One day you let the students assemble with a permit, then the next thing you know, they’re liable to start yielding for pedestrians..

I’m a recent GU grad who lives by Rose Park. Want to know what actually tears up that grass? Perhaps it’s the local pooch mob that forms every day after work. Oh, I’ve seen ‘em. That gang of respectable, chatty dog owners who let their vicious beasts claw, piss and poop to their hearts’ content. Without. Leashes. Do these heathens not understand that park rules are strictly non-negotiable?!! The next time I fret uncontrollably over those people from behind my curtains, I should probably notify the authorities to go double check that they have their permits in order.

Heaven forbid someone start actually using the park for recreation. We need to keep it pristine…so no one can ever use it.

Is that email a joke or some sort of parody???

Please, Vox, if you find out who approves these permits, let us know so that we can send them congratulatory notes for not being a complete fucking moron like this Georgetown resident.

Someone please tell me what is wrong with using a park for recreation, when permitted to do so.

This is more evidence that many neighbors are self-important snobs who are unable and unwilling to even consider points of view other than their own. Why anyone takes people such as the complainant seriously is beyond me.

New Ten Year Plan: Step up our “blocking private driveways whilst drnking, yelling, and/or vomiting” ways to the point where we drive out all of the crazy non-student residents, buy their townhouses, and use as university housing.

Turns out that the contact person the whiner was looking for is

Ms. Cindy Cox, Acting Superintendent, Rock Creek Park, 3545 Williamsburg Lane, Washington, DC 20008

I suggest that some students write her expressing dismay that she may receive a complaint, if for no other reason than to spite the asshole neighbor who will lodge it.

Using parks for activities?! These kids are out of control.

They’ll probably engage in some sort of tomfoolery in Volta pool next

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I agree with NOM. The issue isn’t the kids, it’s the dog owners who have turned the south side of rose park into a a mud and poop pit. It’s disgusting. The North side is slowly getting there too. As a dog owner i never let my dog off the leash unless in an designated area. I dread walking by the rose park pooch mob as inevitably one of there dogs comes charging after my dog. I then have to wait for the owner to eventually walk over and grab their dog so that it doesn’t follow me down he block. Who do we call to report the real problem too.

Print the email address of the guy from the listserv. They’re all about creating a database of student houses? Touche

Have any of you thought about the fact that there are park areas governed by NPS for the SPECIFIC purpose of volleyball and other fields just a short distance from GW — equally as close as Rose Park — down by the memorials? Federal taxpayer money goes to lanscaping the park, so it seems wasteful to then use it as a sports field when there are other sites for that specific purpose designated — so, what the government spends for one day they undo the next with the permitting process. Nobody is trying to be mean to the students, but some day, when they have spent their hard-earned money on private property iand are a little older they might feel a differently about visitors who hold large and loud events next door. There are plenty of GW or other NPS faciliities that would be much more appropriate and not disturb private residential areas. Ask you parents how they would feel if you had one of these parties in their back yard… :)

I’m a tax-paying, DC-flag waving citizen who lives one block from Rose Park, and I don’t have a problem with people using the park for permitted recreation. Why, you ask? Have you ever seen the BASEBALL DIAMOND in Rose Park? Sure it’s not major league caliber, but it seems to me that running around in what is essentially the outfield is perhaps the most American thing I’ve ever heard of.

If you’re really that concerned about the grass, why complain about one group of law-abiding students using the park on one day, when the pooch mob is out there unleashing illicit defecation on a daily basis? Oh I know.. because you’re a cranky ol’ miser who has a problem with anything that young people do.. even if it’s legally permitted recreation.

Mark my words: you file a complaint on the students — I file one on the pooch mob. I can’t wait to hear their entitled howls of indignation.

Nom, in a way you make the point *precisely* — sports should be on sports fields, just like the baseball diamond or actual volleyball fields on the mall. It is also a noise issue.

I do wish folks would focus on the merits of this issue rather than focusing on the dog issues instead. If you feel that’s wrong and it bothers you as a resident, you should deal with that, and that’s your right. But it doesn’t excuse or justify or provide a rational explanation for the GW students issue. Two wrongs, if you feel the dog owners are commiting a wrong, don’t in any event make a right. The only point here is that sports events should be on the sports fields that DC, the park service, and GW itself have made available for that purpose, and should minimize inconvenience and noise to residents. Seems a modest proposition.