College buys Middlebury icon
Herald 12 Jan 2008
... MIDDLEBURY, VT — The Old Stone Mill will soon house studio space and possibly even a gallery ...

The college, according to Ray, will renovate the upper floors into studio space and possibly gallery space for use by non-art students. She said the college has little space available for student work not produced as part of art classes. The college does not yet have a timeline for the renovations, according to Ray.

The building is adjacent to the Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center and houses the Storm Café. The college said the café will remain in place ...

Commission tweaks zoning amendment
Oxford Press - 11 Jan 2008
... OOXFORD, OH - The planning commission ruled to not compute basement space into the commercial space ratio, but to compute areas for public infrastructure and outdoor eating areas into the 1:1 ratio. As it pertains to the decided 2:1 residential ratio, they ruled that outdoor patios, decks and balconies would be included in that.

Also included in the amendment are a minimum height of 23 feet (two stories) and a maximum height of 45 feet (four stories), as well as regulations on lot and floor areas. Lots Uptown will be a minimum of 3,000 square feet, with requirements varying depending on the number of bedrooms in a specific property ...

More graduates, More Valentines
Newswise - 11 Jan 2008
... OXFORD, OH - About 14 percent, or 26,046, of Miami’s living alumni population of 181,230 are married to other Miami alums. These 13,023 couples are called “Miami Mergers” and the university has been sending these merged couples Valentine’s Day cards since 1973.

Officials don’t know how many followed the Miami myth that whomever you kiss under the Upham Hall arch at midnight will be the person you eventually marry, but they do acknowledge there is a high romance factor.

Is it the picturesque college town? The famously beautiful campus? ...

St Andrews students resolved to 'name and shame' dodgy landlords
Fife today - 11 Jan 2008
... ST ANDREWS, UK - THE clock is ticking for any dodgy landlords renting to students in St Andrews.

Student leaders in the university town have made a New Year resolution to name and shame them in 2008.

The first ever survey of privately-rented student accommodation in the town, organised by the St Andrews University Students' Association, has voted family business, Town & Gown Property Letting Services Ltd. as the 'Property Agent of the Year' for 2007 ...

Panel sought to envision a 'university village'
Concept eyed for campus-area site
Union Tribune - 11 Jan 2008
... SAN MARCOS, CA – The city wants a dozen people to develop a vision for an urban “university village” on land near Cal State San Marcos.

The area of more than 100 acres is roughly north of the university ...

City revisits fire sprinkler requirement
Greek houses say it’s too expensive.
Tribune - 11 Jan 2008
... COLUMBIA, MO - It took more than a year, but the discussion to reconsider requiring Columbia fraternities and sororities to install automatic fire sprinklers once again has reached the Columbia City Council.

In January 2007, the council required fraternities and sororities to retrofit their houses with sprinklers by 2013. Faced with resistance from Greek organizations and the city’s own building codes commission, however, the council on Monday unanimously approved a motion by Mayor Darwin Hindman to require installation of a specific type of sprinkler system known as "13R." The procedural move allowed the council to revisit the ordinance it passed a year ago and hold another public hearing ...

High-rise plan would transform South University
Business Review - 10 Jan 2008
... ANN ARBOR - It took more than a year to assemble the six parcels of land for University Village, a proposed student housing complex that could rise as high as 26 stories and redefine Ann Arbor's South University district.

Developers Dan Ketelaar and Ron Hughes had to reach agreements with five separate property owners to control the site, which spans 2.05 acres and has an assessed value of $4.42 million.

Plans for University Village, a 582,390-square-foot structure with two connected towers, were submitted to the city Jan. 2. The towers are expected to be 26 and 21 stories high and have room for 1,700 students in 515 rooms. There would also be 16,000 square feet of retail ...

GPD cracks down on underage drinking
Alligator - 10 Jan 2008
... GAINESVILLE, FL - The Gainesville Police Department is warning underage drinkers that there will be no more warnings.

Starting this week and lasting through the spring semester, officers will be increasing their efforts against underage drinking. Those caught will be arrested without exception ...

Top 100 Public Colleges
Our rankings for the best public colleges deliver a first-rate education without breaking the bank.
Kiplinger's - 9 Jan 2008
... GNEESEO, NY - It could just be the best public college you've never heard of, with prices so low that it's a steal even for out-of-state students ...

What's missing at Geneseo? Arguably, only the buzz that impels some parents to pay two or even three times as much for the same features at a private college ...

Analysis of New Hampshire Returns Makes Much of College Towns
The Chronicle - 9 Jan 2008
... NEW HAMPSHIRE - Television networks put the New Hampshire college towns of Hanover and Durham on the map last night — literally — as they broadcast returns from the Granite State’s presidential primary ...

American Nevada Co. and The Vista Group Join with Place Properties to Develop Student Housing
Multi-Housing News - 9 Jan 2008
... HENDERSON, NV - American Nevada Co. and The Vista Group, both real estate developers, have formed a joint venture with Atlanta-based Place Properties, a nationwide multifamily developer, to develop Midtown Place, the first major student-housing complex serving UNLV students in Henderson, Nev ...

Upon completion, the project will encompass approximately 3,000 suites designed for the UNLV student of the 21st century, including a fitness center with personal TV monitors on all cardio equipment, a cyber-lounge for study and recreation, tanning domes, and the resort-style pool with poolside cabanas and outdoor dining area ...

Upon completion, the Midtown Place complex will be the largest off-campus student housing development in the country ...

U. of Maryland Seeks to Create a 'College Town' at Campus Edge
The Chronicle - 8 Jan 2008
... COLLEGE PARK, MD - The University of Maryland at College Park plans to create a $700-million town center — complete with restaurants, movie theaters, student housing, and a high-end grocery like Whole Foods or Harris Teeter — on a 38-acre parcel east of its main campus, according to The Washington Post ...

Student housing with nearly 400 beds planned at UofL
Proposal includes space for retail, parking garage
Courier-Journal - 8 Jan 2008
... LOUISVILLE, KY - The partners in Icon Properties of Louisville have proposed a major student-housing development just northwest of Cardinal Boulevard and Floyd Street to serve the University of Louisville's growing enrollment.

Icon-Cards Development LLC owns the 1.6-acre vacant parcel, an old industrial tract, just north of the university's Belknap Campus ...

Plan looks to curb student housing
Proposal would block more students from moving into Golden Ave. area
Michigan Daily - 8 Jan 2008
... ANN ARBOR, MI - Maybe it's the beer cans on their lawns. Or the loud noise late at night. Maybe it's the lack of community that occurs when your neighbors leave every year or two.

Whatever the reason, student encroachment in the Lower Burns Park neighborhood of Ann Arbor has prompted residents to propose rezoning the area to block more students from moving in ...

Your grandma goes to college
Colorado Daily - 8 Jan 2008
... BOULDER, CO - According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, 50 colleges nationwide, including Stanford University and the University of Michigan, are creating housing on or near campus for interested retirees.

Private colleges like Furman University in Greenville, S.C., also are tailoring programs to attract retirees ...

Our View — Parents have right to know
Free Press - 8 Jan 200
... MANKATO, MN - When a student at Minnesota State University is caught drinking underage in a dorm, or cited for other alcohol or drug violations, the university can’t contact the parents unless the students had earlier signed a release form allowing it.

That issue is coming under scrutiny by the Minnesota State Colleges and University system and the Legislature ...

Dormitories are so last century
CHOOSY STUDENTS DRIVING DEMAND FOR NEW APARTMENTS
Herals-Leaser - 7 Jan 2008
... LEXINGTON, KY - Newtown Crossing, which opened in 2005, is one of six large residential apartment complexes with a total of 2,500 bedrooms on the west side of campus that have reshaped an area previously known for its older houses, historic districts and tobacco warehouses.

Three more large apartment projects targeting the student market -- all of them in the South Broadway area -- are planned ...

U-Md. Aims to Create Social Hub in College Park
Post - 7 Jan 2008
... COLLEGE PARK, MD - IN SOME COLLEGE TOWNS, campus and city mix to create a vibrant academic and social environment for students to enjoy outside the classroom. That's not quite the situation in College Park, but officials at the University of Maryland are aiming to change that with a $700 million development project called East Campus ...

College Park to be More Attractive, More Crowded
DCist - 7 Jan 2008
... COLLEGE PARK, MD - It'd be hard to argue with anyone who called College Park the lamest college town in the country. With no more than three bars catering to students and a dearth of other services or any real main street at all, online campaigns like RethinkCollegePark.net have popped up in recent years to try to convince county planners that the University of Maryland deserved a real town center. Today, both the Associated Press and the Washington Post have stories announcing a $700 million redevelopment plan in the works to turn College Park into a more attractive retail destination for potential students and faculty.

The so-called East Campus Redevelopment Initiative has been in the early development stage for some time now, and proposes to raze 38-acres to make way for a planned town center with several restaurants, graduate student housing, a grocery store, a hotel, movie theater, bookstore and more. The redevelopment, which would be nearly twice the size of downtown Silver Spring, would complete its first phase in 2011 and hopes to be part of the plans for Metro's Purple Line ...

The Coming Tsunami of College Students for Obama
National Review - 7 Jan 2008
... NEWS HAMPSHIRE - From a New Hampshire political consultant: "You know who shows up to a Republican event in New Hampshire. They're guys wearing flannel shirts, flannel hats and several days' worth of beard growth. When you go to a Democratic event, you see little old ladies with really short haircuts who are wearing anti-war stickers. When you see somebody outside of that showing up, you know something unusual is going on... Obama's got a lot of young people. Really young, I'm not sure that these people are even old enough for college, or old enough to vote." ...

Private Cash Sets Agenda for Urban Infrastructure
Times-News - 6 Jan 2008
... NEW HAVEN, CT - “The mayor was far-sighted enough,” said Mr. Levin, who has been Yale’s president since 1993, the same year that Mr. DeStefano first won his office, “to recognize that working with us, with our capital, we could actually revive the downtown, which we’re doing.”

The person in charge of improving the neighborhood around Yale is Bruce Alexander, 64, a former real estate entrepreneur who helped develop the Inner Harbor in Baltimore. Mr. Levin recruited him in 1998 and, during a recent tour of the city, Mr. Alexander pointed out one of his favorite achievements — the purchase of a group of contiguous buildings occupying a square block in the heart of the city. ...

San Marcos ponders minidorm crackdown
North Country Times - 6 Jan 2008
... SAN MARCOS, CA - This month, the City Council is expected to consider a proposed ordinance aimed at regulating rental houses such as the one on the Judds' street, but the issue does not appear on the agenda for Tuesday's council meeting.

The proposed ordinance addresses buildings in which three or more rooms are leased to three or more people, and it would regulate where and under what conditions such leases could be granted.

Anyone violating the ordinance could face heavy fines, though city officials have said compliance, not revenue, is the point of the proposal ...

Letter: Improving neighborhood requires broad measures
By Mary Mathews Chair, Neighborhood University Community Council St. Cloud
Times - 6 Jan 2008
... ST CLOUD, MN - Tolerance has its limits, and the increasingly disturbing actions of young people who disrespect their neighbors require a response. The intention of the university to strictly enforce an expanded code of conduct regarding students’ off-campus behaviors is necessary and appropriate. It is not an overreach, as the Editorial Board suggests.

The present legal system simply cannot respond efficiently and effectively enough to most student lawbreakers. Furthermore, students whose education is in part funded by taxpayers owe back to the society helping them become educated ...

Drinking laws don’t stop underage drinking
Daily News - 6 Jan 2008
... WINONA, MN - The American answer to this question of responsibility has been the criminalization of boozing under the age of 21. As a matter of fact, Congress has hijacked the power, given to states by the 10th Amendment, to set drinking laws through financial blackmail. The federal government has vowed to withhold millions of dollars per year in transportation funding from any state that legalizes drinking under the age of 21.

Unfortunately, it hasn’t worked so far ...

Economic evaluations on the way for three local counties
Enterprise-Record - 6 Jan 2008
... CHICO, CA - "I'm seeing a lot of communities, especially college towns, that have the opportunity to recruit back young people and older people who have a soft spot for the community.

"That's better than recruiting someone who doesn't know the town at all." ...

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