too. The local stands are full of fresh produce, handcrafted jewelry, artwork, and if you catch it on a good day, even a bongo drum band. I fell in love with the homemade cranberry muffins that the older ladies sold under their tents. Every day the uptown fountains were crowded with splashing toddlers, with all the moms huddled nearby catching up on the week's gossip. During the weeknights, I would take long bike rides out into the Oxford countryside. I learned to appreciate those cornfields that I used to ridicule ... Real
estate investors find gold in college towns Investors have spent at least $1.5 billion on U.S. student housing properties this year -- already 12 percent more than the average spent over the previous six years, Real Capital Analytics data show ... Wish
you were here As
enrollments soar, college grad rates lag The Holbrook resident's progress through higher education is typical nowadays. While more high schoolers than ever are enrolling in college, a disproportionate number are not staying in school, much less graduating ... Southern
Miss makes Hattiesburg top ten town Kiplinger noted, "The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (at USM) offers many of the privileges that students receive, such as membership in a credit union, access to health services, library cards and discounts for arts events." ... Daily Progress - 27 Aug 2007 Fires in college and university housing are on the rise. From 2002 to 2005, there were 39 deaths and 400 injuries from fires in dorms, barracks and fraternity and sorority houses ... College
Town Like No Other Is Set To Welcome Freshmen First-year students arriving at Barnard, Columbia, and New York University have many activities to choose from this week, including: yoga classes, exclusive tours of the new Greek and Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, chartered Circle Line cruises to the Statue of Liberty, mini-manicures and aromatherapy at on-campus spas, Coney Island beach parties, scavenger hunts in Times Square, walking tours of the East Village and Park Slope, shopping expeditions to SoHo, outings to popular local eateries such as Magnolia Bakery, and a chance to compete for free tickets and reservations to the city's hottest shows and hard-to-get-into restaurants ... Rental
housing crunch has students scrambling Victoria's rental market, which has been tight for a number of years, is in the middle of a back-to-school crunch. And with vacancy rates hovering around 0.8 per cent, students who didn't do their homework early in the summer are set to lose out ... Second
home sales rise in State College "It has a lot of the stuff of a big city without being a big city," said Don Keck, of Bradford ... UCA
makes professors, pupils neighbors The little red-haired boy with a soft spot for M&Ms and “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” had lived all but the first year of his life in a residence hall at the University of Central Arkansas, sharing space with kids a bit older, the kind whose musical tastes gravitate toward The Kooks or Death Cab for Cutie. Until his family moved this summer to more traditional on campus housing, it was one of four living in UCA student dormitories as part of a faculty-inresidence program that seeks to connect freshmen with their professors and one another. ... College
site links to our future Beyond their respective missions, our regional colleges hold the keys to unlocking many of our community opportunities. This is a high mantel in terms of expectations, but we have great leadership and collaboration at our region's colleges, and that unity in vision bodes well. It's a big reason why the Democrat and Chronicle, in partnership with Monroe Community College, SUNY Brockport, SUNY Geneseo, Nazareth College, St. John Fisher College, Roberts Wesleyan College and RIT, launched a Web site last week for students by students. It's called "The Loop'' (www.rocloop.com) and it's an interactive, multimedia, virtual student union linking the region's 19 campuses and more than 80,000 college students. My belief is that the Web site will give rise to a powerful collective voice that, when heard, will capture the imagination of a community ... Towns
fighting back against McMansions For the second time this year, the town is trying to pass regulations aimed at curbing the onslaught of so-called "McMansions" -- giant new homes, often plopped on tiny lots, that dominate the landscape. The Wellesley planning board has been pushing forward new rules to require site reviews for large houses, and builders have been fighting back tooth-and-nail ... Neighbors
stew while BC ponders "The big question is, what are they doing? That's what we need to know," said Lake Street resident Alessandro "Alex" Selvig, who is running for a Brighton City Council seat under a platform primarily geared at protecting his neighborhood from the college's possible expansion ... Unregistered
students cost councils millions Every resident between the ages of 20 and 65 generates an income of around 9,000 kronor for the council in funding designed to balance costs between local authorities. The southern university city of Lund is thought to be losing around nine million kronor per year ... College
state of mind: What is it that makes university towns like Davis different? People hear “college town” and they get a common image in their minds, but what is that place? What are the characteristics that connect college towns everywhere? Big cities with universities are not considered “college towns.” What's the difference? Cheap food, football and community ... Habitat
neighborhood rises in Irene Chapel The homes have been built in response to the acute housing need that developed in Southeast Mississippi in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Habitat committed at that time to several subdivisions that were to be built in various Hattiesburg neighborhoods. Among those who have come here to help build these pre-assembled homes: Students from Miami University of Ohio and Rocky Hill School in Rhode Island; Canadian students from the University of Guelph, and many other volunteers ... Madame
President: Nesbitt stands at center of 'dynamic' college The enrollment has more than doubled, a new academic building has been added, four-year degrees are being offered. Even the roads into the school have changed ... Over a few years, the school went from a few hundred students to nearly 2,500. Students saw the benefit of living near a major college town without getting lost in the crowd ... TRIBUNE-STAR
EDITORAL: ‘College town’ comes to life Our
view: Do we need tougher penalties for partying? First, yes, they are residents. Second, remember it is a very small percentage of them who cause problems. And third, most of the responsibility should undoubtedly go to the individuals who cause the problems. To achieve the latter, this community must honestly answer a simple question: Are we doing all we really can to hold people responsible for their actions? ... Austin
condo market: How much is too much? And the question at Austin cocktail parties is: Could downtown, where developers have more than 1,400 luxury condos under construction and nearly 3,200 planned for the next few years, end up with too many units and too few buyers? ... College
Students Reach Out To Community The students were serving food at Samaritan Ministries on Saturday. TSU's president said it is all apart of the school's motto, "Think, work, and serve." ...
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