Thanks students. Thanks for returning. Thanks for your loud parties that last all night and thanks for waking us up at 4am just by talking. (Silly me, I thought you would have class on a Tuesday morning. Must not be that important.) Thanks for leaving your furniture on the lawns for days as well as your beer cans and cigarette butts (amongst other disgusting things) junking up our neighbourhood. Thanks for using the sidewalk as a bustop, forcing pedestrians to walk on the road. And Thank you landlords for overpricing what could be nice flats, only to be destroyed by students, making nice, affordable housing for grown-ups not available in Halifax.
It’s good to know that a student loan is being well spent on beer.I guess when your parents are paying for college you can afford it. I can’t wait to see how these “educated” members of society turn out.
This article appears in Aug 28 – Sep 3, 2008.
Come on now, what did you expect. It’s a University town, always has been, always will be. Young kids, flush with money, hormones, eager to live out of the house. Sounds like the usual September confluence of ingredients that will surely last till April I suppose. The only thing left to know is, how will these little future worker bees end up, CEO’s or EI leeches.
I love the North end.
It could be worse. Other university towns have far more problems then here- i.e Queen’s and the whole burning-couch thing and other homecoming shennanigans.Now, I may be wrong, but didn’t I hear a few years ago about universities considering academic and school penalties for poor community behavior? so if students cause problems off campus they can be punished by the school…dunno how I feel aobut THAT little example of big-brother-dom but……