In a message dated 4/8/07 4:57:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The debate started with stickers and banners, the question is why were they > placed? > > I could relate to the sentiment if the stickers were being placed by the now-elderly folks who made this place "home" for all or most of their lives, since back before the term "University City" was popularized in the late-50s - early 60s. Some of my neighbors are in that group. If those folks were rising up and crying "ENOUGH," then I'd want to hear what they had to say. I think that they have more claim to the neighborhood than those of us who grew up here later and/or arrived later. But, I haven't heard these anti-UC feelings expressed by my elderly neighbors - ever. And I doubt that the elderly folks would suddenly taken up this sort of vandalism, even if they felt this way.
I suspect that the stickers were placed by young punks, Trustafarians, young recent arrivals, who want to see the neighborhood be cheap and down for their own selfish reasons, so that they can continue to live here even though they live on allowances and/or don't hold full-time jobs. THE STICKERS are a marketing campaign. There's nothing wrong with living on allowances and/or not holding full-time jobs, but there is something wrong with illegally defacing other peoples' property with stickers, and with feeling that upstarts can march through the place that such a diverse population calls "home," and tell all of us how we must refer to it. Melani Lamond University City resident since 1971 Melani Lamond, Associate Broker Urban & Bye, Realtor 3529 Lancaster Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19104 cell phone 215-356-7266 office phone 215-222-4800, ext. 113 office fax 215-222-1101 ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
