Or should that be BC students getting out of hand again? The Allston-Brighton Tab recently published a letter from a number of Brighton residents complaining about carousing BC students. Filosofo says he would have signed the letter if only he'd known about it:
... it's a rare Saturday night I get uninterrupted sleep. ...
One BC student takes time out from his hot tubbing to reply that Brighton is a hellhole of homeless people and cranky old insomniacs living in shitty houses built in the 1940's. BC students just never drink in public, so the letter writers were obviously hallucinating. And they should move.
Another BC-oriented site allows as how the residents might have some legitimate concerns, but says they are being overly melodramatic. And a touch paranoid when it comes to BC.
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Small correction, but the BC
By BC Eagle
Thu, 10/27/2005 - 7:20am
Small correction, but the BC Blog - last link) is not run by a Boston College Student.
Fixed
By adamg
Thu, 10/27/2005 - 7:46am
Sorry about that.
My friend just moved to
By Anonymous
Thu, 10/27/2005 - 10:38am
My friend just moved to Brighton. (It was the only affordable housing she found that would take her dog.)
We met the students who lived in the large house next door to her. We assumed they were BC students as it is the closest university. They were students from Suffok/Berklee/Emerson. The housing in those neighborhoods is so much more expensive than Brighton, so they have all moved to Brighton. They enjoy the 'college' atmosphere, but there weren't BC Students.
Its unfair to blame one university. There is a problem with students in Brighton, but the same is being said in the North End, Fenway and most other areas of the city.
We spoke to the college neighbors. They let her know when they are having a party and she feels comfortable ringing their bell on certain nights and asking them to turn the radio down or take the party inside.
Hey, if you want to deal with noise in Boston, come to my 'hood. My neighbors like to leave their car stereo BOOMING when they get home at midnight. And Sunday mornings, at 7am, their church bus comes to pick them up. To announce their arrival, the bus driver lays on the horn until his congregants leave the house. I tried speaking to the neighbors and the bus driver... both suddendly seemed to lose their grasp of the English language.
yes, really. i live on a
By Anonymous
Thu, 10/27/2005 - 3:39pm
yes, really. i live on a street full of triple-deckers that's split between loud tufts children and yuppies who have to get up for work every day (i'm one of the yuppies). this happens everywhere in a city chock-full of college kids. it's why people move to the damn suburbs, which i guess is the next stop for me.
damn tufts kids, i hate you.
move
By a. w.
Thu, 10/27/2005 - 4:40pm
you should move to the suburbs, yuppies aren't welcome in somerville or medford.
No ...
By adamg
Thu, 10/27/2005 - 4:49pm
They caught the guy who was spray-painting Yuppie death threats ...
hey!
By Aqua
Thu, 10/27/2005 - 11:09pm
Let's be clear that this isn't ALL college students in the Boston area. I'm a Tufts/SMFA student, and despite the distain you've expressed for us I doubt you've ever heard a peep from me, or my friends. I live in Brighton, have never annoyed my neighbors, have never stumbled drunk down the street; I volunteer at my local animal shelter (Gifford Sheltering Home), and have started a landscaping committee for my neighborhood that is currently working on building a community garden. Some college students contribute to their communities, and don't disrupt them.
You are right
By adamg
Thu, 10/27/2005 - 11:51pm
In the dozen or so years I lived in Brighton, I never had ANY problems with Tufts students.
OK, maybe that's because there weren't any Tufts students in Brighton, but I'll agree that most college students living off-campus are not bad. The BU students who lived above us, though? Different story. The BC students who dropped a cinderblock off the roof onto a co-worker's car? Ditto.