I live on Woodland Terrace. The houses full of students at 40th &
Baltimore, one in particular, frighten me. I've been saying since
I've lived here that they seem angry more than anything else. When
they're drunk, which is nearly every day, often one of them will just
stop what he's doing, clench his fists at his side and scream out
into the air, seemingly at nothing. (I'm reminded of the Diane Arbus
photo of the kid with the hand grenade.) It scares me and feels like
a riot waiting to happen. I won't even get into how little respect
they have for their surroundings.
Frank
On Apr 29, 2007, at 02:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Sounds more like some frat boys running amuck to me.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At 45th & Walnut? I seriously doubt it.
>
> Or, was that remark some attempt at humor that goes over the
heads of us
> curmudgeons?
In a message dated 4/29/07 9:31:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I bet it was one of them rapscalliony trustifarians who go
around using words like plethora and amuck and carmudgeon
but won't admit it.
Al, 45th & Walnut is not between Kyle's house and Liz Campion's
house. If he took the direct route, Kyle would amble down 46th St.
to Springfield and head 1/2 block west, to Farragut.
I'm not sure that everyone on the list remembers that there are
OTHER universities in the area - Penn is not the only game in town,
and frat boys have done damage before. In Powelton a few years
ago, Drexel guys went around ripping down rainbow flags. They've
often been seen mistaking neighbors' front steps for urinals.
This time, I was thinking about a USP fraternity on 47th St. which
has been doing some very loud, drunken partying in the last week,
according to another list I'm on. They've been spilling over into
the street in the middle of the night and have seemed angry,
perhaps with the neighbors who called the cops and USP on them. Is
it too far a leap, to think that they MIGHT break a car window?
Why would we assume, on the list, that college students would never
cause property damage? Are we assuming that the students are more
sophisticated, more responsible, more respectful, than our other
neighbors, or what? Is there some sort of profiling going on here?
Melani Lamond
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