BC student government vows not to let next big party get out of hand
By adamg - Mon, 11/02/2009 - 7:53am.
The Heights reports plans are in the works to monitor noise from Modstock this spring, to prevent more problems with neighbors.
The Heights itself opines neighboring residents shouldn't let their feelings about "university expansion, the passage of the Master Plan, the possibility of residence halls on the Brighton Campus, the degradation of the neighborhood brought on by absentee landlords and the havoc students are known to wreak in the community" color their judgment about parties on campus.
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What neighborhood. On one
What neighborhood. On one side of campus there is tenement housing that a non-student would never want to live in. On the other side are giant houses that are far enough from campus that they wouldn't hear this party. The whole "neighborhood" thing always baffled me.
which BC did you go to meaghan?
tenement housing? where is this?
I'm exaggerating but all the
I'm exaggerating but all the apartments were shitholes.
they are shitholes now
beacuse of all the little meaghans and biffs who moved in and treated them as such. what part of new jersey are you from?
This "neighborhood"
Google Map of where I could hear the party from
Look at the meter below the map. It's just a little over 1 mile away and that's not even pointed right at my house. But as I was driving around late that night trying to figure out who to call the cops on, I could EASILY hear it from there. Inside my house, with all of the windows CLOSED, I could write the lyrics down if I wanted to...it was THAT clear around midnight. I could have sworn it was "just one street over" but every time I moved closer to BC, listening for the right house, it was "just one street over" until I was all the way down Chestnut Hill Ave and still hearing it around Foster and Lake St and Comm Ave! That's when I figured it had to be coming from something at BC.
So, you're just plain wrong about how sound travels.
the BC neighborhood
As I said in a previous post, I think that the (Brighton) neighborhood-endorsed/suggested/demanded/influenced construction of the new high-rises on the lower campus are actually having the effect, under some atmospheric conditions, of channeling on-campus noise into Brighton. Some (not me, eventhough I am an alumnus) might call that a comeuppance.
Incidentally, I heard the activity, too, from the other side of the D-line tracks in Brookline. But I also regularly hear the marching band when they practice. Again, this seems to have been a one time thing, so I refuse to get worked up over it.
I should have added that
I should have added that where I could hear the activity from is substantially closer to the source than is the location where Kaz heard it.
Worked up
I have not been worked up over it except at 2 times. First, when I had it in my living room competing with my TV and then when I went to bed that night. I wanted to find it so I could tell the cops where to pull the plug (and I'm glad I did and didn't just say "the next street over" as I almost planned to).
Second, in the past few days when BC alum and current students like those on the BC Heights editorial board act like it was no big thing and that the neighborhood should calm down since we're all in this together or that the community appears to be overreacting...as if we are irrational to expect to not hear concerts over a mile away at midnight, or worse making it up just to have a(nother) beef with BC...
Having lived in the same place for the past 3649 days without issue with BC (give or take a month or two) would seem to suggest that I have been living just fine in a mile's proximity of campus with the exception of this one instance. But this was just SO outlandishly absurd that it should never happen again. Turn the subwoofers down, point the party in a different direction...do whatever it was differently that was done every year prior to now, but I don't ever expect to hear a concert from just over a mile away as if it's only a block away ever again.
Crazy
I have a colleague who lives on Englewood who also heard it. She thought it was a party up the street!
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1-1/4 mile from Fenway Park & I can transcribe the lyrics
So, I live about 1-1/4 mile from Fenway Park. I can hear Jimmy Buffet or whoever plays there. But, those concerts are over well before midnight.