Build it and they will come
Former university student is building a housing empire in Waterloo
Chronicle - 31 Oct 2007
... WTERLOO, ON - No ordinary 25-year-old spends his mornings standing in the penthouse of his nearly completed 10-storey building, simultaneously fielding questions, courting real estate agents and overseeing construction ...

Today we dine on gyros
City Pulse - 31 Oct 2007
... EAST LANSING, MI - The original Spartan Gyro in Niles, Mich., closed in 2002, but father and son agree that East Lansing is a better location for their business, which opened Oct. 18. The owners say their offerings are unique to the Lansing area because they serve traditional gyros from a 40-pound, slow-cooked beef and lamb rotisserie. The Christodoulideses also agree that the best item on the menu is the gyro. “I eat them every day,” Steve says. ...

Co-owning a restaurant at 19 in a fast-paced college town might sound stressful, but George enjoys the challenge. “I like working for myself, and restaurant work is what I know best,” ...

College-town planners seek help from UK
Kernel - 31 Oct 2007
... LEXINGTON, KY - Students from the UK College of Design are working to help unify UK, Transylvania University and downtown Lexington by planning expansion ideas for what many call the college-town community.

College town is the area of neighborhoods and restaurants between UK's campus and downtown that are occupied and visited by both students and the Lexington community ...

Zipcar and Flexcar Driven Together
Car-Sharing Leaders Expect to Turn Profit Within a Year
Post - 31 Oct 2007
... USA - The new Zipcar will serve about 50 cities, including dozens of college towns, in 23 states and two Canadian provinces, as well as London. When the purchase is completed, which is expected to be this week, the company will have 180,000 members and more than 5,000 vehicles in dozens of models, including the hybrid Toyota Prius, the Subaru Outback and the Mini Cooper ...

New WSU lobby could backfire
ASWSU's proposed split from the Washington Student Lobby could have unintended consequences for WSU-Pullman
Daily Evergreen - 31 Oct 2007
... PULLMAN, WA - Rather than a well-developed, highly utilized main campus supported by specialized branch campuses, it's easy to see the WSU system converging into a statewide collection of “mini-colleges,” all with similar things to offer but nothing unique within them. This does not serve to bring students together, it creates further confusion as to what WSU is. In order to truly serve the interests of WSU, we have to remember our “roots.” WSU is most accurately represented by its history as an agricultural college, filled to capacity with passionate students and faculty, an underdog mentality and surrounded by a supportive and safe college town environment securely in the middle of nowhere. We cannot afford to lose sight of that identity, by overstepping our reach and expanding without limits ...

Local residents raise concerns with new dorms
Daily Orange - 31 Oct 2007
... SYRACUSE, NY - In this privately funded project, Syracuse University would lease the land to Allen and O'Hara, the commercial construction company that proposed the project, for about 40 years. The facility would be maintained and managed by the company while in compliance with SU's housing regulations, creating a hybrid alternative for students ...

How Madison Exorcised Halloween
Time - 30 Oct 2007
... MADISON, WI - Halloween rioting plagued the ritual from 2002 to 2005, replete with tear gas-saturated finales. City officials last year finally decided to fence off State Street and charge admission fees, limiting attendance to 80,000. This year, Madison is tapping into corporate America in the hopes of turning a civic black eye into something its Visitors and Conventions Bureau can boast about ...

Odds and Bodkins: Isabella Rossellini Awkwardness, What to Rent
NY Magazine - Oct 2007
... CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - I don’t go to a lot of film festivals for reasons I won’t bore you with, but every year I can’t wait to get down to Charlottesville, Virginia, in late October and/or early November. It’s a day or three of low-pressure bliss in one of America’s loveliest college towns in its most beautiful (and allergy-free) season ... The Virginia Film Festival

South Carolina Paper Devotes two Front Pages to Student House Fire
Editor & Publisher - 30 Oct 2007
... COLUMBIA, SC - "We are a college town and the University of South Carolina is so much a part of this town and the community and it makes the kids that go there part of everything," she said. "It was a very easy decision. The most important thing in Columbia is the kids who died." ...

City council seeks say in Brackenridge
Daily Texan - 30 Oct 2007
... AUSTIN, TX - Austin City Council Member Jennifer Kim announced Monday that she will support a resolution opposing the potential development of the 141-acre Lions Municipal Golf Course, a part of the UT-owned Brackenridge Tract.

The resolution requests that UT seek input from the city and West Austin residents in planning for development of the tract ...

Kim said the University has not sent representation to the city neighborhood planning meetings, thus excluding the city and West Austin residents in the initial planning process.

"I think they need to include the city because all the efforts the city has made to get information and reach out to them have been ignored," ...

The Biking Revolution Hit the Streets Dressed in Costumes in a Midwest College Town
PWWEB - 30 Oct 2007
... KIRKSVILLE, MO - The Biking Revolution hit the streets in style on October 26th, 2007. Despite rain, there were between sixty five and seventy happy cyclists who showed up for Kirksville's first Halloween Costume Critical Mass bike ride, with about 50% of riders in costume. This is a large turn out for many Critical Mass rides, but is especially big for Kirksville, a Midwest college town of only about 18,000 people. Among those participating on the ride were a mass of college kids, small children, high school BMXers, a roller blader, and even a dog in a basket. In fact, several people came from as far as 30 miles to participate in the ride and there were four media coverage reps: The Kirksville Daily Express, the Edge web cast (in costume), KTVO news, and a documentary camera man!

The monthly ride, which started in Kirksville last spring and happens the last Friday of every month at 5:30, has grown quickly. This growth is in large part due to college students who are passing out Biking Revolution Bracelets, made from used bike inner tubes. They have been passing out the bracelets to raise awareness about the new Kirksville Bike Co-op that's just formed, the Critical Mass rides, and to support bike culture in general ...

Varsity on pedals in go-green drive
Telegraph - 30 Oct 2007
... INDIA - Manipal University students don’t need a driver’s licence. All they need to do is balance themselves on a bicycle.

The university, which offers graduate and post-graduate professional courses, is worried about the possibility of its students’ rash driving. With accidents increasing sharply, university authorities have decided to introduce cycle zones.

In fact, first-year degree students will have to compulsorily cycle to classes, hostels and even for trips outside, as it plans to prevent them from using two and four-wheelers in the sprawling university-town’s campus ...

Most student-related fires happen off-campus
Camera - 30 Oct 2007
... BOULDER, CO - More than 80 percent of university-related fire fatalities nationwide happen in off-campus buildings, according to a publication that tracks such blazes and encourages fire-safety experts to do a better job educating upperclassmen living in apartments and houses.

College officials, who traditionally do a good job educating students in the dorms about fire safety and hazards, need to build up their programs and reach out to the majority of their students — who live off-campus, says Ed Comeau, a former fire investigator who now publishes Campus Firewatch ...

Third and U Café to open in December
Aggie - 30 Oct 2007
... DAVIS, CA - The former location of Café Roma at the corner of Third and University won't be vacant for much longer. In December, Third and U Café will open its doors and offer service geared toward students, with affordable food and free wireless internet ...

In addition to the vegetarian menu, Decong and Gilchrist are making other changes to cater to the population of Davis. The café will serve all organic and full fair trade coffee from Tony's Coffee and Teas, a company that was voted best coffee in the Seattle area for the last two years. Bread made locally at Village Bakery and weekly dessert specials will also be featured, Decong said ...

Clever T-shirts get more laughs
Collegian - 30 Oct 2007
... STATE COLLEGE, PA - Last week, a shirt in the window of People's Nation, 126 E. College Ave., caused quite a stir.

The store displayed a not-so-subtle, anti-Ohio State shirt, reading "Buck the F - -keyes," proudly in its window, and owner Art Fine said it was one of his best sellers ...

Judge: Activists in trees must go
Alameda County judge orders sitters to leave or face jail time and fine
Times-Star - 30 Oct 2007
... BERKELEY, CA - The tree sitters are protesting the university's plans to build a $125 million sports training center on the site of the grove. The university haspledged to plant three trees for every one that is removed, but protesters say about 40 trees can not be adequately replaced because of their age and size. In September, the university asked a judge to order the tree sitters down after they outfitted their tree village with two large propane tanks and had open flames burning in the trees ...

Landlords price out UW students
Badger-Herald - 29 Oct 2007
... MADISON, WI - A friend of mine who attends Ohio State estimated that the average price a student will pay for his or her own bedroom in a decent apartment is between $325 and $350. This price usually doesn’t include utilities as many of Madison’s apartments also exclude, yet the price seems much more reasonable for a student budget. How is this possible, when I was paying $465 per month for a thin-walled, dirty and cheap apartment through a vile and dishonest rental company? ...

UM Renter Center moves back in
Missoulian - 29 oCT 2007
... MISSOULA, MT - After six months of dormancy, the Associated Students of the University of Montana's Renter Center is back in business ...

The center has three missions. No. 1 is serving as a mediator in student/landlord disputes. That can involve technical questions about a rental contract or more social matters such as neighborhood relations ...

Monmouth U. decision stands
State Supreme Court refuses to hear dormitory appeal
Press - 29 Oct 2007
... WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ — The state Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by a group of residents seeking to block construction of a Monmouth University dormitory.

The Supreme Court issued its decision without comment, as is its custom. The action set the stage for construction of the 196-bed dormitory and adjacent parking lot in a residential zone near the school ...

A CHANGING CITY SEES HOTEL PLANS, AND HOPES, RISE
Star-Telegram - 28 Oct 2007
.... ARLINGTON, TX - Another big-dollar announcement, another big catalyst for Arlington, and the city's once-improbable revival rolls on ...

So the dream of a central Arlington hot spot where people live, work and play -- a notion that seemed out of reach five years ago -- now looks like a real possibility.

Other developers have unveiled denser housing options in recent months, including town homes closer to downtown Arlington, an area that the city is also trying to revive. The University of Texas at Arlington is a key player on that front, planning a College Town with dorms and retail, a new engineering building, a new arena and more ...

Community colleges changing course as students, needs shift
Seattle Times - 28 Oct 2007
... SEATTLE, WA - After high school, Melissa Pederson yearned for a traditional college experience. So she moved into campus housing with roommates from around the world and immersed herself in her wooded, secluded school.

Yet Pederson's move was far from typical: She was among the first students in King County to live on a community-college campus. Now finishing her sophomore studies at Green River Community College in Auburn, Pederson, 20, is one of a growing number of students taking advantage of shifts in the mission and approach of two-year colleges ...

Bowling Green rated top hometown
Magazine: City among 5 best places to live in Ohio
Blade - 28 Oct 2007
... BOWLING GREEN, OH - Yesterday, Bowling Green received word that it was chosen by Ohio Magazine as one of the state's five best hometowns ...

... it has all the benefits of a college town, but maintains the flavor of a traditional American community that's "a great place to live and raise children."

The magazine points out the city's parks, museums, downtown eateries and shops, the public library, and, of course, Bowling Green State University.

"The downtown shows a city that is alive and well and where there are attractions not only for visitors to the town but that make it just a terrific place to live," ...

Make a Difference volunteers defy heavy rain to clean up neighborhood
The Record - 28 Oct 2007
... ALBANY, NY - Students from the state University at Albany and members of two local Boy Scout troops pitched in to clean up a section of Albany's south end Saturday for national Make a Difference Day. The rain that fell all day made an already difficult job even more of a hardship.
"I'm still wet, but I think we lucked out because the downpours held off until after 1 p.m.," ...

City seeks to redefine public housing: Redevelopment ideas bring hope, skepticism
Daily Progress - 28 Oct 2007
... CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - When community activists and Charlottesville officials describe the potential redevelopment of Westhaven and other public housing complexes, they depict a sweeping, audacious vision ...

Clothier becomes first in Row
Filling’s offers F&M students another version of the ‘classics’ in College Row shop.
Intelligencer-Journal - 28 Oct 2007
... LANCASTER, PA - Filling's on College Row is a pioneer, nevertheless, in being the first business to clear away the posters lining the shop windows in the new retail center across from Franklin & Marshall College and open its doors to the public.

Joining Filling's soon will be Iron Hill Brewing, a restaurant/brew pub that expects to open late next month, said Kevin Finn, Iron Hill's president ...

Universities in Building Boom to Accommodate Students
REAL ESTATE: Schools looking for funds for million-dollar projects
Business Journal - 28 Oct 2007
... ORANGE COUNTY, CA - Orange County’s top three universities are in the middle of a development boom.

Growing student populations, money from tuition and private donations as well as state funds are driving the building of classrooms, dormitories, student recreation centers and an athletic complex at California State University, Fullerton, the University of California, Irvine and Chapman University ...

Dorm foes challenge zoning law over site of St. John's University facility
Daily News - 28 Oct 2007
... QUEENS, NY - City councilman Tony Avella wants to fix a glaring loophole in city zoning law that makes it legal to put a 485-bed college dormitory in a residential neighborhood.

There's one problem - he's got some competition ...

Forget the dorm, how about a condo for your college kid?
Sentinel - 28 Oct 2007
... ORLANDO, FL - Checklist as your teenager heads off to college: Don't forget to: a) pay the tuition; b) have the safe-sex talk; c) have the drinking-and-driving talk; and d) buy your student a house or condo ...

 

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