Comments on: Recap of last night’s Ten Year Plan meeting on housing, enrollment, and off-campus life

By: Vox Populi » University posts 2010 Campus plan presentation, CAG expresses objections

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:01:12 +0000

[...] University officials have been floating plans about student life and transportation over the past couple weeks, this week is the big unveiling of the full first [...]

By: Vox Populi » Burleith Citizens’ Association sounds the 2010 Campus Plan rallying cry

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:01:58 +0000

[...] administrators held the first of five November meetings with neighbors about their new draft of the 2010 Campus Plan last week. There seemed to be a fair [...]

By: concern for students and community

concern for students and community — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:17:21 +0000

Based on the information received so far regarding the 10 year plan- GU is looking only at the revenue side and not seriously considering the collateral damage it will leave in its wake. It is a lose-lose scenario for both students and neighbors. GU needs to do a better job of taking care of its current customers/students with more beds on-campus, security cameras, dealing with slumlords, high possibility of getting an arrest record for having a party, etc… The community is completely oversaturated with traffic, lawlessness, and constantly trying to deal with those that choose to behave in an unbecoming manner. GU needs to stop looking looking at the revenue sheets in front of them and should start developing a plan that is a winning scenario of everyone. Isn’t the “its all about me” attitude getting a little old by now? Come on GU!

How about starting with this-

GU needs to quit hiding behind its Office of External Relations and OCSL staff and deal with the problem head on and as a honest broker from the Office of the President. The President’s radio comment a few months ago stating that relations were good between the community and the university is either naive or a misrepresentation. It is time to become part of the solution.

GU needs to invest into housing that is inside the GATES (not on the edge of the community boundary). GU needs to provide a learning and living scenario that provides the students with a safer and overall better learning environment. The rental slumhouses in the community are a very very bad scenario for the students. As beds become more scarce on campus, the slumlords will be more than willing to maximize their revenue from the wallets of the students (or their parents).

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:43:14 +0000

I have to agree with the neighbors here: I would love to see more on-campus housing.

Georgetown does a pretty terrible job of keeping the community vibe going after freshmen year — compared to places like Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Princeton, with residential-type clusters for all four years.

Even some decent Henle-type clusters (without the maddeningly ugly style of the buildings) would do a lot … AND keep the students out of the neighbors hair. It’s a win-win.

By: Burleith student

Burleith student — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:34:01 +0000

“…the University will rent a house for the Community Advisor to live in.”

I pay 1100 a month. No house in Burleith is smaller than four people? So let’s say $5K a month including utilities. So $60,000 a year, at a minimum? Damn. And they’d probably get one on the nicer side, so could be even more. What if we just made it rain from the roof of Duke Ellington? Cause that might be more worthwhile.

They’ll act as the “equivalent of hall directors”? How is that plausible? Or to the extent that they can act as a normative check on students’ behavior, even legal? Maybe the Code of Conduct can be amended to reflect this jurisdictional mission creep, but I’m going to have to side with the neighbors on this one. If you want to maintain control over student behavior, yer gonna hafta do it south of Reservoir Road.

Lastly, a public thank you from our house for SNAPS. We party. When SNAPS comes, we know it would otherwise be Metro. And they make it rain too, with 61D’s. Neighbors, kudos on that move. You know we know that criminal records (can) ruin careers. Low blow, but effective. But really, low blow. So thanks for calling SNAPS first. And thanks, University, for running it more often.