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Berkeley students cited after delivering supplies to tree sitters
Union-Tribune - 15 Sep 2007
... BERKELEY, CA – Police arrested 21 students for trespassing after dozens of them climbed a fence to deliver supplies to a number of protesters sitting oak trees that are threatened by the planned construction of a campus athletic center.

The tree sitters have been firmly planted in the old oaks since December, after the University of California, Berkeley announced plans for a $125 million athletic training center on the site. The university contends the grove is the only place on campus where the new center can be placed ...

New UNDC Director Aims High for University Neighborhood
Daily News - 15 Sep 2007
... MEMPHIS, TN - "Part of the role we play is to be sure there is a seamless relationship in the planning that goes on around the university, and the planning that the university is engaged in," Barlow said. "The university's life is tied directly to the community that surrounds it.

"The way that students and their parents who consider coming here perceive the U of M has a lot to do with what is on campus, and also with what is across the street and what is in the neighborhood." ...

Avent West defined
News & Observer - 15 Sep 2007
...RALIEGH, NC - This weekend the neighborhood will open its doors for its third annual home tour.

Located near N.C. State University, Avent West consists of about 1,200 homes in the area formed by Avent Ferry Road, Athens Drive and Western Boulevard. Most of the homes are brick ranches and split-levels built from the 1940s through the 1970s, but many have been extensively remodeled.

Watts, who has lived in Avent West since 1991, describes it as a diverse neighborhood with an "old-timey" feel, including a mix of young families and married professionals. Students can walk to nearby A.B. Combs Leadership Magnet Elementary and Athens Drive High School ...

A Tudor Enclave, Newly Historic
Post - 15 Sep 2007
... WASHINGTON, DC - With architectural details reminiscent of merry old England -- leaded-style windows, coats of arms etched in stone above doorways, curved chimney pots and stone globes on the pediments -- there's an unmistakably historic feel to Washington's Foxhall Village, a 29-acre enclave of about 330 homes just west of Georgetown.

Bill Deegan and Melissa Kern, both eye surgeons, moved to Foxhall Village in 1995. They said they enjoy the community's diversity.

"There are students, but there are also retirees, and some people who have lived here for their whole lives. It's cohesive without being suffocating," Deegan said. "There is an informal togetherness; we are constantly walking the neighborhood with the kids and the dog." ...

O’Connor still stresses good things about city
Sun-Gazette - 15 Sep 2007
... WILLIAMSPORT, PA - The candidate also stressed the value of the city as a “college town” and urged its residents to embrace it. He stressed that most “college towns are vibrant success stories (and) we have nearly 10,000 college students.”

O’Connor suggested that, “by building on the success of the downtown cinema project ... we can grow our downtown to meet the needs of our year-round residents and college students alike.” ...

Locals reflect on merits of cycling
City residents encourage Miami to add lanes throughout campus
Miami Student - 14 Sep 2007
... OXFORD, OH - Oxford, a traditionally pedestrian-friendly city, is now becoming more bicycle-friendly as well, a trend that some students and Vice Mayor Prue Dana hope Miami University will follow.

Because of the bike lanes that were added last winter on Bishop and University streets, bicyclists in Oxford no longer have to spend a majority of their ride evading pedestrians and cars.

Look me in the eye
John Elder Robison always wanted to be normal. But after growing up with Asperger’s in a violent, unstable home, writing his life story taught him how extraordinary he really is
Times - 15 Sep 2007
... AMHERST, MA - When he was 40, one of his car customers (who is a therapist) told him that he thought he might be Aspergian. At first, John bridled. Then he began to read about it and his whole life changed. In his words, he went from being a misfit to an eccentric. Now he talks about normal ...

USM growing on Gorham
keepNEcurrent - 14 Sep 2007
... GORHAM, ME - The population of students living on campus grew this fall by about 100 as the university opened a new $21 million dormitory with 296 beds on Sept. 2. The new dorm alleviated crowded dorms and allowed the university to convert added rooms in other dorms to other uses. The new dorm will bring the total number of students living on campus to 1,500.

Business owners say the return of students and the growing on-campus population is good for local businesses. Town leaders say being home to a university comes with some costs, such as more work for police, but police say good relations with university officials and campus police has helped ease those strains ...

City Council Candidate Blog: Getting down to business
Daily Camera - 14 Sep 2007
... BOULDER, CO - I came to Boulder on the recommendation of my father, who said what a beautiful and intelligent City and University town this was.

I love this town and want it to thrive, while keeping it’s unique qualities, aesthetics and charm.

A Stroll Through Art in the Park
The Elm - 14 Sep 2007
... CHESTERTOWN, MD - Driving through town this past week I noticed a sign for Chestertown's Art in the Park held on Saturday, September 8th. In order to enjoy the beautiful weather on a lazy afternoon, I figured a walk around Fountain Park was the answer.

I grabbed a friend and an iced coffee and took off for downtown. The Chestertown Arts League sponsored numerous artists, jewelers, and musicians who came to display and sell their impressive goods ...

21-only creates fissure
Daily Iowan - 14 Sep 2007
... IOWA CITY, IA - Against: UI junior Atul Nakhasi and Bo-James owner Leah Cohen said the ban would just push the problem elsewhere, specifically to harder-to-patrol house parties.

"Parents do not know what goes on at these house parties," Cohen said, adding that ultimately, we are "throwing these kids to the wolves." ...

The school's $40 million Living and Learning Center offers suite-style apartments, full kitchens in lounge areas, ping-pong tables, pool tables and plasma TVs.

A single private room is $2,845 per semester. Shared rooms are $2,565 per semester. The charges include a complete meal plan.

"I would live here in a heartbeat, but I don't have the money," said Trisha Fletcher, 19, who pays $250 a month off campus ...

Miami University Raising Rates
WHIO - 14 Sep 2007
... OXFORD, OH - Miami University of Ohio announced Friday it's raising its room and board rates for next year.

Students will pay $8,998 for a room and 21-meal plan. This year, the same plan costs $8,600.

Miami University said each housing and meal plan are different, as some plans will cost more while others will cost less.

Administrators said they release the cost a year in advance so students can compare on-campus and off-campus housing prices ...

Buying College Housing A Good Choice?
Minyanville - 14 Sep 2007
... USA - Think back to all the stupid stuff you did as an undergraduate and ask another basic question: Do you want such idiocy played out on your property? ...

New housing development will give city 'family feel'
State News - 14 Sep 2007
... EAST LANSING, MI - City officials are looking forward to turning the Virginia Avenue area into a family-friendly haven, rather than the student-populated block it is now ...

The project, which the city hopes to have completed by February 2008, will replace mostly student rental houses on the block with housing for single families, said Stephanie Gingerich, an East Lansing community development analyst ...

The makings of a college town
Downtown 1940 - Downtown 2007
Colonnade - 14 Sep 2007
... MILLEDGEVILLE, GA - “Town and gown” refers to the relations between a university and the town or city in which it is located. GCSU has been located in Milledgeville since it was founded in 1889 as Georgia Normal & Industrial College. The college has grown and become a massive establishment in Milledgeville, contributing to economy, society, and historical importance.

The evolution of Milledgeville into a college town has jumped in recent years with the sudden student population explosion as recent as the mid-nineties. Craig Amason, the executive director of the Andalusia Farm off Hwy 441, went to GCSU in the late 1980s and says the town and the school have grown exponentially since. With that growth came the importance of a stronger and more in depth relationship between GCSU and the town of Milledgeville ...

Pricing Lessons From College-Town Proprietors
Forbes - 14 Sep 2007
... USA - School's back in session and that means good times for George Benedict. No, Benedict isn't president of a hard-partying fraternity; he's a fourth-generation flower store owner in Salisbury, Md ...

Students, community tell students how to party
Group distributes alcohol-related information in Arbor District
Daily Egyptian - 14 Sep 2007
... CARBONDALE, IL - Barb Elam said she wouldn't begrudge SIUC students a good time - she just wants them to celebrate cautiously.

Elam, coordinator at the Wellness Center, along with a group of SIUC students and staff joined Carbondale community members Thursday in an effort to raise awareness about the risks associated with alcohol and holding parties. The group left plastic bags containing information on legal issues and health risks associated with partying on doorknobs in Carbondale's Arbor District ...

No silver bullet for student drinking
Bulletin - 14 Sep 2007
... AMHERST, MA - The Amherst Police Department is bracing for another busy weekend, as students experimenting with alcohol drive their cars, disturb neighbors and assemble in large crowds late at night.

Last weekend, the first of the new semester, with warm weather encouraging outdoor rowdiness, it took police up to two hours to respond to all the noise complaints ...

September Brings Another Fabulous Madison World Music Festival
Wisconsin Union - 13 Sep 2007
... MADISON, WI - One of Madison’s highlights returns on September 13-15, when the Wisconsin Union Theater, in collaboration with other campus departments and community groups, presents the 2007 Madison World Music Festival. This year, you can contribute to the festival to help it thrive for years to come.

In its fourth year the festival again brings extraordinary artists from all over the world for free performances on the Terrace, in the Wisconsin Union Theater, at the Willy St. Fair and possibly in other venues. This year, we present a Rom (Gypsy) showcase with three bands (NY Gypsy All-Stars, Romano Drom* and Dhoad Gypsies) presenting three different styles of Romani music. The showcase will also include workshops by the artists and a lecture by professor Margaret Beissinger. Stiltwalking puppeteers Dragon Knights will add to the festivities and the sensational Dobet Gnahore, who performed in the theater last season, will wow the audience at the Willy St. Fair ...

Students raise election issues
Joural - 13 Sep 2007
... EDMONTON, AB - The city's main post-secondary student groups are urging candidates in next month's municipal elections to commit to affordable housing, better transit and social services.

"Students need our city to legalize secondary suites in mature neighbourhoods, to ensure existing suites meet building standards and in addition stimulating new supply," Steven Dollansky, a vice-president of the University of Alberta Students' Union, said Thursday ...

The (Non-Monetary) Value of a College Degree
Inside Higher Ed - 13 Sep 2007
... USA - With all the recent focus on accountability and “value added” by a college degree, it’s still common for a conversation on this topic to come down to individual earning potential. And a new report from the College Board has plenty of data to back up the well-worn claim that college graduates can expect significantly higher wages over their lifetime than their counterparts.

But perhaps its more significant contribution to the dialogue is, as the co-author Sandy Baum puts it, the quantification of non-monetary benefits. To that end, “Education Pays: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society,” can be seen as part of a growing campaign to frame higher education as not only a private investment but as a public good ...

Gyor, Hungary’s strategic city
Easier - 13 Sep 2007
...GYOR, HU - The University town of Gyor has a colourful, architecturally stunning centre accented by Baroque and Gothic buildings and the attractive Basilica. Lying at the confluence of three rivers, the Danube, Rába and Rábca, Gyor also has deer parks, energetic festivals and the newly opened Rába Quelle adventure pools, slides and thermal baths, but the real action is going on along the banks of the Danube in the shape of the new master-planned green-belt community of Városrét ...

Student housing
Legon gets major investment
Daily Mail - 13 Sep 2007
... LEGON, GH - President Kufuor on Tuesday cut sod for the commencement of work on a GHC 26 million hostel complex for the University of Ghana, Legon.

The project, being financed by six Ghanaian financial institutions, Cal Bank, Agric Development Bank, Ecobank Ghana, Fidelity Bank, International Commercial Bank (Ghana) and SG-SSB Ghana, is expected to be completed within the next two years. It will house over 7,000 students ...

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Back to headlines
Developer talks up Oakland renaissance
Tribune-Review - 13 Sep 2007
... PITTSBURGH, PA - Oakland might be the heart of university research and development in Western Pennsylvania, but it's also well-known for rundown student apartments and trash-lined streets.

With the right mix of public, university and private efforts, it could be redeveloped for the many well-paid university faculty and other staffers craving quality homes close to their workplace, officials said Wednesday.

"Oakland is one of the rare work-live-walk communities in this region," said Bill Hunt, CEO of The Elmhurst Group, which developed the year-old RAND Corp. Building at Fifth Avenue and Craig Street. "That's an asset that every city and every market would like to have." ...

$14.7M apartment portfolio sold
Press & Sun-Bulletin - 13 Sep 2007
... BINGHAMTON, NY - It's the second time in about a year that White Plains-based Coolidge Equities Ltd. has bought hundreds of apartments in the region for millions of dollars. Around September 2006, Coolidge bought a nearly 230-unit apartment portfolio, with holdings in Kirkwood and Binghamton, from MRT LLC of Binghamton for $5.75 million. That transaction included the Carriage House apartments on Route 11 in Kirkwood and 14 apartment buildings on Binghamton's West Side -- primarily student housing on Chapin, Murray and Oak streets ...

'Unique' student housing project gets council nod
Transcript - 13 Sep 2007
... NORMAN, OK - "It is intended to capture the idea of a neighborhood," said Sean Rieger, attorney for the developer, Capstone Development Company. "We are not an apartment complex."

The Cottages of Norman would be an about 197-unit project, with a bedroom count of about 641... Structures are planned to include small individual cottages ranging to multi-unit lodge buildings. It would feature front porches, pedestrian trails throughout, a fitness center, clubhouse and an open area ...

St. John’s Dorm Plan Angers Neighborhood
Chronicle - 13 Sep 2007
... QUEENS, NY - Despite assurances from St. John’s University that there would be no new off-campus buildings going up, a six-story dormitory is currently under construction on Henley Road in Jamaica Estates. Local residents and officials are furious with the school, which has already signed a 10-year lease for the 485-bed residence hall.

“It is outrageous that St John’s is disregarding the community by putting a student residence smack in the middle of a residential neighborhood,” ...

Zaragon tears down UofM's "Melrose Place" apartment to make room for new lofts
Metromode - 13 Sep 2007
... ANN ARBOR - This is what the last days look like for the apartment building University of Michigan students fondly called Melrose Place. The 84-year old building, which university students and staff called home, has sat empty for the last few weeks so it can be cleared for Zaragon Place Lofts. Another piece of Ann Arbor's architectural history bites the dust to make way for a plain brick box to store university students ...

College Town
The expanding universe of Yale University.
Advocate - 13 Sep 2007
... New Haven, CT - outside of Yale's walls, the school's endowment (some $18 billion)—along with the fame and fortune of its most notable attendees—breeds distrust among many in New Haven's working class and minority neighborhoods. There—in places like Dixwell, Newhallville and the Hill—the city's so-called renaissance gets mixed reviews. Its existence isn't denied (who can argue with the difference between the downtown of 10 years ago and the city center today?). But $30 entrees and designer boutiques send a message ...

City expands university-area zoning to include Cloverdale
News - 12 Sep 2007
... TUSCALOOSA, AL - The Tuscaloosa City Council voted to expand the “U Zone" to include the Cloverdale neighborhood Tuesday night but didn’t enact the companion zoning ordinance that would allow property owners to take full advantage of the new designation.

The council created the U Zone and companion zoning ordinances for the neighborhoods around the University of Alabama as a compromise between historical district residents and rental property owners. It protects historical neighborhoods by addressing sore points like students parking in front yards and gives property owners an incentive to redevelop their property ...

USM grad turned plan into big bucks
American - 12 Sep 2007
... HATTIESBURG, MS - Back when Ross Arroyo was a full-time student at the University of Southern Mississippi, he squeezed his secret plan, his perfect vision in between classes and a 40-hour work week.

Today, 10 years after graduation, he is the founder and chief executive officer of Service Management Group - a million-dollar tech company based in Hattiesburg ...

Construction increases campus housing competition
Guardian - 12 Sep 2007
... DAYton, OH - The trends of students living on campus as opposed to off campus has been holding steady for the last few years because of the development of near-campus housing ...

The numbers are staying steady despite what the statistics show because of the development of housing and apartments that are technically off campus but within walking distance; apartments such as Peppertree, Charter Woods, and Cimarron.
"Students are considering these choices because we still live in a very convenience driven society," said Dan Bertsos, Director of Residence Services. "It's just as convenient for them to live within walking distance as it is to live on campus." ...

Half full or half empty?
State Hornet - 12 Sep 2007
... SACRAMENT, CA -
This semester marks the opening of the Upper Eastside Lofts, an off-campus housing unit for Sacramento State students.

Unlike other student housing, the building is not owned by University Enterprises, but is instead leased on a 15-year term and administered by Allen & O'Hara, an outside property management company, which handles property management for over 70 student housing units across the country ...

Copper Beech fees frustrate residents
Delayed swimming pool construction, lacking amenities, services cannot justify activity costs
Daily Gamecock - 12 Sep 2007
... Columbia, SC - As the heat of summer continues, residents of Copper Beech Townhomes are missing out on the benefits of a community swimming pool, which hasn't been built yet.

With little sign of guaranteed amenities, Copper Beech tenants faced a pricey fee for the nonexistent pool in their most recent bill ...

College kids be warned: Obey housing regulations
Jeffersonian - 12 Sep 2007
... TOWSON, MD - In an August news release, the county acknowledged the contributions of area colleges and universities. But, County Executive Jim Smith went on to say, "we know that it is very important that students living in our neighborhoods abide by the rules."

The release relates to the friction in neighborhoods that historically has occurred when Towson University students -- and their lifestyles -- rub elbows with longterm residents and their lifestyles ...

5-year deal reached between campus and town of Amherst
Public services cooperation to increase
Daily Collegian - 12 Sep 2007
... AMHERST, MA - The University of Massachusetts and the town of Amherst signed a five-year strategic partnership in August to strengthen ties between the communities.

The new partnership with the town of Amherst includes a connection to the town's fire and ambulance services, agreements on town schools and public utilities, and assistance regarding economic development activities ...

Calling the Folks About Campus Drinking
NY Times - 12 Sep 2007
... Madison, WI - Over the past two years, Wisconsin has sought to control la vida loca with in loco parentis. The parents of any student taken to detox must hear directly from a dean. For students who receive a summons but do not need detox — or are ultimately released to the care of abstinent friends, as was the woman on this Friday night — the dean retains the option of telling Mom and Dad.

The Wisconsin policy in some ways is a throwback to the paternalistic past of colleges, when they enforced curfews and housed the sexes in separate dorms ...

A marginalized population
Student issues ignored in presidential campaigns, debates
New Hampshire - 12 Sep 2007
... DURHAM, NH - "For once I wish they would talk about issues that affect college students," King said. "I watched the debate on TV last night and they never talked about things I was interested in hearing about like government funding for schools, alleviating the cost of college tuition, creating new jobs in the future, stuff that is relevant to your everyday student."

Fellow senior Anna Peterson, who attended the debate live, was also frustrated, "I was extremely disappointed, almost annoyed, that they talked about the same issues that they have established positions on when I was more interested in hearing about issues like whether states would finally get the special education funding they'd been promised." ...

Invisible man
Diamondback - 12 Sep 2007
... COLLEGE PARK, MD - Are you satisfied with College Park? If the City Council sauntered up to students and asked them this, one could intelligently guess the typical response would be something like a "Hell, no!" followed by a string of complaints - no parking, subpar retail, high rents, poor policing, insufficient housing, an anti-college attitude in what could be a remarkable college town. We know this because we've heard it all before and dealt with it ourselves, and it's all legitimate and pressing. We are, most certainly, swamped with more issues than we know how to handle these days.

But the council isn't going around asking, and they're never going to. And the city is notoriously comfortable with sweeping any knowledge of student discomfort under the rug. That's why the fact that, just nine days before the elections, not one student has registered for candidacy for the College Park City Council - nor even projected serious interest in it - is not just a serious disappointment. It's a veritable disaster ...

Sunday alcohol debate pours on
City council hears much opposition to extending sale hours
KY Kernal - 12 Sep 2007
... LEXINGTON, KY - The Urban County Council held a work session that ended with a public hearing for community members to voice their opinions about the proposed alcohol ordinance change, which would expand the current law to allow package and by-the-drink sales of alcohol within certain times on Sundays.

Those who spoke against the law heavily outnumbered the people who spoke in favor of it in over two hours of public discussion ...

Despite housing slowdown, today's the time to buy
Can you afford to purchase if prices or interest rates rise?
Mortgage101 - 12 Sep 2007
... USA - For example, a 55-plus couple that we know has always wanted to return to the college town where they attended school. Their kids have grown and moved away; their primary source of income was Internet-based; and their dream was to reconnect with Slavic languages, earn teaching credentials and become teachers at a community college. Even though they had found a home in the college town and the area had shown consistent appreciation, the couple was concerned about the housing outlook ...

Introducing students to their new hometown
Townsman - 11 Sep 2007
... WELLESLEY, MA - Despite being home to more than 5,000 college students during the year, Wellesley is not, in many ways, a college town — there are no bars; stores and restaurants close relatively early; and retail prices are often outside a student budget. Still, there is more available in town than many students realize. “While ‘the Ville’ houses some college student staples like CVS, we realized that many students are not aware of what the town of Wellesley has to offer,” said Charoonratana. Interested in changing that, she, along with senior Clara Peterson, first-year Dean Lori Tenser and the former assistant director of student activities, Kate Durso, came up with the idea for what would become “A Taste of Wellesley.” ...

Party school rankings have no bearing on UW
Students should not fret over the Princeton Review's denial of UW-Madison on their list of top party schools.
Daily Cardinal - 11 Sep 2007
... MADISON, WI - UW-Madison was not included in the list of the Top Party Schools by the Princeton Review this year, and there is nothing wrong with that. After we ranked among the top schools in the last few years, including first overall three years ago, we received no recognition this year for our partying habits. But when there are so many other positive things about this school, why should such notoriety be missed? ...

Is it cheaper to buy or rent if you’re a student?
News - 11 Sep 2007
... WORCHESTER, UK - THOUSANDS of 18-year-olds across Britain are preparing to move out of home for the first time as they set off to university this autumn. For the students it will be their first real taste of freedom, away from the prying eyes of parents.

But for mothers and fathers, sending your child off to university is not only an emotional wrench, but weighs extremely heavy on the family purse ...

Town of Ithaca puts moratorium on northeast construction
Journal - 11 Sep 2007
... ITHACA, NY - “We can't just set up a committee and have it wander off,” she said. “Just show me a charge and I would be happy to set up a planning committee.”

Board members took that bait, latching onto a recommendation from the planning board for the town board to look at excessive student housing on Pennsylvania and Kendal avenues to demand that a resolution to establish a town board committee be immediately enacted ...

Towson retail proposal weighed
County may put $18.2 million into Circle III project
Sun - 11 Sep 2007
... TOWSON, MD - Baltimore County officials are considering kicking in $18.2 million toward a new parking garage for a private retail development near the heart of the county seat called Towson Circle III.

The project, a joint development by Heritage Properties and the Cordish Co., generated controversy in Towson several years ago when plans included student housing for Towson University, an unpopular proposal among community leaders ...

Edinboro University begins $115 million building project
Post Gazette - 11 Sep 2007
... EDINBORO, PA - Edinboro University of Pennsylvania has announced a $115 million student housing and dining project, the largest in the school's history and the first new residence halls on campus in three decades.

The housing project will provide 1,598 beds in suite units in eight buildings. The first suites will be ready for occupancy in 2009, with the project completed by 2011 ...

Oberlin courts a city manager
Chronicle-Telegram - 11 Sep 2007
... OBERLIN, OH - Norenberg, 44, has for the last two decades helped run Mesa, Ariz., a suburb of Phoenix with a population of about 500,000. He manages the Information Technology Department, which has an annual budget of $21.7 million.

How that translates into operating the small college town of Oberlin — population 8,239 — has Johnson a bit worried.

“He’s a pretty sharp guy, but I wonder whether he can contract that vast experience for Oberlin,” Johnson said ...

Things Are Looking Up for Sunnyside Project
After a roof collapses on Grant Avenue, university agrees changes need to be made to the neighborhood.
State Journal - 11 Sep 2007
... MORGANTOWN, WV - On August 18, seven West Virginia University students were standing on a roof at their rental home on Grant Avenue when suddenly it collapsed. Two of the students were taken to the hospital. The house is in an area called Sunnyside, long known as a blighted neighborhood. Now Morgantown and WVU are teaming up to make off-campus housing safer ...

Congress Approves Student Loan Overhaul
NY Times - 10 Sep 2007
... USA - Congress gave final approval to a broad overhaul of federal student loan programs today, sharply cutting subsidies to lenders and increasing grants to needy students.

In quick succession, both the House and Senate approved the changes, allowing Democrats to say they had made good on one of their campaign promises last year to ease the strain of rising college costs. In the Senate, the bill passed 79 to 12, reflecting broad bipartisan support, while in the House it passed in a voice vote ...

The American 'residential college' movement
Burnei Times - 10 Sep 2007
... ITHACA, NY - Since the mid-90s, amid concerns about the marginalisation of undergraduates, universities have sought ways to keep upperclassmen from moving off campus while providing more faculty interaction and supervision. Dozens have turned to the residential college, a system intended to dissolve the borders between the social and academic elements of campus life by gathering many of them under the same roof - literally ...

The next Ann Arbor? Ypsilanti hopes to learn from its neighbor
Crain's - 10 Sep 2007
... YPSILANTI, MI - Ann Arbor's success at attracting new, diverse investment is held aloft as proof Michigan cities can blossom amid the domestic auto industry's tribulations.

Cheaper real estate, a major university and the same talent pool from which Ann Arbor draws are the selling points Ypsilanti business and civic leaders plan to use in efforts to attract new investment and jobs ...

City to study sustainability
Effort aims to get residents talking about big changes
Seacoast - 10 Sep 2007
... PORTSMOUTH, NH - With the term "sustainability" becoming more and more ingrained in the collective consciousness of the Seacoast, the Piscataqua Sustainability Initiative and Portsmouth Listens are teaming up to implement sustainable practices.

Through education, PSI, a grass-roots effort borne out of the city's Blue Ribbon Committee on Sustainable Practices, hopes to generate excitement and energy about making a difference in the Portsmouth community and beyond ...

Home to not quite 40,000 people and a perennial favorite in "best small city" rankings of national magazines, Burlington is dwarfed by the natural grandness that surrounds it: the wide, blue view of Lake Champlain; the hazy embrace of the Green Mountains. People here are deeply attached to that contrast and have long preferred to keep their man-made landmarks to a manageable scale.

So when the University of Vermont opened its huge new student center last month, a sprawling, four-story monolith of brick and steel built alongside Main Street on the hill that functions as the gateway to the city, it was met with considerable unease ...

University Estates adding student apartments??
Athens News - 10 Sep 2007
... ATHENS, OH - University Estates is a massive development project being built on 830 acres of land off of Ohio Rt. 692 and Armitage Road on Athens far northwest side. The project includes proposals for single-family housing, condominiums, a continuing care retirement community, a golf course, housing units near the golf course that can be rented, commercial property, a gated community and now student housing ...

Burn Down a Poet’s House, and the Mail Just Pours In
NY Times - 10 Sep 2007
... USA - The narrator of “An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England” is an accidental firebug “with blood and soot on his hands.” He committed the unspeakable crime of burning down Emily Dickinson’s house. Thus he threw Amherst, Mass., into turmoil, not only because he violated the legacy of the college town’s cherished literary Belle but also because he killed “two of its loafered citizens” in the process ...

Students make do in temp housing
About 160 at UI begin year without permanent home
Press-Citizen - 10 Sep 2007
... IOWA CITY, IA - It sounds like a new student's housing nightmare: Instead of sharing a two-person dorm in Hillcrest or Burge, complete with air conditioning and room to unpack, they are assigned to temporary housing.

That means as many as eight people crammed into a room meant to be a study lounge. It's sparse, too: four sets of bunk beds, no closet or dresser to unload clothes or other items and one Internet port for everyone to share.

Street brawl erupts
A house party turns into a violent debacle as students battle police officers on Fleming Drive in east London.
Free Press - 10 Sep 2007
... LONDON, ON - A "huge house party" turned into a street brawl early yesterday as London police battled a largely Fanshawe College student crowd in an east London neighbourhood.

More than 30 officers were called to Fleming Drive shortly after midnight to subdue a "violent" crowd of 300 to 500 and used a taser on one person on the street known as a student residence area.

"It was nuts, it was just crazy," Const. Reed Holland said of the clash between youth and police ...

College students can be boon for local businesses
Democrat & Chronicle - 9 Sep 2007
... ROCHESTER, NY — When summer begins turning to fall, my wife and I know it's time for alternatives to the Geneseo Family Restaurant as the place for Sunday breakfast.

The college students are back in town, and because the GFR's location on Main Street is a short walk from the 5,300-student campus, the restaurant is packed.

And oh, does that make the Main Street merchants happy. Ditto for Brockport, the other epitome of a college town in the Rochester region ...

This town rocks
Oregonian - 9 Sep 2007
... PORTLAND, OR - The musicians are coming for Portland's craft-your-destiny vibe and the village feel of enclaves such as Northeast Alberta and North Mississippi. And they're coming to shape and bask in a rich music scene -- witness this weekend's Music Fest NW -- without the celebrity treatment.

"I could throw a rock from my front porch and hit any one of four or five home studios," says Walla, 31, who settled near Alberta while his band mates stayed in Seattle. "I love that I live in a neighborhood where I can run into my friends on the street. It's like everything I always loved about a college town without the college town baggage." ...

Boone basks in football spotlight
News-Record - 9 Sep 2007
... BOONE, NC — Two weeks ago, Boone was best known as a ski town with a decent mid-size college.

It didn't have the college-town allure of Chapel Hill. And it was far from a tourist trap like Myrtle Beach.

But on Saturday, Appalachian State University fans packed the parking lots around the school to the brim, with grills smoking and footballs flying ...

‘Village’ comes together for Habitat home
Daily Record - 9 Sep 2007
... SAN MARCOS, TX - Meanwhile, about 10 students from the construction program at Texas State University screw down the final sheets of metal on the roof ...

“We are training students to be construction managers. This means they will need to know how to do contracts and estimate labor rates,” Winek said. “What a wonderful real world experience for students to learn how a house goes together. And while they are learning, they are contributing to our community.” ...

Part of the University of California at Davis, it has added to the sophistication of the community, increased business for its downtown neighbors and inspired young people.

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