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Mission Hill party report
By adamg on Thu, 02/05/2009 - 9:33am
This bi-weekly party report for Mission Hill is brought to you by Area B-2, who remind you that a conviction on your record can seriously screw up your odds of getting into the profession of your choice.
On Jan. 18, Jan. 24 and Jan. 25, Boston Police busted up ten parties, which included five arrests and nine civil citations. The honor roll:
- Jan. 18: 737 Parker St., 1458 Tremont St., 6 Eldora St.
- Jan. 24: 63 Wait St., 45 Hillside St., 137 St. Alphonsus St. (for the alleged pellet-gun incident; also see this 2007 incident), 139 St. Alphonsus St.
- Jan. 25: 2 Shepard Ave., 63 Wait St. (dudes, didn't you get the idea the night before?), 43 Wait St.
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Comments
There's not a lot of places for them to go
I feel I must remind your readers that a year ago the Mayor ordered all nightclubs be 21+, meaning the hundred+ thousand students in Boston who are under 21 have very few options available to them. Our Mayor is lame and making this city lamer by the day.
you can go to college in a rural area like I did
and party all you want as loud as you want as late as you want.
That's the problem I always had. I mean, you choose to go to college in a city and then when you choose to live off campus, you are going to be next to residents who might have to get up for work in the morning.
I don't feel that bad for them.
?
The residents or the party-throwing students? (lol)
sorry
I don't feel bad for the students complaining about not being able to party afer 2am.
Ditto.
This:
I totally agree with, Pete Nice.
The Core Problem with Many College Students...
Many college students feel entitled to party like they're in college, regardless of what impact that has on anyone else.
That's why I think living off-campus should be a privilege that the college should revoke if students abuse it.
Exactly, neilvandyke.
Your post says it all.....in a nutshell.
A problem hundreds of years old
Okay, let's have some perspective on this. Rowdy, disruptive college students have been a part of city and town life for hundreds of years. You can look up accounts of life in the original medieval university towns -- Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, and the like -- and read similar complaints. That doesn't excuse the behavior, but it helps to remember that we're hardly alone in dealing with these problems.
Though I confess to having an interest in this -- my paycheck comes from teaching at a university -- I assure you I'm no fan of obnoxious, drunken behavior by anyone, college kids included. I heartily support any reasonable effort to reign in the behaviors of some of these kids.
That said, anyone who wants to send these kids back home had better come up with ideas to fill the giant hole in the area economy that would be created by their absence. It's not just the business at local eateries and retail outlets, it's also the jobs created by the presence of the universities themselves and the construction work provided by university building projects.
In any case, I stand by my positions that
A) When colleges and universities' expansion deep into nearby neighborhoods continues unabated, neighborhoods get destroyed.
B) It's agreed that living off campus is a privelege, and the colleges and universities should crack down....hard on students who flagrantly abuse it.
C) It wouldn't hurt the colleges and universities (particularly larger ones such as BU and NU, for example), to put a cap on annual student enrollment.
D) Students who refuses to stop antagonizing neighbors with loud, drunken parties until all hours of the night shouldn't be surprised if they get into antagonisms with their neighbors or end up being paid a visit by police, and even getting arrested deserves no sympathy.
Granted, there's always been a rather arrogant sense of entitlement among lots of college students, but it's gotten far worse today than it ever was.
I sit by my position
That even though you are legally an adult, your employer can fire or punish you because they don't like the way you behave in your own home.
No rowdy gay sex involving parrots for you Independentminded because your boss might not like it when he reads your facebook.
Ha ha ha!!
Here's a hot surprise for you, anon:
A) I work at home--no one can bother me.
B) I'm not even in facebook.
C) I'm a straight woman!
Or: are you just being snarky here?
The trouble is though, david_yamada,
is that there's little or no effort to reign in the behaviour, and that's a huge part of the problem.
fair point
Indie, you're right about that.
We need to balance giving college kids room to let out some steam vs. preventing them from wreaking havoc on the neighborhoods. Too much of the former, I agree.
People might be suprised
that some schools (BU) are pretty good when it comes to discipling students when it comes to local noise complaints. BU has been very responsive when it comes to this issue.
Northeastern has done quite a bit as well
Mission Hill has improved significantly, not enough, but significantly when compared to 5-10 years ago.
Really?
Since when?
Since the 1980s
When I lived on the BU side of Brighton and got to see the BU cops taking names, as opposed to the BC side of Brighton, where a co-worker once woke up to find a cinderblock in his back seat - thrown through the rear window.
BC too
BC does have someone from the school out patrolling with the police, at least they used to. I don't know the details now but I do know they stay very involved.
(Come on - "BC side of Brighton" implies it was a BC student who threw the cinderblock. That's a stretch.)
I have two suggestions...
...for where they can go:
1) Bed
2) Back to where they came from.
That said, Menino is fucking awful and doesn't get it. Please, people, stop electing this asshole.