Comments on: Letter to the editor: Improve off-campus security http://www.studlife.com/forum/2009/12/23/letter-to-the-editor-improve-off-campus-security/ The independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:22:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jerome Bauer http://www.studlife.com/forum/2009/12/23/letter-to-the-editor-improve-off-campus-security/#comment-6199 Jerome Bauer Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:29:04 +0000 http://www.studlife.com/?p=8306#comment-6199 I agree with the letter while simultaneously criticizing it because we can have it both ways. A grad dormitory on North Campus would not be big enough to house all the grad students, and most would probably move out after a year or two, to find cheaper housing in the neighborhood, but only after having become comfortable with our neighborhood. This is especially important for international students, who may be suffering from culture shock. A grad dorm would also foster a sense of community among grad students, especially if it included meeting and social space. Such an arrangement worked well at UPenn. I stayed in one of two Grad Towers my first year, then moved out into the neighborhood with my computer-assigned roommate (a good choice, because we got along fine). We kept up with our old friends from Grad B. Had this housing option not been available, I probably would have gone to another school, one that did offer graduate housing, because moving into an unfamiliar city can be quite terrifying, even for an adventurous grad student. UCSB had no graduate housing, but it did have the University Students Rochdale Housing Cooperative, which served just as well, or better. I agree with the letter while simultaneously criticizing it because we can have it both ways. A grad dormitory on North Campus would not be big enough to house all the grad students, and most would probably move out after a year or two, to find cheaper housing in the neighborhood, but only after having become comfortable with our neighborhood. This is especially important for international students, who may be suffering from culture shock. A grad dorm would also foster a sense of community among grad students, especially if it included meeting and social space.

Such an arrangement worked well at UPenn. I stayed in one of two Grad Towers my first year, then moved out into the neighborhood with my computer-assigned roommate (a good choice, because we got along fine). We kept up with our old friends from Grad B. Had this housing option not been available, I probably would have gone to another school, one that did offer graduate housing, because moving into an unfamiliar city can be quite terrifying, even for an adventurous grad student.

UCSB had no graduate housing, but it did have the University Students Rochdale Housing Cooperative, which served just as well, or better.

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]]> By: Dah Dah http://www.studlife.com/forum/2009/12/23/letter-to-the-editor-improve-off-campus-security/#comment-6186 Dah Dah Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:56:38 +0000 http://www.studlife.com/?p=8306#comment-6186 Why is this on studlife's website twice? http://www.studlife.com/forum/2010/01/20/wu-needs-to-build-off-campus-housing/ ... Hopefully you guys didn't print it in the newspaper twice too. I don't get the last paragraph of the article. There are plenty of housing choices other than quadrangle, many of which are less expensive. Stanford also has a tree lined drive that looks to be a mile long into their campus and lots of free land. Stanford is able to have their students live in a bubble. It's funny that Jerome Bauer is agreeing with the article while simultaneously criticizing the bubble that David Holloway wants to replicate for grad students. Wash U is an urban campus that wants to coexist with their neighbors. Many neighbors have a fear of exactly what David is proposing and the Town-Gown relations would suffer horribly if the university created anything like it. Why is this on studlife’s website twice? http://www.studlife.com/forum/2010/01/20/wu-needs-to-build-off-campus-housing/ …

Hopefully you guys didn’t print it in the newspaper twice too.

I don’t get the last paragraph of the article. There are plenty of housing choices other than quadrangle, many of which are less expensive.

Stanford also has a tree lined drive that looks to be a mile long into their campus and lots of free land. Stanford is able to have their students live in a bubble. It’s funny that Jerome Bauer is agreeing with the article while simultaneously criticizing the bubble that David Holloway wants to replicate for grad students. Wash U is an urban campus that wants to coexist with their neighbors. Many neighbors have a fear of exactly what David is proposing and the Town-Gown relations would suffer horribly if the university created anything like it.

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]]> By: Jerome Bauer http://www.studlife.com/forum/2009/12/23/letter-to-the-editor-improve-off-campus-security/#comment-6156 Jerome Bauer Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:04:09 +0000 http://www.studlife.com/?p=8306#comment-6156 PS to my comment above: I would also like to see more coverage, in WashU's independent student newspaper, of so-called "non-traditional" students enrolled in the University College, who are typically older, less privileged, and arguably more mature than the average WashU undergraduate. Not all WashU students live in the WashU Bubble. PS to my comment above: I would also like to see more coverage, in WashU’s independent student newspaper, of so-called “non-traditional” students enrolled in the University College, who are typically older, less privileged, and arguably more mature than the average WashU undergraduate. Not all WashU students live in the WashU Bubble.

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]]> By: Jerome Bauer http://www.studlife.com/forum/2009/12/23/letter-to-the-editor-improve-off-campus-security/#comment-6037 Jerome Bauer Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:29:58 +0000 http://www.studlife.com/?p=8306#comment-6037 David makes a good point: grad students are too often neglected by the University, and ignored by Student Life, even though this is supposed to be a research university, much of whose work is done, and whose prestige is derived from, its graduate students. We had this problem at UPenn too. For a time, we had our own newspaper, "The Graduate Perspective," funded by graduate student government, to balance the undergraduate edited Daily Pennsylvanian. Why don't we do this here? This could be done straightaway in the Student Life online edition. Perhaps a regular column or supplement could be added to the print edition, in lieu of an independent newspaper. Lecturer Dr. Jerome Bauer --sometime President, Graduate Student Associations Council, University of Pennsylvania David makes a good point: grad students are too often neglected by the University, and ignored by Student Life, even though this is supposed to be a research university, much of whose work is done, and whose prestige is derived from, its graduate students.

We had this problem at UPenn too. For a time, we had our own newspaper, “The Graduate Perspective,” funded by graduate student government, to balance the undergraduate edited Daily Pennsylvanian. Why don’t we do this here? This could be done straightaway in the Student Life online edition. Perhaps a regular column or supplement could be added to the print edition, in lieu of an independent newspaper.

Lecturer Dr. Jerome Bauer
–sometime President, Graduate Student Associations Council, University of Pennsylvania

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]]> By: Jerome Bauer http://www.studlife.com/forum/2009/12/23/letter-to-the-editor-improve-off-campus-security/#comment-6005 Jerome Bauer Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:16:55 +0000 http://www.studlife.com/?p=8306#comment-6005 Whatever happened to the graduate dormitory supposed to have been planned for the North Campus, right next to the Delmar Metrolink stop, a great place for a dormitory (but a bad place for a "clean coal" plant, the new plan)? Whatever happened to the bicycle path supposed to connect this to the Danforth Campus? "It's time for Plan B, which should have been Plan A" Lecturer Dr. Jerome "John Hancock" Bauer --local taxpayer and STILL a local homeowner, STILL living in the Company Town Whatever happened to the graduate dormitory supposed to have been planned for the North Campus, right next to the Delmar Metrolink stop, a great place for a dormitory (but a bad place for a “clean coal” plant, the new plan)? Whatever happened to the bicycle path supposed to connect this to the Danforth Campus?

“It’s time for Plan B, which should have been Plan A”

Lecturer Dr. Jerome “John Hancock” Bauer
–local taxpayer and STILL a local homeowner, STILL living in the Company Town

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