TownGown World discusses Purpose Built Housing
TownGownWorld.com - Dec 2007
... CANADA, UK, USA - TownGown World has recently published a discussion of Purpose Built housing, examining the role of PBD in the housing of a growing student population. Articles discussing this issue from developers, student groups, academics and neighbourhood groups make this discussion a "must read" for communities hosting higher educational institutions.
www.towngownworld.com

South University Students Give Holiday Makeover to Family in Need Video
WTOC - Dec 2007
... SAVANNAH, GA - We hear about home makeovers all the time, but what about holiday makeovers? This is the time of year when many people take it upon themselves to make sure those less fortunate have a merry Christmas.

And that's what some South University students are doing. For three years now, they have surprised a family in need with an extreme holiday makeover ...

Building them like they used to
Bloomington development bucks zoning standards to blend new with old
Business Journal - 15 Dec 2007"
... BLOOMINGTON, IN - As high-density residential construction booms in downtown Bloomington and sprawl continues in surrounding Monroe County, a new development is offering an old-school alternative.

The South Dunn Street development will include 38 bungalows, four squares and 1-1/2 story cottages—the same early 20th-century styles that occupy the rest of the surrounding Bryan Park neighborhood ...

Yale and New Haven Find Common Ground
NY Times - 15 Dec 2007
... NEW HAVEN, CT - AS a former real estate developer, Bruce D. Alexander is particularly well positioned to lead Yale University’s effort to improve downtown New Haven. On a recent tour, he crowed about the city’s revival as a destination for urban shoppers and suburbanites out for a night on the town, and was quick to promote the city’s thriving restaurant scene ...

Mr. Alexander’s boosterism is just one facet of a well-financed program that over the past 14 years has transformed Yale from the punching bag of New Haven politicians and community activists into a welcome partner in the city’s revitalization. The change in attitude was ushered in by Richard C. Levin, an economics professor who became the university’s president in 1993 ...

Residents enraged at ‘blight’ designation, seek repeal of redevelopment plan
Clarksville Online - 15 Dec 2007
... CLARKSVILLE, TN - Audacious. Over the top. Unprecedented. A developer’s “fantasy come true.”

All words used Friday evening to describe the Clarksville Center Redevelopment Plan that deems 1800 parcels of lands and two square miles of the city as “blighted,” a move that would allow the city to take property designated as blighted and “redevelop” it to its maximum potential. Read “profit.” ...

‘Wave Of The Future'
865 East Promises To Offer Students A Secure, Upscale Environment
News Record - 15 Dec 2007
... HARRISONBURG, VA - A new level of student housing is in the works, developers say.

With a green light from City Council, builders are ready to proceed with 865 East, a seven-story building that would house 96 apartments and 15,654 square feet of retail space ...

Regents approve new dorm
SE Missourian - 15 Dec 2007
...CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO - In November, the university's foundation purchased the Henderson House, formerly a private apartment complex on campus, to create additional student housing. The apartments will be converted to 40 double-occupancy rooms by fall 2008.

A "Greek Village" was proposed over the summer by school officials but was dropped in favor of the new dorm. The village would have created townhouse-style housing for Greek students near the Show Me Center and transformed their current housing into residence halls for freshmen ...

Do renters get a bad rap?
Gazette - 15 Dec 2007
... WHITEWATER, WI - “This is a college town,” Taylor said. “The city would be completely different if it wasn’t for the university, which is a tremendous asset to this community.

I believe the more we spread out and interact with the community, the better it is for everyone,” he added. “Segregating the two groups is a huge mistake.” ...

Moscow noise ordinance goes to vote Monday
KLEW- 15 Dec 2007
... MOSCOW, ID - Clevenger is at the forefront of the fight against the ordinance modification. As the ordinance is currently written, many factors go into handing out citations for noise. First, it must come from a complaint of someone, with quote - normal sensitivities. It depends on the nature or zoning of the land the noise is coming from, the time of day it happens, the duration of the sound, and whether the sound is recurrent, intermittent, or constant. The purpose of the change is to decrease the "party house" atmosphere in the college town ...

Retiring in a college town
Columbia draws the boomer generation with a multigenerational environment, sporting events and small town charm.
Missourian - 14 Dec 2007
... COLUMBIA, MO - Demographic shifts are taking place across the United States in towns like Columbia. The trend of migrating retirees, coupled with an aging native population, is set to drive up Columbia’s median age, currently a youthful 26.8 years ...

“Our original goal was 2,000 by 2000, meaning that we’d get 2,000 more people to retire here than the census predicted,” said Don Laird, current president of the chamber of commerce and a former member of the Retire to Columbia campaign committee ...

Middle school students take part in experiment Video
Kettering University gives tour before lego competition
WJRT - 14 Dec 2007
... FLINT, MI - There are now six colleges or universities in Genesee County, so there's increased interest in marketing Flint as a college town.

One of them, Kettering University, is promoting high tech skills by using the old adage, "start 'em young." ...

Uncovering the world of 'hidden tech'
CNN - 14 Dec 2007
... USA - In the late 1990s she noticed more and more tech companies springing up in the college town of Amherst, Massachusetts. "In my neighborhood ... I found six tech companies in these modern contemporary homes," Zuckerman said. "I was flabbergasted. This was not what this neighborhood was known for."

She called it "hidden tech" and established a networking and educational Web site in 2001 for mostly home-based, high-tech business owners. CNN spoke with Zuckerman to find out more about the world of "hidden tech." ...

COD'S expansion heading east
Indio Sun - 14 Dec 2007
... PALM SPRINGS, CA - Planners of College of the Desert-East Valley Center are thinking the area could have the look, feel and amenities of a traditional college town.

So they've added a housing development with shopping to the center designed to bring higher education closer to Indio and other East Coachella Valley cities.

Plans for Panorama: A College Town - a complex of nearly 3,000 single- and multi-family units in a community southeast of Indio - were delivered by Rick Post, dean emeritus of College of the Desert ...

Online buys fill college mailrooms
Web orders bring clerks surprising packages
News - 14 Dec 2007
...USA - David J. Amescua, supervisor for incoming mail at the University of Southern California, said the car tires that came through his mailroom arrived unwrapped, with a sturdy tag indicating the intended recipient and the necessary postage.

"That's the weirdest thing," said Amescua, who has worked at the university for more than 30 years. "Now that they have access to buying online, we have all kinds of stuff coming through here." ...

MTSU needs new mind-set on expansion
News Journal - 14 Dec 2007
... MURFREESBORO, TN -

MTSU should tread lightly as it embarks on an ambitious expansion plan to serve a burgeoning enrollment.

The university is already scaring neighbors who believe it will condemn their property and kick them out of their homes, many of them historic residences, during its long-term planning process ...

How sweet it is
OU holds gingerbread house contest
Messenger - 14 Dec 2007
... ATHENS, OH - Thirty teams comprised of OU staff members competed in the Gingerbread House Decorating Contest held at the West 82 food court in Baker Center. Teams were made up of four to six people from a host of OU departments, including from the College of Fine Arts, University College, the Center for International Studies and the Admissions Office. The Front Room even formed a team to get in on the gumdrop fun ...

City to hold public meeting on student housing issue
Amended bylaw will be available online by Dec. 21
NewsDurhamRegion - 14 Dec 2007
... OSHAWA, ON - The contentious issue of student rental housing near UOIT will go back to the public in January, when the City hosts a second public meeting.

Earlier this year, City staff put forward a proposed bylaw to regulate rental housing near the campus ...

New off-campus police unit at Towson touts success
Examiner - 14 Dec 2007
... TOWSON, MD - - A newly formed police unit tackling nuisance crimes associated with off-campus student housing in Towson has issued “hundreds of citations” and made “dozens of arrests” in the past month ...

Master plan: Mother of all documents
Bulletin - 14 Dec 2007
... AMHERST, MA - On Tuesday, the committee had an interesting debate over privately developed student housing to expand tax revenues and reduce the pressure on residential neighborhoods, which the plan endorses, and the significance of a random survey last summer that may have indicated popular opposition.

Member Aaron Hayden said the plan can't ignore the presence of thousands of students and has to take some positions that may be unpopular. "We can't build a fence around the university and keep them away," ...

Housing plan raises bias question
News - 14 Dec 2007
... BUFFALO, NY - The president of Villa Maria College said Wednesday she is surprised by a state official’s assessment that the college’s $100 million plan for a gated student apartment complex in northwest Cheektowaga appears to violate state laws against discrimination ...

The state Division of Human Rights announced Wednesday that it served subpoenas on developers of the project, including the college, after negotiating with them for two months regarding the removal and relocation of current tenants ...

Council puts limits on apartments
College students targets of ordinance
BostonNow - 14 Dec 2007
... BOSTON, MA - The days of apartments jammed with students may soon be coming to an end in Boston.

The City Council passed an ordinance yesterday that says no more than four college students, undergraduate or graduate, can live in apartments in residential areas - regardless of the size of the unit ...

Law would aim to curb spread of 'mini-dorms'
Union-Tribune - 13 Dec 2007
... SAN DIEGO, CA - The San Marcos City Council has decided to delay a decision on a proposed ordinance designed to prevent houses in residential areas from becoming “mini-dorms.”

The council was set to vote Tuesday night on a proposed rooming-house ordinance that it had approved last month. But council members agreed to wait until January to rule on the matter after a handful of people said the ordinance would unfairly punish all college students for the misbehavior of a few ...

You Tube case prompts official action against landlord
WFIE - 13 Dec 2007
...EVANSVILLE, IN - It's the story of an Evansville landlord whose confrontation with his college tenants is now shown on You Tube.

The students, upset with they called a lack of repairs to their rental home, posted a five-part video on You Tube. Since our story aired, the city inspector has paid a visit to the house and the video is getting more play on the Internet ...

[Earlier news piece: UE students take landlord case to You Tube]

University housing crunch may flow to Biddeford
Morning Sentinel - 13 Dec 2007
... BIDDEFORD, ME - Faced with a housing crunch, the fast-growing University of New England has decided that half of its junior class will live off the Biddeford campus beginning next fall.

The change will move students into the local housing market and could have a significant effect on downtown Biddeford and Saco.

UNE officials have been meeting with city officials and private developers to examine the possibility of converting some of the cities' empty mill buildings into student housing, but no agreements have been reached ...

Downtown Lewisburg gears up for big night of shopping
Standard-Journal - 13 Dec 2007
... LEWISBURG, PA — Other towns such as State College have late night shopping, said Cross, but she feels it is special for a small community such as Lewisburg to come together for such an event.

“It is nice that in a small town like this there is such a draw for it,’ said Cross. “Because to make it worthwhile you need a good number of people to come out and the people really do come out for this event.” ...

Absentee ballots increase at UNH
WCAX - 13 Dec 2007
... DURHAM, NH - The presidential primary comes in the middle of college break next month, so voting officials in Durham (New Hampshire) have been busy with requests for absentee ballots.

Many students from out-of-state declare their college towns as home, so they can vote where they go to school ...

Redevelopments under way in G.R., K'zoo
Business Review - 13 Dec 2007
... GRAND RAPIDS, MI - One Girls Treasure resale shop opened in the recently finished retail space in the 5 Lyon building in Grand Rapids, owned by Rockford Development Group. The women's resale clothing boutique is on the ground floor of the 90,000-square-foot student housing building ...

Rowan OKs deals to boost blvd. plan
Star-Ledger - 13 Dec 2007
... GLASSBORO, NJ - Rowan University officials approved a list of agreements Wednesday that advance university and borough plans to bring additional student housing and a Barnes & Noble college bookstore to the proposed Rowan Boulevard.

However, the various leases and contracts signed by the university board of trustees hinge on Glassboro's progress with acquiring borough properties and working with the redeveloper ...

Coast Community trustees quash Costco deal
Couple hundred residents speak out against project to build megastore on Golden West College land.
OC Register - 13 Dec 2007
... HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA - A proposal to build a discount megastore on 14 acres of undeveloped land at Golden West College and student housing died Wednesday night after Coast Community College trustees decided to heed the college president's recommendation to reject the plan.

The unanimous vote from trustees also included a plan to provide for better community notification of such proposals that may come up in the future ...

FAU trustees approve deluxe dorm
Post - 13 dec 2007
... BOCA RATON, FL — The Trump tower of student residence halls may be built at Florida Atlantic University as the school strives to meet a housing demand and cater to older students.

FAU trustees approved the $55 million dormitory Wednesday. It would offer suite-style apartments with private bedrooms, a kitchen, a living room and 1,100 square feet of space in each of the 150 units ...

UW-L sets sights on new dorm
Tribune - 13 Dec 2007
... LA CROSSE, WI - The University of Wisconsin -La Crosse will seek state approval in early 2008 to start a $26 million to $28 million project to build a new residence hall on campus ...

University Manors Buys 2 Multifamily Bldgs. for $2.7M
New Owner To Renovate Off-Campus Student Housing Complexes
CoStar - 13 Dec 2007
... COLUMBUS, OH - University Manors purchased two residential buildings at 173 W. Ninth Ave. and 31 Chittenden Ave. from Columbus Property Group. The sale price was $2.69 million, or about $45,770 per [two bedroom] unit ...

Nonprofit group may take control of Antioch
Business Journal - 12 Dec 2007
... YELLOW SPRINGS, OH - Trustees at Antioch College are exploring the possibility of transferring ownership of the college to a nonprofit group made up of college alumni, donors and faculty ...

Q: What do you know about Chapel Hill?
New board game tests knowledge of local trivia
News - 12 Dec 2007
... CHAPEL HILL, NC - Four young UNC graduates have created the Trivial Pursuit-like board game, which tests local knowledge in the categories of sports, history, landmarks, famous people and student life ...

Residents dream up city's future
Orion - 12 Dec 2007
... CHICO, CA - Attendees stressed the need to have affordable housing and keep the city's small-town feel. But Estela Salazar, a resident for six years, said increasing communication with Chico State is important for a good quality of life.

"The students come from outside of Chico, and the only connection they have is Chico State," Salazar said. "…It's seen as if they're separate from the community. They really don't understand us. They think this is a college town, but it's not, it's Chico." ...

IU to pay $113.5 million for dorm renovations
IDS - 12 Dec 2007
... INDIANAPOLIS, IN - The IU board of trustees approved a five-year plan to upgrade housing for 2,000 students at an estimated cost of $113.5 million Friday at its meeting on the IU-Purdue University Indianapolis campus.

The renovations call for the construction of a new housing facility at the former Ashton Complex and the conversion of Forest and Briscoe dorm rooms to suite-style housing ...

Landlords exploiting students
Scotsman - 12 Dec 2007
... SCOTLAND - STUDENTS are still being exploited by unscrupulous landlords despite a licensing scheme intended to protect them, a new report claimed today.

The survey of student housing by NUS Scotland found many were paying high rents for unsafe and poor-quality accommodation.

The report, "Brick by Brick: the state of student housing in Scotland 2007", was being launched at the Scottish Parliament today ...

Queen's offers $175,000 to city; Contribution isn't for policing costs, but to address the "Aberdeen phenomenon"
Whig-Standard - 12 dec 2007
... KINGSTON, ON - Queen's University is giving Kingston $175,000 related to a 6,500- person, unsanctioned, alcohol-fuelled street party, but insists the money has nothing to do with the cost of policing the event.

"It is in absolutely no way related to the policing costs, which is an issue of the police and its budget and the budget process of the city," Queen's principal Karen Hitchcock told the Whig-Standard yesterday. "This isn't related to that at all." ...

Neighbors are wary of MTSU's growth plans
Tennessean - 12 Dec 2007
... MURFREESBORO, TN — MTSU won't "kick people out of their homes" so the university can grow, neighbors were told Tuesday at a community meeting on the school's master plan.

Area residents got a firsthand look at an updated version of MTSU's plan and had a chance to question it ...

Residents rave about Walker Park strategy
Times - 12 Dec 2007
... FAYETTEVILLE, AR - Proposing zoning changes to protect existing neighborhoods while encouraging mixed uses is one of those goals. Current zoning, developed in the 1970 s, is predominately for multifamily residences.

Other short-term goals are about design standards, amending the master street plan, creating a nature trail system through the park, adding a dog park and establishing neighborhood gardens. Staff would also like to address the issue of vacant or abandoned buildings in the area ...

Student housing developer example of what city needs
Times-Leader - 12 Dec 2007
... WILKES-BARRE, PA - WILKES-BARRE NEEDS more visionaries like Bill Henry.

Henry, a developer who lives in Bucks County, sees opportunity in the city’s dilapidated historical buildings.

In the last five years, he said he invested more than $2 million into old buildings and anticipates spending another $1 million in 2008.

He remodels the interiors while retaining the historical integrity of the buildings’ exteriors. Then, he rents modern apartments to college students, reported staff writer Bill O’Boyle in Tuesday’s edition ...

Developer’s student abodes honor history
Bucks County man has put $2 million into old buildings, plans $1 million more in 2008.
Times Leader - 11 Nov 2007
... WILKES-BARRE, PA - Bill Henry lives in Bucks County, but he’s committed to improving the appearance of Wilkes-Barre.

He’s found a way to do it: He’s focusing his efforts on creating off-campus housing for college students.

In the last five years, he’s invested more than $2 million into old buildings and anticipates spending another $1 million in 2008. He remodels the interiors while retaining the historic integrity of the buildings’ exteriors ...

BC Mulling Ban On Off-Campus Housing
New Plan Would Keep Students On Campus
WCVB - 11 Dec 2007
... BOSTON, MA - - There could be changes in store for Boston College students, as officials at the Chestnut Hill university consider a ban on off-campus housing.

NewsCenter 5's Gail Huff reported that for many upper-classmen, living off-campus is a privilege. The president of Boston College, however, said he's considering a formal ban on students renting apartments in one- and two-family homes once the college finishes its $800 million renovations ...

Town should expand horizons
Hackettstown survey suggests more be done to attract college students downtown.
Express-Times - 10 Dec 2007
... HACKETTSTOWN, NJ - Hackettstown should play up its college town potential and work to attract shoppers outside the town ZIP code, a survey of 1,000 shoppers determined.

The town Business Improvement District commissioned the survey as part of its $110,000 project to identify and recruit businesses that would succeed in town. JGSC Group, a South Jersey planning company with expertise in downtown revitalization, is leading the project ...

University professor lives in student residence hall under faculty-in-residence program
Norht Texas e-News - 10 Dec 2007
... DENTON, TX - Cutright, who arrived at UNT in August to direct UNT's Center for Higher Education as well as teach, is the first faculty member at UNT to live in one of the residence halls under the university's new faculty-in-residence program.

The program is designed to connect students' academic development with their personal development by making faculty members more accessible to students outside of the classroom ...

University town website launched
Daily Star - 10 Dec 2007
... DUMAGUETE, PH - The Dumaguete Portal featuring the different universities and colleges in the city through a website was launched recently at Bethel Guest House, recently by the Department of Trade and Industry and the Consortium of Higher Education in Negros Oriental.

The concept of the web page, www.dumagueteunitown.com, is presenting Dumaguete as a university town. ...

Blaze displaces KU students
No one is injured in early morning fire that destroys house
Journal-World - 10 Dec 2007
... LAWRENCE, KS - A fire destroyed a three-story home in the 1100 block of Vermont Street early Sunday morning. Flames ravaged the home at 1129 Vt., caving in part of the roof and displacing the residents and neighbors ...

“The fire marshal indicated to me what the point of origin was. He seemed to think it was the front porch,” Garcia said. Garcia said he had installed smoke alarms in every room ...

Neighbors upset with students
Cancellation of Tigerfest, enforcement of nuisance housing among requests
Towerlight - 10 Dec 2007
... TOWSON, MD - The GTCCA Community Relations Committee, a subcommittee of the University Relations Committee, produced the list of 47 ideas in October as a response to persistent complaints from residents about Towson students' behavior off campus.

Also included on the list is a recommendation for law enforcement to expand an underage drinking task force and to consistently issue noise citations for loud parties ...

BTL success still reliant on student lets
Mortgage Introducer - 10 Dec 2007
... UK - Unlike much of the buy-to-let property market over recent years, student rental levels have been growing consistently, fuelled by an increasing student population, which has led to demand for suitable living accommodation outstripping supply ...

City centre car park to become student flats
Daily Echo - 10 Dec 2007
... SOUTHAMPTON, UK - A HUGE student flat development is to be built on a Southampton city centre car park.

Two L-shaped builings containing 178 flats will be put up on the plot between Back of the Walls and Canal Walk, next to Saxon Gate ...

Expansion planned at SUNY New Paltz
Daily Freeman - 10 Dec 2007
... NEW PALTZ, NY - Long in search of expanded housing opportunities for

Under the arrangement, the foundation will buy 42 acres from the Moriello family, with 10 acres expressly to be developed for undergraduate student housing. The foundation will lease back to the Moriellos the remaining 32 acres, which the Moriellos will develop for rental housing. That housing would be intended primarily for faculty, commuter and graduate students ...

Decking the Hill
Globe - 9 Dec 2007
... BOSTON, MA - For this year's Beacon Hill Holiday Decorating Days, held last weekend, some 150 volunteers - block captains, Brownie troops, Suffolk University students, District 8 Councilor Michael Ross, all led by resident Ivy Turner - decorated nearly 1,100 lamps on their streets and parts of the West End with green garlands and red bows, said Suzanne Besser, executive director of the Beacon Hill Civic Association.

Last Saturday at the Harrison Gray Otis House on Cambridge Street, volunteers cut and wired the 2,700 yards of greens and bows to make the laurel garlands, and started decorating the gas lamps.

They fanned out across the neighborhood on the freezing Sunday afternoon to complete the task. "It brings the whole neighborhood together," said Besser...

City's south side strives for more homesteaders
Times - 9 Dec 2007
... ST CLOUD, MN - With various St. Cloud State faculty in attendance, he spoke about promoting home purchases in the neighborhood to university staff and the benefits of such investments.

"A stable core city neighborhood is vital to the mission of St. Cloud State University and to the St. Cloud community," Kelly said.

Aspasia Rigopoulou-Melcher, St. Cloud State University community studies professor, has been meeting every Friday with Kelly and Mary Mathews to discuss stabilizing and revitalizing the neighborhood ...

Oxford's building boom: Hot to cool
Daily Journal - 9 Dec 2007
... OXFORD, MS – Lately, the hot real estate market in a growing college town has seen some cooling, and while construction continues, it is off the pace it set in 2005 and 2006. Some people attribute the decline to a simple problem of supply and demand.

“Oxford really experienced a housing boom over the last three years, especially, and now all of a sudden things have really slowed down,” said Christy Knapp, vice president of the Oxford-Lafayette County Economic Development Foundation. “I think that’s part of a national trend.” ...

A question of culture
Culture Builds initiative wants to pin down what’s unique about Tuscaloosa County
News - 9 Dec 2007
... TUSCALOOSA, AL - “Livability” is the buzzword that’s replacing “quality of life,” but both require answering the same questions: What enriches your life outside the workplace? If everybody’s working for the weekend, what are exactly are they seeking?

The Culture Builds effort is still in its early stages. A kickoff event was held for about 300 people at the Bama Theatre in July and has been followed by focus groups, steering committee meetings and a survey, all intended to take the pulse of the community and chart a course. About 15 long-range plans, from Tuscaloosa 2020, the Tuscaloosa County Park and Recreation Authority, the chamber and others were gathered to add to the information base ...

The consequences of Fry Street
Political fallout in store for next city elections over still-divisive issue
Record-Chronicle - 9 Dec 2007
... DENTON, TX - Cochran said residents in the neighborhoods surrounding the Fry Street area are talking about forming a political action committee “essentially to rate candidates on their neighborhood friendliness.”

“It seems appropriate and long overdue that there is not one that protects the interest of the neighborhoods,” he said, adding that a number of political action committees exist for other groups, from firefighters to business owners ...

New Vt. building is at the center of debate on growth
The student center is in Burlington, at the flagship college. Some say it stands for all that's going wrong.
Inquirer - 9 Dec 2007
... BURLINGTON, VT - University officials have hailed the 4-acre, $61 million complex as a symbol of growth and revitalization at the smallest public flagship campus in the country.

But residents have called the structure an eyesore, a blight, a blunder, and "an architect's ego gone wild" in letters to the local newspaper, the Burlington Free Press ...

Couple sue city over rental status
Sun - 9 Dec 2007
... GAINESVILLE, FL - UF Levin College of Law Professor Mark Fenster said Gainesville's ordinances appear to be well-founded.

"None of the things that Gainesville's trying to do are especially radical," he said. "They're all attempting to get at nuisance-like behavior from houses that are overstuffed with students, which is a problem in college towns all over." ...

Buying property for college-bound child can make sense
Post-Gazette - 9 Dec 2007
... USA - A checklist for parents of new college students: 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.

Pardon the whiplash on that last one, but the fact is, many parents are investing in real estate close to campus for their college-bound offspring. Oftentimes, it's preferable to shelling out dormitory fees or apartment rent ...

IU plans first phase of $113 million student housing to replace 3 dorms
Times-Mail - 9 Dec 2007
... INDIANAPOLIS, IN — Indiana University officials estimate it will take more than $113 million to overhaul and modernize the first 2,000 beds on the Bloomington campus, with residents moving in to the first phase of development as early as the fall of 2009 ...

FAYETTEVILLE : UA house set for elegance, utility
Democrat-Gazette - 9 Dec 2007
... FAYETTEVILLE, AR - The University of Georgia in Athens provides its president with a university-owned house purchased in 1949 and a $ 19, 400 annual housing allowance to operate it, said Tom Jackson, the university’s vice president for public affairs.

The University of Missouri-Columbia completed major renovations to its 1867 chancellor’s house in spring 2006, said Mary Jo Banken, director of the university’s news bureau. The $ 1. 2 million project was funded entirely by private gifts. ...

Sorority made me swear off sisterhood
More than 20 years after a cruel and unfair rejection, their betrayal still hurts
Observer - 9 Dec 2007
... USA - My life's greatest sorrow stems from my inability to feel close to other women. At 41, I've cautiously cultivated a few cherished female friendships. But generally I feel a kind of skittish distrust and discomfort when dealing with most women, particularly women in packs.

Recently, I was forced to confront the genesis of my distrust when I found myself face to face with a certain someone from my past, a past I thought I had filed away long ago ...

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